Laurel Highlands Model Airplane Club - AMA #557 104 Rocky Mt Court, Latrobe, PA 15650 www.lhmac.org June, 2016

Inside •The Prez Says •Meeting Minutes •Roving Reporter •Derry Area HS "Field Day" •Latrobe Airshow Pics •Our Thoughts and Prayers •Birthday Wishes •Aviation History Chapter II - Parts 1 - 1919, 2 - 1920 & 3 - 1921 Events and Times Regular Meeting June 10, 2016 at 7:00 PM at the flying field, Mammoth Park June Breakfasts will be at Denny's Restaurant, Greensburg (across from Greengate) 8:30 AM, June 8, 2016 The Prez Says 8:30 AM, June 22, 2016 Thursday Night Training - June 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2016 First off this month I want to thank all who are volunteering to keep our club going strong. From your officers, the Contest Directors, at the field (weather permitting). Don't forget, if Those that provide our meeting refreshments, the cooks of our food the weather is bad, we meet for the Picnics, the flight trainers, the Webmaster, our Newsletter Editor, those that come out for every work party, that Roving reporter, at Westmoreland Mall Food all of you who attend our meetings, and finally all those who came out Court about 7:00 PM - venue & times could change and will with planes, popup tents and plastic covers to the Rain Sh--- I mean appear in a notification via email. the Westmoreland International Airshow. Let’s face it without all that Foamy Warbird Races - activity we would be just standing in a field playing with toy airplanes. Sunday, 1:30 PM, June 5 & Speaking of the Airshow. It was a real pain in the butt to be there. 26 (CD - Lyman Petrosky) However we did share our hobby and club info with hundreds of kids Mammoth Park Airfield and older children called Dads and Moms. Yeah we made a few Moms Night Fly - Friday, June 10, mad when we asked their little darlings to not walk among the planes- after monthly oh well. There was only one meeting (CD - jerk that stepped on a plane—Jay I will have it Bill Cecchetti, repaired this week I Jr) promise;-) Again thanks to Float Fly at all who came out in the rain Chestnut and chilly weather to Ridge Park support our hobby. (Acme Dam) - Activities this month Hey, Saturday, June hey, hey the first of three 11, 2016 - yes three Night Flies 10:00 AM - immediately after the 4:00 PM (June meeting. Foamy Warbird 25 rain date) Races! June 5 and 11. If you’re not flying come out and watch as the Cutting Corsair does The Prez Says confined to designated R/C flying fields.) He continued cautioned the members to be on their toes about drone flying, as similar ultimatums may eventually battle with the Mustangs, Wildcats, Spitfires. We come our way. He also cautioned members to be can use the help counting laps and pylon cuts. If careful on the Flight line, when running engines up, Pylon racing doesn’t float yer boat how about to make sure the airplane is pointed out toward the Floating on Acme dam. Our first float fly will be on runway, in case the engine throws a spinner or prop June 11. Cancel the vacation Ethyl it’s flyin time. blade, and be careful of the prop blast when there Till next month, are people behind the airplane. MMaarrkk Old Business: (a) Museum Committee: Dean Pollock (Chairman), Rene Marquis and Fred Snyder. We are still interested in obtaining display cases for our museum exhibits. If anyone knows of any that are available for purchase or free, please inform Minutes of the Meeting of President Yothers. There was also a suggestion that we should consider displaying some of our historical March 11th, 2016 pictures and documents on our website. The committee will look into that possibility. The meeting was called to order by President Mark (b) Gate Lock: Vice President Morgan spoke with Yothers with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Josh at Park Maintenance, and was informed that There were 28 members present. Two new they have placed two keyed locks on the gate. Both members, Michael Ewanits, of Latrobe, and Shawn locks will be opened in the mornings and closed in Resetor, of Luxor, were voted into the club. The the evenings by the park police. Each club officer minutes of the April meeting were approved as will be issued a key. A motion was carried that published in the May newsletter. Treasurer Rene anyone else who wishes to have a key may obtain Marquis, substituting for Secretary Don Accorsi, one from our Vice President