2011 PILOT TALK - Homestead

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PILOT TALKColonial Virginia Aeromodelers Chapter 1474

President:John Backes

(757) [email protected]

Vice President:Bill Van Cleave(757) 220-2320

[email protected]

Secretary:John Bollinger(757) 345-8077

[email protected]

Treasurer:Bob Kramer


Safety Officer:Cliff Casey


Field Marshal:John Hofmeyer(804) 829-2555

Activities:Joe Musika


Field Maint:Tom Treese


Newsletter/Badges:Ken Howard Sr.(757) 480-2697

[email protected]

Training:Alan Fry

(757) 229-7698Alanwfemail-

[email protected]

Visit the CVA Web Site at: www.homestead.com/cvarc/

John BackesPresident

2011 Meeting ScheduleAll meetings (except for the Christmas Dinner) in 2011 will be held at the WilliamsburgChristian Church on the second Thursday of the month, starting at 7 PM. The next meetings willbe 10 November and 8 December 2011.

Directions to Williamsburg Christian ChurchThe building is at 200 John Tyler Lane. Atthe intersection of Route 199 and Route 5,turn the OPPOSITE direction that youwould turn to go to the field. Go 50 yardsand turn right (left is Strawberry Plains Rd.).You can’t miss the Church; it is on the rightjust past the Professional Park that can beseen from Route 199. Everyone needs to bewarned that there is an additional fine of $200for going over 25 MPH and the cops are therea lot.

Volume No. xi Issue No. 11 Editor: Ken Howard Sr. Date: 4 Nov 2011

MEETING LOCATIONWilliamsburg Christian

Church200 John Tyler Lane

7PM Thursday10 November 2011

President’s Column

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Christmas DinnerThe Christmas Dinner will be held Dec. 8 at Wasabi Oriental Buffet Restaurant in Williamsburg.The website is http://wasabiwmbg.com. The cost will be adults - $17.00; children (4 to 9 yearsold) $9.00. The address is 1203 Richmond Road, Williamsburg. Directions – From NewportNews – take I64 west – exit 238 (Camp Perry), make left onto VA-143E, turn right onto VA-132(second light), turn right onto US60/Bypass Road. Stay on Bypass Road, turn left at third lightonto Richmond Road. Wasabi is about three blocks on the left across the street from Books AMillion just past Monticello Avenue. This year we will be collecting for the dinner inadvance. Make your checks payable to CVA and mail to Bob Kramer, 109 Kathryn Ct.,Williamsburg, Va. 23185 by December 3. Write the number of adults and children in the memoarea. You may also pay at the meeting but ONLY if you have cash in an envelope with yourname and the number of adults and children attending written on the outside or a check with thenumber of adults and children written in the memo area. If you pay your money and are not ableto attend, we will make a refund.

We need to answer a couple of questions during the November meeting. First, will we be havingthe “bring a gift – get a gift” exchange and if so, what is the dollar amount? For new members,under this program you can participate in the gift exchange if you want but it is not required. Ifyou bring a gift then you get a gift. In the past, the gifts were approximately $15.00 value. Thegifts will be in three categories: Flying, women and children. You bring a wrapped gift andplace it on the appropriate table. Later you will select a gift from the same category. Please note- the women can participate in the flying or the women’s category or both. The flying categoryis not limited to the men.

The second question is “what charity should we support at the Christmas Dinner”.

What do you fly and why?Most members have several airplanes, so the question is “What do you fly and why”. How doyou decide which plane to take to the field? If you bring more that one, which one gets the mostuse? Please send a short note to the email address below and I will include it in upcomingnewsletters.

My most flown plane is my Slow Combat One Design. We have been having great fun withthem this summer. It is an airplane that I designed to be easy to build, inexpensive and slow andstable enough to allow lots of hits. The discussion with videos is here:http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1368392

The second most flown airplane is the Wild Stik. It is a 46 size ARF from Sig with a SuperTigre 51. Like all Sticks it is easy to fly and very forgiving has good aerobatic capability. It fitsin the car easily and is just a good everyday airplane. Send me a note with what you have flownand why.

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Show and TellWe are going to have a short show and tell at the end of each meeting. You are invited to bring anew plane, a neat gadget or to show an interesting building technique. I will be talking abouthow to select and electric motor.

Contact MePhone: 757-876-1241Email: [email protected]: 8630 Diascund Road, Lanexa, Va. 23089

John BollingerSecretary

The Secretary will read the October 2011 Minutes at the November meeting.

Joe MusikaActivities Coordinator

On Oct 8th, CVA hosted the BAGS Giant Scale Fly-in. The turn-out was not high, but 12 pilotsflew, with 20 over airplanes on the ground. The event generated a big turnout of visitors and wehope some potential club members.

Oct. 15 was our yearly club picnic. It was apretty nice day except for the high winds.About 40 people came out, but all the windmade it difficult to fly. No accidents, butsome hairy experiences.

Nov. 5, is Profile Fun Day. It requires aProfile airplane, meaning it requires a profilefuselage, viewing from the side it looks likean airplane. A front view looks like a sheetof wood. This is all that can be flown.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Profile Fun Fly5 November 2011

Christmas Dinner7pm 8 December 2011

Minutes

Activities

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Dec. 8th, annual Christmas Dinner will be held at a new location, the "Wasabi" Restaurant onRichmond Road. The dinner will start at 7pm. The price is $17.00 for adults and $9.00 forchildren. More info will be in the Presidents Column.

Don’t forget the 1 January 2012 annual New Year Fly, come rain, or shine, snow or sleet if youcan get there safely we expect to see you there.

That’s all of the activities for this year.

Wish everyone a Happy Holiday.

Cliff CaseySafety Officer

No Safety Items for this month.

Alan FryTraining Officer

Website of the Month

Since John has been giving us training on batteries at the monthly meeting, I thought Iwould find a website discussing batteries and put the link here. I found a good article onbatteries, but the website also has interesting articles on many other topics. The link can befound below. Following the link is a list of articles that you can <CTRL + click> on to godirectly to that article.

http://www.greathobbies.com/technical/index.php

Safety

Training Corner

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Charging Systems

Crankshaft Thread Size Chart

Cyclic/Collective Pitch Mixing

Electric Flight Motor Controllers

Electric Wiring for Small Motor Systems

Engine Care and Maintenance

Fuel, Ask the Experts

Glow Plug Problems

Interesting Facts About Balsawood

Introduction to Batteries

Includes this link (wealth of information): http://www.buchmann.ca/toc.asp

Making Smoke Signals

NiCd Battery Seminar

Prop Chart

Painting Lexan Bodies

Radio Interference

Do you have a favorite website? If so, let me know and I will put it in the newsletter.Favorite online store, how to build, how to fly, etc- send me the link! My email address:

[email protected]

Training Column

With all of the information that can be found in the links above, I decided not to add aseparate training article for this month. Be sure to look for a great training article written by ourvery own Steve Kolet in an upcoming issue of Pilot Talk.

See you at the field.

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FALL PICNICBy Steve Klute

Misc.

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Ken Howard Sr.Editor

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:Ivan DavisMike CorriganTex HarrisonKen Howard Jr.Ken Howard Sr.Bob KramerBob MarshJon Persons

The official CVA FREQUENCYCONTROL POLICY is to place a pin inthe frequency control board prior toturning on your transmitter, and to removethe pin from the board after each use.

FLY SAFELY

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