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AMA Charter Club #152 Celebrating 65 years www.valleyflyers.com
Upcoming Events
May
Saturday May 16thLA Jets
Saturday May 9thFun Fly
Tuesday May 26thVF General meeting
EXTENDED SAE
ISSUE
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I would per-sonally like to thank Glen Roe for getting the Charg-ing station back up and running in the Electric
Area. If you see him thank him. Rusty, Shawn, Benny, Barb and myself worked hard in the shed getting it cleared out for the wash down this past week-end. We need to wash the walls down for the makeover.Big thanks to Paul Rafael, who got left out on the contributions to getting the electric up, and to Mark Selkirk who through the BBQ for us this past Sunday Jan 18th, 2015. We still need some help funding the new Main Charging Station, see Benny, Barb, or myself at the field on the weekends.
BIG CAUTION:Landings have priority over take offs!! If you are waiting to take off, hold your position off the run-way until called landings are completed.Just by calling ‘Taking Off’ af-ter a landing has been called, is not an excuse to go head. The consequence is the landing pi-lot has to take his eye off of his plane. It ruins concentration when bringing your plane in for a safe landing. Please use common sense. We don’t have a control tower to in-struct you that you’re clear for take off. You could be liable if you cause a landing that damages the in-coming plane. Some of these planes are expensive!!
D.B.D.” Don’t Be Dumb.”
HEIGHT RESTRICTIONSWe have been getting com-plaints about planes exceeding designated height limits of 400 feet. Jets going vertical easily exceed 400feet. In addition 3D airplanes doing maneuvers also exceed these height restrictions.This needs to stop! If this con-tinues the airport has the juris-diction to close the field down.Lets all be more careful!Thanks
Mike StonerVice President
I wanted to thank all of the mem-bers that participated in the SAE Aero De-sign com-p e t i t i o n . We had 72
teams which represented more than 620 participants. It was a tremendous undertaking that many clubs could not have taken on.Sam Gengo directed this event and put in a great deal of effort to bring it together. My personal
gratitude To the SAE volunteers. Thank you for your time, thank you for your talents, and thank you for all that you contributed to SAE International. Without you, it simply would not have been successful. Kudos to Sam Gengo for run-ning a first class SAE event. I look forward to working with you all again soon !!The Hobby People Engine Clinic/ Fun Fly turned out to be a winner. Hobby People man-aged to attract a nice crowd for their electric and glow enginePresentations. They gave away glue to all participants and had
a drawing for some engine give-aways. Thank you Hobby Peo-ple.
Ahead in MayFun Fly May 9
CD Benny Elkouby
LA Jets May 16th.All type of jets are welcome,
including electric,Glow and ducted fans.
CD Matt Carrol
Have a great month of flyingPeace Benny ElkoubyPresident
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Please help support your club by purchasing some raffle tickets!
Bob Smith, Treasurer
MAY RAFFLEAT THE TUESDAY MAY 25TH CLUB MEETING
PHOENIX STINSON GP/EP ARF
April 16 Valley Flyer Financials
Checking Account $6505.48Pay Pal balance: $935.20Total on deposit $7440.68
April 16 Valley Flyer Membership
As of April 16, there are 241 members.The following members need to provide an AMA to the member-ship director Barbara Brace babz2008@ gmail.com
The scheduled give away is the Stinson ARF by Phoenix mod-els. It’s scheduled to be in stock mid May. If that Changes we’ll have something else.It flies with a glow or electric setup.FEATURESCompatible with glow or electric setups. High-wing increases stability, bolt-on two-piece wing for easy transport. Removable canopy for easy radio gear set-ups and LiPo battery changesStrong lightweight construction, pre-painted pilot figure, full as-sembly hardwareSPECIFICATIONSStock Number: PMMA1357Wingspan: 63.3 in (1608 mm)Length: 49.2 in (1250 mm)Weight: 6-7 lb (2.8-3.2 kg)Requires: 4-channel radio w/5 servos, 2-stroke .46-.55 or 4-stroke .52-.61 engine and fuel or RimFire™ .46-.55 outrunner brushless motor, 80-100A ESC, 3S-4S 4000-5000mAh LiPo battery & charger
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALContact: Barbara Brace
(Membership Director) [email protected]
Renew Now!!!
