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I have received back from AMA two plaques, recognizing the Gold Leader Club status for KCRC. Along with the plaques was an envelope full of individual pins, enough for each member to have to put on their hat (or where ever you might like to put yours). I’ve been handing out these pins at the field. If you haven’t received yours let me know. Marvin Lackamp helped me attach the small metal plaque to the bulletin board at the field. This plaque is featured in the photo to the right (you can also see Marvin’s head reflected on the plaque). The other plaque is featured below. I’ve asked Susan Calvin and/or Ed Baucom to check with the EAA folks to see if we could possibly place this plaque on the wall of the meeting room at the EAA Hanger. Otherwise, I’m not sure how we might display it. I will make sure we have the plaque available at the field during our scheduled events this summer.

John Midgorden, Editor

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KCRC a Gold Leader Club (Officially)

The Official Newsletter of KCRC

Don’t miss the June Club Meeting Wednesday the 15th

at the Charles Reed Memorial Flying Field

IN THIS ISSUE KCRC a Gold Leader Club . . . … . . . . . . . . . . .Page 1 Officers, 2016 Event Schedule & Other News . . . .Page 2 Minutes of the May Club Mtg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 Safety Briefing . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4 Building an Onex RC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 & 6 Recently off the Assembly Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 7 Another Great Vought Corsair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8

The AMA Gold Leader Club Brass Plaque on the Bulletin Board

Dwyane Sumpter Getting a Lesson Kieth Green & F-22

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2016 Membership stands at

68

Your 2016 Officers Craig White, President kcrcpilot@gmail.com

Duane Hulen, Vice-Pres. 516-4526 drhulen@sbcglobal.net

Tom Safley, Treasurer (816) 220-0749 tomsharsafley@sbcglobal.net

John Midgorden, Secretary (816) 769-2199 jomidgorden@me.com

Your Board Members Susan Calvin (816) 478-8330 Scalvin47@earthlink.net

Gary Fisher (816) 413-7655 garyfisher@earthlink.net

Fleming Park Liaison Jim Cianciolo 645-3558 kcrcpilot@comcast.net

Newsletter editor John Midgorden (816) 769-2199 jomidgorden@me.com

KCRC 2016 Schedule of Events (Remaining) June 18 Static Display at Lee’s Summit Airport July 23 3-D Poker Fun Fly August 13 National Model Aviation Day September 10 Warbird Fun Fly Flight Training Nights are again be available every Tuesday evening, beginning at 6:00 P.M. Club Meetings are held monthly on the 3rd Wednesday during the summer through August.

6:30 P.M. is the time for hotdogs, polish

sausages, & sodas.

DON’T FORGET The KCRC Club Meeting

is at the Flying Field this Month 7:00 P.M. Wednesday the 15th

Flying before and after the Business

Don Ronnebaum getting some TX programming help from Trevor and Mike

Mike Ryken and his small electric jet. Word is out that he

has been qualified to fly his turban power jet.

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The May 18th KCRC club meeting, held in the Charles W. Reed III Memorial Fly Field at Fleming Park, was called to order by President Craig White at 7:00 P.M. The other officers present were Vice-President Duane Hulen, Treasurer Tom Safley and Secretary John Midgorden. There was a very good turn out for the first club meeting at the field with 31 members present, including the officers. OFFICER REPORTS President Craig asked for a motion to approve the minutes of the April meeting, A motion was received and the minutes were approved. Secretary John Midgorden indicated that the 2016 membership is now 66. John reported that the application for KCRC to become a Gold Leader Club was submitted last month, but no response as of this date. John shared that he has a poster developed for the M o d e l Av i a t i o n D ay. S u s a n C a l v i n h a s communicated with the AMA and indicated we will be using the Disable American Veterans (DAV) as our charity this year in harmony with the AMA’s suggestions. John then shared information about the B-17 Sentimental Journey appearing at the Flying Legends of Victory Tour in Garden City, KS on June 7th; the EAA Chapter 91 Fly-in/Drive’In Breakfast and Young Eagle Flights scheduled for June 18th at the Lee’s Summit Airport. Vice-President Duane Hulen shared that the training nights started Tuesday evenings May 3rd when there were several lessons given. The past Tuesday the weather was bad, so no training. Treasurer Tom Safley indicated that the checking account is in good shape and gave the balance. The Quickie Pylon Race was a great success financially and gave the figures for the Club’s income from the race. Parks Jim Cianciolo mentioned that twelve club members and guests attended the Parks and Recreation Annual Volunteer Banquet on May 4th. Jim also called the Park’s Ranger’s Office so they would not lock up the field on the Club Meeting

night so the lighted aircraft folks could fly after sundown. There was a discussion about why the Park requires a Park Pass and AMA for KCRC to give introductory flights to prospective flyers. Jim indicated that the Club should follow the AMA Introductory Program’s Requirements. Jim also promised to check with the Park on our ongoing mole problem to see if they can help get rid of the pests. OLD BUSINESS Duane thanked those who had helped make the Quickie Race a success! NEW BUSINESS Duane, our presumptive President for next year, made a pitch for a couple of folks to step up and volunteer to be Vice President and Treasure for the coming year. Duane mentioned that the field had been rolled the previous Friday. Darwin Ulledahl suggested we might want to buy our own roller. After discussion there was no action taken. Barb Carr asked about club shirts. She volunteered to check into a supplier and Craig indicated he has the art work on his computer. After the meeting there were several members who took to the air and as it grew darker there were 5 lighted aircraft that took to the air. Respectively submitted,

John Midgorden, Secretary

MINUTES OF THE APRIL CLUB MEETING

Lee’s Summit Airport Static Display June 18th

Susan Calvin suggests coming to the airport Friday afternoon around 5:00 P.M. to help set up the display of models. We could use a small

table if you have one. Don’t forget the EAA Pancake Breakfast Saturday morning for $5:00.

