The next meeting of the Palos R/C Flying Club will be held Wednesday June 7, 7:30 P.M. at the Willow Springs Senior Center.

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1 Volume 53 Issue 6 JUNE 2017 Editor Gene Drag Photos by Joe Zumsteg and others. The next meeting of the Palos R/C Flying Club will be held Wednesday June 7, 7:30 P.M. at the Willow Springs Senior Center. ** ** Palos Annual Air Show June 4th ** Fun Fly June 25 ** ** ** Palos R/C Flying Club AMA# 263 P.O. Box 391 Palos Park, IL Meetings: 1st Wednesday of each month. Village of Willow Springs Senior Center Archer Ave. Flying Site: 107 th and LaGrange Rd N 41 degrees minutes W 87 degrees minutes Elevation: 649 feet above sea level President: Felix Mata Vice Pres.: JR Centeno Recording Secy: Stan Flynn Corres. Secy: Dennis DeGregorio Treasurer: Brian Zygadlo Web Site: The Crash Chronicle is published monthly by the Palos R/C Flying Club. We reserve the right to edit any submitted material. The editor of this newsletter and the officers of the Palos R/C Flying Club shall not be held liable for errors or omissions. Permission is granted to use any material in this newsletter provided proper credit is given. Articles wanted for The Palos RC Crash Chronicle If there are any articles or information you would like to see published in your newsletter, please get a copy to Gene Drag (editor) 10 days after a club meeting. This will give adequate time to get it in the CC. The May meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM. Stan Flynn read the minutes of the April meeting. Brian Zygadlo read the treasury report. There was one new member, Kevin Allen, Gordon Millerin's great grandson. Welcome to the Club. Joe Gavenda CD invited all to attend the Annual Air Show. The safety fences are up. Thank you all for your help. ******** SHOW AND TELL ********** Mike Garrett had his Carbon Z ARF. Ron Trujillo showed a Kwik Fly MK2. Hal Parenti brought a, Bruce Tharpe, turbine powered Reaction. Steve McCarthy showed his push-pull powered Cessna 337 with retracts. Felix Mata had a Concept X ducted fan jet. He also had a dc regulator with seemingly unlimited input/output possibilities. Ed McKeague had a Sterling aircraft and some wings that he gave away.

2 * * * Notices * * * The Willow Springs 125th Birthday Parade is Saturday, June 17th at 10:00 a.m. The Palos RC Club was asked to participate in this event. We are looking for members to attend. More info to June Birthdays follow at the June general meeting. For All You "Full Scale" Enthusiasts! The Reunion of TBM Avengers Salute to Veterans is Saturday, May 20th in Peru, IL. The Cavalcade of Planes at Clow Airport is Sat & Sun, June 3rd and 4th. Our Palos Annual Air Show is on Sunday June 4th, so if you decide to go please go to the Cavalcade of planes on Saturday, June 3rd and save the 4th for Palos!!) Here is a fascinating video showing a NASA launch system development that uses model RC gliders and towplanes. NASA's Jerry Budd Tow-Glider Air-Launch Concept AMA Flight School. Much Appreciated On the morning of 4/22/2017 around 10 am, club members came out to erect the flying field s barriers which in my opinion officially starts the 2017 flying season. We all had a good time kidding and joking around as the barriers were erected with some requiring minor repairs. I would have never guessed that it takes four members to drive one rebar into the ground. One member holds the bar, one holds the hammer, one holds the fence and one tells the rest how to use a hammer.lol. It really was a fun morning putting the fences up which I look forward to doing every year. As I looked around observing my fellow members laughing and joking, I thought to myself the Palos Flying Club is my home and it is a great organization. We all share a love for the hobby of RC, be it planes, copters, quads, jets or even flying RC Kites (Mikey)..lol. It is a camaraderie of friendships that continues to last over the years and for years to come. However, there is another major factor that also binds our members and that is enjoying GOOD FOOD together which is always served up by none other than Monica. This lady is very special in that she saw to it that we old guys had a good WARM meal with all the trimmings after working that day. The Good Lord in His wisdom placed Monica in our club along with her husband of course. The effort she puts into providing us a well-planned out meal from the main dish all the way down to the sweets is fantastic. When I finished eating, I wanted to just go to sleep on the bench and would have, but you guys make too much noise.lol I decided to write this article to acknowledge Monica and to show her how much she is loved by all in the club. She has continued to keep our tummies full each and every year. She in my opinion is a woman with a big heart with a giving and caring personality. You are MUCH APPRECIATED in all that you do for the club. May the Good Lord Bless you and your family, oh yeah, Bill too.lol Ron T. Gary Oostman 02 Al Yurkus 03 Steven DeGregorio 04 Gino Grassano 05 Hal Parenti 06 Andrew Turkington 07 Jordan Kaplan 08 Leonard Rigsby 09 Frank Fattore 15 Joe Gavenda 16 Joseph Cherne 17 Gene Drag 18 John Murphy 19 Bill Kanatas 23 Anthony Vosejpka 26 Michael Garrett 30 Prize Winners Brian Zygadlo won the raffle(cub) and gave it to new member Kevin Allen. Hal Parenti won the glue.

3 Attention Palos RC Members: FYI An r/c modeler and Maryland attorney by the name of John Taylor filed a case on March 14th, 2017 in the Federal Appeals Court, challenging the FAA's Small Unmanned Aircraft Registration. Today the Court ruled in his favor, meaning that the FAA model aircraft registration is now void. After the ruling the AMA sent a notice confirming this information. Today, the Federal Appeals Court voids the FAA registration rule. I don't know how this will play out over the next few months or years, but for now it is a win. Although, I wouldn't count on getting your $5.00 back from the FAA! Happy flying to all, Dennis DeGregorio What Happened to the Great Palos Glider Event??? THE MAY 2017 EVENT WAS GONE WITH THE WIND By Joe Gavenda C.D. Rick Hixon Co C.D. And Margaret Mitchell Co C.D. The 2017 Palos Glider Contest was to be held Sunday, May 21.But Mother Nature did not cooperate and provide flyable conditions with warm spring time sunshine and soft gentle flowing spring time winds. Noooo instead we got strong gusty winds out of the southwest through the northwest. Gusts were in the neighborhood of 25 to 30 mph.not good for gliders. Thermal activity is non-existent under those conditions AND there is a high risk of a crash especially on landing. Also, it is not a lot of fun trying to control your glider when the winds are so severe. Stan Flynn and Lee Marcheschi were the only pilots to challenge the winds, and comments from both pilots were not encouraging. As an understatement I decided that under those conditions to postpone the event. The club calendar has Sunday September 17 as an open Palos club day at the field so I would like to reschedule the glider event for that date. We had about 20 members attend the event with about 8 pilots with gliders. After the decision to postpone the event we all had a nice brunch of Polish sausage prepared by Monica and Bill Doyle. So our May glider event will be the September glider event!!! Now you have more time to tweak your glider for the contest. Thank you all for attending the cancelled event and hope so see you in September Concept X foamy ducted fan. Concept X with afterburner on.

4 Horizon Carbon Z Cessna 150. Sterling aircraft. Steve McCarthy with his Cessna 337. Steve McCarthy with his Cessna 337. Another look at the Cessna 337. Kwik Fly MK2.

5 Hal Parenti prepares his Reaction for show and tell. Another view of the Reaction. May meeting. Hal's Reaction in foreground. Inside the Reaction. Tidy layout of the Reaction interior. TBM Avenger.

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