Chicagoland Circle Cutters December 2014 Newsletter

CCC

CLUB OFFICERS

President

Roy Mathieson

Vice President

Michael Schmitt

Treasurer

Mike Palermo

Editors

Dennis

Vander Kuur

Michael Schmitt

Secretary

Scott Pahlow

Safety officer

John Broughton

Contest Directors

Mike Palermo

Chris Gay

Michael Schmitt

Upcoming CCC Events

December 12th 2014

Christmas Party @ Barnaby’s Pizza Higgins rd.

January 9th 2015

Meeting night

February 13th 2015

Meeting Night

The Chicagoland Circle Cutters is a control Line model aviation club sanctioned by

the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA). Club meetings are held on the second

Friday of every month at the Arlington Heights public Library at 7:00pm.

Weather permitting club members can regularly be found flying at our field

Wednesday Saturday and Sunday mornings as well as Thursday evenings. Our

field is located at the south end of Rolling Meadows in the Cook County Forest

Preserves, Bussie Woods ”Ned Brown Meadow” entrance off of Golf road.

CCC November 11 2014 Meeting

The meeting started at 7:02 PM. The minutes were accepted as read.

New Business

This years Christmas party is to be held at the Barnabys Pizza where it

was last year, near Touhy & Wolf Rds. It will be December 12th, at 7:00 PM.

It will also serve as the December club meeting. Bring a gift if you want to

exchange , not required.

Junk Nite was a fun nite out. The club table was well stocked. Thanks

Steve R. for going out to pick up the donated planes from “Leester” on

Stunt Hangar. Thanks Leester for donating the planes to our club! They will

be well used!

The Club Carrier event had 7 contestants. It was a little cold, and a little

more windy. Every flight had some kind of mishap. Dennis won the day, Mike

S got 2nd, Brad got 3rd. Mike P got the closest to the center of the carrier

landing. It was a fun day of balloon popping, and touch n go’s.

Planes for Points

Alan S brought in a 1/2A Skyray. It was hand painted in a military motif.

Jordy brought in a heavily redesigned (his own design) plane. He used the

colors of a Shoestring, cheek cowls too. Monokote and Rustolium finish.

Looks great! Electric power. Cobra 2826-10 motor, 3300 ma/hr 4s battery,

12-6 left handed prop at 9200 rpm. Full flapped stunter, 63oz., 56” ws. He

said it flys great!

Steve S brought up the idea to try to increase the awareness and interest

in control line flying. He was interested in having a “learn to fly” day. Also

advertising in the local high schools, Boy Scouts, etc, to try to get some

“New Blood”. Interested party’s contact Steve.

Time to renew your club memberships! AMA memberships also. We were

off to get some pizza at 7:50 PM.

TTFN Scott

Wait Wait—Beam me up some CA Glue Scottie!! the

Chicagoland Circle Cutters are having a Biplane build off. And

I’ve got to get Busy!! Build any Biplane you want any size you want.

Just Getter done!

Bill Overstreet and the Eiffel Tower

Bill had followed this Bf109 from the bombers he was escorting when

most of the German fighters left. The two planes had been in a

running dogfight. The German pilot flew over Paris hoping that the

heavy German anti-aircraft artillery would solve his problem and

eliminate Overstreet and the 'Berlin Express', though Bill managed to

get some hits in at about 1500 feet. The German's engine was hit, and

Bill stayed on his tail braving the intense enemy flak. His desperation

undoubtedly growing, the German pilot aimed his plane at the Eiffel

Tower and in a surprising maneuver, flew beneath it. Undeterred, Bill

followed right behind him, scoring several more hits in the process.

The German plane crashed and Bill escaped the heavy flak around Paris

by flying low and full throttle over the river until he had cleared the

cities heavy anti-aircraft batteries.

In the spring of 1944 Bill and his P-51C, the 'Berlin Express' were near Paris when the

scene that is immortalized in the artwork by Len Krenzler.

In 2009, he was presented France's Legion of Honor William

Overstreet Jr. died on Sunday at a hospital in Roanoke, Virginia,

according to his obituary, but there was no indication of the cause of

his death.

Hero: World War II Aviator Bill Overstreet is pictured in his military days.

He was born in Clifton Forge, Virginia in 1921 and after Pearl Harbor;

he enlisted in the Air Corps as a fighter pilot. By February 1942, he

was a private and sent to California for flight training here, his

instructors prepared him for the unexpected mid-flight by cutting the

engine as he landed.

Remembered: Overstreet was presented with France's Legion of Honor in 2009.