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WAYS TO GROW KCRC? JOHN MIDGORDENIn the May issue of Model Aviation Magazine there is an article entitled Fostering an Active Flying Club in the Modern Era by Dave Scott. He identifies several factors of growing RC clubs that he has discovered in visiting many clubs in the Midwest. I feel it may be important for us to review his recommendations. First does KCRC have any of these “growth” factors and second; are there things we can do differently to help KCRC grow? Here are the five things Mr. Scott says are signs of a healthy club. 1) The leadership constantly promotes flying.

Remember that people who become interested in flying RC are in it for the flying. They don’t think about the camaraderie or the setting up of an airplane. Club leaders need to accentuate the positives about flying. In our case the wonderful flying site, experienced members who can answer questions and that the technology of today makes flying RC quite affordable.

2) The main focus of KCRC’s existence is to create a dedicated environment for the flying of model airplanes. Non-flying members tend to steer the focus in other directions. We need to keep the focus on flying and making it simple for newcomers. For example, when a new member shows up with a new airplane, refrain from pointing out things that you don’t like about the model and its set up, simple go through the model to make sure it is airworthy. Then do your best to get the plane in the air.

3) Another factor that may contribute to a club’s decline is the person who is always recognized as the expert (or the one to whom every ones i s s teered for adv ice ) , recommends the latest technology or requires the newcomer to match the ways the “expert” does things.

4) Another factor in the decline of clubs is for leadership to push new members to advance

to the latest technology and/or to purchase larger airplanes under the suggestion that large airplanes fly better.

5) Although Scott is a 3-D pilot he has noticed that there is a tendency for 3-D pilots to push everyone toward buying and flying 3-D aircraft. Because of the complexity of setting up 3-D aircraft and the hours it takes to learn the skills many less experience club members become discouraged and go off and fly their Park Flyers somewhere else or leave the hobby all together.

Here are further suggestions from Scotts article that would be helpful in growing KCRC: • Successful clubs never allow spectators to sit

off by themselves. We should all be encouraged to talk to spectators at the field and invite them inside the fence to talk with other pilots and determine if there is interest to join the hobby.

• When talking to these potential club members (spectators) don't air dirty laundry or tales of failures. Be positive, encourage questions, explain what they are seeing, and in our case, invite them to a training night for an introductory flight.

• As long as a new person’s equipment is airworthy hold off pointing out things that could be changed or improved upon. The main thing is for people to have fun and begin to enjoy the excitement and joy of seeing their airplane in the air.

• Rather than promoting 3-D flying successful clubs offer practical recommendations based on what they think will give the new member the greatest likelihood for success, based on their skills and interest. Point out that the hobby has many options and pilots can change their interests any time.

This above points were taken from the May Issue of Model Aviation, pages 23–27.

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Before winter came I started looking for a design for a plane to build over the cold winter months when I couldn't fly. I tend to like designs that are a little "different" but also something build-able, something that wouldn't take an extraordinary amount of time (for me, anyway) to build. After looking at a number of mostly old airplane designs, I decided on a relatively new design of a plane for homebuilders. This one is called a "Onex" from a

c o m p a n y i n Wisconsin and is designed to be built by individuals under the Amateur Built category as a single-seat, all aluminum airplane using a Volkswagen-based engine. Although it doesn't have any

compound curves, making the design a bit easier to make, it is all aluminum, making a scale model more difficult. Still, the idea was for a model plane to fly, looking mostly scale, and I considered it could be made to look like it was aluminum (from a short distance, maybe) building with conventional methods using balsa. The factory demonstrator was painted a distinctive color which would kind of mask the balsa building model if painted the same. So, a design has been selected. Now what? Three-view drawings and many pictures were available online and I could use these to draw some building plans. A nice quarter-scale electric plane might be good, if not too large, and as it turns out a quarter-scale Onex would only have a 60 inch wingspan! OK, that would be a decent size plane, easy to transport, and could be made light enough to use the electric setup I've been using on a couple of other planes. The only real problem was the rather large canopy. The Onex is a rather small airplane and the fuselage, being a single-seat, has a relatively large canopy, covering what seems to be half of the fuselage upper half. At a 1/4 scale, it is about 16 inches long, 6 inches high and almost 7 inches wide. That's going to be a big canopy to make! The only saving grace is it doesn't have any extreme curves to it. I figured if I could make the canopy, I'd go on with the rest of the model. I could get the plastic in town, so on with the plans to get the rest of the model dimensions and figure how to actually build it. I made a male mold for the canopy out of pine, covered with a t-shirt and clamped to a saw horse. I bought the smallest quantity of plastic sheet I could which turned out to be a 4 x 8 foot sheet. Oh well, maybe I could use it

