The Flight Line

NEWMAN LAKE AERONAUTICAL PILOTS SOCIETY "We love this stuff"

Newman Lake, Washington AMA Charter 1959 August 2014

In this Issue...  Editor's Note President's Corner  President's Corner By Jack Dubuque  Tips 'n Tricks  In The Spotlight Last meeting I brought up  Feature Article the subject of AMA's request for input  Latest Meeting Minutes on the FAA's interpretation of the radio  Projects & Pictures control restrictions. The deadline was to  Bits and Pieces be July 26th, however the FAA granted  Upcoming Events the AMA's request for a delay in order to gather more opinions. The FAA has granted a 90 day extension, which will Editor's Note give everyone plenty of time to respond. By Dave Schmeder This whole thing seems to be one big can

This month is the one year of worms. As for myself, I don't see anniversary of my first NAPS anyway any decision will work to the newsletter. This seems like a good time for me to satisfaction of all parties concerned. I be featured as our "In The Spotlight" guy for can understand not wanting to have radio August. Get to know the man behind the curtain. controlled drones or quads used for terrorism, however everything ever Our feature article this month explores RC flight invented is subject to the same use in logs. Have you ever wondered how long it has some way, shape or form. been since you have flown last, or how many flights you made this summer, or how much run I encourage all of you to submit your time you have on your engine? Keeping a flight thoughts, pro or con, to the AMA. For log could answer all your questions and it's not as the security of our hobby. much work as you may think.

The summer is slipping by quickly so get out and Go to www.regulations.gov and enjoy the nice weather and burn up some of that search for model aircraft to find the fuel that you have been storing. comment space.

Dave Jack

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Did you know..... Tips 'n ... that in 1943 British Overseas Airways Tricks Corporation Flight 777 was shot down by German Have a tip or trick you Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and use with your plane? leading to speculation that it was an attempt to Instead of keeping the idea to assassinate Winston Churchill? yourself, let the rest of your fellow fliers in on your little secrets.

Cowls To keep cowls from cracking, drill the screw holes a bit larger and use a BOAC Flight 777-A was a scheduled British small, 1/16-inch piece of fuel tubing as Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline a washer in the hole. The washer will flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to compress and protect the cowl from Whitchurch Airport near Bristol, England on 1 the screw head. For even more June 1943. It was attacked en route by eight protection from cracks, before you German Junkers Ju 88s and crashed into the Bay drill the new holes, reinforce the area of Biscay, resulting in the deaths of all 17 on board. There were several notable passengers, where the screws will go. amongst them actor Leslie Howard.

Separating iron-on covering Theories abound that the aircraft, a Douglas DC-3, If you have trouble separating the was attacked because the Germans believed that iron-on covering from its plastic British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was backing, try this. Stick a small piece of aboard. Other theories suggest the DC-3 was tape to each side of the covering, near targeted because several passengers, including Howard, were British spies. During the Second the edge, and pull them apart. This World War, British and German civilian aircraft should separate the covering from the operated out of the same facilities at Portela and backing. Another method is to stick a the incoming and outgoing traffic was watched by No. 11 X-Acto blade into the backing. Allied and Axis spies. The Lisbon–Whitchurch route frequently carried agents and escaped POWs to Britain. --- Aviation-safety.net --- NAPS Club Information Location 11501 North Star Road Newman Lake, WA. 99025

Contacts President: Jack Dubuque 509-953-1370 Vice President: Ron Hinton 509-981-5090 Sec/Treasurer: Dave Schmeder 509-928-3691 Field Maintenance: Ron Pierce 509-710-1586

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Our Feathered Friends at Newman Lake "Cinnamon Teal Duck"

Male cinnamon teal have a cinnamon-red head, neck, breast and belly. They have an iridescent green speculum, which is separated from a bluish shoulder patch by a white stripe. The back, rump, upper-tail coverts and tail are a dull brown and the under-tail coverts are black. They have a distinctive red eye, a black bill and yellow legs and feet. The male gives a thin whistled "peep" or "peer." Female cinnamon teal are often confused with female blue-winged teal. They have a duller blue shoulder patch, an overall rustier color and are more heavily streaked. Female cinnamon teal have a somewhat more guttural quacking than female blue-winged teal.

The majority of cinnamon teal breed in the western United States near the Great Salt Lake, Malheur Basin, San Luis Valley and Cariboo-Chilcotin parklands. They prefer small, shallow alkaline wetlands surrounded by low herbaceous cover. Nests are often located in grassy areas and island nesting is common. Female cinnamon teal lay an average of 8-10 eggs.

