Michael Wise

BCF member, Jeff Trotter, lost a plane north of the field on June 10, 2018 so he contacted BCF member John Haskell who has a drone with camera and GPS which he has set-up to fly a grid pattern north or east of the powered RC area of Dick Scobee Memorial Airfields to search for lost RC aircraft. John was successful in locating Jeff’s plane on June 11, 2018 and Jeff was able to recover it that same day. See the attached story with photos (click on the title of this post to access it) to read about the details […]

Thanks to BCF member Jeff Trotter, the Upcoming RC Events part of the homepage to the Bayou City Flyers website (look to the lower right) has been updated with 10 – 2018 events. If members know of other events, please send information about them to Jonathan Gulick, BCF Website Coordinator so it can be posted to the website.

The Weather section seen near the top right of the homepage has been updated.  As the American Shooting Center weather station appears to be inactive, four (4) Weather Underground Personal Weather Stations (PWS) to the north, east, south and west of George Bush Park have been selected and posted to the homepage.  These sites are available when accessing the BCFers website via iPhones or iPads, however, do not appear like they do on desktop PC’s.  Several additional potentially useful weather websites are also posted in this section.  Some BCF members had recommended posting a link to checkthesock.com  as at onetime the “old” Bayou […]

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.