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Presidents Column: John Backes Presidents Column: John Backes Presidents Column: John Backes Presidents Column: John Backes Meeting Schedule All future meetings (except for the Christmas Dinner) in 2015 will be held at the Williamsburg Christian Church on the second Thursday of the month, starting at 7 PM. The next meetings will be 9 April and March 14. Directions to Williamsburg Christian Church The building is at 200 John Tyler Lane. At the intersection of Route 199 and Route 5, turn the OPPOSITE direction that you would turn to go to the field. Go 50 yards and turn right (left is Strawberry Plains Rd.). You can’t miss the Church; it is on the right just past the Professional Park that can be seen from Route 199. Everyone needs to be warned that there is an additional fine of $200 for going over 25 MPH and the cops are there a lot. CVA Events Spring Picnic – April 18 Electric Fly - May 2. Get your planes ready! We will be having Slow Combat and Nutball Combat. Warbirds over Williamsburg X – May 16 Swap Meets Hanover RC club swap meet will be Saturday, April 11 8:00 am – noon. Admission is $5. The location is Fairmount Christian Church, 6502 Creighton Road, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111. From I-295 in Mechanicsville, Virginia, take exit 34A (Creighton Road East). The church will be on your right in approx. ¼ mile. They are also having an indoor Fun Fly – Approx. 1:00 till 4:00 pm. Pilot admission is $10, spectators free. Chesapeake RC Flyers Swap Meet scheduled for Saturday April 18th has been cancelled. Indoor Events Besides the indoor following the Hanover Swap Meet, there will also be an indoor at Boo Williams on Sunday April 12 from 4:00 to 8:00. Something Different At the last meeting, Alan Fry suggested that our National Model Aviation Day would have additional interest is we had several of the unusual planes like the Flying Lawnmower and Flying Witch. He asked me to present information on these planes which also would be good for the Something Different Event. The number one site that I like for very unusual planes is http://www.haddadrc.com/. Unfortunately this site has not been updated in about a year but gives a very good idea of what can be done. If you want to buy a kit then there are Chapter 1474 Chapter 1474 Chapter 1474 Chapter 1474 April April April April 2015 Newsletter 2015 Newsletter 2015 Newsletter 2015 Newsletter Vo Vo Vo Volume X lume X lume X lume XV V V V • Issue Issue Issue Issue 4 Editor: Editor: Editor: Editor: Alan Fry Alan Fry Alan Fry Alan Fry
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Meeting Schedule All future meetings (except for the Christmas Dinner) in 2015 will be held at the Williamsburg Christian Church on the second Thursday of the month, starting at 7 PM. The next meetings will be 9 April and March 14. Directions to Williamsburg Christian Church The building is at 200 John Tyler Lane. At the intersection of Route 199 and Route 5, turn the OPPOSITE direction that you would turn to go to the field. Go 50 yards and turn right (left is Strawberry Plains Rd.). You can’t miss the Church; it is on the right
just past the Professional Park that can be seen from Route 199. Everyone needs to be warned that there is an additional fine of $200 for going over 25 MPH and the cops are there a lot. CVA Events Spring Picnic – April 18 Electric Fly - May 2. Get your planes ready! We will be having Slow Combat and Nutball Combat. Warbirds over Williamsburg X – May 16
Swap Meets Hanover RC club swap meet will be Saturday, April 11 8:00 am – noon. Admission is $5. The location is Fairmount Christian Church, 6502 Creighton Road, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111. From I-295 in Mechanicsville, Virginia, take exit 34A (Creighton Road East). The church will be on your right in approx. ¼ mile. They are also having an indoor Fun Fly – Approx. 1:00 till 4:00 pm. Pilot admission is $10, spectators free. Chesapeake RC Flyers Swap Meet scheduled for Saturday April 18th has been cancelled. Indoor Events Besides the indoor following the Hanover Swap Meet, there will also be an indoor at Boo Williams on Sunday April 12 from 4:00 to 8:00.
