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7:30 PM
DCRC Club Meeting
August 15, 2014
Friday 7:30
Model shop plane
NEWSLETTER
Montgomery County
Council building
100 Maryland Ave
Rockville, MD
PROGRAM:
RAFFLE:
Don’t forget the model
shop.
Volume 60, Issue 8
Walt Good R/C Field
Home of the DCRC Club
John Petley with his new P-47
District of Columbia Radio Control Club Montgomery County Maryland AMA Chartered Club 329 Established 1951
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RADIO CONTROL CLUB
Volume 60, Issue 8
PRESIDENT:
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Jim McDaniel
Walt Good R/C Field
Home of the DCRC Club
V.P. Walt Gallaugher
County Liaison: Jim McDaniel
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PHOTOS BY ANDY KANE
Andy Finizio
Jim Fisher
Walt Gallaugher
David Garrison
Allan Hoffman
Andy Kane
Jim McDaniel
Jose Sanchez
Thomas Pfarr
This months activity at our flying
field.
TREASURER:
Doug Harper
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY:
Jose Sanchez
20017 Haller Ave
Poolesville, MD 20837
Andy and his new Bandit ARF
RECORDING SECRETARY:
Ranga still not sure about this stuff.
Head Scratchers
Doug Harper
SHOW TEAM MANAGER:
Jim McDaniel & Allan Hoffman
NEWSLETTER EDITOR:
Andy Kane
[email protected]
MEETING PROGRAM COORDINATOR:
Walt Gallaugher
OFFICIAL CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER:
Thomas Pfarr
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We had more cub scouts this year.
Brian Fair with his new Park Zone
SU-29 Just completed DCRC training program earlier this year.
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.
NEWS FROM WALT GOOD FIELD
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WARBIRDS OVER DELAWARE
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CLUB MEETING MINUTES
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DCRC EVENT CALANDAR
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NEW YOUNG AVIATORS
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John Petley and his new P-47
Photo by Andy Kane
Christmas in July and record low
temps Dulles had 49’ 7/30/14
Doug Hinken and his electric Alpha
40 with Eflight 46 motor can fly for
14 minutes, with just a little help
from his instructor Ed Leibolt
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RADIO CONTROL CLUB
Volume 60, Issue 8
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2014 WAR BIRDS OVER
DELAWARE
BY PAUL SFORZA
On the weekend of July
12th the Delaware R/C
Club held its 23rd annual “Warbirds
Over Delaware” at Lums Pond State
Park in Kirkwood Delaware. This
multi-day event (running from
Wednesday thru Saturday) is one of
the largest giant scale warbird events
on the east coast. All aircraft flown
during the event hours must be a scale
warbird and meet the IMAA specifications of at least an 80” wingspan for
monoplanes and 60” wing span for
multi-wing aircraft. The number of
registered pilots is easily more than
100 with the number of aircraft probably well over 200.
Going to this event is a bit of an annual tradition for my family and I, and
as in past years, we were not disappointed. If you are into warbirds, the
2 hour trip to this event is well worth
it. More information about the event
can be found either on the WoD website
(http://www.delawarerc.org/warbirds.
htm), on their Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/warbirds
overdelaware), or even on YouTube.
A nice video compilation of this
year’s event can be found here ->
http://youtu.be/5yCRS1wThcg
Lastly, our own Andy Kane was in
attendance with a number of his beautiful aircraft and on Saturday gave
four lucky children a chance at the
sticks of his ½ scale Piper Cub. Take
a look here ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c
3EMs3BqJlE&list=UUNmsesmvYz9
8MBSMYEfSHKA
Jet’s too!
Allan Hoffman was there with his 1/3
scale PT-17 Balsa USA KIT
A gaggle of Stuka’s
Bücker Jungmeister
Jim McDaniel’s was there with his
AT-6 Byron Kit
50% scale Triplane
Nice job Andy!
Andy Kane’s CARF Models P-47
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RADIO CONTROL CLUB
Volume 60, Issue 8
July Club
Meeting Minutes
BY
DOUG HARPER
The meeting, held at the
McMap Flying Field, was called to
order by Vice-President Walt Gallaugher at 12:00 PM. Walt asked for
the introduction of any new members
or guests. Bernie Gmiter,
a new member, was present.
Walt invited all attendees
to fly after the meeting.
Hank Jacob brought a
nice Extra kit that he has
for sale.
County Liaison: No report.
Events: Andy Finizio thanked everyone for their help on County Heritage
Day. Everyone felt it was a great success and the volunteers all did their
job. All the ladies did a great job
cooking. We did well financially.
Oktoberfest will be the last weekend
of September, Sept 28, and will be at
no cost to members. Andy would like
to have a fun fly if there is interest.
Bealeton is Sept 5, 6, and 7 this year.
Training/Community Outreach : Joe
Pauli mentioned that Jim Fisher is
thinking about starting training with
electrics before the 8:30am start time.
Field Maintenance:
Dave Garrison reported
that the solar powered
battery charger just celebrated its first year of
operation and has delivered 6000AHrs so far.
Dave described the automatic feature
that engages if there is an overload.
