AMA News - District VI Report

Charlie Bauer Vice President 4944 N. Orange Ave. Norridge IL 60706-3224 Home: (708) 457-0565 Fax: (708) 457-2177 E-mail: [email protected] District VI Web page: http://www.cs.iit.edu/-amadist6/ Associate Vice Presidents Illinois John Kallend, 1935A Hickory Rd. Homewood IL 60430 (708) 798-7242 Hal Parenti, 1920 Buckingham, Westchester IL 60154(708)562-5752 Jerry Worden, 400 Alden Dr., Normal IL 61761-1202(309)454-3905 Indiana Ron Ballard, 6302 N. 700 E., Decatur IN 46733 (219)724-8934 Gary Bussell, 5000 W. Connie Dr., Muncie IN 47304 (765) 288-3541 Frank Roales, 4585 E. State Road 61, Vincennes IN 47591 (812)882-4776 Kentucky Jim Sears, Box 308, Burgin KY 40310 (606) 748-5834 Missouri Bob Underwood, 32 Hollandbush Ct. St. Charles MO 63304 (636) 939-3394 Ken Booher, 1016 North East Barnes Dr., Lee's Summit MO 64086 (816) 524-7715 Frequency Coordinator Cal Orr, R.R. 1 Box 123B, Higginsville MO 64037 (660) 584-6284, Fax (660) 584-6285 Webmaster " ' Gary Parenti, 11001 Martindale Dr., Westchester IL 60154 Eve. (708)531-9556 WHY ISN'T an activity of your club appearing in the District VI column? Maybe it's because no one sent anything in. Photo prints and text should be sent to me at the address above by regular mail. Photos should be no larger than approximately 4x6 inches, and landscape layout fits better than portrait layout in the column. Florence KY: Bud Hornsby of the Flying Cardinals of Northern Kentucky sent me an update on his club. The Flying Cardinals recently held a contest for a new logo to replace the one that had been in use for 20 years. The winning entry by David Grey is featured on the club's Web site, www.flyingcardinals.org. Several members of the club participated in Hobby Day at the Piner Elementary School, Morning View KY. The purpose is to encourage students to use leisure time wisely. Sixteen different types of hobbies were represented. In a two-hour period, four different groups of roughly 30 students each were given an interactive presentation of Radio Control (RC) model airplanes. Topics covered ranged from building skills to elementary principles of flight. A handout giving directions to the club field and an invitation to visit was given to each student. Bill Barnhorst (L) and Bob Bell Sr. were the club's presenters. Rockford IL: The Rock Valley RC Flyers' members Ken Lindenmier and Orv Steinmetz delivered flyers about Training Days to all public and nonpublic schools. All club instructors will meet to set up aircraft and discuss operations for Training Days. Derek Seaton, a junior member of the club, has been accepted to attend the EAA Air Academy Primary Aviation Fun Camp in Oshkosh WI this summer. Derek will join many other young people, ages 12-16, in this aviation program. Participants come from across the US and several foreign countries. Mishawaka IN: The South Bend RC Club had some bad news earlier this year. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management found high levels of methane gas on their field. Their new field started to take shape very quickly. Matt Hague, the club president, wanted publicly to thank Dennis Worm and other club members for their hard work in getting the new field ready. The new runway will be 300 x 520 feet. As in the past, the club will be helping the University of Notre Dame Aerospace Engineering Department test fly airplanes designed and built by senior aerospace students. There were four groups this year, each composed of five or six students. The objective for this year's design project is to create an airplane that can glide for the longest possible time. Telemetry carried by the airplanes includes a pressure sensor to measure velocity and altitude, a GPS to measure location, and a telemetry modem that transmits real-time data to the ground. Chicago IL: The Chicagoland RC Modelers Inc. has a great fun-fly program. The fun-fly program is the largest sponsored club activity and enjoys the participation of 25 to 35 club members at each event throughout the year. For newcomers, there are three classes: Novice, Expert, and Kamikaze. Members are classified as Novice if they cannot take off and land on their own. Experts can take off and land on their own, and Kamikazes are there by choice or because they won the Expert class. Difficulty of the events is based on class. It is not necessary to be able to fly solo to participate. Novice class members are expected to fly with assistance of a club instructor. Peru IN: The Mississinewa Sky Hawks conducted a couple of educational projects last spring. The Skyhawks went to Maconaquah Middle School to present a flying demonstration. Steve Eagle, Carl Moon, Matt Denham, and Doyle Sargent presented a demonstration and static display of model aircraft to Jennifer Deham's seventh grade class. The weather was sunny but a bit windy. Steve, Carl and Doyle each made two flights without mishap. The students were interested and asked many questions. Jeff Traver and Doyle Sargent put together a model airplane booth at the Science Fest at the Honeywell Center in Wabash IN. The display consisted of several models and a building session to construct a glider from an egg carton. Approximately 75 gliders were constructed. Buffalo Grove IL: The Blue Max Flying Club held an interesting fun-fly earlier this year. Don Wolfe provided the information. Their fun-fly consists of three parts, two on the ground and one in the air. This is designed to encourage pilots of all skill levels to participate in the event. On the ground, fliers had to taxi their aircraft around cones on the field, weaving in and out. Once at the far end of the field, fliers would turn into the wind and take off. After takeoff, fliers had to perform three basic maneuvers—a loop, a roll, and an Immelmann turn. These maneuvers were judged. After landing, they had to taxi out to a balloon staked down on the field and get as close to this balloon as they could without breaking it. This proved to be quite a challenge as pilots had to taxi straight out to the balloon and could not come in from the side. This was all about depth perception and made for some good fun.