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December 2013 Next Meeting: December 18th, 2013 AMA Chartered Club # 139

Web Site: http://flypcc.org/ Field Phone: 650-712-4423

President Mike Solaegui 415-314-6261 mikes@perfectedgecutlery.com Vice President Oliver Salles 650-375-1960 N.A. Secretary Dennis Lowry 415-285-4496 dennis.lowry@groupdelphi.com Treasurer Greg Romine 650-736-7230 gsromine@stanford.edu Field Safety Officer / Webmaster Matt Abrams 415-370-3323 matt@matt-abrams.com Membership Chairman Vacant Editor/Flight Proficiency Chairman

Brian Chan 650-867-8813 pcceditor@gmail.com

WHAT’S HAPPENING @ PCC

NOVEMBER MEETING MINUTES Dennis Lowry

PCC Monthly Meeting Minutes

Call to Order: By Mike Solaegui the President

Guests:

Steve Maller is a HMB Photographer with Multi Rotor experience.

Jeff Dam is a Darrel Watt friend, flying foamies and electrics and night fliers from Roosevelt with Darrel a Photographer

Al Thomas an old time 70 year veteran flew 30 years ago at Alves Dairy.

Max Willig a 3 year flier and scratch builder.

September Minutes Approved

Raffle Prize: A Park Master by Multiplex

Christmas Party 1/18/14

John Bassetto to be MC

Ray will plan everything; contact Harry’s Hofbrau, etc.

Treasurers Report:

The General Fund is Healthy.

Field Fund is Healthy and being reserved.

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Membership Report: 96

Safety Report:

A wild person was reported by the president.

No plugging in batteries in the cold pits except with prop off the spinner.

No Taxiing into the pits. Ken will mark the entry to the hot pits.

FPV flying: AMA says we need to stay within line of sight with a spotter, and we should follow those rules. Marsh road off Willow and 101 is a good place for it.

Field Report: It’s in Pretty Good shape. Ray can haul a dump run in his trailer if we pile it up.

Events: No Contests

Flight Proficiency: Will revive.

Old Business:

None!

New Business:

There was a request for a pilots’ station north of the pits.

Hits and Misses

Steve Maller is testing a Teradeck clip 1080p video wyfy downlink system. A $400 item seems to be working well.

An Estes Nano-Copter for $40 is a great Christmas Gift.

Ray says Hobby King has a sound system for $40, but there is a weight factor. $188 from Shock Sound is the same but better.

Sad Stories

Max Willig lost a 2.4 due to antenna being shadowed by the battery at Roosevelt.

Show and Tell:

Dennis showed a Herr Engineering Pitts Special originally built by Kirk Phaling and finished in Brodak.

Jeff Dam showed a night flying jet with a 70mm fan. Needs a 55mph speed to start flying but is very cool with several configurations of lighting.

Ray Showed a Cessna Cardinal he picked up at a swap meet and upgraded.

Mike showed a big ole’ war bird, a P-40 Top Flight at 1/5 Scale. Has a DA 55 with Robart retracts AND a retract tail wheel. He had a little trouble with the flaps, but worked it out. It should come in at 22 lbs finished. There are 11 channels in the receiver.

Matt showed a Twisted Hobbies Cracked Beaver, a 3-D flyer. $150 full up, and lots of fun.

Eric showed two: A 90cm Wiesel and a longer span 120cm version knock off of the first. He bought the bat fuselage at good will. And the Wiesel flies great already.

Dave Santana showed a Mako upgrade, but better, that he made from sheet metal and foam. He can knock off many fuselages very quickly, so he will be ready for a contest soon.

Daniel showed an Aline Nitro 600 Helicopter. 15 minutes on a tank. The electric is quicker to power on, but the nitro gives more stick time. So the electric is good for contests, but for daily flying nitro.

Adjourned:

Ruth Cady won the Raffle. Dennis

UPCOMING EVENTS December 18 PCC Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Dave Chetcuti Rm, Millbrae Bring your dues to the meeting! 25 Christmas Day. 31 New Years Eve, last day of 2013!!!

January 2014

1 New Year's Day. A good day to fly if you have your AMA card. 15 PCC Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Dave Chetcuti Rm, Millbrae (meeting location may change, if it is, you will be notified by email or phone call.) 18 PCC Holiday Party, Harry's Hofbrau, Redwood City.

PCC HOLIDAY PARTY Ray Squire

The holiday party will be held on January 18, 2014 at Harry's Hofbrau, 1019 El Camino Real, in Redwood City. The tickets will be same as last year $30.00 per ticket. No host cocktails at 6 PM and dinner a 7 P.M. Tickets will be on sale at the December and January meeting also at the door. See Ray Squire.

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RENEWAL TIME AGAIN!! Yes, how time flies when you are having fun! It is that time again, slowly approaching Thanksgiving and Christmas! It is time to renew your PCC and AMA membership.

Renew your AMA membership now in order to get the 2014 Card before January. AMA renewal can be done online @

https://www.modelaircraft.org/joinrenew.aspx

2014 AMA membership is required to renew your

2014 PCC membership, NO EXCEPTION!

You can also visit http://www.modelaircraft.org to learn about special options for AMA members including alphanumeric AMA numbers.

