We showed several videos during the latter half of the hour which included a Boeing 737 Business Jet on takeoff, a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Eye Candy for Aviators” and a very entertaining five minute video of a jet-powered, radio-controlled SR-71 from takeoff to landing.

The Model of the Month went to Jerry Short for his SIG Midstar with a Fox 40.

Next, treasurer Jerry Church went over the current finances for the month. There was only one expense for annual maintenance of the CORCS web site. Except for a few payments submitted during the meeting, no income was received.

Then, Wayne asked our members for new and exciting ideas for this year’s events. (Those who were unable to attend and would like to participate may do so using the comment section of this page. We look forward to your ideas!) Here are some of the suggestions so far:

• Evening/Night Flight
• Bi-Wing Flight (any type of bi-wing aircraft)
• Field trip to Stafford Air & Space Center in Weatherford
• Guest speaker to present the history of radio-controlled flying

Finally, the Model of the Month went to James Farris and Thomas Wood for their joint collaboration on a Tiger 60.

Jim Farris & Tom Wood proudly display their Tiger 60.
(Thanks to Jerry Short for the photograph.)

Vice President Mark Williams will lead the meeting.

Secretary’s Report: Jerry Church – $xxxx in checking, $xxxx in C/D, same as last month. 61 paid members.

Field Manager Report: Gilbert Cano – Work was done to fix a some of the posts around the parking area and new gravel was spread along the drive.

Safety Report: Re-emphasize the need to call out our intentions to land/take off due to the increased number of flyers at the field. Also, remember to stand at one of the marked pilot stations when flying. We have gotten too casual about these safety issues and need to be make a concerted effort to lead by example.

Float fly for May 16 rescheduled to May 17 for hopefully more favorable conditions, weather permitting.

Gordon has offered to do some work to rearrange the north end of the field to better accommodate helicopter flying. He plans to add some fence posts and wants to change the mowing pattern to give heli pilots more room in that area.

Model of the Month – Jim Farris wins for his twin electric PBY Catalina.

Treasurer’s Report – Jerry Church: Same as last month, nothing in, nothing out.

President’s Report – Wayne Shalamunec: New 2009 membership application handout

Fred from OU – looking at UAV stuff for OU school aerospace/meteorology, place 26 miles south of norman, Kessler farm, he has purchased 2 trainers and 2 zagis for his students to build and fly.

Dan Weber is not running for VP next year, he is getting married in May. Congratulations to Dan and Leigh.

Officer elections for 2009:

Wayne Shalamunec: re-elected presdient by acclamation
VP and Safety Officer: Mark Williams
Secretary: Justin Greenfield
Treasurer: Jerry Church

Votes cast for CORCS of the year and builder of the year

Model of the Month
Gordon McNiven’s Beaver – rebuilt fuse, flies better on 3 cells, LEDs, flies in the dark, flies off the water

Habib – gordon’s cub design, mostly built by habib

Adjourned at 7:50

Treasurer Report – Jerry Church:

Begin checkin XXX.XX
income XXX.XX dues
expenses

sharpcut lawn XXX.XX
wayne shalamunec (trainer, food, drinks, ice) XXX.XX
jerry church XXX.XX pizza
XXX.XX 10 pines
XXX.XX drinks
storage lock XXX.XX
XXX.XX home depot for 10 chairs
XXX.XX total

spent XXX.XX last 2 months
XXX.XX balance
cd balance XXX.XX

66 members

President Report – Wayne Shalamunec: Wayne reserved room at Red Lobster, but also talked to Sooner Legends

It holds about 50 people, will set up buffet, room would cost $250, minimum 12.95 per person plus tax, they have a screen, projector, etc.

Membership agrees that Red Lobster is preferred, start showing up at 6:30, bring dirty santa gift, $10-15 target amount.

President will appoint a nominating committee for officers next year. Current Officers will make up the committee.

Please submit dues and fill out forms for next year. This is to keep the amount of paperwork and bookkeeping to a minimum.

Float Fly on Sunday the 19th at Matt’s – 1:30

Treasurer’s Report

$xxx Checking
$xxx income ($xxx dues, $xxx initiaition fees)
Expenses:
$xxx to Rick Page for new club trainer
$xxx to Eric Wenger for trash dumping fees
$xxx to SharpCut – June
$xxx to SharpCut – July (-36.00 for club dues)
$xxx to CD
$xxx expenses total
$xxx checking balance
$xxx CD

President’s Report

Labor Day Cookout – After discussion it is decided that pizza would be easier than cooking.