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RON RUSSELLSAM GENGOJASON PAKFARADAM GELBARTDON FARRA
APRIL 25 SAE
SAM GENGOSHARON RIBERDYBENNY ELKOUBYBOB GRAYKAYCEE COOKSHAWN KEERMANNBARBARA BRACERUSTY COOKAUSTIN STRAUSSPHILLIP SARABIATAYLOR THOMPSONCHUCK THOMPSONCLIFF VESSRAHR BORCHEFTDON FARRAWINSTON BROWNGIL GREENBAUMJAY REPLOGLEFRANK MILLERMARK MILLERTONY DE LEOTED MAYERROBERT TAYLORTED MAYORJASON PAKFARSAM SANDWEISS
SAE EVENT OFFICIALS – THANK YOU!
APRIL 23 SAE FOOD RUN
BENNY ELKOUBYBARBARA BRACEKAYCEE COOKBOB SMITH
APRIL 25 SAE INSPECTIONS
BENNY ELKOUBYGILL GREENBAUMFRANK MILLERMARIO SWEETDAVID TARLAUDON BILLICKRICARD ALFARODARRELL MARTINJAMES MUEHLENRICC BIEBERTONY DE LEOTED MAYERBOB TARLAUBRUCE CARMARK MILLERKEITH ZIMMERELYMATT CARROLLKAYCEE COOKBRABARA BRACETAYLOR THOMPSONCHUCK THOMPSONBILLY EDWARDSTONY NACCARATODAVE SWEANYGREGG FULLINGTON
DAVE SWEENYANNIE SWEANYGLEN ROEMIKE TRACYBOB ADAMSDAN ZILIAKKEVIN HARKEYANDY PERRELLIPETER GAREYCHUCK GAUDETTESTEPHEN MOYECOREY DALEMATT CARROLL
APRIL 26 SAE
SAM GENGOBENNY ELKOUBYTONY DE LEOTED MAYERDAVE SWEANYANNIE SWEANYDON FARRAWINSTON BROWNGIL GREENBAUMDELLA GRAYFRANK MILLERATHENA AGUILATENA AGUILAANDY PERRELLIZOLTON DobrovicsJASON PAKFARCOREY DALEMATT CARROLL
Valley Flyers Field Support Information and Runway Repair Fund
Contact: Chuck Thompson : [email protected] should be made out to: Valley Flyers Foundation PO Box
2055North Hills, CA 91393
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Tom Wolf has been building and flying radio controlled aircraft since 1966. His first RC airplane was a Midwest Lil Esquire con-trolled by a single channel radio with an escapement. He became interested in scale modeling very early and in 1967 he built his first scale airplane, a Curtis Jenny, from plans that were published in a magazine. Other scale air-craft he has built over the years include a Nieuport 11, P-51 Mus-tang, HP-18 sailplane, Superma-rine Spitfire Mk IX, two Grumman TBM-3 Avengers, a Boeing 314, and two Mosquito FBVIs. Tom has designed over a dozen mod-el aircraft (scale and sport, pow-ered and gliders), including the
TOM WOLF – JUNE MEETING PRESENTATION
Nieuport, HP-18, Boeing 314, and several original (non-scale) designs. After participating in numerous scale fly-in events and local club scale contests throughout the years, Tom began competing in scale on a serious basis in 2002 with his first competition being the Gunsmoke Scale Masters Qualifier in Mesa, Arizona. Tom had such a good time at that first event that he was hooked on scale competition, which has been the focus of his modeling activities since then. Tom has competed at eight US Scale Masters Championships and achieved Grand Champion sta-tus at the 2013 Championships.
He has also competed at Top Gun three times (2007, 2008 and 2012; 13th, 11th, and 6th place respectively). In addition he has competed at three NW Scale Championships (2012, 2013, and 2014). Tom has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara and worked for a de-fense contractor for 33 years before retiring almost four years ago. Tom is a member of the US Scale Masters Association, the Northwest Scale Aero Modelers, the Santa Barbara RC Modelers and the Ventura County Comets.
