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The Greater Southwest Aero Modelers, Inc. is a nonprofit organization. Membership is nondiscriminatory and open to anyone who agrees to abide by Club By-Laws. A condition of membership for insurance purposes is current affiliation with the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA). Our flying field is located at 6903 Randol Mill Road, 1/4 mile east of exit 26 off of Loop 820 at N 32°46.895’ W 97° 12.361’. Visitors are welcome whenever the gate is unlocked. Free flight training instruction is available to members from 6:00 PM to dusk on Monday and Wednesday while Daylight Savings Time is in effect. Regular Club meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM at the McDonalds Restaurant, 450 Grapevine Hwy, Hurst TX. The McDonalds is on the north side of Grapevine Hwy, about .1 mi north of Hurstview Dr.

The Tail Spinner Greater Southwest Aero Modelers

P.O. Box 1355 Bedford, TX 76021

http://www.flygsw.org

President ..................... Tim Lovett ........................ (682) 503-6529 Vice President(s) ......... Lee Rice ........................... (817) 431-5408 Secretary ..................... Sonny Coleman ................. (817) 251-3940 Treasurer ..................... Tom Russell ...................... (817) 457-3236 Newsletter Editor ........ Roy Baker ......................... (817) 545-4031

May 2011

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Next Meeting:

Tuesday May 10, 2011

7:30PM

McDonalds 450 Grapevine Hwy

Hurst

Many things have happened since we last spoke! One of the major items is the appearance of another gas drilling rig on the asphalt property. This one will be there for the whole month of May. They are drilling two wells. Rather than completely shutting the field down this time we are going to try to work around it. The control line and helicopter area will remain open. Fixed wing aircraft will have to utilize the helipad area as a runway in an east/west fashion. The runway is CLOSED! That means the helicopters and fixed wing pilots will have to share a very limited space. I am sure we can manage through this time. I do not want to have to close the field. It is everyone’s responsibility to make certain no one flies in the overfly area east of the shelter. I have told the supervisor at the drilling site to call me if any of his workers see an airplane anywhere south of the north side of the shelter. If that were to happen, there will be no discussion, the gates will have to be locked at that point. So, please make sure no one places us in that position. Fly on the north side of the helicopter pad. Do not go past the tape that is across the runway, AT ALL! Thank you for your help in this matter. Also, we have brought in seven (7) loads of dirt to fill the low spot on the runway just south of the southern taxiway. There is about six inches of new topsoil in that area. I seeded the runway last week with Bermuda seed and hope to have the runway in good shape when the drilling rig is moved away. The sprinkler system is set to water the field four times a day for short periods. If you are out there and notice the center portion is not wet,

President’s Notes feel free to grab one of the hoses by the runway and wet that area down so the grass will grow as fast as it can. John Stanzak located a container for us and it will be at the field in the next couple of weeks. You will notice a raised pad has been prepared for the container out by the dumpster. We will have it for storage and I think it will be very nice. Once the container arrives, we will have to build a ramp to get into the doors. This will be part of our work day this month. Saturday the 14th of May will be a workday. We will be working on tables, general cleanup, fencing, and hopefully getting the new container fixed up and filled. There are several events coming up. Check the events schedule and come play! The Bi-plane event will be moved due to the drilling. We will discuss the new date at the meeting. Use this down time to make certain your planes are ready to go. We have already had some issues with batteries. Make sure to cycle your batteries to make sure they don’t let you down. I hope to see you at the field! Keep the shiny side up!

