June 2013 Next Meeting: June 19th, 2013 AMA Chartered Club # 139 Web Site: http://flypcc.org/ Field Phone: 650-712-4423 President Mike Solaegui 415-314-6261 [email protected] Vice President Oliver Salles 650-375-1960 N.A. Secretary Dennis Lowry 415-285-4496 [email protected] Treasurer Greg Romine 650-736-7230 [email protected] Field Safety Officer / Webmaster Matt Abrams 415-370-3323 [email protected] Membership Chairman Ellsworth Crowell 650-591-0851 N.A. Editor/Flight Proficiency Brian Chan 650-867-8813 [email protected] Chairman New Guests: None it was a typical summer meeting with WHAT’S HAPPENING @ PCC few members in attendance. Raffle Prize: A Club Zone Super Cub from J&M. The raffle helps pay for the outhouse, so when you are at the meeting, chip in. Treasurer’s Report: We are healthy. Membership: 88 to date and rising. Safety: All is safe. A note of caution: Have your control surfaces checked by someone else to assure that you are not reversing them. Check the programming to make sure you are on the right airplane. (On Spectrum 2.4 you can’t fly the wrong airplane, but their proprietary rights make that a dangerous relaxed condition.) And when you are on 72 mg hrtz., open the antenna all the way. Crazy weather. The two photos were taken about 15 minutes TURBINE SEASON IS OVER. Time to repair that tail pipe apart. The sky went from blue (perfect flying condition) to for next year. solid cover (low ceiling). Field Report: It is all good, but we need a new belt for the APRIL MEETING MINUTES mower. There will be a work party any day now. It will be a Dennis Lowry surprise party. PCC Monthly Meeting Minute Notes Tics are here now. We will reconsider spraying again this May 15, 2013 year. Call to Order by Oliver Salles. Mike Solaegui was at a Contests: business meeting out of state. Castle (From AMA Site) 5/23/2013 - 5/26/2013 -- Atwater, The April minutes were approved. CA (C) 16TH ANNUAL WEST COAST MINI FEST. Site: Merced County Castle Airport. Richard Maida CD, Ph: 1 408-778-6885 Email: [email protected]. Visit: WWW.CENTRALCAMODELFLYERS.COM. 4 Days of fun UPCOMING EVENTS and flying. Night flying okay. Flying starts on Thurs/NOON. June Open field after 5PM all four days. IMAA legal turbines 7-9 Thunder over the Valley jet Fly, @ Woodland/Davis welcome. Onsite food vendors. Onsite RC vendors. Reg 8 RotoFest 2013, Livermore Flying Electrons, Livermore Contact, Tom Moore. [email protected] 16 Father's Day Sponsor: SULLIVAN COUNTY RC 19 PCC Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Dave Chetcuti Rm, Millbrae Swap Meet Flying Electrons at Livermore 8-12. 22 San Carlos Airport Open House. 22 LFE Fun Fly, Livermore Flying Electrons, Livermore And this: 6/22/2013 -- Livermore, CA (C) LFE FUN FLY. 23 War Birds Fly-in @ SCCMAS, Morgan Hill, CA Site: 4455 Raymond Rd. Gary Oehrle CD Ph: 925.449.9291 Email: [email protected]. Visit: www.lfere.com. Gas, July Glow, Electric solo and team events. BBQ lunch provided, 4 Independence Day. $20 entry fee. Sponsor: LIVERMORE FLYING 6-7 SCCMAS Annual Airshow, Morgan Hill, CA ELECTRONS 12-14Wings of Victory, WDA, Woodland-Davis, CA 17 PCC Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Dave Chetcuti Rm, Millbrae Old Business: Mike would like to put the old mower back together and start using it. August 21 PCC Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Dave Chetcuti Rm, Millbr New Business: Mike Peck would like to mow a little further out, and Kenny says that we should send a letter to John. Skip also is willing to talk with Bob Marsh for us. This effort 2013 WEST COAST MINIFEST could help with a multi-copter fun fly that Matt would like to host. Just a simple pictorial report of the Mini Fest. Several PCC made it to the event, mostly "spectating" (watching planes go Sad Stories: Windy, but the web cam can be misleading, so round and round) and spent money (looking for good deals)! go out and see for yourself. The weather is good, not too hot nor windy. A few of us piled Hits and Misses: Nothing. into Jim's minivan and spent 5 hours at the flyin. We ate, Show and Tell: drank, and watched a lot of flying. Dennis showed an .049 Brodak u-control. Ken showed his Hobby King DLG Glider bought for $80.00 with servos and receiver. It has immediate up-climb when launched. He’s happy with the airplane and the service from Hobby King. Matt showed his Park Master. He added the stressful parts required. It builds in 2 hours, and paints in one. He wants to Panoramic shot of