SWAP RC meeting 11-19-07

Greg Gee called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM, at the Hobby Town race
track. He thanked everyone for coming to the meeting. 16 people attended.

Minutes for the October meeting were read, voted on and approved.

Financial report was not available.

OLD BUSINESS

The lock situation seems to be stabilized now.  Rodney put heavy chain on and a new 
lock and we haven’t had any problems since.
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Greg stated he has a draft of the news letter for next month ready to go out, it will contain 
mention on the quorum vote. It will be sent out along with the dues invoices to save some 
money.
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Safety: after last month we thought the problem with a member was taken care of, but 
seems a couple of incidents happened again. Member is now flying with Ron Stahl for 
the jet style aircraft until certified.
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NEW BUSINESS

Greg made mention of how our web site really needs some work done on it. He is looking 
at what other club s are doing and he has signed up for the web master site AMA offers.
It was brought up that the roster needed updated and that will happen as part of the new 
web site. Look for it next year (not to far away).
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Next month’s meeting will be our pot luck Christmas meeting. We will also have a gift 
exchange, if you want a gift – bring a gift. Gifts will be limited to $25 and should be 
something airplane related. 
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Ed made mention of the wattage per pound of airplane for the electric motors should be 
approx 150 watts per pound. Recommendations now should be the use of two batteries in 
electric planes now one to operate the motor and one to operate the flight surfaces. ESC 
should have a BEC (battery eliminator circuit) so two batteries can be used. According to 
Ed they (electrics) are coming on.
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Mike brought up about the library visit in February, they have a 30 X 60 foot room 
available and anyone that would like to bring a plane to show is welcome. Maybe we 
could buy some Delta Darts from AMA and pass them out. It was discussed that maybe if 
we were to do this again we could have a building type class to either do the Darts of 
maybe a Guillows model, time would be of the factor here. Library session will be on 
February 19. Wayne brought maybe people could invest in one of the small helicopters 
for $25 and maybe give it for a door prize. Of course Wayne would have to demo it :)
Volunteers with laptop Flight Sims could be brought.

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Doc brought up for safety that people should not use the runway for landing if the flight 
line has a lot of people flying. It is very distracting and dangerous being so close to the 
flight stations. It was made mention that it would be a good idea to have a spotter with 
you when flying so they can keep a safety eye on the take off and landing of other planes.
Use common sense when taking off and landing, buddy system is a good idea to use.

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Elections are coming up and Rodney said he would do the Treasury position until then.

Show and Tell

Mike Newman brought in a Saito 170, three cylinder engine for everyone to see. It was 
passed around and looks good; we are all waiting to see the engine in a plane (in the air).


Meeting was adjourned at 7:30 PM


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