January, 2015 #49 cwc newsletter of the Club) SAM The CLIPPER - official newsletter of SAM 21 January, 2015 Page 1 January, 2015 #49 · 2016-5-5

The CLIPPER - official newsletter of SAM 21 January, 2015 Page 1

January, 2015 #49 cwc

Society of Antique Modelers Chapter 21 AMA Charter Club

SAM CLIPPER

( Official newsletter of

the “BlackJack”

Club)

... in this issue:

P.2 - … 2014 SAM WESTERN REGIONAL EVENT CALENDAR

P.3 - … DECEMBER MINUTES AND JANUARY AGENDA

P.4 - … FROM THE DECEMBER MEETING / FROM THE RIGHT SEAT

P.5 - … 2014 PIRATES WHITE ELEPHANT GIFT ‘EXCHANGE’

P.6 - … SAM 21 ANNUAL BANQUET NOTICE

P.7 - … SAM 21 ANNUAL BANQUET PROGRAM

P.8 - … EBRC COLLECTO

P.9 - … ALTITUDE LIMITED OLD TIMER EVENT - WHERE ARE YOU?

P10 - … SAM 21 CONTACT LIST - 2015 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Next Meeting:

Thursday, January 22nd, 7:00 pm

SARATOGA FIRE DEPARTMENT (Corner Saratoga Ave & Sunnyvale-Saratoga Hwy)

The Regular Scheduled Goodie (Eberhardt)

And Coffee Assignments (Sargent) Will Continue ...

Thanks to Lescher Dowling for the December Goodies

Pirates all - Most of them anyway....

Left: As usual, there was a large turnout for the annual ‘Pirates’ event. With at least two missing in the fore ground and your editor, the count is19… In the aftermath most agreed that Dr. Joe had ‘won and lost’ the most ‘gifts’(and ended up with the first gift he opened - Santa’s big one) Go figure?


2015 Meeting Dates 7:00 p.m.

@ SARATOGA FIRE DEPARTMENT

Corner Saratoga Ave & Sunnyvale-Saratoga Hwy

January 22

February 26

March 26

April 23

May 28

June 25

July 23

August 27

September 24

October 22

November 19

(due to Thanksgiving Conflict)

December 17

(due to Christmas Conflict)

2015 “GOODIE” Schedule

Here are the assignments for 2015, ex-cusing those who normally do not attend meetings on a regular basis.

If you cannot accommodate this schedule, then it will be your responsibil-ity to “volunteer”/ coerce another mem-ber to take your place. Don’t say you weren't warned.

And, if you feel ‘The Call‘ (and aren’t on this list), please call one of the unfortunate souls on the list or the ‘Standby’ and offer to take their place.

JANUARY Eberhardt FEBRUARY Martinez MARCH Vanderbeek APRIL Peterson MAY Leopold JUNE Lewis JULY NONE AUGUST Gurney SEPTEMBER Henry Smith OCTOBER Saso NOVEMBER Sargent DECEMBER Dowling Standby: Eberhardt

