I have been looking over this "Pay it forward" forum and I think it's a great idea.

For the last three years I've been involved in setting up and running our clubs youth program. We have trainers that the kids use during the summer season and so far we've been able to offer the program to the kids for free. Seems like we are always on the lookout for donations of money or equipment to keep things running. When we're lucky enough to get some extra equipment we'll pass it on to the kids a we see the need. I won't go into all the details about the program but you can click on the links at the bottom to find out what I've been up to.

Up until this year we have only been able to run the summer flying program for the kids but a few months back we hooked up with the local EAA and got permission to use their building and we've also accumulated enough R/C stuff to start a series of building sessions for the kids this winter.

We have a few club member donated kits and a new kit from Bruce Tharpe Engineering to build this winter. I contacted Bruce at BTE and we worked out a deal on a "Flyin King" kit. I plan on using the Flyin King as our youth group's flagship, parachute drop, bomb dropper, etc, I'll be our utility plane.

All That being said I would like request That if anyone has a 91 to a 120 4-stroke that still has some life left in it and would like to donate it I would like to use it in the Flyin King. I have a few used 40's that I could use but I'm not that much into kit bashing to make a Trimotor out of the King.


If you need to check me out or get more info about our "Hawks" program look here:
http://www.amadistrictii.org/ovm/

and I've posted at the AMA District 2 forum here:
http://www.amadistrictii.org
Look under "DISTRICT II TRAINING / EDUCATION PROGRAMS"
then anything to do with the Hawks program.


UPDATE 12/07/04 - A big thank you goes out to "rayb" for his engine donation to our youth group. That was huge Ray! Thanks again.

Tim