Chicagoland Circle Cutters August 2013 Newsletter

Brad helps Dennis with a practice flight on a warm summers evening at the NATS

CCC

CLUB OFFICERS

President

Roy Mathieson

Vice President

Michael Schmitt

Treasurer

Mike Palermo

Editors

Dennis

Vander Kuur

Michael Schmitt

Secretary

Scott Pahlow

Safety officer

John Broughton

Contest Directors

Mike Palermo

Chris Gay

Michael Schmitt

Membership

Alan Soltysik

Upcoming CCC Events

CCC Meeting

8-16-2013 note 3rd friday

CCC Meeting

9-13-13 ?

CCC Navy Carrier & Build off

9-28-13

CCC Meeting

10-11-13?

The Chicagoland Circle Cutters is a control Line model aviation club sanctioned by

the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA). Club meetings are held on the second

Friday of every month at the Arlington Heights public Library at 7:00pm.

Weather permitting club members can regularly be found flying at our field

Wednesday Saturday and Sunday mornings as well as Thursday evenings. Our

field is located at the south end of Rolling Meadows in the Cook County Forest

Preserves, Bussie Woods ”Ned Brown Meadow” entrance off of Golf road.

July 12, 2013 Meeting Minutes

Roy banged the gavel at 7:03pm and the meeting fell into dis-order, as usual.

We mentioned old business and covered the fun time we all had at the CCC

Club Stunt and race. Battles were gone over and a promise of I’ll get you next

year –was overheard.

Steve Schmidt arrived a little tardy and I quote “sorry I do not have a leg to

stand on”

Mike Palermo covered the treasures report—He is frustrated with the clubs

banking system which has forced us to go electronic or pay a 15 dollar

transaction fee for each transaction. He is also concerned at the decrease in

the club’s coffers and is open to Ideas and suggestion to raise some money for

the club.

The new business of the night was a discussion about the Cheese head fly in

and the upcoming Nat’s. The Navy carrier Build off is in full swing and those

shiny new models will be judged at the Club’s Navy carrier contest on 9-28-13.

And yes you can use your old Navy Carrier airplane in the Navy Carrier contest.

The Chicagoland Circle Cutters have welcomed in three new members.

Mike Burns

Mike Riebe (son) And Nat’s Beginner 1st place Champion!!!

Steve Riebe (Dad) Mike’s mechanic at the NATS

Welcome to the circle Cutters guys.

Also keep your eye out for another father son team. The Son Dariusz Kipper

was junior champion in Poland “many years ago” but Has has a Top flight Nobler

and fly’s the entire pattern very well.

Please give our own Scott Pahlow some get well wishes –after some personal

aerobatics at old Neddy he managed to break an ankle.

Off to Pizza at 8:30pm

Michael Schmitt—for Scott

Cheese Head Fly in 2013

Cheesehead fly-in makes the papers Dave and Joe

Joe launching Paul Paul Taylor Mike & his Jamison

Pauls Streak master A littler Gear flex

Tempest & Stingray Just part of the cheesehead pits

Tintin ready for another adventure Daves Bi-slob

(Diego’s airplane)

Dave’s bi-slob Flight streakin in for a landing

Chris and Paul entertaining the crow with some fancy flying

2013 Cheese head fly-in

NATS 2013

Appearance judging at the NATS (Note Dennis in the 15 point row!)

Mark Mckinney’s Bare Bones

Sting Ray in the Classic circles Matt Newman with his electric Stuka

The Patriot The Electric! Gobbleschwantz

Mike McHenry and his beautiful Zero

Charlie Reeves launching Allen Brickhaus Dale Judged beginner & Flew Old Time

Brad and Dennis

Dennis “burning in” a 5th place win in Expert

Dennis has his game face on! Jim Renkar & Mike McHenery

Kaz Minato from Japan with the only 20 point perfect airplane

Eric Taylor 1st place in Expert has a beatuiful Katana

Paul Walker wins it All

Beautiful airplane!! Mike and Howard Rush at Dairy Queen

We did not go hungry!

The Clerk at the museum Hobby shop misses his good friend Nick Trifilo

I was visiting my niece last night when I asked if I could have a

newspaper.

"This is the 21st century," she said. 'I don't waste money on

newspapers. Here, use my iPad."

I can tell you this......That fly never knew what hit him

A Toothpaste factory had a problem. They sometimes shipped empty boxes without the tube of

toothpaste inside. This challenged their perceived quality with the

buyers and distributors. Understanding how important the

relationship with them was, the CEO of the company assembled all

of his top people. They decided to hire an external engineering

company to solve their empty boxes problem. The project followed

the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP, and

third-parties selected.

Six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution - on

time, on budget, and high quality. Everyone in the project was

pleased.

They solved the problem by using a high-tech precision scale that

would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box

weighed less than it should. The line would stop; someone would

walk over, remove the defective box, and then press another

button to re-start the line. As a result of the new package

monitoring process, no empty boxes were being shipped out of the

factory.

