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Pullman The Palouse Ridge Runner
Palouse Region R/C Flyers
Newsletter
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7pm Tuesday August 2
Jack-in-the-Box
The next club meeting
will be at the Jack-in-the-Box in
Agenda
for the August meeting:
1. Update on club T-shirts, hats and patches
with our new club logo.
2. Fall BBQ and Funfly.
3. Report on the model airplane exhibit for
Family Day at the
Notes
from the July
By Don Hart
The meeting was held
at the Latah Room in the University Inn Best Western in
Present:
Dave Walker (President)
Bruce Bumgarner (VP)
Colleen Bumgarner (Sec/Treas)
Bertle Spence
Sam Hord
Larry Bobisud
Les Grammer
Don Hart
Minutes read and accepted.
Fun
Fly Events
Fun fly events were not held at the Spring picnic due to windy flying conditions. It was moved and seconded to reschedule the flying events to Thursday July 14 at 5:30pm. Motion passed. Six prizes will be awarded.
Club
Logo Apparel
Colleen will investigate prices for T-shirts, jackets, hats and sew-on-patches with the club logo designed by Wally Bigelow.
It was moved and seconded to move
the meeting location from University Best Western back to the Moscow
Jack-in-the-Box starting with the August meeting. Motion passed.
A static display with flight simulator and R/C models was scheduled for Saturday July 16 from 10am to 3pm. Other exhibits will be set up, so greater participation is expected.
Electric
Fun Fly in
Colleen passed around a notice for
the electric power R/C fun fly in
Demonstration
Don Hart presented a slide show of
visits to the Smithsonian Air and
Special Report - July 14 Fun
Fly Results:
Four pilots participated in the fun fly events held on Thursday July 14. The weather was good with only light winds. Joe Bolden flew a “Four*40", Don Hart flew a “Mojo” profile fun fly, John Sawyer flew a “Not-For-Sale” fun fly named “Butt Ugly” and Dave Walker flew a “Bingo” low wing sport aerobatic plane.
There were four events: Climb-and-Glide, 3-Minute-Flight, 3-Loops/3-Rolls, and Spot-Landing. All events except the Spot-Landing were timed. Climb-and-Glide was won with the longest glide time, the 3-Minute-Flight with time closest to 3-minutes, and 3-Loops/3-Rolls with the shortest time from take-off to landing.
Climb-and-Glide allowed a 15-second motor run for the climb, followed by a timed “glide” at idle. Dave Walker had the best time at 1:51, followed by Don Hart with 1:28, Joe Bolden with 1:07.5 and John Sawyer with 1:05.
The 3-Minute-Flight was just that – no timing devices allowed. Pilots took off tried to fly for exactly 3 minutes and land. Time started when the wheels left the ground and stopped when the plane touched down. Dave Walker had the closest time with 2:33:5 (26.5 under), followed by Don Hart with 2:15:3 (44.5 under), John Sawyer with 3:53:5 (53.5 over) and Joe Bolden with 4:15 (1:15 over).
The 3-Loops/3-Rolls event involved take-off followed by three loops and three rolls in any order. Three pilots completed the event. Don Hart completed the task in 29 seconds followed by John Sawyer with 35 seconds and Dave Walker with 55 seconds. Unfortunately, Joe Bolden was taken out of the event by a mishap on landing.
The Spot-Landing event involved a take-off, flight to approach for landing with the touch-down closest to a tape stretched across the runway winning. Three pilots participated. Dave Walker won with a landing exactly on the tape followed by Don Hart at 5’4” and John Sawyer at 6’0”. Don Hart made a realistic simulation of a carrier landing when his tail wheel mount grabbed the tape, but that didn’t improve his measured touch-down distance from the original tape location.
Each event was scored with the winner getting 4 points, second getting 3 points and so on. Scores were added across all events to determine the overall winner. Dave Walker came out on top with 14 points followed by Don Hart with 13 points, John Sawyer with 8 points and Joe Bolden with 3 points.
The fun fly events were preceded and followed by open flying.
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Aug
12-14 |
Athol,
ID: Warbird Fly-In; Class C at Farragut St. Park; CD: Matt Jacobson, 735 N. Corbin Rd.
#21, Post Falls, ID 83854, (208)773-4222, Email: matt.Jacobson@itd.state.gov ; Sponsor: Farragut
Flyers #324. Saturday is war birds only. Friday and Sunday is all aircraft flying. |
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Aug
20,21 |
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Sep
3,4 |
Athol,
ID: North Idaho Soaring Championships; at Farragut
St. Pk; CD Lee Urbaniak,
3012 W. 22nd, Spokane, WA 99224, (509)455-5129, Email: lurbaniak@icehouse.net; Sponsor: |
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Sep 11 |
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Sep
17,18 |
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More Northwest modeling events at http://boeinghawks.org/events/ama.htm