Oct 12 – Veterans Center Float Fly is scheduled.

Wayne is assigned to find a spot for the Christmas party.

Show & Tell

Gordon shows off his club pylon racer designs and is offering to cut parts for anyone in the club who wants one.

Rick Page shows his heavy-duty starter using an 18V Li-Ion Makita drill battery, adapter machined by A Finer Edge Manufacturing. Very nice.

John Harwell shows a beautiful set of floats he has finished, Great Planes 40 sized. They have custom aluminum mounts, thanks to Philip, and glassed bottoms. He has also applied a spray-on rubber coating to the tips for bumpers. He plans to mount them on a Hangar 9 Cub.

No model of the month.

Meeting called to order at 7:07 PM

Jerry Church – Treasurer’s Report

February Report -
xxxx.xx beginning balance
xxxx.xx dues
xxxx.xx hats
xxxx.xx initiation fee
xxxx.xx donation
xxxx.xx to Jerry Church for printing application forms
xxxx.xx gate lock
xxxx.xx name tags
xxxx.xx AMA plaques
xxxx.xx initiation fee to C/D

xxxx.xx checking balance
xxxx.xx C/D balance

March Report -
xxxx.xx beginning balance
xxxx.xx income
xxxx.xx to C/D

xxxx.xx checking balance
xxxx.xx C/D balance

47 paid members to date

Pins made for all but 6 at this point.

President Wayne Shalamunec (wshal@usa.net)

Discussion about the Air Show: With so many members out of town on Memorial Day weekend for various other activities, it has become hard to get enough volunteers to share the work load of prepping for the air show. Motion made and approved to replace the Memorial Day Air Show with a fun fly event on a different weekend TBA.

Discussed Philip’s proposed new sign. Much input from members in attendance was given, ranging from where to put the sign, the layout of the sign, but most discussion was concerning the size of the sign. After lengthy discussion a motion was made and approved that Wayne and Jerry will take a drawing of the sign to OU for approval and Philip will build a sign a bit larger than originally designed (as large as he can with the materials on hand).

Last month, Rick Page was assigned to look into designs for new steel tables. He reported back this month with a design for a powder coated steel 4×8 table which would cost $300 to construct and install. The idea of wooden starting stands was also discussed. A motion was made and approved to build 2 of the new steel tables to replace the badly damaged tables at the far ends of the pits, and a motion was made and approved for Eric Wenger to replace 2 more table tops with new plywood.

Other news

Jerry Short brought his PBY Catalina which is under construction.
Eric Wenger will be competing in a combat meet this weekend in Forth Worth, TX.
John Harwelll brought some wooden floats he built from an Ikon N West kit. They’re built to fit on a large Beaver he has been building for the last several years.
Eric also brought a Diamond S kit, a 40-powered delta wing that will do about 120mph as is, and up to 180mph with a tuned pipe. Wow!
Dan Weber brought a Top Flite Holy Smoke delta wing that he bought in Wichita last weekend at the swap meet.
Gordon brought a Phase 3 F-16 electric ducted fan which he acquired in a trade from another member. After some modifications and lightening it flies great.

Adjourned at 8:43 PM.

Meeting called to order at 7:03 PM

President Wayne Shalamunc (wshal@usa.net):
Jerry Church is sick tonight so there will be no treasurer’s report.

Wayne had heard from Hayk Terzyan that he would like to see some loosely organized competitions at the field this year, fun fly events and the like. Think about what events you might like to see and report back next month.

To have the Memorial Day Air Show or not… Does the club want to host an air show this year? Is it worth the work? Are there enough volunteers to make it worthwhile? If you feel strongly about this either way, please contact President Wayne at wshal@usa.net.

Tables falling into disrepair: Wayne would like to fix some of the tables and their rotting table tops. Doc proposes to look into different table designs to see if it would be worthwhile to replace them rather than repair them. His report is expected next month.

Philip DelNero will donate the workmanship and materials to fabricate a new sign for the club to put along Jenkins. He will come up with some sample renderings and we will display them on the website for feedback.

