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The Slow Roll is published by the Sun Valley Fliers by and for its membership to all others interested in the

building and flying of radio control aircraft.

Inside this issue: Cover Photo by Marty Jones AMA Letter President Report Game Changer Many Photos Minutes Magic Carpet Birthdays in Ad page SVF MEMBERS Photos GREAT VIDEOS What’s Happening SVF Electric Fly In Flyer SVF MEETING October 7 @ 7 PM

THE PRESIDENTS CHANNEL Frank Moskowitz

October 2015 Slow Roll Presidents Letter 

Welcome to the October 2015 Slow Roll. 

Finally after many years we are  in  the process of updating our website.   Technology continues to advance.  Most members access the web today via a smartphone or tablet. Our new modern website will allow full views proportional to whatever device or size 

screen you view it on.   Our content will be modernized,  it will have visual appeal, and it can be managed and updated easily.  The first impression of a website should obviously be the overall layout.  Readers visit‐ing our website are looking for useful information. Fresh and unique website content  is a very important factor  in encouraging people to revisit our site more often.   Have a  look.   Go to www.sunvalleyfliers.com and explore.   We encourage your comments as we build  this new site.   For  those of you unwilling  to ex‐plore,  there  is still a  link at the top of the page titled  “Legacy Site” which will  take you to the old site.    I would like to thank member Scott Johnson for his technical skills in putting this new site up and helping us update and modernize. 

No  events  for  October  but  Saturday November  14th will  be  our  Fifteenth  Annual  Electric  Turkey  Fly‐In. This  event will  be  supporting  a  really  good  cause….  “Home Fur Good”  which  is  an  Animal  Rescue  and Placement Center.    John Geyer will be CD  for  this event. See  the  flyer  in  this edition of  the Slow Roll  for more details.   

A few members have asked me if they fly a foamie or micro size airplane, do they still need a spotter.  We all take liberties when it comes to small foam airplanes.   But Foamies or Park Fliers (airplanes under two pounds) do fly while others are flying.  While they do not pose a problem regarding our 400 foot rule, they still can be invoved in a mid‐air if other pilots are flying and for that reason we require all pilots to have a spotter.        Just use good common sense  if you are  the only one  flying.   The rules are also posted at each flight station on the metal signs. Remember: Spotters must be AMA members. 

Cooler weather is coming so if you need to replace your old tattered hoodie or jacket, visit our new website and  click on  the  “Sun Valley Fliers Apparel”  link.    “Embroidery and Accessories”  is where you will  find these products with stitched logos and your name as options. 

Please join us for our next club meeting Wednesday October 7th at Deer Valley Restaurant.    We will have many raffle prizes and the 50/50 could make you very happy $$$. You never know what might happen, and you don’t want to miss it.  Meetings start at 7:00 pm.  If you want to eat I suggest you arrive no later than 6:15 pm. Location is Deer Valley Airport Restaurant. (7th avenue and Deer Valley Road).  

Have fun out there! 

Frank Moskowitz 

President 

SVF MEETING OCTOBER 7 @ 7 PM

Sun Valley Fliers General Membership Meeting Minutes – 9-2-2015    Meeting called to order by Frank Moskowitz at 7:00 Pm. There were 16 members present

Executive members in attendance

• Frank Moskowitz- President, Tony Quist – VP, Lou Pfeifer IV- Secretary, J B Bowers –Treasurer

Board Members in attendance: • Charlie Beverson, Bob True, Andrew Schear, John Russell, Eric Stevens, Mike smith, Wayne Layne.

Absent: • Steve Miller, Dan Bott

Open: • Frank welcomed the members and the board.

Guests: • None

New Members: • None

Solo Pilots: • None

Secretary’s Report – Lou Pfeifer • Minutes from the 8-5-2015 meeting were approved as published in the Slow Roll.

Treasurer’s Report – J B Bowers • J B gave his financial report to the members. His report is on record for review upon request by the members.

Membership Director’s Report – Mike Peck • Mike is away no report.