someplace else. Using my wife's oven (with her permission, of course) exper iment ing w i th different temperatures, e tc . I found I had a p p rox i m at e l y fo u r seconds after removing it from the oven to completing pulling it to shape over the mold before losing any forming ability. I also found the there was considerable shrinkage of the plastic and therefore the oven wasn't large enough to make the canopy in one piece. One other thing I found was maybe that 4 x 8 foot sheet wasn't all going to waste as it took a few tries for it to work and the plastic sheet was now down to half-size. Making the canopy ended up a separate windshield and canopy but as that's the way it is on the full-size plane, it worked out OK. I'm not completely satisfied with the canopy but I think it will be OK as is, however I may make another before gluing it on. Now to get on with the rest of the model. I drew some full-size plans, mostly to get the dimensions and figure out how to do the construction. Starting off making the fuselage sides, I worked on to the bottom, internal framework, and up to the turtledeck. Then, I took a break and moved on to the tail surfaces, making them using pretty normal balsa construction methods. Then back to sheeting the turtledeck and making a detachable

cockpit setup for the electronics and battery a c c e s s . I m a d e a n instrument panel from pictures on the internet of aircraft instruments and glass panels, and modified a 1/4 scale pilot figure to work in

this model by making it taller and more of a leaned back posture. The latch was made and the release lever (hopefully) mostly hidden under the fuselage near the tail. The wings were a little bit of a problem trying to make them appear more like all aluminum while being covered with Ultracote. Also, the wing center section is flat and the outer panels h a v e a s l i g h t dihedral. (The full-s i z e p l a n e h a s folding wings at the outer panels.)

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BUILDING A QUARTER-SCALE ONEX R/C MODEL BY RON DULINSKY

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I needed the wings to be detachable so I decided to make them detachable from the fuselage using an aluminum tube as a carry-thru and fiberglass guide tubes in the fuselage and inner wing sections. The semi-symmetrical wing section needed a number of ribs, some of different sizes to allow for wing sheeting over some sections, main and aft spars, and provisions for ailerons and flaps. Again, normal construction methods were used but it took much longer than planned to make the wings, partly because I decided to change how I made the ailerons and flaps and re-made them, along with the hinges and such. The wings are essentially ready to cover now.

(The fiberglass tubes were made using two wraps of wax paper on the aluminum tube, waxed with paste wax, then three wraps on lightweight (deck cloth) fiberglass cloth and soaked in finishing epoxy. I kind of squeeze out excess epoxy from the wrap with a paper towel. After curing, the fiberglass tube breaks loose fairly easily with a twist and after sliding off of the aluminum tube, the wax paper can be twisted to break loose and pulled out in one piece. Three were tubes needed for this plane.) Things still to do (not counting the electrical stuff or motor) are finishing the battery compartment/cockpit cover, make the main and nose landing gears (tricycle gear), and engine cowl. The cowl is something that I'm sure will also take more time than I figured, making it in fiberglass. Still don't know how I'll make the nose landing gear or motor mount yet but this has been something of a "design-as-you-go" plane, so nothing new. My winter project has also turned into a much longer task.

Ron does a fantastic job of “scratch building” and I’m sure we are all anxious to see this amazing model fly. Ed.

NITROPLANES T-28 FOR SALE

Specifications: Airfield 1400 mm (55 inches) wingspan Uses 4S 3300mah LiPo’s Electric retracts Dual servo operating cowl flaps, works in conjunction with wing flaps LED navigation lights and landing light Includes a spare fuse, extra spare parts like prop blades, retracts, servos, etc. Almost two planes for the price of one!

This plane will do many aerobatics, but is gentle enough to be a trainer.

If you are interested contact Dan Olson at 816-207-9052

$125.00

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Two more photos of Joe Breault’s B-25. Check out the landing lights on the photo to the left. We are wondering if he will be flying this “lighted” beast at our night flying gigs following Summer Club Meetings. And check out the ammunition belts in

the upper turret. We hope the bullets are blanks!

Some of you KCRCers will remember Dan Olson’s T-34, featured at the 2015 Winter Projects Show and Tell Club Meeting. Your reporter is pleased to share these two photos of Dan and his electric powered T-34. The photo at the left (thanks to Jim

Cianciolo) was just before the maiden flight. The photo to the right shows the T-34 following the maiden flight. Congratulations Dan on a successful maiden flight. We hope to see more of this great rendition of the famous T-34 Mentor.

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This F4U-1 is Running and Ready to Go Successful Maiden Flight by Trevor on May 10th

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Another Great Vought CorsairCLUB MEETING

June 15th

7:00 P.M. Club Meeting at the Charles Reed

Memorial Flying Field at Fleming Park

KCRC 17804 E. 29th Street S Independence, MO 64057

There will be lighted glider

flying following the Meeting