MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

Minutes of the 10-14-2008 Tri-Area RC Flyers Monthly Meeting

President Jim Cook opened the meeting at 7:04 pm.

Attending: Marken, Granger, Smith, Kampmann, Berger, Calkins, Cook & Cook, Bangle, Berson, Barras, Greene, Pendleton, Bruce, Cochran, Carter, Crumley, and Fitch.

Guests: Seth Stephens joined us for his second meeting, and Dale Robbins visited for the first time.

The previous meeting minutes were approved as submitted.

Treasurer Report: Larry Berger reported a balance of $1657.71 in checking and the CD has grown to $5049.13.

Safety Report: None

Grant Smith has a safety tip. Pre-flight your model before start up and perform an annual inspection on major components. During a flight of Grants biplane, he became aware of a peculiar noise and then the engine quit. Upon inspection Grant found he was missing two of the four engine mounting bolts and the two remaining bolts were only a couple of threads away from complete disaster. The vibration was significant enough to disconnect the fuel line, subsequently killing the engine. Since Grant’s bi-plane is fully coweled it is difficult to visually inspect the motor mount and bolts. Grant says it is worth the time to open things up from time to time to inspect and tighten hidden fasteners.

Old Business: Cindy Cook followed up on her suggestion to award members for merit. Cindy found pins available from AMA at a very reasonable price. A motion was passed to purchase a dozen or so and present one a month starting 2009.

New Business: The nominating committee (Grant and Pete) performed admirably and coerced just enough people to put their names on the ballot to fill all officer positions for 2009. The attending members were asked if anyone wanted to add their names to the ballot and no additions were made.

The vote for 2009 Officers shall take place at the November 11, 2008 general meeting. The following nominations were made and approved.

President; Greg Marken, Vice President; Bill Berson, Secretary; Lawrence Pendleton, Treasurer; Larry Berger, Safety Officer; Tim Bangle, Webmaster; Roy Greene, Director- Pos#3; Tom Cochran.

General: The Christmas Dinner will be held on December 9, 2008 in place of the December general meeting. As of Oct 14 nineteen people had signed up. To make reservations please call or email Greg Marken at (360) 779-7047 or greg@soundadmin.com. We would like to give our hostess as much time as possible to prepare and figure the cost so please sign up early. The cost per person is unknown at this time but as most of you know it is very reasonable.

Lawrence Pendleton and Seth Stephens are signed up for field maintenance for November and December respectively.

Dale Robbins mentioned that he had a bad experience at a local public flying site. One or two of the modelers exhibited reckless flying and disrespectful behavior. As a student pilot, Dale was unable to share the site because of the intimidating attitude. Dale asked what could be done to enforce field etiquette.

We have no jurisdiction over the public playground and it may be hard to influence a couple of hardheaded teenagers. Randy Calkins suggested that we send a representative to some of the parks and public land use meetings to get our foot in the door and heighten awareness of the benefits to modeling. Larry Berger volunteered to attend the next public meeting if he were to be available.

Crash of the Month: Pete Bruce won the trophy again. Pete lost control of his new Extra 300 due to radio malfunction,,,,no really. Pete has one of the Futaba 2.4 GHz radios that were recalled. Pete has subsequently returned his radio to Futaba for inspection and is awaiting a report.

Meeting adjourned at 7:30pm

Program: Bob Kampmann Introduced John Ludwig to discuss constructing, flying and teaching model rocketry.

Respectfully Submitted by Greg Marken

AROUND THE CLUB

JFrom Nate Moffett:   

Hobby Town USA just opened up a store in Silverdale at Randall Way & Myre Place with a grand opening October 11th & 12th.  This is just South of Home Depot and just across the parking lot from Kinko's.

JFrom Cindy Cook:  I'm waiting to hear from Rachel about the Christmas dinner. She should have the price for me next Wednesday. Prime rib, dinner at 6pm. Bring checks for the dinner to the next meeting in November or send to treasurer, Larry Berger.  Ye olde editor will put out a special announcement when Cindy sends me price, menu, and other info.

HINTS, KINKS, AND STUFF

JFrom my old secretary, Mae Marley:  We may have had this one before—ye olde editor-- Got this from one the P & W guys.  

That’s right, Pratt & Whitney (In Thrust, We Trust).

Make sure your audio is on.

 Ride in an F-18  

REMEMBER TO CLICK ON EACH OF THE 5 SEPARATE SCENES

   
This is outstanding. Be sure to watch all of the 'scenes''.

You have to click on each photo to watch each scene.

 USE SOUND.

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/blueangels/blueangels.swf   <<< click

 JFrom John Morris, an Oklahoma flying bud:   

JFrom Bob Kampmann: 
 http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/26/rocket.man.english.channel.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories  This  may be the same as the one above—ye olde editor

NEW MEMBERS

I hope to obtain a brief bio and a picture of our new members to enhance their introduction to the membership.  This is voluntary on the part of the newbys, but it should be beneficial for all.

JUST PLANE FUN

A man had just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when another man sat down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador retriever in the middle seat next to the man.

The first man looked very quizzically at the dog and asked why the dog was allowed on the plane.  The second man explained that he was a DEA agent and that the dog was a 'sniffing dog'.  "His name is Sniffer and he's the best there is.  I'll show you once we get airborne, when I put him to work."

The plane took off, and once it has leveled out, the agent said, "Watch this."

He told Sniffer to "search".  Sniffer jumped down, walked along the aisle, and finally sat very purposefully next to a woman for several seconds.  Sniffer then returned to his seat and put one paw on the agent's arm.  The agent said, "Good boy", and he turned to the man and said, "That woman is in possession of marijuana, so I'm making a note of her seat number and the authorities will apprehend her when we land.

"Say, that's pretty neat," replied the first man.

Once again, the agent sent Sniffer to search the aisles.  The Lab sniffed about, sat down beside a man for a few seconds, returned to its seat, and this time he placed two paws on the agent's arm.  The agent said that man is carrying cocaine, so again, I'm making a note of his seat number for the police."  "I like it!" said his seat mate.   The agent then told Sniffer to "search" again.  Sniffer walked up and down the aisles for a little while, sat down for a moment, and then came racing back to the agent, jumped into the middle seat and proceeded to shit all over the place.

The first man was really grossed out by this behavior and couldn't figure out how or why a well-trained dog would behave like that, so he asked the agent "What's going on?"  The agent nervously replied, "He just found a bomb."

SPARKS

Sorry, no sparks this month.  I confess I have been flying greasy old fuel powered planes all month!

FIELD MAINTENANCE

Special thanks to Lawrence Pendelton for signing himself up (!) for November without any prompting.  Way to go Lawrence!

FOR SALE OR TRADE

If you want to list an item, just send me the details including your name, phone number, and asking price or trade-for item.  Low pixel count digital (JPEG) pictures are also acceptable.

JFrom Bob Kampmann:  "For Sale, Aerofly Professional Deluxe new in box (Ikarus).  This is for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

It is set up for any transmitter that you may own but does not come with one.

Asking $75. Reason for selling?  It is not compatible with Windows Vista, in spite of what they say.

Bob @ 360-774-1083"

MONTHLY MEETING—November 11 at 7:00 in the SKP Clubhouse

As usual, the officers will gather at 6:30 for the last opportunity this year to plot against the membership.

The general meeting will commence at 7:00 and will feature the most important event of the year—our annual election.

Pete Granger

granger@olypen.com