Volume 6 Issue 11 Pages 6 AMA #530 District 11 www.eugenerc.com November 2010 Club Mailing Address: Eugene R/C Aeronauts, PO Box 26344, Eugene, OR. 97402 ERCA News and Information Next CLUB Meeting – November 23, 2010, 7:00 pm at EWEB. If you have a building project, bring it with you for "Show and Tell". ELECTION officers for 2011 will be during the November meeting. At the October Meeting – There were ?? members and guests in attendance. New member voted in and approved, Ron Hokenson. 2011 UNOFFICIAL MEETING SCHEDULE: The application has been submitted to EWEB requesting the 4th Tuesdays of the months in 2011 that we will need their room. We are waiting the final word from EWEB approving our requested dates. I will advise you when I get the approval. The requested 2011 meeting dates are as follows: JAN 25 at EWEB FEB 22 at Roaring Rapids Pizza Parlor MAR 22 at EWEB APR 26 at EWEB MAY 24 at EWEB JUN 28 at Flying Field JUL 26 at Flying Field AUG 23 at Flying Field SEP 27 at EWEB OCT 25 at EWEB NOV 22 at EWEB DECEMBER - No meeting November 11 - EWEB apologized for having so many of their own meetings over our requested dates. Show & Tell: The Indoor Electric Fliers displayed various ultralight planes and helicopters usually flown indoors or on really calm days outside. The National Guard Armory in Springfield has generously allowed us to use their drill floor to fly in. We usually try to fly there on Wednesday afternoons from 1300 to 1500 if the space isn't being used otherwise. Complete outfits, ready to fly out of the box, run about $120. Come join us. Meeting minutes are ONLINE at: http://eugenerc.com/meetings.html 2010 Meeting Dates EWEB downtown Eugene: November 23rd 7:00 pm (No December meeting) 2011 Meeting Dates EWEB downtown Eugene: Meeting dates EWEB came up with that were available and closest to our requested dates: TUES, JAN 11 - EWEB - 2nd Tues TUES, FEB 22 - Pizza meeting WED, MAR 23 - EWEB WED, APR 20 - EWEB TUES, MAY 17 - EWEB - 3rd Tues TUES, JUN 28 - Field - 4th Tues TUES, JUL 26 - Field - 4th Tues TUES, AUG 23 - Field - 4th Tues WED, SEP 21 - EWEB WED, OCT 26 - EWEB WED, NOV 23 - EWEB DEC - No meeting Presidents Corner Well guys, my term has come to the end. I'd like to thank all those members who contributed to keep our club well in the black during these tough times. We have increased the treasury balance by almost 40% since 2008 while at the same time able to make numerous field improvements. A lot of that was made possible by many members willing to roll up their sleeves to help out. We also had generous donations from some members and had success with fundraisers. Our membership has remained strong, thanks to recruiting efforts from active members to replace those that were not able to renew. Overall, our club is in pretty decent shape for the next group of officers. I'm confident the nominated guys will do a good job in 2011. Please show up at the Nov club meeting to vote these guys in. Khoi Tran Request - for the helicopter guys I would like to explore the possibility of using an R/C helicopter to move goats on rough pasture or through wetlands. These goats are fairly wild and don't want to move easily - and I don't want to chase them anymore. If this sounds like fun to you or any of your members, or if anyone has a copter for sale that you want to prove is effective for this job (to sell it), then please contact me. Farm is located on Camp Creek Rd in Springfield - 50 acres. I may be moving a small herd next week. They didn't want to leave their paddock previously and we're going to try again. Thanks, Dave 541-228-eight nine eight six Email: davewieldt@sepconnect.com From the Past WITH THE WEEKDAY WARRIORS I bet you’ve noticed that we have had some rain on weekdays for the last month. And fog. Fog down around your eyebrows until after lunch - or later. This has not promp-ted a great deal of flying from Monday through Friday and, in consequence, I haven’t much of a column this month. I confess to missing at least two nice, fairly sunny periods. I had to seize the opportunity to get the last coats of clear dope on my Berkeley Cavalier Std. so that I could get on with the project. If you dope when it’s rai- ning, the drying dope traps moisture and gives you a faint whitish film called “blushing” on the surface. Thinning the dope to slow the drying helps and adding retarder is even better, but I can’t locate my retarder and I’d thinned the dope as much as I thought prudent. Thus the necessity of spending those sunny hours in my shop. Dale Williams has been out a lot more in recent days than he was all Summer. Dale’s flying an Aspire, an old kit that had been sitting on his shelf for a number of years. It has a long, polyhedral wing, like my Aquila sailplane, and its tips are not just tapered, but swept back a bit. The