Volume 8 Issue 2 AMA #530 District 11 www.eugenerc.com 6 Pages February 2012 Club Mailing Address: Eugene R/C Aeronauts, PO Box 26344, Eugene, OR. 97402 ERCA News and Information Next CLUB Meeting ? Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:00 pm Roaring Rapids Pizza. If you have a building project, bring it with you for "Show and Tell". Pizzas need to be paid for by the club - to get free use of the room. Please DONATE to the club to offset the cost. Please buy your own drinks. Mike Burgess will be bringing some photos and a list of some aircraft for sale. Many biplanes and mono wingers; Funtana, Extra300 ect?. Some 90 size, some 40 size. Several Futaba Tx's. Many of the aircraft have servos and Rx installed, some have been flown, some not. Other misc RC stuff also. Mike is willing to take anyone interested to view them after the meeting. They are located in the Coburg Road area. Bring your check book. At the January 5th meeting - 25 attended Doug McWha received the 2011 Member of the Year Award. Chuck O'Donnell was presented a collection of ?WITH THE WEEKDAY WARRIORS?. Show and tell by - Chick Canned Food Drive for Food Bank - PLEASE bring a can of food for the Food Bank. Dues reminder - Have you sent in your AMA fee yet? If not, you should right away. Then please pay your ERCA dues. Meeting minutes are ONLINE at: http://eugenerc.com/meetings.html Intro pilots for 2012 Chuck Jenkins, Doug Devereaux, Jeff Engel and Wayne Wahrmund 2012 Meeting dates January 5 Thursday EWEB February 23 Thursday Roaring Rapids Pizza March 29 Thursday EWEB April 19 Thursday EWEB May 24 Thursday EWEB June 27 Wednesday Field July 25 Wednesday Field August 22 Wednesday Field September 18 TUESDAY EWEB October 25 Thursday Roaring Rapids Pizza November 29 Thursday EWEB December - No meeting At the Field January 9th - Dwayne Graville photos At the Field January 19th - Craig Canaday photo At the Field January 28th - Mike Winklepleck photos Projects CAP 21 Here's a couple pics of the CAP 21 that I built from a kit. Its called "LOCO" for good reason. 12 lb plane with a Monster Power 110. Way fast and pretty. But my opinions are kinda Biased! Here's the specs; Wingspan-----59" Motor--(Monster)--110 (294 kv) Prop--(APC)--18 x 8E ESC--(Castle)--ICE 75 HV Batts---(2-in series)---11.1v 4000mah 40C lipo Jeff Engel ------------ As I stated in the Dec.2011 projects I will be starting to build a Dewoitone D520. 90 inch. I had one of these before and one would think that after many years of flying and building, one would not make to many mistakes. Well I crashed it . Yes I do admit it was my fault. Dumm Dumm!!.. Oh well. I will not go into details but I was stupid !!!. The reason I am building another one is two fold! 1) To prove to myself that I can do it and do it right this time. And 2) I have all the hardware for it. The retracts are unique to this airplane, they don't fit anything else. So way waste $750.00 retracts sitting on the shelf ? And I have a new engine for it also. A Fuji 64cc. So here I am building another one!! The fus is an interesting build. You build the top and install the stabilizer and the vertical then sheet the top. Turn it over and install the bottom of the fus. The wing is built, right half top and sheeted then left half top and sheeted on a common dihedral and spar. Then you turn it over and install everything else. Well I got the top done and turned it over and looked at the bottom and then put it on the shelf for later!!!!! The fus and the wing have to come together about the same time so you can fit and sand and fit and sand and fit and sand ect... Ya . You get the picture. But it is coming together nicely. Marty Wittman ------ Treasurer's Report Current ERCA membership is 52. The deadline for renewals per club bylaw is the March meeting 3/29/2012. After that date non-current members will be moved to inactive status. For renewals after 3/29, the $25 re-initiation is required in addition to the full year's dues of $60. By the 31st of March ERCA must submit to AMA the final club roster of members for the AMA insurance coverage. We had no new member applications received since last meeting. Welcome to new members: Michael Winklepleck and James Thomas who joined us at our last meeting. Expenses: Along with the usual field operation expenses we had the following annual fixed expenses. Our club charter with AMA has been renewed for 2012. The 2012 insurance application has been submitted. Our land lease has been paid for 2012. The PO Box rent is paid for the year. ERCA made its annual donation to the American Cancer Society. Introductory Pilot Instructor applications have been submitted. Instructors should be receiving their updated AMA cards soon. