Community Service

The San Jose Wavemasters RC Club supports Bay Area students who are engaged in understanding aeronautics, plus designing, building and flying RC aircraft.

Members have supported elementary and high school students by donating simple wooden gliders to their teachers, for exploring the basic physics of flight.

We also have members who volunteer at the Wings of History Air Museum in San Martin, California.

On March 11, 2025, SJWM flight crews hosted the U.C. Berkeley SAE AERO Club for their first student-built RC craft test flight. SJWM President Rick Maida performed the first test flight of their RC craft at the SCCMAS Tomcats field in Morgan Hill, California. We are happy to report that the first test flight and landing, were successful.

Two weeks later, the students entered their craft in the 2025 SAE AERO West competition, held in Van Nuys, California. (They honored San Jose Wavemasters RC Club by placing our logo on the fuselage of their craft.) We are happy to report that the UCB SAE AERO Club placed 3rd in the nation at that competition. Congratulations to their 12-member team for a job well done.

Please enjoy these videos and images of the U.C.B. SAE AERO Club’s SJWM-sponsored test flight, on March 11, 2025.

The twelve-member, U.C. Berkeley SAE AERO CLUB Engineering students with Rick Maida, SJWM volunteer test pilot, after two successful test flights, hosted by the members of San Jose Wavemasters RC Club, on March 11, 2025.

UCB SAE AERO Club students assembling the 15-foot RC craft just before the SJWM-hosted test flight on March 11, 2025.

To view their April 2025 SAE AERO West competition videos (taken two weeks later in Van Nuys) please visit:

https://www.youtube.com/live/CHGds1OjbYE?si=ECVDcg3iVaJTFcQY&t=6123

https://www.youtube.com/live/CHGds1OjbYE?si=RFD7zOs15PMbHysZ&t=16200