S.A.M.- Antics. SAM Club Meeting October 19 th at 3:30 pm SAM Flying Field OCTOBER 2014 PRESIDENT S REPORT

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1 S.A.M.- Antics The Official Fly paper of the SACRAMENTO AREA MODELERS AMA Charter Club #1822 OCTOBER 2014 S.A.M. Board of Directors/Officers PRESIDENT JR Schiager VICE PRESIDENT Jerry Cunningham SECRETARY Jim Smith TREASURER Steve Brown SAFETY OFFICER Sergio Varo PUBLICITY Mark Forister yahoo.com MEMBERSHIP Dick Weston FIELD MARSHAL Rodger Cady EVENTS DIRECTOR Casey Smith PRESIDENT S REPORT We will be having Nominations for new/returning Board Members on our October 19 th General Meeting at 3:30 pm at the SAM flying field. Please put it on your schedule and try to attend this meeting. It has been a great month for flying and events. Between the swap meet and the Trashman & YS Classic Warbird Race, there has been great exposure for our club. We had a huge attendance for the swap meet. Great job to Steve Brown and Dick Weston for all the hard work and dedication on the Swap Meet and also Great job to Mark Forester for all the advertising he did. The race went very well and brought in people from all over: Japan, Utah, Oregon, Nevada and all over California. For a recap, please see the newsletter. The next events are the Bud Garric Pattern Contest and the Two Minute Tango. I know that Dale is looking for workers for his race. If you are interested in helping, please contact Dale as I know that he would really appreciate it. Till next time, fly safe and have a great time at the Sacramento Area Modelers Flying Field!!! JR Schiager Good Sportsmanship Equals Fun For All SAM Club Meeting October 19 th at 3:30 pm SAM Flying Field

2 DO YOU HAVE A VALID AMA CARD? Remember: Our By-Laws and the County of Sacramento require a current AMA Card to fly at the S.A.M. site. Also did you know that your current status as a member requires a valid AMA card? If you do not have a current AMA Card in your possession or proof in the form of a fax or from AMA, do not fly. If you fly without AMA membership, you will be in violation of our rules and may be suspended from flying at the S.A.M. site. Contact the AMA at for membership when paying via credit card. FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS Are you new to R/C flying? Or perhaps you need to brush up or even just want to talk with one of our Pro s. SAM s corps of Flight Instructors stands ready to help you. You will usually find at least one of them at the flying site on Tuesdays or Fridays. You may call Jim Lichtenberg our Flight Instructor Coordinator at or at rcflyer999@comcast.net and he will arrange for the assistance you need. If Jim is not available, you can contact the Assistant Flight Instructor Coordinator, Ron Davies at Or you can call our flight instructors directly. Jim Lichtenberg Flight Instructor Coordinator (916) rcflyer999@comcast.net Steve Brown (916) imredfox@comcast.net Tim Sorenson (916) tsorenson@rcip.com Ron Davies (916) rjdavies@frontiernet.net Jeff Montrose (916) Jake, Long Time SAM Member Jake s daughter, Yolanda, brought him out to the SAM Field for a visit. It was great to see him again. We were lucky enough to talk them into coming over for lunch and an extended visit. She says they will make it a point to come more often and next time maybe we can get back to our old haunt at Bert s Diner. SAM-Antics SUBMITTALS Deadline for submissions to the SAM Antics is the 27 th of each month. Please send articles as Word text or as text in an to Peg Sweeney, Editor, at pegspatches@yahoo.com Submittals may be edited for content and length.

3 SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUPPORT SAM!!! YS PARTS and SERVICE 1370 Porter Drive Minden, NV (775) FAX (775) GOLD COUNTRY ACE HARDWARE & HOBBIES 4121 Cameron Park Drive Cameron Park, CA (530) R/C Country Hobbies The Hobby Shop 6011 Folsom Blvd. Sacramento CA (916) E & H Hobby Enterprises 2372 Butte House Road Yuba City, CA Open: Tues-Sat 11:30 AM-6:00 PM (530) LEFT: The NEW 2.4 frequency board courtesy of Kiki Fontaine. RIGHT: The new OFFICIAL Wind Sock courtesy of Frank Capone. THANKS GUYS for everything you do for the SAM club and field.

4 SAM Board Meeting Minutes Date: September, 11 th 2014 Location: Mountain Mikes Pizza (Hwy 50 and Bradshaw) Time: 7:05 PM Board Members Present: President: JR Schiager, Vice President: Jerry Cunningham, Secretary: Jim Smith, Treasurer: Steve Brown, Membership: Dick Weston, Safety: Sergio Varo, Publicity: Mark Forister, Absent: Events: Casey Smith, Field Marshall: Rodger Cady Officer reports: President: JR voiced the concern that some had brought to him regarding the upcoming events and not having enough restroom coverage. Research showed that adding another rest room for a month would cost about $90. All agreed that we should spend the $90 to make sure that the club had enough coverage. New nominations for the board will be held at the October membership meeting on 10/19/14. The elections will be held in November at a location TBD on 11/16/14. JR also let the board know that he was looking for additional members to work the upcoming Trashman/YS race. Vice President: Jerry discussed that the contract for the Christmas party on 12/13/14 had been signed and that there were going to be 5 menu choices for the club members to pick from. Spaghetti Factory will be the location again this year. Events: Casey was not present. Secretary: Nothing to report. Treasurer: Steve took some time to discuss the club financials. He then let the board members present know that the swap meet raised $200 for the club and that there were 24 spaces rented. The recycled cans at the field have been turned in and the club did well while helping the environment. Steve also mentioned that he is working on suggestions for the annual budget meeting and has some areas that he would like to address at that time. Field Marshall: Rodger was not present. Membership: Dick reported that we are now at 151 with roughly 3 renewals over the last two months. Safety: Sergio has not had any safety concerns presented to him over the last 30 days. Nothing else to report at this time. Publicity: Mark is very excited to be working on building awareness for the club and events. He will be adding signage for the upcoming Trashman/YS race to the entry road sign in the next couple of days. New Business: There was quite a bit of discussion regarding the snack shack and if there should be upgrades made to it. It was decided to table for now, but to seek input from select club members on how improvements can be done. Old Business: none Motions: Increase prior Christmas budget by $200 to match last year s total budget of $700. Made by: Dick Weston 2 nd by: Sergio Varo Approved by: All present Meeting Adjourned at 7:55 PM Respectfully submitted, Jim Smith Secretary

