Conseil d'administration

JOHN HORNER

Zone A - Alberta / Territoires du Nord-Ouest / Nunavut

LEDUC (AB)

MICHAEL DICK

Zone B - Atlantique

JEMSEG (NB)

MARK BETUZZI

Zone C - Colombie-Britannique Intérieure / Yukon

KAMLOOPS (BC)

Zone C Director – Mark Betuzzi – MAAC 26605L
I was born in the small town in British Columbia, named Summerland We lived in the house my grandfather had built in 1913. In 1955 we moved to Lakeview Heights which is now West Kelowna, I did my schooling at Lakeview elementary, and George Pringle Secondary School in Westbank. I took my electronic technician training at Okanagan College in Kelowna and in Vancouver at Vancouver Vocational Institute.
In 1971, I started work with CNCP telecommunications as a Telex and Teletype technician. With the slow demise of Telex and teletype machines, in 1978 I transferred over to CN Rail as a radio technician with a posting to Kamloops B.C. I retired from C.N Rail in 2005.
I always had an interest in airplanes and model aviation. My Father was a flight instructor during the second world war teaching pilots to fly Harvards, Cessna Cranes and the Avro Ansons. I flew control line aircraft in the early 60’s but did not purchase my first radio-controlled model till 1995. I joined the Kamloops Model Airplane society to get trained and obtained my MAAC wings in August of 1995. I’ve belonged to the Kamloops Model Airplane Society’s club since 1995 and have held almost every executive position within the club.
In 2005, I became the Chairman of the Radio Spectrum committee of MAAC. During this time, MAAC worked with the federal government to obtain the required certifications to start using 2.4 GHZ Spread Spectrum technology for the control of Radio-Controlled models. The use of 2.4 GHZ radios was a real game changer for all R.C. flyers as right now, hardly any flyers are using any of the original 72 MHZ radio equipment.
In early 2023, I gave up being the chairman of the Radio Spectrum committee and became the Zone C Director for MAAC. Within the zone there are 28 clubs. I look forward to helping every club and MAAC member within the zone.
My other interests include Photography and playing trumpet. For close to twenty years, I held the second trumpet position with the local Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. I was also principal trumpet in several brass groups here in Kamloops.
Thank you,
Mark Betuzzi – MAAC 26605L

RANDY HEPNER

Zone D - Manitoba / Nord-ouest de l'Ontario

STONEWALL (MB)

As I enter my 4th year serving on the MAAC Board of Directors we continue to face many challenges keeping both this NFP Corporation healthy and vibrant, as well as contributing to the aeromodelling hobby. There is much hard work to do, including to continue to educate the membership by dispelling old myths about what belonging to MAAC really means, and reshaping MAAC to fit the regulatory mold.

For the loyal MAAC members who have wisely followed our directions and waited patiently for our very small group of volunteers to sort this out, I offer the sincere thanks of the entire organization. While running MAAC day to day is not the hobby and not a weight or burden the individual members carry or decide, this organization exists for the sole purpose of enabling individual member enjoyment of a fabulous hobby and pass time - we all commit our time and energy freely for the love of model aviation.

Here's to a brighter 2024 - regardless the challenges we face.

CARL CIMPRICH

Zone E - Milieu de l'Ontario

NIAGARA FALLS (ON)

Once upon a time when I was a knobby kneed 6 year old, my father and several of his friends were building a Pietenpol Air Camper. The fuselage construction was done at the St. Catharines Airport. The wing all 30 feet of it was built in the basement of our home. The wonderful toxic smells of adhesives and spruce dust that filled our home are still clear memories. I don’t know to this day if the wing rib I helped build ever really made it into the wing, but the damage was done, CF-PEK was born and so was my passion for all things airplane.

As I got older I didn’t know about MAAC or for that matter that there were model clubs, but that didn’t stop me from flying control line starting with the old Cox offerings. I moved to building Goldberg and other combat wings to a botched fiberglass 1/8 scale Fairy Firefly build in plastic tech class in high school. Radio control was an out of reach dream to hold until adulthood.

I learned about MAAC from a friend at work and some years later, now over 34 years ago, I joined the local club and built a Goldberg Eagle 2 on which I quickly became both proficient at flying and deeply and thoroughly hooked.

I’ve had the pleasure of making countless new acquaintances and friends as a MAAC member and have always tried to be a big part of the advancement of the hobby, my club and now hopefully our association.

That’s quite enough about me, I’m here for MAAC and its members and you deserve our best, not, our boast. I’ll do my best to come out to you all and get a sense of what you need.

Cheers!
Carl Cimprich

W. CRAIG KNIGHT

Zone F - Nord de l'Ontario

SAULT STE MARIE (ON)

Bonjour,
Je suis né à Windsor en Ontario en 1952, alors je suppose que je fais partie de la génération des baby-boomers. A été embauché par Burroughs Business Machines à la sortie de l'école secondaire, a déménagé à Sudbury avec cette entreprise - une longue histoire - puis à North Bay.
J'ai commencé à m'intéresser au mannequinat à North Bay, à la recherche d'une diversion. J'ai développé un intérêt pour les modèles réduits d'avions après avoir assisté à une démonstration à la Comber Fair peut-être en 1970. J'ai acheté ma première radiocommande aux passe-temps de Bob sur Lakeshore - une chaîne Kraft 5. J'ai payé 500 dollars de 1975. J'ai rencontré ma femme chérie à North Bay (une autre longue histoire) et j'étais membre du club d'avions modèles de North Bay et du Nippissing Miniature Airplane Club - maintenant connu sous le nom de NIPMAC. La même compagnie m'a alors déménagé moi et moi à Sault Ste. Marie. Je les ai quittés et j'ai été embauché à l'aciérie où j'ai passé 35 ans à prendre ma retraite du contrôle environnemental. J'ai occupé de nombreux postes dans mon club local, j'ai été directeur de zone il y a des décennies pour un mandat et j'ai été directeur de zone adjoint pour le Nord de l'Ontario pendant une décennie de toute façon. Je fais actuellement de la voltige à grande échelle pas trop bien, des modèles flippy un peu mieux, des mousses intérieures et tout le reste.

BRENT NORMAN

Zone G - Vallée de l'Outaouais

KANATA (ON)

JOHN DEADMAN

Zone H - Sud-Ouest de la Colombie Britannique

DELTA (BC)

GRANT ROBINSON

Zone K - Saskatchewan

CHURCHBRIDGE (SK)

M. ADAM MAAS

Zone L - Sud-est de l'Ontario

TORONTO (ON)

I grew up around aviation, with a father who was a bush pilot and an avid plastic scale modeller. I'm a life long modeller who was an active RC pilot as a youth, and then like many of us I got out of aeromodelling in my teenage years. I never did stop modelling and have been an active & life-long Model Train enthusiast as well and started scratchbuilding in the model train hobby, an interest which has come over to my RC activities as well.

I came back to aeromodelling in my late 20's and RC a few years later.

I'm now an active sailplane pilot, and dabble in RC power (Electric and am returning to glow), rubber & catapult freeflight and am an active builder with an interest in classic RC designs, especially smaller 1/2A and .10-.25 sized models. Radios also are a core part of my hobby and I spend a lot of time on both modern radios (OpenTX and Spektrum Airware) and conversions & repairs of classic radios from the 60's & 70's. You might even find me flying a Galloping Ghost on 2.4GHz.

PETER DOUPNIK

Zone M - Sub-ouest de l'Ontario

LASALLE (ON)

My passion is meeting great people and flying RC Jets. I have enjoyed model airplanes and great friendships for the past 58 years.

PATRICK ROY

Zone N - Québec

ORFORD (QC)