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Kansas City Radio Control Association— AMA Charter No. 390
Serving the Kansas City Area since 1953
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I recently received the following correspondence from the AMA. Clubs have expressed concerns about the recent change from a calendar-year membership to a year-to-date membership for individual AMA members. Although this will be a new experience for all, the AMA staff wants to assist all clubs to make this transition as smooth as possible. We will provide monthly emails notifications to clubs, alerting them of club members with upcoming AMA membership expirations. For this to be effective, we ask that you please regularly update your AMA club roster. I am keeping the Club Roster at the AMA up to-date and will be doing so as old members renew and as new members to KCRC are added. The AMA will be sending me notifications of membership renewals during the year. In reviewing the current membership roster with AMA most of KCRC members renew on January 1st each year. I will do my best to alert those of you who need to renew.
Renewals based on your original date of enrollment will be good for those who join the AMA at other times than at the first of each year. If there are questions about this new procedure let me know.
John Midgorden, Secretary
CONTACTSApril 2016 Volume LXII, Issue IV www.kcradiocontrol.com
Year-to-Date Membership with the AMA
The Official Newsletter of KCRC
Don’t miss the April Club Meeting Wednesday the 20th
at the EAA Hanger Lee’s Summit Airport
IN THIS ISSUE Training Night Returns in May … . . . . . . . . . . .Page 1 Officers, 2016 Event Schedule & News . . . . . . . . .Page 2 Minutes of the January Club Mtg . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 Safety Briefing . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4 Seen at the Field Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . Page 5 Chance Vought Cutlass .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . Pages 6 & 7
Mike Ryken and his new (for him( Extra 260 Profile 3D Machine
Park Replaced Broken Picnic Table New Porta-Potty
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2016 Membership stands at
62
Your 2016 Officers Craig White, President [email protected]
Duane Hulen, Vice-Pres. 516-4526 [email protected]
Tom Safley, Treasurer (816) 220-0749 [email protected]
John Midgorden, Secretary (816) 769-2199 [email protected]
Your Board Members Susan Calvin (816) 478-8330 [email protected]
Gary Fisher (816) 413-7655 [email protected]
Fleming Park Liaison & AMA District VI Representative
Jim Cianciolo 645-3558 [email protected]
Newsletter editor John Midgorden (816) 769-2199 [email protected]
KCRC 2016 Schedule of Events (Remaining)
April 30–May 1 Quickie Race (Club help needed) July 23 3-D Poker Fun Fly August 13 National Model Aviation Day September 10 Warbird Fun Fly Flight Training Nights will again be available every Tuesday evening, beginning May 3rd. Club Meetings are held monthly on the 3rd Wednesday at the EAA Hanger at the Lee’s Summit Airport. From May through August Club Meetings will be held at the flying field.
APRIL 20TH CLUB MEETING WINTER PROJECTS SHOW AND TELL
This will be a time for all you KCRCers to show off the new airplanes you have been working
on during those long Winter Nights!
Changes to Note Starting in May
Club Meetings will be held at the Flying Field
Hot dogs/Polish Sausages and sodas served at 6:30 P.M.
Training Nights will begin every Tuesday Evening,
beginning May 3rd
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The March 16th KCRC club meeting, held in the EAA Hanger at the Lee’s Summit Airport, was called to order by President Craig White at 7:00 P.M. The other officers present were Vice-President Duane Hulen and Secretary John Midgorden. There were 23 members present, including the officers. OFFICER REPORTS President • Craig asked for a motion to approve the minutes
of the January meeting. Motion accepted and approved.
Secretary • John Midgorden indicated that the 2016
membership stands at 61. • He also announced that the Park Ranger’s Office
has a yellow RC model with a “bear” pilot. Does anyone know a possible owner? (Duane Hulen indicated that information he received indicates the model may have been left there in order to get rid of it.)
• In case some of you may have missed it, Duane Hulen’s photo is in the February issue of Model Aviation.
• John announced that he had renewal applications available.
Vice-President • Duane Hulen mentioned that training night will
begin again in May every Tuesday evening. Treasurer • Tom Safley was absent this month but indicated
by email that the Club’s finances were in good shape.