Cinnamon teal dabble on aquatic plants in shallow water areas, especially rush seeds, pondweed seeds and leaves and salt grass seeds. They also feed on animal food, especially aquatic insects and mollusks.

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In The Spotlight

Name: Dave Schmeder (Retired) Married to: Bonita (39 years) Lives in: Spokane Valley, WA Kids: None NAPS club member since 2007

I grew up in the small Eastern Oregon town of Irrigon, went to Riverside High School in Boardman and attended Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls where I studied electronics. After graduating in 1972 I went to work for Hewlett Packard at their Stanford Park Division in Palo Alto, California. I started as an Electronic Technician on a production line testing their new synthesized signal generator. Within a couple of years I was promoted to production line supervisor and spent the next 20 years supervising the technicians on several new product lines. My last few years before retirement were spent working in the R&D lab as a project planner.

I married Bonita (a native Californian who also worked for Hewlett Packard as an electronics technician) in 1975, and in 1980 we moved to Spokane to work at their new Liberty Lake Division.

As a kid the closest I ever got to an was to see a commercial airliner flying over head. I can still hear the hum of the piston engines as the made their way slowly across the sky. I got my first opportunity to get up close and personal to an airplane at the age of about 13 when Mom let me buy a plastic control-line PT-19 glow powered Cox airplane kit at the Coast-to-Coast store in Hermiston. It had a .049 engine and included a can of fuel.

After raking away the sagebrush and creating a large circle in the desert sand I was ready to fly. I loved the way it sailed through the air at the ends of the long strings. It was a good thing that this airplane was made of plastic and the wing was attached with rubber bands because it spent as much time nose first in the sand as it did in the air. Eventually I crashed it beyond repair and my early flying days were over.

It wasn't until after I got married and we bought a house that I finally had time, money and space for a hobby. Bonita and I took scuba diving lessons and did a little diving in Santa Cruz and Monterey, but it was just a weekend thing and I needed something to do after work in the Goldberg Falcon 56 evenings to keep me busy. While walking through a hobby store in Mountain View, California one day in 1978 I saw Soarcraft some radio controlled airplanes hanging Steen Skybolt from the ceiling. The guy behind the counter explained to me what I would need to build a model and recommended an RC club across the bay in Fremont. I built a Goldberg Falcon 56 trainer, covered it with Monokote and installed an O.S. 40 FSR engine. I made my first flight with the Falcon 56 on Sunday October 8, 1978. Of course I had someone else do the maiden

Page 4 flight and I was so excited to see it take to the air and actually fly. The idea of making an airplane fly without any control line wires was soooooo cool! That little airplane made 83 flights before I finally crashed it beyond repair.

I built 5 more airplanes through 1982, but after moving to Spokane I found I didn't have time for the RC hobby. I had a Super Sportster 40, a Smith Mini Plane and a Trainer 40 which were all new and never flown so I hung them up in the garage rafters hoping that some day I would get back into the hobby.

In 1995 we took a trip to Hawaii for our 20th anniversary. The hotel where we were staying provided a VK Navajo scuba diving package which included lessons and two dives. It had been 15 years since we last dove, and we thought it might be fun to dive in some warm water for a change. We gave it a try and had a great time so when we Photo by Dave Schmeder got home we signed up for full diving lessons and met some really nice people at the dive shop. We started taking warm water dive trips that we had never dreamed we would ever do. We dove in the crystal clear water in Cozumel and the Cenote caves in Mexico, the famous Blue Hole in Belize, as well as Tahiti, Honduras, the Bahamas, Palau and the sunken ships in Truk Lagoon. We also went on several shark dives, which were actually a little scary. It was a whirlwind of excitement over about 6 years and we had experiences we will never forget, but it was Photo by Dave Schmeder expensive and the economy crash put an end to our scuba diving adventures by 2001.

In 2005 I was given an opportunity to take early retirement. I was definitely ready to retire, but I had a big concern about not having anything to do with all of my free time. I don't think I had been retired more than a day when my 89 year old neighbor, Roger, walked over to my shop and asked if I was ready to get back into RC airplanes. Roger had been in the RC hobby for many decades and was still building and flying. He sold me a used FM radio and receiver and helped me get my Trainer 40 out of the rafters and ready to fly.

Roger and I flew 2 or 3 times a week at Farragut through August 2007 and I built two new kit airplanes and an ARF trainer during that time. Roger's age caused him to quit flying so I joined the NAPS club, which was closer to home, in August 2007. Roger was still building airplanes in his work shop when he passed away in January 2008 at the age of 91.

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Since joining NAPS I have made 2367 flights, built 10 airplanes and met a bunch of great guys. Thanks to my RC flying friends, my fear of not having anything to do during my retirement is now just a vague memory.

