THE JEFCO FLYER AMA #176
2013-14 Board of Directors
President
Mike Boyer
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Vice President
Peter Thompson
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Treasurer
Lora Knowlton
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Secretary
Larry Fagan
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AMA Safety Officer
Ed Scholes
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Board Member
Bob Willdigg
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Board Member
Glenn Lee
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Board Member
Steve Rosselot
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Board Member
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Safety Officer:
Ed Scholes
Club Historian
Lee Taylor
Park Liaison
Tom Elliot
Club Sales
Art Baker
Drawing Officer
David Fagan
Audio Visual Officer
Larry Fagan
Flt. Inst. Coordinator/
Student Trng.
Mike Boyer
Storage Shed
Roger Kruse
Chief Flight Instructor
Vacant
Event Coordinator
Mike Boyer
LRPC Chairman
Bruce Ream
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Equipment Repair
Larry Bickel
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October 2014
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Do not allow your aircraft to fly over the campgrounds or the guard shack.
Flight Instructor Contact: Mike Boyer 303 781 7144
Above:, some of the Helicopters at the Heli Fun-Fly, Photo by Bud Glass
The October Program Subject is to be announced
President’s Message - October, 2014
From the Desk of President Mike Boyer:
Yes, I am still the President in spite of my pleading for
other candidates. Pete Thompson is now the Vice
President. Gee, somehow I forgot to mention to Pete that
the natural progression at the Club is for the VP to then
become President………. Let’s not bother to mention that
to him yet!
The field cleanup on the 13th was reasonably well
attended. The Helicopter Fun-Fly on the 20th was an
awesome sight. For a fixed-wing guy like me, it was difficult
to understand how the blades on those machines are
functioning when the heli is doing a funnel-like maneuver
with the blades almost vertical. The Heli guys presented me
with a $100 donation to the Club. Thank you!
Our effort to construct an access path from the pits
over to RW36 hit a roadblock. We were hoping to tailgate
onto the Park’s laying of 4’ wide asphalt; however, the Park
is only laying 10’ wide asphalt and the cost is way over the
budget the Board authorized. So, that project is postponed
indefinitely.
Lora and I have updated the budget for this year and it
looks very realistic. It will be presented and approved at the
next Club meeting.
SAVE THIS DATE – We will be having the annual Club
dinner at the Bistro at the Aspen Grove shopping center on
October 29. More to follow.
DUES!!! We will be collecting annual dues at the next
meeting.
Regards …. Mike
Don’t forget the Jefco Aeromod’lers R/C
Club Banquet
Wednesday, October 29th!
at
*The Bistro*
at the Aspen Grove Shopping Center
just north of Sante Fe and Mineral
Left, Chuck James and his wife and two granddaughters enjoying the
Heli Fun- Fly. Since he is a flight instructor, surely his granddaughters
ought to be flying by now!
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September 3, 2014 Jefco Aeromod’lers R/C Club Business Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order by President Mike Boyer
at 7:03 P.M. There were 39 attendees.
much individual attention after the presentation concluded. It
was a most impressive and well received program!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: President Boyer started the
meeting by congratulating Sid Gates as a recipient of the 2014
Model Aviation Hall of Fame award. He emphasized how
exciting it is to have Sid recognized for his many significant
contributions to the hobby over his many years of
participation. See page 6 of the September newsletter for a
copy of the letter from AMA to Robert Brelsford announcing
this prestigious award and expanding on its particulars.
President Boyer thanked Lee and Mike for such a great
presentation.
President Boyer brought the club’s attention to the painted
lines at the field. They represent a proposed access path from
the east pit area to the south end of the N/S runway, and a
new pilot box at that location. He asked the club members to
try using the proposed pilot box location to get a feel of the
different perspective it offers, and to provide feedback to the
Board of Directors.
President Boyer brought up the FAA’s extension to make
comments about the FAA’s interpretation of the Special Rule
for Model Aircraft. We now have until September 23rd to
submit comments. President Boyer emphasized the
importance of not only commenting, but also being very
specific in your comments.
BREAK: President Boyer announced that we would now
take our break, and that voting would take place during that
time. The result of the election will be announced in the
October Newsletter.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Lora Knowlton was absent,
but President Boyer reported that Lora told him there was no
significant activity in the club’s bank account.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: Bruce Robson motioned that
the secretary’s report of the August meeting be approved as
published in the September Newsletter. Patty Hooser
seconded the motion. The motion was carried to approve the
August meeting minutes.
MEMBERSHIP: Lora Knowlton was absent so President
Boyer reported that we have a couple of new members not
present. He also introduced Matt Davison as a new member.
FUTURE PROGRAMS: Mike Boyer said programs
mentioned in earlier minutes are still being arranged. We need
a volunteer to coordinate programs.