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May 2015PageThe Glendale field
The Work Resumes!!
Because of other priorities, the Glendale field has not received much attention lately.The lack of attention has result-ed in lots of weeds and an over-grown runway.With hopes of opening up the field to members, by the end of the year, we are organizing working parties to get the place in shape.Here you can see Barbara Brace helping to clean up and Benny Elkouby clearing out the runway
Photos courtesy Alfred Cook
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Design Ted Mayer
Experience the Excitement!
Planes of Fame Air Museum is proud to present Air Show 2015, May 2 & 3: “A Salute to Veterans”. This year’s airshow will feature nearly 50 historic aircraft, performing for your enjoyment as well as a salute to our veterans. We invite you to Airshow 2015 to celebrate the history, contributions, and sacrifices of our veterans.
Performers include U.S.A.F. F-22 Raptor Demo Team and Heritage Flight, Sean D. Tucker-Team Oracle Aerobatics, Canadian Forces CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team, Sea Fury Aerobatics by Sanders Aeronautics, Clay Lacy’s Learjet Demonstration, Rob Harrison and the Tumbling Bear, Gregory Colyer’s T-33, John Collver’s AT-6 Aerobatics, and over 40 WWII aircraft including B-25, P-47, and P-51s. In addition to many other fantastic airplanes that will be performing and on static display, there will be a special panel discussion with a large number of our honored veterans. A special educational display by the Remembrance Rescue Project will present Rescue 5, a restored FDNY truck, damaged during September 11th, 2001, that lost all its crew of 11 firefighters. Stay tuned for future announcements of some of our special guests. Also, be sure to catch the Preview Day & Twilight Show on May 1! View our Air Show promotional videos of performer highlights for 2015! If you are interested in helping to sponsor Air Show 2015, click here to learn about the op-portunities!
SAVE $5 - ORDER YOUR TICKETS ONLINE! (Hurry! Limited Time Offer)
NEW! FRIDAY, MAY 1 - Preview Day & Twilight Show!
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SAE FIRST DAY - INSPECTION
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SAE SECOND AND THIRD DAY - FLIGHT TEST
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The Award Presentation
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Members not in attendance; Adam Gelbart, Dave Sweeny, Matt Carroll and Winston Brown.Benny confirmed SAE is 24-26 for Stoner. Winston will not be attending this board meeting.Benny owes Ted news article and so does the board team. Benny has $100.00 from Tony Naccarato’s March 29th event. Service funded by Scott Howell and repaid. Dave will not be at-tending the meeting, working on flooded house during vacation.
Meeting officially starts, Benny thanking everyone for support-ing the event with 66 entries.Benny reported that Dave went to Gardner’s house and ob-tained Glendale key. Like to go to Glendale the weekend be-fore SAE, Sunday. Rusty will get trailer and load lawn mower. Generator in Glendale needs to come back for SAE event. Bring back during cleanup weekend. Benny needs volunteers.Race weekend of 4/11-4/12. No flying except control line. No problems with the heli pad used for pylon 1 recently. Quad cop-ter pilots need to comply. Need event officials for George Finch memorial, around 15 officials.
Benny stated VF will provide food for SAE. We have received $3575 as initial deposit and $2000 for permit fee. Number of entries 620 students and 50 vol-unteers. About 750 to be served for Saturday. Leftover food from
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Saturday will be used Sunday, no problem. Benny will place food order for 800 and condiments. Need to insure food serving pro-cess is efficient. Need to insure pump condiments are cleaned between uses.Mark will be auxiliary pilot if needed.Bring a couple dozen donuts and coffee. Sell at $1.00 each. Maybe 5 or 6 dozen donuts. 100 burgers as veggie 700 as regu-lar. Fuel/gas is for SAE only. Don’t run generator for sound system.Shed has a completed trainer hanging system. Shawn and Kaycee helped with painting shed. Need more paint to com-plete.Mike suggested putting AMA signs up for race.One generator in heli, half way to field to podium. One genera-tor for students and one for PA system.Will have more electric entries this year. Students cannot use park flyer charge table for pitting. Must be 25 feet away from table. Setup yellow strips as boarder.SAE will provide Porta Potties and will request a Sunday morn-ing or Saturday evening.Friday is SAE inspection at Air-tel Plaza. Insure blue print mea-surements and actual aircraft match.We are providing 10% Byron’s fuel.Show up at Airtel around 7:30, parking is validated.
