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Welcome to Cleveland Model Helicopter Club's home page!
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Cleveland Model
Helicopter Club is really all about people and
helicopters. Primarily we are model helicopter
enthusiasts who build, maintain and fly model
helicopters. Club members fly 3D aerobatic
helicopters as well as scale models and some
are just learning the mysteries of radio controlled, or R/C model,
flight. Fixed wing aircraft are not a common
sight at the field but we do fly them
occasionally. We have no formal meetings and generally we just get on
and fly, that is why we have the club in the first place after all! If
you should ever feel the urge to rush out and buy a model
helicopter and live near the Cleveland
area, come along, you'll be quite welcome. Even if you are just
thinking about it, come along anyway as we are only too happy to share
our knowledge of radio controlled
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Model helicopter flying
is, for the uninitiated, a black art. Helicopters, by their very nature
of design have a natural desire to crash into the nearest immovable
object. Trees and bushes become magnetic and they always want to shoot
off in a direction not intended. We hope that these pages will help you
understand what these machines are all about and if you get a chance,
come along and fly with us, if you cannot yet fly but would like to,
come along anyway. Don't for one second think we are all experts, some
of us can do little more than hover so far, there are however some very
accomplished pilots in the club who are more than happy to help any
newcomer learn to fly. If you want to read more visit our
Getting
Started and
Learning
to Fly pages to give you an idea what is involved in model
helicopter flying.
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Club and BMFA fees will remain unchanged for 2009. If you do
not pay for membership you are not insured to fly! |
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Rubbish & Litter
It has been noted that people
are leaving waste items at the field such as bottles, sandwich wrappers,
crisp packets etc. Please take your rubbish and litter away with you
rather than leaving it for someone else to remove. If you should crash
please take care to remove all broken parts from the field as Cows will
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BMFA Advertisment
Cleveland Model Helicopter Club were asked by the
BMFA if they could use one of our pictures in an advertisement to be
published in the
December 2006 issue of
Rotorworld Magazine. The resulting advert is show
to the right and can be maximised by clicking on it:
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Outdoor Flying
Generally we are at the field most Saturday and Sunday afternoons and
also during the lighter, summer nights we meet up on a Wednesday evening
at around 6pm too.
You can often find people at the field at any time during the week so
stop by and have a chat. Obviously our flying is always weather dependant - If
it is bad, we usually still show up anyway and stand
under the trees for shelter, but if it is really,
really bad we stay at
home and moan about the weather!
As you can see below this is perfect flying weather. We are all always hopeful of good
flying weather like this but this last year has been pretty poor. On occasion we have to
share our flying field with a heard of cows, the bright side is that they keep
the grass down, the down side is that they leave an awful lot of mess which you
rarely avoid when your eyes are gazing skyward!
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It's not always hot and sunny in England like
the pictures to the left. Even in
snowy weather like this above we manage to get some flying done although you can't
feel your fingers or toes after about five minutes. Still it's fun -
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Indoor Flying
In the winter months we fly
electric micro helicopters such as Piccolo's, Zoom's, Dolphin's, Zap's and T-Rex
indoors at Nunthorpe School Sports Hall in the afternoon and
evening from 3:00pm of the first Saturday of each month. There is also an indoor meeting every
Monday night at 'The Dome' at Boulby Potash Mine from 7:00pm onwards.
As these events are not arranged by Cleveland Model Helicopter Club
you do not need to be a member to fly but charges vary from around
£2.50 to £3.00 per pilot for each of these events to cover the cost of
hiring the hall or dome. Valid third party insurance may be required in
the way of BMFA membership and
models must be no bigger than T-Rex 450 size. Have a look at the
events page
to see some indoor action. Directions for these venues can be seen on
our
directions page.
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Events
Our
Events
page lists things coming up each year and also what's been happening over the past
few seasons. Including the 3D Masters World Championship and the Teesside
Model Flying Club annual airshow where we make a regular appearance.
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Television Stardom A couple of us were invited to show off our
helicopters on early morning RI:SE tv and even got to meet the lovely
Holly Valance. Read how it all went on our
RI:SE tv page. |
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Articles and Reviews
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There are numerous
pictures of club members and their helicopters on our
Gallery page so why not check them out! |
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Joining Cleveland
Model Helicopter Club
If you want to join Cleveland Model Helicopter
Club you can open up an Adobe Acrobat printable application form
here. All our members get free expert advice and tuition to
make the experience of learning to fly as enjoyable as possible. Of
course it is still down to you to practice, practice, practice
as the more stick time the easier it becomes! |
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If you are a member
submit your pictures to the website as they are always needed! |
| Hambleton Heli's Andy Throup and Matti
Ward who started their flying at Cleveland Model Helicopter Club
have now set up their new club just
outside of Wigginton village near York. Hambleton Heli's is affiliated to
the BMFA and is club number 2513. Visit their new website at
www.hambleton-helis.co.uk or contact Andy at
andrew@hambleton-helis.co.uk or Matti at
matt@hambleton-helis.co.uk for further information. For
directions to their club flying site click
here to view a detailed map. They are a continually growing
club and will make you more that welcome if you pop along and pay
them a visit. |
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