thing actually is a sailplane, but there was an electric option available and Dale installed it. Now remember that this kit goes back a while, so the motor, complete with folding prop, is a brushed “550”. Dale says he has no idea what the “550” signifies and is not even sure they still designate motors that way. I talked to one of the electric guys and he professed to have never heard of a “550” either. The battery pack is an 1800 milli-amp item - ni-cads! Despite all this dinosaur-era technology, the Aspire flies as fine as one could wish. Dale’s thinking of putting a hook under the belly and converting it to a pure sailplane (standing ovation, please). Don’t do that until Spring, Dale; the field will soon be too mushy to get out on with the high-start. More electric action, this time in the hands of Doug McWha. Doug was flying a small T- 28, rather smaller than the one Gary Moorhead and a couple of others have had in the air. This one’s full-house - rudder, elevator, throttle, and ailerons - and is meant, I gather, for Indoor. Doug says it is a bit hot for the Armory, though it has been flown there. The landing gear can be easily removed and that’s the way Doug has been flying it. Didn’t Donny Krenz have one he took off from our strip? Yet another electric and with lights! Wayne Wahrmund’s Cessna 1172-type has the nay lights on wingtips and tail, plus an anti-collision beacon or two atop the center section, but it is the landing light on the wing leading edge that really stands out. This one is big and powerful enough to ROG from the strip without difficulty. Mike Vaughan’s Ultimate Bipe is about the same size and has more power yet, so it just sails off the runway in a few feet. Yes, we have had a glow ship or two show up to fly. Dwayne Graville got ahold of a Twist and managed to break it in half before I even saw it the first time. Apparently the battery pack had reached the end of its useful life. Dwayne’s wife is a baker and, whether you know it or not, the people who bake your daily bread get up at 2:00 a.m. to go into work and do it. The morning after the crash, Dwayne couldn’t get back to sleep after Joyce left, so he betook himself into the shop and repaired the Twist. Flew it at a more civilized hour that same morning. There is something to be said for fast-drying glues, I guess. There were a shaky few minutes early this month when I thought that this column might not appear at all. I sat down to breakfast with my newspaper and was confronted by the headline - neat, black, Times-Roman and all - “Charlie O’Donnell Dies at 78”. Mind you, I felt all right, but this was in the New York WITH THE WEEKDAY WARRIORS (continued) Times and had to be taken seriously. Further checking revealed that it wasn’t actually me, but some television announcer in Philly. A bit disturbing was the fact that he was 4½ mos. younger than I, but he wasn’t a modeler and that must surely account for it. Your Editor’s optical reader continues to commit outrages. There is, of course, his longtime penchant for turning lowercase Bs into Hs, but now he has another trick. In the initials I put at the end of this column, he has, for the last three months, put the apostrophe in front of the 0 instead of between it and the D. I’d put down his aberra-tions to too many nips at the bottle of elderberry wine kept in the editorial office for medicinal purposes, but I’m beginning to fear that it is far more serious. I suspect he might be into micro- brews. C. O’D. BALLOT ERCA 2011 Ballot Vote for one for each position PRESIDENT: ___ Brad Werneth ___ Pat Willis VICE PRESIDENT: ___ Brad Werneth ___ Mike Farr SECRETARY: ___ AL Barrington ___ Jayne Krenz TREASURER: ___ AL Barrington SAFETY COORDINATOR: ___ Marty Wittman ___ Wayne Wahrmund Vote for a "MEMBER of the YEAR 2010" __________________________ If you can not attend the meeting, you may email choices or snail mail your ballot to: albarrington@msn.com Eugene R/C Aeronauts, PO Box 26344, Eugene, OR. 97402 Deadline of 11/22. Those who will be present can print the ballot page and bring it to the meeting. Thanks AL --- That's All Folks - Eugene R/C Aeronauts Newsletter Editor 1618 Gilham Rd. Eugene, OR. 97401 November 2010 «FirstLast» «Street» «CityStZip» ERCA CLUB CONTACTS President: Khoi Tran - 541-685-0086 - kmtranmd@hotmail.com Vice President: Brad Werneth - 541-285-5935 - brad@werneth.com Sec/Treasurer: Al Barrington - 541-935-4960 - albarrington@msn.com Safety coordinator: Frank Blain - 541-345-7449 - jaibee22@yahoo.com Safety coordinator: Marry Wittman - 541-968-2094 - wittmanm@msn.com Groundskeeper: Doug McWha - 541-741-3326 - flyduke@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Jim Corbett - 541-344-5022 - james.corbett@comcast.net Next CLUB Meeting – November 23 – 7:00 pm at EWEB. December 2009 2 November 2010 5