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2006 Issue 1 $$55..0000 www.control-line.org Phil Granderson Robert Storick Bob Duncan OFFICER REPORTS If you wish to communicate with me and ask me for a specific action, I would like Inside This Issue your communication to contain four points. One, you must describe what the Officer Report s . 03 problem is and your proof that the problem Editorial . 06 Directors Reports . 07 exists so that we can both agree. The sec- PAMPANews . 39 ond point would be your proposed solution AMANews . None to the problem. The third point will be to The Trailing Edge . 41 show how that proposed solution will Beginning . 43 solve the problem. And finally, the fourth Designing . None President’s point will be a request of what action you Building . 46 Column want from me (or PAMPA). If you contact We Have the Technology . 64 me and ignore these points, and just com- Crash Repairs. 50 plain about something, I will consider that Finishing . 52 By Paul Walker whining, and take no action on your rant. Flying . 56 25900 127th Ave SE Please understand that I will take action Sport Flyin . 59 Planes . 60 Kent, WAA 98031-7933 based on legitimate concerns as described Power Train . 64 (253) 639-0448 in this paragraph. [email protected] Electric Flight . 68 Cyber Notes . 74 Thank you for voting me President of The following are guidelines for contact- Personalities . 76 PAMPA. It will be an honor to serve the ing me. If you wish to call me, please have Health & Safety . 79 members of PAMPA. I thank all the past caller ID so I won’t think that you are a Products . None Presidents for all their hard work, and self- phone solicitor, as we have many of those Rules . None History . 81 ish devotion. I hope that I can serve the calls we don’t answer. You can also con- tact me by e-mail. Please put “PAMPA Contests . 82 members as well as many of our past Clubs . None Presidents. Thanks again. Business” as the e-mail subject. Please accept the fact that I have a high level of Other Nations . 98 Index to Ads . 101 The election was expected to be close, so security on my e-mail account, and I have the past PAMPA Executive Council (EC) to approve any e-mail that comes in that directed the vote to be counted and certi- has never been sent to me before. I will fied by the AMA, and the results sent to clearly do that quickly if the words “PAMPA Business” are on the subject line. new editor will be sent to the new EC for PAMPA. The expectations were correct, their approval. The proposed new editor and a significant percentage of PAMPA Due to all the bad blood in the past two years, and all the nasty correspondence and I have been in close contact and I am members voted. The AMA waited a rea- told that several publishers are bidding for sonable amount of time after the postmark written, please don’t send me anything you don’t want printed in Stunt News. If the work (and I have seen at least one bid). deadline before sending the results to Technology has progressed, and with this PAMPA. The results were distributed, and you feel inclined to send me a “nasty gram”, please be prepared to read it in new technology the publisher will assist in John Brodak sent me a note of congratula- preparing Stunt News. They will soon tions accepting the decision. After the Stunt News in all its glory, with the pro- fanity removed of course. There’s no need print and mail from one location. Printing results were sent to PAMPA, the AMA capabilities have improved, so look for received 5 additional ballots. Of those 5 for that kind of communication. I expect everyone to discuss things in a profession- higher quality pictures (especially the ballots, 2 of them were postmarked after black and white ones) than you see cur- the September 31st postmark deadline. If al manner. Please stick to the facts, and keep the emotion and name calling out of rently in Stunt News. Since the election, a there was any chance that the procedure few of the Associate Editors have the AMA followed caused the election to our communications. If you insist on emo- tion and name calling, I am quite likely to resigned. I have been able to replace the be in question, I would suggest that we ones necessary, and have found additional have the ballots re-counted. Since the elec- ignore you. If you have an issue with PAMPA that needs to be addressed, your volunteers to write for positions that have tion margin was 112 votes, these 3 votes been empty for some time. will not change anything. Therefore, I will District Representative should be your not suggest any additional action. I will first choice. They, in turn, will bring it to the EC. The first key position filled is the make it clear up front that I can’t be all Advertising Editor. Floyd Layton has things to all people, and will not try to be. Stunt News has been in good hands, and stepped up to the task after Rich Peabody I will do my best to support the PAMPA resigned. Advertisers, please take note. We mission statement. will continue to be in good hands. By the time you read this, the proposal for the will be running a much tighter ship in January/February 2006 STUNT NEWS 3 terms of Advertising. Please send your ads their inputs submitted, they will be priori- to Floyd as you would like to see them in tized and then worked. An issue I feel Vice President Stunt News. Please have them ready for needs working on is to complete an up-to- print in electronic form, as it’s not Floyd’s date guide for running both the Nats and job to clean up your ads for printing. He Team Trials. They will be added to the will compile them and send them to the PAMPA web site, as well as PAMPA prod- editor for inclusion in Stunt News. He will ucts when complete. be keeping a working spreadsheet on each and every ad that goes into Stunt News, As we are now deep into the “building sea- and please send the payments in with the son”, I trust your latest project is taking ads. There will be a grace period until all form as you perceived. One of the benefits is settled. However, if your paid ad is not of take-apart planes is the ability to build to Floyd soon, don’t expect to see it in new pieces for them and transform some- Stunt News Through mid-year. Floyd’s e- thing that was less than acceptable into a mail address is: [email protected]. world beater. I have been building take- Ted Fancher apart planes for fifteen years now. In fact, Two positions, Finishing and Designing, the plane that won the 2005 Nats also won 158 Flying Cloud Isle will be combined into one column. Randy the 1990 and 1991 Nats. Well, the fuselage Foster City, CA 94404 Powell and Brett Buck will be doing a tag won in 1990, 1991, and 2005, while the team effort on this column. Brett certainly wing came along in 1991 and won that 650-345-0130 has the technical aspect of designing stunt year. Since then, it was converted from a [email protected] planes covered, and Randy Powell has a wing-mounted gear to a fuselage-mounted great artistic flair for converting the num- gear. With the advent of tuned pipes, there Hi everyone. A new year is upon us. Hope bers into beautiful planes. I believe that was very little oil in that fuselage when it one and all had a joyous Christmas season. everyone, from the competition experts to was refinished last year. I now use the A Happy New Year awaits; let’s hope it sport fliers, have something to learn and hardware that Tom Morris sells to make turns out to be a great year for Stunt; one take away from what these two experts are the wings removable from the fuselage. I where we can concentrate on perfecting going to share with us. mention all this as it isn’t too late to con- our patterns and finding the ultimate twen- sider this option in this winter’s project. ty point polish. Another year like last year There will be a new column added that Contact Tom for the hardware. we can do without. was attempted in the past, but didn’t catch on. Howard Rush and Jim Snelson will be Until next issue, build light! I’d like to offer congratulations and a compiling a contest calendar for publica- hearty welcome aboard to our new tion in Stunt News and the PAMPA web Paul Walker Officers and District Directors. Paul site. If you plan on running a contest this season, please send Howard your contest flier as soon as available. As soon as you know your contest dates, please send that information to Howard. Jim will be coor- dinating the information with Steve Yampolsky for inclusion in the PAMPA web site. Free advertising of your contest certainly won’t hurt attendance. Howard’s e-mail address is: [email protected] By the time you read this, the EC will have received a package to consider for the Stunt News editor position, along with a sample Stunt News printed for their approval.
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