Kite Flying (and RC) events

For the year 2002

Wednesday nights (after work, ie 5:30pm) are Kites-Plus "Fly-nights"
Wind=kites, no-wind=RC airplanes!

Saturday, April 13th Health and Fitness (and Kite-fly) fun-fair 10-3pm, at Stead's location: (North Valley Regional Sports complex)
Same location as the Fathers Day (Map below) location.  (Kites and Electric RC Planes may fly, based on the weather)

Sunday, June 9th is the first offical BBQ of the year.  It will be held at the standard Rancho BBQ location.
B-there for our mass Rev assention, we will attempt to break an old record of 10/11 Rev's in the air at once.

Sunday, June 16th is Fathers day, and one of our Biggest (Kite) events of the year...
Same place, same time! (North Valley Regional Sports complex 10am - 5pm)

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Yep, we'll be at Stead for our 5th annual Fathers day Kite festival. 'Come fly with us!' !!! This is planned to be a kite specific festival.. but I imagine an RC plane or two might sneak in.. any may be welcome based on the wind conditions!

June 26th  1:30pm Filming of 'Wednesday's Child, scheduled to be aired, Wed July 3rd.
                    Night-fly (with lights), kites and RC after dark.  Meet at the west end of Rancho at/after 8:30pm

June 29th and 30th  Squaw Valley, we'll meet 10am at the Cable-car Extra info

June  30th  Club meeting at Rancho 1pm to discuss Kite club 'business' including a club banner, logos and whatever is on whoever's mind at the time, regarding the club, flying kites, RC planes, etc.

July  4th  Who knows! but we'll be doing something, somewhere! (Rancho will be closed to cars all day), but open to foot traffic.

July  14th  RNKC Pot-Luck BBQ at Rancho San Rafael, lets plan on eating at Noon.

July  14th  RNKC Revolution and Mass kite assention 1pm, and possibly again at 4pm. (We'll try it in the afternoon, based on wind, and available kites, the time change for the sundaes in the park also may/will affect when we can do it.)

July  14th  Sundae's in the park. 12:30pm Versus original 2pm, (Rancho San Rafael) The Park Rangers will bring a group of kids over to the main section and we'll discuss wind, how kites fly, different types of kites, etc.  Hopefully they'll be some wind, and we can get some hands on for each and every young-in.  It was fun last year, come out and watch, or better yet, participate!

July 27 & 28th.  Berkeley Kite Festival, Don't miss it!  Competition registration must be shipped by July 15th, contact Phil for extra info.

Aug 11th  Sunday RNKC Pot-Luck BBQ at Rancho San Rafael, lets plan on eating at 1pm.
Club meeting (2pm) to discuss AKA club affiliation, and bylaws. 
Members present will vote on accepting and/or changing the pending bylaws.

Aug 19-25th  Long Beach, Washington Week long kite fly! kitefestival.com

Sep 6-8  Balloon Races, Kite, zagi displays and RC demonstrations, with Ron Marston's assistance.

Sep 21st  Junior Air Races, North Valley Sports complex in Stead

Sep 29th  (Sunday) Mix 96 (map),  Sacramento Mega-Ray, but Major Ray Bethel!

Sep 29th Spark Marina (Against Domestic Violence)

Oct 5-6th Visalia Fall Soaring Festival 'The largest Soaring Contest in the World!' (per advertisement in S&E modeling) web-info

Oct 5-6th Sacramento  Heli Fly  web info (map)  and/or check

Oct 13th (Sunday) One Sky one World and RNKC Club BBQ at Rancho San Rafael in Reno (map).

Oct 26th Halloween Carnival and kite-fly in Stead, North Valley sports Complex (map)

 

Links to CA Flying Events Brian Champie www.kitefart.com, and  www.Baskl.org


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