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The minutes of the Jan 19th, 2012 meeting of the KC Northern Knights Model Airplane Club
President Gary Himes called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm
The previous month’s minutes were accepted and approved. The treasurers report showed a balance of $1823.27
Old Business:
We had our End of Year Drawing based on sign in at each Monthly meeting.
Jeff Needham-Drill,
Henry Alexander-Screwdriver set,
Pete Whitteck-Air Brush Set,
Ed Morrow-Screwdriver set, Richard Adams-Drill,
Kerry Moten-Airabrush set
Bob Greene-Electric power adapter board.
A big thanks to Dave Stadler for his quick reaction to the chili spill that landed on Gary Himes leg, prevented a much more serious burn.
New Business:
It was voted on to donate $150 to the church again this year for use of their facility.
Henry brought up the idea of having an open to the public fun fly to promote the club, having a glider for all the kids, the kits would be donated by Hobby Town USA on North Oak. A possible date of June was looked into.
It was decided to continue our regular Friday night combat and the new Fast N Furious planes will be allowed to compete with the military planes but they have to meet the same rules: 2 cell battery, 2 servos and the same wingspan.
Dates were agreed on for Elkhorn on May 25-28th, Pro Bro on July 20-21st, hope the heat leaves us alone this year, July 4th will be a club day at the field w/clean up day before the public comes in. The fall Elkhorn will be Oct 5,6 and 7th.
Safety:
Pete to remind everyone flying electrics that they can be at full power when they come on, a safety plug like featured in Model Aviation is recommended, the unit is called Arm Safe. Fuel powered planes will stall at idle but not electrics, so be careful !
Model of Month:
No ARF’s this month
Scratch: Mike Coyne had a single channel Navigator modified to have ailerons, rudder, elevator, and electric power.
Greg Boggs - Polaris
Henry Alexander- a Fast N Furious out of poster board but had problems with the thrust line of the motor from original. Mike was the big winner with his Navigator
Visitors: none tonight
New Members: none present tonight
Plow Award:
Gary Himes for trying to wear the Chili for the Frozen Thumbs fly
Mike Coyne- crashed his A-10 so many time he finally stomped it into a pile so he couldn’t try to fix it again ! Henry Alexander- his Fast N Furious was a handful with the thrust line above the wing line.
Gary won by unanimous approval !!!!
$1.00 drawing:
Magnetic Tray ???? Boggs
Trickle Charger Ron Swindle
Motor/ESC Kerry Moten
Rotary Tool Kit Charlie Haefke
Rare Earth Magnets Charlie Moubry
Hook n Loop Henry Alexander
LED Lights Dave Stadler
Charging/power unit Mike Coyne
Meeting adjourned at 7:40
Dave Stadler gave a demonstration on foam cutting. He cut out a pair of Tuit floats and also showed how to cut wings on his larger unit. Thanks Dave for some great ideas !
Notices:
· The club has a can crusher Please crush all cans and place in can barrel. We again have a person to recycle the cans for us. There lately has been a lot of cans place in the regular trash, please recycle.
Charles Ferrara has put up a video and bulletin board and a calendar of events website for the Northern Knights http://northernknights.cferrara.com or it can be accessed through http://www.northernknights.com/
Plowing Award:
Bestowed upon the individual with the most impressive (or most frequent) crash.
This Month Winner:
Gary Himes
Letter From the President
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