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at our next meeting at 7pm, 2/23/2012 at the Roaring Rapids Pizza Parlor. AL Barrington ERCA, Sec/Treas At the Field February 6th - Chick Foster and Jim Corbett photos ERCA CLUB CONTACTS President: Brad Werneth - 541-285-5935 - brad@werneth.com Vice President: Mike Farr - 541-689-4564 - far-owt@comcast.net Sec/Treasurer: Al Barrington - 541-935-4960 - albarrington@msn.com Safety coordinator: (no one has been selected yet) Groundskeeper: Doug McWha - 541-741-3326 - flyduke@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Jim Corbett - 541-344-5022 - james.corbett@comcast.net President's Report For those of you that weren?t at the January meeting I will be bringing my laptop computer to show off the Real Flight Simulator 6 and our field. When you pull up the main menu of the sim. our field is in the background for the whole world to see. We need to discuss at this next meeting how we want to give away the sim. that Real Flight gave us. We had some great club members step forward at the last meeting to volunteer as committee chairman. Thank you to Chuck Jenkins, Wayne Wahrmund, and Jeff Engel. We will need more members to volunteer to both help out as committee members and as chairman of other committees. We had some great flying events last year and I know that with the help of all the club members this year that the events will be even better. So come and volunteer for a committee and make this an outstanding event year. Remember the February meeting is at Roaring Rapids Pizza and there will be a 50/50 pot at the meeting. You can buy a ticket for $1.00 and at the end of the meeting the winner will get half of the pot and the club will get the other half. So bring money and join in on the fun while helping the club. Also if anyone wants to help out with the cost of food, you can buy a pizza as a donation. I will be buying one large pizza for the meeting. Let Al know if you plan on donating a pizza for the meeting. Hope to see you all at the field and at the February club meeting. Regards, Brad S. Werneth ERCA President 2012 Vice President's Report The new Real Flight Simulator 6.0 is sponsoring our field, Carl Henson Field, as it new main flying site addition. Real Flight has given a new Real Flight Simulator to our club. Pres. Brad gave a short demonstration at the last club meeting. This is worth checking out! It is way cool! Committees were discussed at the last club meeting. We are hoping all club members will respond to helping and serving on the various club committees. Chuck Jenkins in the chairman of the Flight Instructor Committee, Wayne is committee chair over Pylon Racing, and Jeff Engel is chair of the Construction Committee. We still need Committee chairs for the Awards Committee, Events Committee, and Refreshment Committee. The more we all get involved the greater success and enjoyment we will experience at the field. Note of concern! I was recently approached by a club member who had a bad experience with his family at the field. He had brought his wife and children to field, after a very short time his wife loaded up the children and left because of the foul vulgar language used by a club member. Some of us do not appreciate this type of language anytime but when women and children are present this is totally unacceptable. We all need to police this type of behavior! Mike Farr --- That's All Folks -- Eugene R/C Aeronauts Newsletter Editor 1618 Gilham Rd. Eugene, OR. 97401 February 2012 ®FirstLast¯ ®Street¯ ®CityStZip¯ ___________________________Renewing Current Member____________________________ INVOICE FOR 2012 MEMBERSHIP - EUGENE R/C AERONAUTS Please fill in the following information and send back with your Dues Remittance Member Name __________________________________________________________________ 2012 AMA Membership No.________________________ I certify that I have paid my 2012 AMA Dues. Initial _________ Member Address _______________________________________________________________ Member Phone No. __________________________ Member Email Address __________________________________________________________ Newsletter Preference: ____ Email ____ Regular Mail ____ Do not need to receive newsletter Please enclose your check for $ 60.00 as a current member renewing for 2012 and Mail to: Eugene R/C Aeronauts, PO Box 26344, Eugene, Or. 97402. Or bring this INVOICE and $60.00 to the Pizza Meeting, Thursday, February 23, 2012 Newsletter ONLINE at: http://eugenerc.com/NL/CURRENTNEWSLETTER.pdf February 2012