February 2014 Newsletter added

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February 20, 2014
February 8, 2013 Club Awards Dinner – 40th Anniversary Celebration.
Our Founders – Charter members (L-R) Charlie Wehler, Rich Border, Larry Larsen and Larry Cressman.
Missing member was Bob Green who was snowed in at his home in Maryland.
The entire JCSF Exec, Board and Stan Berger lined up to congratulate Ed Runkel for winning the
prestigious Academy of Model Aeronautics Carl Goldberg Vital People award. A cash prize came with the
Plaque.
NEXT MEETING – Will be held on Wednesday, 8:00 PM at the Croydon Hall Senior Center
in Leonardo. We’ll have the usual monthly raffle plus Model of the Month and 2013 Model of the
year.
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February 8th Annual Club Dinner
A note from your president
Fifty five members enjoyed the 40th anniversary
celebration and annual awards dinner held at the
Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune. The
event had just about something for every one.
For this year’s club award dinner the theme was a
celebration of our 40th anniversary. We recognized five
founding members who have been with us since’73.
And we recognized one very key individual who’s
been working tirelessly over the years to keep our
membership informed and up to date (and entertained
as well).
Included were door prizes for all members, a
special raffle and a woman’s only 50-50 where
one winner gets half and a second winner gets the
other half. A caption contest was also held to
produce a winning description of a club photo.
Honored at the event were the five charter
members who founded the club in 1973 (see Page
1). We are fortunate to have these members still
active in the club.
Placards were made of photos that depicted old
club members and activities. A slide show of
another group of photos were also shown. Stan
Berger then produced a surprise video consisting
of an interview of Ed Runkel describing his
history in the hobby and with the club.
Award plaques were given out for flying events
and models of the year. Finally, prestige awards
for Sport Flier of the year were given:
Sport Flier
2012 Model of the Year
1st Pl. - Stuart Katz
1st Pl, - Rob Kallok
nd
2 Pl – Adam Lilley
2nd Pl - Bob Keibley
3rd Pl – Stan Berger
3rd Pl – Larry Larsen
th
4 Pl – Bob Keibley
3rd Pl – Rich Border
th
5 Pl – Rob Kallok
Most Improved Pilot – Chuck Safarian
To wrap up the festivities, the AMA Carl
Goldberg Vital People was awarded to Ed Runkel.
Sport Flier of the Year 2013
Since 1983 the AMA has awarded five members each
year with the prestigious Carl Goldberg vital People
Award which recognizes individuals who are “vital
people in the background of the modeling movement
whose efforts enhance the enjoyment of the hobby and
whose accomplishments are seldom formally
acknowledged”. These folks are nominated by the
AMA membership and a panel reviews the candidates
to determine if their credentials meet their criteria. As
you would imagine there are more submissions than
slots, so receiving this honor requires significant
contributions to our hobby/sport. And one of our own
has been bestowed with this award – one that most of
us could only dream of achieving.
Ed Runkel received a 2013 Carl Goldberg Vital
People Award for his contributions to the club as the
Newsletter Editor over the past thirty years. But for
those who’ve known Ed over the years we realize that
this contribution is only one aspect of what he’s
brought to the club. Whether he’s been your instructor
(he was mine), A CD for one of our regular club
contests, or a core team member in the running of the
club, Ed continues to be a key and integral member of
our club/family. Ed exemplifies what being an
involved and passionate JCSF club member is all
about.
Rob
Models eligible for 2013 Model of the year
Jan – Rob Kallok – Multiplex Fun Cub
Feb - Rich Border – Angry Bird
Mar – Toby Savage – Albatros DVA
Apr – Adam Lilley – Hellcat
May – Bob Kiebley – MIG 23 Jet
- Chuck Safarian - Combat plane
June – Rich Border – Lucy
July – Joe Berardi – Fokker Eindekker
Aug – Stu Katz – Beechcraft
Sept – Bob Keibley – Fokker D-7
Joe Berardi – Something Extra
Oct – Stu Katz- Hawker Hurricane
Nov – Shane Moore – Fairchild 24
Dec – Bob Keibley – F-14 Eagle
Recording Secretary’s Report
 2014 is here ! Our January meeting was held
on the 28th at yet another undisclosed location
at Croydon Hall Academy.
 18 members found their way to the new meeting
room.
 Darryl read the previous meeting minutes and
Stu read the Treasurer’s report.
Model of the Month
Old Business
 Our meetings will be held at Croydon Hall this
month and next month. We are in the process
of visiting other possible locations.
 Our annual membership renewal is now in full
swing. I see that 23 of our 2013 members have
not renewed their AMA. Time to check your
AMA card and renew your JCSF membership.
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1st Place - William Nieman – kit built Balsa USA
Nieuport electric, Hand crafted spoked wheels.
Our Club Dinner, held at the Jumping Brook Golf
Club, celebrated our 40th anniversary and
recognized our founding members and
2013 Contest Winners. The prestigious Sport
Flier of the Year as well as the AMA Carl
Goldberg Vital People were awarded.
New Business
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Don’t miss our club member presence in recent
Model Aviation and Flying Models publications,
and 2013 NEAT video. Way to go all.
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The WRAM show is this weekend. Feb 21st 23rd. Great place to get all of the goodies to
finish up your projects or find new one.
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The Tri-County club is sponsoring a bus trip to
Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum on Sat.
March 8th. A few seats are left for the $50 trip.
If you deleted Rob’s e-mail go to
www.tricountyrc.com for more info.