In Virginia, aged 92, William Overstreet Jr., a former captain in the U.S. Air

Corps, passed away on Sunday at a hospital in Roanoke.”

Overstreet is pictured by his P-51 'Berlin Express', the plane he flew

beneath the Eiffel Tower

Mystery of Amelia Earhart Solved?

Fragment from Missing Plane Identified

© Reuters This four-meter resolution image,

collected by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite on April 16, 2001, shows Nikumaroro

Island, an uninhabited Pacific coral atoll, in the Republic of Kiribati, about 2,000 miles

southwest of Hawaii. Richard Gillespie, executive director…

Researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR)

revealed that a piece from Amelia Earhart’s vanished aircraft has been identified in

Nikumaroro, an atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. This is the first

time that an artifact from the wreckage has been directly linked to Earhart’s last

expedition, in which she was attempting to circumnavigate the Earth at the equator, and

sheds new light on the 77-year-old aviation mystery.

The 19-inch-wide by 23-inch-long piece, found by researchers in 1991, is strongly

believed to be a metal fragment installed on the window of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra

aircraft during her eight-day stay in Miami, which was her fourth stop on the journey. A

photograph on TIGHAR’s site from The Miami Herald, dated July 1, 1937, shows the

aircraft intact with the metal patch.

Once the patch was identified in the photograph, researchers compared the patch with

that of the Lockheed Electra aircraft at Wichita Air Services in Newton, Kansas,

according to Discovery News. It matched the plans and the Electra’s structure.

According to TIGHAR, the patch was a field modification whose “complex fingerprint of

dimensions, proportions, materials and rivet patterns was as unique to Earhart’s Electra

as a fingerprint is to an individual.” The sheet’s purpose was for the pilot to be able to

take in “celestial observations” from thousands of feet in the sky.

The pilot, whose plane seemingly dematerialized on July 2, 1937, has prompted a wide

range of conspiracy theories, including the speculation that Earhart assumed a new

identity on a remote island in the Pacific. The new discovery debunks the wide belief

that Earhart and Fred Noonan, her navigator, didn’t actually crash into the Pacific

Ocean. TIGHAR suggests the the pair had to make a forced landing on the coral reef of

Nikumaroro after running out of jet fuel roughly 350 miles from their destination,

Howland Island.

Evidence from 10 previous expeditions to Nikumaroro led researchers to believe that

the two died there as castaways without resources. “Earhart sent radio distress calls

for at least five nights before the Electra was washed into the ocean by rising tides and

surf,” said Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, in an interview with Discovery

News.

The fragment could very well be a part of a strange object jutting from the water on a

nearby reef, depicted in a photograph taken by a British research team in October 1937,

three months after Earhart disappeared. During TIGHAR’s last expedition, sonar

imagery spotted an object 600 feet off the base of an offshore cliff, where the

organization believes the Electra drifted into the ocean. The “anomaly” was analyzed by

a sonar data post-processor based in Honolulu, identifying it to be the right size and

shape to be part of Earhart’s aircraft. The organization believes that the rest of the

Electra’s remains are buried deep off the west end of the island.

TIGHAR, which has long been investigating Earhart’s disappearance, will make another

journey to Nikumaroro to further investigate the anomaly using remotely operated

vehicle technology. The organization is currently seeking funds to make this journey

happen, and to resolve the mysterious surroundings of Amelia Earhart’s untimely

disappearance.

2015 Midwest Contest Schedule: DATE LOCATION EVENTS

5-23-15 Ned Brown Windy City Classic, Saturday PAMPA stunt

6-7-15 Wagner Park MK Wisconsin Control Line Championships

5-23-15 Polk city, Iowa

7 Muncie, IN AMA National Championship. All control line events.

Ned Brown Biplane club build off

Ned brown Club Navy carrier

Muncie, IN FCM Contest, PAMPA, Classic, ots, profile, carrier, Scale,

Paducah WKSI Allen Brickhaus Memorial Stunt Contest

Aurora Midwest regional control line championship-treetown

Aurora It’s only a Hobby 1/2a contest

Please call contest directors to assure that the contests are correct before making plans to attend.

A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his father as to

when they could discuss his use of the car.

His father said he'd make a deal with his son, "You bring your grades up from a

C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. Then we'll

talk about the car."

The boy thought about that for a moment, decided, he'd settle for the offer,

and they agreed on it.

After about six weeks his father said, "Son, you've brought your grades up and

I've observed that you have been studying your Bible, but I'm disappointed

you haven't had your hair cut."

The boy said, "You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've noticed

in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had

long hair, Moses had long hair, and there's even strong evidence that Jesus

had long hair."

Then Dad reply’s

"Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?"

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