The Fayette Flyers of Georgia  
The Fly Paper Monthly Radio Control info for Fayette County Georgia.

In this issue>> hmmm Let's see 1 Waffle House, 1 Rudy Farms, 2 Bob Evans, 6 guys lost in the woods in a 96 Dodge Caravan, needed some gas OHH YOU'll Love This MUSIC! Crank it UP Rednecks!

April 2001 Issue. Editor/ Webmaster Randy Hawkins - email ffly98@aol.com

Upcoming Events:

April 26-THURS. NIGHT Fun Fly (Non-Sanctioned)  FIRST CLUB MEETING AT THE FIELD, Night fly after meeting. NOT to miss this one, we had a HOOT last  couple years. BRING something lit up, It's easier than you think.

April 28-SAT- Electric Fun Fly (Non-Sanctioned)  Noon-till we quit. Everything and anything electric powered. Intent is to learn more about the options of Electric RC.   Field closed to other forms of flying.

May 18,19,20-Fri/SAT/SUN- Electric Contest Class A&B LMR Electric Sailplane ( AMA Sanctioned Class 3 )  This is a Warm up  contest prior to the Nationals. Many participating visitors are expected from the region. Events 609,610,612,613,614,618,620. L.E.S. Cross Country, Spd. 400 Sailplane and Sportsman.(Jr. and Sr.) This IS NOT A FUN FLY!!!

Please Yield to out of state Friends and Competitors. Mike McGowan - CD.

Field closed to other forms of flying!!!!!!!!! During this once a year event.

PRESIDENT’S CORNER

Tommy Vinci

Well, the new year is rolling right along and we are having good sized crowds at the field for Sunday afternoon flying. This might be a good time to remind everyone of some of the basics. Remember to have the frequency pin in your possession before you turn on your transmitter! Once your flight is complete, turn your transmitter off and always return the pin to the frequency board. You can rest assured that someone is waiting for you to land so they can fly. Under no circumstances are we to fly over the pit area, parking area, or the golf property. This is a very unsafe situation! All of our takeoffs should be in the same direction (preferably into the wind!), this will reduce your opportunity for "head on collisions"! Once airborne, do your flying on the far side of the runway, leave it open for takeoffs and landings. Only pilots are to be at the fence and they are to be at the designated spots. Please keep small children back!!! And last but not least, I suggest if you must crash you do it in the field in front of you and not in the "wet lands" off to our right, there are some very large, very nasty tempered critters in there during the warm months of the year. I assure you that you will not like meeting them!

Till next time. Tommy

Meeting Minutes for March 29th, 2001 by Ernie Schlumberger

We started the meeting at 7:40PM with 14 members and 4 member applicants.

Officer Reports:

Vice President, Tom Huckaby talked about the Fayette County Mentoring Program and mentioned that he had brochures and if anyone had any questions about the program, just give him a call.

Treasurer, Dave Zeigler went over the clubs’ finances for the month of March. The club had no receipts for the month of March (renewal checks were turned in too late to be included this month). The expenses totaled $547.71 for things such as club AMA renewal, BFI, field maintenance and postage. He then talked about the Perry GA. Swap Meet Kid’s Event held on March 3rd. There were about 300 airplane kits built and flown during that day. It was a great turnout again this year. Dave then delivered the $500 check (club donation to the WinShape Homes) to Tom Huckaby to give Bubba Cathy.

President, Tommy Vinci thanked all those that participated in the two days of fieldwork earlier this month. He also brought up the subject of small children at the field. They must stay back away from the fence and not play in the pit areas for safety reasons. Please keep them supervised at all times.

Old Business:

The meeting with the field owner’s rep. was put on hold due to business travel. The meeting is set for sometime in April to talk about what our options are concerning the field. Tom Huckaby wanted to relay to all club members that we are on this field out of the goodness of the owner’s heart and we are not in a position to expect anything from him as mentioned at the last meeting.

New Business:

Secretary Ernie Schlumberger brought up the frequency pins that were missing and suggested that we look into buying a set from CoolPins.com. They cost about $200 for a complete set. After some discussion, it was decided to have replacement pins made to match our existing set (thanks to Tom Huckaby for having them done by the Sailplane event day). It also was decided to look into making new ones with larger red tags for better visibility so that hopefully fewer people will take them home on their transmitters. They should only cost about $.50 to $1.00 each. Tom is going to take care of that.

Dave Zeigler talked about the upcoming Kids Spring Fling in June. The new date will be Saturday, June 23rd. The club’s Events webpage has been updated to reflect this change. Also new this year, Dave will open his shop on Tuesdays for the 3 weeks prior to the event to help build for the event. Call ahead to reserve a time to build with Dave.