PROGRAM: President Boyer turned the meeting over to
Lee Taylor to present the evening’s program “A Tribute to
Founding Member Dr. Dean Sadler”. Lee introduced his wife
Betty and several of Dr. Dean Sadler’s progeny. Among those
from the family attending were Mike and Shelly Sadler, Steve
Sadler, daughters Karen and Carol and husband Richard. He
also introduced Dr. Sadler’s widow Ginny and past president
Paul Orkild and his wife Barbara. There were also several
grandchildren in attendance. Lee then turned the mic over to
Dr. Sadler’s son Mike Sadler.
FLYING FIELD: Bob Willdig reported that the field is in
good shape. There is no need to repair or seal at this time. He
also reported that Roger Kruse is in rehab following his back
surgery. He went on to discuss the details about the access
path brought up by President Boyer at the beginning of the
meeting.
Mike took advantage of the announcements and introductions
to lay out a very impressive array of older and antique R/C
gear. He also had set up several of Dr. Sadler’s superbly
constructed aircraft. Many of them were Free Flight planes,
which would become some of the first R/C planes. Many of
the engines were ignition types as they predated the glow
engine by several years.
SAFETY: Ed Scholes had no report for this month.
Mike covered Dr. Sadler’s progression through R/C
development. He covered the gambit from the first single
channel transmitters which were so large it took two men to
move them to today’s modern hand-held multi-channel
transmitter. He covered all types of equipment through the
years, such as escapement powered control surfaces, galloping
ghost, reed multi-channel units and up to today’s modern
digital equipment. The display of all this equipment brought
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FIRE MARSHAL: Ron Radcliffe had no report, but
president Boyer expressed a desire to have a training session
on the fire equipment. Bruce Robson interjected that a couple
of the fire buckets were almost empty.
EVENTS: Mike Boyer announced that we have a field
cleanup scheduled for September 13th followed by a
Helicopter Fun-fly on the 20th.
NEW BUSINESS: President Boyer reported that we still
need someone to run the Auction. He also stated that it
would make sense to consider moving the auction site to the
Adams County Fairgrounds. The rental price would save us at
least $500.00, and we’d have more dates to chose from.
OLD BUSINESS: We are awaiting Park approval of limited
liability signs at the entrances to the field. He also brought up
moving the west helicopter boundary flag north 40 feet to
give the Helicopters more flying space and an additional
margin of safety.
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Minutes of September 17th 2014 Jefco Aeromod’lers R/C Club Board Meeting
Meeting was called to order at 6:56 PM by President Michael Boyer
Michael Boyer (Pres), Present
Peter Thompson (VP), Present
Larry Fagan (Sec), Absent
Lora Knowlton (Treas), Present
Ed Scholes (Safety), Present
Roger Kruse (BM), Absent
President’s Comments:
 Club dinner Oct. 29 4th at Bistro.
 Still looking for a new Board member.
 I have asked Bruce Ream to conduct a “brain storming”
session concerning auction strategies at the Nov. 5th Club
meeting
 We need to find someone to run the auction.
Secretary’s Report – Larry Fagan: Absent
Request motion for approval of last meeting minutes if
no questions or discussion of published minutes. !
Approved Unanimously
Treasurer’s Report – Lora Knowlton – No major changes
Committee Reports:
• Membership Report – Lora Knowlton – Annual
dues to be collected at Oct. meeting.
•
Field Maintenance & Runways – Bob Willdig -Seal-Tech estimate to complete access path from pits to
RW36, 3” depth, was $2730, if we do prep. Black Gold’s
estimate was $3500.
• Fire Marshal – Ron Radcliffe is Fire Marshall!! – No
report
• Safety – Ed Scholes -- No report
• Flight Instruction / Training – Mike Boyer
Report:
o Progress on obtaining a Chief Flight Instructor
– no action.
• Events – Mike Boyer Report,
o Helicopter Funfly 20 Spetember
o Club dinner mentioned above
• Programming: Establish plan for coming programs.
Have each board member setup their month and
proposed program.
o The following programs are for
discussion:

Sid Gates program on transmitters is
still open.
Old/Unfinished Business:
1. Have we decided to try painting suggested pilot box
locations in orange paint to see what the pilots think of
it?? I was going to buy a tool for painting the boxes, but
will try to mooch one from Lora. ! Larry will be painting
boxes etc. ! LARRY DID PAINT BOXES
Steve Rosselot (BM) Present
Bob Willdigg (BM) Present
Glenn Lee (BM), Absent
3. Gravel path from pits to RW36. – Rangers indicated
they might provide a tractor to blade the ground. Bob got
a guestimate of $2730 to have Seal-Tech do the whole
job, with ASPHALT. Tom E. believes we can cut these costs
by doing the grading ourselves. ! Tom and Mike have
talked with the company that is presently grading and
laying asphalt near the East entrance and the supervisor
there is looking into putting in the path. ! Company is
not presently using a 4’ wide asphalt machine and cannot
do the work. That project will probably be delayed until
we find an economical arrangement, possibly until next
spring.