Tim Lovett President

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Roy Baker (817) 545-4031

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May Events Calendar

MAY 07--Sherman, TX (C) 11th Texoma RC Electric Extravaganza. Site: Pete Darter RC Field. GPS Coordinates: 33.644011, -96.750229 Events: Sponsor: Texoma RC Modelers Club #276. CD: Joe Denney, 1757 Woorlake Road, Denison, TX 75020. Phone: 903-819-5843(day) 903-819-5843(eve) E-Mail: joe1d@juno.com WebSite: www.texomarc.org The 11th Texoma RC Electric Extravaganza is a fly-in for all electric powered aircraft. RVs welcome, but no hook-ups. A/C only. Out of town guests are welcome on Friday also. $15 landing fee includes lunch. Pilot's meeting @ 9am. MAY 07-08--Texarkana, TX (AA) Texarkana Contest. Site: Spring Lake Park. Events: (322-326) (JSO). CD: John Gunn, 5201 Summerhill #1007, Texarkana, TX 75503. Phone: 903-306-0931(day) E-Mail: TexasAntMan@Gmail.com Normal prizes, Raffle, etc. Breakfast in the morning on the field Saturday and Sunday, catered lunch on Saturday, dinner at a nice place Saturday evening. MAY 13-15--Gainesville, TX (AAA) 3^rd Annual Gainesville Texas Free Flight Champs. Site: Gainesville, Texas, Airport. GPS Coordinates: 33.65219, -97.1972778 Events: Cat III: 101, 101C, 124, 150, 153, 154 (JSO) 140, 142 (J)(SO); NFFS Events - 1/4A NOS, 1/2A NOS, Early 1/2A NOS, NFFS One Design, Classic Towline; SAM Events - .020 Replica, (OT HLG, Catapult Glider), Twin Pusher Mass Launch; FAC Events - Rubber Scale, Power Scale, WW I & WW II and Low WG Trnr Mass Launch, P-Nut Scale, Dime

Scale, Jet Catapult Scale, Old Time Gas Replica. Sponsor: Texas Cloud Climbers #606. CD: Mike Fedor, 2500 San Diego Dr., Arlington, TX 76015. Phone: (817)480-4825(d a y) ( 8 1 7) 2 7 7- 1 8 29 ( e ve) E - Mai l : mmfedor@aol.com Field will be available for Friday test flying, competition on Saturday and

Sunday. MAY 14--Benbrook, TX (C) Warbirds Over Lake Benbrook. Site: Thunderbird Field. GPS Coordinates: 32.61, -97.4844 Events: Sponsor: Ft. Worth Thunderbirds #1217. CD: Terry Thorpe, 413 Schooner Drive, Azle, TX 76020. Phone: 817-444-8237(day) 817-444-8237(eve) E-Mail: tthorpe22@verizon.net WebSite: www.fwthunderbirds.org Landing fee $20, free lunch for pilots, pilot give-a-ways. 0900 pilot safety meeting. MAY 14--Lucas, TX (A) Richardson Spring Combat. Site: Richardson RC Club. GPS Coordinates: 33.107047, -96.5206 Events: 750 755 (JSO) Sponsor: Richardson RC Club #623. CD: Ed Kettler, 6725 Grant Lane, Plano, TX 75024. Phone: 469-867-7981(day) E-Mail: ed.kett ler3@verison.net W ebSite: www.rrcc.org AMA & Hard hat required. SSC and 2948 Scale Combat. Spectators welcome! Lots of fun for pilots and spectators.

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April Secretary’s Report

The April 2011 business meeting was called to order by club president Tim Lovett at the McDonalds Restaurant at 450 W. Grapevine Hwy Hurst, TX. March 2011 business meeting minutes were approved as written by the attend-ing GSWAM club members. Field Report: There was a discussion regarding the leveling of the flying facili-ties runway with approximately 4-loads of top soil using an outside contractor to perform the work. Motion made: To fund the runway project with a not to exceed amount of $3000.00. Motion was sec-onded and approved by attending club members via a show of hands vote. Club vice president Lee Rice is to begin receiv-ing bids and meeting with landscaping contractors who want to bid on the pro-ject. 2011 Flight Instruction: Frank Rowell has posted the 2011 flight instructor list on the club web site. Flight instruction will be provided, weather permitting, on Mondays and Wednesdays starting around 6:00 P.M. at the GSWAM flying facility. Old Business:

Storage Container: The club has been offered a free storage container that will fill our needs for a secure place to store field equipment, but it will require trans-portation from its current Location in the Grand Prairie area to the flying facility location. Transporting the 40’ long con-tainer will require a commercial grade transportation contractor to move the container to flying facility. A general dis-cussion regarding the location where the container will be placed was completed. Motion made: To Fund the moving of the container to the club flying facility from its current location in Grand Prairie, TX with a not to exceed amount of $1,500.00. Motion to pay a contractor to move the storage container to the flying facility was approved by the attending club members. Lone Star Nationals: March 25th – 27th the Lone Star National Combat Meet will be held at the GSWAM flying facility. A motion was made and approved by at-tending club members to host the annual combat event. The flying facility will be closed to open flying until after 5:00 P.M.

