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SFM News Letter
January 2005
by: David P. Andersen |
See You at Our Next
Meeting! |
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The next meeting
of The Scale Flyers of Minnesota will be Friday, January 28,
2005
7:00 p.m. at the American Legion Post, 6501 Portland, Richfield.
East entrance, downstairs. Guests are always welcome. Come early and
dine in the restaurant. Meetings will be held on the last Friday of
every month thru March, but not December.
( Directions ) |
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Roy Demos Sea Fury Flaps &
Retracts while Dick Steine & Mark Prokop hold the bird. |
Roy Maynard completed his Hawker
Sea Fury after many years of off-and-on work. Full size in
museum at Duxford. “Nice moments for a model.” Gerry Bates
plans. Saito 300 2-cyl glow engine. 25 lbs. Mel Whitney
cowl, Glennis wheels. Bob Violett inner door sequencer.
TrueTurn spinner. Balsa and glass and PPG Delstar.
Three-piece wing was complex to build. Color scheme from
“Warbird Text” series. Bulldog mechanical retracts with sail
winch servos. Parts cut by All American Kit Cutters, but
many parts had to be redone. Roy demoed the electric
retracts and flaps. Slowed and lagging retract action
looked very scale.
Roy also showed us an exhaust
collector ring for the Saito 450 3-cyl engine. It's made by
Keleo, $100. Check it out
Keleo Creations
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Sharp Project Fuzzy Photo...Sorry! |
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Baligrodzki showed his realization of Burt Rutan’s Space
Ship 1. He drew plans from photos downloaded from the
Internet. His first attempt at foam construction, it worked
on the first try. It is a glider to be dropped from a
non-scale model. Uses all-flying elevons and dethermalizer.
Covered with silkspan and thinned white glue. The
three-piece fuselage is balanced by removing internal foam.
This is scratch building and invention at its finest. |
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| Wayne
Siewert presented a custom Ka-15 built for a customer of
AEROTECH by Dick Steine. 28 lbs., sliding canopy,
home-defense color scheme. The color matches a drawing in a
book but isn’t really scale. The customer insisted on it
because it shows weathering well. Acrylic lacquer color
matches a 1947 Buick. Canopy rail is K&S 3/16” square
tubing with a slot in which pan-head screws slide. 1/4”
brass tubing exhaust stacks were hammered into elliptical
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Cal Brantons’s P-38 is a Flying Styro ARF kit.
Remarkable scale detail for a foam airplane—panel lines, rivets,
elevator counterbalance, radiator screens, etc.
A 3-blade prop has flexible blades for belly
landings. 60 MPH—not a park flyer. Panels held with Velcro and
magnets. Two Lipoly batteries for 15 minute flights.
Prop wash blew
screwdrivers and wrenches of the bench! |
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Bruce Anthony
demonstrated an original height-measuring device made from a tape
measure and a wood block. For measuring dihedral angles,
etc. Clever!
Wayne Siewert's P-47 Eileen |
Clever Tool!
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Dave
Andersen described his Axel’s Pilot’s 1/3rd scale pilot. Web
Axels
Scale Pilots |
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Thanks to Paul Costello for some of the
photos used in this newsletter. |
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Upcoming
Events... |
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TCRC Auction Saturday
February 12, 2005
St. Peter's Church...Richfield, MN |
Registration opens at 8AM
Auction starts at 10AM
Admission is $3 and includes bidder
card.
Everybody's welcome to attend as
sellers or buyers. |
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For More Details See
www.tcrconline.com
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In Manny Sousa’s
report on the FAI Scale World Championships in Poland last
summer (Replica, Newsletter of the National Association of Scale
Aeromodelers, December 2004,
www.NASAscale.org
, he mentioned an incident that brought tears to my eyes. He writes,
“After decades of invasion, brutality and repression at the hands of
the Nazis and the Russians, Poland seems fifty years behind the
West. Life is simple and the economy poor. Their suffering plainly
shows in the faces and bent bodies of the elders, but the youth seem
bright and cheerful.” Amidst this, the week-long World
Championships was a major national event for Poland, complete with a
Polish Air Force air show, parades, formal Olympic ceremonies and
speeches by dignitaries. One day, after the President of Poland
toured the models in the hanger, “the Italian team came to tell us
how much they appreciated the USA for our efforts to make the world
free.”
Like model aviation,
American foreign affairs are sometimes flawed, bungled or even
incompetent. But our objectives are noble. We mean well for all.
This is understood and appreciated by much of the world, especially
those who have known war in their homeland.
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“With the throttle you should be just as
considerate as with your girlfriend. Never treat the throttle
roughly.”—Henk Tennekes. |
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Raffle prizes were two
$40 gift certificates to Hobby Warehouse
Recommended
reading: The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo
Jets by Henk Tennekes. Available from Hennepin County library.
Fly well...Fly
safely
Mark Prokop,
President, mjprokop@aol.com
David P. Andersen, Grand Poo-bah, davidpandersen76@gmail.com |
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