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Official News Letter AMA Chapter #3798 Chino Valley Model Aviators Official News Letter AMA Chapter #3798 February 25, 2018 Volume 21 Issue 2 www. chinovalleymodelaviators.org “To create an interest in, further the image of, and Electric Festival 2018 — Apache Junction promote the hobby/sport of radio controlled aircraft” Inside this issue Presidents Message 2 Name This Plane 2 Safety Column 3 Electric Festival 4 & 5 Predator & Old Airplanes 6 HABU’s Last Hurrah 7 Name the Plane Data 8 February Club Meeting 9 Aviation Fact: How many USAF A large EDF A-10 on final is pictured above at the annual Electric Festival held near Apache Junction. Nine CVMA members attended the event. Member Rick Nichols flew in aircraft types combat competition doing a superb job of flying. More on pages 4 & 5. have been flying for more than MeMber Dennis O’COnnOr’s 102” Wing span b-25 fifty years? (See Page Six) Support Our Local Hobby Shop 6594 E. Second Street Suite C, Powered by two Zenoah 26cc gas Prescott Valley, AZ engines, plans from Ziroli. Test flight is pending. 775-4971 CVMA OFFICIAL NEW SLETTER Page 2 CVMA President’s Message from Don Crowe Pilots, 28, this conflicts with our tested to see how well Event. So members if not going We are happy to an- Build-N-Fly event. This they are holding up. to Las Vegas consider entering nounce that fundraising new fly-in will be held the At the March meeting, our Build Fly event. It was well for our paving project has weekend before the AMA Pete Chagares will be received and enjoyable last been successful. We now Expo West, which will doing a demo on balanc- year. This was Don Crowe’s have enough funds to cov- now be in November. ing aircraft. He's donat- excellent club event idea. er the project, as well as Might be a good oppor- ing a EZ-Balancer Lite to see us through the calen- tunity to check out a lot of our raffle. Along with dar year. Funds came aircraft and take in a that, Bob Gunson donat- from generous donations show on The Las Vegas ed a new 63" Flightline from many members, as Strip. RC F7F-3 Tigercat. So well as your dues. We Pre-emergent weed we'll have two really nice hope to start saving funds spray was applied on and prizes for the raffle. every year so projects like around the field this Proxy purchase of tick- this can be handled a bit week. As funds allow, ets will be allowed for easier. other maintenance and this month. Lawrence Tougas our repairs will be assessed See you at the field, District X Vice-President and prioritized. The bat- Don Crowe, President. CVMA NEWSLETTER has announced plans to teries in our charging sys- Editor’s Note:e AMA Chapter #3789 Published Monthly hold a District Homecom- tem will be four years old We are not changing ing fly-in event in Las Ve- in September. We'll be Our Build and Fly gas this ear. Currently looking into getting them Challenge event despite President — Don Crowe scheduled for October 26- the District X Las Vegas Vice President — Larry Parker What Tri-Jet Bomber is this Plane? Treasurer — Marc Robbins Secretary — Bob Steffensen Safety Officer — Jerry English At Large Member —Randy Meathrell Newsletter Editor — Bob Shanks See Page 8 Flight Instructor — Marc Robbins CVMA OFFICIAL NEW SLETTER Page 3 MARK YOUR CALENDARS 2018 Club Events May 19, 2018 – Spring Fling Fun Fly and Swap Meet Jul 4, 2018 – Club Pot luck and Fun Fly (watch town fireworks) Sept 22, 2018 – Annual Steve Crowe Memorial Fun Fly Oct 27, 2018 - Second Annual 2018 Build & Fly Challenge. Dec 8, 2018 – Christmas Banquet Prescott Centennial Center Antelope Hills Golf Course Club Meetings: Third Wednesday of Each Month—7 PM Prescott Airport Executive Building. BORN IN A BARN? IF YOU ARE THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE THE FIELD: PLEASE REMEMBER TO LOCK THE GATE. SAFETY: ALWAYS A CRITICAL ISSUE That old saying “If it wasn’t for bad Our electric props can be luck I wouldn’t have any luck” seems to quite hazardous as many of apply to member Greg Daebelliehn pic- them are super thin and quite tured at right. He has again had a very sharp. At least Greg has a misfortunate encounter with one of his good attitude saying he props at the field. Board member Marc hopes this will help others to Robbins is patching him up in front of be careful. our first aid cabinet at the field. Always make sure when A possible contributing factor might testing and setting up electric be the fact Greg was seated in front of models that the prop is not Photo