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District of Columbia Radio Control Club Montgomery County Maryland AMA Chartered Club 329 Established 1951

DCRC Club Meeting

September 21, 2007

Montgomery County Council building

100 Maryland Ave

Rockville, MD 7:30 PM

Meeting program By Jim McDaniel

and raffle

DCRC Club Newsletter

September, 2007

Volume 53, Issue 9 Dayton, Ohio Giant Scale Air Show

Largest Radio Control Aerobatic Model Airplane

Staudacher 70% scale 208 inch WS 1100 CC 4 cylinder engine with gear drive

420 pounds

PRESIDENT: Andy Kane V.P.: Dave McQueeney County Liaison: Jim McDaniel BOARD OF DIRECTORS Scott Davies 301-770-9150 Mike Dooley 301-843-8818 Andy Finizio 301-983-8557 Allan Hoffman 301-845-8485 Andy Kane 301-785-3022 Jim McDaniel 301-916-0366 Dave McQueeney 301-330-9385 Mike Peizer 301-589-8299 Nir Schweizer 301-972-2248 TREASURER: Scott Davies MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: Andy Kane 305 Natick Court Silver Spring, MD 20905-5875 RECORDING SECRETARY: Doug Harper SHOW TEAM MANAGER: Jim McDaniel & Allan Hoffman NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Andy Kane 301-785-3022 dcrceditor@aol.com MEETING PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Dave McQueeney The DC/RC Newsletter is published monthly by the District of Columbia Radio Control Inc. Deadline for submitting materials for publication is the last Friday of each month. Any part of the newsletter may be re-produced for non-profit purposes unless other-wise noted. Please credit the Newsletter and Author if named. Articles may not reflect the opinion of the club, but that of the author. Visit us on the web: www.dc-rc.org

Did you know that any airplane brought in to the model shop will receive 3 free raffle tickets. Bring in your models each month for your free tickets, and to share ideas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DOGS SHOW PG 2 AUGUST CLUB MEETING MINUTES PG 3 BIG APPLE JET RALLY A-10 HOG PG 4 CALENDAR OF EVENTS PG 5 MODEL MIXING MACHINE PG 6 SUMMER CAMP PG 7

COVER, 70% STAUDACHER, OVER 200 INCH WING SPAN, AT THE DAYTON OHIO GIANT SCALE AIR SHOW.

PHOTO BY JUNIOR LOPEZ

This year I had the pleasure to attend the Dayton Ohio Giant scale fly in, located at the Wright Patter-son Museum. What can I say, the weather was perfect, the flying site is wonderful, the Air force museum is educational and entertaining, and most of all the friendship between modelers lives on.

The 420 mile trip to Dayton was very easy. We left MD at 5 am on Fri-day arrived at the field at 1 pm was able to get many hours of flying in. Dave McQueeny and Doug Harper also joined Junior Lopez and I at the event.

In abundant attendance were IMAC style aerobatic planes and Gi-ant Scale war birds. There were also

the occasional turbine powered jet to take the skies and dazzle the crowds. I would guest-i-mate that on Friday thru Sunday there were over 15,000 spectators that came in to visit the model activity.

With the model field located just behind the museum and within earshot of the museum parking lot, many attendees came thru the museum and then came over to check out the models.

Demonstration Air shows were performed each day form noon till about 2 pm and many facets of the hobby were shown. From 10 war birds in the air at once to 6 40% hovering aerobat right over

the edge of the run way. World class performances by Quique Somenzini, (of TOC fame) and Greg Hahn (Mr. Top Gun), with his stunning B-25.

The museum was open to all modelers from 6 to 9 pm and the IMAX theater showed a NAS-CAR movie. Many prizes from the attending vendors were also given away to the participants.

Don’t miss this one if you can. The Air Force museum and the Presiden-tial hanger with retired air force ones’ are worth the trip. And of course all the great model flying is fun too!

D.O.G.S Show Dayton Ohio Giant Scaler’s By Andy Kane

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The meeting was called to order by President Andy Kane at 7:42 PM. Andy apologized for missing last month’s meeting and thanked Dave McQueeney for doing a fine job of filling in. Andy asked for introduction of any guests or new members. He also apologized for not publishing a newsletter last month. Apparently there was no material sub-mitted for publication.

Andy asked Andy Finizio to discuss upcoming events. Andy F. began by showing a spread spectrum radio that will be given away at Oktoberfest on September 29. All members and guests in attendance will get a ticket, fliers will also get tickets when the fly, etc. If that isn’t good enough, there will be free food provided by Andy Kane. There is a chance there will be a fun fly that day.

Andy F. then discussed the past County Appreciation Day. Andy ex-pressed his opinion that the day was very successful. There was a sizable crowd which was enthusiastic about the whole event. Many expressed their pleasure. Over 60 kids were given stick-time on the cubs (until one unfor-tunately lost a wing). The food was good and the help was more than am-ple. Andy F. expressed his appreciation to the club for a great event.

