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OCMRC.US
the home web site of the
Ocean County Modelers Club, Inc.

Ocean County Modelers Inc.
P.O. Box 569
Lakehurst, New Jersey 08733-0569 USA

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The club picnic has been rescheduled to:

Saturday, October 9^th

Rain date: Sunday, October 10th

A bit of nostalgia...

John Wagner bulldozes wood chips to form the runway while Pat Lally observes

Harry Jenkins flies his scratch built SR-71 on 8/14 9’ long – 5’ wingspan, weighing 23 lbs Powered by 2 Tower Hobbies .75s Scratch built by scaling up a 1:48 plastic model, Harry completed the entire build in 3 months.
	The unfortunate end of the flight
Harry explains estimating CG location on this plane was very difficult due to its long fuselage and lift generated by the fuselage. The result was a stall and crash during landing. He is now rebuilding the SR-71 and says it’s 80% complete.

    The Ocean County Modelers club (OCM) is primarily centered around all aspects of radio control (r/c) model airplanes. Over 100 members build and fly a variety of r/c planes including helicopters, trainers, sport, aerobatics, scale, giant scale, racing, ducted fan, gliders and electric.  Ocean County Modelers is an AMA chartered club (Academy of Model Aeronautics), number 775.  Our club is receptive to accepting new members in the local region.

OCM Club's Current, and now, MAIN Flying Site: 

    OCM has recently made special arrangements with Jackson Township in New Jersey to allow club-only members to fly at one of their now-closed garbage dump sites.  This flying site is called the Ocean County Modelers Air Park Wiskow Field.  OCM first created a small grass runway, 350 feet long by 50 feet wide of grass plus a continuing 100 feet of smooth surface for small wheels & electric airplanes, all of which sits on top of a layer of wood chips.  The wood chip layer sits on top of the sand, which also surrounds the runway and over-fly zone.  The over-fly-zone is a very large, clear area for flying r/c model airplanes.  OCM has started efforts to expand the existing runway.
    OCM has proven to the Jackson Township officials that r/c model flying at this site falls well below the maximum sound ordinance restrictions of the local community.  In order to maintain adherence and stay below the maximum sound restrictions, OCM imposes a sound restriction level of  98 Db measured 9 feet downwind from the propeller with the engine(s) at full throttle on all r/c model aircraft at this flying site.
Click here to view some photos of this field.
Click here for directions to this field. 
Click here to read the latest field rules.
    Note from our current field maintenance coordinator::  when most field maintenance is scheduled at this site, it does not mean the field will be closed to flying unless stated it will be.
Work will typically be done prior to 9am, unless otherwise stated.
    If you are interested in flying at this site, please contact one of our members to make arrangements to meet with us, see this flying site, and apply for club membership.
(Click here to see info on our former flying site.)

OCM would like to thank our local sponsors of many of our events, Jackson Hobby Shop, U-Fly Hobby, and Jersey Modelers.
Please visit Jackson Hobby Shop and U-Fly Hobby, and utilize products by Jersey Modelers at your next convenience.
(Click here for more info about Jackson Hobby Shop.)
(Click here for more info about U-Fly Hobby)
(Click here for more info about Jersey Modeler)

Click here to view our training program

Last updated 8/6/2010

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