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KOTRC Newsletter for February 2008

From The Circular Office:

I want to thank all those that were considerate enough to send condolence cards on the passing of my dear Mom, Ethel. They were very much appreciated.

You may recognize the above cover of Flying Models as the issue containing the article I distributed during the last meeting. Quite analytical for its time; 50 years ago.

Speaking of the last meeting, we certainly took some positive steps for the coming year:

  •  Judges will be rewarded with two (2) free meal tickets + a lottery ticket
  •  We will investigate other venues for the holiday banquet
  •  We will attempt to streamline and modernize the club library
  •  Score sheets for all our C/L events will be available to the event directors

    • These and other forward thinking activities should lead the way to a great season for the Knights.

    Following these developments we were treated to an impressive demonstration of fuel tank manufacturing skills by our former President, Eric. He really made it look simple, but we all know it took many hours (and tanks) to be able to construct a uniflow tank so well. Tanks again, Eric, for the presentation (pun intended).

    For the next meeting, I am attempting to arrange a unique presentation for those of you that will be attending. If not, we will see you all at VSC XX.

Your President, Joel

Steering Committee 02/12/08

A warm Winter day.  

Sekret Kabal –

  • (a) Need to set a date for the Mackey meet.
  • (b)Proposed that it be around November 10.
  • (c) Larry needs to contact Lee Strickland regarding Profile rules in use by the Circle Burners.
  • (d) Someone needs to sent notice of all contests to AMA.

General Meeting :: AFI Classroom 19:00 Hours:

Guest:
Bill Byles, John Gluth

Before the meeting:

Joel Chesler the Pres gets ready 

Show and Tell:

Joel Chesler – Cradle of Aviation Museum tour descriptiona. Superb model airplane magazine collection one of the features.

Mike Fox – Dyna-Jet speed trophy from September 5, 1954 he restored for Dale Kirn. This was the first Monoline Jet record and added 9 to 10 mph over the best 2-line record.

George BarlowA Guillows P-51 with Babe Bee .049. Flies OK on 25’ lines.

Old Combat Kits

John WrightA train magazine with model articles. His Clown with an OS Max S-15 and the Barnstormer from VSC#1. It uses a McCoy Series 21 .40

Warren Walker More engines from the collection he bought. Johnson 35, Fox 59 short shaft, Torp 29, Veco 19, Torp 19 Green Head, G-mark .035. He also showed P-38 with 2 Norvel .049s. Sheet construction with chrome Monokote. He also showed a Midwest kit for the Matador combat model and a Nemisis kit.

Bob Werle - Enya .09 powered trainer. His own design. Lettering and numbers from McMasters Carr.

Larry Rengera couple of interesting small tools: A finger wrench that fits on a finger tip and holds nuts for easy assembly. Also Painter’s pyramids that will hold painted objects in the air with minimal contact.

John Gluth – a photo album from the 1963 Nats.

Pete Soule – A copy of a Photo he took at the 1964 World Championships of Yuri Sirotkin's "Space Hound". Third place. Yuri was a "Master of Sport" in the Soviet Union, the is the top level of competitors there.

Old Business:

Warren Walker is still working on getting new T-Shirts.

Larry to send photos of the AMA Convention to Pete for the website.

1st Saturday in December is the date for the next Holiday Party. John Gluth proposed moving it to Angelo and Vinces. John G, John W & Joel to check it out. (great food and fun décor, BTW)

Mackey Contest to be November 8 & 9. Larry to do up flyers.

Larry and Eric to look for a banquet site near Whittier Narrows.

Gary Akers is the official Librarian for the club. One goal is to do a bibliography of what we have.

Dale to look into possibility of getting some storage space at AFI.

New Business:

Eric wanted to know about who is going to the Phoenix contest.

District Coordinater for competition at the AMA is Tim Attoway.

Larry to do Club Affiliation application and take care of the insurance sign-up.

Joel proposes some sort of reward for judging. Proposed and passed, 1 lottery ticket to all helpers, and free food.

Eric Rule put on a fantastic demonstration on how to build a tank. It really should have been videotaped!

RSM shows how to make a stunt tank