February 2017 AMA Chapter #755 Newsletter of the Pekin RC Club pekinrc.com Officers PRESIDENT Wayne Hood VICE PRESIDENT Denny Baker SECRETARY TREASURER Jim Roach Appointments WEBMASTER Curtis Colburn EVENTS Donna Smith SAFETY Denny Baker MAINTENANCE/GROUNDS Chris Leibel PUBLIC RELATIONS Curtis Colburn EDITOR Dennis Shoemaker The next meeting of the Pekin RC Club is Saturday, February 18 at 6:30 PM in Morton We will be meeting at the Otto Baum / CORE Construction Safety Building in Morton, Illinois. The Safety Building is at 876 N Main St. in Morton - across from the CAT Distribution Center rear parking lot. From the Pekin area the best way is East on Route 98 into Morton, left at the third light onto Main at the Family Video and straight thru town on Main St. The meeting place is about a block before the Interstate 74 overpass. It’s on the right. This Saturday is the meeting for the swap meet. Hope to see you there. Wayne is bringing BBQ and it’s pot luck for every- thing else. The door will be unlocked around 5:00 to give us plenty of time to set up, eat and shop before the meeting at 6:30.
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February 2017 AMA Chapter #755
Newsletter of the Pekin RC Club pekinrc.com
Officers
PRESIDENT Wayne Hood
VICE PRESIDENT
Denny Baker
SECRETARY TREASURER
Jim Roach
Appointments
WEBMASTER Curtis Colburn
EVENTS
Donna Smith
SAFETY Denny Baker
MAINTENANCE/GROUNDS
Chris Leibel
PUBLIC RELATIONS Curtis Colburn
EDITOR
Dennis Shoemaker
The next meeting of the Pekin RC Club is
Saturday, February 18 at 6:30 PM in Morton
We will be meeting at the Otto Baum / CORE Construction Safety Building in
Morton, Illinois. The Safety Building is at 876 N Main St. in Morton - across
from the CAT Distribution Center rear parking lot. From the Pekin area the
best way is East on Route 98 into Morton, left at the third light onto Main at
the Family Video and straight thru town on Main St. The meeting place is
about a block before the Interstate 74 overpass. It’s on the right.
This Saturday is the meeting for the swap meet.
Hope to see you there.
Wayne is bringing BBQ and it’s pot luck for every-thing else. The door will be unlocked around 5:00 to give us plenty of time to set up, eat and shop
before the meeting at 6:30.
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President
Wayne Hood
Vice President
Denny Baker
Hopefully it looks like we may have a mild winter and early spring.
I've just finished the kit JSM 80 that I got from Jay.
(Hope you're feeling better Jay)
This plane has 9 servo's and has a DLE 35RA.
This month we will have a swap meet and some tasty food. Help make it a success, bring a dish and some RC items. See you at the meeting.
Denny
The February meeting is the time to get rid of any of your RC model related items at the swap meet. We will have some food and the doors will open at 5pm.
Don't forget to get your dues paid up for 2017.
I hope to see more members at the meeting. The club is open to ideas on things the club should do or not do. If you the members have ideas on events or club functions you think would be fun bring them up at the meeting.
Wayne
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Minutes from the January 21st
2017 Meeting Welcome by President Wayne Hood. Motion to accept the November 2016 Minutes as published in the December 2016 Newsletter was made by Bill Swearinger, 2
nd by
Moe Neibecker. Motion carried. Motion to accept the December 2016 Treasurer Report as published in the January 2017 Newsletter was made by Bill Bradburn, 2
nd by Curtis Colburn. Motion carried.
There were 13 club members present at the meeting.
Discussions: President Wayne Hood thanked everyone for attending the meeting. Sec./Treasurer Jim Roach reminded everyone that the 2017 Club dues will be past due after January 31
st. There is a $20.00 late fee charge after March 31
st. President Wayne Hood
appointed the following members to these positions: Safety Chairman is Dennis Baker with Moe Neibecker also serving on the Safety Committee; Chris Leibel is the Grounds & Maintenance Chairman; Dennis Shoemaker is the Club’s Newsletter Editor; and Curtis Colburn is the Webmaster and Public Relations Chairman.