at a cost of $2.00. A circulated flyers for (1) the ESL Local Soaring motion was also carried that a record will be kept Contest in Delmont, PA, May 20th - 22nd, (2) Ukies and published of everyone who has a key, and upon Around Piper 2016, Wings of Williamsport R/C Club, their leaving the club the key will be returned to the Control Line Fun Fly, at Piper Memorial Airport, in club. Lock Haven, PA, May 21st & 22nd, (3) the Summer (c) Foamy Warbird Races: CD - Lyman Petrosky. The Solstice 2nd Annual Fun Fly, by Indiana Flyer's Club, first race was held on May 1st. The second race was Indiana, PA, June 18th, (4) the LHMAC Float Fly at supposed to be May15th, but was rained out. The Acme Dam on June 11th, and (5) the Flite Test remaining races will be on June 5 & 26, July 10 & 31, Team Flite Fest, at Malvern, OH, July 14th-17th. The August 14 & 28 and September 11 & 25 (all Treasurer’s report was approved as given by Sundays). Judges, lap counters, etc., are still Treasurer Rene Marquis. Vice President Ron Morgan needed. Other races (e.g., Snyder Cup, trainers, announced two raffle prizes: (1) a heat gun, sealing electrics, etc.) will be held between warbird heats. iron and fuel pump, and (2) an AirWing B-25, 63” Suggestions of other type races are welcome. scale electric foam Bomber ARF , donated to the (d) Snyder Cup: CD - Mark Yothers. Sunday, July 17. club through Dean Pollock by Timothy A. Green, of Practice flights will be open from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Greensburg. Newsletter Editor, Linda Pollock You can have as many flights as you wish to reported that everything is still OK with the experiment, tune, etc. Rules are still the same as newsletter, no problems, and reminded everyone to last year. Official speed trials will be 2 passes, one keep sending notes and pictures of your projects upwind and one downwind. and other items of interest. She also cautioned (e) Scale Contest: CD - Lester Faroux. Sunday, July everyone to be sure to get permission from 17. Documentation is NOT mandatory, but will earn publishers of any copyrighted material before more points. Scratch built planes will have some sending it to her. You can e-mail materials to her at advantage point wise over kit built and ARF's. Other [email protected] . Please send pictures in rules will be announced in a later newsletter. .jpeg format, not .pdf. President Yothers also (f) Endurance Contest: CD - Jim Andrews. Sunday, complimented her and Dean on the super quality of July 10. Jim is considering several scenarios for the the newsletter and reported that other clubs have rules. He will make a decision soon. raved to him about it as well. President Yothers (g) Opening Day Picnic: Sunday, May 29. Flea reported that he heard an unconfirmed report that Market will begin at 10:00. Food Chairman will be all Allegheny County Parks no longer permit R/C Phil Petrella. Steve Mickel will assist. Food will be aircraft, including drones. The cause for this is served at Noon. Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and presumably irresponsible flying of drones. beverages will be provided by the club. Members (However, he later received a more reliable report that all R/C aircraft, including drones, ARE PERMITTED at Allegheny County Parks, but are (p) Air Show: Saturday & Sunday, May 21st & 22nd. Minutes continued: Vice President Ron Morgan reported that a setup area is designated at a better location than may bring a covered dish or dessert to share. The previously. Participants will need to report at the Fun Fly will begin at 2:00. CD's are Lester Faroux airport BEFORE 7:30 AM, unload your vehicles and and Rene Marquis. The fun fly will consist of landing park them in the designated area by 8:00 AM. Be as close as possible to an X in a circle. The closest to sure to wear the blue wrist band that will be issued. the X will be the winner. At the end of the air show you will not be able to (h) Night Flys: CD - Bill Cecchetti, Jr. We have both load your vehicles until the crowd disperses. A map AMA and County Parks approval. They will take place and instructions will be sent by e-mail prior to the at the Field, after the June, July and August air show. The Keystone Clippers, are also invited to meetings. join us. Our Field will be closed to flying by FAA (i) Float Flys: CD - Jerry Thomas. Scheduled dates NOTAM from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM on the two days are Saturday, June 11th (Rain Date: Saturday, June of the air show. 25th); and Saturday, August 13th (Rain Date: (q) Teacher/Student Outreach: Our club will Saturday, August 27th). A sign has been posted at entertain a group of approximately 15 gifted high the lake announcing our scheduled float flys, as school students at the Field on Friday, May 27th, required by the county park. Other clubs will be from approximately 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We will invited. A motion was passed to pay $40.00 for AMA have flight demonstrations, aeronautical seminars insurance to cover the events. and flight instructions on buddy boxes. A motion (j) Model Aviation Day: CD - Tim Bartlow. A was carried to allot $50.00 to provide them with replacement is needed for Tim Bartlow. No one has pizza for lunch. Anyone willing to participate in the indicated an interest so far in doing so. This item will program, please contact Mark Withrow. be removed from the agenda unless and until (r) Wind Sock: The new wind sock is up and someone offers to chair the event. operating, thanks to Ron Morgan, who ordered and (k) High Wing Tuesdays: President Yothers noted installed it, and performed some needed repairs to that no one showed up at last Tuesday's event. He the mounting. still encouraged everyone to show up in future (s) Awards Banquet: President Yothers asked for events. volunteers and someone to chair the Awards (l) Anything Goes Pylon Races: Rene Marquis, Banquet. Plans need to be started very soon. There substituting as CD for Tim Bartlow, announced that were no volunteers. If no one steps up to the task, a high wing, .40 - .46 size, trainer race will take there will be no Awards Banquet. place between heats at the June 5th Foamy Warbird (t) Clean-up Day: Clean-up day is tomorrow Pylon Race. An e-mail will be sent prior to the race (Saturday, May 14th), starting at 9:00 AM, with the with further rules. Other novelty races will be rain day as Saturday, May 28th. Bring hedge scheduled on future pylon race dates. trimmers, rakes, step ladders, etc. (m) Road Trips: Linda Pollock presented several (u) Refreshments: Thanks to Jeff Moyer for choices between single road trips and possible procuring the doughnuts and beverages for package deals to museums and other interesting tonight's meeting. attractions. She will publish the details in the upcoming newsletter. No decision could be made at New Business: this meeting, but members should discuss their (a) Drone Races: A proposal was made for the club preferences among themselves and make their to hold drone races. President Yothers indicated that preferences known to Linda and President Yothers. A it IS within the scope of our club activities and decision will be made at an appropriate later time. therefore would be feasible, subject to FPV The AMA NATS convention is June 24th to 26th. Rene regulations. Anyone wishing to chair such an event Marquis & Lester Faroux are planning to attend the should contact him to arrange it. Control Line Scale and R/C Scale contests. They (b) Club Owned Transmitters: Vice President Ron recommend that anyone else planning to attend Morgan requested that someone who is present at should get their reservations in as soon as possible. Thursday Training sessions take charge of the club If you are planning or interested in any other events, owned transmitters/buddy boxes so they would be please let President Yothers know so he can help to more available to students. Rene Marquis accepted arrange them. the charge. (Thanks, Rene.) (n) DOT/FAA Registration: Nothing new to report, (c) Next Meeting: Our next meeting will be Friday but this issue is not over yet. There may well be June 10th, 7:00 PM, at our Mammoth Field Pavilion. other rulings that affect our flying. Any new In case of rain, it will be held at Pavilion #13 on the updates from the AMA will be forwarded to members other side of the lake. Hope to see you all there! A by e-mail as received. Night Fly will be held at Mammoth Field after the (o) Golf 'n Fly: Was held at Ridgeview Golf Club in meeting, weather permitting. Ligonier on April 16th. The weather was beautiful, attendance was good and everything went well. Show & Tell: Donnie is thinking about having another one this There was no Show & Tell. fall, but not sure yet. Minutes continued: Your Roving Reporter