Users should disconnect chargers if
that occurs and it should automatically reset. Walt Gallaugher added
that just reducing the charge rate
would also help in an overload condition. Dave plans to add an ammeter
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to the system as well. All present hub. This very impressive item was
commented on how much use the sys- made by member Mike Dooley and
was donated by RC Showcase. Also,
tem gets and how good it is.
Progress is afoot on the midfield a Great Planes PT20 donated by Gary
charger on Building N1. Dave ex- Weber was presented. The first numpects to have the Midfield Unit well ber pulled was held by Andy Kane
who took the Dooley Clock/Prop.
along in about a month.
The second ticket was held by Chuck
David also pointed out that a plastic Brauning who took the PT20.
holder has been installed at the spectator fence that contains a supply of Treasure’s Report: Doug wrote two
DCRC information brochures. He checks in excess of $100 this month.
encouraged the membership to offer He had a copy of the YTD Budget
these brochures to any visitors who Report for anyone who cares to see it.
desire additional information about Web Site: Jose reported that the web
site is back up after a small incident
the Club.
Tom Pfarr and Jose
Membership: Jose San- yesterday.
worked
on
this.
We did not suffer any
chez reported that we are
harm.
around 250 members so
far this year. Also, certi- Newsletter: Andy Kane. Newsletter
fied pilots continue to continues to be successful.
increase.
New/Old Business:
Hank Jacob
Safety Coordinator: asked if someone would like to take
Walt Gallaugher did a briefing back the Video Library job. Eddie Chiin the Spring. He plans to repeat this dakel volunteered and was unaniagain later in the year. The subject mously approved for this important
will be field rules and that all mem- position.
bers are "field marshalls" when they Andy Kane indicated that he has
are at the field. In other words, we all shirts for sale.
share the responsibility for safe and
fun flying at the field. We are all em- Jose mentioned that Andy Kane is
powered to assist someone who needs featured in a video from the recent
help. The Board stands ready to assist War birds Over Delaware using his
any member on this issue if needed. 50% Cub and a buddy box. Several
Field rules are posed on the bulletin young people were shown flying this
board here at the field. Flying should very large plane.
be within the defined flight box which Model Shop:
None this month.
is delineated by markers and by a pic- Member flying instead.
ture on the bulletin board.
The meeting adjourned at 12:40PM.
Andy Kane mentioned
that we should continue
to be very aware of any
manned aircraft that
might be flying over the
field. If that occurs, we
should immediately
lower our models to no more than 100
feet until the larger aircraft is clear.
Raffle: David Garrison showed a special item, a large cherry/walnut wood
prop with a clock embedded in the
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RADIO CONTROL CLUB
Volume 60, Issue 8
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Calendar of Events 2014
July
7/31 thru 8/3 Summer Afterburner
Jet fly in Hamburg, PA
August
8/9
DCRC Training and IPP
8/15 DCRC Club Meeting
8/15-17 Big Bird Fly IN Hamburg,
PA
8/16 National Model Aviation
Day
8/20 DCRC Board Meeting, Walt
Gallaugher
8/23 DCRC Training
8/29-31 Hobby Hanger end of summer bash, Fredericksburg, VA
September
9/1
Labor Day
9/5-7 Bealeton, VA IMAA
9/6
DCRC Training and IPP
9/13 PGRC Big Bird and Warbird
fly in Bowie, MD
9/19 DCRC Club Meet
ing/Nominations
9/19-21 Fly for Tots Raleigh NC
9/20 DCRC Training
9/24 DCRC Board Meeting/Kane
9/26-28 Charm City Fly IN SWAP
Field, Baltimore, MD
October
10/2-5 Farview Jet Rally, Hamburg,
PA
10/4 DCRC Training
10/10-12 PGRC Q-500 Racing,
Bowie, MD
10/17 DCRC Club Meeting
Elections
10/18 DCRC Training
10/22 DCRC Board Meeting
McDaniel
November
11/21 DCRC Club Meeting
December
12/19 DCRC Club Meeting
Please provide any additional events
you would like to see on our calendar.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RADIO CONTROL CLUB
Volume 60, Issue 8
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At the War-Birds over Delaware fly in in I was given the
opportunity to share our hobby with 4 youngster's Each picked
from the crowd and given a short ground school and preflight and
then given the chance to fly my 1/2 scale clipped wing cub. We set
up the buddy box and each student got 5 minutes on the sticks.
Learning the basic’s of flight as well slow flight standard rate turns
and the traffic pattern, and then for some real fun they were able to
perform some loops and rolls. I think they had a great experience
and I want to thank the Delaware RC Club, President Mark Weiss,
Horizon Hobby fro all their support and allowing me to share our
wonderful hobby with some future aviators. Andy Kane
District of Columbia
Radio Control Club
Suggested web links
Cameron Air Show 2014
Rise of Vacul Featuring Kyle Franklin
Kaboom Town 2014
Andy Kane/Newsletter Editor
305 Natick Court
Silver Spring, MD 20905
E-mail: [email protected]
Boeing 787-9 flight air show
Boeing 747-8 extreme flight testing
Some aerial shots
William Rankin “The man who rode the thunder”
One of the oldest and largest RC
clubs in the US.
And now an AMA Gold Leader Club
www.dc-rc.org
August 2014
Dave and Dave Jr. ,father and son in tight formation with CARF Models Corsair’s
War birds over Delaware 2014