AMA Club # Year 2015 May 30 Meeting 23rd Street Hy-Vee Lawrence

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1 AMA Club # 2013 Year 2015 May 30 Meeting 23 rd Street Hy-Vee Lawrence 8:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Business Meeting Schedule of Events: May 30, JMM Club Meeting June 2, Barby & Fly Night June 6-7, Paola Float Fly June 6, Law. Airport School Camp June 6, McLouth Barby Fly-In June 13, KC No. Knights Fly-In June 20, Blue Sky Fly-In, Topeka June 27, Jayhawk Float Fly July 18, Wichita Sod Busters Jumbo Aug. 29 Cap. City Fly-In? Nat.Model Aviation & Wounded Warrior Facebook at: Jayhawk Model Masters 2015 Officers President Gary Webber Vice Pres. George Jones Sec/Treas. John LaGesse Fld Safety Darrel Cordle Board 3yr Don Boucher Board 2yr Mike Weinsaft Board 1yr Scott Borton Editor, yrs Gary Rauckman News-wrap Things are really starting to get busy around here, but the weather is just not cooperating. The Blue Sky Fly-In was cancelled until June 20, and our own Fly-In was barely squeezed in around the rainy weather. We moved our club meeting back to accommodate the Blue Sky Fly-In and now their June 20 event falls on our club day again. Oh well, we will somehow manage like we usually do. 1

2 Did I mention that I have been trying to cram a small P-60 turbine into my Tamjets A-4 Skyhawk. It is almost finished, but it was really difficult trying to reach in and around everything. The A-4 was designed around an EDF. Most difficult was installing everything in an order that would work. For instance, I designed a mount for the air trap that would hold the fuel pump and the fuel valves. This had to be slid in place after the main fuel tank, but before the intakes could be installed. The intakes had to be installed one half at a time with the left one first. All had to be trial fit first to make sure it would all go in. Just another day in the shop. Here are the guys mounting the panels And here is the equipment We now have the field Just in case you didn t receive any s indicating this, we now have 110 V ac at the field. I stopped by Friday late afternoon to see Cromwell mounting the solar panels, the last step in the installation. The wiring, batteries, inverter and other equipment was already done. So, I guess were ready for a camera and/or whatever else is on the agenda. See photos above. While I was there, I helped George mow the pits by moving the starter stands out of his way. By then, Mo showed up with a new airplane to maiden. He now has a Hobbyking Slick with a white composite prop. The white prop made for some interesting photos while running as you can see at the top of page 3. 2

3 Here is the Slick by Hobbyking: Cool Tools I don t know about you guys but one thing I hate to do is bend tubing especially if it s made of copper. No longer a problem with the $9.95 tubing bender from Harbor Freight. I even stick a piece of weed-eater string in the tube to make sure it doesn t crush. Here it is: Another tool I use a lot is a Scribe or pointed punch. I see that Excel is now offering their scribes in 3 different sizes and retractable as well. Nicely packaged in a case that has the appearance of a retractable pen, the scribes are well built and are super sharp. The scribes are offered in three shaft and point diameters. The #1649 is 0.09, the #1650 is 0.06, and the #1651 is The scribes are useful for marking center punch marks, and starting screw holes for control horns. See photos above. May 9 Jayhawk Open Wow, did we luck out on the weather; the forecast was for rain, and the big cloud was approaching, but by morning you could tell that the Tongagnoxie Split was in affect. We ended up with a great day; the local pilots watched the clouds open up, and they began to arrive. We had 23 pilots in all arriving from Manhattan, Burlington, Topeka, Basehor, Lansing, Lenexa, and Lawrence. One of the more interesting aircraft was the 126 Eindecker Charlie Radford brought from Lansing. It was made entirely from foam and plywood he purchased at Home Depot. The flying wires on this beast were definitely functional as the strength came from that plus the wood dowels on the leading and trailing edges. I forgot what he used for power, but I think it had about 80 cc s 3

4 Charlie s Eindecker Charlie was also flying a giant scale Top Flite P-47. He said he covered it with HobbyKing covering. It looked pretty amazing especially since it was covered with what is usually a difficult aluminum covering. Other aircraft present included the always crowd favorite Beech C-45 by John Dalton. Here it is in a low fly-by: Here is Paul Frankum s Extra 260 Oh, I almost forgot, the left elevator decided to depart the aircraft during the flight. Charlie said he thought the elevator felt mushy, so he decided to land, only then discovering that the control horn was the only part attached. See photo above: 4

5 Jayhawk Electric As reported by Gary Webber Spacewalker It was grey and breezy at 7:00 am on May 16, and the radar showed a large storm just entering Sedgwick County headed our way, but I knew that my order for a flyable day was bound to be filled. Sure enough, by 9:00 the rain had not appeared, and the winds were brisk but not impossible. We had registered 13 pilots, and everyone was enjoying the breakfast treats supplied by Paul Frankum. Except for a brief shower around 10:00, the day was dry and the sun even showed by 11:30. You had to be focused on the down-wind leg, but there was lots of fine flying before we closed up shop at 2:30. Congrats to David Alexander who won the Maxford GeeBee raffle plane. Thanks to all who helped with the event! DH Beaver All photos from the Electric event are complements of Mike Weinsaft. Below we see Dave Alexander with his T-28 Foamy. Look at those two guys standing on the Cub wing in the backround. And finally, a Grumman Panther with owner unknown. Other aircraft I recognized from the photos included John Bowman s Space walker, and Bill Elkin s DH Beaver. See above 5

6 April 18 Club Meeting Twenty-One were in attendance at the April meeting where we celebrated Jerry Foree s 82 nd birthday. Jerry s daughter gave him a 1933 issue of the Model Airplane News magazine. We all got a look at it. Show & Tell Two members brought planes to show. Chris Kloepper was showing his 66 Great Planes Big Stik with OS FX 61 power. This was the model of the month winner. John LaGesse gave the treasurer s report and it showed that we have a net worth 0f $ I think that we had only $500 left to pay Cromwell Solar. It was reported that our storage shed passed the Clinton Park annual inspection. It was also mentioned that George Jones was the only club member that helped with the cooking of hotdogs for the Clinton cleanup day. It was mentioned that the Lawrence Create Makers was interested in having a model airplane Build-Fly class. I don t think anyone grabbed a hold of that as a leader. There was talk of our club having a new updated brochure made about the club. George Jones volunteered to spearhead this project. Kyle Walker brought his 4-Star 54 that he won the month before at the club raffle. It has a Saito 45 powerplant. Paul Frankum suggested we plan a Wounded Warrior event on the Aug. 15 National Model Aviation Day. I m not sure if that is in the plans for sure. I see the Capitol City club is planning one for Aug. 29. A lot of ideas were tossed around including the idea of having planes in the air for 24 hours. The Gal-O-Fuel was won by George Jones and the T-Clips raffle was taken by Patrick Deuser. 6

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