Lebanon PA Flea Market is March 8th. Don’t
miss this 5 room RC smorgasbord.
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2nd Place – Adam Lilley – rebuilt ¼ scale Fokker
Triplane.
Mark Nettleingham won the raffle, a big batch
servos
3rd Place – Rob Kallok – Twisted Hobbies EPP
crack Turbo Beaver.
Don’t forget to pay your dues at the
upcoming meeting!
Read continued club history last three pages.
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To -
MEMBERS – From Dick Sarpolus
BOB PERU - We have lost a local modeler and model airplane businessman. Bob Peru
passed away recently, at 85 years of age. Our long time members will remember when
Bob owned and operated Hobby Headquarters in Red Bank. (In the same location as
HobbyMasters is now, but no relationship between the two businesses.) As the local
hobby shop, Hobby Headquarters was the go-to place for all of us local R/C model
airplane enthusiasts at the time. Bob was the guy with the answers, the guy with the
information that we needed, and his shop was the place to get our equipment and
supplies. In 1964, Bob helped to organize and incorporate the Monmouth Model
Airplane Club, which is still around and celebrating their 50th birthday this year.
Bob spent a lifetime involved with aviation, both modeling and full scale. He
operated his retail hobby shop at several locations in this area, and over the years
expanded into hobby distribution, airplane kit manufacturing, and mail order and internet
operations, always keeping up with the changes in the hobby’s technology. He was also
active in full scale aviation, owning several aircraft, being an instructor, and flying as a
pilot for a local airline. He took our sons and I up in his Tri-Pacer and Bonanza, and
when flying back and forth to DC on business trips I would see him in the front seat of
the Beech or Piper from my passenger seat in the rear. He was not only an airplane guy,
he also had a good sized fishing boat for some time. And he did auto work as another
hobby; I remember him banging on the sheet metal of a small sports car, fixing it up for
his daughter.
Bob got into total wood airplane kit production, making and modifying a lot of
machine equipment to process the balsa logs he would import from South America. I
spent time in his shop, picking up the freshly cut and trimmed balsa I used in my airplane
building. Later he also had plastic vacuum forming equipment and was an early ARF
airplane manufacturer. As the sources of our modeling supplies began to go overseas, he
became an importer of hobby supplies and products, getting the stuff we modelers needed
and wanted. He expanded from epoxy and servos to a full line model airplane dealer. As
electric power took over from our glow and gas engines, he moved to handle the new
electric supplies. His son Dave has been operating BP Hobbies, now located in
Hillsborough NJ.
I collaborated with Bob on a number of airplane projects over the years and
always enjoyed working with him, and the big breakfasts in the nearby diner. He helped
along our airplane hobby. He was one of the good guys. I will miss him.
Dick Sarpolus
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CLUB DINNER SCENE – Photos by Stan Berger
We had a birthday Cake.
Chuck Safarian and wife.
Darryl and Pat Schlosser .
Trent Schneider and Gerhard Stejskal.
Joe and Elizbieta Zurawski
Dave and Marie Mauger.
Gary and Ginny Swist.
Tony and Cathy LoBraico.
Bob and Lois Landis.
Ed Runkel and Barbara Devlin.
Zoli and Claire Mogyoros
Patrick Wells and wife.
Stu and Jodi Katz.
Larry and Mildred Cressman.
Mike and Susan Romo
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MORE CLUB DINNER PHOTOS
Cristine Romo and husband.
Steve and Donna Gallop.
Lew Fein.
Frank and Gale Beshears and son.
John Tomaino and wife.
Larry Larsen and Charlie Wehler.
Larry Larsen with wife Peggy.
Ed stands with Richie Border.
Tony won the big prize.
Joe and Joan Berardi.
Mark and Kris Nettleingham.
Stan and Clara Berger.
Anniversary cake and pictures.
Gary won an engine.
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What we did not know when we acquired permission to use the race track property was that motorcyclists and kart drivers
were already illegally already using the place. They were entering using a back entrance to the property that the police
didn’t even know about. When we started cleaning up the place we discovered that we had to drive the bikers out. The
bikers tried to run us off the track by racing at us with their machines. They were stopped by our cleanup crew which
threatened them with chainsaws, sledge hammers and pitch forks. We then showed them our legal permit issued by the
Township of Old Bridge and convinced them they were trespassing on private property.
A few weeks later the bikers threatened us again in greater numbers, parking their motorcycles on the other side of the
track. This time we took a risky and somewhat foolhardy tactic by driving them off with our model airplanes. We flew
low over their heads and dove at them with threatened dive bombing until they left, frightened out of their wits.
What we did worked, but in retrospect we realized what a law suit we would be in for had we hit and injured one of them
And so we went on to enjoy the race track field for months to come, never realizing the depth of resentment felt by the
bikers. Almost every week we had to clean up the field to eliminate minor vandalism left by them in the form of broken
bottles and occasional rubble. It was simply a cost of doing business there, and we could not foresee what the future held
for us.
Ed Runkel
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COMING EVENTS
Next Meeting – Wednesday February 26, 8:00 pm at Croydon
Hall, Leonardo. 2013 Model of the Year, MOM, raffle, and
dues collections.
Sat. March 8 – Lebanon Flea Market (non club event)
Wednesday March 26- 8 PM, Monthly club meeting Croydon
Hall Senior Center
Sat March 29th-Adopt-a-Road Cleanup 9:00 am at Dorbrook
Stu Katz organizer