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All members of the Deeside MAC receive a monthly copy of the Club newsletter, the Hawk (so called in recognition of the Club's original, but now unused, title of the Heswall Hawks).

In addition to Club notices and the minutes of Committee Meetings, the Hawk includes news items, photographs, equipment reviews, technical articles and humorous items submitted by the membership of the Deeside MAC. The fact that the newsletter is usually between 10 and 15 A4 pages in length is a reflection of the high level of support that it receives from the membership, and it provides an invaluable means of ensuring that all Club members are kept informed of current events.

Newsletter Editors please note:

Although a high proportion of the content of the Hawk is necessarily devoted to matters relating directly to the Deeside MAC, many of the more generalised articles may be of interest to a much wider readership in the aeromodelling community. Items such as kit or engine reviews, technical and "how to" articles, and reports on modelling or aviation events attended by DMAC members are suitable for reproduction in other club newsletters.

If you are interested in the possibility of entering into a reciprocal exchange arrangement for such items, please contact me at the email address given at the foot of this page.

As time permits, I hope to make a selection of suitable articles available for direct download from this page.

Articles for download:

DMAC Calendar for 2008
Club member Paul Gaffney has prepared this colourful calendar for 2008, with each month on a separate page illustrated by a photograph of a DMAC member's model. A very useful addition to the workshop wall. In Adobe's Portable Document Format (.PDF). (1,610kb)

• DMAC Traplet Unlimited Scale Competition 2007
  A report on the Traplet Unlimited Scale Competition hosted by the Deeside MAC at their Broken Bank flying site on 14th October 2007. In Adobe's Portable Document Format (.PDF). (1,618kb)
  
• Workshop Data Sheet 
  A handy workshop reference to Number & Letter Drill Sizes, Wire Gauges and BA, Metric and UNC screw sizes in imperial and metric measurements. Two pages of A4 size, designed to be printed double-sided and folded into an A5 leaflet. In Adobe's Portable Document Format (.PDF). (96kb)
  
• Sport Scale Pilot's Harness
  How to make a sport-scale pilot's harness from wire,  a bootlace and offcuts of thin aluminium sheet. In Adobe's Portable Document Format (.PDF). (67kb)
  
• Hello Dolly
  Description of a practical takeoff dolly for use with models that do not have an undercarriage. Includes a 1/3rd scale plan. In Adobe's Portable Document Format (.PDF). (357kb)
  
• "Two wings and a great big radial engine.... a REAL aeroplane"
  An account of an aerobatic flight in a Boeing N2S Stearman biplane that is based at Liverpool Airport - also contains contact information for booking flights in the Stearman. In Adobe's Portable Document Format (.PDF). (760kb)

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