Frank Hodson told us that he is the President of the "Thermal Thumbers of Metro Atlanta". This is an AMA sanctioned free flight group. Their website address is (www.thermalthumbers.com). Contact Frank or the website if you’re interested in free flight.

The next club meeting will be held at the field and we will have a Night Fly immediately following the meeting.

New Members:

This month we had 4 new members join our club. Please welcome Rick Myerscough and sons Micah and Josiah, Gerry Consuegra, Matt Clay and Mark Rogers to the Fayette Flyers.

Tip of the Month:

Phil Meyers demonstrated aileron hinges using the new Great Planes Slot Machine and Blade Guide. It makes it fool proof to get straight and centered hinges every time (with a little practice). Phil also shared a tip on how to make lightweight yet very strong fuselage sides on a kit such as his Butterfly. He used 1/64" plywood and laminated it to the sidewalls. This plywood is easy to work with using scissors to cut it and a leather punch to punch several holes throughout. Then use thin CA at the hole locations to get a good bond. It becomes very strong but is still light.

Broken Prop Award:

Although there were no shortage of stories this month, there were no nominations for the award. Try again next month.

Safety Tip: A recent incident at the field has prompted this reminder. Always check the crystal installed in a transmitter and do not just assume that the channel number on the sticker or flag on the transmitter matches the crystal installed. If not checked, you may pickup the wrong frequency pin from the board and take someone out of the air. Any time you buy a used transmitter or help a new person at the field take a look at the actual crystal because it is possible that someone may have swapped crystals and left the old sticker or flag still attached.

gpoask@mindspring.com (THOMAS S. HUCKABY)   The - V.P.
[REMEMBER THESE in the BRAKETS.... ARE THE EDITORS COMMENTS JUST SO YOU KNOW JUST CAUSE I AM BORED and JUST FOR FUN][EDITOR comments are in these brakets][EDITOR comments are in these brakets](((not the parentheseseses)))

YOU ALL WILL ENJOY THIS STORY Sit back and relax and listen and Read. [Wish I was there!! well maybe?]

