APRIL 13-15 saw the Southern California
Scale Masters Qualifier hosted by the
Hemet Model Masters (AMA chartered
club 1376) and ably directed by Bill Hart.
The weather wasn’t really the best,
causing the pilots to show what they were
made of, especially those with World War
I and lighter airplanes, but the contestants
still managed to complete three rounds on
Saturday and Sunday.
The Hemet Model Masters are devoted
to Scale competition and to provide some
motivation to the contestants,
arrangements were made for several
interesting full-scale airplanes to conduct
fly-bys during the weekend to provide
some examples of how scale maneuvers
should be performed.
Saturday saw a very low performance by
a local T-28 Trojan in the morning and a
high-speed fly-by of a P-51 Mustang in the
afternoon.
There were many beautiful airplanes at
the Qualifier and I’d like to show pictures of
each and every one but space limits me to
only a few of my favorites. Thanks to AVP
Jerry Neuberger for this report.
The A-7 Corsair
II (R) from a Jet
H a n g a r
International
kit, powered by
a Wren MW-44
turbine, was
built and flown
by Chris Wolfe.
The Ercoupe from a Balsa USA kit is
powered by a Zenoah G-62 and was flown by
Oscar Weingart in his first Scale contest.
The Nieuport 28 is from a Balsa USA kit,
powered by a Saito 1.80, and painted with
house paint. The model was flown by Chris
Spandenburg of the Channel Island Condors.
This Fock Wulf FW-190 A8 was scratch built
from Roy Delacort plans. Powered by a
Zenoah GT-80 twin with Sierra retracts it
was flown by Brian Young.
The P-47
Thunderbolt
(L) is a Hangar
9 ARF powered
by a Moki 1.5
and flown by
Bob Frey.
The TBM-3
Avenger (R)
was scratch
built from Bob
Holman plans,
powered by
an O.S. 1.60
with Robart
retracts, and
painted with the old Perfect paints. This
four-year-old airplane was built and flown by
Tom Wolf.
Mark Sumich sent in the following report
and pictures from a project hosted by the
NASA Ames Research Center.
“We had a great time last Saturday
giving an RC demonstration and flight
instruction to some high school girls who
spent the week at NASA learning
aeronautics and robotics.
“Launch into Technology is a week-long
residential program for high-school-aged
girls offered each year by NASA Ames
Research Center at Moffett Field, California.
This year the program ran June 24-30 with
approximately 50 girls participating.
“During this program there are four
institutes in which the girls participate. The
girls choose one of the following institutes
for the week: Basic Aeronautics, Advanced
Aeronautics, Basic Robotics, or Advanced
Robotics.
“The girls come from all over the United
States to eat, breath, and sleep NASA and
engage the coolest scientists, engineers, and
researchers.
“At the conclusion of the program on
Saturday morning, the robotics participants
showed off their skills through a robotics
competition and the aeronautics participants
were treated to an RC aircraft demo during
which they get stick time with the aircraft.
The Ames Model Aircraft Club hosted the
RC event.”
High School girls getting flight instruction.
Wren Weburg photo.
Students getting ground instruction. Frank
Ronquillo photo.
Until next time ... Keep ’em safe and Keep
’em fly’n.
District X
Rich Hanson, District X Vice President; [email protected]
Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah
Rich Hanson
Vice President
Box 3312,
Scottsdale AZ 85271
Tel./Fax: (888) 899-3548
[email protected]
www.ama10.org
Associate Vice
Presidents
Darwin Barrie, Chandler AZ
(480) 946-8955
Greg Clemensen, Las Vegas NV
(702) 870-6242
Jim Giffin, Redding CA
(916) 760-8291
Don Goeschl, Lancaster CA
(661) 940-6066
Don Gulihur, Santee CA
(619) 449-8397
Wayne Hamada, Honolulu HI
(808) 521-7733
Marc Karpowich, Logan UT
(435) 752-3639
Bill Malvey, Ladera Ranch CA
(949) 481-8621
Jerry Neuberger, Santee CA
(619) 258-4477
Bob Reynolds, Tucson AZ
(520) 296-8183
Frequency Coordinators
George Steiner, Sacramento CA
(916) 362-1962
Eloy Marez, Santa Ana CA
(714) 540-4935
District X Volunteers
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