OFFICERS President: Kevin Schmidt 913-982-7850 E-Mail: klschmidt@comcast.net Vice President: Mike Bare 913-707-9800 E-Mail: kansascloud@yahoo.com Secretary: Larry Mowrey 913-593-6287 E-Mail: rcmodeler@gmail.com Treasurer: Gary Gasser 913-244-7436 E-Mail: gasg4@yahoo.com Member-at-Large: Art Kittler 913-328-2195 E-mail: a4j2425@ gmail.com Editor: Carl Melin 913-636-4946 E-Mail: carl.melin2@gmail.com FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS Steve Milam 913-237-6119 E-mail: smilam49@gmail.com Mike Bare – 913-707-9800 E-Mail: kansascloud@yahoo.com

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November 2019 Next Meeting,

December 5 - At K & M BBQ

Presidents Message RCB, I hope you are all ready for the holiday season! Remember that it’s a good idea to put all of your batteries in storage mode and check your aircrafts over really good for small cracks or tears in the covering. As a reminder our December meeting is our Christmas party at K&M Barbecue in Springhill at 6:00PM: 603 N Webster St, Spring Hill, KS 66083 We will have 3 planes that we will draw for as well as our awards for: Barnstormer of the year Instructor of the year Event of the year Crash of the year As a reminder, you are responsible for your own meal and drinks. It is sure to be a great time, so bring a guest and join us for the festivities. I hope to see you all there! Kevin Kevin Schmidt, President

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MEETINGS PLACE: St. Francis Episcopal Church, 179th and Metcalf

DAY: First Thursday of Each Month TIME: 7:00 p.m.

Visitors are WELCOME!

RC BARNSTORMERS’ NOVEMBER MINUTES November 7, 2019 @ 7pm President: Kevin Schmidt, presiding Members Present: 8 Secretary’s Report – Larry J. Mowrey Motion to accept by Steve Milam. Seconded by Larry Klusman. Approved. Treasurer’s Report – Bill Payne Motion to accept from Steve Milam. Seconded by Gary Gasser. Approved. Old Business: Fertilizer: Gary Gasser. Still needing to be purchased. Membership Involvement: Mark Bare. Think of ideas of getting more members to participate in the club meetings. One idea is having a Flight Test evening. January will be a training session. Have a demonstration at the February meeting. Possibility giving away a Flight Test kit hoping to generate attendance. Steve Milam reminded the club of the Build and Fly events at the field; maybe reconsider doing this again in May or June. Invertor: Steve Milam will be checking at Harbor Freight for one. Get some prices. New Business: Christmas Party: December 5. K&M BBQ @ 6 pm. No planes ordered yet. Hobby King Tundra or the Timber possible. PT-17 possible. Indoor Flying: Gordon McWilliams will reach out to John Rayne. The location is in Osawatomie. He did reach out to John but no response. Sanctions: Kevin said that we need to get these in now. Turkey Fun Fly: Gary Gasser, Nov 23. Suggested having a fun fly on this day. Aerobatic Fun Fly: Vince Bortone. Requesting May 2, 2020 for this event. Approved. Barnstormers Pattern Contest: Vince Bortone. Requesting May 30-31, 2020 for this event. Approved.

Barnstormers Float Fly: Pat McGhee. Requesting June 6-7, 2020 for this event. Approved Barnstormers Quickee Races: Gordon McWilliams. Interested in one of the June dates for this. January 2nd Club Meeting: Kevin Schmidt. Have chili/soup at this meeting. Spring Hill Craft Bazaar: Larry Mowrey. Went over rather well. Those Barnstormers who donated their time for this event were: Steve Milam, Don Kuehn, Bill Payne, Art Kittler and myself. We gave away a lot of magazines which have our name and website on them. Memorial Plaque at the Field: Gather up all the names of those who have gone on and have them placed on the plaque. Awards’ Nominations: Barnstormer of the Year – Steve Milam, Carl Melin, Bill Payne, Larry Mowrey Instructor of the Year – Steve Milam Event of the Year – Float Fly, Pattern Contest Crash of the Year – Gary Gasser, Pat McGhee 2020 Treasurer: After speaking with Bill Payne, he has an individual who will take over the Treasurer’s responsibilies after he retired in March of 2020. Bill will submit that name at the January 2020 meeting. Models of the Month: No planes this month Monthly Drawing: $10 Hobby Haven Gift Certificate – Bill Payne Respectfully Submitted, Larry Mowrey, Secretary

Events Schedule (Note: R/C Barnstormer Special Events are Highlighted December7–SMRCSwap-N-Shop–LenexaCommunityCenterFebruary1–KCRC’sAnnualSwapN’Shop–JohnKnoxPavilion,LS,MO

Members Since the last Meeting, we have no new or renewed members.