2015 WEST COAST EVENT SCHEDULE Revised 1/14/15 Italics are PRELIMINARY Dates - SUBJECT TO CHANGE) SAT Sun Bold are confirmed dates Shaded are unconfirmed events JAN 3 4 JAN 10 11 JAN 17 18 1/17,18,19, 2015 SOUTHWEST REGIONAL, Eloy Az JAN 24 25 JAN 31 1/31 SAM 21 BANQUET— HOLDER’s Country Inn, San Jose FEB 1 FEB 7 8 FEB 14 15 FEB 21 22 FEB 28 29 2- 28 Saturday only; SGMA Spring Contest: FF/OT RC Waegell Field MAR 1 MAR 7 8 MAR 14 15 MAR 21 22 3-21-22 SAM 26 Spring Annual, Wekerly Field - near Bakersfield MAR 28 29 CD: Dick Fisher - 805-489-4078 APR 4 5 APR 11 12 APR 18 19 APR 25 2627 Saturday Only 4/25 - SAM 21 Speed 400/1/2A TEXACO contest - Dwarf’s Field, So. San Jose MAY 3 4 MAY 2 3 Saturday Only 5/2 - Benny BoxKar Beat Down - Schmidt Ranch MAY 9 10 Sunday 5/10 Mother's Day MAY 16 17 MAY 23 24 MAY 30 31 JUNE 6 7 5-6-7 SAM 21 38th Annual / Second “Loren Schmidt Memorial” - Schmidt Ranch Saturday 6-6 only - West States Champs-FF/OT RC Waegell Field JUNE 13 14 JUNE 20 21 JUNE 27____28 JULY 4 5 JULY 11 12 JULY 18 19 JULY 25 26 7- SAM 30 Fun Fly - ‘Simplex Day’, Schmidt /26 only Ranch AUG 1 2 AUG 8 9 AUG 15 16 AUG 22 23 AUG 29 30 SEPT 5 6 9-5 Only - SGMA Combo Contest - FF/OT RC Waegell Field SEPT 12 13 SEPT 19 20 SEPT 26 27 OCT 3 4 OCT 10 11 OCT 17 18 OCT 24 25 Saturday10-24 Only- SGMA Fall Contest- OT RC Assist, Waegell Field OCT 31 10-25-26 SAM 26 John Pond Commemorative - Wekerly Field - near Bakersfield - CD: Bob Angel 805-937-5145 NOV 1 Saturday 11-1 ONLY - SCCMAS Swap Meet NOV 7 8 NOV 14 15 Saturday November 15th - SAM 21 MECA COLLECTO NOV 21 22 NOV 28 29 Thursday 11-26 Thanksgiving Day DEC 5 6 DEC 12 13 DEC 19 20 Friday 12- 25 Christmas Day DEC 26 27 JAN 1 Friday 1- 16 NEW YEARS DAY 2016


Call to order: President Ken Martinez

Members present:

Guests present:

Introduction of guests:

Approval of minutes of the meeting of December 18, 2014

Treasurer's report: Lescher Dowling

Membership report: Lescher Dowling

Editors report: Bill Copeland:

A) Proposed New Member package

B) Bulk Purchase Poly Span

C) Changes to Clipper Format

Competition report: Dave Lewis:

A) Annual SAM 26 Spring Opener - Bakersfield, March 21-22

Unfinished Business/Reports:

A) Current Build/Fly Project: Copeland - Up date on Benny Boxcar build/fly project. Proposed ‘Bennie BoxKar Beat Down’ date will be Saturday May 2, 2015 at the Schmidt Ranch (Pending approval by Miriam)

B) Continue Discussion: Schmidt Memorial contest: Brian Sargent Contest will be a three day event. June 5-6-7 2015.(Pending approval by Miriam)

C) Annual Banquet: Walt Gurney

D) Standby List Update: Walt Gurney

New business:

A) Membership Cards/Badges: Bill Copeland: 1) 2015 Membership Cards being prepared. 2) Need for new badges - suggested supplier?

BREAK!!!

Show and Tell: All - Open Q&A & Hints session?

Program: TBD

Refreshments: Noel Eberhardt

Coffee by: SAM 21 courtesy of Brian Sargent

Adjournment:

Next meeting: 2/26/2015 at: 7:00 p.m.

Location: SARATOGA FIRE DEPARTMENT Corner Saratoga Ave & Sunnyvale-Saratoga Hwy

DECEMBER 18, 2014 MINUTES JANUARY 22, 2015 AGENDA Call to order: President Gary Leopold at 7:00pm

Members present: 19

Guests present: None

Introduction of guests: ----

Approval of minutes of the meeting of November 20 2014. Approved.. Treasurer's report: Lescher Dowling Club is solvent..

Membership report: Lescher Dowling Regular 29; Life 5; Associate 14; Total 49

Competition report: Dave Lewis: S.W. Regionals, Scheduled for Eloy, Arizona

Unfinished Business/Reports:

A) Current Build/Fly Project: Copeland - Update on Benny Boxcar build/fly project: Proposed date will be Saturday May 2, 2015 (Pending approval by Miriam) It appears we will have about 30 flyers for this event..

