Editor’s Notebook for Sept/Oct, 2011

4. For any of you who did not hear, this is some information on the Reno Air Race crash of a P-51:

check out this news site. In the picture of the plane heading straight down you can’t see the pilot, I think he’s out slumped forward. Check the control surfaces, no deflections, I’d be pulling full back stick if only to gain further separation from the crowd, you’re never going to pull out. Saw other videos, he did a near vertical pull up, snap to inverted, straight down. Perhaps an accelerated stall at top, it just snapped down with no forward motion.

www.rgj.com

http://www2.leewardairranch.com/racing

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5. Aletter from Larry:

Dear Friends,

There has been a lot of activity here in our district recently. I hope you’ve had a chance to follow the events in the Blog on our District X website at ama10.org.

There has been almost 50 entries made in the Blog since I revamped our website in January. My goal is to make the Blog your most up to date source of information for modeling news. If you’re reading the Blog for the first time please keep in mind that the link at the top of any page in the website will take you to the most recent 10 Blog posts. To see all of the past posts just click on the archive link and you will see all of the postings for you to choose from.

Some of the issues covered in the Blog were;

The Woodland Davis Aeromodelers Golden Age Fly-In. This post not only includes a great write-up for the event but video too.

A new feature called Photo of the Week submit your best photos and maybe you’ll see it on the website.

A reminder to attend the upcoming Helicopter Scale Masters which will raise money to cure autism.

A great idea to promote modeling that your club should consider trying.

A very deserving award to a great modeler in Southern California.

I’ve also started something that no other district is doing and that is to publish expanded versions of the monthly column when I have more story than will fit in the magazine, along with more photos in color. Here is the August column, and here is the September one.

There is a lot more stories in the archive so check them all out and if you have a story you’d like to share with the district please send it to me at ama.district10@gmail.com.

Happy landings,
Lawrence Tougas
AMA District X Vice President

6. The Electric Lazair?This EAA Video about the Electric Lazair with John Nicholson includes an interview with builder Dale Kramer and, for a time, was the third most popular video from AirVenture 2011. ?Watch the video

Earthstar Electric Gull 2000
Mark Beierle flew his Electric Gull 2000 at the Arlington 2011 Fly-In. Listen to the sound of the 36-coil, 42-magnet motor as it winds up, pulling 217 volts for takeoff. It can fly for 1.5 hours at a cruise speed of 65 mph.
Watch the video

First Water Takeoff of the Electric Amphibious Lazair
On July 18, 2011, Dale Kramer’s Lazair became the first electric aircraft to make a water takeoff. This video of historic flight from Keuka Lake, Hammonsport, New York, captures the unique sound of the twin-engine electric ultralight.
Watch the video

Published November 16, 2017

Brad’s Corner for Nov/Dec 2017

To begin, I would like to mention that we are moving this month’s meeting/board member voting from our usual fourth Saturday to Saturday the 18th to avoid conflict with Thanksgiving holiday travel. We will have the meeting/voting around noon with pizza provided by the club for attendees. Jim has sent out absentee ballots for those that cannot attend, please ensure that if you do vote absentee – you fill in your full name as it appears on your membership card. If we can’t verify that you are a member, your ballot will not be counted. No cemetery voters please…
Finally, it has cooled off a bit! It is crazy that we had to wait until November to get a break this year. Still waiting for some rain to smooth the field out and reduce the risk of fire at our site. We really haven’t had many fires this year, and I want to thank all of you for being careful and having your extinguishers ready as needed.
Jim and Dennis have started replacing the worst of the tables at the main runway. Please throw them a thank you for giving up a few flying days to work for us instead. They started with the worst four and will continue into next year as the existing tables give out. Not bad, we have nearly 4 years on tables we expected to last one.
A reminder on etiquette at the field, safety concerns, and just plain common sense: In the last 2 weeks I have observed folks walking out past the fence without letting other pilots know they were stepping out. Please call loudly, there were a few VERY near misses! Also, please look and verify no one is on approach before loudly announcing take-off and landing. Also judge the point at which you call your landings, calling too early can leave others stranded with low batteries waiting for a landing that should have been called thirty seconds later. Finally, after landing, if you taxi – please do so near the fence to reduce risk of others coming in after you.
One of our club members, Butch Bucciarelli, heard my call in September that we were looking for a venue to have our Holiday banquet in Jan. He came through for us in a big way, and our Banquet Committee ( Randy and Quan ) are finalizing the details. It sounds AMAZING! Plan for a blast to all 2017 members to come out in early December with all of the info. Details will not make the web page or be posted to Facebook ( Pictures will post AFTER the event) to avoid the party crashers/freeloaders as we experienced the last 2 years. If you are a member, and do not get the club e-mails, email your friendly editor and he will make sure you get yours: editor@sefsd.org

As I look over the newsletter for the last few months, I notice a great amount of content provided by members. Thank all of you that have hopped on board! Steve Belknap has been doing a great job of putting it all together for us, and it makes his life a bit easier if he does not have to search for all of the content himself. If you have a neat project, please share!
The Board has voted on and approved a small increase in membership dues starting 2018. Dues will go up to $50.00 a year when we start accepting 2018 applications next month. The club costs have been going up over the last few years and this will allow us to keep even. One exciting thing you will see next year is a new style of badge we will be issuing to take some of the load from the membership coordinator – THANKS GEORGE SULLIVAN! We failed to realize how much of a load we had put on Isabel as we took the club from two hundred to four hundred members. Thanks again to Paul and Isabel Guidice for the service to the club for the last seven years.
Please join us on Saturday for the meeting and vote. If you want to give back to the hobby you enjoy, I greatly encourage each of you to spend a bit of time on the board so we can all benefit from your ideas and experiences.
Have a great Thanksgiving, and please be safe. I think I saw a video on YouTube of Skip trying to deep fry a turkey. It was scary! I will be having ham now…
Brad