Here’s a few photos of the Ed Carroll Osprey John flew last Tuesday. It has the names of club members that are no long with us. What a great plane.
Bill Kessler, Bill Turner, Chuck and Jean Perkins, Don Lorentson, Earl Thompson, Ed Carroll, Harold Wolf, Jim Dolan, Ken Otto, Ken Wells, Lamar Steen, Leo Ford, Les Sullivan
The Arvada Associated Modelers are hosting the “Colorado Pattern Challenge” event and asked MAS to get the word out!
RC Aerobatics (AAA) for 401, 402, 403, 404 & 406
Date: June 26 – 27, 2010 (2-days)
Time: 8:00 am – practice and registration; 9:00 am – pilots meeting.
Place: AAM Club Field; 7608 Highway 93, Golden, CO 80403
Go to the Arvada Associated Modelers web site for more details.
Greg Brown stopped by and decided to shoot some video at the airfield. For just throwing something together I thought it was great!
While flying last weekend my Stryker’s right vertical stabilizer decided to come off during a high speed fly by. From the noise I initially though I had a shattered prop but I was quickly relieved that I still had power. After trying to see how this thing would behave with only one vertical stabilizer I landed it just off the runway in some grass. No harm.
When the vertical stabilizer was found, we noticed it had a chunk of it missing from where the prop bit into it. The stryker had a mid-air collision with – itself. Too funny.
This plane has been heavily used all summer and it’s a great flyer. I’m currently using cheap Tenergy 25C 1800mah batteries and so far they work great!.
All AMA members should review the FAA’s Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) detail located at:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/ama-faa.aspx
From the document, “AMA President’s Perspective, Model Aviation, June 2009“:
The purpose of this ARC, as established in order number 1110.150, was to draft recommendations for the FAA to consider in developing a regulatory basis for the operation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS).
http://mock.miniatureaerosporteters.org site was promoted to http://www.miniatureaerosportsters.org
For added convenience, the following urls will also work for MAS:
http://www.miniatureaerosportsters.com
http://www.miniaerosportsters.org
http://www.miniaerosportsters.com
A Link to the Longmont Aircraft Modelers Association was added to the “Local Area Clubs” section on the right. The field is located just south Dacono, north of Denver.
This site was created by me, Sean Kennedy – a fresh new member of MAS, to hopefully provide a way for members and visitors to communicate.
The problem many club web sites have is content creation and maintenance. If regular club members have to go through one or two people to get something done on a web site, the process usually breaks down and the content will eventually stale.
This site is designed specifically for member use, and has the facilities to allow any MAS member to add content to share with the world at any time. This site is a “work in progress”, and the look and feel may change a bit in the coming weeks.
Lastly this site was built completely with open-source code that’s portable. There’s no cost beyond the basic web hosting services, which I already had available. The reason this is important is it wouldn’t take much to move this site elsewhere if needed, and there’s no club money that needs to be taken away from other important things like runway repair and maintenance in order to run this site.
So click around and experience the new site. If you have any question don’t hesitate to contact me at sean@miniatureaerosportsters.org.
Here’s the link to the Boeing 40C described in Hanger Talk. Enjoy!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/off-topic/2225583-oldest-boeing-airliner-in-flying-condition.html
