Doug Burt
Jul 12, 2000, 12:00 AM
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bob Benjamin’s Hobby Lobby PA 18 Super Cub flies off
into the stormy sky for yet another cold weather sortie. Plane is stock Speed 400 geared
with an MFA gearbox.</td>
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<p>Well, a year really does make a difference. Just ask any fifteen-year-old kid. The
participants at Fairfield R/C’s annual Chilliwack Spring Classic Electric Fly-In,
which is held at Ron Dodd’s place in Chilliwack, BC on the Memorial Day weekend, must
have felt the same way. Ron has one of the nicest sites around, featuring both a finely
cut grass strip that is extremely well maintained and a lovely abandoned quarry which is
just like paradise for float flying.</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Ivan Pettigrew's (of Chilliwack, BC) beautiful PBY 5A
Catalina comes in for a pass over the float site. Very nice plane powered by two Ruby
Sapphire motors and custom, homemade gearboxes. Ivan changed the wing incidence slightly
this year allowing more relaxing flying. </td>
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<p>Last year’s event saw temperatures of about 30 degrees and beautiful sunny, warm
weather. Not so this year as over 30 registered E-Flight pilots and 50 hardy spectators
braved what can only be described as a nasty weather weekend in the Fraser Valley
community. Those that registered this year had some of the nicest planes I’ve seen up
at the Chilliwack event yet. Opening day saw early birds pulling in by mid-afternoon with
motor-homes, trailers etc. under rainy skies which cleared by 5:00 in the afternoon
allowing us to fly until about 9:00 that night. Most of the early birds managed to get in
a couple of flights before nightfall overtook us. </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Very soggy flight line with heavy skies in the background.
This is the pit area and as you can see, most pilots were keeping their planes under wraps
waiting for breaks in the weather before committing aviation.</td>
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</center></div><p>Saturday morning saw the dawn of what appeared be a beautiful day. Some
flyers took advantage of very still early morning conditions to fly slow and park flyers
as well as some vintage string-bag type aircraft. Shortly thereafter it was off to the
float flying pond some 6 Km away from the main field allowing those who wanted to go float
flying to do so. While at the float site the skies seemingly cleared for about two
hours with the sun poking out, promising perhaps a better day of flying than Friday, but
alas, it was not to be…. </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Hal Norrish, also of Chilliwack, is out searching for
fires to extinguish with his beautiful Canadair CL 215 scratchbuilt. Powered by two Kyosho
Atomic Force motors and geared 6.06:1, this 85" wingspan beauty uses 13 X 10 Zinger
props. Wired in series using 18 Sanyo 1700 mAh batteries gives a total AUW weight of 151
oz. Balsa and ply construction with blue foam wing painted in acrylic paint. Futaba radio,
Castle Creations Pegasus ESC.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Hal Norrish floats in from another sortie putting out
fires in the Chilliwack Valley. Beautiful plane!</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Todd Long with his really neat Herr Engineering AquaStar,
powered by a 6v Speed 400 on 8 cells using a Cox gray 5.5 X 4 prop. This plane flew
extremely well. Built stock without modifications, except for changing the motor
mount to accept the S400</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Another shot of Todd’s AquaStar as it taxis in from a
really spirited flight. Very quick plane rises off the water with ease.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Grant Lord of Olympia, Washington brought this SIG
Senorita with a 63" span, powered by an Astro 25 on 16 cells with a 12x8 prop. Grant
is currently using the Panasonic NiMH 3000 cells with good results. Didn’t fair well