Saturday and Sunday during the event. New Business: 2011 Texas Biplane Fun Fly: On Sat-urday May 21st the GSWAM club will host its annual biplane fun-fly. There is a $10.00 landing fee with lunch included. Event Director is Darrell Abby. Motion made: To provide the event director with $150.00 for raffle prizes. Motion sec-onded and approved by the attending club members. UTA UAV Presentation: Aerospace Engineering students Daniel Glowickz and Jonathan Efinger provided a video pres-entation of their Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) school project and described their objectives for an unmanned, radio con-trollable aircraft to be launched and tran-sition or continue to autonomous flight, navigate a specified course and use on-board payload sensors to locate and as-sess a series of man-made objects before returning to the launch point for landing. A team comprised of four UTA Aerospace Engineering students and one faculty advisor took top honors at the 3rd Annual Student Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Competition in Maryland back in 2005. This year’s team wants to return to Mary-land and compete in the 2011 event and is seeking outside funding for team travel expenses and lodging. Motion made: To award the team $200.00 with a contin-gency to possibly provide additional fund-ing based on the teams over all progress. The funding motion was seconded and approved by the attending club member-ship. April Fun-Fly: There was a very good turn-out for the April fun-fly event with 18 pilots participating in the events. The fun-fly was great fun, flying, light hearted competition, and the ever popular free pizza. Asphalt Plant: If an aircraft is lost within the Asphalt plant property please check-in at the security office near the plant office before recovering any air-craft. Trash Can Usage: Reminder: Please put your crashed aircraft remains into the dumpster, and not into the trash cans. March 2011 Model of the Month: This month’s Model of the Month award was again won by Jim Whitworth with his WWII FW190 German fighter. The air-craft was powered by a .91 Magnum four

MAY 14--Livingston, TX (C) Spring Fun-Fly. Site: Elwood Field. GPS Coordinates: 30.78025, -94.9635361 Events: Sponsor: Livingston A.R.F. #4093. CD: Michael Muehr, 143 Gwendolyn, Livingston, TX 77351. Phone: 936-329-1973(day) 936-329-1973(eve) E-Mail: michael.muehr@ineos.com $20 landing fee. Pilots eat free; additional plate $10. Please bring canned goods for the Livingston Food Bank. Come enjoy fried catfish. MAY 14-15--Mt. Pleasant, TX (C) Northeast Texas R/C Club Big Bird. Site: Club Field. GPS Coordinates: 33.087853, -95.005402 Events: Sponsor: Northeast Texas R/C Club #866. CD: Gus Hudson, 508 Merrell Drive, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. Phone: 903-885-3611(day) 9 0 3 - 8 8 5 - 6 0 1 3 ( e v e ) E - M a i l : gushudson@suddenlinkmail.com WebSite: www.mtpleasantrc.com MAY 15--Weatherford, TX (C) WAMS Spring Float Fly. Site: Cartwright Park. GPS Coordinates: 32.7880222, -97.830375 Sponsor: Weatherford Aero Modeling Society #2267. CD: Verne Bell, 1805 Greenwood Cut Off, Weatherford, TX 76088. Phone: 817-599-9580(day) 817-599-9580(eve) E-Mail: vernebbell@intergate.com W ebSite: www.wamsrc.com Great location, great spectator location. North of Weatherford Courthouse on Hwy 51 to FM920. Go 2 miles to Cartwright Park Road. $10 landing fee. Food and restrooms available. 9 am to 4 pm. MAY 15--Lucas, TX (C) Helicopter Fun-Fly. Site: Richardson RC Club. GPS Coordinates: 33.107047, -96.5206 Events: Sponsor: Richardson RC Club #623. CD: Ed Kettler, 6725 Grant Lane, Plano, TX 75024. Phone: 4 6 9 - 8 6 7 - 7 9 8 1 ( d a y ) E - M a i l : ed.ket t l er3@ ver is on. n et W ebSi t e: www.rrcc.org Bring all your rotary wing toys and come out for a great day of fun flying, a few mildly competitive events, and good friends at Richardson's newly upgraded field.

