TUESDAY, August 23, 2005
Last Week:
8/16 BBQ at Model Aircraft
Demonstration – John Maggs Next Week:
8/23 Club
Assembly Events
Coming Up: Aug 23: Club Assembly Aug 30: Thoroughbred
Breeding in Sept 6: Road Trip! Edison Exploratorium –
Thurston Sack Sept 15: Gift of Life
Golf Tournament Invocation: Garry
Morrow, Dan Stec or Bob Youmans Rotary Minute: 8/23:
None planned – Need Volunteer Greeter: 8/23: Dick O’Rourke 8/30 Fritz Neumann Suggestions
for future programs may be given to Linda LeTendre
Calendar of Events
Meeting of August 16, 2005
The meeting was a barbecue
picnic held at the pavilion of the
Don Kessler, visiting Rotarian from
Thanks are owed to Clarence Linder, Sandy Kominoski and Linda LeTendre for an
excellent broiled-chicken dinner including corn, baked potatoes, salad, rolls
and ice cream.
We were welcomed to the school by Don Marshall, the Director of the
Clarence Linder presented a
Minute for Rotary dwelling on Rotary activities.
Penny Heritage of the
Charlton Palmer family discussed Stanley (Doc) Garrison’s book, her role in its
preparation and its expected November publication.
President Rey Whetten
announced that the Board of Directors will meet prior to the August 23rd
meeting. Gift of Life application forms
should be available then.
We were pleased to have the
following visitors with us:
Shirley McClary Volney
LaRoe
Tony &
Shirley Garrison Chris
Morrow
Penny & Emma Heritage Sue Porter
Don Kessler Gen
Sewell
Craig Kominoski Jody
Turpen
August 16, 2005 Program:
Electric Model Airplanes
The program was presented
by John Maggs and his associates Howie
Cummings, Al Mostek and Jim Wittis,
all of the Electric Power Aeromodelers Club.
Their airplanes and their performance was a revelation to your reporter whose
experience in the field has been limited to balsa wood, tissue paper and
rubber-band motors.
John informed us all the planes are electrically
powered, with no gasoline engines. One
advantage is no change in weight and balance during flight as fuel is
consumed.
Another is that the power plants are clean and the models do not need to be
cleaned up after use. The planes are
remarkably quiet compared to gasoline.
The power source is a DC
battery. The lithium-polymer type offers
the most efficient energy storage vs. weight.
The less-expensive nickel-metal-hydride type is
also
used. DC is converted to AC in a Speed
Control device before going to an Outrunner Motor
which offers a 40% efficiency gain over the conventional arrange-
ment of fixed stator with rotating shaft. A speed reduction device is used between motor
and propeller.
We were given an impressive
demonstration of the models capabilities and the club members’ flying skills:
rapid takeoff from the tennis court, intricate aerobatics, high altitudes,
landing at the pilot’s feet like a retrieving dog (and an occasional landing
in a soft
tree! Linda LeTendre was heard calling
for a medic on occasion). The flying
pizza, visible in the photo below was a peoples’ favorite.
More information on electric model airplanes is
available from Competition Hobby Supplies in
The club extends its thanks to John and his team for
the program and demonstration.
WEBSITES: BHBL Rotary:
www.bhblrotary.org District 7190:
www.capitalregionrotary.org
Please communicate
corrections, news items, program information and scheduled events to:
Dick O’Rourke at 372-8287 robrwo@aol.com or Gini
Whetten at 399-8905 giniwhetten@cs.com
8-23 Reporter: Fred Baily