Editors Bradford & Lynne Walters Volume 17 Issue 5 May 2010 Inside This Issue President Bradford s Briefing Bradford Gene Zerega Walters Bradford s Briefing 1 by Bradford Walters Vice President Steve Meeting Minutes 2 Pete Sidor Haas W Editors Meeting Location 4 ind, wind, and more wind. This has not been a Brad good Spring for a calm day of flying. It is my Bradford & Lynne Walters Walters Instructors 4 understanding that it has been windy over most of Board of Directors Indoor Flying 4 the states so we are not alone Rudy Bob Krolopp Davit Duane Lang April Prog Hi-lights 5 with this. Rudy Krolopp Ron Petterec AMA Darts 6 Duane Lang I would like to welcome all of the Gene Don Linder Zerega Editor s Page 7 new members to the Blue Max club this year and hope you will Secretary Hobby Shops 8 enjoy this season of flying with Murry Randell Membership Form 9 us. Treasurer Birthdays 10 Duane Bob Wisinski Lang We are looking at the second Frequency Chart 10 weekend of June for our annual Webmaster Webmaster Doug Bradbury Boy Scout Fun Fly. This will be Pete Sidor Jr. Coming Events 11 our third year of introducing R/C COMMITTEES COMMITTEES modeling to the next generation Banquet Banquet of potential pilots. I was about ten years old when I had my Tom Jetson Frank Stillson first encounter with a flying nitro powered model. That was Frank Stillson somewhere around 1960 and I have been enjoying it ever Field Marshal since. I know that warmer weather is almost here with Matt Kurt Schmitt Hauser Next meeting calmer winds. I ve just returned from a short trip to Flying Field Proficiency Marshal May 17th at Tennessee and the warmer weather is headed north. Don t Yohay Matt Hauser Hahamy St. Thomas School. forget to check your on-board batteries to see if they have Flying Start time - 7:00 p.m. Fun-Fly Proficiency passed their useful life expectancy. Generally, after three Yohay Hahamy Pete Sidor years of flying, I will replace them and not chance it.. Fun-Fly Ground Crew Pete Sidor Our Safety Chairman, Don Linder, will be going over the Gene Zerega new 2010 AMA safety rules for the year and the Club s Ground Crew Matt Hauser safety rules for the program at Monday night s meeting, Gene Zerega May 17 th Noise. We will be raffling off a Hobbico SuperStar 40 for Matt Hauser Bradford Walters first prize. Noise Bradford Picnic Walters Don t forget our Fun Flys are the Sunday morning at 10 am Carl Will before the Monday night meeting at 7 pm. Check out the Picnic Program Events link on the website for activities in the area. Open Bob Davit Programs See you at the field. Bob Safety Davit Don Linder Fun Fly at the field on Bradford Walters Safety Sam Don Linder Rimer Sunday, May 16th Sam Rimer 10:00 am
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 2 MEETING MINUTES by Murry Randell, Secretary Blue MAX R/C Flying Club April Meeting Notes Meeting Date: April 19, 2010 Secretary: Murry Randell The April 19, 2010 meeting of the Blue Max RC Flying Club was called to order at 7:06 p.m. by President Bradford Walters. Welcome Guests Mike Melendy Welcome New Members Al Hlavacek Around the Hangar President Report: Bradford Walters Website has been contracted and paid for the next year. Name tags are being furnished for new members. 2010 membership cards are ready. The field has been rolled. The safety fence has been moved so that it is parallel to the runway. The membership roster has been updated. Secretary Report: Murry Randell Minutes of the meeting were accepted as published in the newsletter. Treasurer Report: Bob Wisinski Current balance is $4566.28 Committee Reports: Banquet: Frank Stillson No report. Field Marshal: Matt Hauser The field is in good shape. Improvements have been made to the impound box. The carpet has been cleared of debris Fun Fly: Pete Sidor April Fun Fly 1 st Place Don Linder (10 pts) 6 th Place Rich Blaha (4 pts) 2 nd Place Bradford Walters (9 pts) 7 th Place Tab Battaglia (4 pts) 3 rd Place Duane Lang (8 pts) 8 th Place Larry Bochenko(4 pt) 4 th Place Dan Deitemeyer (7 pts) 9 th Place Charlie Benedict(4pt) 5 th Place Bob Wisinski (4 pts) Newsletter: Bradford and Lynne Walters Please send in some clean aviation humor. Noise: Bradford Walters Try to keep noise levels at 90Db or less. Picnic: OPEN Rich Blaha is our potential new picnic chairman. Bob Davit said he would help with the details. Proficiency: Yohay Hahamy No report. Program: Bob Davit Discs for Turbo-Cad are available. Next month s program will possibly be a talk by an American Airlines Captain. Refreshments: Bob Breckler Thanks to Bob for bringing the refreshments. Safety: Don Linder/Sam Rimer Try to avoid flying over the asphalt walking path. Use a spotter to keep track of people on the path. Webmaster: Doug Bradbury Use the e-mail address that is listed on the roster for you to sign in on the website. Ambassador: Pete Warenski No report. Old Business None.