When you receive your 2014 AMA card, mail a copy of it along with your $125.00 ($100.00 Dues + $25.00 field fee) check made out to “PCC” to:

PCC Treasurer 1779 Woodland Ave., Ste. #28

Palo Alto, CA 94303 Or bring your AMA card and a check (or cash!) to the next PCC meeting. Dues are $100.00 + $25.00 if paid before the New Year, $110.00 + $25.00 after January 1st 2014. It will be $120.00 + $25.00 if paid after February 1st! If you have not paid after March 1st, you are no long member of PCC and required to reapply.

HEY, HERE'S A NEW IDEA!

OFFICER SELECTION, NOV. MEETING The yearly officer selection will be held at the November general meeting on November 20th. Be there to defend yourself or you will be selected! OK, if you were at the November, you will know that President Mike did not hold an election for the 2014 Officers at the meeting. Rumor has it, it will happen in the December meeting.

TOUR OF THE NORTHWEST Brian Chan

In October we drove north to see the Pacific Northwest. We spent 5 days going a big loop, going North on Hwy 101 and cut across from the Coast to Hwy 5 and back down on Hwy 5. A couple stops that worth mentioning were the Tillamook Air Museum and Evergreen Aviation Museum.

Tillamook Air Museum, 6030 Hangar Road, Tillamook, OR 97141.

It is housed in a giant airship hangar just like the Hangar 2 and 3 at Moffett Field. All wood structure, it is very impressive to see that much wood above your head!

The aircrafts on display includes Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy, Aero L-29 Delfin Bellanca Air Cruiser 1938, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Boeing PT-17 Stearman, Chance

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Vought A-7 Corsair, Chance Vought F4U-7 Corsair 13372, Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, Douglas AD-4W Skyraider, Douglas A-26 Invader, Douglas A-4B Skyhawk, Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber, Fairchild GK-1, Grumman F-14A Tomcat, Grumman FM-2 Wildcat, Grumman TBM Avenger, Kaman HTK -1 Helicopter, Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon, Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Martin AM-1 Mauler, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar Nord 1101, North American P-51 Mustang.

Air museum entrance.

Inside the hangar.

A nice clean DC-3.

There is not much fanfare about this museum, all the planes are just sitting there and you can walk up and look and

The Spacelines Mini Guppy.

The inside of the Mini Guppy.

touch them. The hangar is about half full of planes, part of them is full of RV, may be an indoor storage yard?? The airport is an active airfield, you can even rent a ride at the shop on the same field. I saw a P-51 came back from a ride when I was there.

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

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The second place we stopped is the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. We stopped in a lot of places but mainly food related, not aviation related!

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, 500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR 97128

I visited this place about 10 years ago, when the Spruce Goose was being prepared and not yet open for visit. Now they have 4 big buildings there, the original aviation museum, a space flight museum, a theater and a water park. The indoor water park has a full size Boeing 747 sitting on top and you start the water slide within the 747!

The main attraction, The Spruce Goose.

The main menu is AIRPLANES and there are lots of them around, to the point there are planes on top of planes. One could spend a day just in the aviation part of the museum. With displays ranging from the elegant aeronautic designs of two unknown bike mechanics – Orville and Wilbur Wright – to an actual Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that can fly at speeds of over 2,000 miles per hour. The centerpiece of these aeronautic breakthroughs is the original Spruce Goose. Built entirely of wood due to wartime restrictions on metals, this massive airplane stands as a symbol of American industry during World War II.

The Blériot XI

The wood overcast?

The angle pieces are wood laminated!

The Space Museum building is just as big as the aviation building, it is not all space related stuffs. It houses aircrafts and space related hardware but not as interesting (to me!) Part of that building houses classrooms and workshops for kids. Actually there were active classes going on so part of the museum was off-limits during class time. I did not go through the water park this time, I guess I am a little too mature for that!

The Evergreen Space Museum.

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The Space Museum Building.

The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum were founded in the memory of Captain Michael King Smith, the exhibits celebrate the lives of innovators, pilots, and veterans who courageously pioneered flight in these remarkable machines.

The drones are housed in the Space Museum.

The drone does not look that much different than our models. Actually, a lot of components used on this drone commonly found on radio controlled aircrafts.

A Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance aircraft.

Grumman Mohawk OV-1 observation & attack aircraft.

The Evergreen Wings and Waves Waterpark.

I found these two museums are good place to visit if you are an airplane nut like me. Expect to spend some time in each to really looking all the aircrafts. I also found the docent in the Evergreen Aviation Museum very knowledgeable and helpful, since most of them served in the military and ARE airplane nuts too. Since both museums are privately owned, there is an entrance fee.

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Correction: The Shoestring belongs to Ken Martinez and not Dave S as stated in the November newsletter .

Mike N and his Mini Sparrowhawk.

Team Ourique, Melanie and Robert.

Mike's Sparrowhawk on final approach.

Hans, Jim and Melanie.

WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE HERE?

3 for 3! Saw this sign on the road trip to the Pacific Northwest.

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Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Officer Selection at the December Meeting. Yes, be there!