Michael Wise

BCF Members, George Lumpkin’s 16th contribution has been posted to the Member’s Corner part of the Member Documents section of this website. As BCFers know, George is a prolific and creative RC modeler who had specialized in twin motor BARF airplanes (AKA “Twinman”), but has been steadily gravitating to models with >2 motors. It is suspected George’s creativity knows no bounds, but as he notes, the job that pays for the hobby, gets in the way of the hobby. When you see George, don’t encourage him…

In the December 2, 2017 club meeting, voting was held for the 2018 club officers. The results follow: President – Art Alvarez, Vice President – Garry Woodhouse, Treasurer – Jim Keil, Secretary – John Haskell. Outgoing leadership include: President – Fernando Delgado and Vice President – Merle Bowler. Thank you Fernando and Merle for your service as well as Jim and John for their continuing service. Thanks as well to John Falkenbury for his service in 2017 as Officer-At-Large. Thank you Art and Garry for your willingness to lead the club in 2018 along with Jim and John. Click here […]

In the BCF December 2017 meeting, Dave Petryk presented his turbine powered helicopter as a “Plane of the Month” entry. See the bottom right of this homepage for the photo. This is an awesome model aircraft which Dave has invested a lot of time and money into building and flying. Click on the title of this post to then access an 8 page document with photos and details of the helicopter. Click Here to Open Article on Turbine Helicopter

As a result of “Harvey” flood damage to the Bayou City Flyers clubhouse, the HobbyTown Houston store located in the Village at West Oaks, 2392 South Texas 6, Houston, TX 77077 (northwest corner of Texas 6 and Westheimer) has kindly offered the club use of their conference room for our monthly meetings. Thank you HobbyTown – a large store with huge inventory and very helpful staff. Please endeavor to visit this store and spend your hobby $$$.

Members of the Apache Pass RC club located 46 miles northeast of Austin, Texas in Downtown Texas, Texas, kindly donated a significant sum of money to the Bayou City Flyers RC club to help fund the restoration of our clubhouse. Thank you to all members of the Apache Pass RC club. Click on the title of this post to access a link to the Apache Pass RC Club

BCF club member Randy Marek has courageously volunteered to be the Project Manager for restoration of the clubhouse following flood damage due to “Harvey”. Should members have suggestions and ideas for the restoration or have time to help please communicate with Randy via his email address which is: randym1954@yahoo.com . Thank you Randy for offering to project manage this work.

Mark Troutman, Corey Johnson and Merle Bowler have secured the outside tables so they (tables) will ideally not float away in high water and elevated things in the clubhouse and concession storage areas as best as possible to mitigate flood damage. The PC has been removed. If you are monitoring the water level in the Barker reservoir know that when the level reaches 92.55 ft (radar sensor), the water is estimated to be at the top of the concreate pad in front of the clubhouse and at 95.35 ft it is estimated about to touch the underside structure of the […]

The next meeting is Saturday October 7th at 10am. It is believed the clubhouse sustained significant flood damage due to Hurricane Harvey so the venue of the meeting has yet-to-be determined. Please sign-in when you arrive. New members are encouraged to attend and introduce yourselves to the rest of the gang. If you have recently received your AMA membership number and FAA sUAS registration please convey them to Jim Keil – Club Treasurer. A highlight of the monthly meeting is the “Plane of the Month” which has two categories: Kit / Scratch and ARF / BARF. All entries must have completed at […]

Over 60 images from the July 22, 2017 Bayou City Flyers Warbird event have been posted to the Media – Photos section of this website.  Within Photos, select Bayou City Flyers – Warbird Event (July 22, 2017) to see individual images in the “photo album”.  Click on an image to expand it then scroll your cursor over the image to reveal a left or right arrow button to toggle through the pictures.