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 3 New Business. Is there any interest in new club hats at $12 each? New members will receive a hat and a nametag at no cost. Our club now qualifies for silver leadership status. To qualify for gold level status we need to conduct a charity event, possibly a food drive. In addition, we will make a donation to the AMA scholarship fund. Unhappy Landings 1. Matt Hauser Engine quit, lost landing gear. 2. Don Linder Hit the safety fence. 3. Duane Lang Mayhem crashed lost radio. New on the Radar Rich Frost Hitec Aurora 9, 2.4 GHz 9 channel radio. Unit has GPS capability & telemetry between the tx & rx. Larry Bochenko Electric Mini Funtana airplane, Speed 400 motor, 22 oz flying weight Top Gun Lee Bergstedt won the Sportsman Aviation Waco 60 ARF. Paul Stawinoga won the 72 MHz Futaba flight pack.
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 4 Hobbytown USA Northbrook Gift Card was won by Steve Haas. Meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m. Meeting Place Meeting Room #1 (MR 1) Our meetings are on the 3 rd Monday St. Thomas of Villanova School of each month and they 1141 East Anderson Drive start at 7:00 p.m. Palatine, IL 60074 INSTRUCTORS GROUND CREW Dan Deitemeyer Duane Lang Aviv Shoval Matt Hauser Ed Der Don Linder Bradford Walters Gene Zerega Steve Haas Yohay Hahamy Ron Petterec Shlomo Rimer Indoor Flying Lake Barrington Fieldhouse 28156 W North Pointe Parkway, Lake Barrington, IL For more info and directions go to http://www.lakebarringtonfieldhouse.com/default.aspx Flying is every Friday from 11 am until 2 pm and the cost is $10. On other days if there is an open basketball court you can fly for $5. THERE IS A NEW INDOOR FLYING SITE!!!! JOY OF THE GAME, 158 S WAUKEGAN RD. DEERFIELD 60015, PHONE 847-498-6646. FLY TUES, WED, THURS FROM 10:30AM UNTIL 3:30 PM. COST: $10 FLAT FEE Website: www.joyofthegame.com This was coordinated by Hobbytown USA in Northbrook. They are right across the street.
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 5 April s Program A123 Batteries Thanks go to Yohay Hahamy, Sholmo Rimer, and Aviv Shoval(unfortunately he was out of town) for the very informative presentation they did on A123 batteries. Yohay discussed the advantages, disadvantages, and the differences of A123 s. He also went over how to charge them, the types of chargers to use, and fielded many questions from the group. Both he and Sholmo actually did a hands-on demonstration of how to build one. For those of us that have been looking for a safer alternative to Lipos, this gave us a new option. I am sure that if any of you have more questions about these batteries they would be glad to answer them. WANTED PICNIC COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN If you want to have a picnic this year, we need someone to take over this position and put together a team to pull this together. Many thanks go to Carl Will and his team in coordinating an excellent event in the past few years. R/C Aviation Humor A very knowledgeable modeler with a know-it-all arrogant attitude challenged club members that he could answer any model-related questions. For a small $5 bet, he would go around and ask each member to ask one question. If he answered wrong, he would lose the bet. True to his words, he could answer all questions till finally no modelers would take up the challenge. Always on the lookout for a new victim, one day the arrogant modeler came across a new novice member. "I challenge you that we will take a turn to ask model related questions" said the modeler, "But because you are a novice, if I can't answer your question, I'll pay you $100. But if you can't answer my question, you'll pay me $5". The novice just wanted to get on with his flying and refused the bet. However, after repetitive, annoying words from the arrogant modeler, the novice just wanted him off his back so he accepted the bet. The novice asked his question first... "What plane has 5 wings, 3 tails and 1 aileron, fitted with only an OS 28 and can go up to 250 km/h?" After a long thought, the arrogant modeler concluded for the first time, he did not know the answer and paid the novice $100. " So what's the plane called?" asked the arrogant modeler. "I don't know" said the novice. He handed over the $5 and pocketed the remaining $95 for himself. Then he got on with his flying!