on water, but flew exceeding well at the main site.</td>
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</center></div><p>Returning back to the main field, the entrant’s list had noticeably
grown. Quite a few of the US entrants had come up to check out the Fairfield site as
the North Shore Electric Sport Flyers will be hosting the MAAC 2000 Canadian Nationals
Electric events there July 28, 29, & 30 2000. This is the first time Electric R/C
Scale (Sport, Stand-Off and Expert Scale) events will be included in the Nationals. Bob
Benjamin, Randy Smithhisler, Todd Long, Bernard Cawley and the Ezone’s Jim Bourke
were amongst the notable entrants from south of the border with Jim Bourke travelling all
the way up from Dallas. I felt sorry for Jim, as the Customs guys at our border obviously
don’t have enough sense to realize that airplanes are fragile. They managed to break
the tail of his lovely plane by crushing it in its case while closing the case after
examining the airplane. I guess it must’ve been the gun style case that he
carries his plane around in.</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bob Benjamin with his immaculate Tiger Cat. The airplane
is Bob’s original design, first flown in 1992 and published in Model Aviation in
1993. Span is 72", with Sig Koverall and butyrate dope cover and finish. Weight is
about 8.5 pounds Power is an MEC Turbo 10/20 (MaxCim 13D) brushless motor geared with MEC
Superbox at 4.3 to 1, MaxCim ESC and 20 x 2000 mAh NiCads. Prop is a MA electric 13-8. Bob
is currently upgrading the plan which will be offered in CAD format as "Miss Kitty
shortly. Look for it, it’s an awesome performer.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Norm Cecil of Whidby Island, Washington scratch built this
slightly modified Airflair Sundancer. Power is a MaxCim 13D on 18x2000 cells, 3.69:1
gearbox, MaxCim 21B controller w/BEC. Span is 63", area is 700 sq. in., and weight is
96 oz., all of which equals about 138 watts/lb.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Another of Norm Cecil’s planes. This one is a
Fleet bipe from a Concept kit designed for electric power. The Fleet biplane is
powered by a MaxCim 13D on 14x1700SCR cells, 3.69:1 gearbox, MaxCim 21B controller w/BEC.
Span is 56", 890 sq. in. area, weight 105 oz.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bruce Friend of Calgary's 60" wingspan Fornier RF-4D
flies by on its way 'round again at a very nice pace. Nicely designed kit by West Wings of
England weighs in at 24 oz. Bruce's plane is powered by a geared S400 on 8 X 500 mah
cells, swings a large prop 9 X 7, using a Schultz esc. Flies very gently and would be an
excellent choice for a first scale model. Bruce also recommends sheeting the top wing
surface for added rigidity.</td>
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</center></div><p>Breakfasts or lunches were started and the day’s flying activities
began for real. It was about then that the rain decided to make another unwanted
appearance. By 2:00 the rain had really picked up. Over 1" in less than an
hour’s time. This was followed immediately by a lovely hailstorm that showered us
with hailstones the size of small grapes. Just when you thought, "Gee it’s
getting bad"; the worst was still to come. After the hailstorm had tapered off a
thunder and lightning storm (appropriate weather for an E-Flight Fly-In - where do all
those lovely electrons come from anyway?) completely filled the skies. The lightning and
thunder continued for over the next few hours accompanied by strong winds, which were not
to die down until Sunday morning.</p>
<p>The weather helped everyone get together and talk about what else? E-Flight, flying
modifications, and dream building of more and more new planes. Everyone’s spirits
were buoyed with the hope of better weather on Sunday, but by the time Sunday morning
rolled around, most of the entrants were ready to fly come what may. A brief pilot meeting
was held and pilots got their planes ready to take advantage of any breaks in the weather.