Andy then welcomed any new mem-bers, visitors or guest. Brian Hitzeroth is a new member and has attended sev-eral training sessions. He already has his own plane. Mike Borgman is an-other new member and has started training. Jan and Tim Pakulski are just getting into the hobby. Tim has at-tended the summer camp and is ready to build his own plane.

Dave Drazian presented an award in commemoration of the summer camp. This year’s camp was a total success. Eleven kids attended, the youngest being 8 years old.. This year’s camp was named in memory of Al Anderson. Al was described to the kids as a member to look up to. The weather was great this year. Each child was given many flights per day in addition to build time on the ARFs. Many club

members, Terry Lamb, Ron Bozzon-etti, Don Gray, Mel Swerdloff and others helped. Ed Lie-bolt is to be thanked for pulling this all together. Also, many moms and dads provided much help.

Matthew Warren, Sabrina Sanchez, Noah Dinardi, Kyle Dinardi, Chloe Di-nardi, Jasper Dinardi, and Tim Pakul-ski were given awards for completion of the camp and declared to be “Student Pilots” of DCRC. Others who com-pleted the camp were Luke Liebolt, Nate Liebolt, Nathan Radko and Zach-ary Zweig.

Tomorrow there will be an Electric Fly at the field starting at 10AM. Andy Kane will be cooking lunch for all in attendance. No competition so every-one bring their electrics and fly.

Jim McDaniel next discussed Wings Over Piper that many of our members attended two weeks ago. We had a great time and found the hospitality more than welcoming. If you like Cubs, this is the place to go.

In this spirit, we are planning our upcoming Bealeton Fly in during the week of Sept 7-9. Food will be available Friday and Saturday at Fife's Café. Saturday evening, we will have a nomi-nally priced cookout with a movie under the stars. There will be a flying demo on Sunday immediately before the full-scale show. Plane rides will be avail-able. Bealeton is about 8 miles south of Warrenton, VA. We plan a great week-end.

Andy Kane next discussed a turbine fly in in Libertyville, PA, Three mem-bers of DCRC attended, Andy Kane, Andy Finizio, and Nir Schweizer.

Old or New Business: Don Gray clari-fied a comment he had made last month regarding how we should handle miss-ing monthly newsletter. He suggested that we make the next month’s newslet-ter cover two months when we skip a month.

Walt Gallaugher made note of Tom Pfarr’s contribution to the web page. Tom has greatly improved the content

August Club Meeting Minutes BY DOUG HARPER

and format.

Tonight’s raffle is for an electric 540 Edge model.

Model Shop: The Spad-to-the-Bone website discusses many coroplast mod-els.

Francis Person showed one design he decided to build. It is good at low speed but begins to flex at higher speeds. He used a K&B 40 for power and kept it very simple. The model gives great per-formance.

Andy Kane presented a Hangar 9 Extra 260 that used a brushless 480 motor. It weighs 26 ounces and takes about 2 hours to build. Andy uses a 3-cell 2100mah Lipo with a 12X6 electric prop. It flies well but is not great in high wind. It will do 3D maneuvers.

David Harris presented a Great Planes ARF SE5 WWI fighter model. It comes precovered but David didn’t like the covering that came with the plane. So, he completely recovered it to his liking using Litespan. He also makes the markings out of Litespan. It uses electric power and is only flown in dead calm. Dave used the motor and speed control that Great Planes provided. Dave also has the Fokker but likes the SE5 better.

David Fepelstein asked Jasper Denaldi to pull the raffle ticket for this evening. It was won by Ira Glickman who promised to stay up all night build-ing this model.

The program for tonight consisted of an in-model video recorded at the Joe Nall fly in about 4 years ago. The model used was Andy Kane’s 40% Cub using a 3W 120 engine. The second video was from the dedication of our field in 2000. It was narrated by Mike Peizer and consisted of shots during the dedication day. Andy Kane was fea-tured in a question and answer format where he provided information about our new field, about the hobby, and par-ticularly how to get started in the hobby.

No Board Meeting in August

The meeting was adjourned at 9:05PM.

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Spotlight on the MiBo A-10

WART HOG

SPECIFICATIONS FUSELAGE Nine feet long Height: 14 inches, @ canopy

Hatches: 16" Canopy Hatch

10.5" Center Section (Wing) Hatch

22" Engine Pylon Hatch

Two 11" Engine Hatches

For more info

http://jetadic.com/

Big Apple Jet Rally Brooklyn NY PHOTOS BY ANDY FINIZIO

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September 2007

31-2 Dayton Ohio Giant Scalers Air Show Dayton OH National Museum of United States Air Force.

7-9 Bealeton Fly IN, Bealeton VA

15 DCRC Training Mike Peizer, Germantown, MD

21 DCRC Club Meeting/Jim McDaniel will provide the Meeting program will be: Nominations The Raffle will be:

22 DCRC Training Mike Peizer, Germantown, MD

22 PGRC IMAA Giant scale fly in, Bowie, MD

22 Sept 22, 2007. Big Bird Gi ant Scale Fly-In. Swan Harbor Farm Flying Field

23 PGRC War Bird Scale Rally, Bowie, MD

26 DCRC Board Meeting/Jim McDaniel

29 DCRC Oktoberfest,

Germantown, MD

October 2007

3-7 Tucson Aerobatic Shoot out, AZ www.desertaircraft.com.

