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Every year the Club participates in several shows and exhibitions  that give us the opportunity to show off many of the clubs airplanes, show off our flying skills, and discuss with the public the thrill of flying and building model aircraft.

Pork in the park

Pork in the Park is a nationally recognized BBQ competition at Winter Place Park in Salisbury. Last year, it was one of the 10 largest competitions in the USA. We had the opportunity to set up a static exhibit, with room for demonstration flights.

It was a great opportunity to reach out to the community, and show Salisbury how we like to have fun. It was definitely a stressed weekend, occurring on the same weekend as the SSC competition, but many members, their family, and friends pitched in to make it a success.

The volunteers for the event were:

Danny Craddock, Terry Craddock, Mark ?, James Culp, J.C. Culp, Vince Fredericksen, David Hess, Kenneth Ludka, Jeff McCarter, Lester Morris, Richard Murray, Jim Waybright, and Bill Young.

From April Newsletter by David Hess

2008 CENTRE OF SALISBURY MALL SHOW

For the past seventeen years the MARKS Club has participated in an exhibition at the Centre of Salisbury Mall. The first 2008 show event was held on February 15-17th and a second show is scheduled for May 25-27th.  This gives the Club members an opportunity to display many of the airplanes and helicopters that they build and fly at the Clubs field Southeast of Salisbury. It gives the public an opportunity to talk with the Club members and learn about Radio controlled, model airplane building and flying. The club is always interested in attracting new members and anyone is welcome to join the club and learn to fly.

At the show, the Club also sells raffle tickets for a ready-to-fly model trainer. The  drawing for the raffle plane is always a part of the Clubs Annual Air Show, which this year, will be held at MARKS Field on June 8th. The winner does not need to be present to win. Winning it is a great opportunity to get started in radio control flying. The Club uses the funds from the raffle to maintain the flying field and for ongoing expenses.  This Year the Club decided to spice up the raffle drawing by purchasing a Hanger 9 F-22 Raptor PTS (personal training system) airplane. The plane attracts a lot of attention and hopefully be won by someone in the area that will learn to fly it at our club. There were many airplanes and helicopters on display at the Boscov's stage in the  mall. 

The show attracted a large number of people that visited the display and talked to club members. Club members setup several flight simulators as part of the display where guests could try their hand at flying everything from trainers to jet airplanes. As always flight simulators are a big hit with both young and older visitors and  would-be-flyers. As with every past show, The Club put together and provided small foam gliders to the younger children that were with their parents at the exhibit.

Horizon Hobby of Champaign, IL made a generous donation for the MARKS show. They supplied us with pamphlets on the PTS system, The FS-One flight simulator, Hanger 9 full line catalogs, and Hanger 9 Logo foam can coolers.

Tower Hobbies of Champaign, IL donated Tower Talk sales fliers, which are always popular with people interested in getting started in RC. We ran out of these fliers mid day on Saturday. The AMA supplied full color brochures on Getting Started in RC.

 Following are various photos taken during the show. Click on any of the pictures (above or below) to enlarge the picture.

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A second Mall exhibition is currently scheduled for May 16th-18th at the same location. Additional photos will be added to this page when that show is completed.

NEW YEAR'S DAY 2008 FUN FLY  

Several dedicated club members gathered on New Year's Day at MARKS Field to enjoy a day of flying. The following are several photos of the days activities provided by David Hess, club secretary. Click on pictures to enlarge.

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THE ANNUAL 2007 AIR SHOW AT MARKS FIELD 

AS07Art&Ted.jpg (204261 bytes)    On June 10th,  event announcers, Club President, Ted Clark, and Club Secretary, Art Perry, kicked off the Clubs eighteenth Annual Air Show at MARKS Field, Southeast of Fruitland Maryland. The weather was excellent with partly cloudy  sky's and temperatures in the low eighties. The winds were very moderate and made for excellent flying conditions. The crowd was estimated in excess of four hundred members and guests. In fact, the crowd was the largest the show has ever hosted for this event.

    Unfortunately, this year Trouper four (State medivac helicopter) was unable to make the show because of other area lifesaving commitments. This is the first time in two years that the chopper did not make it to the show. 

    The club proceeded with combat events and numerous demonstration flights of all different kinds and sizes of aircraft and helicopters throughout the afternoon. There were some spectacular flight demonstrations of large scale airplanes flown by members, members of a visiting Seaford, DE club. Halfway through the show the audience was treated to a full scale flyby by a group of old aircraft headed by Paul Ennis out of Salisbury. The group made several low level passes over the field.

15AS07.jpg (226844 bytes)    The drawing for the raffle airplane was held at the end of the show and the winner was Mrs. Godderd, a woman who lives in Virginia. The winner of the 50/50 drawing was Rich Duane. Proceeds from the raffle drawing and 50/50 drawing provides the club with much needed operating funds.

    All agreed that this was our best air show ever and that it was again a huge success. A special thanks to all who worked so hard to make it a memorable afternoon.

Below are pictures taken at the show. Click on any of the pictures to enlarge

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James Culp arrives for show

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Visiting Seaford, DE Club provides spectacular demonstrations of large scale aircraft

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Younger kids run on field to pick up candy

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Watching flight demonstration

Drawing for raffle

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Older kids collect candy

Pilot's meeting