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Pullman The Palouse Ridge Runner Moscow

Palouse Region R/C Flyers Newsletter

============================== August 2014 ===============================

The next club meeting will be Tuesday, August 5 at 7pm at the Jack-in-the-Box in Moscow (Moscow-Pullman Highway). Contact club President Don Hart for information.

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

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Meeting Agenda
  1. Announcements
  2. Minutes
  3. Treasury Report
  4. Flying/Building Reports
  5. Johnson Fun Fly Report
  6. Old Business
  7. Agenda Additions/New Business
  8. Program: Dave Walker -  "Perfecting your Take off and LandingTechniques"
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Notes from the Last Meeting:

Members Present:

Minutes accepted as published.

Treasury: $2016.47

Announcements

No announcements

Flying/Building Reports

Mark flew in the Memorial Day control line event in Salem, OR. He crashed his profile plane, but came in second in Classic and first in Advanced. Mark is in the process of building two new control line planes. He also attended the Kibbie Dome indoor nationals event for a bit.

LeRoy - windy as usual... Good building weather.

Dave flew his Goldberg Shoe String in Arizona this winter. He is starting an e-power Cub from a balsa kit. Dave also went to the Kibbie Dome indoor event.

Elmer flew his Fun Cub. Unfortunately, it landed (unharmed) on the far side of the creek on the south side of the runway - one tough bird (the plane  ;^)  ).

Don flew at the BBQ, but not much other RC activity.

Old Business

Spring BBQ Report

The weather was great. Turnout was less than we've seen in the past, but we had a great time. There was lots of flying with no serious incidents or crashes (Bob Kaley's tri-copter got a bit too far out and ended up out in the wheat when Bob lost orientation). Rather than poker hands for the prize (a RTF quad copter) we dealt one card to each person who wanted to participate.I didn't get the name of the winner, but she was thrilled.

New Business

Nothing

Program

Bob Kaley showed three of his tri-copters, one of them has a full body covering the innards. The tail motor tilts to yaw these machines. Bob builds do-it-yourself tri-copters using information he gleaned from the internet. Heavy duty cable ties mounted as loops on the underside of the arms are used for landing gear/shock absorbers. Bob uses 2200 mAH 2S and 3S LiPoly battery packs to run the three motors, three speed controls and the controller board. The tricopters are very agile and Bob flies them very well (when they don't get too far away).