Something Different At the last meeting, Alan Fry suggested that our National Model Aviation Day would have additional interest is we had several of the unusual planes like the Flying Lawnmower and Flying Witch. He asked me to present information on these planes which also would be good for the Something Different Event. The number one site
that I like for very unusual planes is http://www.haddadrc.com/. Unfortunately this site has not been updated in about a year but gives a very good idea of what can be done. If you want to buy a kit then there are
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two places, the first is http://flyingthingz.com/ . Flying Thingz has the Flying Lawnmower, Witch, Race Car, Snoopies Dog House, Flag and a few others. I have seen the Flying Lawnmower fly and all of the videos also indicated that it is a good flier. The Flying Witch seems to be somewhat of a challenge on a turbulent day but flies well otherwise. The second place to buy kits is
http://www.hoosiercutoutservice.com/ which has many different types of planes. I bought a kit from them and was very impressed with the fit and finish. For the Something Different Planes, look under Otto Dieffenbach. Once you open that page there are links to the Ezone Magazine threads that discuss construction and show videos. The threads also have downloadable plans if you want to build your own. Make sure to check out “Fly Guy”. This website also has a Flying Shark.
You can definitely waste a whole day by going to google and search for “RC Flying” followed by Witch, Dog House, Stop Sign, Christmas Tree, People, Person, Saucer, Fly Guy, Super Hero, Tank, Shark, etc.
Show and Tell We are going to have a short show and tell at the end of each meeting. This only works if people take the time to prepare and bring something to the meeting. Contact Me Phone: 757-876-1241 Email: [email protected] Address: 8630 Diascund Road, Lanexa, Va. 23089
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The March 12, 2015 meeting was held at the Williamsburg Christian Church and called to order by the president at 7:00pm with 15 members and 2 guests present. The President announced the minutes from the February meeting. A motion was made to accept the minutes as published. The motion was seconded and approved unanimously.
Treasurer’s Report: The treasurer reported on the current operating & mower fund balances, expenditures for toilet service and our annual donation to the church.
Site Improvements: Tom indicated that the field remains very wet from recent & current rain and encouraged pilots to continue parking along the gravel roadway. Gary will roll the entire runway when Tom feels the ground will support our equipment without leaving additional tire ruts. As a reminder, this year all mowing requests, intentions and fulfillments are to be conveyed between Tom, his maintenance crew and any volunteers by a timely e-mail to eliminate duplication of effort. Bob Felberg bought to everyone attention that the West side of the shelter roof has further deteriorated and requires some attention.
Activities: NNPRC will hold their annual frost Bite Fun Fly on Saturday 3/14/15 with sign in at 11:30am for flying at noon. The next area swap meet will be in Mechanicsville on 4/11/15 with indoor flying afterward. CVA will have their annual picnic on 4/18/15 and also entertain the WALT initiative. Winston handed out his “official” egg drop apparatus for those that will participate in this memorial event to remember former club member Garrett Freeman Post. Tex will provide food & Jon will be the grill master. The Chesapeake club will have their swap meet on 4/18/15. CVA will host our annual Electric Fly on 5/2/15. Tom provided flyers for WOW X that is scheduled for May 16th 2015. The event is already sanctioned, raffle planes have been secured and this year we will attempt to include event long air cover. Safety: Nothing to report. Training: Nothing to report. Club Promotion: Alan asked everyone to continue using some of the new features he has incorporated into the club web page and provide him with some feedback and ideas. Old Business: Nothing to report. New Business: This month our guest Tony Bonanno gave an open invitation to all club members to participate in the Science Fair being held at Magruder Elementary School in Williamsburg on April 28 from 6 to 8pm. Any members interested will have an opportunity to talk with students & parents about all aspects of flying both full scale and flying models as well as an opportunity to fly indoor planes in the gymnasium. Alan Fry will assume the recently vacated position of Newsletter Editor. Gary will contact AMA to update the roster to reflect this change. Alan also suggested we incorporate our Something Different event into NMAD. The response was positive but left on the table for further discussion.
Show & Tell: During this month’s Show & Tell, Winston distributed “official” egg drop apparatus to all members present. He will provide copies of the rules before the event. Winston’s guest, David Carpenter showed a computer based slide show on all development & testing of a nuclear aircraft. John displayed and talked about the unique flight characteristics of his new Mini Just Ain’t Right (JAR) built from plans. There being no further club business the meeting was adjourned at 8:40pm and a fuel raffle was held.
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Spring has been a real drudge, when it come to the weather. Hopefully this will improve shortly. Two April events that rain will not affect are swap meets that are coming up. One in Hanover, and one in Chesapeake. Check the Presidents column on times, dates and addresses. Our April event will consist of the CVA picnic, set for April 18 (rain or shine). Provided we have good weather, we'll have "open" flying. The flying will consist of both open and combat at mid-day. Open to both members and guests. If you want to bring food, by all means do, though it is not a requirement.