With no more customer complaints, the CEO felt the $8 million

was well spent. At the end of the first month, he reviewed the line

statistics report and discovered the number of empty boxes

picked up by the scale in the first week was consistent with

projections, however, the next three weeks were zero! The

estimated rate should have been at least a dozen boxes a day. He

had the engineers check the equipment and they verified the

report as accurate.

Puzzled, the CEO traveled down to the factory, viewed the part of

the line where the precision scale was installed, and observed that

just ahead of the new $8 million dollar solution sat a $20 desk fan

blowing the empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. He asked the

line supervisor what that was about.

"Oh, that," the supervisor replied, “Bert, the kid from

maintenance, put it there because he was tired of walking over,

removing the box and re-starting the line every time the bloody

bell rang.”

German WWII bomber to be salvaged off

UK coast Published May 03, 2013

Associated Press

LONDON – A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has

spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the Battle of

Britain. Now, divers are braving dangerous tides to bring it to the surface.

British officials on Friday announced a complex salvage operation just off the Kent coast

in southeastern England to rescue the only known surviving example of the German

Dornier Do 17 bomber. The operation is under way and if all the preparations go well, the

plane will be lifted from the water in three or four weeks.

But the director of London's RAF Museum, which has been raising money for the salvage,

cautioned that the recovery would be risky -- divers will only be able to work for 45

minutes at a time because of perilous tides, and they face other challenges.

"We are not guaranteed success," Peter Dye said. "There have been previous aircraft

recovery projects that didn't go so well, cases where the structure has disintegrated on

retrieval. When it breaks the surface, gravity and the laws of mechanics come into play,

so we very much hope the frame we've constructed will support that structure."

Corrosion is another obstacle that could spoil the procedure, he said.

RAF Museum officials also said the challenging salvage will be the biggest recovery of its

kind and they hope to one day display the Do 17, an aircraft nicknamed "the flying pencil"

because of its narrow fuselage, at the museum. The museum has already raised the

estimated $930,000 that will be needed for the lifting phase of the operation, with the

help of a substantial donation from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and funds are

being raised for the conservation effort.

The wreck is submerged in about 60 feet of water. The plane was shot down during the

1940 Battle of Britain, a months-long clash over the skies of Britain that saw RAF

fighters engaged in a colossal life-or-death struggle with the German Luftwaffe.

Experts said the bomber, discovered by divers five years ago, is remarkably undamaged

despite the passage of time.

Dye said the plane would be exhibited next to a Hawker Hurricane fighter that had also

been shot down during the battle.

"We feel it's important that they be exhibited side by side," he said, pointing out that

two German airmen died in the Dornier. "With time, we recognize that young men died on

both sides, which is why we don't intend to restore it. We will conserve it and place it on

exhibition alongside the wreck of a Hurricane shot down at much the same time in which

a British pilot died."

Museum officials say the Dornier was shot down on Aug. 26, 1940, at the height of the

Battle of Britain. It was forced to make an emergency landing on the Goodwin Sands at

low tide after it came under attack by British fighter planes. It touched down safely but

then sank -- two of the crewmen were captured alive and taken prisoner; the other two

died. Their bodies were found washed ashore later.

If the plane is lifted from the Channel without damage, it will still be several years

before it can be put on display. It will be packed in a special chemical gel and plastic

sheeting to protect it from damage caused by exposure to air, then taken by road to the

RAF Museum in Cosford for extensive conservation treatment expected to take two or

three years.

During that time, it will be placed in "hydration tunnels" so that chemicals and salts that

accumulated during 70 years underwater can be gently washed away. After that, steps

must be taken to stabilize corrosion within the plane itself. Once this is done, the plane

should be ready to be put on exhibit at the RAF Museum in London.

2013 Midwest Contest Schedule: DATE LOCATION EVENTS

8/17-18 Paducah, KY 8/20:OTS, Nostalgia 30, Profile, Basic flight, beginner

8/21:PAMPA, intermediate, advanced, expert

8/24-25 Muncie, IN FCM Contest, PAMPA, Classic, ots, profile, carrier, Scale,

9/1 Aurora airport Midwest regional control line championship.

Navy carrier, PAMPA stunt, scale, racing, speed.

9/15 Aurora Airport 1/2a stunt and race

9/22-23 Saint Louis Broken Arrow Stunt and Scale-PAMPA Stunt, Basic

Flight, Profile Stunt and Nostalgia 30, Old time Stunt, plus

5 Scale Events: Profile Non Military, Profile Military,

Sport Scale non military, Sport Scale Military,1/2A Profile

Twin Scale

9-28 Ned brown Ccc club navy carrier & club build off

10-13 Ned Brown Ccc club combat

Please call contest directors to assure that the contests are correct before making plans to attend.

CCC NEWSLETTER

NEXT MEETING -8-16-2013 Arlington Heights public library

Dennis Vander Kuur

1639 Longvalley Dr.

Northbrook, IL 60062

Michael Schmitt

34431 Tangueray Dr.

Grayslake, IL 60030

Next CCC meeting:

2013 8-16-2013