B) Continue Discussion: Adopt format and procedures and set date for 2015 Annual Schmidt Memorial contest: Brian Sargent. Contest will be a three day event. June 5-6-7 2015..

C) Annual Banquet: Walt Gurney. Banquet will be on 31 January 2015 at Holders Country Inn,948 S. DeAnza Blvd. San Jose. (Flowers will be given to the ladies attending.)

D) Set Annual Dues: Gary Leopold. Dues for 2015 will remain the same as 2014.

New business:

A) Changes to the ‘Standby List’:Walt Gurney will update the current list.

BREAK!!! 7:28pm Resumed at 7:41pm

Show and Tell: 1. Ken Martinez showed his almost ready to cover Benny Boxcar! 2. Lescher Dowling presented his proposed trophy design for the June contest.

Program: The Famous White Elephant Gift Exchange was exciting as usual…. Refreshments: Lescher Dowling brought his usual beautiful cake with ‘SAM 21’ on frosting after resolving a problem with Cosco.

Coffee by: SAM 21 courtesy of Brian Sargent Adjournment: 8:55pm Next meeting: 1/22/2015 at: 7:00 p.m.

Location: SARATOGA FIRE DEPARTMENT Corner Saratoga Ave & Sunnyvale-Saratoga Hwy


Welcome to 2015… It is important for all to check out the agenda for the January meeting. (see page 3) It is longer than usual and lists some im-portant decisions to be made. Part of the extra length is due to the addi-tion of a new separate item ‘Editors Re-port’. This item gives your Ed an opportu-nity to hear from members regarding Clipper content and format. (I have already received

a good idea from one of the officers during a preliminary discus-sion - which I plan to implement) and also to discuss ‘side is-sues’ I happen to get involved in when interacting with other SAM constituencies on items which need to be brought to the attention of SAM 21. An example is Item B of the Editors Report which could affect the Chapter treasury or, alternately, separate members. Your active participation in the scope, content and format of the Clipper will be truly appreciated.

By the time this issue reaches you the Annual SAM 21 Awards Banquet will be only days ahead. The good news is, that there will still be time to RSVP if you get right on it. (see pages 6 and 7 for complete information) This is the only ‘spouse included on purpose’ event that we produce, always appreciate their humoring us and hope they enjoy meeting and greeting those who they usually know only through the telephone. There will be a drawing with at least 1 model (airplane that is)

engines/motors (including a Speed 400 power kit), and miscella-neous kits and stuff. You will have to be there to claim a prize.

Attention All Fashion Conscious and Cold People: We interrupt this message to bring to your attention that Brian Sargent is looking for 8 or more people to complete a new order for the stylish and warm Embroidered SAM 21 jackets at a reasonable price. Space limits details here, but Brian will be happy to supply them. If you may be interested, contact Brian at: 408-656-3662 or <[email protected]>

… N o t e s F r o m T h e R i g h t S e a t

… From The December

Meeting

AMA 27944 Over and Out…

Above: Brian Chan and Alan Peterson and Jeff Mate seem unimpressed with Ken’s progress on his BoxKar wing and his ‘I won!’ election proclamation.

Left: Newly elected President Ken Martinez, shows his Benny Boxcar framework

Above: An example of SAM 21 ‘multi tasking’: four people doing four different things at the same time. Brian Chan says “Hi Mom” for the camera while Ted Kafer, behind, carefully checks empen-nage construction to ensure conformance to rules, Rick Cutler, left, checks his smart phone and Ken Martinez checks BoxKar plans...