Vice Presidents Report

Winter Building Season??

I stopped by Hobby Haven the other day. It wasn’t real busy. I got to visit with Gary for a few minutes. He mentioned that this used to be the busiest time of the year. It was building season! Not anymore. Now most everyone just buys their airplanes ready to go. Am I one of the last builders? Building is in full swing at my shop. However…. building has changed a lot for me. I remember the days when the building season produced one airplane at the most. Building an airplane (even from a nice lazer cut kit took months). Those lazer cut kits are almost none existent now, but in reality there has never been a better time to build. New modern methods of kit building and scratch building have been developed in just the last few years. It is now possible to build a great flying, great looking airplane in only a few evenings using these new methods. It is easy to see the value in the incredible new ready built models. (I own a few) however, if you are like me, something is missing. I think it is the fact that I had little to do with the success or failure of the airplane. Or maybe it is the fact that a thousand other modelers are flying exactly the same airplane I have? I need a little more skin in the game personally. To see a one of a kind model that I built from nothing take flight is tremendously gratifying to me. If you remember that feeling from years ago, but just can’t justify spending all winter building a project that might be destroyed on the first flight, mark your calendar to attend the first club meeting of 2020 on Thursday January 5. We will take some time to discuss Flite Test and why it has become such a big deal in our

hobby. Plus we will have some hands on demonstrations of basic Flite Test building methods. A word of caution. Flite Test can become VERY addictive. However, its a great addiction. It can get you back into building and it won’t break the bank building from one dollar sheets of foam board. Hope to see you there for this fun and informative meeting!! Mike Bare, Vice President

Safety Officer It’s near the end of the year and the days suitable for flying are getting to be fewer and fewer. Looking back at how things went safety wise I don’t think we did to bad. I can only think of two incidents which is really two to many and both were a momentary loss of concentration. Both times it was proof that propellers are not very forgiving. I would like everybody to think about what they are doing while starting an engine. Where is your transmitter laying, your starter, and your starter battery. Can you comfortably reach your transmitter? Is the throttle at or near idle? Are your glow driver and starter leads clear of the prop? Are these leads clear of your throttle stick so they don’t advance the throttle accidentally? Once you put a glow driver on the glow plug never put your hand in the propeller arc. If you need to back the propeller off of compression do it with your starter or chicken stick or anything except your fingers in case it fires. Be aware of where you and others are in case the engine backfires and throws off the prop and spinner. There is also the possibility that the prop can have a blade break off. After the engine starts try to resist the urge reach past the spinning propeller to remove the glow driver. If you must reach past the propeller to remove the glow driver reach really high going past and coming back past. I have seen people reach well above the spinning prop to remove the glow driver and then pulling their hand almost straight back nearly dragging their hand thru the prop. It’s much better to move behind the propeller arc to remove the glow driver and adjusting the needle.

When I am training people to land I stress over and over to not try to salvage a bad approach. Power back up and go around and set up your approach again. Trying to salvage a bad approach almost never works out to be a good landing. I need to remember that advice myself. A few days ago I started a loop while practicing the IMAC maneuvers and ended up flying over the pitts. I started the maneuver to close to the flight line and my wings weren’t level. The plane was inverted and getting closer to the flight line so I tried to push it back out with the rudder. I know that when the plane is inverted I give the wrong rudder command about 75 percent of the time. Instead of gently giving it right rudder to make sure I was giving it the correct command I gave it full left rudder. It only took a fraction of a second to pass over my head and as I turned I was staring directly into the sun. When I was able to make out my airplane I rolled out and flew it back to where it belonged. I could and should have aborted that maneuver at any point starting with being too close to the flight line. I should have gone around and started the maneuver farther away from the flight line. There were three different times that I should have aborted that maneuver before it was ever close to going over the pits. I promise I will remember my own advice the next time. I am not saying I will never have a plane over the pits again but it won’t be because of multiple mistakes. Have a safe month and year. Merry Christmas

