Author: TCAF

Meeting Minutes – November 2013

Call to Order

• Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM by Dave Jamrog

Secretary’s Report

• Last meeting minutes approved by vote of members present

Treasurer’s Report

• $3,976.35 (current club balance)

• Received 2014 dues from two members

• Paid Porta John clean out $35

• Will pay 50% of 2014 lease payment in mid December

• Will pay $1,000 for moving services in January

• Discussed the future use of a Cash Flow Statement

Safety Report/Field Maintenance

• Club sign has been removed for Winter storage at Cobblestone Hobby

New Members

• One new member Donald Breazeale…..welcome to the club!

Visitors

• No visitors

Announcements

• No announcements

Old Business

• KRAMS swap meet (AMA provided club package to TCAF consisting of a shirt, samples of small wood airplanes, one Real Flight Simulator, literature, 5 Zebra 4 channel radios (FM). Board will review plan to on how best utilize club package and respond at a future club meeting.

• Big Bird event discussed by members and decided too costly to proceed with. Voted on event, it did not pass member approval.

New Business

• Dave reviewed ideas on increasing membership, current trend people are buying/flying park flyers. Has effect of decreasing membership numbers (current trend). How do we involve park flyer crowd, in order to get them involved in club flying. Dave proposed an indoor flying event; member thought it is a good idea and worth pursuing if we can find a venue. It would be an opportunity to hold an event(s) to promote club, do fundraiser 50/50 raffle etc. Dave J. will seek out location opportunities that would house an event. Mike suggested checking with Boys & Girls club to see if they have availability in their facility.

• Rich mentioned organizing an information area/model display at a mall to spark interest in our hobby.

• Bob Kovacs recommended doing one to two events at the field per month and promoting the benefits of being a member of a club as a means to increase membership.

Comments and Questions

• Bob Kovacs asked treasurer for summary of annual run-rate cost, i.e. what does it cost to operate the club on an annual bases.

• Club membership is currently at 35, overall membership has declined by approximately 20 members over the past couple of years.

• Dave J. reviewed member attendance at meetings, 1/3 of membership participates at meetings

Next Meeting

• March 3rd, 2014 Cobblestone Hobby

Adjourn

• 7:52PM by vote

Members Present

• Board Members: Dave Jamrog, Larry Weller, Dave VerHoef, Tom Schmidt

• Members: Donald Breazeale, Kenny Ly, Rich Moore, Tom Ziemba, Jim Hartman, Bob Kovacs, Mike Ros, Mike

Maiden of Rich’s New Edge 540 T

For those following progress of the Edge 540T that became my possession in Toledo as a partially constructed short kit, the Edge has flown. Had the maiden today at our field, Saturday the fifth of July. This 540T is built from Hostetlier plans, it is covered with Ultracote, and is powered by a TMM 106 cc engine. This plane carries seven Hitec digital servos, has two receivers, and is flown with my Airtronics SD – 10 G transmitter. The maiden went well, need several clicks of up elevator, and so far that is all that had to be changed. Thanks goes out to Mort Wright for helping me to get the engine setup properly. We richened it quite a bit, and after having it sag a bit on first flight had to richen it even more for the second and longer flight the engine flew the plane well the second flight. Two good landings later and it was over the Plane appears to be one I should enjoy for quite some time. Total hours spent on build for me was in the the neighborhood of two hundred hours. It makes one to feel good when the fruit is a nice flight. One picture is of the Edge at my home from a few days ago, the other is from today just before starting for the maiden flight.

Rich Moore

First Flight and First Crash

This is not a happy set of pictures, but we should learn from this. The plane took off was perfectly in trim and flying well, when all of a sudden one wing folded and down came the plane with some force. What happened. Some times one cannot tell, but this time it was clear. I had a more minor crash last fall due to on aileron not working. I repaired the plane, the only damage to the wings was a broken carbon fiber wing tube. Rather than spend forty to fifty dollars for a new one, I took a piece of aluminum tube that fit tightly in the carbon fiber tube, it was about four inches and epoxied the carbon tube that had broken cleanly to the aluminum, making what I thought was an excellent repair. Well I flew it twice last fall fine. And so did not expect any trouble, but the epoxy evidently let loose, and with force on wing the tube started to slip and then began to split. The wing broke loose with its part of tube and the other part was still in plane with the wing bolts still attached to the ripped out rib of the departed wing. Result Crash!!

For Sale: Charger

Fellow Fliers, I have been cleaning my shed in order to store more easily my gas airplanes, I came across this new charger that I have not used, because I have a second one that I do use especially at the Civic Center during winter months. EBay sells them for around forty dollars and hobby centers a bit more. I will sell it with the ac adapter for $20.00. call me 616 481-1804. See picture