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Lake Sawyer Hawks

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AMA 4204

October 6, 2011 Show and Tell

Pilot: Ray Peters
Plane: Ray described his pre-assembled, laser cut balsa "Whatsit" by Jim Weaver. He plans to cover it and install electric motor with 3-cell, 2200 Mah battery that should give about 2 minutes of flight.

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Pilot: Dick Weaver
Plane: Dick demonstrated his Air Swimmer Shark by flying around the meeting room and described how it was partially swallowed by the indoor flying site air conditioning unit.

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Pilot: Tom Richards
Plane: Tom described how he added vertical stabilizers to the underside of his scratch built Sukhoi T-50 fuselage to reduce wallowing at low speed, high angle of attack flight.

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Pilot: Tom Richards
Plane: Tom's scratch built "Day Dream" prototype has rotating twin electric motors, but gremlins had altered transmitter programming provided by Gerry Drake, so it man be working by the next meeting.

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Pilot: Gerry Drake
Plane: Gerry's Great Planes Ugly Stick ARF will have floats added after check-out flights from the ground.

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Pilot: Gerry Drake
Plane: Gerry's GAUI A-10 Warthog ARF has no steering for nose wheel or rudder control, so twin ducted fans must be programmed in transmitter for ground steering.

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