Steve Steve Milam, Safety Officer

FOR SALE

Here New decals of the club logo are available in 2.5" and 3" diameter. These are great for putting on your plane, flight box, or vehicle. They will be available at the club meeting for $2.00 a pair for either size. Glass Door Cabinet to replace the Cork Board! Steve built a really nice fly cabinet for the field. You will see it attached at the end of the Newsletter!! And Look for the Swap and Shop Flyers on the Last Page of this Newsletter

DIRECTIONSFORALLCONTESTDIRECTORSAND/ORORGANIZERSOFBARNSTORMERCLUBEVENTS_____1. TheCD/organizershouldpresenta

requestfortheuseofthefieldfortheireventwithadate,raindate,and

aproposedbudgetatleastonemonthpriortotheevent.

_____2. TheCD/organizershouldcontacttheFieldCommittee(GaryGasserandSteveMilam)withanyrequestforspecialfieldpreparations.

_____3. TheCD/organizershouldcontactthepreviouseventCD/organizeraboutanyfoodordrinksthatmighthavebeenleftoverfromtheirevent.

_____4. TheCD/organizershouldtrytolimitpurchasestowhatislikelytobe

consumedsincetherearestoresclosebyiftheyshouldrunshortonanything.

_____5. Leftovercondimentsanddrinksshouldnotbestoredinthestoragecontainer(hereaftercalledthe“container”)becauseofextremetemperaturechanges.

_____6. Thereareatleasttwo(2)propanetanksinthecontainer.Ifyouemptyone,haveitrefilledimmediatelysothatthenexteventdoesn’trunout.TurnthatreceiptintotheTreasurer.

_____7. Cleanthegrillinsideandoutsideaftereveryevent.Dothispreferablyattheendofeachday,incasethereisn’tasecondday.

_____8. Cleantheclubutensilsaftertheeventbeforeputtingtheminthetubandthenintothecontainer.

_____9. Anythingremovedfromthecontainerwillneedtobereturnedtothelocationwhereitwasfoundinthecontainer.Thisdoesn’tmeanjustinsidethecontainer;itmeanstotheshelfwhereitwasfound.

_____10. Pickupalltrash.Emptyalltrashcansandtakethetrashtothemaintenance

_____11. buildingtrashreceptacle.Trashbags

areinthecontainer.

_____12. Donotjunkupthecontainer.Itisnotacatch-allforitemsthatmaybesomebodyelsemightuseinthefuture.

_____13. Whoeverorganizesaneventwillberesponsibleformakingsureeverythingisdone.AppointsomebodytotakecareofitiftheCD/organizerisunableto.

_____14. Returnanitemizedreportofallexpenditures,plusanyextramoniesandreceiptstothetreasurerwithinaweekafteryourevent.

For Sale - Gimbal protectors for your transmitter(s) These will protect your joysticks while the transmitter is housed in your transmitter box. $2 for two of them. Contact Larry J. Mowrey

Carl Melin, Editor R/C Barnstormers MAC 11544 S. Lennox St. Olathe, KS 6606 carl.melin2@gmail .com Address Correction Requested

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520 NW Murray Rd., Lee’s Summit

Take Highway 50 East off of I-470 Exit West on NW Chipman Rd.

Immediate Left on NW Murray Rd.

John Knox Pavilion Hours: 9 A.M.– 3 P.M.

RC Planes-Boats-Helicopters-Cars (Buy-Sell-Trade)

Admission $5.00 — Kids Under 12 Free Concessions Stand Available at Noon

Walk-up Registration begins 8 A.M (Assuming tables are available)

Vendor setup at 8 A.M. Doors Open to Buyers at 9 A.M.

Please Consider Friday Evening SetupPavilion will be open for setup from 5–7 P.M.

and will be secure over nightMail Registration Form and Fee to:

Duane Hulen KCRC Swap ’N’ Shop

1020 SE 11th Lee’s Summit, MO 64081

Pre-Registration is Recommended Tables sell out fast!

Questions? Call Duane at 816.516.4526 or email

drhulen@sbcglobal.net

Saturday, February 1, 2019

Pavilion

Ask for Registration forms inside Store