Volume 8 Issue 10 AMA #530 District 11 www.eugenerc.org 6 Pages October 2012 Club Mailing Address: Eugene RC Aeronauts, PO Box 26344, Eugene, OR. 97402 ERCA News and Information Next CLUB Meeting – Thursday, October 25, 2012, 7:00 pm at Roaring Rapids Pizza. If you have a building project, bring it with you for "Show and Tell". We will be discussing the upcoming elections. At the September meeting - 16 members and guests attended. New member Ian Berner was voted in. Adding a crosswind runway was discussed as well as a dues increase. Several hats and shirts are still available for purchase. Indoor Flying – The first fall session was held on Wednesday October 17th. Six of us braved the artificial lighting, lack of cold, sheep and wind. Winter Flying Rules - Attention All Pilots: During November, December, January, February Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday NO FLYING before 12:00 Noon. NO ARRIVING before 12:00 Noon. Meeting minutes are ONLINE at: http://eugenerc.org/meetings.html At The September Meeting Start the meeting. Attentive crowd. 50 / 50 Raffel ticket sales. REMINDER 10 MPH on the gravel roads At the Field September 22th - Brad Werneth photos At the Field September 28th At the Field October 5th At the Field October 7th - James Thomas photos At the Field October 11th 2012 Meeting dates May 24 Thursday EWEB June 27 Wednesday Field July 25 Wednesday Field August 22 Wednesday Field September 18 TUESDAY EWEB October 25 Thursday Pizza November 29 Thursday EWEB December - No meeting Winter Flying Rules Attention All Pilots: During November, December, January, February Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday NO FLYING before 12:00 Noon. NO ARRIVING before 12:00 Noon. Community outreach October 4, 2012 - Mickey Cohen and Doug McWha photos ERCA static display at Sheldon Oaks Mickey Cohen, Al Barrington, Mike Farr, Doug McWha, Chuck O’Donnell and Brad Werneth participated. At the Field October 18th Treasurers Report Our current membership is at 83 with a couple prospects pending. Welcome to our most recent member, Ian Berner, who joined us at the last meeting. I'll be accepting ERCA membership renewals for 2013 for those members who have already renewed their 2013 AMA membership and want to avoid the rush. You can renew at the next meeting or by mailing your $60 to: ERCA, PO Box 26344, Eugene, OR 97402. The next meeting place has been confirmed with Roaring Rapids Pizza in Glenwood at 7pm on Thursday, October 25th. The club can get a 10% discount by pre-ordering five large pizzas which I will place the day before the meeting. On a sad note: I just received word that a former member, Dwight Rose, from Monroe, passed away recently. He was an ERCA member until 2011 but continued to visit us at the field from time to time. His friendly smile and presence will be missed and ERCA sends its sympathies and condolences to his family. The club treasury is currently at $4566.46. AL Barrington Sec/Treas, ERCA Project - Marty Wittman Mintor engine for Cessna 310 project Well it's Cessna 310 time and yes I have been doing a lot of engine research. The 310 was designed around 60 size engines that were geared, so they had a bigger prop. Well that is very old technology so I am putting two gassers in it. The firewall is in for the OLD engines so I will have to move it back to accommodate the new engine. I thought about the DLE 30 which is a very good engine, but my research came up with Mentor 33cc gas made in Italy and comes with a three year warranty. Now I know that with a three year warranty that they have to be proud of their engines. So I ordered one (for now) and installed it in my Energizer to break it in and put a lot of flights on it before I install it in the 310. Well, let me tell you that it is a great engine and what a power house. 4.7 HP. Starts easy and runs great. I’ve got 7 flights on it and will be putting on more. I hope to put 20 or 25 flights on it and then take if off and install the other one. Then I can use the first one to set the firewall on both nacelles. The Bud Nosen Cessna 310 will be in the 30 to 35 lbs range and the two Mintor engines with 20 x 8 props should fly it quite nicely. Looking forward to that. --- That's All Folks -- Newsletter Editor 1618 Gilham Rd. Eugene, OR. 97401 October 2012 «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 Officer: Mike Winklepleck - 541 -968-0504 - heidisman1@gmail.com Groundskeeper: Doug McWha - 541-741-3326 - flyduke@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Jim Corbett - 541-344-5022 - james.corbett@comcast.net Next CLUB Meeting – Thursday, October 25, 2012 – 7:00 pm at Roaring Rapids Pizza Newsletter ONLINE at: http://eugenerc.org/NL/CURRENTNEWSLETTER.pdf December 2009 2 October 2012 5