Safety Officer’s Report – Tom Kametz • No report at this time. Tom is away at this time.

Old Business • Possibility of the dirt between the FLYING STATIONS being filled in with asphalt. This is still under discussion at

this time as a Board issue. • The Safety netting along the runway is going to be replaced soon.

New Business • Possibility of private help with funding the paving the open dirt pilot areas. • Possibility of moving up the (FLY HERE) spot closer to the netting. • These items to be discussed at the Board Meeting.

Door Prize Winners:  • John Russell, Bernard Dorenbecher, Jim Spice, Lou Pfeifer Sr. J B Bowers, Tony Quist, Craig Demarcus,

Lou Pfeifer IV, Bob Purdy, Wayne Layne, 50/50 Winner:

• Bernard Dorenbecher Show And Tell:

• None

The meeting adjourned at 7:16 pm Respectfully submitted,

Lou Pfeifer IV, Secretary

F-104 STARFIGHTER ASSOCIATION

RADAR DOME BUBBLE CHECK - BY JIM SMITH

Another flight profile, that I do not have a picture of, was our typical flight up the west coast of California.

On weekends, several of us enjoyed flying to the North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego to make a “rum run” across the border to buy cheaper rum and tequila (those days are also passed as a fond mem-

ory!). On our way back up the coast for our return, we had far too much fuel to climb high, so we loved to

“hug” the water off the coast of California to burn fuel more quickly.

Midway up the coast is the Monterey peninsula. On the famous 17-mile scenic drive, there are many golf courses that rank as some of the best and most desir-able to play in the world. Among them are the Pebble Beach and Cypress Point golf courses. Both have one green extending into the bay with a narrow isthmus from the fairway to get to the green. What a tempta-tion this was for hot, young F-104 pilots! Imagine the

fun of coming in on the tops of the waves from the south, passing between the tee box and the green, pulling straight up, popping in the 'burner, and looking to see any golfers prostrated on the fairway, cov-ering their ears because of the screaming whine of our J79 engines, and wondering what just hap-pened?!

Just before returning to Hamilton AFB, CA, we passed Mount Tamalpais, standing with a 2,574' (785 m) elevation, northwest of San Francisco Bay. At 2,563' up the mountain was the GCI radar dome/bubble where the controllers for the 83rd FIS were located. It got boring sitting in that dome all day, so when our controllers got the chance and had any fighters returning from the Pacific, they called us on their radio and asked for a “bubble check” (purportedly to see if their radar dome looked alright). Of course, we had to fly very low and close to their bubble to check it.

As we began our run, our controllers ran outside to wait for our approach up the side of the mountain. We both loved it when we slid up the mountain and pulled straight up after passing their bubble, giving them full 'burners for effects. I have experienced that from our F-104 cockpit as well as on the ground as other pilots flew a bubble check while I was visiting our radar site.

Even after so many years, the memories of those adventures still get good endorphins going in my body!

Thanks Mike.

This flight of four 83rd FIS F-104’s over the Golden Gate Bridge, near San Francisco, became famous on our Christmas cards each year. I always refused to confirm if we ever went under the bridge, but I can confirm that we would never have taken a picture of it!

AMA’s Response to the FAA’s Drone Sighting Report

September 14, 2015

Dear Members,

As many of you are aware, there has been a marked increase in sensational media reports of drones allegedly flying too close to manned aircraft. The alarm this has caused was compounded by the FAA’s August 12 press release, “Pilot Reports of Close Calls with Drones Soar in 2015.”

In order to better understand what’s actually occurring, and what role AMA could play to advance safe flying, our organization closely analyzed each of the 764 records in the FAA’s dataset. AMA’s analysis, “A Closer Look at the FAA’s Drone Data ,” reveals a more complex picture of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/drone) activity in the United States than the initial headlines would suggest. From mili-tary crashes to a UFO sighting, only a fraction of the reports were legitimately reported “close calls” or “near misses.” You may have already seen the report in this morning’s USA Today (“Drone hobbyists find flaws in "close call" reports to FAA from other aircraft”) or on VICE News (“ Drones are the new UFOs”).