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4. “For Sale” idea suggested by Steve Mangles.
5. “Fly AT Your Own Risk” sign. ! Approved up to $200
for two entrance signs with this exact wording.
6. Still need auction manager. – We need someone to
manage the Auction since Lipe quit. We could simply walk
away from the Jefferson Co. site, losing our $500 deposit
and move to the Adams Co. fairground. It would still save
$465 even after losing the deposit. At present, Lora is
reviewing the Jeff Co. contract to see if we can walk away
from it. Norm’s data shows that the majority of our
customers come from up North. FAR BETTER dates are
available: Feb. 28/Mar.1st, March 7&8, March 21&22. ! The
Board has decided to keep auction at Jefferson Co.
Fairgrounds.
New Business:
1. BUDGET!! ! New budget approved, it is very realistic.
2. We need to decide who will be recognized at the Club
dinner.
3. Need event coordinator to replace Boyer. ! Still
looking
Adjourn Meeting:
My thanks to President Mike Boyer for taking the Board of
Directors minutes in my absence - Ed
2. Raising dues was tabled and will be discussed at a future
board meeting. July – August.
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Minutes of August 6th 2014 Jefco
Aeromod’lers Business Meeting
Jefco Aeromod’lers October Birthdays
Continued from Page 3
RECOGNIZE NEW MEMBERS AND VISITORS:
Matt Davison was recognized again as a new member.
October
1
Dave
DeLapp
October
2
Yago
Gonzalez
October 4
Philip
Lund
SHOW & TELL: Tom Hooser showed a Texas R/C Planes
model RD-1. He was unable to get the pushrods through so
he put servos for the elevator and rudder in the tail. This
caused the model to be tail heavy, so he had to add many BB’s
to the nose for counterweight. Some are rattling around a bit,
so he’ll have to add more epoxy to hold them down.
October 7
Tom
Walsh
October
9
Bill
October 9
Max
McCartney
October 12
Art
Wilson
October 12
Bruce Next up Bud Glass showed his Avistar with Du-Bro brakes
that he added to the nose wheel. He says they are very
effective in slowing the model after landing or holding before
take-off.
October 17
Robert
October 25
Virgil
October 28
Michael
Drawing: The prizes for the drawing were from R/C
Hobbies on County Line Rd. The winners are as follows: Bruce
Riley, a $10 gift certificate; Dave Hock, a plane holder; Peter
Thompson, a package of shrink tube; Bud Glass, weights; Larry
Fagan, a Gift Certificate; and Lee Taylor, a Warhawk Micro ARF.
October Lee
MOTION TO ADJOURN: A motion to adjourn was made
by Patty Hooser and was seconded by Dave Fagan. The
motion carried at 9:09 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Larry Fagan, Secretary.
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Neyman
Boman
Hilden
Gooselaw
Peterson
Bergen
ELECTION RESULTS
The election results are in, and the officers for next
year are:
President Mike Boyer
Vice President
Pete Thompson
Secretary
Larry Fagan
Treasurer
Lora Knowlton
Safety Officer
Ed Scholes
Member at Large
Steve Rosselot
Member at Large
Glenn Lee
Welcome New Jefco Aeromod’lers R/C
Club Members
Matthew Davison - Castle Rock, CO
Larry Duncan - Littleton, CO
Mitchell Larson - Lone Tree, CO
Morgan Young - Golden, CO
President Boyer congratulating Sid Gates on being voted into
the AMA Hall of Fame. Sid is being recognized for his many
contributions to the hobby. Sid is always of good humor, and is
ready and willing to offer sound modeling advice drawn from
his vast reservoir of modeling experience and innovation.
Refer to September’s newsletter for more information about
Sid’s contributions.
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Just in from Tom Hooser:
“I wanted folks to know that Patty of T&P catering will
be going into Porter Hosp the morning of the 17th. of
Oct for some more of much needed back surgery. I
am hoping she will be ready for ICY CARB DAY.
Cheers, Tom of T&P”
A Tribute to Founding Member Dr. Dean Sadler
Lee Taylor introducing the program for the evening, and
several members of the Sadler family.
Above, Mike Sadler explaining a historical component.
Below, one of Dr Sadler’s immaculate bi-planes.
Setting up for the meeting. Behind the fellow in the noisy
shirt is one of Dr. Dean Sadler’s gorgeous airplanes.
Many of the first R/C airplanes were originally free flight
models. This meant that the first R/C planes had ignition
engines since it would be several years before the invention
of the glow plug and glow engine.
