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Rally of Giants Arnprior 2008

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The Rally of Giants was held at the Arnprior Municipal Airport on the 26-29 June 2008.

That’s right from 26-29 June 2008 the Rally of Giants was held at the Arnprior Municipal Airport (just 40km west of Ottawa). In 2006, the IMAA Board of Directors had approved the Ottawa Valley Chapter’s proposal to host the Rally. This was the first time in its 30 year history; That the IMMA’s annual fly-in was to be held in Canada.

 It was a great affair. The airport commission, the City of Arnprior, the Lions Club and the Arnprior Radio Control Club; All teamed together with this local IMAA Ottawa Valley Chapter 217 to make a successful event.

  • Paved 600ft runway
  • R/V parking area (no hookups)
  • Commercial and craft booths
  • Friday night barbeque
  • Saturday night dinner
  • Full Scale Vintage flypasts (cancelled due to weather!)

If you were a pilot and attended this event, you were asked questions upon questions abour your airplanes and your interest in this great hobby

In addition to MAAC or AMA membership, If you wanted to become a member of the IMAA; Thre is a new introductory offer about to be announced so visit the IMAA website HYPERLINK "http://www.fly-imaa.org" "www.fly-imaa.org" to learn more about it.


Well what a success!!
  • 109 registered Pilots (including 19 from the US)
  • Over 210 aircraft
  • Over a thousand "Die Hard" Spectators from Arnprior!!!
  • The only Air Show on the weekend
And it was all due to your help. Over 40 of you came out and made the first ever ROG in Canada a success.
SOME SPECIAL THANKS goes to "Special Folks" who did a lot behind the scenes. The event directors want to  give special credit to:
DAVE ASQUINI - Dave did the PR work and got us on National Television CTV and got commercial sponsors in action
DAVE HAMMOND - Dave got the model vendors as sponsors (Especially Discount Hobbies) as well he produced and printed the event program
GERRY NADON - Gerry did all the National Aviation Museum arrangements for the IMAA Board Meeting on Friday. It was a world class event.
BILL Le SHIEN - Bill took all those wonderful photos and had copies made for our visitors They rellay appreciated it Bill.
CARL KINGSTON  - Carl provided the PA system
Special Mention as well to DAVE REES and TOM HASTIE. Dave provided the PA syste aon Thursday and both he and Tom did a great job of displaying everything to the spectators even though it was raining.
As well thanks to Dave Asquini, Dave Hammond, Bill Croft and Owen Bird for staying behind in the pouring rain to get everything stowed away
The following Clubs provided the volunteer talent that made this possible:
Rideau Valley Modellers - The Kemptville gain were the first to Volunteer
Stetson Flyers - the largest number of volunteers
Ottawa Remote Control Club
Arnprior Radio Control Club
Cornwall Aero Modellers
Brockville Model Aeronautics Club
And last but not least to our MAAC President Richard Barlow and Zone Director Claude Melbourne who not only worked their duty shift on the line but gave us the necessary MAAC support and advertising.
WOW WHAT A BLAST!!!!
Brian Wattie

We need to thank our sponsors for this outstanding event.
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