The Temple Aero Modeler The Official Newsletter of the Temple Aero Modelers Radio Controlled Aircraft Club
May 2015
This month's meeting will be
held Monday, May 18th
at
7:30pm at the Ronald McDonald
House Meeting Room in Temple R/C in Temple Since 1973
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CLUB INFO
Frank Sodek – Editor 773-8081
Mark Cullison – Editor’s Assistant 773-9686
On the web at: www.templeaeromodelers.org
Web Master: Mark Cullison
2015 Officers
President: Larry Macie
291-4590
Vice Pres/Sec. Mark Cullison
773-9686
Treasurer: Buster Hinkle
718-0243
Safety Officer: Doug Staines
541-2915
Field Marshal: Brady Sherwood
780-5790
Instructors Larry Macie 291-4590
Brady Sherwood 780-5790
Frank Sodek 773-8081
Mark Cullison 773-9686
Paul Horan 780-1274
Doug Staines 541-2915
Fred Huber 368-2389
Club Meeting:
May 18th
(one week early
due to the
Memorial Day
Holiday!)
Next Combat
Session:
June 6th
Sanctioned Fun
Fly:
June 14th
On The Cover
The Club had another topnotch presence
at this year’s Central Texas Airshow,
providing RC flying demonstrations and
hosting a nice static display, information
booth and a quadcopter raffle.
Photo by Frank Sodek
Temple Aero Modelers
Event Schedule
May 18 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Jun 6 Combat 1:00pm
Jun 14 Sanctioned Fun Fly 11:00am
Jun 29 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Jul 11 Combat 1:00pm
Jul 27 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Aug 8 Combat 1:00pm
Aug 31 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Sep 12 Combat 1:00pm
Sep 13 Poker Fly 1:00pm
Sep 28 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Oct 4 Fall Fun Fly 1:00pm
Oct 26 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Oct 28 Last New Pilot Training 5:30pm
Nov 30 Club Meeting 7:30pm
Dec 6 Don Cullison Memorial Toy Fly
1:00pm
Dec 7 Christmas Banquet/Officer elections
6:30pm
Club business meetings are held on the last
Monday of each month, with the exception of
May (pulled up one week because of Memorial
Day) and December (replaced by the Christmas
Banquet).
Issue No. 231 Tuesday, May 12, 2015
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President’s Report by Larry Macie
Hello everyone, here we are early in
the season and the rain just keeps
coming. Let’s try and enjoy it while we
can, for it will get hot soon enough, and
we will be begging for cooler weather
and rain. Thanks to Brady and Ed, the
field continues to look great. I sure
appreciate the time everyone is putting
into maintaining the field.
The airshow went very well this
year, which could not have happened
without all the volunteers that participated. The Temple Aero
Modelers gave some great RC flying demonstrations. The
Friday night show has always been enjoyed by the spectators,
and sparks a lot of questions and interest about our hobby.
Both midday shows on Saturday and Sunday also went well;
Ron Norman, Brady Sherwood and Steve Delgado did a
fantastic job of flying on those days. This year we had smoke
demonstrations during both days, which really gives a different
perspective when you see it coming from an RC plane.
I also want to thank all the folks that donated gifts and
prizes. Thanks to Max Blose for helping the club out with the
quadcopter raffle, and Doug Staines, Mark Cullison, and Don
Mondrik for their generous contributions. Congratulations to
the winner of the quadcopter, Abigail Pelley (from Temple). I
think this was the first time the winner was actually present and
we were able to present the prize to the winner on the spot.
Congratulations also to the winners of the volunteer prizes.
Hope to see you soon at the field. So in closing, “Dust off
some of those planes and get them airworthy”.
Larry Macie
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Meeting Minutes (April 27, 2015 meeting)
The meeting was called to order by Club President Larry
Macie at 7:30pm. All club officers and 9 other members were
present.
New Members/Visitors – 3 new members were present.
Minutes from the meeting held in March were accepted as
published in the April newsletter. Motion was made by Doug
Staines, seconded by Ed Weems.
Treasurer’s Report - was read by Buster Hinkle, Treasurer; a
motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report was made by Doug
Staines, 2nd
by Paul Milton
Safety Officer’s Report – safety officer, Doug Staines, asked
everyone to read the spotter article published in the newsletter.
Field Marshal’s Report
Mowing - Brady Sherwood mowed and Frank Sodek
weedeated. Thanks guys!
Runway - Paul Milton will coordinate the sealing of the
runway by A-1 Striping and Sealing. Plan is to have the work
done on May 11.
Fence addition – Nothing to report at this time.
Outhouse repair – Paul Milton made a list of materials needed
to perform repairs. Motion to allow payment up to $100
made by Buster Hinkle, 2nd
by Fred Huber, the motion
passed.
Paul Milton volunteered to paint the entrance Field Sign.
Announcements
Combat on May 9th
at 1pm. Next meeting is on May 18th
, due
to holiday.
Old Business
Flying field lease with Bell County is expiring July 25th
and
needs to be renewed. Larry Macie reported that we are still
waiting for other parties to proceed at this time.
Larry Macie has been testing and working on the buddy boxes
at the field to get ready for Training Night.
New Business
Airshow:
Raffle – Mark Cullison acquired a quadcopter at a discount
from Max Blose and the Waco Hobby Stop. Don Mondrik
donated funds to cover the cost of the camera.
Mark Cullison printed more raffle tickets, and made new
signs with a drone photo. He also produced club info
handouts.
Mark Cullison passed around a signup sheet for volunteer
workers. He also asked everyone to bring planes to display
and magazines/catalogs to give away.