the staging area. win the raffle because he needs more glue to keep it together. Eric showed his “Not Real Pretty but Purpose Built”. It’s a very big camera platform that weighs next to nothing. His vendor list is: Aircraft Spruce and Specialties; a Kite Shop; and Aero Micro. He’s learning about videography and where to point the camera while flying. Mike Evans designed it and he calls it an Exposure, but I prefer “Not Real Pretty but Purpose Built”. It has 6-1/2” wheels, a Clark y Airfoil, a 6 degree polyhedral, 1/32” ply cap strips make the “spars” top and bottom of the wing, and it a 2.4 gig receiver. It could easily carry a Nicon SLR, but with today’s cameras ha has to add weight to the front to balance it. Raffle: Since Oliver was standing in for Mike, he won the raffle: just another proof that the whole thing is rigged! Waiting to get airborne! 2 Planes on display on the Flight line. John and Keith Costas. More planes on the Flight line..... Corsair (CARF?) with Moki 250 c.c. 5 cyl. engine, beautiful plane and skillful piloting. Need a pilot figure in the plane! More ...... Epic Victory, turbine powered. Flew by the same pilot who flew the Corsair. Beautiful airplane. 3 Something different and colorful, a Westland Wyvern. The man behind the Corsair is the man flying the Corsair! A beautiful biplane, Curtiss Jenny. Ed Becker's Me109 being readied at the flight line. Something really different, but beautiful would not be the Some familiar faces, Ray is looking for deals....... adjective used to go with this one! That's all........ 4 Class B: Any flammable liquids or gases such as fuel, oil, FIRE SAFETY thinners, or paints. Brett Ohnstad, Safety Officer, Class C: Electrical equipment fires. Anoka County Radio Control Club, Inc., Class D: Metals such as aluminum and magnesium usually in Coon Rapid MN shavings or metal dust. Imagine that you’ve been working on your latest project when you stop for a quick snack. Before you return to your Knowing the type of class of fire will help determine what workshop, you notice the smell of something burning. type of extinguisher should be used on the fire. For example, a water-filled fire extinguisher that you would put on a wood You think that it can’t be anything serious because your fire fire could cause an oil fire to spread or cause additional detector isn’t screaming at you, but wait … what fire damage in an electrical fire if the electrical equipment is still detector? I must have one because that was where I got the plugged in. last nine-volt battery for my FPV camera. Well that explains why that is not going off. Types of Extinguishers Maybe the smoke is coming from that LiPo battery that you APW (air pressurized water) extinguishers are typically picked up cheap online, but it can’t be; that thing is in a large, silver-colored cylinders that are filled with water. These charging bag. Could it be that the servo you were running are for use on Class A fires and stop the fire by removing the through test cycles finally burned out? But no, that wouldn’t heat needed for continued combustion. make much sense either. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) extinguishers are most often found Your mind starts to panic as you realize that you left your hot as red cylinders and can range from 5 to 100 pounds in size. glue gun on and it is sitting right next to the soldering iron They are useful on Class B and Class C fires and work by you forgot to unplug and your new airplane. My airplane taking away the oxygen needed for combustion. As the CO2 is could be on fire! Wait, no! My house could be on fire! very cold from expansion of the gas as it is released from the You run into your workshop to find the trash can smoldering. nozzle, it also removes some of the heat from the fire. CO2 is It turns out that the rags that you used to wipe up some spilled not recommended for Class A fires because it does not fuel were in the process of starting to spontaneously combust. typically remove enough oxygen from the fire to put the fire A moment later, and those rags would have started up in a out and may not remove enough heat to be able to extinguish nice little blaze had you not gotten them out of the house and all of the embers in the fire resulting in a potential flare up. into the open. Dry Chemical (DC) can be a red or white cylinder that can I have just described the perfect extreme fire prevention be anywhere between 5 and 20 pounds and can be easily textbook cliché.