by Rick Nichols. his plane as he worked on the engine. attached in case the servo Whatever the reason or steps that led to needs to be reversed. the incident it underscores how im- A former RC friend in anoth- portant it is for all of us to be very care- er club had his model jump to ful around props. life and imbed itself into his shop wall, Glow and gas fueled models have to he was setting up his electric model with be started but electrics can really be the prop on, not a good idea at all. dangerous if not handled properly. They Greg’s picture was featured at our can jump to life as soon as the battery is monthly February meeting as well so attached depending on throttle settings. members use caution around all of your The last prop strike Greg experienced props and when testing and setting up last month resulted a doctor visit and any model liquid fueled or electric pow- stitches. We have all had some sort of ered. FLY SAFE members! incident with our props. CVMA OFFICIAL NEW SLETTER Page 4 ARIZONA ELECTRIC FESTIVAL This year’s Electric Festival, sponsored by the Arizona Model Aviators near Apache Junction, was well attended by spectators and lots of pilots. The picture below is of all the pilots was from Friday’s flying activities. There were even more pilots for the Saturday festivities. Our own Rick Nichols did a great job in Combat and almost lasted to the end, there were only 4 airplanes left flying when his battery finally lost its juice. There were a total of 9 club members who attended this outstanding event, no “slimmers” allowed, everything was electric with some outstanding models. You can see the number of entries in the picture below, it was truly a sea of electric models of all kinds, scale and otherwise. The drawback was too few vendors showed up this year. CVMA’s Rick Nichols Photo courtesy of AEF. A sea of electric RC models. Marine Cobra chopper. New F-4 Phantom from Free Wing. A very nice EDF Mig 21 flew with the F-4 Phantom a new model from Free Wing soon to be released. Re-living a Viet Nam encounter. P-47 with invasion strips. CVMA OFFICIAL NEW SLETTER Page 5 MORE: ARIZONA ELECTRIC FESTIVAL B-24 in the shadow of the mountains. Rick Nichols, pilot #58, flying in combat with Randy Meathrell as spotter. Rick almost finished first. Two Slow Stick’s had a mid air in the inset photo above. Randy retrieved his slow stick after the battery ran out of combat milliamps. Rick and Randy observe a Turbo Beaver while waiting for combat to start, great front row seats! A Navy Grumman Tiger Cat. A twin Stinson! A rarely modeled C-119 and a OV-10. The Star Wars Interdictor Star Destroyer flew at the AEF. CVMA OFFICIAL NEW SLETTER Page 6 C-130 J with Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System USAF Still Flies Five 50 Year old aircraft The Air Force still flies five aircraft after 50 years! They are the B-52, C-130, (at left) KC-135 Tanker, U-2 Dragon Lady, and the T-38 supersonic trainer. The overall longevity winner is the C-47 that flew from 1940 to 2008. Of course these aircraft that are still flying have been upgraded continually. Most now have glass cockpits and state-of-the-art avionics systems and navigation An Air National Guard C-130J Hercules aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System drops a line of fire retardant on the Thomas Fire in the hills above Santa aides along with other space age Barbara, Calif., Dec. 13, 2017. The 146th Airlift Wing is from the New York Air National Guard materials for improved flight who deployed to support fire fighting efforts. ANG photo by SSgt. Nieko Carzis. characteristics. General Atomics MQ-1 Predator A lot has been written about the Predator drone used widely by the military and law enforcement. The graphic at left from the Smithsonian Air & Space magazine shows the function of each section very well. While some of the information here is also in the photo at left, it is easier to read in this column. This particular drone, now on display at the Smithsonian Museum, was the first Predator or drone to test launch a Hellfire missile and the first one to fire one in combat. This Predator, #3034, flew 164 sorties over Afghanistan many of those missions lasted well over 14 hours in duration. As the graphic explains, the 100 gallon fuel capacity and 55 foot wingspan coupled with its very light construction allows it to loiter for long periods of time. The drone is also virtually silent at altitude so goes largely unobserved.
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