The
Prez Sez
Hi Folks!
Here we are at the first of September, with Christmas looming! But before
that you and I need to nominate and elect the 2006 elected officials of
our corporation. We will need to submit the nominations at the October
(next month's meeting) and vote on those during the November meeting. To
date, the only officer who has absolutely, positively said that he will
not run again is our long time treasurer, Tom Fenn. That job will be hard
to fill, with the tasks associated with it; record keeping, accountability
of funds, and preparing the annual corporate funding document which the
president uses for the annual corporate submission to the Arizona Corporation
Commission. I want to thank Tom for all his hard dedicated work over the
years to make this position work. If anyone is interested in this position,
and is a member of Mesquite Modelers Inc., please let me know before the
October nomination meeting.
And now, the part of this Newsletter I like:
12
Rules of Model Aviation
1. Perfection
in model building is a desirable goal, unless completion of the airplane
within your lifetime is important.
2. Airspeed
is life to your model, altitude is life insurance. No airplane ever collided
with the sky.
3. Always
fly your airplane with your head, not just your hands. Never let your model
go somewhere your brain didn’t get to five seconds earlier.
4. The probability
of model survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
5. Flying
a model airplane is not dangerous; crashing it is dangerous.
6. Good judgment
comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.
7. There are
three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows
what they are.
8. It’s a
good landing if you can still bend the landing gear back to its normal
position.
9. A fool
and his money are soon flying a more aerobatic model than he can handle.
10. The nicer
an airplane looks, the more likely it is to crash.
11. A model
airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won’t surprise him.
12. If God
meant for man to fly model jets, He’d have given him more money.
From the Rock
Valley RC Flyers
ia The Checkerboard
Flyer
Gary Parenti,
editor
Westchester,
IL
On
the Lighter Side
An airplane pilot with poor eyesight had managed to pass his periodic vision
exams by memorizing the eye charts beforehand. One year, though, his doctor
used a new chart that the pilot had never before seen. The pilot proceeded
to recite the old chart and the doctor realized that she’d been hoodwinked.
Well, the pilot proved to be nearly blind as a bat, but the doctor could
not contain her curiosity. How is it that someone with your eye sight can
manage to pilot a plane at all? I mean, how for example, do you taxi the
plane out to the runway?
Well, said the pilot, it’s really not very hard. All you have to do is
follow the instructions of the ground controller over the radio. And besides,
the landmarks have all become quite familiar to me over the years.
I can understand that, replied the doctor, but what about the takeoff?
Again, a simple procedure. I just aim the plane down the runway, go to
full throttle, pull back on the stick, and off we go!
But once you’re aloft?
Oh, everything’s fully automated these days. The flight computer knows
our destination, and all I have to do is hit the auto pilot and the plane
pretty much flies itself.
But I still don’t see how you land!
Oh, that’s the easiest part of all. All I do is use the airport’s radio
beacon to get us on the proper glide path.
Then I just
throttle down and wait for the copilot to yell ‘AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!,’ pull
the nose up, and the plane lands just fine!
From SCRC
Flyer
John Lawyer,
editor
Roachdale,
IN
Until next time, remember to land with the wheels pointed down, or the
taxi into the pits might be protracted! Bill.
Club
Meeting
The
next meeting of the MMRCC is scheduled for September 1, 2005 at 7:00 P.M.
The meeting will be held at the Northrop Grumman facility. Personnel are
required to sign-in and sign out for security purposes.
See you at the meeting. Will |
