The CONNECTOR Newsletter of the Aeroguidance Society, Inc. AMA Chartered Club No. 441 www.aeroguidancesociety.org ESTABLISHED 1954 Volume #48 ….. Issue #9 September 2003 Meetings of the AGS are held the 3rd Tuesday of every month at the Vestal American Legion, Changes to time or location will be noted in this newsletter. Business meeting at 7:30 P.M., program to follow. AGS FALL Nominations Needed In This Issue …… AEROBATIC PRIMER By Pete Brayman by Jim Quinn It’s that time of year again; we October 4 should be a great day for need your nomination(s) for Offi- Lost ............................Page 2 the AGS if the weather cooperates. cers and Board Members. Bene- Membership Report ...Page 2 Early fall flying is the best in the en- fits of the position include: help- st Fly In Breakfast ........Page 4 tire year. Mark your calendar for ing to guide the club in the 21 this super fun day. century, personal satisfaction, Meeting Minutes .......Page 4 your own column in the Connec- VR/CS Reunion .........Page 5 As I always say there is a particular tor and an all expense paid va- challenge in flying maneuvers on cation*. Model Trimming .......Page 6 demand. That maneuver could be Combat Fly ................Page 7 as fundamental as straight flight, or To nominate yourself or some- a loop. Doing it in a particular loca- one else, contact a club officer. tion at a requested time makes And much more!!!!! even the most fundamental maneu- (just kidding about the vacation) ver more challenging. Coming Events If you want to get serious about improving your flying skills please join us at 10:00AM on Saturday, October 4, 2003. September 16 - - - - - - - - 7:30 PM Monthly Meeting There will be flying and setup tips at 10:00. Lunch will be served at American Legion 12:00N and the contest will follow lunch. September 20,21 - - - - - - All Day The maneuvers to be flown are the SPORTSMAN (401) series as set Float Fly forth in the AMA rule book. The maneuvers are: TAKEOFF, Greenwood Park STRAIGHT FLIGHT OUT, HALF REVERSE CUBAN EIGHT, September 27 - - - - - - - 10:00 AM STRAIGHT FLIGHT BACK, HALF CUBAN EIGHT, TWO INSIDE Combat Fly LOOPS. After these 6 maneuvers you have a momentary break until AGS Field you return for the following 7 maneuvers. TWO POINT ROLL, STALL TURN, COBRA WITHOUT ROLLS, IMMELMANN TURN, ONE September 28 - - - - - - - - 1:00 PM HORIZONTAL ROLL, SPLIT “S”, DOUBLE IMMELMANN WITHOUT STRC Race #10 ROLLS. Now you have a second break until you set up for your final AGS Field maneuver, obviously LANDING. October 4 -- - - - - - - - 10:00 AM If you are confused by any of the maneuvers, they will all be flown Aerobatics Primer with a hand model and in the air, if you wish, before the contest AGS Field starts. If you would like some extra practice time, please feel free to October 21 -- - - - - - - - 7:30 PM contact me any time. Monthly Meeting American Legion The Aeroguidance AGS Board Meetings Society, Inc. Board meetings of the AGS will generally be held monthly on the Monday of the week following the general membership meetings and are open to all members who wish to P. O. Box 39 bring business to the board. Please contact our President prior to the meeting to notify Vestal, NY 13850-0039 him of your interest and to get the location of the meeting. PRESIDENT: Terry Terrenoire 748-8146 Membership Report VICE PRESIDENT: by Tony Cammarata, Membership Scott Blazicek 757-0148 Paul Committee Chairman (A-B) Cushing SECRETARY: Bob Balsie 748-1074 Hello from the flying field, (C-G) Hope you are all "summering" TREASURER: It has been a while since I have well and are getting your flying Paul Cushing 748-9033 had anything constructive to in (amongst other things). (H-K) write about in The Connector. I BD. MEMBERS AT LARGE: have been busy enjoying sum- This past month was a slow one Bob Noll 754-5279 mer. Which, in retrospect, from a membership perspective, (L-P) seems to have flown by and I as you can see... Charlie Lecher 687-3366 have no idea where it went! (Q-Z) New Regular Members - None Now that the Labor Day holi- this month. Committee Chairmen day is past, it is time to start thinking about AGS Membership Regular Members to be voted MEMBERSHIP renewals again. This is where I Tony Cammarata 754-0209 on - None came in last year! I am now PROGRAM working on the letter that will go New Associates - None this Rick Allabaugh 648-7983 out to all active Members. I in- month. ACTIVITIES tend to get it into the mail early