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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 Page 1 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 Page 2 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. Page 3 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 airplane was to see a commercial airliner flying over head. I can still hear the hum of the piston engines as the airplanes 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.