Most pilots were able to get a couple of flights logged but it was somewhat iffy,
due to rainsqualls passing through for most of the morning. Lunchtime saw a clearing of
sorts, but the entrants, after the abbreviated awards ceremony had began to clean up and
get ready for their trip’s homeward after an extremely soggy weekend. The more hardy
fliers stuck around and were rewarded by a relatively calm Monday ending this year’s
Spring Classic event.</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center" height="38">Jim Bourke, Roger Taylor, and Bernard Cawley
(back to camera) discusses E-flight with a newcomer to the sport using Bernard’s LT
25 as a demonstration model.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">All eyes are skyward watching the flights in progress
during one of the breaks in the weather.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Awards were handed out for different categories during a
wet period around lunch Sunday under cover of the awning. Notable winners were Bob
Benjamin for Best Scale, Ivan Pettigrew for Best of Show for his PBY Catalina, Stephen
Cheung for Most Aerobatic (as usual, Stephen’s won it three years running)</td>
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</center></div><p>The feeling amongst the entrants was that it wasn’t Ron’s
fault that the weather wouldn’t co-operate, but my heart still goes out to him, the
Fraser Valley R/C club, and Brad Trent for really organizing a good show, regardless of
weather. Ron, Brad Trent, and the Fraser Valley R/C club have done a marvelous job by
continuously promoting E-Flight in the Pacific Northwest. This year was no exception with
a showing of some of the nicest models around and one of the most interesting.
I’ll certainly be back for the next one. As Ron said very tongue in cheek when
talking about T-shirts for the event "I really didn’t think the "I Survived
Chilliwack 2000" were going to be as appropriate as they were"!</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bruce Friend’s beautifully detailed ME 109F is
powered by an out of the box Graupner geared Speed 480 unit using a custom made
three-bladed prop. The 109 is approx. 1/12 scale and has a 34" wingspan, weighs in at
1.75 lb. ready to fly with an 8 cell 800AR battery pack, Schulz slim-24be ESC. The custom
made prop is a 10X8 with modified Master Airscrew 12X 8 replacement props cut down and
profiled to a scale like shape. Plans for this little screamer are available from Bruce
and you can contact him at <a HREF="http://rcgroups.com/shared/nospam.php?u=friendb&d=home.com">friendb(at)home.com</a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Ron Dodd, host of the Chilliwack Memorial Day weekend with
his large Partenavia twin. Ron has a great time flying this scratch built beauty off of
water or land. Ron got the idea from the Graupner kit and enlarged it somewhat using a
Selig 3021 airfoil. Powered by two Magnetic Mayhem reverse motors wired in parallel on
Master Airscrew 3 to 1 boxes, with 11 x 9 Master Airscrew black plastic props. 10 Sanyo
2000 mAh cells (also will fly on 9) give 8 Min. duration - slightly more if you are
careful with the throttle. Span is 75 inches, wing area is 975 sq. in.. Ron is using
a home made speed control (from Stephan Vorkoetter’s published plan). It is
covered in Mica film and Solarcote. All up weight ready to fly is 5 lbs., 11 oz. </td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">NotForSale by Jamie McBride of Burnaby. Scratched from
plans published by Model Airplane News, it's powered by a MEC Turbo 10 on ten cells geared
6:1 using an MEC SuperBox. Jamie uses a Pegasus 35 esc. The plane's AUW is 4lbs. 4oz. with
a wingspan of 52". </td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Brad Trent of Surrey, BC fielded this unusual scale
Chinook ultra-light model. Flew extremely scale in attitude and power. Graupner kit
designed for glow. The Chinook’s span is 79", area 940 sq.in. weight ready
to fly 8 lbs. The fuse is ply, plastic, and aluminum tube; the wing and tail are built-up
balsa with Coverite fabric. The power system is a Magnetic.Mayhem geared 2.85:1 turning an
APC 13x9 tractor prop, since the rearward facing motor and gears make a pusher
unnecessary. Fueled by a 10 cell pack of Sanyo RC2000's.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bob Benjamin’s beautiful scale rendition of a De
Havilland DH 60 Cirrus Moth "sort-of-scale" from the English DB Sport &
Scale kit (now out of production, I am informed). Span on this is 58", with an all up
weight of about 7.5 pounds. Power is a geared MaxCim 15Y brushless on 16 x 2000 mAh
NiCads. Covering is 21st Century Fabric with their paint on the cowl, LG, struts, etc.
