Just the other week, an RC club in the United States, which predominantly flies remote control airplanes, decided to sponsor its first fundraising event to benefit a number of local clubs and organisations in the community of Oroville.
The club, which is located in Butte County, California, organised a free fun fly event to fly RC helicopters, WWII airplanes and acrobatic flying machines to demonstrate what tricks they can do in front of the watching spectators.
The event was sponsored by the RC club known as the Oroville Air Corps, which formed in the mid-1970s and now has over 92 members in the present day.
The money, which will go to the Boys & Girls Club of the North Valley and serves over 4,000 young people, was raised through a barbeque, raffle, silent auction and more.
Chris Botts, the club’s safety officer has stated that this event, which was well-received, was hopefully the first of many annual fundraising events to raise money for the local people and to make RC flying more of a family hobby.
Botts explained:
“We wanted to start doing something for the community and something for the club to get people out here and introduce them to the sport of flying remote control airplanes.”
Well done to them we say.