AMA CHARTER CLUB #397 NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS JULY, 2016

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1 AMA CHARTER CLUB #397 NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS JULY, 2016 Hi guys, its July and I hope you all had a great 4 th and wished a Happy Birthday to our great country. We are all very lucky to live in a country with the freedoms we have in the good old USA. This month, on July 31 st, we have the annual event with the Barnstormers. They will be hosting at their new field located on Stearns Road west of Rt. 59. We need as many members as possible to go up there and fly and help us take the traveling plaque back. If you were not at the meeting, the event will be the Washer Drop with Spot Landing. This year you can use a mechanical drop, servo type, or what we will supply, which are a stick, cup and rubber band. You all know that I will be using a servo type drop. New this year, all pilots will have three drops and three spot landings. So get out and practice and let s win this year. On a different note, as the summer goes on, the field that surrounds Springbrook Airfield gets very dangerous to walk through the weeds. Right now they are over my head in some places. It is very hard to walk through, so if you drop your airplane in the weeds don t go out alone to look for it, have someone with you. It is so easy to fall and hurt yourself that an airplane is not worth taking the chance. Use the Buddy System. Let s all take advantage of the great weather and get out and fly. Practice the washer drop. The Pres. will be giving out points to all members who Practice. Fly Safe Pres. Tommy

2 Financial Report Bill Hickey Financial Report June 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016 Description Operating Field Fund Total Comments Fund Balance June 1, 2016 $1, $4, $5, Income: Dues members to date. Swap Swap. Total Income Total Cash Available 1, $4, $5, Expenses: Field Maintenance Striping paint. Board Expenses Name badges. Total Expenses Balance June 30, , , , Bill Hickey, Prop Masters Treasurer 305 White Oak Drive Naperville, Illinois Newsletter Contributions Send newsletter contributions to the Newsletter Editor at The deadline for submissions is the second Tuesday of the month. Club Newsletters are posted at the club website:

3 Meeting Minutes Dave Cotton Opening: Meeting minutes - June 28, 2016 The meeting began at 7:30 pm at the VFW Hall, Naperville, Illinois. The May meeting minutes and May s Treasurer s Report were approved by the membership. President Tom Camp presided over the meeting. Committee Reports: Newsletter Safety Fun Fly Forest Preserve Website Library Instruction Fundraising Publicity Nomination Air Show Picnic Ray Luchetti requested that someone take pictures at the next meeting since he may not be able to attend. Mick Pfeifer stated that if you re going plane finding to please not go alone and if absolutely necessary then take your cell phone along. Sticks and stones (out in the weeds along with pot holes) will break your bones. Also it was recommended by Jeff Gittelman to have a pair of old sweat pants in the car just in case Shorts are not good in the woods and weeds. (Jeff keeps a pair in his truck if you need them). Jeff Gittelman reminded the membership to sign in order to obtain your club points. Jeff also indicated that the next fun fly is July 10, 2016 and will be the Washer Drop. (3 drops and 3 Landings). Tom Camp again thanked the Forest Preserve for installing the new runway Tom also thanked all that came out to help spread dirt. DuPage County thanks us for our quick response in this process. Dave Carlson reported that the For Sale Blast will be added and an open discussion on For Sale Blasts took place. Hank Bourassa stated that It s still there. Tom Camp mentioned that instruction is proceeding - Tuesday and Thursday, weather permitting. If any questions, please call Tom. It was reported that the Swap Meet was to be posted in the AMA Magazine and on Craig s List. No report requested. No report requested. Dave Engle thanked everyone who came out (Hot and Windy) and that maybe Sunday might be a better day to get more observers because it s usually family day. Dave Carlson requested that the air show might be more conducive to attracting spectators at noon. Jeff requested anyone that has any other ideas to contact him. No report requested. Old Business: See Bill Hickey for shirts and hats as always. Don t forget the Barnstormers contest is scheduled for July 31 st.

4 Meeting Minutes Dave Cotton New Business: See Beauty Contest results. New Members & Guests: Welcome Mike, thanks for checking us out. Lost Horizons: Dave Engel mentioned that his SPAD is no more and also that he spent $1,000 on two engines that are absolutely useless. Show and Tell: (See photo section) See Beauty Contest Results Raffle: The raffle was presented by Harlan Davis and included a Breitling Cap new in box, servo extensions, glue and other items. Closing: The next meeting is at the VFW Hall at 7:30pm on July 26, 2016.

