Bombardier Family Fun Day

Members from NIAA helped out at the Bombardier Family day at the Ulster Transport Museum on the 16 August 2008. There where two activities taking place on the day, the first was a dart building day in the Railway gallery, where children and their parents could build and test fly the famous BMFA dart rubber powered models, under the watchful eyes of five members from the area, who helped and assisted in the construction of the models. Bombardier Trainees had also been recruited to help out on the building boards which was much appreciated due to the large volume young pilots taking up the challenge of building and flying their own dart. According to our PRO Officer, John Pearson " I have never build one of these Dart models, until today, now I could build them in my sleep"
Luckly Matthew and Dave were able to get a few hours to fly outdoors before the rain returned, Dave put on a 3D - display with his Raptor, and Matthew did a tight 3D display with a fun fly model, both pilot's displays were of the usual very high standard. Overall it was a good PR day for the area and worth the efford from those helpers and pilots attending, even when it took some of us 5 hours to get home due to the floods.

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