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stroke engine. Club Shirts and Hats: If you would like to purchase a club polo style shirt or cap see Chris or Karen Proctor at the flying field. Club Web Site: Be sure the visit the Greater Southwest Aero Modeler’s web site at: http://www.flygsw.org . There is a current membership roster in the “Members” area and be sure to check out the club’s “Tech” site, there’s an abun-dance of useful information available there. Sonny Coleman – Club Secretary 214-415-1921 Sonny@flygsw.org

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2011 TEXAS SCALE CHAMPIONSHIPS-SCALE MASTERS QUALIFER By Lawrence Harville

The reining Texas Scale Champion for 2010 is our very own Vice President Lee Rice. Lee won the title last year and will be back again this year to defend his title. Of course there will be a dedicated number of us who will be there to make sure he doesn’t. AND THAT GENTLEMEN IS CALLED A DOGFIGHT. Come be a part or watch the combat. The Scale competition season is fast approaching and GSWAM will be hosting the event again this year on June 18-19 at our on field. Like last year we will be giving away another Airtronics 2.4, 8 channel Radio. Last year the radio was won by our own Ed Couch. This year the radio will go to the winner of the FUN SCALE CLASS-and good for everyone else-you cant win the radio two years in a row. Eat your heart out Ed and the rest of you have an even better shot at getting the radio. Before you say I don’t fly scale, I don’t have a scale airplane, I don’t know what to do. Lets go through the classes and see if something fits you. Scale is not for everyone only about 99.99% are eligible to play. In the FUN Class -little or no documentation required-just fly. I have seen many of you at the field with just this type of SCALE plane-now you can come and compete and stand a very good chance of winning. I have seen you guys fly, I have seen your airplanes. I can tell you would do very well at this event. Your static portion of the event is worth 5 points-all you have to do is have a photo, drawing or sketch of the plane—an ad or the box top art is good enough. You don’t have to do static if you don’t want to-just fly. You can have an ARF, buy a plane or build it yourself, anything will do. We hope to fly 6 times over two days, your score will be the Best Two Flights added to Static. If you fly 2 times you could decide not to fly again if you wanted to. So you say what TRICKY SCALE flying do I have to do. This where we separate the men from the boys, You must perform 5 extremely Difficult maneuvers . They are:

Take Off Fly by--straight line down the runway between 10 and 20 ft high Figure 8—draw an 8 in the air Landing Realism in flight—did it look like a real plane flying around

Then you pick 5 other munevurs that you like to do like a loop, roll anything the real plane would do. THAT IS IT!!! You do that everytime you fly. You will get a free lunch, be eligible for the drawings and hopefully earn a place in GSWAM scale history. If you ever thought about entering a scale contest and never have FUN scale would be the place to start. This year we are dividing FUN Scale into civilian and Military Class to give more pilots a better chance of bringing home the awards. We can have someone to help guide you through the contest. We can even have someone on a buddy box, if you would feel better like that.

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Next month I will write about the Advanced, Expert and Team events You can do it!! Plan now to come out and play If you want more info contact Lawrence Harville or Max Ficken

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Model Of The Month April The toughest competitions put on by Greater Southwest happens EVERY month at the club meeting. This is just a sample of what you are missing at our meetings. The rules are pretty simple:

Bring and airplane or helicopter to the meeting The club members vote on which they like the most Winner get a gallon of glow fuel Doesn’t have to be new, finished or flown just a model you want to show off.

But the best thing about the show and tell is the builder or owner get to explain his entry, how he built or assembled it, what techniques or difficulties he has. Some of the best most informative minutes of the meeting. Usually questions are ask but mostly we just get to see something new. Not only do you get a gallon of fuel if you win but you also get the appreciation of the guys you fly with. Sometimes there is only ONE plane at the meeting—guess who wins the fuel then. Bring out your toys---see you at the meeting