Bob Smith. Pizza Fun Fly =Bob $65 $140 on pizza $110 on cof-fee, 66 entries, 4 non VF mem-bers. $42 caps and shirtsNeed help for Q500, will have gift cards as drawing prizes. About $700 was spent on Q500 plaques and $480 for fuel.Sent email to Foundation mem-bers on runway refurbish by a member’s relative. No response as of yet.Cracks come back in two to three months after repair.Resurfacing $15,000 costs. $80,000 for a complete redo is the estimate. Parks and Recs does heli and control line circle cracks.Flying quads is becoming an issue with one pilot. Mark and Benny will discuss.Member wants to have a birthday party at field. Rusty and Benny will look into it, as far as location and party counts. Benny does not want to close the field for this event. Will not be on the sched-ule.Will be sometime after SAE, if at all.Barbara thanked Benny for cleaning the office etc. Mem-bership card printer is not work-ing. Ordering a cleaning kit (I’ve done this).Meeting concluded at 8:30 p.m.
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2015 VALLEY FLYERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS(updated April 19, 2015)
BENNY ELKOUBY, [email protected] | 818-235-9098
MIKE STONER, Vice [email protected] | 818-448-6422
BOB SMITH, [email protected] | 661-298-2614
TONY DiLEO, Flight Training [email protected] | 818-652-9366
RUSTY COOK, Flight Training [email protected] | 818-400-4821
SHARON RIBERDY), [email protected] I 818-621-4799
BARBARA BRACE, Membership [email protected] | 818-310-1874
WINSTON BROWN, Public Relations [email protected] | 323-757-1323
TED MAYER, Newsletter [email protected] | 323-650-7623
DAVE SWEANY, Field [email protected] | 818-447-4510
MARK SELKIRK, Helicopter [email protected] | 818-340-0696
SHAWN KEERMANN, Field Safety [email protected]
ADAM GELBART, Scale [email protected] | 310-441-9408
MATT CARROLL, Turbine [email protected] | 805-907-4462
(open position), Electric Director
(open position), Event Director
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Support the hobby shops that support your club
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This facility is designed to accommodate four general types of powered remotely controlled aircraft in separate areas of the park.
1. Radio controlled heavier than one pound on the main runway.
2. Radio controlled one pound or less & R/C gliders North of the pit area.
3. Radio controlled helicopters South of the pit area
4. Control line flight in the designated Control line circles
This facility does NOT accommodate free flight aircraft, Kites, rocketry of any kind; R/C cars or R/C trucks.
Apollo XI Field Flying Regulations
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Radio Control Flight Rules 1. All pilots must fly from one of the designated pilot stands.2. The frequency board will be used at all times and pilots must post their frequency usage with a card or I.D that contains their name or picture I.D.3. Open flying is restricted during scheduled events.4. No take offs and landings from the pit area, taxiways, or grass.5. 400 feet maximum flying altitude.6. Take-off and landings to be in the same direction according to the wind.7. Down-wind passes over the runway are prohibited when other aircraft are flying.8. Some sort of fuel recovery system must be used when fueling planes to avoid spillage.9. All pilots will follow taxiways directions as posted.10. Pilots will call out their intentions (landing, take-off, etc) and clear the runway quickly.11. There shall be no flying during facility mowing operations12. Flying over the Golf course, access roads or public roads is prohibited.13. Each type of aircraft must fly and pit within the area designated on the map for that type of vehicle. Fixed wing aircraft will have a standard left or right pattern depending on the wind.
Failure to comply with these regulations may result in a citation, loss of flying privilege or both.**Pilots please note, the Field is closed to open flying during all Valley Flyers Events.