5 BELOW: JR Schiager and Richard Verano at the Trashman Classic on September 20th ABOVE: The plaque for V-Man on the new part of the shade structure.

6 9 th Annual Trashman & YS Classic Warbird Race On September 20 th and 21 st, Sacramento Area Modelers held the final 2014 SAM Warbird Series Race. There was a total of 59 entries with 12 in Bronze, 27 in Silver, and 20 in Gold. There were more registered but with unfortunate mishaps before the race, the entries dropped by 5. Congratulations to the following winners: Bronze 1 st George Reidenbach Bronze 2 nd Matt Campi Bronze 3 rd - Dennis Lampson Silver 1 st Ollie Merrill Silver 2 nd Gary Prosser Silver 3 rd B.J. Healis Gold 1 st Jim Finch Gold 2 nd Allen Annett Gold 3 rd Dave Sullivan Fast Time For Bronze Dennis Lampson Fast Time For Silver Tetsuo Yamada Fast Time for Gold Jeff Robinson The race was a success with the help of all the workers and sponsors. All the workers volunteered their own time to come out and help put on the race for all the pilots. If you see the people that helped, please shake their hand and say Thank You!!!!! The races would not get off the ground without them!!!! I like to give special Thanks to Jim Smith (Skids) for all the help prior to and day(s) of the race. He has been a huge help to get the race going and to be a success. Bottom line is that it took a group effort to make it a very successful and fun race. I had a lot of help from Sponsors. Special Thanks to our huge sponsors YS Engines, APC Props, JR America Radios, Gold Country Ace Hardware and Hobbies, and B.J. Healis. Also Special Thanks to all of our other sponsors - RC Country, Great Planes, Servo City, World Models, RTL Fasteners, BSI Adhesives, RC- Lights, Sig MFG, Tree Topper Tree Service, Jim Smith, Peg Sweeney, Mike Smith, and Sergio Varo. Please remember to support our sponsors as they support us!!!! We had 3 heats on Saturday and 2 heats and A-mains on Sunday. The weather was awesome and lots of great racing with a very low percentage of planes lost. We had a great lunch time show put on by Chip Hyde and Shawn Berkheimer, Thank You to both of you for showing us that awesome flying!!! There were pilots from Nevada, Oregon, and all over California. There also was a pilot (Marty Flood) that came from Utah and 1 pilot flew in from Japan (Tetsuo Yamada). Thanks to all the pilots that came and entered because if it was not for you, there would be no races. This two day race is getting bigger and bigger each year and looking forward to the future to see what the Trashman & YS Classic Warbird Race can bring. You can go to our website ( -flyers. org) to see all the results for this race and the final year results. If you are interested in seeing pictures of the races, please go to Holly Shanks website as she was very nice to come out and take pictures for us. Check out her website at Thanks Holly!!!!! Thanks everyone for everything, JR

7 Sacramento Area Modelers PRESENTS: "THE TWO MINUTE TANGO" WARBIRD RACE Itinerary Registration Starts at 7:30 a.m. and Closes at 8:30a.m. Sharp! (No Exceptions) Worker's Meeting - 8:30a.m. Pilot's Meeting - 8:45a.m. Racing Starts - 9:00a.m. Please be ready to fly at 9:00a.m. Breakout Time 2:00 min. CASH PRIZES FOR FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLACE TROPHES FOR THE TOP FIVE FINISHERS REGISTRATION Name: Telephone: Plane Description: Engine Size: Frequency #: AMA # : Pre Registration required, to hold Frequency NO FREQUENCY CONFLICTS! HARD HATS REQUIRED! Entry Fee: $25.00 in Advance $28.00 day of Race Please make checks payable to S.A.M. Registration on SAM Web-Sight Dale Kral 1754 Karen Way Placerville, CA (530) Call Dale Kral For The 2 Minute Tango Rules dkralfam@yahoo.com

8 SAM 2014 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DATE EVENT TIME LOCATION 10/11 Bud Garric Pattern Contest - Day 1 All Day SAM Field 10/12 Bud Garric Pattern Contest - Day 2 All Day SAM Field SAM General Meeting - Informational, 10/12 Raffles, Show & Tell, Nominations 3:30 PM SAM Field 10/26 Two Minute Tango Warbird Race All Day SAM Field SAM General Meeting - Informational, 11/16 Raffles, Show & Tell, Elections 3:30 PM TBA Spaghetti 12/13 SAM Christmas Party See Flyer for Details 7:00 PM Factory 12/16 SAM 2015 Events Scheduling Meeting 7:00 PM TBA SACRAMENTO AREA MODELERS (SAM) P. O. BOX SACRAMENTO, CA Web Page: Keep Current by Checking the SAM Website Regularly. Like SAM on Facebook Stay current on news and events