More Shirt Samples

Here is a Polo version. Costs about $20.

Another T shirt color.

Close up of the logo.

Crop Duster Shirts

Here are of the club shirts.

Lots of custom options like adding your name or not having writing on the back. The T shirts will cost between $12 and $15 depending on what you want.

Sample T Shirt (Back)

Sample T Shirt (Front)

A Tale of Two Blogsites

Just when you thought you had this figured out...

Along comes someone with another blog address. What's going on? 

We're just playing with them at this point to see what will work for our club. Blogger (the host of the blogspot address) is nice, but seems to lack some of the user-friendliness of Wordpress (the other host). Since we'd like everyone to be able to take advantage of the blog's features, it behooves us to settle on the blog that's easiest to use.

Another thing we discovered when comparing the blog hosts was a significant difference in email notification. This is the process by which the system notifies everyone "following" the blog that there's a new post, comment or reply. Posts to the Wordpress blogs produce notification emails almost instantly, and that's an important feature for spur-of-the-moment and up-to-the-minute communications.

We're running both blog sites through their paces. We've signed a few people up as "Authors" on the blog. This gives them the access needed to originate new items (posts) to the blog.

Anyone can view the blogs, and even post comments or replies without any special access requirements. To be an Author, simply contact us and we'll send you an invitation. You'll just need to create a user name and password for writing to the blog.

How do I make sense of it all?

We're planning a presentation for our monthly meeting, wherein we'll review the purpose and features of the blog as well as how to become an author. I suspect we'll do this at the April meeting, but in the meantime contact me if you have any support needs or want to start authoring posts!

In case you missed it, Blog test site B is at Wordpress.com, and is found here:

www.svccropdusters.wordpress.com

Have a look and let us know what you think!

Thanks,

Skip O'Connor

Blog Guru

Aerospace Industry's Perspective: drones in the news

An item of interest for your perusal:

Here's a recent blurb from an Aerospace Industry technology newsletter, distributed by Global Spec.
This is a perspective from the non-R/C community, from the manufacturing and applications designers and providers.

Aerospace Technology News

From GlobalSpec - a leader in industrial and engineering product news and information

About this eNewsletter

Frequency: 26 issues/year

Description: GlobalSpec's Aerospace Technology free eNewsletter covers new technologies impacting the aerospace industry. Topics and technologies featured include design and production involving power plants and propulsion systems, avionics, electrical and electronic systems, mechanical assembly, materials technology, hydraulics and pneumatics, flight controls and instrumentation, software, as well as manufacturing and engineering services. This free email publication gathers the latest technologies and products from all of these engineering disciplines to help subscribers design and build the most cost-effective, high-performance systems possible.

Markets Served: Electrical, Electronic, and Mechanical Components; Materials, Coatings, and Finishes; Fastening, Joining & Assembly; Fluid Power; Robotics Systems; Design & Analysis Software, Supply Chain Management, Material Handling

Deploy Your Own Drones

What's going on over there? Soon you can find out. Monitor the neighbors with your personal unmanned aerial vehicle. For about $50, the MeCam UAV promises to stream video to a paired iOS or Android mobile device. Still under development, the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled quadrotor features an ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a GB of built-in RAM. Commercial availability is targeted for next year.

Phantom Eye Flies Higher, Farther

Reaching 60 knots at take-off and climbing to a top altitude of 8,000 ft, Boeing's Phantom Eye unmanned airborne vehicle stayed aloft 66 min in its second flight. This recent flight brings the UAV, powered by two 150 hp liquid hydrogen engines, one "step closer" to the goal of four days autonomous ISR — intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance.

Posted 3/19/13 by S. O'Connor

AMA Clubs Encouraged to Participate in First Annual National Model Aviation Day, August 17, 2013.

AMA Clubs Encouraged to Participate in First Annual National Model Aviation Day, August 17, 2013.

Here's a link to this update from AMA Insider.

Never too soon to start planning!

Skip