Bob Noll 754-5279 enough so that any who wish to Congratulations Bob Noll for FIELD take advantage of the $6.00 dis- making the cover of Model Air- Frank Gioffredo 748-9858 count by paying in September plane News. HISTORIAN and October, will be able to Jerry Roscoe 754-1550 bring their payments to the next PUBLIC RELATIONS two general meetings if desired. Terry Terrenoire 748-8146 All the information will be con- SOUND tained in the letter, so hopefully Tom Kopl 748-2933 we can make this as painless as possible. SAFETY Art Riegal 785-2055 Thank you in advance. LIBRARIAN Bob Nestoryak 748-2080 Lost: EDITOR Left at AGS flying field after a Peter Brayman [email protected] Q500 race, Radio South LED ESV (Black box several LEDS about 3"x2"x1" and 3 wire con- nectors). If you found it please contact: Jerry Roscoe at 754-1550. The CONNECTOR is prepared on a Personal Computer. Submissions are happily accepted by E-mail at [email protected] or on 3 1/2” diskette as ASCII or text files. Page 2 AGS On-Line * Bold type indicates additions or changes to e-mail address AGS WEB SITE http://www.aeroguidancesociety.org Dick Allen [email protected] AEROGUIDANCE Rick Allabaugh [email protected] Jamie Arnold [email protected] SOCIETY Bob Balsie [email protected] Steven Bard [email protected] Scott Blazicek [email protected] Pete Brayman [email protected] AEROBATIC Doug Breneman [email protected] Brent Bryson [email protected] PRIMER Tony Cammarata [email protected] Scott Campbell [email protected] Dick Chase [email protected] Art Claudino [email protected] SATURDAY Tom Coolbaugh [email protected] Paul Cushing [email protected] October 4, 2003 Joe Felice [email protected] Bob Frey [email protected] Frank Gioffredo [email protected] Don Green [email protected] AGS Airport Charlie Hatton [email protected] Jack Hostetler [email protected] Ralph Jackson [email protected] Bob Jennings [email protected] 10:00 Aerobatic Doug Kerr [email protected] Todd Kopl [email protected] Seminar Chuck Krapf [email protected] Mark Lecher [email protected] Charles Lecher [email protected] Dave Lewis [email protected]. 12:00 Lunch Bill Markovitz [email protected] Ken Maroni [email protected] Mark Mendelson [email protected] Bob Nestoryak [email protected] 12:30 Sportsman Phil Nestoryak [email protected] Bob Noll [email protected] Contest Bill Oltmer [email protected] Charlie Pearsall [email protected] Joe Perrucci [email protected] Bob Pinner [email protected] For more information contact Jim Quinn [email protected] Jerry Roscoe [email protected] Jim Quinn Jim Rasmussen [email protected] Red Scholefield [email protected] Darrell Sperbeck [email protected] Don Stento [email protected] Terry Terrenoire [email protected] T H E D E A D L I N E F O R Bill Tozer [email protected] SUBMITTING ARTICLES FOR Mark Trudeau [email protected] THE CONNECTOR IS THE Bill Underkofler [email protected] 1ST MONDAY OF EACH Gib Vandling [email protected] MONTH Scott Wallace [email protected] Page 3 AGS Meeting #674 None. FLY IN CHOW August 19, 2003 BREAKFAST AT THE New Business The meeting was held at the AGS Field AGS FIELD 9-6-03 By Laural Oltmer and was called to order by vice presi- dent Scott Blazicek at 7:30 p.m. Pre- New Winter Flying Site sent at the meeting were approximately A "Top Gun Fly By" goes out to 30 members and no guests. Bill Oltmer is investigating a new Bob and Rosemary Frey for winter flying site. This topic will cooking up another tasty fly-in Meeting Minutes need to be discussed at the next breakfast. Rosemary with her board meeting. army sized antique enamel cof- Approved as published in the Connec- fee pot full of hot coffee and tor. Next Meeting skillet of sausages and Bob flip- ping bomber sized pancakes Officer Reports The next meeting will be held at the and scrambling fluffy eggs Legion Hall on August 16th at 7:30 p.m. made us feel like Kings, VP’s report: The Legion needs to be contacted to Queens (and Princesses in my see if we will still be able to meet there, Scott circulated the mowing list and since they indicated that they wanted to girls case) by catering to our asked members to sign up for a mow- increase the fee for use of the meeting every need. All we had to do ing date. room. was eat and enjoy! Those who climbed the damp, fog laden Secretary's report: Program Warrick Rd. enjoyed watching the clouds burn off as they The board meeting minutes from July Trimming a new airplane by Dick Al- dined under the pavilion and len.