TOLEDO 2001-by Tom Huckaby- VP

You ain't gonna believe this, but!!!.......... Tommy Vinci (pilot), Bill Divins (engineer/ navigator), Pee Wee Maddox and Ernie Schlumberger (ground crew) ,more about this  later., Tom Huckaby and Carl Lisle, passengers, left the DAL Jet  Base about 6:00 AM Thursday 4/5/01 on what was hoped to be an uneventful but pleasant annual pilgrimage to TOLEDO, the R/C Mecca of the world. We traveled by "96 DODGE minivan thanks to the thoughtlessness of the COMAIR pilots. We drove to just inside the Tennessee line and stopped for breakfast at a Waffle House (what's new about that?) We then departed for Wright Patterson Air Museum., which we  visited about for two hours after taking a lunch/gas break. We admired the early civilian, and WW1 military through present day aircraft. It takes days not hours to see all  the museum unfortunately we had only a short time to visit.[bellies a rumblin] We left the Museum about 4:30 and arrived in Toledo in time to have dinner at Bob Evans.[told ya all] We turned in early so we would be "ready" for all the hot deals we knew we would see at the show the next AM. We arrived at THE SHOW about 8:00 and scanned the Swap Shop until the main show opened.Our collective opinion of this year's show was: The stuff in the swap shop was of lower quality and over priced in comparison with previous years. The number of vendors seemed to be fewer but there still was a BUNCH of people "hawking" their wares. [good book] The volume and over-all quality of the models on display did not seem to be up to that of past shows BUT, it is still the best there is.We spent the day looking for goodies both in the swap shop and the main show, discussing new stuff and problem areas with vendors. We left for the motel about 4:00 after the "search party" found our missing member CARL.[havin fun] The next day (Saturday) we only visited the show from 8:00 to 11:30 so we could get home at a decent hour Yeah , Right!!! [more food] We loaded up and headed south.[SOUTH BY GOD] Little did we know that our homeward journey would take the rest of the afternoon, all of the night and four hours of the next day (Sunday). We were rolling along, making good time, reading the stuff we picked up at the show,[all yellin at each other] about 1-1/2 hours south of Toledo. I must admit that I was sleeping. [oh brother] I was jarred awake by the sound of our tires running over the corrugations in the emergency lane. [Tommy asleep too? you ask...] All is quiet, no one speaking and no engine noise. Then I hear Tommy say in a soft voice, " IT just quit". [Nope he was awake]  I think Bill asked if we were out of gas as I heard Tommy say " It shows 1/8 of a tank". Tommy re-started the van and it looked for a short time that we would resume our southern journey. Not so!!! The engine quit again but Tommy had gotten up some speed and there was an exit ramp just a little bit ahead. We coasted up the ramp at an ever decreasing speed until we were almost at the top. At this time the GROUND CREW, Ernie and Pee Wee, piled out the side doors of the van and on shear guts and willpower pushed the van over the crest and we started to coast down to the Marathon Gas Station. [PHEW] The tank filler is on the drivers side [buy GM] and all the right hand pumps except the very last one were occupied.Tommy managed to glide the van to the only open position where the van stopped DEAD!!!  We all piled out of the van and Tommy began to fill the tank. After the customary pit stop( when Tommy is driving you take them when ever you can) [BIG Bladder] we all quietly piled back in the van and held our breath [Ernie had gas?] because if it was not out of gas we had a "REAL" problem. [yeah listen to the music, then tell me] It did not start on the first try and someone said to leave the switch on and the pump would supply the gas to the engine.We did and it did! A joyous cheer went up as the 3.3 liter "roared" [auhhg-auhhg-splurnk] to life. A side note: [not that I have made many] we bought 16 gallons, the tank holds 16 gallons, nuf said.[lots of moonshine up ther] Since there was a Mcdonalds next door we decided to have lunch.[knew food was close] After lunch we were feeling lucky and full as we got back on I -75 again. [dada ding da ding] We had not gone many miles until we came to an abrupt stop.[Ernie's gas again?]  Three lanes had become Two due to some construction and neither of the two lanes were moving.We learned from an 18-wheeler driver that there had been a serious accident with multiple fatalities and both north bound and south bound lanes were closed. We moved maybe a mile or so over the next two hours.[uh oh food is near I can sense it]  During this time Tommy noticed that the 18 wheeler next to us was a from bakery. [yep] He ask the driver if he had any thing we could eat [big bladder small stomach] and a bag of fresh bagels came flying through the front window landing in Bill Divin's lap[a ringer].We made short work of them.This was probably the most nutritious thing any of us ate on the whole trip.[duh ] We became aware that there had been a cut made from the highway down to a narrow two lane road that ran east and west at the point we could see. This cut was probably made to give the highway workers easier access to their work areas.[or Waffle Houses] Any way, after some discussion it was agreed that we would we would see how good an ATV a Dodge mini-van would make[pass under any low bridges...]. It made the descent in fine style and our next adventure began.

Tommy got some information [good fishing holes] from one of the locals[with Banjo]  in a pick-up and we headed WEST until the road ran out. [UH OH Squeel like a Pig time] We then traveled north until we came on a gas station that also boasted" roasted chicken"[was that then ... BROASTED Chicken?]. Having learned our lesson[NOT] well we filled the van again and went in to have some Roasted Chicken.One of the two ladies [more than total teeth] running the place told us;" there has been a bad wreck out on I-75"(DUH!) [<EDITOR coments are in these brakets>] and "we had to close the restaurant in order to take care of all the gas customers".[well I am not going there] We loaded up and went a short distance to a Sonny's BAR-B-CUE where most of us had Re-ubbs.[told ya they were rednecks] It was good that we fortified ourselves as we were in for a long night of travel through the Kentucky [listen to the music]country side. We traveled somewhere between 40 and 80 miles(closer to 80 than 40) but I'm not going to say anything about that.[He will at the field] We went west [turned at California] until we came to I-75 again and since it looked as though the highway had been opened we, yes we did,[told ya they didn't learn]got back on only to find it was NOT open.We were able to cross the median [18th parallel] and go back to where we got on and went WEST then SOUTH then EAST [or Maybe North] re-entering I-75 some 12 miles below the wreck. [Pheeeeeeeeeewwwww] [YAAAHHHOOOOO oh sorry] We felt relieved and thankful that we had made it back to I-75 without running off one of the narrow roads or possibly colliding with some furry animal [Tommy would have cooked it] or being rear-ended [Ohh there goes that music agin!!!]by some fatigued driver. Tommy brought us home safe and sound [did they eat again?] or at least as sound as some of us were when we left. We got to the JET BASE about 3:30 AM Sunday tired and sleepy [it was a good kind of tired]but we had a good time in spite of all the difficulties. The room reservations for next year are already made. It you haven't been to Toledo at least once you owe it to yourself to go one time. [Amen]

You should have been there to share in the FUN ! ,.............Huck

[good thing I put the minutes first! Great article!!!!!!!]