Stefan Simmons (middle of 5) flying his famous Raptor 90. Stefan has been featured heavily in the 3D circuit competitions this year giving the top pilots a run for their money.

Stefan puts on a great show with some aggresive low level flying look out for him next year!

The club has won a major grant from the National Lottery to make further improvements to our flying site at Halewood Liverpool. The grant was originally written to help the club make improvements to the new runway at the site but after careful seeding, nurturing and a lot of hard work from Kevin O'Reilly (our self confessed mower fanatic) and Eddie Cooper we now have a beautiful wide, flat and green runway that will only need a small portion of the money to feed and weed etc.

The money will be spent on the following –

• Club Shelter – A Portakabin type container to provide shelter on those rainy days! Complete with stove for tea and bacon butties! water supply for ground maintenance and for storing minor items
• Parking Area – Hard standing to provide a car parking area to prevent the access road from becoming mud bound during the winter
• Access Road – Hard standing to the access road for unloading / loading etc
• Safety Barrier – A safety barrier to the runway side for spectator control
• Flagged Working Area – Flagged area for standing and flying preparation and keeping shoes dry!
• Club Trainers – Transmitters, plane and helicopter for training purposes
• Fun Fly – Major event in summer 2010 to publicise the club and place it firmly on the club circuit calendar

Marketing – flyers / posters etc to publicise the club

The fund will boost our already growing membership which has increased to 25 members from the original 11 in the last 6 months

Watch this space for updates and news

• A new web page has been set up for Andy, take a look in the members area
• WoodVale Rally photos have been added in Photos section

• Will all members please note that our new constitution is available on the Club Information page

• A bid has been submitted for lottery funding on behalf of the club, the bid for £5800 will provide a new runway, parking area and site hut. The bid is also to provide some funds to attract new members. I will keep you informed of any progress we should hear within 30 days

• Another demonstration flight by Andy Johnstone at one of the largest model flying shows in the UK - Weston Park Model Air Show near Birmingham on the 20th and 21st June this time on behalf of NHP Carbon Technology and Revolution Models !!!!, good luck Andrew I know you will have plenty of support there

Details here - http://www.westonparkmodelairshow.co.uk/

Directions click here

• Tee Shirts - Anyone fancy an Iron on transfer for their T-Shirt? I will be printing out transfers of the club logo later in the week, let me know if you want one - enquiries@merseyflyers.com

• The new website is starting to pick up visitors as search engines register its presence. The counter at the bottom of the home page is set to the number of unique individuals visiting the site in essence this means that over 275 people have looked at the site, the majority of which are in the UK but several originate from the USA and one person from France -