The Committee
The club is run by an elected committee who do their best to ensure the club runs smoothly for the members, details of the 'few' willing to give their time to support the club and ensure we all enjoy our hobby to the full are below.
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Pete Chambers, Chairman has been a member since 1973, and has been interested in models building since the age of seven. Pete served on the committee for several years before being voted on as Chairman. He gives up much of his free time looking after the clubs machinery including the lawnmower to ensure we always have a well kept strip to fly off. At the clubs annual BBQ Pete can be found cooking as well as flying. His other interests include sailing model boats and rumour has it he tought John Hurrell all he knows about model boiler making !!! |
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Keith Wright, Secretary has been with the club since August 1969 and was elected to the committee 2 years later, since 1975 he has been club secretary (with a short break of only 18months). Keith has flown at all the major model shows and is a fixed wing examiner and instructor. He enjoys passing on help, advice, and encouragement to put back into our "hobby" which has given me so much pleasure and made so many friends over the years. He enjoys flying anything but prefers large models with exotic 4 strokes. Other interests include model engineering, model boats and associated electronics. Please click here to email Keith or telephone 01293 524663. |
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John Hurrell, Treasurer joined the club in 1974 and later served on the committee becoming treasurer in 1994. He shares the groundsmans duties and also devises the Egg Race evenings. He loves model flying although he insists he is not very good at it. John has been drawing, designing and building models for over 60 years indeed it actully helped him start his career in the aviation industry. John enjoys flying scale gliders and more recently large powered vintage type models. His other interests include sailing model yachts, dabbling with model submarines and steam power and is the clubs model boiler examiner. |
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Pete Glover is fairly new to the club as he joined in 2009, his main interests are Helicopters both I.C. and electric and also Electric powered aeroplanes. He organises and runs the winter indoor meetings and is keen on bringing new people into the hobby/club via these meetings. Please click here to email, or Telephone 07954370936 |
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Nigel Carver |
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Fred Sargent |
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Jon Sargent |
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John Brinkler has been a member of the Club since 1996 and on the committee since 2008 with responsibilty for assisting with social events and attempting to drive the club motor mower competently on a Friday morning. Like his flying it remains a subject still to be mastered. John enjoys flying self launching electric thermal soarers and fast gliders and also the occasional electric power plane. He has previously flown IC power planes and in an interlude from flying raced IC power boats and also wrote a Power Boat column for Marine Modelling for many years. Other interests include model yachting, photography and bell ringing! |
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John Tee |