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This is our
First Meeting
for the 2018-19 building season. All of us are
looking forward to some wonderful projects being
developed by a number of SFM Members ... Don't
forget to bring'em to a meeting and share your
insights!
Meeting
Directions:
Southtown
Baptist Church
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Photos Courtesy of Scott Anderson
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The 1st
meeting of the 2018-2019 season was
opened to the attending 35 members and
guests by President Cal Branton’s
welcoming remarks and fascinating
airline travel story. If you
missed it, be sure to ask Cal to share
it with you when you see him! The
meeting was well attended and had many
great projects and stories.
Larry Sorenson
is collecting This Season’s Dues
so we can continue to meet at this
location. Be sure to contact Larry
to pay your dues! Email Larry or
use the
Membership Form |
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Roy Maynard's –
Report on attending JET POWER Rally in
Germany
Roy attended
the JET POWER rally this summer with
SFM members Zack , Kirk Hall, and Ahmed
Elbassal to see this weekend event
in person.
here was a lot of
great flying and there were a number of
40%-50% scale jets flying. The larger
jets seem to fly easier and relatively
slower. Roy recommends attending the
event if you are interested. |
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Jeff
Edstron's – Report on attending
the 2018 Centennial WW1 Rally at
Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton,
Ohio
Jeff
truly enjoys his WW1 fighters
and made it a point to attend
and participate in this
centennial of the end of the
Great War. It was a 2 day
event with 70 RC pilots and 18
full size WW1 replicas flying.
He commented that getting flight
time was at a premium and he got
2-3 total flights at the event.
Jeff suggested that the event
could have been managed better
for pilot & aircraft safety and
flying time. |
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David P. Andersen
– How to draw your own plans from a
3-view drawing:
David gave a
talk on how he creates Giant Scale RC
designs from 3-view drawings and
reference materials.
First: He
starts out choosing his subject then
creates a copy of the view he wants to
draw and sizes it down so it can be
blown up into a 36 inch wide print at a
local copy shop. |
Second: With
the blown up copy (sized to the scale
you want) he lays it under drawing
velum/Mylar with a reference grid
pattern in it and traces the view onto
the velum using pencil and adds detail. |
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Then: The pencil document is then
overlayed with the final velum/Mylar and
inked for better reproduction purposes.
Additional detail such as a dummy engine
can be sketched into the image in pencil
by tracing it onto the final document.
This document is used for prints and
scans for distribution.
David must have a very large drawing
board in his town house! |
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Jeff Edstrom – 1/3rd
Scale Indiana Air Works Pfalz D.IIIa
project:
Jeff brought in his
partially completed 1/3rd scale Pfalz
D.IIIa fighter project designed for the
DLE-85 engine.
The
kit is sold by Indiana Air Works and is
currently only one of seven sold as yet.
Jeff has conceded that he has too many
other projects at this time so he’s
placing the kit and the DLE-85 up for
sale. |
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The website for
these beautiful 1/3rd Scale Pfalz D.IIIa
is:
www.IndianaAirworks.com |
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Scott Anderson –
Phoenix Models 30cc Stinson Reliant
1/5th scale 86 inch span ARF: |
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Scott shared
information on his Stinson Reliant
ARF. The Stinson was purchased
through Tower Hobbies before the
bank-ruptcy announcement and was
delivered in April. |
It’s a good looking
ARF in the white with blue trim colors.
The heat shrink covering looks very
tight and attractive out of the box.
Scott worked with Callie Graphics for
custom markings. The pilot is a
Best Pilot’s Pappy Boyington. The
“story” is that Boyington was in San
Diego and ‘borrowed’ the Stinson to fly
up to see his girlfriend Lucy.
(Good imagination to qualify it as a
Classic in a Warbird era!)
The Stinson is
powered by a Saito FG-40cc gasoline
4-stroke running off a 16 ounce Rotoflow™
fuel tank. During engine break-in Scott
learned that he could get as much as 60
minutes of engine run time per 16 ounce
tank. The Stinson has flown this
summer off of grass as well as paved
runways with good results. Total
assembly time (minus the indecision
time) was 6-10 hours. The Saito
FG-40 is a wonderful sounding engine and
flies the Reliant well at less than 50%
throttle. |
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Jeff Quesenberry
– 1/5th Scale IL-2 Sturmovik Project
from David P. Andersen Plans: |
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Jeff has
moved on after finishing David
Andersen’s most recent project, the ¼
scale Hurricane and is now building
David’s latest design the 1/5th scale
115 inch span Sturmovik (see Oct. 2017
SFM Newsletter).
Jeff is using the fiberglass fuselage
kit from Jeff Micko to speed his
project.
The IL-2 Sturmovik
will be powered by a DA-85 and has an
expected weight of 40#. Jeff’s
building his and a second with SFM
member Dave Szabo so they can be
both from the same squadron. He
has been hand cutting all his parts from
his extensive wood supply and
has created his wing center section over
a weekend. The landing gear is by
Larry Shinden. Jeff is hoping to
have both flying by Warbirds over the
Midwest 2019 in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. |
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Roy Maynard – J10
Jet returns: |
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Roy brought in his Chinese J10
jet fighter to report on updates and
enhancements. The aircraft was built
from Ahmed’s molds and it powered by a
JETS-MUNT M200XBL turbine. It is
incredibly light at 30 pounds.
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Roy has enhanced the
paint and markings to include
a very scale looking exhaust. Roy
demonstrated the control throws on the
canard as well as the thrust vectoring
capability. Roy reports that the
J11 practically leaps off the runway and
would be a very good first jet for an
experienced pilot. |
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Dan Schmidt – 1/6th Scale
DeHavilland Rapide: |
Dan shared his latest De
Havilland model, the Rapide twin electric
powered cabin biplane. Dan has the motors set as
counter rotating to make take-off easier.
This is Dan’s 4th version of the De
Havilland built from plans and he
commented that the plans he used had
difficulties with straight lines.
Dan’s markings
were from the Royal Auto Club and
created by Callies Graphics. This version has
yet to fly so we’re looking forward to getting
the flight report from Dan! |
Chris Gruendemann –
1/6th Scale Fly Eagle F-18 Fighter: |
Chris brought
in his latest acquisition from Canada.
The F-18 is in a custom Canadian Paint
Scheme that should be easy to see in the
air as well as on the ground.
The model was
originally built and flown by an older
man living in Canada but proved to be a
bit too fast for his comfort. |
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Chris took delivery
of the model at Toledo this year and has
since replaced the original AMT-450
turbine with a JetCat 200 modified for
kero start.
The F18 carries 190
ounces of jet fuel and the JetCat burns
approximately 30 ounces per minute so
Chris is looking forward to 4-5 minute
flights. The servos are all Futaba.
Chris reports that he’s looking forward
to flying it before it gets too cold! |
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Jon Bomers - New
Website Platform on the Horizon! |
Our website was
launched in late 2001 on (for the time)
a state-of-the-art platform. The
internet, browsers and front-end user
devices have dramatically change during
that same period, so it's time that we
change too!
Quietly over the next
couple of months you'll notice subtle
changes in our website and then one day
you'll visit and think "What the What?"
Our new platform will function
seamlessly with all frontend devices and
better serve the Scale Flyers of
Minnesota Members as well as the
thousands of visitors that stop by each
month! |
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Next Meeting November 30th |
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Event Coordinators/Promoters can
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I
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