PHOTOS
FROM MAY 1, 2003 MEETING
The
May 1, 2003, meeting was held at the Club House. After a very brief business
segment, things moved right along to Show and Tell. Pictures of the projects
that Art Fisher, Keith Palmer, and Jay Goldstein showed the meeting are
below. The featured speaker was Sam Brauer, who, with the help of his
flying buddy Michael McBride, gave a tremendous, information-packed presentation
about E-Power that generated a lot of interest and questions. Pictures
from Sam’s presentation are also shown below. Thanks to Ron Payne
for supplying the photos.
Art
Fisher explained some of the details about his quarter-scale Taylorcraft.
He’s holding the cowl in his hands. (Sitting just in front of the
Taylorcraft one can see the e-powered 40-size Hyper-Bipe, one of six planes
that Sam Brauer brought to the meeting. On the right, is Sam’s tissue-covered
Sopwith Triplane park flyer.)
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on image to enlarge)
Keith
Palmer discusses his Mars. The picture does not do justice to Keith’s
truly superb
craftsmanship. (Those of you who used to fly control line will probably recognize the Mars as an old stunt design by the legendary Bob Palmer.)
craftsmanship. (Those of you who used to fly control line will probably recognize the Mars as an old stunt design by the legendary Bob Palmer.)
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on image to enlarge)
Jay
Goldstein showed the group his Super Sport 60. It’s still in the
bones, but it looks as though he’s having trouble holding it back.
Why he is building another of these will not be repeated here, but it
is alleged that it has something to do with some mental servo-reversing.
Here
is Sam Brauer discussing some of the physics applicable to deciding how
to power a plane. His skillful mixing of the theoretical with the practical
prompted a lot interest and questions. Click here to read his article
Electric Powerplant Selection
Guidelines.
Michael
McBride is holding Sam Brauer’s e-powered P-38 while Sam turns on
his transmitter to give a demonstration of the power generated by the
twin motors. The plane had two battery packs running through a single
speed controller. Before Sam ran up the motors, Michael turned the back
of the plane toward the group so they could sense the power. It was, well,
awesome! Sure would love to see this do a high speed, low level pass down
our runway.
