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Dave Hopkin Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 At my Oldham club we still have a founding member - the club was formed in 1945 - so 71 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Martin Harris - Moderator Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 We rediscovered (actually it was the other way round) one of our founder members from 1935 about 4 years ago who is now an honorary member - but he didn't go back to model flying after serving in WW2. Although there's no claim to long service, he must certainly rank as one of the oldest founding club members in the world, if not the oldest? We also have a couple of very active members around 70 years old who joined as teenagers (or perhaps even younger?) so let's say 55 years each? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Posted by Dave Hopkin on 30/03/2016 21:11:25: At my Oldham club we still have a founding member - the club was formed in 1945 - so 71 years I should have added non-flying member Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John Tee Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I was one of the eight founder members of the Horsham (West Sussex) club in 1968. Club is 48 this year but I had a 10 year break so I have only been a member for 38 years. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Muir Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I was flying alongside one of our oldest and longest serving members last week. He was more or less running the club when I first visited back in the seventies so must have been a member for, at the very least, 45 years. It was his birthday last week and he had bought himself a Weston fun-fly model, complete with West 36 which wasn't quite behaving, so he had to do two or three very neat deadsticks and was very pleased when the engine finally kept running and he was able to make a perfect power on landing on his last flight. He wasn't exactly ringing it out but his flying was smooth and tidy as always and quite fantastic for an 87 year old I thought. The club itself is 78 years old and I've been a member for about 30 years. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cuban8 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Our longest serving member is one of the original founders from 1947.He still flys regularly and has a fifty mile round trip to the field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Two of the founding members of our club. I am one, the other is non flying. Not really that far back, about 1980 but this club evolved from the old control line club in which I go back to 1968. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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