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Our first meeting of the
2016-2017 Building Season was called to order by
President Cal Branton precisely at 7PM.
Meeting
Directions:
Southtown
Baptist Church |
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Next meeting will be Friday November 25th,
a day after
Thanksgiving! Bring your
projects for Show & Tell! |
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Our first meeting of the
2016-2017 Building Season was called to order by
President Cal Branton precisely at 7PM.
There were several events
discussed at the meeting and we will publish a
list of them for the 2017 Flying Season so you
can plan your weekends!
You can also go to;
https://www.modelaircraft.org/events/calendar.aspx
or use
https://www.rcflightdeck.com/advancedSearch.cfm
anytime as well.
I also put together short
review of a few of the 2016 Summer Scale Flying
Events ... one of my wonderful photo essay's by
event is forthcoming! |
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Quite a number of SFM pilots
attended the 3rd Annual Windy City Warbirds
event. It was a hot weekend with severe
thunderstorms and nearby tornados. Jeff
Edstrom was awarded Best WW1 trophy for his
Balsa USA 1/3rd Scale Fokker Dr.1 triplane.
It was the first event for that aircraft and
Jeff had the throttle servo fail during his
morning check-out flight and he had to fly it
until it ran out of fuel (30 minutes!). |
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Terrific turn-out this year.
Again we were hampered by hot weather;
thunderstorms and no less than (3) funnel clouds
during the event. Flying was great for Thursday
& Friday. It was still a terrific event
hosted by Cal Branton, Steve Mills and the
members of SMMAC. |
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The Minnesota Embassy tried
something new this year. Under the leadership of
Larry Sorenson, members were sheltered under our
own rented circus tent approximately 30 x 90 ft.
in size. It worked very well for a sun
shelter and as our evening aircraft storage.
This event follows NAMFI and so did the weather.
We had great flying Tuesday, Wednesday &
Thursday. Friday we had rain until 10 and had
some great flying afterwards. Saturday was
a wash-out with severe thunderstorms. :-(
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This was the 3rd year of the
TCRC Scale Saturday held at the TCRC Model Air
Park near Jordan, MN. It started out
raining but the weather cleared early and we had
a great day flying. There have been
requests to change the weekend so it does not
conflict with the Grassfield Big Bird Fly In |
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The Western Wisconsin
Modelers Association Scale Contest @ Buck Knob
Field in Durand, WI Scale event was mentioned by
Cal with the suggestion that we plan to
participate in 2017. It is held on a
private airstrip. More to come! |
Event
Photos Courtesy of Scott Anderson
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Kirk Hall
displayed his
Fokker Dr1 Triplane build
from Ron Weiss
plans. Kirk acquired it
while attending the Mid-Atlantic Dawn
Patrol Event near Virginia Beach.
It is powered by a 3W-120cc turning a
28x10 prop. All the controls are
pull-pull cable systems powered by JR
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It weighs in about
40-42lbs and has about 12 flight s
on it mostly flown at ½ throttle.
As of this meeting Kirk has not flown it
yet.
The previous owner
is connected with the Fighter Factory
Museum and let Kirk sit in a renovated
Me-109. He says the cockpit was a
bit cramped! |
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Jeff Edstrom
showed us his
Balsa USA Fokker Dr1 which he
had brought to compare to Kirk’s Ron
Weiss Dr1. At first glance its
clear that the landing gear looks taller
on the Weiss Fokker and that the
fuselage looks thinner than the Balsa
USA Fokker. |
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Other than that the
wingspan, height, and length all look to
be the same. (See pictures for
comp arisons)
Jeff’s Dr1 is powered by a 62 cc engine
turning a 28x8
prop and weighs about 31lbs.
Jeff say’s he’s
adding smoke and a paintball gun for
next season.
Jeff tells us the
paintball gun will not fire pellets, but
it does sound like a WW1 machine gun! |
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Treasurer Larry Sorenson is
collecting the $10 Annual SFM Membership
Dues.
Please
[Click Here] if you have not paid
for the 2016-2017 season. |
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Sherwood Heggen
brought in a 1-1 scale model of the
1938 Big Guff
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Originally designed
by the (Walt & Bill) Good brothers and
had participated in the 1939 NATS.
It was the RC champion for 1938, 1939,
and 1940 NATS. |
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The original had a
Brown Junior for power. Sherwood
powered his model with a Saito FA-65
swinging a 14x5 prop. Our 94 year old
SFM member Duane Dahnert
tells us that he attended the
1938 NATS and watched the original model
fly! |
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Duane Dahnert brought his nearly
finished
Bellanca for display.
He has finished it like the
original located in the Smithsonian.
He’s
working on the power system and expects
the Bellanca to fly this spring!
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Brandon Archer
brought in his latest swap meet find, a
Jack Stafford
Comanche. It came from
an estate and is partially constructed.
The receipt in the box was dated 1974
and was for $46.00.
The airframe has
original Carl Goldberg retracts run by a
Carl Goldberg retract servo.
Brandon plans to add running lights and
all the details after he’s checked out
how solid the structure is. |
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R/C FlightDeck is the world's only syndicated, Worldwide RC
Event Calendar/Promotion & Event
Registration system! |
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R/C FlightDeck
allows you to search and register
for R/C events worldwide.
Event Coordinators/Promoters can
accept and administer online pilot
registrations, generate sanction
documentation.
I encourage
ALL of you to continue to spread the
word! |
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To Our
International Visitors ...
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Visitors,
we appreciate your questions, inquires and
support to keep Scale & Giant
Scale R/C planes flying everywhere!
Share your knowledge ... |
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Scott E.
Anderson, Secretary of The Scale Flyers of Minnesota.
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