Plans are finalized for the fourth annual Skymasters Heli FunFly this
coming Sunday, July 28th. The event will be held at the Skymasters
field on Scripps Road (between M24 and Joslyn) in Lake Orion, MI.

Event flyer:

http://skymasters.org/images/articles/Flyers/2013_helicopter-funfly.pdf

Pilot’s meeting at about 9:50AM. First flight at 10AM.

All heli types are encouraged…. gas, glow, electric and
turbine. Scale helis are particularly appreciated.

This year, in addition to the usual three flight stations and
separate area for smaller helis, we also have an additional exclusive
heli-only field on the south side of the parking lot. Come check it out.

We will have a drawing for some prizes at about 11:45AM and then the
field will close at 11:55 for a noon flyby and landing of a full
scale AW-139 twin turbine heli operated by the US Customs and Border
Patrol. Should be exciting!

http://www.agustawestland.com/product/aw139-0

We will reopen one flight station on the main field and the entire
south heli field after the AW-139 has landed for those of you who
would like to continue flying while the full scale heli is onsite.

The full scale heli will depart around 12:45 and the other two flight
stations will then reopen.

This is a free event. Food will be available onsite for a donation.

See you there?

Paul Goelz
Skymasters
Heli FunFly event director
248-933-5814

Paul Goelz
Rochester Hills, MI USA
paul@pgoelz.com
http://www.pgoelz.com

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

We could not have asked for a better night in early May for flying. Thanks to Larry for the great cooking. If you could not make it this month try and come next month!