MEETING
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Nov 6 at 7:00pm |
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Don Hart 980 S Main Colfax, WA 99111 (509) 397-2808 dhart@colfax.com |
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Attending
Howard Hosick Bruce Bumgarner K Tarbet Larry Bobisud Vance Penton Joe Bolden Dave Walker Bertil Spence Jeff Nelson Ted Frisbee Pat Gates Bob Boettcher Don Hart Planning for the Mall Show: 1. Prizes for Raffle and Best-of-Show An ARF electric plane with radio, such as the Firefly will be purchased for the mall show raffle prize. This is more likely to be actually flown by a beginner in R/C than the glow powered ARF trainer we have had for a raffle prize in past years. Jeff Nelson got Firebirds for his kids and they are able to fly them with little assistance. Local hobby shops will be contacted for donations of best of show prizes. If you have an airplane, a kit or an engine you would like to donate, contact Bertle Spence, Don Hart or Dave Walker. Raffle tickets will be included in the March newsletter. 2. Set Up - Thursday March 7 at 7pm 3. Manning the show Friday March 8: Need someone in the evening... 10am - noon. Mel Colvin and Dave Walker noon - 5pm Bruce Bumgarner 5pm - 9pm - open - Saturday March 9: The busiest day! There should be at least two members on duty at all times. 10am - noon Jeff Nelson and Bertil Spence noon - 4pm Joe Bolden 2pm - 7pm Larry Bobisud Sunday March 10: noon - 4pm - open - 4. Cash box Someone must take the cash box home at night and return it in the morning. 5. TV and VCR Dave Walker will bring a TV/VCR for showing videos. If you have R/C videos, please bring them to the March meeting or the mall show. 6. Boxes for Raffle Tickets and Ballots Larry Bobisud will build/bring boxes for the raffle tickets and the best-of-show ballots. 7. Ballots Don Hart will make ballots and name placards for the best-of-show voting. 8. Publlicity Don Hart will put an announcement in the Money Saver. Announcements will be placed in other media where it can be arranged. Show and Tell 1. Lateral balancing stand. Joe Bolden brought a lateral balancing stand he built. He uses it to ensure that one side of his models is not heavier than the other. Joe balances his models laterally before they are covered. He temporarily mounts the engine, wing and control surfaces except the rudder. He puts it on the balancing stand with the front supported by the engine drive shaft and the tail end supported by a dowel temporarily mounted at the rear end of the fuselage with the rudder removed. Weights are installed in the wing on the light side until lateral balance is achieved. The stand is adjustable over a wide range for different sizes of models. 2. Zagi flying wings Bruce Bumgarner showed us his six foot Zagi slope soarer and Zagi 400 electric. The foam six foot wing has an EPP leading edge and beaded foam aft of the EPP. The wing was assembled, but not covered yet. Bruce will apply strapping tape "spars" to the top and bottom surface to make the foam stiffer. The foam is lightly sprayed with 3M contact cement and colored or clear tape is applied over the whole surface of the top and bottom of the wing. Low temperature iron on covering can be used over the tape if desired. Bruce got the Zagi 400 electric at the Puyallup model show. He got a great price on the kit, motor, controller and two battery packs. Bruce expects to have both Zagis assembled and flying soon. Electric Club Fly In? Several club members have or are building electrics. How about an electric fly in later this year? For Sale Shane Evans has a Tower Trainer 60 with OS60LA and Tower radio ($400 value) for sale - asking $250. Contact Shane at 885-5746 or at his e-mail address evan1361@uidaho.edu |
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Don Hart 980 S Main Colfax, WA 99111 (509) 397-2808 dhart@colfax.com |
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Super Bowl Snow Fly 2002 was held on Saturday, February 2 at Tawny and
Jeff Nelson's home near Troy, Idaho. This may have been the best field
conditions we've ever had for the Super Bowl Snow Fly! There was little or
no wind, clear sunny skies, and about 18 inches of snow with no crust.
Temperatures were in the mid to high 30's. Flying conditions were perfect!
Fifteen pilots signed up (including two of the Nelson kids). Flying started about 10am and continued until nearly dark. There were a couple of mishaps, but only two that I saw that resulted in damage. Of course, Tawny and Jeff Nelson had wonderful food (three kinds of soup) and the potluck snacks were wonderful. There was a wide variety of models, from gound-bound to free flight. There were several ski equipped trainers, a couple of funfly planes and an Ultra Stick 40 ARF. Bob Boettcher, recovering from recent surgery, didn't fly R/C, but brought and flew a wind-up ornithoper - a scale model of a bird. Howard Hosick brought his recently completed snow boat, built from a Dumas kit. Howard had some unkind things to say about the kit, but the finished product looked great. Unfortunately, he was unable to get speeding snowboat to change direction and a flip damaged the air rudder. He will try this machine again after some modifications. Ted Frisbee's Ultra Stick 40 ARF was equipped with skis fabricated with sections of pop bottles, an approach that I also used on my Funfly Hots. The YS63 powered Ultra Stick took off and flew great, but landings were a bit undignified. The skis were apparently a bit small for the weight, causing the plane to nose over on landings in the soft snow. They may have worked well if the snow had been crusty or only an inch or two deep. Snowmobiles came in handy in retrieving a couple of planes that landed far across the adjacent wheat fields. It really beats walking that far and back through knee-deep snow. Jeff Nelson flew his profile biplane called the "Hopefully Fun". This a large plane powered with a Super Tigre 90 two stroke. It flew well on a 12x7 APC prop, but much better on a wood 15x6 prop. The thick wings generate lots of drag, making the plane fly about the same speed straight down as it does straight up or in level flight at full throttle. It can fly really slowly at low throttle. It's a plane that's a lot of fun to watch and to fly. My ancient Funfly Hots "bit the snow," breaking the fuselage in half when I stalled it during a very slow fly by. It's repairable, but this should give me the incentive to finally finish its replacement, a "Sirex Hornet" built from plans downloaded from the internet. The "Sirex Hornet" is a profile funfly plane designed by Don Incoll from Austrailia (see "The Aussie Shed" at http://www.rcwizard.com/incoll/ for lots of strange and interesting R/C model planes). I'm not sure how many years Tawny and Jeff have put on the Super Bowl Snow Fly, but this may have been the best yet. Congratulations on a great event! Jeff Nelson Funfly Hots, Funfly Bipe |