We now resume our regularly scheduled ‘lies and exaggera-

tion’ for which this column is well known…

I take some space here to say a special thanks to Gary Leo-pold, Dave Lewis, Dr. Joe Poco and Lescher Dowling for their service during the past two years. All, except Dr. Joe have served before, and all, including Dr. Joe, deserve extra praise for stepping up when all else fails. The good news is that we have two new officers, President,

Ken Martinez and Secretary Alan Peterson, for the next two years, a third, Ted Kafer, who has previously served (some time back), and a returning (perennial) officer, Treasurer Lescher Dowling who is a glutton for punishment. Having had the ’new officer’ experience myself, I can understand if they are anxious. Let’s make their job as easy as possible by help-ing out whenever help is needed and participating in the busi-ness and activities of the Chapter. Otherwise, why are we here? Oh, the ’otherwise’ is: to HAVE FUN! I have some ideas regarding the ’officer’ problem (recruiting)

that I plan to share with you in the future.


The 2014 Pirates White Elephant Gift Exchange Pictures

Fred Terzian seems pleased with his gift. Much to his dismay - no winners...

Dang it Dr Joe, I wanted that one!!!

Santa Loves Dave...


Poor Ted. No one will sit by him and from the looks of the empty bag and tiny yellow ‘gift’ on the table in front of him he has a right to look bemused...


Perennial Treasurer doing his thing, thinks he’s Bob Cratchet

Dang it !!!

Our other Dave tries to save the wrapping paper - gave up


Former President Leopold tries to ‘kiss up’ to Santa. Didn’t work...

I guess $20 bucks wasn’t enough?

Santa’s huge gift

Dang it Dr Joe, I wanted that one!!! What the

heck is this???

That’s $20 Cash!

Helicopter

Above: To everyone’s delight, Santa Claus himself showed up carrying a large, red striped gift being opened by Dr. Joe, above right, who was by far, the busiest Gift Trader. Santa’s identity (not Dr. Joe’s) was eventually revealed, but all participants were sworn to secrecy on pain of death… so you won’t find it here. You’ll just have to show up next year!

I’m sitting closest to the door so I can be 1st in the cake line...

Ho, Ho, Ho, no one knows. I got it on sale at the Walmart..

C’mon, c’mon get on with it already...


The 2014 SAM 21 ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET

Saturday, JANUARY 31st, 2015

HOLDERS COUNTRY INN 998 SOUTH DEANZA BLVD. SAN JOSE, CA

DOOR PRIZES

LADIES GIFTS

Presentation of PERPETUAL AWARDS

(NO HOST BAR)

OPEN MENU (for Late comers)

See page 7 for program and menu choices...

Drawing Prizes Include:

Three Short Kits

At least two engines

Complete Speed 400 Power Pack

Miscellaneous goodies

And: a ready to fly, Class B Rambler with a Super Tiger .29 - complete with Tx. Provided by Dave Lewis… (If anyone has a donation for the Drawing that is not listed, please feel free to just bring it to the event…)


SAM 21 Awards Banquet Program - January 31, 2015

MC: Past President Gary Leopold

6 PM to 7 PM: Social Hour

7 PM: Dinner

After Dinner: Presentation of Awards, Door Prizes, and Drawing

Entrée Selections Cost (Includes Tax and Tip)*

Prime Rib, au jus with baked potato $33

Chicken Breast with cranberry/apple stuffing $29

Salmon with lemon butter sauce $29

Vegetable: Pasta Primavera $27

Note: All entrees come with house salad, fresh vegetables (except Pasta), rolls, and coffee or tea.

. * Entree costs do not include desserts or well drinks; they can be ordered separately, from the server.

Please mail the lower portion of this program indicating your guest’s names (If more than one, choice(s)), and number of entrée(s) with check made out to SAM 21 by January 26, 2015 to:

Walt Gurney

12767 Homes Drive

Saratoga, CA 95070 - 4016

or E-mail at: [email protected]

(Cut here)

Member: ______________________________________________________________

Guest: __________________________________________________________________

Special Guest(s): _________________________________________________________

Entrée Choice Member Guest Special Guest(s)

Prime Rib ________ ________ ________

Chicken ________ ________ ________

Fish ________ ________ ________

Lasagna ________ ________ ________


SAM 21 At The 2014 E.B.R.C. MECA Collecto


Altitude Limited Old Timer Update

A.L.O.T. Where are you? In case you were wondering what happened to the concept of including an Altitude Limited Old

Timer event in the SAM Champs as a ‘Special Event’, wonder no more as progress is being made behind the scenes to move the proposal forward toward inclusion as a Special Event at the 2015 SAM Champs.