Dave

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Feature Article Flight Log - by Dave Schmeder

One of the first things that my flight instructor told me when I started into the RC airplane hobby in 1978 was to keep a log of my airplane experience. When I asked him what I should write down, he said "anything you want", but also suggested things like the flight date, flight time, weather, special events, etc. He said that anything that I learned or experienced would make good items for my log book. So I picked up a small pad of paper and started writing. At first the information didn't seem very useful, but after I had logged some data I found that it was fun to look back at what I had done and experienced.

I was out of the RC modeling hobby for nearly 25 years, but when I retired in 2005 and started flying again, I remembered what I had been told about logging my flights. The technology has changed a lot since the late 1970s, not only in the RC hobby, but also in my data logging. I started an Excel spreadsheet on my desktop computer and after a day of flying I would bring home my pad of paper with my flight information and enter the data into my spreadsheet. It started out simple, but eventually I had plenty of data to work with. I created charts and tables of flight time, number of flights on each airplane, engine run time, etc. I created Pivot tables, AutoFilters and even wrote a few macros to crunch data just the way I wanted it.

One day I was digging through some boxes in our loft storage area and I ran across the original log book that I had started on my first RC flight day back in 1978. The first time I touched the "sticks" was logged in my little book. Very Cool! I transferred all the old data into my new Excel spreadsheet and sorted the data by date to put the old data at the top. It was fun to read some of the data I had logged back in the "old days". I always flew with wooden props back then and we flew on a black-top surface out in a cow pasture just off the

Page 7 southeast San Francisco Bay in Fremont. During the landing of almost every flight I broke a prop. My landings were terrible and I was paying the price. I bought the wooden props by the box full.

It takes me about 15 seconds after each flight now to log my flight into a little 3-ring binder. When I get home I transfer the data into the spreadsheet and include additional information like who was at the field, what the weather was like, and any events (crashes, new airplanes, new guys, etc.).

I have included a few snapshots of the charts and graphs that I capture of my flight experiences. The RC hobby is a lot of fun because there are so many aspects of the hobby that a person can get involved in. Building, "Sunday" flying, aerobatics, 3-D, Pylon racing, gliders, gas, glow, electric, aerial photography, float flying, and more. Yes, and there is even "Data Collecting" .

Not everyone enjoys looking over their flight data like I do, but technology has certainly made it easier for us to capture and manipulate our flight data. There are cell phone Apps and computer programs designed to keep track of your RC modeling experience. I like the Excel spreadsheet, but it's not as user-friendly as the "canned" programs that are available.

If you are interested in tracking your RC experiences, here are a few canned programs to consider:

Android Apps T3chDad: http://t3chdad.com/flightlog/ iPhone & iPad Apps RC Flightbook https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rcflightbook/id394114598?mt=8 Description: rcFlightbook is a very useful utility for all remote controlled helicopter and airplane pilots. Finally you’re able to manage your flight information anywhere and directly after the flight. The time for taking notes manually at the airfield and then copying them onto your computer at home has passed.

DG RC Logbook https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dg-rc-pilot-logbook/id506165296?mt=8 Description: Allows you to keep a log of your flights with you at all times.

Online Programs MyRCLog.com http://myrclog.com/

Computer Programs Flight Log http://www.lammers.ca/FlightLog/index.html RC Flight Log http://www.rc.kvernberg.net/

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Safety on the Flight Line By: Ron Hinton NAPS Safety Officer

The following may not be about the flight line, but can be just as important: Looking for your downed plane. RULES TO LIVE BY 1. Keep sight where last seen. 2. Never go looking by yourself. 3. Take emergency items with you, probing staff, throwing line, safety line. 4. Remember distance will fool you.

5. Be carful of pond overhangs. These and other tips will be gone over at the next meeting.

These rules are mainly for new club members, but good reminders for the seasoned members, too.

We welcome any other safety tips that our pilots can think of, just let me know and I will include them in our future newsletters.

Don't overlook the little things! Ron

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NAPS Club Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes from August 9th, 2014: The August meeting was called to order at 10:10 AM by President Jack Dubuque. 13 club members were in attendance. 2 guests (Darrin Hart, Perspective member 3rd meeting, and Randy Brown's uncle, Chris).

The July meeting notes were approved as published. The August Treasurer’s report was presented and approved.

Field Report:  Ron Pierce says that if you need to move the irrigation pipes off the flying field, DO NOT pick them up by the sprinkler head. This will damage the pipe connection and requires repair. Pick up the pipe by grabbing the length of pipe itself and not the sprinkler head.