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 6 AMA DART BUILDING AND FLYING St Thomas students and R/C pilot volunteers April 2010
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 7 Editor s Page THE ANSWER TO APRIL S NAME THAT PLANE The name of the plane is the Pitcairn Mailplane. Larry Bochenko was the first to answer it correctly and will receive a free raffle ticket at this month s meeting. Dan Deitemeyer and Bob Wisinski also answered correctly. This aircraft was designed in the 1920 s specifically to carry air mail. It had a Wright J-5-9 engine. It could cruise at 131 mph at a service ceiling of 18,000 feet and had a payload of 500 lbs. Pilots loved the aircraft because of its reliability and ease of handling. When crashes did occur, pilots were often able to walk away with minor injuries due to its rugged construction. The tail sections were built up from steel tube and fabric covered. Not often seen in other aircraft, it had a ground adjustable fin and in-flight adjustable tailplane. The mail was carried in a fireproof metal lined compartment forward of the pilot s cockpit. See picture below. MAY S NAME THAT PLANE In the 1940 s about 600 of this aircraft were built. 200 of them were issued to the Navy as training aids for antiaircraft gunners. These aircraft were converted into radio controlled drones. It had a 19 6 length and the wingspan was 30 feet. Empty weight was 1500 lbs. It had retractable landing gear and the max speed was 180 mph. The engine was a Franklin 0-300-11 with 150 hp. This aircraft cornered the market for unmanned aerial gunnery targets. Send all responses to Bradford Walters at Bradford@thehoverzone.com. BUILDING TIP OF THE MONTH by Charlie Benedict While getting my PT20 ready for covering, I found that the rudder had cracked in two. I came up with a solution that did not add any body to the rudder and worked great...maybe it's been done before...i do not know. I wanted to Fiberglass the two flat halves together, but did not want any build up on the body. I looked around the basement and while walking past the dryer, I saw the solution...fabric Softener sheets. I got a used one out of the trash, cut the size I needed and laid it over the balsa with 5 min epoxy. Using some wax paper, I laid that over the repair and squeegeed out the excess. I left the wax paper on and put a heavy object on it. The bond worked great. The fibers in the Softener sheet soaked up the epoxy and worked just like fiberglass cloth, leaving a very flat (almost no thickness) surface.
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May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 10 WANT TO SEE WHAT RC EVENTS ARE HAPPENING IN OUR AREA? GO TO WWW.BLUEMAXRC.COM AND CLICK ON EVENTS. HOLD YOUR CURSOR OVER AN EVENT ON THE CALENDAR AND YOU WILL SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS From May 18th Pete Sidor 5/19 Les Magid 5/20 Bruno Ozga 5/22 Bob Davit 5/25 Jameson Barclay 5/27 Through June 21st Rudy Krolopp 6/7 Tim McKay 6/12 Kyle Kueker 6/17 FREQUENCY CHART Please contact Bradford Walters at (bradford@thehoverzone.com) with the following information to add or change radio channel numbers. 1. Your name. 2. All transmitter channels (example: 16, 44, 58 and 50Mhz 4). 3. Any other comments. 12 Blue Max Member Radio Channel Usage 10 Users 8 6 4 11 2 12 29 38 40 1617 23 252627 32 34 4142 19 21 28 30 36 39 50 44 56 5152 58 46 48 60 45 47 5455 59 18 20 22 24 31 33 35 37 43 49 53 1 131415 57 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 11 14 17 20 23 26 29 32 35 38 41 44 47 50 53 56 59 2 5 8 Available Channels - 72Mhz (Ch. 11-60), 50 Mhz (Ch. 1-8 Ham)
May 2010 Volume 17 Issue 5 Page 11 Blue Max R/C Flying Club AMA # 1040 www.bluemaxrc.com Look on the web for the newsletter in color. UPCOMING EVENTS FOR May 2010 July 2010 May 2010 16) Fun Fly 10:00 a.m. 17) Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. June 2010 21) Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. July 2010 19) Monthly Meeting 7:00 p.m. Blue Max R/C PO Box 7803 Buffalo Grove IL 60089-7803