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Pullman The Palouse Ridge Runner Moscow

Palouse Region R/C Flyers Newsletter

============================ October 2009 ===============================

The next club meeting will be at Jack-in-the-Box in Moscow (Moscow-Pullman Highway), Tuesday, October 6 (contact club President Jerry Becker for information).

If anyone has a new plane, bring it to show it off.

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Meeting Agenda, October 6th, 2009:
1. Announcements
2. Minutes from Sept 1st meeting
3. Treasury Report / Dues Update
4. Flying/Building Reports
5. September Fun Fly Report
6. Flying Day in the Park & RC Class Report
7. 2010 Officer Nominations/Speeches/Elections
8. Potlatch Field Update
9. Agenda Additions / New Business
10. Program:TBD
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Notes from the Last Meeting:

Members Present:

Jerry Becker (President)
Colleen Bumgarner (Secretary/Treasurer)
Bruce Bumgarner
Larry Bobisud
Mel Colvin
Sam Hord
Dave Walker
Mark Scarborough and his son
David Evans
Dave Bueller
Simon Smith
The Sass Family (Dave, Lucas, Tyler and Austin)
Don Hart

Minutes accepted as read.

Treasury: $2182.69

Announcements

Hobbytown Freestyle September 5

EAA Airfair - Lewiston airport Saturday September 26. A P-51 will fly in and put on flight demos.

Flying/Building Reports

David Evans lost his plane, a fly-away, after 20 seconds of controlled flight.

Mark Scarborough crashed his pylon racer at Deer Park due to a switch failure. Fortunately, the engine survived! Mark posted times of 2:05 and 1:49.5 at the Shelton pylon event. Mark reported that there were several midairs between the fast class pylon planes.

Mike Marsh, Jerry Becker and Don Hart have been perfecting the design for paintball target planes at the Mann Lake field near Lewiston. The planes have fuselages of plastic downspout, wings of blue styrofoam reinforced with filament packing tape and coroplast tail surfaces. Motor mounts are made of pieces of cutting board material. The planes will be available as targets at the fall picnic.

Old Business

Nomination of Club Officers

In accordance with our amended Club Bylaws, nominations for 2010 Club Office were opened at our September meeting. This first round of nominations produced the following nominees:


        * President:  Mark Scarborough
        * Vice President:  John Sawyer
        * Secretary/Treasurer:  Colleen Bumgarner
        * Safety Officers:  John Sawyer and Don Kolb
        * Editor:  Don Hart

Potlatch Field

Work parties have completed tarring the cracks in the runway. Minor repairs remain to be completed. Dave Walker and Jerry Becker will schedule another work party to finish the repairs.

Fall Picnic

The format will be the similar to the spring and summer events. This will be a Lucky Hand event where each flight will earn a playing card. The best poker hand at the end of the event will win the prize. Jerry Becker got an E-Flight Blade MCX S300 heli for the Lucky Hand prize at the picnic.

Blade MCX S300

There are some changes to the balloon busting. Cutting the crepe paper to release a balloon will earn one card. Busting a balloon will earn two cards. Busting a free flying balloon will earn three cards!

Paintball shooting at target planes will cost $1 for 25 shots (wives and significant others will shoot for free). This will defray the cost of paintball supplies.

Mel Colvin volunteered to be the burger/brat chef. Bruce and Colleen Bumgarner will bring the cold drinks and Jerry Becker will bring the burgers, brats and buns.

Flying in the Park

Set up for the event will begin at 8:30 on Saturday September 19 at Mountain View Park in Moscow. Moscow Parks and Recreation has reserved the park for the day, so there should be no other activities at the park. The park will mowed on the Friday before the event. Safety fences will be erected by the club. We will have to repositioned Soccer goals and bleachers for our use. Jerry Becker will get signs made.

Joe Bolden, Dave Walker and Don Hart will be available as instructor pilots. Each participant should also have a "coach". Mel Colvin will do the "pre-flight" introduction for participants.

Planes are requested for static display. There will be demo flights mid-day and as appropriate to fill in between buddy box sessions.

So far there has been one participant signed up for the RC class.

New Business

No new business.

Program

Dave Bueller showed his Olympic 650 glider. It was built in 1984. Radio has been updated to a 2.4 gHz system. Dave has not flown for many years and is just getting back into RC. He expects to fly it on the upcoming weekend.

Jerry Becker passed around the E-Flight Blade MCX S300 RTF heli fun fly prize.

Don Hart showed pictures from his recent visit to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR to see the Spruce Goose and a bunch of other planes.

Upcoming Events

Indian Summer Jamboree
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10/02/09-10/04/09 - Richland, WA (C) Indian Summer Jamboree. Site: Higgins Field. John Hanson CD, 2021 S Fruitland St Kennewick WA 99337 PH:509-586-4843 email: groundloop@charter.net. Visit www.higginsfield.com. Paved and grass runways, RV parking available, no hookups, rest rooms on site, Horn Rapids RV park 1 mile away, breakfast and lunch available, landing fee $15, RC car track adjacent to field. Sponsor: MINATURE AIRCRAFT ASSOC

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