Old Business: None.
New Business: The February Club meeting is the “Swap Meet” meeting. This meeting is usually well attended and to help bring more members to the meeting, the members agreed food might help. Wayne Hood volunteered to bring BBQ to the meeting. A mo-tion was made by Bill Bradburn to reimbursed Wayne for the cost of the meat and was 2
nd by Bob Schaich, motion carried. Members should bring other items such as buns,
potato chips, deserts, etc.
Events: A suggestion was made to have a Spring open house and also a Helicopter/Quadcopter event.
Safety: None.
Guests / New Members: None. 50 / 50 Raffle: Bob Schaich won half the $16 in the raffle and donated it to the mower fund. Motion to adjourn was made by Bill Swearinger and 2
nd by Bill Bradburn. Motion carried.
Secretary/Treasurer
Jim Roach
Trivia question to see if you were paying attention…..what model
of airplane is in the cover picture with the FOR SALE on its prop?
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I believe it was the Fall of 2015 when I won the raf-fle for the Banchee electric ARF. It was one of three planes raffled off to offset the cost of the new club mower. Tim
Foster donated it for the cause. I spent the Winter of 2015/2016 researching the project on the internet. It was brand new in the box with a Cermark electric motor. The ARF and motor were made by the same company which was no longer in business.
There wasn’t a manual in the box or online. This was my first electric project so I took it to Precision Hobbies in Pekin and the owner Jim Byer used his expertise to guide me through the project. He had a smaller version the Banchee that he had built and flew. For his time and advice, I ordered everything for the plane through him except the motor mount. Everything went together quite well except it took a lot of time finding a suitable motor mount. I finally took a bite on a Great Planes electric motor mount offered at Tower Hobbies. With some modifications I was able to mount the motor inside the nose with an internal fire-wall. It may not be per-fect but then again nei-ther am I.
I had a lot fun problem solving this air-plane and that is my fa-vorite part of the hobby. She is ready to fly. You can note from the pics that there is a lot of con-trol surfaces. Jim said it would be a hand full.
Chris Leibel
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The Wiley Post Flying Club
The Pekin RC Club is not
the first model airplane flying club
in Pekin. Back in 1938 it was free-
flight only, with control line just
developing. Thanks to Bill Brad-
burn for the old article.
WANTED
Does anyone have a
Goldberg Jr. Falcon kit or plans?
I built one when I was in grade school
and thought I would do another.
Dennis Shoemaker
The plane for sale on the cover is a
Cessna 337 Skymaster
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The Smith’s Airplane Factory
Last meeting we saw 1/2 of the wing.
Here’s the whole thing.
This is one awesome WW1 Morane.
History note:
Aéroplanes Morane
-Saulnier made the first
fighter aircraft that was
fitted with a machine gun
that fired thru the prop,
but without synchroniza-
tion. They installed steel
deflectors on the back of
the prop to deflect the
bullets.
Mr Saulnier patented the
first successful synchro-
nization gear that allowed
the machine gun to fire
between the blades. No
doubt because they were
probably replacing a lot
of props.
This same aircraft
company was taken over
by the Germans in the
WW2 occupation of
France. During that peri-
od they produced another
plane we are familiar
with...the Fieseler Storch.
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Complete kit
OS 1.20 FS NV .049
RC
Royal.40
These are my two items the plane is arf need reciver and battery for 40$ the ft design penta-copter will come with Mobius and full
FPV including ground station all that's needed is radio and battery for 800$ Eli
K&B .28
Mag .52
OS .50 COX
OS.10
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Old Craftsman Jig Saw. Belonged to my Dad. He made Duck Decoys. 24 inch arm. For Sale. $100. Good warranty….30 Feet or 30 seconds after the sale . POPPY
Paul Bessler is bringing this Sig flight box to the swap meet.