The concept of A.L.O.T adapted to a SAM event was basically co-opted from the very popular A.L.E.S (altitude limited electric soaring) events, and was modified so as to include any SAM legal model with any motive power, except turbines, with a minimum of rules.

To remind you, the idea is to restrict powered altitude to a reasonably easy to see, common limit which, hopefully, would encourage SAM modelers to compete by building event specific mod-els or, even better, add an altitude limiting system to some of their favorite existing SAM models. We’d also expect to see more interesting engines appear since a super high powered “hot rod” type engine would not be required.

A.L.O.T. competition was proposed as a Special Event for the 2013 SAM Champs, but was poorly organized and yielded no useful data. Since then much time and effort has been spent to firm up the rules and find a replacement for the Winged Shadow, Sky Limit unit which went out of production in 2013.

The good news is that testing has shown that the currently available Hobby King Altitude limit-ing unit appears to work satisfactorily. The testing program should be completed by the time you read this, following which a concrete recommendation will be made.

The Hobby King instructions aren’t particularly easy to understand, but at your request, I can forward a re-written instruction to simplify setup.

If you would like more information, I will answer E-mails/Texts at [email protected] or on the telephone at: 925-321-1552.

Ref: WWW.HobbyKing Altitude/Time Limiting System for R/C Airplane

WHY SO HIGH? Ed Note: This piece was published in the Clipper at least four years ago. Has anything changed?

At the risk of exposing my ignorance (again?), and starting an unnecessary controversy, I don't know about you, but the current engine run rules, except for Texaco events perhaps, invite practically out of sight powered climbs - at least almost out of sight for these tired old eyes. Sure, it's great to start the glide portion of a flight at an elevation which allows a lot of time to search for lift but, it

seems to me that the extra height only adds to the "luck" factor. I know, it's usually not possible to max out on a no lift day, even with the great starting altitude, but might it not be more efficient in terms of running a contest (fewer fly offs) and just as, if not more competitive to say, cut the currently allowed engine run times in half or by some other reason-able factor? Why not keep them in sight and more realistically compare the efficiency of the Old Timer designs flew in their original competitions. Compared to our free flight heritage how many times have you seen even well built models literally disintegrate dur-

ing the power portion of the flight? And how many "out of control" climbs happen during the first 5 seconds and the last 10 seconds of the engine flight? Look at it this way - if you were flying your "Old Timer" W/0 RC assist, would you risk free flight based on the current engine run rules? I think not. For me the most enjoyable part of each flight is when the model comes down to an altitude where you can see what it's all about - a beautiful piece of art.

SOAP


PRESIDENT: Ken Martinez: 927 York Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Tele: 415-821-3682 E-mail: [email protected] VICE PREZ: Ted Kafer: 74 South Milton Avenue Campbell, CA 95008 Tele: 408-866-2533 E-mail: [email protected] SECRETARY: Alan Peterson: 1115 Seena Avenue Los Altos, CA 94024 Tele: 650-941-6557 E-mail: [email protected]

TREASURER: Lescher Dowling: 1122 Merrimac Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Tele:408-739-0652 E-mail: [email protected]

48 cents

(as of today)

Bill Copeland 4863 Primrose Lane Livermore, CA 94551

Address Label

Here’s Your Copy of the January, 2015 SAM 21 Clipper (Read at your own risk!)

SAM 21 - 2015 Membership Application Form Check one: NEW Member RETURNING Member Check one: FULL Member $25 ASSOCIATE Member $15 (newsletter only)

SAM No._________________ AMA No. _________________

(Req’d if full)

Name: ______________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________ City, State, Zip ________________________________________ Phone: ____________________ Cell ____________________

E-mail Address: _______________________________________

Mail form to Treasurer: Lescher Dowling

1122 Merrimac Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087

Happy New Year!

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