13 DCRC Training Mike Peizer, Germantown, MD

19 DCRC Club Meeting/Andy Kane will provide the Meet ing program will be: Elec tions The Raffle will be:

24 DCRC Board Meeting/Andy Kane

27 DCRC Training Mike Peizer, Germantown, MD

November 2007

1-4 14th Florida Int'l Jet Rally FL 3 Frenzy at Free state MD 16 DCRC Club Meeting The Meeting program will be: The Raffle will be:

Schedule of Events Also on the web www.dr-rc.org

Then click Events Local and Club events in March

• 7-9 Bealteon Fly IN

• 15 DCRC Training

• 21 DCRC Club Meeting

• 22 PGRC IMA Fly In

• 23 PGRC Warbird fly in

• 26 DCRC Board Meeting

• 29 DCRC Oktoberfest

Calendar of Events

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FOR SALE ACE 4-40 Kit. Mid-wing tail dragger sport plane designed by D.B. "Doc" Mathews for .40 size 4-cycle engine. 57" wing span, 590 sq in. Weight 64 oz. Originally $50, Now $25. Micropace Cycler for use with NI-CD batteries.(Reviewed in the September 1996 issue of MAN, copy available.) For planes up to .60 size it’s all the cycler you need. Cost when new-$60. Yours for $30 Royal .28 ABC glow engine. New. Never run. Cost when new-$60. Yours for $35. Call Bob Hoff at 301-216-5285

If you're saying to yourself that this thing will never fly you would be 100% right. This model mockup was conceived as a way of visualizing the results of pro-gramming the mixing features on my transmitters.

Both of my transmitters have mixing features of which I have only used the pre-programmed "V" tail option. I decided that I wanted to go beyond this and utilize some of the other mixing capabilities that these transmitters offer.

It was obvious that just reading the manuals was not going to work as I needed to visually see the re-sults of what happens when I mix "A" to "B" and "C" to "D", etc. Of course I could hook up one of my models to see the results of my mixing efforts, but, I didn't like the inconvenience of having to put a model together

and taking up a lot of my workspace. Also, by using a small mockup such as this I do not have to confine my-self to working in the workshop as I can now do my ex-perimenting anywhere in the house.

I built this mockup from 1/8" lite ply. The servos are standard size ones that I had on hand and was not us-ing. The control surfaces are attached with pinned hinges that are epoxied in place. Alternatively one could use hinges made from tape or the CA types.

Painting the mockup was a little luxury touch that I indulged in which doesn't add anything to its functional-ity but it made me feel better. Not shown in these im-ages is the receiver and battery. These I intend to place

in the center of the wing and hold in place with 'hook and loop' tape. Also, I have only made one cutout for the throttle servo. There is room for a second throttle servo if needed.

For anyone interested in making one of these mock-ups I can furnish a drawing showing the dimensions that I used. This is a project that can be made in a cou-

Model Mixing Machine By Ron Bozzonetti

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2007 DC/RC Al Anderson

Radio Control Airplane Flying Camp

By Ed Leibolt

This year’s flight camp was as great as last years! We had great weather all week long(maybe a bit hot). This year’s enrollment was 9 students ranging in age

from 9-14 years old. We started the week with 5 trainers that I provided and two club trainers. By the end of the week, we had only lost one plane. There were some hard landings, but no crashes. A rough estimate was that 100 flights were made, al-most 3 gallons of fuel was used, and about half of the campers

had landed a least once during the week.

Club members came out and gave a lot of their time/experience and effort to make this camp such a success. We had 3-4 flight instructors each day. Ron Bozzonetti gave the students great instruction and “stick time” as well as others. Terry Lamb brought in some of his great airplanes to show the kids and flew one of his big birds for them. David Drazin help the students build the ARF that flew on Thursday of that week. Bob Yount helped with the engines. Don Grey gave a lecture on flight that was informative and fun.

We had help from the parents also. One father, Greg Dinardi brought in a lap-top computer to run the flight simulator, when my failed. Student Sabrina San-chez brought in Alpha Trainer that she was training on with her father, Jose Sanchez. Sa-brina’s mom, Julie helped “police” the students, brought in a recycling bin and had home-made cookies on the last day. Other parents also stayed during the day and helped out. Some even got a chance to fly.

This year we had sponsor, DURALIGHT, that gave us Lithum Ion battery packs/regulators/ chargers for all 5 trainers.

If you are interested in help-ing with this effort for next year or have any questions please let me know by either contacting me at 301-227-2569 or e-mail at Ed-ward.Leibolt@navy.mil

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September 2007

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DCRC Oktoberfest Sept 29, 2007

Fun food and Flying Open to all DCRC Members

Come and

check it out!