Raffle: From: The Roving Reporter The winner of the heat gun, sealing iron & fuel pump was Bill Cecchetti, Sr.

The winner of the B-25, donated by Timothy A. Green, was Jim Zamerski.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:46 PM.

NOTE: A BIG THANKS to Treasurer Rene Marquis for his "double duty" performance and great job of taking the meeting minutes in my absence.

Respectfully submitted,

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Your Roving Reporter Dean Pollock "Field Day" "Field Day"

Dean Bill Johns Timothy D Bartlow Bill Ceccchetti Sr Mark Curci Antonio S Di Stefano Tim Bartlow Lawrence K Hodge Anthony N Mincucci Ralph Gaebel Jett Nicolette Karl V Pfirrmann John & Joan Marshall Curtis M White Vaun & Carolyn Hile Charles N Younkin James J Zamerski Dave Oswald

Paul Cunningham

Lester Faroux & his mother, Alice

Jim & Timi Pennington

Dick & Shirley Schmitz

Don & Joan Accorsi

Bob Bushmire

And anyone else who needs our Prayers! AVIATION HISTORY A Concise History of By Don Berliner

Chapter II – The Post-World War One Era

Part 1-1919

The “War to End All Wars” was over. Thousands of pilots and airplanes flooded the very limited market. One use for them was in airplane racing, which played a major role in making people air-minded.

The Fourth Aerial Derby The first major air race after the war was the British Aerial Derby, run on June 21 from Hendon, for two laps of the 94 ½-mile pre-war course around London. Thirteen of the 16 original entries started and nine finished. The winner was Capt. Gerald Gathergood in a converted deH.4 bomber whose lower wing had been clipped so much it became a sesquiplane. He won $2,500 and the Gold trophy. In second was Lt. Robert Nisbet, in a little Martinsyde Buzzard, at 124.61 mph.

The Third Schneider Cup Race Fog was the winner of this race, which was started at Bournemouth, England, on September 10th Of four seaplanes that took off, only one completed the 10-lap, 222-mile course—Guido Janello in a Savoia S.13bis—but he missed a pylon on each lap. The race was declared “no contest”, but the Italians were allowed to organize the next one.

The Coupe Deutsch de la Muerthe “Air Race Around Paris” The second race by this name was for a single 118-mile lap around Paris, and could be attempted any time during the year starting October 13, 1919. A pilot could make as many attempts as desired. Fourteen attempts were made by just four pilots, all of them French. The highest speed was166.919 mph by Bernard de Romanet in a SPAD S.20bis, followed by Sadi Lecointe’s 165.480 mph in a Nieuport 29V.

Part 2 – 1920

The Fifth Aerial Derby This year the race was for two laps of the 100-mile course, and was a combination scratch (all-out speed) and handicap event, starting and finishing at Hendon on Sept. 20-22. Fourteen pilots entered and nine finished. Winner of the scratch race was Frank Courtney at 153.45 mph in the little Martinsyde “Semiquaver”, well ahead of Harry Hawker in the Sopwith “Rainbow”, who was disqualified for failing to cross the finish line properly. In the handicap race, first place went to H.A. Hammersley in an Avro 543 Baby.

The Fourth Schneider Cup Race The race was held September 20-22 at , , for 10 laps of a 23.3-mile triangular course. When entries from Great Britain, Switzerland and France failed to arrive, the Italians launched a single seaplane—Luigi Balogna’s Savoia S.12bis—as a formality. He completed the course in 2:10:35 for an average speed of 107.1 mph, which was a Schneider Race record.

