Barnyard Buzzards Newsletter May 2008 Page 5

Buzzard Droppings May 2008

Text Box: Man, this month has flown by. My Mother always said “when you get older time flies”. Now I know what she meant. Saturday, April 26th, we had our spring field clean-up. This was the rain date and what a beautiful day it was. I would like to thank all that attended and especially Fred Hanquet for the great burgers and Ron Rueter, field manager, for all he did to organize it all. By the way, Ron was still working when almost everyone else was playing or had gone home. The place looks great. I didn’t hear of any blood spilling, so I guess it was OK to have a bunch of guys playing with sharp tools. Guys, when you pick up your airplane after a flight, and if it is still running and for what ever reason you don’t want to kill the engine, pick it up from behind the prop and set in on the bench just as you would pick it up to carry it to the runway from the bench. It is very awkward to place a running airplane onto a bench if you are standing in front of the bench. I saw this done Saturday. One little slip and we could have had blood spilled. Pilots, please stand at one of the designated pilot stations while flying. On a crowded day like Saturday, don’t keep changing pilot stations during a flight, pick one and stay there. Never stand in the center opening of the safety fence. And you guys, like myself, that are using a mix of 72mHz and 2.4gHz it’s real easy to forget to place your card into the proper slot when shifting to 72mHz. Also, we do have slots on the frequency board for 2.4gHz users. USE THEM, so anyone can see who is using what channel or frequency. Members having guests visiting the field, make sure your guest understands that they and especially their kids must stay out of the pit area. (Operation Rule #6 on page 6) This month I have included the operational section of the club Safety Rules, this is good time to review them. UNTIL NEXT TIME, BE SAFE BE COURTEOUS Vince Bell, Safety Officer

The power plant is a DA50. What a nice engine! Just the polished finish alone makes it a nice engine besides the fact that it’s a top performer with a fantastic dependability record. Nice presentation, Vince!

Chet brought his Hughes H1 racer that he’s building from scratch. After many web searches for plans he happened to see an article about the plans in the Model Aviation Aug. 2006 issue. Sure enough, he had the magazine but never looked at that month, since he was moving to a new residence. The plans were 8.5 x 11 and he had them blown up at a local copy shop……. 850 times!

It’s been a chore since the plans were for a 30” electric and lots of areas had to be beefed up. We’ll have to see how it turns out since the tail section is so long, it’s extremely tail heavy. There’s a .70 Magnum on it and hopefully produces enough thrust to haul it around. It WILL be a heavy plane.

The best part was all the research about Howard Hughes and his eccentric manners but yet the valuable input he had on aviation.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:55 p.m.

Respectfully submitted, Chet Blake BBMAC Secretary.