AMA Club # 2013
Year 2015
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May 30 Meeting
23rd Street Hy-Vee
Lawrence
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8:00 AM – Breakfast
9:00 AM – Business Meeting
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Vice Pres.
Sec/Treas.
Fld Safety
Board 3yr
Board 2yr
Board 1yr
Editor, yrs
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
Gary Webber
George Jones
John LaGesse
Darrel Cordle
Don Boucher
Mike Weinsaft
Scott Borton
Gary Rauckman
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June 13, KC No. Knights Fly-In
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.
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
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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.
Here are the guys mounting the panels
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.
And here is the equipment
We now have power @ the field
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.
Just in case you didn’t receive any emails
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.
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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:
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.
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.
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
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 0.03”. The
scribes are useful for marking center punch
marks, and starting screw holes for control
horns. See photos above.
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Charlie’s Eindecker
Other aircraft present included the always
crowd favorite Beech C-45 by John Dalton.
Here it is in a low fly-by:
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.
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:
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Spacewalker
Jayhawk Electric
As reported by Gary Webber
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
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John LaGesse gave the treasurer’s report
and it showed that we have a net worth 0f
$3779.00. I think that we had only $500 left
to pay Cromwell Solar.
April 18 Club Meeting
Twenty-One were in attendance at the April
meeting where we celebrated Jerry Foree’s
82nd birthday. Jerry’s daughter gave him a
1933 issue of the Model Airplane News
magazine. We all got a look at it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kyle Walker brought his 4-Star 54 that he
won the month before at the club raffle. It
has a Saito 45 powerplant.
The Gal-O-Fuel was won by George Jones
and the T-Clips raffle was taken by Patrick
Deuser.
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