2012 AMPS Aerobatics Challenge
Venue: AMPS Silver Field

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2012 South Miami Art Festival Booth
Venue: Downtown South Miami
            Southwest 72 Street (Sunset Drive)
            Between US1 and SW 57th Ave (Red Road)

Club's Monthly Membership Meeting
Venue: Continental Park

A day at AMPS
Just another day at AMPS field. Lots of flying, lots of smiles and a little bit of food.

January 21, 2012
February 11, 2012

Cleanup day at the field
On Saturday, December 17, 2011 a group of volunteers set out to clean the field. They removed all the trash/debris from inside and around the containers. The volunteers cleaned the main shelter, fixed the pavers border under the canopies, dug a pipe trench for bringing water to the main shelter, spread fertilizer and ant killer on the runways...

Review

New 2012 Board of Directors Elected
The new Board of Directors was elected at the December meeting.

AMPS Establishes Academic Scholarship
In an effort to fulfill its obligations as a community service organization, the Aero Modelers of Perrine has established an Academic Scholarship. The award will be $1000.00 to a Miami-Dade graduating senior interested in pursuing a college degree in math or science. Click on the link below for complete details on eligibility and requirements.

AMPS 2012 Academic Scholarship Application

2011 Turkey Fry
The first ever AMPS Turkey Fry was held this past November 19, 2011. We cooked a couple of turkeys in hot peanut oil. We also had roasted pork, rice and beans and many other traditional and non-traditional Thanksgiving food items.

Click here for photos                                                                                                               Click here to read more details

2011 AeroFest - Annual Gathering of Giant-Scale Airplanes
This was the best AeroFest in record. We had 30 pilots, each with at least two airplanes. Several of our members said present and actually flew their planes. The public attendance was beyond our expectations, all food and drinks were sold by 2:00 PM.

Click on the links to the right to see each set of photos submitted by our members and visitors.

Scroggins
Ferraris
Hogan

2011 Swap Meet - October 1, 2011
October 1, 2011 was the date selected for the annual AMPS swap meet. Juan Almeida and Javier Llanes worked tirelessly to put together the best swap meet ever. Attendance was great, food and drinks available all day and sales abundant.

Review

AMPS Junior member rescues stray dog from AMPS Field
Alexis Diaz, a Junior AMPS member and daughter of Dr Jerry Diaz (Veterinary), has rescued the dog that many of you saw at the field for a couple of weeks. Jerry tells us that Alexis would not allow the dog to be picked up by Animal Services and convinced him to pick it up and take it to Briarwood Animal Hospital (Jerry's clinic).

The dog is healthy and will be available for adoption in about 4-6 weeks         Click here to read more details and see a photo

A reminder from the Board of Directors
Guest fliers must be pre-registered in order to fly a our field. If you want to bring a guest pilot to the field, you must contact one of the board members (Bob, Butch, Chris or Vicar) and make sure that your guest is registered. Failure to do so will result in a field rules violation and could jeopardize your membership. As always, your guest MUST be AMA members and you MUST be present while they are flying.

Click here to see his picture being escorted out

Special message from the President:
There will be no flying of model aircraft while the runways are being mowed. When you see the mower on the runway, all flying is to stop. The person doing the mowing should not have to ask any pilot to stop flying in order to mow. The mowing personnel have been instructed to fill out grievance forms against any person who does not cooperate. I will not have members who have volunteered their time to help maintain our facilities getting hurt because of the stupidity of another member.