Apr. 25- HRRC Fly-in, in Suffolk May 2 CVA Electric Fly-in May 16 Warbirds over Williamsburg Hope to see you at the field!
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Website of the Month This month’s website of the month is called “Gibbs Guides”. The website has both paid and free articles pertaining to RC Airplanes. I found a great free article that showed how to set up a separate battery from the receiver battery for powering electric retracts. Here is the link to the webpage of free articles:
http://www.gibbsguides.com/free-articles.htm
Do you have a favorite website? If so, let me know and I will put it in the newsletter. Favorite online store, how to build, how to fly, etc- send me the link! My email address:
Futaba Transmitter Battery
On many occasions I have been delayed getting to the flying field because I was waiting for my Futaba 7C
transmitter battery to charge. Further, replacement batteries are getting more expensive and harder to find in
decent capacities. Therefore, I decided it was time to make some modifications to my Futaba 7C.
I went to Radio Shack and bought an 8 AA cell battery holder for $3.00. The battery holder has a 9 volt battery
type connector on the end. Unfortunately, using a connector prevented the battery holder from fitting in the
transmitter. Therefore, I just soldered a Futaba battery lead directly to the battery holder connectors. I then
used a little hot glue to secure the battery lead wiring to the end of the battery holder. For batteries, I decided to
go with Eneloop batteries that have almost twice the capacity of the NiCad packs that I was using. So far it
seems to be working well. Based on my experience with my Tactic transmitter using Eneloop batteries, I’m
hopeful that I will be able to go at least ½ of a year before I need to recharge the batteries.
Here are some pictures of the battery holder that I fixed up for my Futaba transmitter:
See you at the field. Alan Fry Training Coordinator
COLONIAL VIRGINIA AEROMODELERS
and Chick-Fil-A at Monticello Marketplace
present
WARBIRDS OVER WILLIAMSBURG X
Radio Controlled Military Model Aircraft WWI to the present Static and Flying Displays and JETS
Saturday May 16, 2015 “ARMED FORCES DAY”
9:30 a.m. till 3:30 p.m.
CVA FIELD - Route 5 West in Charles City Co. APPROXIMATELY 1.2 MILES NORTH OF THE
CHICKAHOMINY RIVER BRIDGE
FREE TO THE PUBLIC!!!
Ticket Raffle for a Warbird Model Airplane And a $50 Chick-fil-A gift basket
Drawing at: 3:15 p.m.
$$ Food & Beverages $$
Contacts: Tom Treese (757) 258-9666 [email protected] CVA website for directions: www.FlyCVA.com
WOW “X” 2015
COLONIAL VIRGINIA AEROMODELERS and
Chick-fil-A Monticello Marketplace present
WARBIRDS OVER WILLIAMSBURG X
Saturday May 16, 2015 “ARMED FORCES DAY”
9:30 a.m. till 3:30 p.m.
CVA FIELD - Route 5 West in Charles City Co. APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES NORTH OF THE
CHICKAHOMINY RIVER BRIDGE
All Warbirds are Welcome * Scale and Look Alike $10.00 Landing Fee includes lunch
A Ticket Raffle for a Warbird & Chick-fil-A gift basket Drawing at: 3:15 p.m.
$$ Food & Beverages $$ AMA Sanctioned NO Rain Date
ADMISSION IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Contacts: Contest Director. Tom Treese (757) 258-9666 [email protected]
CVA website for directions: www.FlyCVA.com
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Safety Officer: Cliff CaseySafety Officer: Cliff CaseySafety Officer: Cliff CaseySafety Officer: Cliff Casey
President:President:President:President:
John Backes (757) 566-1403 [email protected]
Vice President:Vice President:Vice President:Vice President: Tom Treese
(757) 258-9666 [email protected]
Secretary:Secretary:Secretary:Secretary: Gary Clifford
(804) 932-9381 [email protected]
Treasurer:Treasurer:Treasurer:Treasurer: Jon Persons
(757& 565-2709 [email protected]
Safety Officer:Safety Officer:Safety Officer:Safety Officer: Cliff Casey
(757) 229-2562 [email protected]
Field Marshal:Field Marshal:Field Marshal:Field Marshal: John Hofmeyer (804) 829-2555
Activities:Activities:Activities:Activities: Joe Musika
(757) 564-8957 [email protected]
Field Maint:Field Maint:Field Maint:Field Maint: Tom Treese
(757) 258-9666 [email protected]
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