Parks • Jim Cianciolo reported on a recent meeting he
had with Park personnel. The subjects covered were a picnic table replacement, gravel to fill pot holes in the entrance drive, help with the mole problem, the need for better restroom facilities and Darwin’s U-control line plan. Jim shared that the Park is short serval maintenance workers, but because of the low wages being offered they are not getting many inquiries. The dog issue was also discussed and new signage for excluding dogs from the pit area is needed.
• Jim also announced that he has turned in event dates and will be taking care of the food permits shortly.
OLD BUSINESS • Duane asked for helpers for the Quickie Pylon
Race scheduled for April 30–May 1. • Ed Baucom announced that the fellow who was
transferring the Club’s VHS to DVD format will be dropped off what he has completed, along with the rest of the VHS tapes, at the Airport Office for Ed to pick up.`
NEW BUSINESS • Duane announced that the April meeting
program will be a time to share winter projects. So, bring all your new creations to next month’s meeting .
• Dan Olson shared his investigation into possible TX neck straps with KCRC logos. After discussion there was considerable consent that a TX neck strap needs to be adjustable. Dan indicated he will do additional research and report back at the April club meeting.
Motion to adjourn moved and passed. PROGRAM Ed Baucom showed a movie taken at the Fighter Museum in Virginia. It covered a celebration of the 100 year anniversary of WW I. There were a number of large scale WW I RC aircraft shown (mostly Balsa USA kits). The movie was rather long and many left before the end of the DVD. Respectively submitted,
John Midgorden, Secretary
MINUTES OF THE MARCH CLUB MEETING
Jim Koch came through his surgery and is presently in rehab!
Keep Jim in yourthoughts and prayers!
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SAFETY BRIEFING SUSAN CALVING, SAFETY OFFICERAircraft engines have always been interesting to me (model airplane engines not so much). I grew up at a time when large radial engines powered our large airliners and military airplanes and I loved the sounds they made. I even have a CD of radial engine sounds that I find very soothing. It’s like listening to classical music. In my flying career most of my experience was with turbine engines. They have their own sound which I find reassuring, but not necessarily soothing. The one thing that sets turbines above other engine types is their reliability. I’ve had turbine engines sustain considerable damage and still run perfectly well, at least well enough to allow me to complete my mission and get home safely. When it comes to accident investigation, aircraft engines are especially fascinating. They range from small two cylinder engines through multi-cylinder radial engines, and from simple turbines to large, complex turbines with all kinds of features and accessories. Included in this mix are all kinds of propellers from the simple to the complex with diameters from a few inches up to 14 feet plus. (If we toss in helicopters the prop/rotor diameter can exceed 60 feet). Modern engines also have many accessories such as gear boxes, governors, sensors, probes, starters, generators, pneumatic, hydraulic, and fuel pumps all of which can factor into an accident investigation. Then there are satellite systems to consider, such as fuel and oil tanks/lines, cockpit instruments and controls, vents, valves, and electrical components/wiring. As you can see the powerplants group of the investigation team has a lot to do when an engine malfunction/failure is suspected in an aircraft accident.1 There are both internal and external factors to investigate. Externally, things like the number and spacing of propeller strikes on the ground or other surfaces can help determine whether the engine was developing power (and how much power) at impact. Damage to cowlings and surrounding airframe structure can steer an investigation in a certain
direction. Sometimes these external factors can include animal remains.2 Such was the case when Eastern Airlines flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, flew through a flock of starlings on takeoff from Boston on 4 October 1960. There had never before been an accident like this which caused momentary loss of power in all four engines at the same time, resulting in loss of control when all the engine driven hydraulic pumps ceased functioning at the same time. The uniqueness of this situation required two years of investigation to reach a conclusion since no previous bird strike encounters had resulted in total power loss, even temporarily, especially to turbines. In this case the massive ingestion of birds was a new experience for the investigators. Internally the investigator must look for damage to potent ia l ly hundreds of individual components such as valves, gears, bearings, shafts, igniters/spark plugs, oil/fuel filters/screens, compressor/turbine/stator blades, engine/crank cases, cylinders, combustion chambers, pumps, carburetors/fuel controls, springs and a myriad of other components. Some items can be examined on the spot, but others must be preserved and sent to laboratories for analysis. Fuel and oil analysis may require lab testing for proper type as well as metal content which can suggest failure of specific components/bearings. This may then lead to investigation of the people who serviced the aircraft/engines before the last flight. The powerplants group may be the busiest bunch of people during a crash investigation, but the payoff is better, more reliable powerplants going forward. This is important since, no matter how you look at it, some type of powerplant/engine is necessary to get any airplane into the air.