While AMA works closely with the FAA, and we continue to consider the agency a partner in promoting model aircraft and consumer drone safety, our report concludes that the FAA could have done a better job of presenting their data in a more factually accurate manner. By using misleading language in its press release, releasing only preliminary reports and not critically analyzing those reports, the FAA’s report only served, at best, to paint a cloudy and less than accurate picture and raises concerns that simply may not be realistic.

Today, AMA distributed a press release to the media with its findings. Additionally, AMA sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and the FAA Administrator Michael Huerta. AMA also sent a letter to members of Congress.

As you read through the report, please feel free to contact us should you have any questions. Also, please make sure to share this report on your Twitter, Facebook and any other social channels.

Dave Mathewson Executive Director

The Tucson Aerobatic Shootout will be held this year, October 14th - 18th in Marana Ari-zona. TIMPA is located just outside of Tucson at 3250 N Reservation Rd and gates will be open to the public. Admission for spectating is $5 per person with a maximum of $10 per car. Food vendors will be on site so come by and watch the best pilots from around the world com-pete for $100,000 in cash and prizes. The best days for spectators is during the freestyle rounds held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Ron Marshall Fokker D VI Scratch built, 6 years in

the making.

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W O TR

In Theater: Game Changer In the world’s largest theater of war, three aircraft proved decisive: a Navy dive bomber, a Navy fighter, and an Army bomber. The Douglas SBD Dauntless won essential victories in the year after Pearl Harbor: Coral Sea, Midway, and the Guadalcanal battles. Thereafter, Japan never regained the strategic initiative. Grumman’s F6F Hellcat defeated Japanese airpower. Hellcats represented the tip of the spear in America’s Central Pacific Offensive between 1943 and 1945, destroying nearly as many Japanese a and China-Burma-India Theaters combined.

Then there was Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 was unlike anything else flying, a half-generation leap from the B-17 and its contemporaries. Pressurized for 30,000-foot cruising at high speed with a large bomb load and a 1,500-mile mission radius, it was in many ways the world’s most advanced aircraft. The AAF ordered 14 evaluation samples and 250 produc-tion aircraft in May 1941, long before the first flight. But there were problems. Lots of them. Leading the long list of technical gremlins was the Wright R3350. Though delivering 2,200 hp, the twin-bank Duplex Cyclone suffered serious heating problems that were only cured late in the program. If the magnesium case caught fire, the crew had a 13% chance of saving the airplane. The prototype flew in September 1942, but five months later Boeing’s chief test pilot Eddie Allen and 10 others died trying to land with a fire. Nonetheless, the Army Air Force persisted. Eventually nearly 4,000 Superforts were built, a massive effort expanding well beyond Boeing’s home in Seattle. Factories in three other states contributed to the effort while the AAF struggled to deal with a myriad of problems. “The Battle of Kan-sas” was fought in early 1944 when the Wichita plant overcame most of the 29’s problems. Meanwhile, Gen. Hap Arnold insisted on deploying the new bomber prematurely. The first B-29 wing went to India in early 1944, at the end of the war’s longest supply line. Eventually Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay produced results, but logistics forced the CBI units to move to the Marianas Islands in early 1945. There, with XXI Bomber Command, the Superfort showed its worth. From November 1944 to August 1945, B-29s destroyed most of Japan’s urban-industrial areas. The awesome effectiveness of incendiary weapons was demonstrated one night in March 1945 when LeMay’s crews razed one-sixth of Tokyo. The nu-clear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally convinced Emperor Hirohito to “bear the unbearable” and over-ride his war cabinet. Superforts flew again in Korea from 1950-53, mainly limited to night missions owing to the MiG threat. With improved en-gines the B-29D became the B-50, which soldiered on as a tanker until the 1960s. Seven decades later, the Superfortress remains high atop the pyramid of strategic game changers. by Barrett Tillman

Charlie Beverson Parasail

Dan Bott mini Avanti S.