The Sixth James Gordon Bennett Race It was held September 28, for three round trips of a 62-mile straight course between Etampes and Gidy, France. There were starters from the USA, Great Britain and France. Most interesting was the Dayton-Wright RB-1, a private, custom-built American racer featuring a flush canopy, fully retractable landing gear and a wing with both leading-edge and trailing-edge flaps. Four of the six pilots dropped out with mechanical trouble, though George Kirsch had a first lap at 178 mph. The winner, at an average of 168.732 mph, was Sadi Lecointe, in a Nieuport 29V. In second was Bernard de Romanet in a SPAD S.20bis; his average speed of 112.851 mph would have been much higher if not for a stop. Howard Reinhart’s race in the RB-1 ended on lap 1 when his rudder cable broke. When the French won the trophy for the third time in a row, they retired it and the Gordon Bennett Race series ended. AVIATION HISTORY continued The First Pulitzer Trophy Race Two months later, the first purely American series of pylon races began, sponsored by the Pulitzer brothers, owners of major newspapers. The first race was held at Mitchell Field, Garden City, Long Island, New York, for four laps of a 29-mile course. Thirty-eight pilots entered and took off individually, Most pilots flew American-built Army deH.4 World War I single-engined bombers, along with Navy Vought VE-7’s and SE5A’s. Only a few pilots were civilians. The winner was Capt. Corliss Moseley, flying a Verville-Packard VCP-R racer, a Cleaned-up version of the Army’s VCP-1 pursuit, at 156.54 mph. In second was Harold Hartney in a standard Thomas-Morse MB-3 pursuit at 148.19 mph. Over half the 24 finishers flew deH.4’s.

Part 3 – 1921

The Sixth Aerial Derby It was run July 16, again out of Hendon for two laps of the 100-mile course. Half the dozen entries failed to finish. Winner of both the Speed and Handicap competitions was Jimmy James, flying the prototype Gloster Mars I, powered by a 450 hp Napier Lion II engine. He averaged 163.34 mph, well ahead of Cyril Uwins, in the Bristol Type 32 Bullet, with its 400 hp Bristol Jupiter I engine, at 141.38 mph.

The Fifth Schneider Cup Race The race was conducted August 6-7 at Venice, Italy, on a 13.3-mile course which would have to be flown for 16 laps. Almost all the entries were flying boats, though some had been well streamlined. The sole French entry—Sadi Lecointe’s Nieuport-Delage 29—was damaged during pre-race trials and withdrawn. This left only Italy in the race. Two Macchi M.7’s (de Briganti and Corgnolino) and one M.19 (Arturo Zanetti) started. Zanetti dropped out on lap 12 with a broken crankshaft. Corgnolino ran out of fuel on the last lap, while leading. This left only Giovanni de Briganti, in the M.7bis, who finished at a record 117.8 mph. With this, there had been three consecutive unsatisfying and non-competitive Schneider Races. There would be a lot of pressure on the organizers of the next race.

The Coupe Deutsch de la Muerthe Race On October 1, the next Coupe Deutsche Race was run on the Etampes-la Marmogne course for three laps and a total of 186 miles. The starters included one British, one Italian and three French pilots. Only two of the Frenchmen finished, with first place taken by Georges Kirsch in a Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplane at 172.994 mph. In second was Fernand Lasne in a Nieuport-Delage 29V biplane at 159.880 mph. The others were out by lap two.

The Second Pulitzer Trophy Race Omaha, Nebraska, was the site for this unusually late November 3-5 race, with a much smaller field that lacked the stock deHavilland deH.4s and other standard military types. The race would be for 5 laps of the 30.7-mile course Curtiss CR-1 The winner, by almost two minutes, was Bert Acosta, flying the first of wha would become an historic line of Curtiss military racers, the CR-1. He averaged 176.75 mph. Clarence Coombs was second at 170.34 mph in the private Cox Cactus Kitten. In third was Army Capt. John Macready at 160.72 mph in a Thomas Morse MB-6. REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE SPONSORS WHO MAKE OUR NEWSLETTER POSSIBLE

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