Volume 7 Issue 6 Pages 6 AMA #530 District 11 www.eugenerc.com June 2011 Club Mailing Address: Eugene R/C Aeronauts, PO Box 26344, Eugene, OR. 97402 ERCA News and Information Next CLUB Meeting – June 28, 2011, 7:00 pm at the field. If you have a building project, bring it with you for "Show and Tell". At the May Meeting – There were 19 members and 2 guests in attendance. Al reported that we have 79 members current on their dues. Show and Tell - Two members brought in items. Thanks guys. Other discussions - As of May 24th Club meeting we have sold 70 raffle tickets for the $500 Gift Cert to Trump's. The 50/50 raffle winner was Farmer splitting the $34 pot with the Club. * Proposed By-Law Changes have been posted on the web site for the 2nd consecutive month. Brad also brought a handout. * Safety was brought up again. As the weather is starting to get nicer more flyers will be at the field. Make sure to announce take off or landing. Also make sure other flyers have acknowledged your actions as well as acknowledging theirs. Emergencies will always have the Right of Way (example Dead Stick) *Solar Power at the field was brought up for discussion. Different options for funding were discussed. Possible group of volunteers to build. Nothing at this point has been decided. * We will draw the raffle ticket for the 1st $500 Trump Gift Certificate at June's Club Meeting and then will keep selling raffle tickets for the future Fun Fly drawings. * Big Bird Fly- in was discussed. Need volunteers to help with event. Mike Farr & Jeff Engel will be the Contest Directors. Doug & Wayne will go get the food. Jayne will bring potato salad * Mickey donated a new BBQ to the Club * Discussion was brought up and approved to Charge a $10 Landing Fee @ the Big Bird Fly July 16th, Fun Fly August 13th and the Labor Day Fun Fly. Included in the $10 Landing Fee is a raffle ticket for the a Trump Gift Certificate. Other news - August 6th Benton County Club will be visiting Our Club - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTAM - July 23 - There will be a NO FLY DAY Saturday, July 23rd, the land owner is having a family reunion and will be using all the parking space he can for those folks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Meeting minutes are ONLINE at: http://eugenerc.com/meetings.html 2011 Meeting Dates Meeting dates EWEB came up with that were available and closest to our requested dates: TUES, JUN 28 - Field - 4th Tues TUES, JUL 26 - Field - 4th Tues TUES, AUG 23 - Field - 4th Tues WED, SEP 21 - EWEB TUES, OCT 25 - Pizza WED, NOV 23 - EWEB DEC - No meeting Pylon Racing May 11, 2011 Our second club-40 pylon Race of the season was a success !!! Only six racers, hopefully more will participate next race. The weather cooperated. The six racers were Wayne Wahrmund, Jim Corbertt, Rodger Winz, Marc Winz, Robert Farmer and Mel Graham Jr. Thanks to all that participated in the event and a special thanks to the volunteers that helped as starters, counters and cut judges. Had to talk some into it but we couldn't have done it without you. Thanks again! ERCA 2011 Pylon Race Season * July 9th Race #3 * Aug. 27th Race #4 Final BAM 2011 Race Season (weather permitting) * July 23 Race #2 (Field of Dreams) * September 10 Race #3 (Popp’s Field) * October 8 Race #4 Finals (Dorrance Meadow) Presidents Corner I hope all of you are fine and finding some time to make it out to the flying field. I have only been to the field a couple of times in the last few months but with the nicer weather I hope to get out there more. I will be getting to the June meeting early so I can get some flying in before the meeting starts. I don’t have any big messages to go for this news letter just get out to the field and have some fun, that what we are all here to do. Our first summer flying event is the Big Bird Fly-In in July. We will need to have some volunteers to help out at the event Mike Farr will be the Contest Director. If you would like to help out then let us know at the next meeting. We will be going over the Constitution and By-Law changes at the next meeting. Don’t forget about the 50/50 pot at the next meeting (all members that bring in show and tell will get one free 50/50 ticket) and the Trump’s Hobby’s gift certificate. There are several members with raffle tickets so you can buy them at any time. Hope to see you all at the field for the June club meeting. Regards, Brad S. Werneth ERCA President 2011 May Meeting - Good turnout Treasurers Corner The club is currently at 82 members after the addition of a few new and returning members. Welcome to: Marc Winz - new member Mike Baker - returning member Jed Orme - Associate member from Indio CA. Happy landings. AL Barrington Sec/Treas, ERCA Raffle drawing to be held at June meeting $500 Gift certificate for Trumps Hobbies It's a chance to win a Gift Certificate to purchase any item that is available at Trumps and help out the club along the way. Members selling tickets: Brad Werneth, Doug McWha, Jayne Krenz WITH THE WEEKDAY WARRIORS My friends at the Weather Bureau tell me, via their radio station (“KEC 42 in Eugene”), that a mere 45% of the days in May had “measurable precipitation”. That does, however, leave out the days when it drizzled and sprinkled all day - not enough to measure, but enough to put the kibosh on flying. We made the most of the good days that did occur and there was a fair old amount of flying done. Of course, to be able to get off the ground, one needs a well-mown runway, the sort usually provided by Doug McWha, but Doug’s favorite Ford mower went sour. The gears in the differential were devouring each other. Up steps Craig Can-aday with a dead Craftsman mower whose rear end looks suspiciously “Ford”. Jim Corbett, the clever fellow, took the Craftsman rear and grafted it onto the Ford. Well, why not? The medical profession showed the way with heart transplants; why not take it up a step to mower rearends? Doug says the gearing is a little different and the Ford is now slower, but pulls itself out of the soft spots much more easily. See all the people it takes to provide you with that runway? When he isn’t mowing, Doug has been flying a small foam T-28 with the gear off. At least once, the hand-launch resulted in a bounce off the ground, hut the Trojan kept flying. Yes, Doug has also been flying something else, but aesthetic considerations prevent me from mentioning it. Just to show you how calm it’s been on those good days, Chuck Jenkins was flying a tiny P-51, also l.g.