1 National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Investigation Manual, Major Team Investigations, November 2002, pp. H-62 thru H-67 2 The Electra Story, Serling, Robert J., Doubleday & Co, inc., Garden City, NY, 1963, pp.108-117.
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Neil McCumber and P-47
Tom Safely, Stan Harrington and Duane Hulen Enjoying a sunshiny day.
Neil digging out his electric motor after crash
KCRC Sponsoring a Pylon RaceApril 30 — May 1, 2016
Duane Hulen is CD for this event and needs KCRC Workers to help with the Event.
Give Duane a call or send himan Email if you can help.
(see Page 2 for his contact information)
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Chance Vought F7U-3 Cutlass by John MidgordenAs some of you know I worked for Chance Vought Aircraft as an aerodynamicist from 1955 through 1968. I spent two summers before my graduation from Iowa State University working at Vought in a flight test analysis group. One of my task was to go to the hanger and recover the film and oscillograph rolls following a test flight. The airplane that was being tested my first summer there was the F7U-3 Cutlas. The prototype -3 model was an F7U-1 production model with balsa wood all over the exterior to simulate the fuselage contours of the -3 model. In March of 1995, while visiting family in the L.A. area I was surprised to find a Cutlass Kit produced by a hobbyshop chain called Hobby Shack (they have since changed their to Hobby People). Well, what is a guy to do but buy said kit since I had that connection with the full scale airplane in the 50’s. The kit is very unconventional and has been a challenge to build. I started the kit over a year ago and when I ran into problems I just walked away for a while. A few months ago I resumed my fight with the kit and am making progress—I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel (hope it isn’t a train wreck about to happen). The kit I’m building came out before model gas turbines, so it is a simulated jet with a prop on the nose (the large 3 inch spinner must be thought of as the radome). The elevon controls are a bit Mickey Mouse since it was designed before computer radios were commonly available. Hence, I will be able to make the elevon operation much simpler with my computer radio. Incidentally, the kit cost $97.49. It was basically a box full of balsa blocks. I had hoped to have this mini-monster finished in time for the Winter Projects Club meeting this month, but alas the airplane building God didn’t cooperate. It is my plan to have it ready by the time of our Warbird Fun Fly in September (Susan, don’t hold your breath). Just to prove I really am building this crazy airplane I am including some photos to prove my insanity!
The above photos are what I hope my Cutlass model will resemble. The next group of photos show my progress to-date. This is the photo on the kit box and what the designer’s prototype looked like.
Front and rear of fuselage with engine mount and rear ready for fake exhaust cones. It was lots of carving and sanding to get to this point.
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The Cutlass had a storied career and was not in service for two many years. It was the first Navy fighter with afterburners and the first Navy fighter with front wheel steering. Because of the tailless configuration it took off and landed at a very high angle of attack that made it difficulty for the pilot to see the carrier deck. The nose gear strut was nine feet long. The dash 3 version reconfigured the nose and canopy to give the pilot better visibility for take off and landing.
One of the issues with this model is c.g. location. With the OS 46 in the nose it may require a bit of lead in the rear to get the c.g. far enough aft. The maiden flight should be a real knee shaker and dry mouther!
JOHN’S CUTLASS ARTICLE CONTINUED
Nose ready to shape. Note rear access to rudder and throttle servos.
Two fins and rudders ready to mount on wing
Left side of fuselage, hey it looks like jet
Right side, what’s that OS 46 doing in the nose?
Foam wing cores skinned, but not joined
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CONTACTSApril 2016 Volume LXII, Issue IV
MAIL TO:
John Midgorden’s Tiger 3 by Phoenix Models
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Carl Goldberg Tiger Knock OffCLUB MEETING
April 20th
7:00 P.M. Club Meeting in the EAA Hanger
at the Lee’s Summit Airport
KCRC 17804 E. 29th Street S Independence, MO 64057
Annual Winter Projects
Show-and-Tell
CLUB MEETING PROGRAM