Doug Staines will bring a golf cart and trailer for use during
the airshow. He will bring a generator and lights for the
Friday night show.
Larry Macie has a good flight lineup for the show:
Friday night: four electric deltas and a larger glow plane.
Saturday and Sunday: Hot shot from Houston as well as
Brady Sherwood and Ron Norman.
(Minutes continued on next page)
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Meeting Minutes (continued)
Trip Reports
Bobby Zikes participated in a Senior Pattern Contest in Ft.
Worth. He took 1st place in Sportsman!
Brady Sherwood went to Texas Wings Big Bird north of Ft.
Worth
Blunder Awards – None reported
Meeting adjourned 8:18 pm.
Minutes recorded and reported by Mark Cullison
Club Vice-President/Secretary
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Treasurer’s Report
Beginning Balance: $5,712.68
Deposits:
Dues …. $352.50
Total Deposits: $352.50
Expenses:
Doug Staines (Airshow sanction)…. $20.00
Doug Staines (Airshow insurance)….$20.00
Total Expenses: $40.00
Balance April, 2015: $6,025.18
Submitted by Buster Hinkle
Club Treasurer
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Safety Officer’s Report By Doug Staines
This time of year most of us are getting
our planes ready for the flying season.
There will be several articles written in this
regard. Not only do we have to get our
planes ready and take care of our planes,
but we need to take care of ourselves.
With the change of the season comes the
change in weather from comfortable
weather to darn right hot and miserable. This summer when
you are out flying be sure to take care of yourself. Drink
plenty of water and wear sun screen.
As we grow older, we become less heat tolerant, and to add
to this problem, many of us are on some sort of medication or
another. A lot of these medications are for the control of high
blood pressure. For some of us it means shedding of excess
fluid to bring blood pressure down. So what a dilemma, we
take medications to eliminate fluid, which we probably need to
prevent dehydration from exposure to the heat when our bodies
naturally get rid of fluid by sweating.
So be sure to drink water, and when you’re not flying, sit in
the shade and have a great day watching others fly.
See you at the field!
Submitted by Doug Staines
Club Safety Officer
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Central Texas Air Show By Doug Staines
Well the 2015 Central Texas Airshow is in the History
books and with it our very successfully participation. The
weather was great on all three days and our Flight
Demonstrations were flawless, except for some minor landing
mishaps at the conclusion of our Friday Night Show.
Big thanks to my co-coordinators Larry Macie and Mark
Cullison, who collectively with myself put it all together. Many
thanks to all those members that helped out, volunteered their
time and efforts to fly their planes in our RC Flight
Demonstrations or staffed our information tents and put our
area together and took it down.
As a token of appreciation for those members that helped
out, we held a Volunteer Appreciation Gift Raffle, for 3 great
gifts. Steve Meyer won a Quadcopter courtesy of Larry Macie,
Mark Cullison and myself. Brady Sherwood won a Micro
Quadcopter courtesy of a generous donation by Max Blose and
the Waco Hobby Stop and Pete Cornett won a free Oil Change
courtesy of BW Ponder and Ponders Auto & Fleet Servicing.
The Quadcopter Club Raffle we held was won by Abigail
Pelley of Temple. Apparently her father, brother and herself
had just purchased tickets only a few hours before the drawing
and for a first, was actually present when we drew her name.
I’d like to thank Max Blose and the Waco Hobby Stop for
providing a discount on the LaTrax Alias raffle quadcopter,
and to Don Mondrik for donating $100 toward the camera for
the Alias plus an additional donation to the club.
Again, many thanks to all those members that helped!
Doug Staines
Air Show Coordinator/CD.
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Larry Macie is presenting Abigail Pelley (along with her
twin brother Jacob) the Alias quadcopter she won at the
club’s fundraising raffle at the Central Texas Airshow.
Buster Hinkle (far left – smiling because he’s holding the
money box), Paul Milton and David Macek were selling
raffle tickets and handing out info about our club at the
Airshow.
Good News Report
Kelsey Cullison, the daughter of our Club’s VP/Secretary
Mark Cullison and his wife Patty was married to Justin Hilliard
on April 11th
. Congratulations to the new bride and groom, and
to the proud parents!
Denton Sherwood is helping his father (Brady) get prepared
for a giant scale flight demonstration at the Airshow.
David Macek is describing the merits of the raffle
quadcopter to an interested young spectator at the Airshow.
Combat Corner by Larry Macie
The weather just did not cooperate with us this time around.
With regret, I had to make the call to cancel this month’s
session. I would have hated to have our fellow combaters
show up and not be able to fly. Hope to see you at the next
scheduled combat (on June 6th
). All spectators are welcome,
and if you’re a pilot please join us, we could always use more
pilots (and helpers!).
(254) 662-5587
Here are some upcoming
nearby AMA District VIII Events
May 16-17: “Battle Over Brenham” combat – Brenham, TX Brenham RC Airplane Club [email protected]
May 22-23: “Multirotors at Apache Pass” – Rockdale, TX Fly Apache Pass RC Website: www.flyapachepass.com
June 6: Warbird event – Monaville, TX Bomber Field www.bomberfieldusa.com
June 12-13: TX Electric Flight Festival – Austin, TX Austin RC Association www.austinrc.org
June 13: Big Bird Fly In – Waco, TX HOTMACs www.hotmac.org
June 20: Electric Fly In – Killeen, TX Cen-Tex Modelers www.centexmodelers.com
Frank Sodek - Editor 510 West Shell
Temple, TX 76501
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Club Meeting: May 18th
Next Combat Match: June 6th
Sanctioned Fun Fly: June 14th
