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Dayton, Ohio Giant Scale Air Show
Largest Radio Control Aerobatic Model Airplane
Volume 53, Issue 9
September, 2007
Staudacher 70% scale 208 inch WS
1100 CC 4 cylinder engine with gear drive
420 pounds
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
District of Columbia Radio Control Club Montgomery County Maryland AMA Chartered Club 329 Established 1951
Volume 53, Issue 9
PRESIDENT:
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Andy Kane
V.P.:
Dave McQueeney
County Liaison:
Jim McDaniel
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Scott Davies
Mike Dooley
Andy Finizio
Allan Hoffman
Andy Kane
Jim McDaniel
Dave McQueeney
Mike Peizer
Nir Schweizer
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MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY :
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RECORDING SECRETARY :
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NEWSLETTER EDITOR :
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D.O.G.S Show
Dayton Ohio Giant Scaler’s
By Andy Kane
This year I had the pleasure to
attend the Dayton Ohio Giant scale
fly in, located at the Wright Patterson 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.
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
MEETING PROGRAM COORDINATOR:
The 420 mile trip to Dayton was
very easy. We left MD at 5 am on Friday arrived at the field at 1 pm was
The DC/RC Newsletter is published
monthly by the District of Columbia Radio
able to get many hours of flying in.
Control Inc. Deadline for submitting materials Dave McQueeny and Doug Harper
for publication is the last Friday of each
also joined Junior Lopez and I at the
month. Any part of the newsletter may be reevent.
produced for non-profit purposes unless otherwise noted. Please credit the Newsletter and
In abundant attendance were
Author if named. Articles may not reflect the
IMAC style aerobatic planes and Giopinion of the club, but that of the author.
ant Scale war birds. There were also
Dave McQueeney
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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.
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
AUGUST CLUB MEETING MINUTES
BIG APPLE JET RALLY A-10 HO G
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MODEL MIXING MACHINE
SUMMER CAMP
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PG 4
PG 5
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PG 7
COVER, 70% STAUDACHER, OVER 200 INCH
WING SPAN, AT THE DAYTON OHIO GIANT SCALE
AIR SHOW.
PHOTO BY JUNIOR LOPEZ
The museum was open to all
modelers from 6 to 9 pm and the
IMAX theater showed a NASCAR movie. Many prizes from
the attending vendors were also
given away to the participants.
PG
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.
Don’t miss this one if you can. The
Air Force museum and the Presidential hanger with retired air force
ones’ are worth the trip. And of
course all the great model flying is fun
too!
Volume 53, Issue 9
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August Club Meeting Minutes
BY DOUG HARPER
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 submitted 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 expressed 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 unfortunately lost a wing). The food was
good and the help was more than ample. Andy F. expressed his appreciation
to the club for a great event.
Andy then welcomed any new members, visitors or guest. Brian Hitzeroth
is a new member and has attended several training sessions. He already has
his own plane. Mike Borgman is another new member and has started
training. Jan and Tim Pakulski are just
getting into the hobby. Tim has attended 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 Bozzonetti, Don Gray, Mel
Swerdloff and others helped. Ed Liebolt 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 Dinardi, Jasper Dinardi, and Tim Pakulski were given awards for completion of
the camp and declared to be “Student
Pilots” of DCRC.
Others who completed the camp were Luke Liebolt,
Nate Liebolt, Nathan Radko and Zachary 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 everyone 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 nominally priced cookout with a movie under
the stars. There will be a flying demo
on Sunday immediately before the fullscale show. Plane rides will be available. Bealeton is about 8 miles south of
Warrenton, VA. We plan a great weekend.
Andy Kane next discussed a turbine
fly in in Libertyville, PA, Three members of DCRC attended, Andy Kane,
Andy Finizio, and Nir Schweizer.
Old or New Business: Don Gray clarified a comment he had made last month
regarding how we should handle missing monthly newsletter. He suggested
that we make the next month’s newsletter 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
and format.
Tonight’s raffle is for an electric 540
Edge model.
Model Shop:
The Spad-to-the-Bone
website discusses many coroplast models.
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 performance.
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 3cell 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 building 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 featured in a question and answer format
where he provided information about
our new field, about the hobby, and particularly how to get started in the
hobby.
No Board Meeting in August
The meeting was adjourned at
9:05PM.
Volume 53, Issue 9
Big Apple Jet Rally Brooklyn NY
PHOTOS BY ANDY FINIZIO
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/
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Volume 53, Issue 9
Schedule of Events
Also on the web
www.dr- rc.org
Then click Events
Local and Club events in March
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7-9 Bealteon Fly IN
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15 DCRC Training
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21 DCRC Club Meeting
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22 PGRC IMA Fly In
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23 PGRC Warbird fly in
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26 DCRC Board Meeting
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29 DCRC Oktoberfest
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Dayton Ohio Giant Scalers
Air Show Dayton OH
National Museum of United
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PGRC War Bird Scale
Rally, Bowie, MD
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DCRC Board Meeting/Jim
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DCRC Oktoberfest,
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Bealeton Fly IN, Bealeton
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DCRC Training Mike
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DCRC Club Meeting/Jim
McDaniel will provide the
Meeting program will be:
Nominations The Raffle
will be:
Tucson Aerobatic Shoot
out, AZ
www.desertaircraft.com.
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DCRC Training Mike
Peizer, Germantown, MD
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DCRC Club Meeting/Andy
Kane will provide the Meet
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tions The Raffle will be:
Germantown, MD
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DCRC Training Mike
Peizer, Germantown, MD
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PGRC IMAA Giant scale fly
in, Bowie, MD
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Sept 22, 2007. Big Bird Gi
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Harbor Farm Flying Field
DCRC Board Meeting/Andy
Kane
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DCRC Training Mike
Peizer, Germantown, MD
November 2007
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14th Florida Int'l Jet Rally
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Frenzy at Free state
MD
DCRC Club Meeting The
Meeting program will
be: The Raffle will be:
Volume 53, Issue 9
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Model Mixing Machine
By Ron Bozzonetti
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 programming the mixing features on my transmitters.
and taking up a lot of my workspace. Also, by using a
small mockup such as this I do not have to confine myself to working in the workshop as I can now do my experimenting 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 using. 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 functionality but it made me feel better. Not shown in these images is the receiver and battery. These I intend to place
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 results 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
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 mockups I can furnish a drawing showing the dimensions
that I used. This is a project that can be made in a cou-
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Volume 53, Issue 9
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
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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, almost 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 Sanchez brought in Alpha Trainer
that she was training on with
her father, Jose Sanchez. Sabrina’s mom, Julie helped
“police” the students, brought in
a recycling bin and had homemade 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 helping 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 [email protected]
District of Columbia
Radio Control Club
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Newsletter Editor/Andy Kane
305 Natick Court
Silver Spring, MD 20905
E-mail: [email protected]
One of the oldest and largest RC
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September 2007
DCRC Oktoberfest
Sept 29, 2007
Fun food and Flying
Open to all DCRC Members
Come and
check it out!