5 June 28 th Meeting Photos Ray Luchetti Dave Cotton Steve Zielinski Mick Pfeifer Ray Good Joe Bartek Larry Dudkowski

6 June 28 th Meeting Photos Ray Luchetti Bob Johnson Alex Dribinsky Dave Engel Bill Hickey Tom Camp

7 Fun Fly Committee Air Show Report It was a beautiful day - clear sky with lots of sun. Over twenty members joined together for the air show on June 25 th. Temperatures did get into the low 90s and the wind made for some challenging flights but we were up to the task!! The 11:00 show went very well and the 15+ members of the public enjoyed our efforts. We had eleven people sign up for the Try to Fly opportunity. Thanks to Tom Camp and Mick Pfeifer for making that happen. A big thanks to the pilots who participated in the show Dave Engel, Tom Camp, Mick Pfeifer, Dave Carlson, Hank Bourassa, Jim Farina, and Bill Hickey. You guys put on a great show giving the guests a sample of large, small, scale and sport aircraft and of course an unbelievable series of maneuvers by Hank in his T-Rex 550 helicopter. And the Tom and Mick duo performed a series of six coordinated maneuvers which ended with both doing loops at the same time over the center of the field pretty impressive! And I give a personal special thanks to the members who assisted in making this all come together Tom Camp, Bruce Haynes, Al Spencer, Larry Dudkowski, and Dennis Grillo. Fly Safe!! Jeff Gittelman Photos by Napoleon Bayna and Larry Dudkowski

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10 Fun Fly Committee Airplane Beauty Contest - June 28, 2016 We held the annual beauty contest at the June monthly meeting. There were fourteen interesting aircraft brought for members to judge. The winners were: Finish Kit/Scratch Built ARF Plane Helicopter/Quadcopter Plane First Bill Hickey Dave Engel Hank Bourassa Second Bob Johnson Tom Camp Dave Carlson Third Ray Good Jack MacPherson Best of Show was Bill Hickey s Pietenpol Air Camper. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated!! Jeff Gittelman for the Fun Fly Committee Prop Masters at Barnstormers July 31, 2016 & Practice on July 10 th. The event is the Washer Drop. You can use either a servo activated or powered dropping device or the equipment supplied by the Prop Masters. The equipment available will consist of a wooden skewers, rubber bands and paper cups. Here s how it works: A target will be marked on the field. Each pilot will receive an official washer. The pilot must take off and make one circuit of the field. After completing the circuit, the pilot can begin the drop run at his discretion. Dropping the washer is done by performing some maneuver such as a loop, a roll or holding inverted flight until the washer falls off the skewer or out of the cup or utilizing an onboard release device. The pilot will then land and perform a spot landing. Rules. 1. The payload consists of a standard 5/8 steel washer. The approximate dimensions are a 1-3/4 outside diameter, and 11/16 inside diameter with two 12 streamers of ribbon attached. You must use the washer supplied by the Prop Masters with no alterations. 2. The pilot must take off and make at least one circuit of the field. After completing the circuit, the pilot can began the drop run at his discretion. Each pilot will make three drops of a washer. 3. Minimum altitude over the target is 6 feet. Washers dropped from lower than 6 feet will NOT be scored. Scoring: The total of the distances from each of the three washer drops plus the distance from the closest of the spot landings will be the pilot s score. The lowest 5 scores from each club will be totaled with the lowest total being the winner. Fun Fly #6: Please note that a practice session for this event will be held on Sunday July 10 th. Jeff Gittelman for the Fun Fly Committee