Old Business:  Mowing of 21 additional acres: There is still no word on when the tall grass area around our flying field will be cut down or what the club's expense will be.

New Business:  New Club Member: Darrin Hart was voted in as the newest NAPS club member. Congratulations, Darrin! NAPS now has 27 paid club members.

 Bridge Beams: It was noted that a couple of the bridge planks are loose. Several people volunteered to look into the condition of the bridge and what repairs, if any, may need to be done.

Other items:  Donations: Ron Hinton donated the sausage buns and Dave Schmeder donated the water for today's barbecue. Bob Papadakes donated hand sanitizer for the out house. Thanks guys!

Meeting adjourned at 10:31 AM.

Upcoming meeting: Sep 6th: Mike Farmer will cook Oct 4th: Nov 1st:

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Projects and Pictures

Pulse 60 - Randy Smith

Robin Hood - Patrick Winters Why I can't go flying today..

" My Neighbor's dog ate my wing end!"

Ron Hinton - Sky Bug

Dave Robinson - Bristol

Super Sportster - Robert Howard

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Can anyone identify John Whitney's latest airplane?

New Club member: Darrin Hart

Darrin is an RC Quadcopter pilot who isn't new to the RC hobby. He has been flying for quite some time, but not for an AMA club. He travels all the way from Deer Park to join us here at NAPS.

Darrin has taken a number of videos at our flying field with his Quadcopter over the past couple of months. He may compile the best of the videos into a short video that we could view in an upcoming meeting.

Welcome to our club, Darrin!

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Airplane of the Month Aeronca 15AC Sedan

The Aeronca 15AC Sedan is a four-seat, fixed conventional gear light airplane which was produced in the United States between 1948 and 1951 with a total of 561 being built. Designed by Aeronca for personal use, the Sedan also found applications in utility roles including . The Sedan was the last design that Aeronca put into production and was the largest aircraft produced by the company.

Entering production in 1948, the 15AC Sedan was Aeronca’s four-seat addition to its pair of two-seat airplanes, the Champ and Chief, both of which had entered production in 1946. The four-place design gave Aeronca a lineup similar to that of its competitors. Many other companies with two-place designs had been adding four-place versions. Among these four- place competitors were the , PA-14 Family Cruiser, , Taylorcraft 15 and the Luscombe 11A Silvaire Sedan.

The Aeronca Sedan was produced from 1948 until 1951, when Aeronca ceased all production of light aircraft. The Sedan production line shut down in 1950, but Sedans were still being assembled in 1951 from the remaining stock of parts. The last Sedan, which was also the last Aeronca-built airplane to fly, left the factory on October 23, 1951.

In a significant design departure from previous , the strut-braced wings of the Sedan are all-metal assemblies. Such combinations of construction types were not common. While the Sedan mated a fabric-covered to all-metal wings, the contemporary Cessna 170 mated an all-metal fuselage to fabric-covered wings. Also unique to the Sedan, among Aeronca designs, are the single-piece wing struts.

The of the Sedan is in a conventional arrangement, with steel tube main gear, and a steerable tailwheel. Unlike its siblings the Champ and Chief, both of which employ oleo struts for shock absorption, the Sedan makes use of bungee cords to absorb landing and taxi loads.

The Sedan is powered by the Continental C-145-2 or Continental O-300-A engine of 145 horsepower ; the Franklin 6A4-165-B3 and Franklin 6A4-150-B3, of 165 and 150 horsepower, respectively, are also approved for installation. The Sedan features an electrical system, including a starter, as standard equipment. --- Wikipedia ---

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Bits and Pieces

Wind damage. The July 23rd wind storm blew over the outhouse. Jack Dubuque and Mark Gaskievicz set the house back on it's base and the next day we had Honey Bucket service the outhouse. It was more expensive this time due to an "off route" day, but it was necessary to get our outhouse usable again.

The outhouse blew over again in August. Bob Papadakes and Ron Pierce righted the outhouse. Ron connected a hose to the irrigation pipe while he was watering the field and cleaned the inside of the outhouse. Jack Dubuque re-charged the waste container with chemicals that he donated.

Let's give a "Big Thanks" to these guys for keeping our Out House useable!

Upcoming Events provided by Patrick Winters

August 16 Great American Bug Out Barons Field, Deer Park, WA August 15-17 N.W. Scale Championship Red Apple Flyers, Wenatchee, WA August 22-24 Cubs 'N Cousins Othello, WA August 30-31 IMAC Competition Silver Hills RC Club, Athol, ID Sept 13-14 Barons Float Fly Ruby's Resort, Silver Lake, WA Sept 28 Barons End of Summer Fly-in Barons Field, Deer Park, WA

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