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<DIV>Gray,</DIV>
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<DIV>Please give me a call I can give you some information.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lamar Blair<BR>President of NSRCA<BR>(256) 353-8154<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gfowler@raytheon.com href="mailto:gfowler@raytheon.com">Gray E
Fowler</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 18, 2005 7:13
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> If it was not true it would be
funny....</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Any Lawyer types on the
list?</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I got a call from my club
President last night, since I am the ex president. It seems that a lawsuit has
been filed against the Richardson Radio Control Club for about $4000. The
break down goes like this</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>1.
Broken arm -medical expenses......$1500</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>2. Lost wages..............................................$1500</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>3. Court
costs.................................................$250</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>4.
Suffering....................................................$1000</FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>The charges also include
"trespassing".</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>We have a meeting
set up for this Saturday to discuss what we are going to do as a club and I
wonder if anyone has some experience-advice.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>Here are some facts. </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>Round 1</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>The
RRCC field is on Collin County land set aside by the county SPECIFICALLY for
the development of and RC flying field. The county approached the RRCC about
1997 and asked us to develop this site per a plane they had, which we 100%
complied with, and met all goals. We are in year 8 of a 20 year $1 lease.
This lady who filed this lawsuit in small claims court first attack us 3
years ago. I was president. We had a meeting at the Collin county Parks
Managers office so they could hear her complaints and our responses. Her
complaint was noise. At that time Lance who was VP and I had already started a
manditory noise restriction club legislation and it was passed by our
membership. This was because we knew we had a problem with several 100cc gas
engines rating 108dB on the ground (pattern style measurment) and
screaming supersonic props in the air.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>The lady IS nuts and went hysterical during this meeting with the
county. I invited the County managers out to our field with this lady present
to witness the "noise". in short we flew demos with several types of plane and
measured noise on he ground and during overfly at and past our boundaries. The
County managers witnessed that Lance's IMAC style plane (101 dB pattern style
measurement) was quieter flying over the 950 ft boundary road than the traffic
on the road itself by a factor of 2-4 X. So they concluded that there IS
NOT a noise problem at our field. The complaining lady was not happy.</FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Round 2</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>Next, The lady files a complaint against us in "County Commissioner's
Court" for the same reason. She states her whine, we state our case and are
backed up by the county managers. We presented or efforts to contain noise and
the results of our demo with the county managers. The County Judges dismiss
the Lady's whine and asks us a few question about these "neat toys".
Yeah -we win.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Round 3</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>This lady consistently calls the Sheriff
about noise. The Sheriff is obliged to show up at our field, but nothing ever
happens. The plane she has pointed out to the Sherriff about the horrible
noise is none other than Lance's Symphony. During our demo, Lance flew
his pattern plane (NATS legal) PAST the boundary road directly over my head at
150ft high-I could not get a dB reading over the background noise.
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>So, I suppose that the lady got SO
UPSET about the noise that she ran out of her trailer house, fell off the
steps and broke her arm , so therfore it is the fault of the RRCC. She could
not then work (she works for the USPO, so we better be careful!!!) and
obviously the USPO has no short term disability insurance, and so no wages are
our fault too. Trespassing must be planes flying over her house as we are not
aware of any real trespassing. Court costs and "suffering" are obvious.</FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>We are contacting the AMA today, and the
county managers. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Anyone have any
real advice for this situation that could help? Fire bombing her trailer is
not an option, even though it would solve the problem. I am not sure, but I
suspect that she is from the Irish branch of AL-Queda (dyed bright red
hair).</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Seriously.....any ideas
would be appreciated-especially from lawyers on how we should handle this. The
lady DOES NOT have a lawyer, and it is small claims court. I do not know what
the proceedure here is. If you read this past about 3pm please respond to
<B>aeroslave@comcast.net.</B> </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>Thanks Guys<BR><BR><BR><BR>Gray Fowler<BR>Principal Chemical
Engineer<BR>Composites Engineering</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>