First place in April is Jim Whitworth with his Fw 190A

Second Place was Dave El with his control line plane

MAY 19-22--Austin, TX (C) Central Texas Jet Rally. Site: Lester Field. GPS Coordinates: 30.32401, -97.6033 Events: Sponsor: Austin Radio Control Association #877. CD: Daniel Massey, P.O. Box 4965, Largo Vista, TX 78545. Phone: 940-594-8675(day) 512-650-3110(eve) E-Mail: rcjetsaok@yahoo.com WebSite: www.austinrc.org Jet Aircraft, all sizes, electric, glow, turbine. No props. Foamies welcome. Landing fee: $25. Pilot awards, raffle, free pizza Friday evening for pilots & crew. Steak dinner Sat. Nite: $13 per plate. Limited RV electric hook-ups; $10 nite. Bring your night flyers! MAY 21-22--Houston, TX (AA) 2011 Ringmaster Roundup. Site: Scobee Field, Houston, TX. GPS Coordinates: 29.725278, -95.692222 Events: 322-326, 332 (JSO), Classic, Old Time Stunt. CD: David Gresens, 9614 Landry Blvd, Spring, TX 77379. Phone: 281-772-9053(day) same(eve) E-Mail: dgresens@kleiinisd.net WebSite: http://www.brotherhoodofthering.info Sat: Old Time

and Classic; Sun: Pampa stunt and team event. Limited to S-1 Ringmasters. MAY 21-22--Crosby, TX (AA) PropNuts Tru Turn Challenge. Site: Club Field. GPS Coordinates: 29.880568, -95.004838 Events: 411-415 (JSO) Sponsor: PropNuts RC Club #1770. CD: Allan Smith, 16146 Bollard, Crosby, TX 77532. Phone: 281-966-2898(day) 2 8 1 - 3 2 8 - 5 7 7 0 ( e v e ) E - M a i l : e a s 1 0 3 0 @ p e o p l e p c . c o m W eb S i t e : www.propnuts.com $35 IMAC Members/$40 Non-IMAC. Lunch provided both days for pilots. Contestant judging. Field open Friday for practice. Registration 7:30am Saturday. Awards for 1st thru 3rd in each class, JSO combined. Freestyle Sunday. RV's OK, No Hook-ups. Sound check waived. MAY 21-22--Grand Prairie, TX (C) Golden Triangle RC Club Big Bird Fly-In. Site: Jim Fulton Field. GPS Coordinates: 32.57, -97.044722 Events: Sponsor: Golden Triangle RC Club #610. CD: Ray Thompson, 413 S. Main #46, Mansfield, TX 76063. Phone: 817-

453-8110(day) 817-453-8110(eve) E-Mail: b i g d o g r @ s b c g l o b a l . n e t W e b S i t e : www.gtrcc.org Free lunch for registered pilots. Awards for pilot choice, Best Civilian and Military. Pilot's raffle. 72mhz and 2.4ghz are welcome. All single and dual conversion welcome. For more info contact CD. MAY 21-22--Kingsbury, TX (C) 1st Annual TCF Big Bird Fun-Fly. Site: Old Kingsbury Aerodrome. GPS Coordinates: 29.633244, -97.810757 Events: Sponsor: Tri-City Flyers #850. CD: Bryan Kirby, 1136 E. Kingsbury #161, Seguin, TX 78155. Phone: 830-560-2000(day) 830-560-2000(eve) E-Mail: t r i f l y @ s a t x . r r . c o m W e b S i t e : www.tricityflyers.com All flyers welcome with any aircraft meeting giant scale criteria! Lots of pilot prizes, multi-prize raffle and of course food! Landing fee $20. Plaques and awards for different categories and a surprise or two as well. Campers and RVs welcome, but no hook-ups.

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The Tail Spinner Greater Southwest Aero Modelers P.O. Box 1355 Bedford, TX 76021

Inside This Issue President’s Notes April Meeting Minutes Texas Scale Info April Model of the Month Event Flyers

McDonald’s #14416 225 N Kimball Southlake, Texas 76092

McDonald’s #13021 Belknap St & HWY 177 Haltom City, Texas 76117

McDonald’s #16322 2155 W Southlake Blvd Southlake, Texas 76092

McDonald’s #29446 Precinct Line Rd & Harwood St (Inside Wal-Mart) Hurst, Texas 76053

McDonald’s #16807 Cheek Sparger & HWY 121 (Inside Wal-Mart) Bedford, Texas 76021

McDonald’s Is proud to support

Greater Southwest Aero Modelers

Please visit us at one of the following locations:

McDonald’s #7586 450 Grapevine Highway Hurst, Texas 76053

McDonald’s #33905 5609 Colleyville Blvd Colleyville, Texas 76034