The original planes were rudder only. As the technology
progressed, more channels were added. At first only pulses
were sent by the transmitters, and they were keyed in with
a simple momentary spring loaded push button contact
switch. Even then, by using ingenious mechanical devices the
motor speed, as well as rudder direction, could be adjusted
by pulsing the push button the proper number of times
within a somewhat narrow time frame.
Mike Sadler had many different examples of how the hobby
progressed as technology improved. Refer to the general
meeting minutes on page 3.
Below, a front view of this plane reveals that it is powered
by a glow engine. In the background president Boyer is
starting the meeting.
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Heli Fly-In Pictures
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More Heli Fly-In Pictures
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Show and Tell, Drawing Winners, etc.
Left, Tom Hooser expounding about his Texas R/C Planes
model RD-1. Unfortunately, we did not get a picture of the
plane itself, but Tom’s explanation of what he had to go
through to get the plane in flying condition is covered in the
minutes. As usual, Tom had an informative talk about his
thought processes as as to how he prepared the plane to fly.
So he presented not only the how, but the why he proceeded
as he did.
Bud Glass showed his installation of a Du-Bro brake on his
Avistar’s front landing gear wheel. As mentioned in the
minutes, Bud has found it to be very effective as a brake to
slow the plane down on landing, as well as holding the plane in
preparation for take off. Since Bud was giving the presentation
and taking pictures of the meeting we do not have a picture of
his brake installation either.
DRAWING WINNERS
The prizes for the drawing were from R/C Hobbies off
County Line Rd. The winners are as follows:
Bruce Riley, a $10 gift certificate
Dave Hock, a plane holder
Peter Thompson, a package of shrink tube
Bud Glass, weights
Larry Fagan, a Gift Certificate
Lee Taylor, a Warhawk Micro ARF.
As President Boyer pointed out in his message,annual
DUES
DUES
DUES
club dues will be collected at the October Meeting!!!
Left, a pretty young spectator clearly observing our safety
rules. Has anyone recruited her for pilot training? We need
more women pilots at the field!!
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Special Note from T&P Catering
From the kitchen of T&P catering;
As some of you may already the “P” of
T&P is headed back to the OR at Porter
Hosp.
Her trials and tribulations began with
her 1st. back surgery which, I might add,
went very well and relieved Patty of her
severe sciatic pains. However, as time went
on, the pains in leg came back and on one
of her check-ups, the original back surgeon
sent to her see a new surgeon. Well, as
some of you know very well, Patty had to
go thru and at different times, injections in
her back and P.T. to go along with the
injections. All to no avail I might add.
Anyway, back to the new surgeon. They did
some exam's and came back to us and told
us she had 2 serious problems, one of
which was her right hip joint which was
operating bone on bone with some arthritis
thrown in for good measure. Now the
second problem,
her spine above the
original surgery was , and as the PA told
her, trash. He wanted to fix the hip first
and go from there.
We were able to locate one of the best
hip guys around and have Patty's hip
replaced. About a year later, during her last
hip check-up, she told the hip doc that she
was still having serious pain in that side of
I was sure I ordered the pictures for this page airmail.
her legs. They did their hip checks and told
her the new hip was ok and doing very well, and that is when she
was recommended to a group of people who specialize in spinal
problems using pain management, therapy, surgery, etc. I believe
that was sometime this last May and since that time she has been
doing the shot-therapy routine waiting to see if that could help
and taking ever increasing doses of different pain killers.
A couple of weeks ago, we caught a lucky break and someone
cancelled their appointment with the new back surgeon and after
some consultation, discussion of the pain issues, and not having any
good days it was decided that she should have the surgery ASAP.
The folks at the spine place put the wheels in motion so she could
have the work done and she is now waiting for the 17th of Oct. at
Porter Hosp. which at that time she will have her back repaired.
Since all of this has started, we have had two surgeons retire,
lost our primary care doc. And had to change our insurance
carrier.
I don't if Patty will be ready for Icy Carb day, but knowing her
the “P” of T&P will give it a bloody go. Stay well and enjoy the fall
flying. Tom of T&P.
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Business meetings: First Wed. night of each month. Meetings are called to order
at 07:00 P.M, programs to follow, at the Alice Terry Elementary School at 4485 S.
Irving Street , (located approximately 1/4 mile away from the previous middle
school location). Board meetings are held the third Wed. night of each month,
07:00 P.M. If you wish to attend, contact President Mike Boyer in advance.
The BOD has approved the Field Safety & Operations Manual. All members should review this document in the
club’s website Jefcoaeromodlers.org for the latest rules and regulations.
Views and or opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the editor, staff, and writers of articles submitted. They
may or may not be those of the Jefco membership, club officers, or board members.
The Jefco Flyer
Larry Fagan, Editor
4881 S Arbutus St.
Morrison, CO 80465
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