-less. C.J. was also the test-pilot for Donnie Krcnz’s Deniqht Special, which is powered by a Saito .82. The first flight found the model rather nose-heavy. A couple of days later, the second found it just a hit tail-heavy. The Denight, called DDT, first showed up in 1949 and lasted until at least 1967. Donnie’s is in the ‘65 color scheme, by which time it was called “Miss Dallas”. Another from the Krenz stable is a Katanna with a YS 140 on which Mark Winz was doing a little tuning. Of course, Donnie has had the faithful U-Can- Do in the air as well. Mickey Cohen has had his Ugly Stik for a while, but he now powers it with a new O.S. .75 - one of the new breed with the trapezoidal head. Chuck Jenkins (who else?) made the first air trials, hut he really wasn’t needed as the 0.S. ran fine. Dave Symington came out for the first time since the Fall. He brought the Ultra Stik with the Magnum .90 4-stroke which he says is the right model to brush offf the cobwebs with. Ken Springate thinks the same of his O.S. .90 2-stroke-powered Razzle - it’s the season-starter. In the moments he gets away from shuffling our money around, Treasurer Al Barrington flies a Radian Pro. This very-high- aspect-ratio foam bird has flaps, ailerons, and a folding prop for its electric motor. The earlier Radian had a large measure of elliptical dihedral, but no control surfaces on the viing. The Pro’s dihedral is still elliptical, but rather suppressed by comparison to its earlier stablemate. This ship is sleek enough to handle a pretty stiff breeze. Ex-Prez Khoi Tran was teaching his son to fly, sans buddy box, on a 90”, high-wing ship powered by a Saito 100. The plane is ex-Carl Henson and shows a good deal of Sig Sr. Kadet influence, especially in the empennage. Frank Blain had it for a while, then passed it on to Khoi. The thing certainly seems to handle well. Dwayne Graville has acquired a Sperry Messenger from Bob Daniels of the South Lane Club. Never flown and with an 0.S. .60 which has, apparently, never been run. Various teething troubles kept it on the ground on the only day I’ve seen it out. The Messenger was designed at McCook Field by WITH THE WEEKDAY WARRIORS continued the Air Service and Sperry built 42 of them, 12 as radio-controlled bombs. Power was a 60-horse, inverted-yen, Lawrance T-3, the great-grandfather of the Wright J-5 that took Lindbergh to Paris. In 1925, one of the 20- footers was used to launch from and hook onto a trapeze slung below the Army blimp TC-7. The Usual People Flying The Usual Things Dept.: Alan Wellentin and his electric Miss Wind bipe. Wayne Wahrmund and his two Skyraiders, along with that Extra 540 he has the 0.S. .94 in. The Extra flopped to the runway most ungracefully one day and took the gear off. “My approach was ‘way too slow”, said Wayne, an honest man. Your columnist cleared the table, assembled his Berke-ley Cavalier Std. and set about balancing the beast. 2½ oz. on the stab and it was still nose-heavy. I’ll switch places with the receiver and battery pack, hut that will have to wait for a couple of weeks. This column is being turned in to your editor that two weeks early, because I am off to see old aeroplanes fly. And some sitting on the ground, indoors and out. Some nice old motor vehicles, too, and a few bits of railway rollinq stock. I’ll already he back just about the time you are reading this, if not a day or two before. See you then. C. O’D. For Sale - Wanted DX7 Spektrum DX7s This 2.4GHz radio system includes the Mode 2 transmitter with strap, a AR7000 receiver, two Spektrum DS821 servos, charger, an instruction manual. The system was purchased in March 2010 and was flown briefly in two sailplanes. $200 Interested? E-mail deanrea@comcast.net or call 541-683-5921 --- --- --- --- WANTED 40 size 2 stroke My son and I need a reliable 2 stroke that will work in a 40 size trainer. We took our plane out to the field this Sunday, and discovered our engine is shot. No compression!!! If you have something in good shape, let me know at bbroich@aol.com. --- --- --- --- Great Planes Spectra power sailplane This is a great beginning plane its what helped me to learn to fly RC..... It took 2 (I have a extra wing LOL) Its a 2 meter sailplane I believe. I can set it up with a rx and tx futaba 4. It uses a 6 cell Ni-Cad (not included). Futaba standard servos 3004's. $250.00 W/O RX & TX or $300.00 W/RX & TX (chan 37) Pleeease make an offer,I need Lipo's and ESC for the CAP 21 I am building. Jeff allelectric50@yahoo.com --- That's All Folks - Eugene R/C Aeronauts Newsletter Editor 1618 Gilham Rd. Eugene, OR. 97401 June 2011 «FirstLast» «Street» «CityStZip» 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: Marry Wittman - 541-968-2094 - wittmanm@yahoo.com Groundskeeper: Doug McWha - 541-741-3326 - flyduke@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Jim Corbett - 541-344-5022 - james.corbett@comcast.net Next CLUB Meeting – Tuesday, June 28, 2011 – 7:00 pm at the Field December 2009 2 June 2011 5