11 Fun Fly Committee Westmont Street Fair & Cruisin Night Again this year the Palos R/C Flying Club will sponsor a display & demo at the Westmont weekly Cruisin Nights & Street Fair. In addition, members of the Woodland Aero Modelers (Downers Grove) and Prop Masters R/C Aero (Naperville) have indicated they will participate. EAA Chapter 461 (Bolingbrook) will be there to promote the Young Eagles program. Herb Killian of Palos R/C is scheduled to have his full-scale sailplane on display. And if that weren t enough, Chicago Drone Racers have been invited to put on a demo. All members are encouraged to come out, wear your club shirt, and bring an aircraft to display. Please bring your own folding tables and club information & promotional materials. Experienced pilots are invited to demo small foamies, helis, and multi-rotors. This is our golden opportunity to introduce and explain model aviation to many hundreds of new spectators. This is our opportunity to offset the negative media attention we have experienced in recent years. The event is on Thursday July 21 from 5 9pm. Set-up is after 3:30 to 5 at the Manning Parking Lot, 221 North Cass Ave, in downtown Westmont. The lot is 2 ½ blocks north of the BNSF railroad tracks. Note: Cass Ave. is closed to traffic during the Fair; enter from the side streets at Norfolk Street. A flyer showing more information is included with this newsletter. For more details or questions please me at dlmiendersma@netzero.net or call Westmont Events at Cruisin Nights features over 200 custom cars each week. The restaurants & lounges are open; various vendors are located throughout. There are multiple activities for kids. For a complete listing of each week, visit WestmontCruisinNights.com. For weather concerns the day of event you may call the above phone # until approximately 4pm. Dennis Miendersma, Palos R/C Flying Club

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14 Carl Bachhuber s Planes at Fox Valley Joe Bartek One of the reasons I make it a point to go to Fox Valley Aero s Windy City Warbirds meet is that I expect Carl Bachhuber from Mayville, WI, to bring some spectacular Giant scale planes. While you can see stills and videos of a variety of these on Carl s website: It s very special to see them in flight at a great field like Fox Valley. This year, I was able to see Carl s Heinkel He-111 h6 in the air. It is famous from the Battle of Britain movie, where it was out classed by British Hurricanes. Before WWII, the prototypes were disguised as airliners. The wing span of this highly detailed scale warbird is 178 inches and it weighs 100 pounds including crewmembers and dummy bomb load. It flies very realistically on a pair of DA-60 gasoline motors. Carl went a bit easy on the power, because he didn t want to spoil the nacelles for in-line motors. Still it rolled down the grass for a great takeoff. Once in the air, it flew very well, and dropped its dummy bombs on the center of the runway, with no trouble from the 15 mph cross wind. Carl also brought along a Convair 580/Canadair CC-109 in Canadian Armed forces colors. Wingspan is 200 inches, and it was built in It is powered by 80 cc motors, and a Canadian Mounty stands in the door.

15 Carl Bachhuber s Planes at Fox Valley Joe Bartek Last year, Carl brought a between the wars flying boat in Marine Corps livery, a Sikorsky S-43 JRS-1 "Baby Clipper" from 1935, besides the Convair/Canadair. It was just a bit larger than the Heinkel, and was finished in It was powered by 2 DA-100 s, which were easier to hide in the radial cowlings of the Sikorsky. Always wondering what s coming next from Carl, I looked on his website and found the Northrup RF-15a Reporter which was maidened (and crashed) this last Spring. This is a slick looking photo recon version of the P-61 Black Widow. Shorts in the elevator servo extensions brought it down. With good luck on the rebuild, it might make it to Warbirds next year. (Note: all pictures by Joe B.)

16 Fun Fly Committee Shots at the field Aerial photo of new and improved runway by Ron Angle Start up bench repairs Work crew consisted of Tom Camp, Bob Mosinski, Ray Good, Jeff Gittelman and Jack Macpherson.