Jim Traw reminds us that a couple of members will be flying in a pattern competition at the Tulsa Glue Dobbers, coming up in March or May.

Model of the Month: Jerry Short wins again, this time with his Nitroplanes BobCat, pushed along with a Saito 30. He said the instructions for assembly were practically non-existant but it’s a good flyer.

Show & Tell: John Harwell brought out his super nice Satio 300 5-cylinder radial engine. It is NIB and has never been run, but he hopes to put it to use someday, if he lives long enough to retire.

Meeting adjourned at 7:47

Meeting called to order at 7:10PM.

Wayne offers thanks to Patrick and Tyler for their help in cutting of the fallen limbs and clearing the road.

Wayne mentions that the incident at the field with the dog injured by a visitor’s plane crashing into it was taken to small claims court and judgement found in favor of the dog’s owner to recover the vet bills.

Treasurer’s Report from Jerry Church
Beginning Balance Nov 14, 2007
xxx.xx
xxx.xx income
xxx.xx (dues, 1 hat, 1 init fee)

Expenses
Sharpcut Lawn Service – xxx.xx
Website – xxx.xx

Certificate of Deposit (init fee) – xxx.xx

ending balance: xxx.xx
Certificate of Deposit: xxx.xx

6 paid members.

Vice President Dan Weber – Dan mentions that a fence or something could be installed between the spectator benches and the pits to prevent incidents like the one above. Eric Wenger moves that a survey of the field be undertaken to see how it measures up to the AMA’s recommendations and consider potential changes. The motion passes.

Frequencies: Wayne wants to discuss the ban on certain frequencies at CORCS. He would like to do away with the ban and allow people to fly on them. He argues that the banned channels are no more subject to interference than any other of the 72MHz channels and that other channels get “hits” too. The membership in attendance does not agree. A vote is taken to ban more frequencies.

Channels 20-25 are now banned. Channel 47 is also banned after John Harwell lost his J3 Cub on that channel.

Harwell makes a motion that problem frequencies be identified on the frequency board. The motion passes.

Show and Tell: Eric Wenger brings some photos of his dad flying “Lady Jessie”, an A-4 Skyhawk back in his Navy VA-164 days. “Lady Jessie” has been featured in many advertisements in RC magazines lately for the Alfa A-4 ducted fan.

Gordon brought his cub, which he estimates to have 1500+ flights. He is rebuilding the fuselage from scale drawings.

Meeting adjourned at 8:03.

Meeting Started at 6:45pm, President Scott Mayberry presiding.

1st order of business: Safety reminder. Farris & Harwell were buzzed by a plane at the last float fly and wanted to remind everyone that if a plane is not flying properly it is better to point it into the dirt than take a chance to save it if it has any chance of hitting a person.

Memorial Day Airshow – Monday, May 28.

Doc will coordinate the flying groups.
Flying groups/tasks are assigned as follows:
Jerry Short – Warbirds
Gordon – electrics
Patrick/Chad – flight line & safety
Wayne – Trainers
Chris – Sport
Frank – Biplanes
George – Old timers/candy drop
Justin/Dan – float planes
Morris – virtual plane rides via goggles
Entire club – will prepare the field Saturday/Sunday by roping off the pits, etc.

Portable restrooms have been reserved for the event.
BBQ concession (same as last year) will return this year.

Sooner Magic Air Show Team will fly again this year. They do not know at this time how many pilots they will bring, but they will definitely bring their PA system. Bottom line is that the CLUB has to fly more this year than last year.

All members should post on the website what planes that they’ll be bringing and flying for the show.

Jerry Church is in charge of signage and stuff. We’ll put up the signs on Saturday.

Dan is in charge of making flyers.

Justin will do the programs.

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OU Aerospace Camp will be using the field for launching model rockets on Father’s Day June 19 from 9-11AM.

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Treasurer Jerry Church:
XXX.XX checking account
XXX.XX income
XXX.XX checking balance

XXX.XX to certificate of deposit (new member)
XXX.XX CD balance.

60 members.

Model of the Month for May: Jerry Short with his Hangar 9 PTS F-22 Raptor.
Model of the Month for March: Wayne Shalamunec for this 6′ Telemaster electric.