October 2007 Newsletter

The Newsletter of the Silent Electric Flyers of Long Island
HOST OF THE NEAT FAIR
Silents Please
Dedicated to the Advancement of Electric Flight
October 2007
President:
Tom Hunt
(631) 835-5359
[email protected]
Prez Sez by Tom Hunt
Dear SEFLI’ers
The NEAT Fair is over and we’ve done well. 305
registered pilots, 43 vendors and a huge pile of
aircraft! All this could not happen without the
dedicated support from many SEFLI members
and those from outside the club who lend a hand.
Thank you to all. I hope we can continue this for
years to come.
Vice President:
Jim Reid
Secretary:
Alan Ford
Treasurer:
Joey Cabana
Many of you may have already heard of the unfortunate accident that fell upon the show just
before mid-day on Sunday. A gentleman in the crowd was struck by the debris of a helicopter
that crashed very near him. He suffered a large gash in the forehead as well as some other
minor scratches but will make a full recovery I am told.
Newsletter Editor:
Jim Perlowsky
[email protected]
SEFLI Main Website:
www.sefli.org
We will have a picture essay on the show in the November newsletter and a full report on the
NEAT Fair website about the same time.
SEFLI Newsletter:
www.sefli.org/news.htm
In other news, the Wingnutz Calverton Field had a “M*A*S*H” type transformation (we
bugged-out) the last weekend in September. The field was moved 150 ft to the south and
rotated about 30 degrees. This was done to limit over flying the trailers now parked in the
north end of the field, just south of the warehouse. Since SEFLI members make up a good
portion of the total Wingnutz membership, the SEFLI treasury will help out with some of the
expenditures for this move.
SEFLI Current Events:
www.sefli.org/current.htm
SEFLI Web Forum:
http://sefli.proboards11.com
NEAT FAIR:
www.neatfair.org
For changes in the monthly
meeting or contest dates due
to weather/conflicts contact
Tom Hunt at the above phone
or e-mail.
The winter indoor flying schedule has changed significantly this year. We no longer will be
flying in the auxiliary gym (very small) at the Samoset Middle school. We now have permission to use the main gym in this school on the second Sunday of the month from October to
May from 1-4PM. The bad news is that we will have to pay the school district $52.00 per
month for the use on Sunday. The club can easily afford this for this “quality” indoor site. We
may ask non-SEFLI members who choose to join use to help support the costs with a nominal $2-3 per session fee. The second Sunday schedule has no block-out dates during the
school year. If we use all the months available, we will have 8 indoor sessions.
Inside this issue:
Prez Sez
From the Field
Contest Report
Show n Tell
Schedule of Events
1
2
3
4,5
6
October is club officer nomination month. If anyone would like to sit up front and volunteer to
do a little work to keep this organization healthy, please nominate yourself at the October
meeting and we will see if we can accommodate you. Jim P is also looking to let loose the
club newsletter job if anyone would like to take it off his hands for 2008. If you will not be at
the October meeting, please email me with your offer.
On a final note, AMA members will receive in the mail soon a ballot for voting for a new AMA
president. Dave Brown will not be running. Our very own Dave Mathewson (AMA District 2
VP) is looking to fill this spot and will need our support. Dave has not only been a great friend
to the hobby, but to the NEAT Fair and electric movement in general. Please consider him for
your vote.
See ya at the field, or at the meeting!
Prez Tom
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Photographs by Joey Cabana and Ray Juschkus
From the field...
Amish Roof Raising
Punchin’ Post Holes
Shaping up nicely
The big picture
The new look of the field...
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October Contest
The last in a series of contests for Slow Stick Combat, Sport Electric Sailplane and Easy Star events
will be held at the Calverton field on the Saturday after the general meeting, October 20 th.
We will again use our Easy Stars as bombers. Bring out your cradle and bombs if you still have
them. I have created more of each and will have some at the meeting and at the field the day of the
contest. We will be adding a twist this time:
Instead of a model as the target, we will use a traffic cone. Each pilot will be given only 1 minute to
get aloft to drop their bomb, which must occur AFTER the first minute. After the bomb is dropped,
one will perform a spot landing, the center target to be where the bomb landed…. NOT the traffic
cone. The landing must occur before 2 minutes have ticked away on the clock or no points will be
scored for the spot-landing task. This sure is a lot more incentive to make sure your bomb lands on
the field! Distance to the cone from the bomb is one score, distance from the resting place of the
Easy Star to the bomb is your second score! Good Luck!
Low Flying Clouds at the NEAT Fair
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Show and Tell
photos by Lionel Bernstein and text by Jim Perlowsky
Ron Williams shows his Flash designed by David Kyjovsky, available from SoaringUSA. It sports a wing span of 39” with a
wing area of 333 inches². Powered by a Hacker A20-20L and a Hacker X30 ESC off a 3S 1320 ProLite spinning an APC
1047E. AR6000 receiver and four HS-55 servos. Ron says this plane flies so well it like it reads your mind, sounds great!
Ron Bergmann poses with his restore Square Eagle. Wingspan is 29.5” with a wing area of 112 inches². RTF weight is 2.25
ounces (65 grams). Balsa and lightply construction covered in gloss clear coated Japanese light tissue. The motor is two 24”
loops of 1/8” Fai black braided rubber and a 9.5” plastic prop. An excellent restoration job there Ron.
Jim Perlowsky displays his GWS A-10 Warthog. Wingspan is 39.1”, wing area is 218 inches². Twin Razor 350’s brushless motors mounted in EDF55 fan units power the plane via two CC Thunderbird 18 ESC’s off a single 3S 2100 ProLite battery. With a
RTF weight of 21.75 ounces and 330 watts of power she’s a spirited flyer. Love that twin fan jet sound.
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Harvey Knopf shows his Super Monterey sailplane. Wingspan is 98.5” with a wing area of 734 inches². With a RTF
weight of 52 ounces the wing loading works out to 10 ounces/ft². It’s got a Clyde Geist .05 brushed motor in a 3:1 gearbox with a Cermack ESC running from a 7 cell 1800 NiMH pack. It should be easy to see with the color scheme, best of
Tom Hunt was lucky enough to be given a demo Synapse EDF jet from Great Planes at the conclusion of the NEAT Fair.
The Synapse sports a 26.6” wingspan with 168 inches² of wing area. An Ammo 20-40-3500 Brushless motor in the HyperFlow Ducted Fan powered via a 3S 1250 pack from a Silver Series 25A Brushless ESC makes this plane one quick little
number. Joey C, Rick C and Alan W received balance of the demo Synapse’s from Great Planes so don’t be surprised to
see them at the field.
SEFLI SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR 2007
My wife and I went up to the Adirondacks High Peaks Region to do
some aerial photography the last weekend in September. The views
were just astounding. No stopping it...autumn is on the way.
Silents Please
Jim Perlowsky, Newsletter Editor
41 Buhl Lane
East Northport, NY 11731
Oct 14
Indoor Flying @ Samoset Middle School
Oct 16
General Club Meeting at Holtsville
Oct 20
Contest Flying at Calverton
Nov 11
Indoor Flying @ Samoset Middle School
Nov 20
General Club Meeting at Holtsville
Nov 23
Turkey Shoot at Calverton