ADDENDUM TO RULES AND REGULATIONS1) Fly from the designated flying areas, no taxi way take offs please to prevent low pass collisions.2) Fly on the runway side with the other flyers, to communicate with each other.3) Call your intentions-Taking Off, Landing, Remember Landings have priority.4) Fly the pattern everyone else is flying,unless you communicate with each other. The first one out flying dictates dirrection, or wait til he is finished.5) 3 D stunt flying should be done off the runways to avoid mid air collisions.6) tay within the boundaries as much as possible to avoid mid air collisions.7) Most of all: new pilots at the airfield, If you think you might need help a lot of us are there to assist you, so you don’t crash your plane, or crash into some one. Working on your planes, make sure some one is helping you, I’ve seen too many times propeller cuts to the pilot or bystander.
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Apollo 11 Facility Schedule – 2015Organized Events Provide Fun & Field Improvements for Everyone!
Date Time Event Contest Director (CD)FEBRUARY
1 SUN 8a-7pFun Fly & Swap Meet
FREE For VF MembersBenny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected]
15 SUN 8a-7p Fun Scale Event Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected]
MARCH
14 SAT 8a-7p Heli Fun Fly Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098
NO RC Airplane FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
APRIL4 SAT 7a-7p
Pizza Fun Fly / Engine Clinic
FREE For VF MembersBob Smith 661-298-2614 [email protected]
10-11-12FRI-SAT
& SUN7a-7p George Finch Memorial Race Q40/Q500 Douglas Killebrew 818-843-4107
NO HELICOPTER OR ELECTRIC FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
24-25-26FRI-SAT
& SUN7a-7p SAE Sam Gengo 310-702-1049
NO HELICOPTER OR ELECTRIC FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
MAY7 THUR 9a-12pm Antelope Valley School - Fun Fly Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected] SAT 8a-7p Fun Fly Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected]
16 SAT 8a-7p LA JETS Spring Matt Carroll 805-907-4462
NO HELICOPTER OR ELECTRIC FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
JUNE5 FRI ½ Day 7a-7p
7a-7pQ40/Q500 Race Douglas Killebrew 818-843-4107
NO HELICOPTER OR ELECTRIC FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
6-7 SAT & SUN
20-21 SAT & SUN7a-7p
7a-7p
Western States 2 Day Electric Fun Fly SUBMITTED 3/15 Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098
JULY11 SAT 8a-7p
Fun Fly & Swap Meet
FREE For VF MembersChuck Thompson – VF 818-359-3976 [email protected]
18 SAT 8a-7p LA JETS – Summer Matt Carroll 805-907-4462
NO HELICOPTER OR ELECTRIC FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
28 TUE 7p-dusk Club Meeting at Field 7:00 pm Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected]
AUGUST1 SAT 8a-7p All Scale Event Adam Gelbart 310-441-9408 [email protected]
15 SAT 8a-7p VF Fun Fly & Swap Meet Scott Ramos 818-407-1180 [email protected]
SEPTEMBER5 SAT 8a-7p All Electric Fun-Fly Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected]
20 SUN 8a-dusk VF Fun Fly / Member’s BBQ
FREE For VF Members
Bob Smith 661-298-2614 [email protected]
OCTOBER11 SUN 8a-7p Try & Fly : Public Open House
SUBMITTEDChuck Thompson 818-359-3976 [email protected]
NOVEMBER7 SAT 8a-7p VF Fun Fly & Swap Meet SUBMITTED Benny Elkouby 818-235-9098 [email protected]
14 SUN 8a-7p LA JETS – Fall 1 Day SUBMITTED Bob Wilcox 818-203-4923
NO HELICOPTER OR ELECTRIC FLYING ANYWHERE ON PREMISES
DECEMBER
6 SUN 8a-7p Toys-for-Tots: Open to all Sizes SUBMITTED Darrell Martin 818-368-1488 [email protected]
ONLY PILOTS ACCEPTED AT REGISTRATION DESK WITH CURRENT AMA ALLOWED TO FLY
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FOR SALE by club memberFor more information contact Marcel at:
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