17 Fun Fly Committee 2016 Calendar April Event Type Event Details Notes January 1 st Special Event Polar Bear Fun Fly 10:00 a.m. at the field. January 26 th Monthly Meeting Foam Board Plane Build Part 1 At the Meeting February 23 th Monthly Meeting Foam Board Plane Build Part 2 At the Meeting March 29th Monthly Meeting Original date cancelled due to weather conditions. April 3 rd Fun Fly #3 Bull s Eye Spot Landing (Team Event) April 17 th Skill Fly #1 Touch-N-Goes & Next Fun Fly Practice April 26 th Monthly Meeting Winter Project Judging (ARF and Kits) At the Meeting Postponed to May 15 th due to weather. May 1 st Fun Fly #4 Shake- Rattle-N-Roll May 15 th Skill Fly #2 Flat 8s & Next Fun Fly Practice May 31 st Monthly Meeting June 5 th Fun Fly #5 Prop Masters 500 Postponed due to weather. June 19 th Skill Fly #3 Slow Rolls June 25 th Air Show TBD June 28 th Monthly Meeting Aircraft Beauty Contest At the meeting July 10 th Fun Fly #6 Practice for Barnstormers contest event to be announced July 21 st Special Event Westmont Street Fair and Cruisin Night July 24 th Skill Fly #4 Inverted Flight July 26 th Monthly Meeting July 31 st Fun Fly #7 Barnstormers contest at their field Aug 13 th Special Event River Walk static demo and Try Fly QUALIFICATION DAY & Next Fun Fly Practice. Aug 14 th Skill Fly #5 Aug 30 th Monthly Meeting Sept 10 th Special Event 4 th Annual Tailgater Swap Meet Event Sept 11 th Fun Fly #8 Climb-N-Glide Sept 18 th Special Event Annual Picnic Sept 24 th Skill Fly #6 Flair on Landing & Next Fun Fly Practice Postponed one week due to July 4 th Holiday Sept 27 th Monthly Meeting Oct 2 nd Fun Fly #9 Fast-N-Slow Oct 16 th Skill Fly #7 Runway Take-Off & Next Fun Fly Practice Oct 25 th Monthly Meeting Oct 30 th Fun Fly #10 Crazy 8 s Nov 29 th Monthly Meeting Dec 4 th Fun Fly #11 Washer Drop Weather permitting Dec 27 th Monthly Meeting Christmas Auction

18 Prop Masters Organization & Contact Information Officers/Board Members: Position Name address Phone # President Tom Camp camptom@wowway.com Vice President Jeff Gittelman jgittelman@yahoo.com Treasurer Bill Hickey Wjh08@wideopenwest.com Secretary Dave Cotton dcotton@wowway.com Safety Officer Mick Pfeifer Wing881@yahoo.com Elected Board Members: Dave Engel Engel@anl.gov Hank Bourassa gohsthb@gmail.com Dave Carlson daverp@gmail.com Harlan Davis hdavis@wowway.com Committee Members: Fun Fly Committee Jeff Gittelman Director jgittelman@yahoo.com Larry Dudkowski, dudkowlvd@aol.com Dave Carlson daverp@gmail.com Dan Nosek sleddheadd@comcast.net Jack Macpherson macphersonjack@yahoo.com Publicity Director Harlan Davis hdavis@wowway.com Nominating Committee Harlan Davis, Chair hdavis@wowway.com Forest Preserve Relations Bob Mosinski Bob.mosinski@gmail.com Tom Camp camptom@wowway.com Dave Carlson daverp@gmail.com Instructors Tom Camp Chief Flight Instructor camptom@wowway.com Mick Pfeifer Wing881@yahoo.com Fund Raising Committee Larry Dudkowski dudkowlvd@aol.com Bob Mosinski Bob.mosinski@gmail.com Harlan Davis hdavis@wowway.com Librarian Hank Bourassa gohsthb@gmail.com Webmaster Dave Carlson daverp@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Ray Luchetti rluchetti@att.net

19 Visit the Prop Masters R/C Club Web Site at http// By Dave Cotton Support your local Hobby Shop HobbyTown USA St Charles 2061A Lincoln Hwy. (Rt.38) St. Charles, Illinois LaGrange Hobbies 25 South LaGrange Rd. LaGrange, Illinois Leisure Hours Hobbies S. Lincoln Highway (RT 30) Plainfield, Illinois Oakridge Hobbies New Avenue Lemont, Illinois Strictly RC 7719 West Lawrence Ave. Chicago, Illinois Walt s Hobby Shop Joliet/Crest Hill, Illinois Next Meeting: Tuesday July 7:30 p.m. at the Naperville VFW Hall. Practice for Barnstormers Event: Sunday July 10 th. Westmont Street Fair: Thursday July 21 st. Barnstormers Contest at their field: Sunday July 31 st.