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This week I will “finally” be transporting my weedhopper project to propwash. It’s pretty much done. I’m still down a few bolts, but my hope is that I can bring it out there and meet up with Jeff Mountain to get a few bolts, and have others take a good look at it to make sure everything is in line. The photos below don’t show a whole lot as the airplane doesn’t really look like an airplane without the wings installed.

After months of racking my brain I finally figured out what was slowing down our website so much. I had a plugin installed that did content protection, basically making it impossible for people to copy and paste text from our site to some other place. It was slowing us down a huge amount. It’s now GONE! There really is no need for such a function, who cares if people copy our site.

Anyway, I also updated our website to WordPress 3.0 – You won’t notice the difference unless you are a member and are logged into the administrative back-end of the site. A few things now look different.

Hopefully the increase in speed will help our the website traffic and bring in more people, which equates to more members.

As discussed at our last club meeting, we have added our “paid” membership list to the website. It is “password protected.”  I will be providing passwords to individual members. This page will not be open to the public. If added security is requested, we can take it to another level. However, I believe at the present time it is safe from public view.

If you are a member and still wish your information to not be included behind the password protection, please contact me (Jeff Erekson) or Jeff Mountain.

jeff(at)ereksonfamily.org

I took up my daughter, Selina, for the first time this past week on Friday. We bought a booster seat, but we’ll have to return it as it’s too big length wise and gets in the way of the control stick. We ended up boosting her up with a folded blanket.

She had a blast, didn’t cry one bit. She did have to hold her headset in place for the entire flight, so that’s a little problem we’ll have to solve, but otherwise, it should all work out just fine.

She is a bit too short to be able to see outside unless I put the plane in a turn, so we may have to try and boost her up a bit more. It was fun to finally take her flying. I look forward to hundreds of more hours with my girls.

As discussed in our meeting today at Propwash (16x), we have added a new feature to the website. Now prospective new members have 3 options for ways to join the club. All three boil down to the same idea, which is to provide them with the means to fill out the very simple membership application and get it to the right person.

This week we uploaded the .pdf form of the actual application. Tonight, I finally created a simple, yet effective form that allows new members to fill out their information and submit it online.

This will get applications to us faster, and delay the burden of having to print one out, fill it out, and mail or bring to the meeting. We aren’t the IRS, so lets avoid paperwork!

There is also a “tentative” decision to open a paypal account and start accepting membership payments and dues via that terminal system. We are awaiting final approval from the board.