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The Flight Line NEWMAN LAKE AERONAUTICAL PILOTS SOCIETY "We love this stuff" Newman Lake, Washington AMA Charter 1959 January 2017 In this Issue... Editor's Note President's Corner President's Corner By Jack Dubuque Latest Meeting Minutes For quite a few years now Did You Know…. several club members, myself Piston Engine Series included, have made an effort to get Securing Exhaust Deflector out and fly at least one time every month of the Upcoming Events entire year. Several years ago some of us Projects & Pictures qualified for the AMA all season flyer badge, and Airplane of the Month we have tried to keep it going. There were a few years that were quite close, like 2016 when there was only one day in December that was deemed Editor's Note flyable. Fortunately we were able to take By Dave Schmeder advantage of that day to get our December flight in. I am hoping we will be able to continue this We are starting a new year and streak for many more months. I don't know what that means you have made your the record is, but I do know that at least one of the New Years Resolutions. Whether Baron's flyers has at least 20 consecutive years of your resolution is to finally master all season flying. I invite all of our members to the rolling circle or to land without bouncing 4 or come join in and go for your own record. After all, 5 times, I hope your flying year is a good one. isn't flying the most important phase of this hobby? I have always marveled at the internal combustion Jack engine. The fact that this invention has stood the test of time (over 100 years) and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down is incredible. Designers NAPS Club Information were very creative in the early days when it came Location to airplane engines. They made all sorts of sizes, 11501 North Star Road shapes and cooling methods. Newman Lake, WA. 99025 Officers This year I am very excited to present a series of President: Jack Dubuque 509-953-1370 piston engine designs. Each newsletter issue will Vice President: Miles Fuhrman 509-998-2236 include a short article on an engine. I hope you Sec/Treasurer: Dave Schmeder 509-928-3691 enjoy reading it as much as I did doing the Trustee: Randy Brown – Exp 12/31/2017 research. Trustee: Patrick Winters – Exp 12/31/2018 Dave Field Maintenance: Ron Pierce 509-710-1586 Page 1 NAPS Club Meeting Minutes Meeting Minutes from January 14, 2017: The November meeting was called to order at 10:07 AM by President Jack Dubuque. 17 club members were in attendance and 3 guests (Skip Blythe’s wife Kathy, Chad Scharff’s daughter Caitlin, and new perspective member Toivo Mykkanen (first meeting)). The November meeting notes were approved as published. The January Treasurer’s report was presented and approved. Old Business: Donation update – Most of the items that Roy Johnson donated to the club have been sold. Only one item remains, a 48” biplane kit. Jack will take this item to the Monroe swap meet at the end of January and try to sell it. The club has made $162.52 so far. Thanks again, Roy! New Business: Perspective member requirements – Skip Blythe lead a discussion about the current club bylaw requirements for new members, suggesting that maybe the club could be more flexible in some situations. After a long discussion it was decided that the board of directors will write up a change proposal that would amend our current bylaws to include allowance for exceptions. This proposal will be sent to all members before the April meeting in hopes that it can be voted on at that time. Flying Heritage Collection – Bill Boyeson commented on Paul Allen’s personal collection of rare airplanes and highly recommended that anyone traveling to the Seattle area be sure to visit the Flying Heritage Collection. Paine Field Airport 3407 109th St. SW Everett, WA 98204 New Perspective member – Toivo The hard working Mykkanen has been in the RC hobby on- Newsletter staff and-off for many years and has recently will be taking a moved back to Liberty Lake from short break in Thailand. He is an avid builder and is Z February and Z looking forward to getting back to flying Z March, but will again. be back in April Z with another Meeting adjourned at 10:51 AM exciting issue. Dave Next meeting – April 8th Page 2 A Lesson in How to Crash Did you know..... From the newsletter of the Silent Electric Flyers, San Diego ... that the Silver Centenary biplane, built in I recently destroyed a very nice aerobatic 49-inch Yak. Not Australia in 1930, received its airworthiness really a great thing to do, but it happened and I hope by telling certificate 77 years after its first flight? my story I can save at least one other pilot from doing the same. I had just finished putting some very detailed cockpit work in a very nice Cermark 49-inch Yak 54 so I could enter it in to the 2010 Spring Fling Scale contest. I had earlier increased the power to 4S and had to beef up the motor mount with added carbon fiber along the top and sides to hold the now nearly 1,000 watts it could develop, so I was confident it would perform very nicely. In full-scale aviation, we always say it takes two or three problems to make a crash, as we are trained to recover from one problem at a time. I think this story bears that axiom out. It took three distinct errors on the pilot’s part to create an unrecoverable situation. It started with my desire to fly one afternoon after I had just finished the above modifications and checked the balance and The Silver Centenary was built by Selby Ford. Plans control throws in my shop. Because of all the things needing to for the plane, which was named in honor of Western be done, it got later and later in the day before I got out to the Australia's 1929 centenary, were drawn to scale on field. By the time I got settled in and ready for takeoff the sun the floor of the Beverley powerhouse which Ford was very low on the horizon, but the wind had calmed down a lot (error one). owned. The aircraft made its inaugural flight on 1 I did my preflight and noticed that I had a little extra throw in July 1930 and was flown for the next 18 months, the surfaces, but that’s okay, I wanted to be sure I could but when Ford was unable to provide the authorities recover from any attitude I got into during the trim flight (error with blue prints and technical specifications, it was two). mothballed in 1933. I took off and climbed out to the west, noticing I needed to adjust the elevator a little for smooth, level flight. While doing this, I let the airplane get a long ways downwind to the east (error three). As I started to turn toward me to come back to the center of the field, I over rotated due to the larger-than-needed throws of the ailerons, and due to the low sun angle I lost orientation of how far I’d banked and in my attempt to recover I must have thought I was inverted and zigged when I should have zagged. End result was a near full-power dive into the ground instead of pulling up smartly. So how could I have avoided this unnecessary loss of a very nice and near new airplane? 1. Don’t get in a hurry to go do a flight. If it’s 3:30 p.m. when you leave for the field in the winter, it will be dark For the next thirty years, the aircraft hung from the in only 1.5-2 hours. 2. A headwind is a good thing, dead calm requires more roof of the Beverley powerhouse. After Ford's death roll out and longer takeoffs. from a car accident in 1963, the people of Beverley 3. Larger surface throws are inherently bad for control. created an aviation museum with the Silver Use small, reasonable throws and check that the surfaces Centenary as the featured piece. are in line with the wing or tail fixed surface for easier flight control. In 2006, Ford's grandson Rod Edwards retrieved the 4. Keep your situational awareness! Don’t let one aspect plane from the museum to enable restoration. As of flying (ex. trimming) get in the way of overall flight path control. If you get too far away with an “active” part of the restoration, Mr Edwards decided to model, you’ll have more problems keeping it under obtain airworthy certification for the plane, and in control. August 2007 the Silver Centenary received its airworthy certificate 77 years after it was originally --- AMA Insider --- built. Page 3 1903 Wright Engine 4 Cylinder In-Line – 12hp Once they had decided to attempt powered flight, the Wrights calculated they needed an engine that produced at least 8 horsepower and weighed no more than 200 pounds. A quick survey of the automotive market showed there was no such engine available and they would have to make their own. An acquaintance at the nearby Buckeye Irons and Brass Works advised then that they could save weight if they cast the engine block from aluminum.