MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

Minutes of the 11-13-07 Tri-Area Flyers

President Kampmann opened the meeting at 7:02pm. Attending were Pendleton, Berson, Bruce, McIntyre, Olson, Marken, Crumley, Berger, Carter, Greene, Smith, Bangle, Davis, Granger, Cook, Kampmann, Anliker, & Benjamin. Granger brought fresh cookies.

Treasurer report: $1763.89 bank, $4209 CD, $5973.12 total   $566 expense and $45 income.

Anliker requested approval for spending: $500 field rent, $50 for Christmas gifts and $15 gift for a resident near the field.  Motion approved.

Safety Report: Kampmann spoke about the need to avoid flying near and over the pit and spectator area. Flyers should follow the flight areas posted for safety and give some consideration to the size of the model flown.

Benjamin suggested keeping several copies of the rules on site.

New business:

Election of officers for 2008.

Nominations:

President - Jim Cook

VP  - Bob Kampmann

Secretary -Greg Marken

3 yr Director -Pete Bruce

2 yr Director- Grant Smith

Safety Director Dale Olson

Membership Director Randy Calkins

All approved without opposition.

At 7:15, Nancy Patnode brought in cookies hot out of the oven.

Discussion of Christmas party and gift exchange. (See newsletter for details)

Crash of the month: Pete Bruce was declared winner after discussion of his crashes with the Leo pattern plane and Stearman biplane. Pete said: " I fly low and often, so I crash more".

Meeting adjourned 7:27pm.

Program: none

Submitted by Bill Berson 

THE PREZ SEZ

October 29

As you probably heard, Pete [Bruce] crashed his big aerobat yesterday... and we have a tie for "Crash of the Month"... today Tim [Bangle] stuffed his trainer!

It doesn't look repairable but who's to know... Gary, Bill B., and Alaska Jim were witnesses today.

It’s that ghoulish time of the year!

This is the cutie I was telling you about, Pete. Those fenders and the Trexlers put it off the "cute" chart IMHO! (IMHO is the acronym for "In My Humble Opinion".) 

http://stevensaero.com/shop/product.php?productid=18935&cat=471&page=1

Bob

AROUND THE CLUB

>The Purple People Porta-Potty is installed and operational. Prez Bob, Tim Bangle, Jim and Cindy Cook, Jim Crumley, and Grant Smith formed the work party, but Tim took the lead in securing the unit. The group even thought to bring water to dump into it!

>From Dale Olson: I have a new email address

     mugwumper2@embarqmail.com

>Stan Davis has a new e-mail address: stanjoyce63@embarqmail.com

>Earl Yim passed away in October. I do not have any more information than that. Perhaps some of you Port Ludlow folks could fill us in.

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.

HINTS, KINKS, AND STUFF

>A non-R/C friend sent me this web site that has some very impressive in flight shots of the BLUE ANGELS: http://www.bentbay.dk/blue_angels.htm

The down load is pretty short even for us dial-up dinosaurs.

JUST PLANE FUN

I heard from my Wisconsin flying bud Ron Jans again. Either his tribe is chemically unbalanced or they just breed them like that in Wisconsin!

Hi Pete,

Being as our field is close to several subdivisions there was some discussion on noise. Many gassers are at least at 100 decibels even with an after market muffler such as a Pitts style. Mix that with prop noise and you have a problem. I did not have any trouble coming up with a quick fix.

After giving a lot of thought to this 97-decibel thing I managed to get my plane down to 96.9 decibels without a lot of expense. I ran across a Harley shorty muffler at a rummage sale and sweet-talked the lady down to $5.00 bucks. I am known to always work a sweet deal. As you can see I put a lot of effort into the engineering of the mounts and if the heat doesn’t melt the tape I'm in business. If the tape melts, it’s back to the drawing board. It did add about 3 lbs to the plane so as you can see I had to reinforce the landing gear. As my luck would have it, I found just the right thing laying in the back yard and that also saved me a few bucks. All this and I'm happy to say it didn’t hardly affect the CG at all so she should be just as big a handful to fly as before. I have to say she's a lot slower on the takeoff roll but what the heck, we can always make the field a little longer which a lot of us seem to need anyway. Yes sir, it can be done. I also came up with another solution, which I am wearing on my head in the picture. Not only will it reduce the noise, but also you can fly to tunes at the same time. The choice is up to you.

EDITORIAL—Have you noticed?

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.

MONTHLY MEETING—The Christmas Party

Our annual Christmas Party and gift exchange will start at 6:00 December 11 in the SKP Clubhouse.  Dinner, catered by Rachael, will be big slabs of prime rib with everything from appetizer to desert included for a mere $15.00 per person.  A white elephant/gift (not to exceed $10.00) exchange will follow.  This is more fun than it sounds like as once the presents are opened folks have an opportunity to "trade" their initial selection for the good stuff some one else got.  You do not have to participate in the gift exchange--watching it can be almost as much fun!

If you don't want the dinner, come anyway and join in the fun.  If you do want dinner, you must put $15.00 per person into Bill Anliker's hands by December 1.  You can send the money to Bill at:

1364 Schwartz Rd.

Nordland, WA 98358

If you procrastinate too long, you could call Bill at 385-0558 and whine/plead/beg your way onto the dinner list if he is sufficiently impressed with your effort.

Pete Granger

granger@olypen.com