90 MM all metal EDF for the Avanti S

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Kyle, Jake, & Yuri!

In Theater: Operation Magic Carpet In the summer of 1945, the U.S. military spawned a generation of poets who shared one sentiment: “Those who want to be a hero, They number almost zero. Those who want to be civilians… Gee—they number in the millions!” As early as 1943, the Pentagon began contingency planning for returning mil-lions of personnel from overseas when-ever victory was won. It was an enor-mous task, sardonically cited by cartoon-ist Bill Mauldin who showed the every-man GIs Willie and Joe sulking at an embarkation port: “I don’t remember no delays getting us over here.” The first “Magic Carpet” ships left Europe in June 1945, barely a month after VE Day. With the Navy fully committed to the Pacific, most of the shipping came from the Mer-chant Marine or the U.S. Army, carrying some 430,000 men to the East Coast per month. Fleet aircraft carriers were popular Magic Carpet rides, as they could accommodate 3,000 or more re-turnees. The brand new Essex class ship, Lake Champlain (CV-39), was modified for Atlantic use, and the battle-scarred, invaluable Enterprise (CV-6) made Carpet cruises in both directions. After Japan’s unexpected capitulation in September, the Navy swung into action with ships to spare. Some 350 Pacific Fleet vessels were employed, everything from transports and hospital ships to battle-ships and cruisers. Meanwhile, 29 transports shuttled from the Far East, delivering China-Burma-India veterans to loved ones. Whatever the type of ship, the accommodations were steerage class. Bunks were welded three, four, and even five high, with round the clock meal schedules. Water—always at a premium aboard ship—was strictly rationed. Said more than one serviceman, “When we walked off that boat we were pretty rank—but nobody cared!” The transatlantic movement went both ways. With Magic Carpet ships being empty eastbound, more than 400,000 German and Italian prison-ers were repatriated, however rubble-strewn their nations may have been. The task was completed by early 1946. By Barrett Tillman

VIDEOS and Websites Links Click on to view video, website

World champion Aude Lemordant 2:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wu_pysRWlU

RED BARON 5:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XIiuyijwKRs#t=0

Installation of the Incity tower spire by helicopter 5:10

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qJHlXe_RnYo

CUB Formation Flight with Jeff & Yuri 12:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFcT7dtx2-k&feature=youtu.be

GIANT RC 66% SCALE AEROKOT BIPLANE 8:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=39&v=12byre5nXJ4

Stealth Bomber Refuelling 2:57

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0bc_1428285879

RENO WINNERS http://reports.airrace.org/

RENO Precious Metal

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a17269/precious-metal-p-51/

Here is a web site for those that are looking for your lost plans or are looking for that special airplane you what to build.

AeroFred.com

RC L-39 Albatros XXXL 8:40 https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Fq_rae3k-uo

SVF Website Buy & Sell items. http://www.sunvalleyfliers.com/classifieds/classifieds.htm

My thanks to those who passed this info on.

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October 2015 SVF Birth Day Boys First name Last name Member type Dob

Robert Purdy Senior 10/01/1935 George Metro Senior 10/01/1943 Craig Guest Regular 10/01/1966 Dean Brox Regular 10/02/1973 Cecil Walters Lifetime 10/03/1940 Garrett Dauphars Regular 10/04/1963 Abe Mirich Regular 10/11/1970 Steve Miller Regular 10/16/1952 John Elder Senior 10/20/1946 Ryan Field Regular 10/20/1980 John Wolcott Regular 10/20/1972 Ken Rhoads Senior 10/22/1950 Ken Justice Regular 10/22/1951 Ramon Rosenkrans Regular 10/22/1975 David Thielman Senior 10/24/1947 Keith Hoffman Regular 10/28/1956 Neil Wallis Regular 10/29/1969 Robert Ritchey Regular 10/30/1955 Howard Buxton Senior 10/31/1937

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