Prop is a custom reworked 14-7. </td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Ivan Pettigrew with his Bristol Beaufighter. Beautifully
scratch-built by Ivan from his own plans, this Beaufighter really rocks. You could imagine
him coming down in a strafing run as he flew past the field at top speed. The Beaufighter
specs are as follows: Span 73 inches, wing area 765 sq. in., weight with 18 - 1700 mAh
cells is 7 lb, 12 oz. Wing loading is 23.4 oz/sq.ft. Covering is dove gray Monokote with
Mica film under the wings. Trinity Gem "Ruby" series 16 turn racing car motors
are used with 6:1 ratio gearboxes driving 14x12 Zinger props. They give 80 oz. static
thrust at 4,200 RPM drawing 30 amps. Motors are in series, so it is equivalent to nine
cells per motor. Six channels include flaps and home made retracts.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bob Benjamin’s Hobby Lobby PA 18 Super Cub flies off
into the stormy sky for yet another cold weather sortie. Plane is stock Speed 400 geared
with an MFA gearbox.</td>
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<blockquote>
<p>Well, a year really does make a difference. Just ask any fifteen-year-old kid. The
participants at Fairfield R/C’s annual Chilliwack Spring Classic Electric Fly-In,
which is held at Ron Dodd’s place in Chilliwack, BC on the Memorial Day weekend, must
have felt the same way. Ron has one of the nicest sites around, featuring both a finely
cut grass strip that is extremely well maintained and a lovely abandoned quarry which is
just like paradise for float flying.</p>
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Catalina comes in for a pass over the float site. Very nice plane powered by two Ruby
Sapphire motors and custom, homemade gearboxes. Ivan changed the wing incidence slightly
this year allowing more relaxing flying. </td>
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<p>Last year’s event saw temperatures of about 30 degrees and beautiful sunny, warm
weather. Not so this year as over 30 registered E-Flight pilots and 50 hardy spectators
braved what can only be described as a nasty weather weekend in the Fraser Valley
community. Those that registered this year had some of the nicest planes I’ve seen up
at the Chilliwack event yet. Opening day saw early birds pulling in by mid-afternoon with
motor-homes, trailers etc. under rainy skies which cleared by 5:00 in the afternoon
allowing us to fly until about 9:00 that night. Most of the early birds managed to get in
a couple of flights before nightfall overtook us. </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Very soggy flight line with heavy skies in the background.
This is the pit area and as you can see, most pilots were keeping their planes under wraps
waiting for breaks in the weather before committing aviation.</td>
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</center></div><p>Saturday morning saw the dawn of what appeared be a beautiful day. Some
flyers took advantage of very still early morning conditions to fly slow and park flyers
as well as some vintage string-bag type aircraft. Shortly thereafter it was off to the
float flying pond some 6 Km away from the main field allowing those who wanted to go float
flying to do so. While at the float site the skies seemingly cleared for about two
hours with the sun poking out, promising perhaps a better day of flying than Friday, but
alas, it was not to be…. </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo4.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo4_small.jpg" alt="photo4.jpg (5934 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="162" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Hal Norrish, also of Chilliwack, is out searching for
fires to extinguish with his beautiful Canadair CL 215 scratchbuilt. Powered by two Kyosho
Atomic Force motors and geared 6.06:1, this 85" wingspan beauty uses 13 X 10 Zinger
props. Wired in series using 18 Sanyo 1700 mAh batteries gives a total AUW weight of 151
oz. Balsa and ply construction with blue foam wing painted in acrylic paint. Futaba radio,
Castle Creations Pegasus ESC.</td>
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</center></div><p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo18.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo18_small.jpg" alt="photo18.jpg (16342 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="191" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Hal Norrish floats in from another sortie putting out
fires in the Chilliwack Valley. Beautiful plane!</td>
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</center></div><p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo5.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo5_small.jpg" alt="photo5.jpg (41956 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="79" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Todd Long with his really neat Herr Engineering AquaStar,
powered by a 6v Speed 400 on 8 cells using a Cox gray 5.5 X 4 prop. This plane flew
extremely well. Built stock without modifications, except for changing the motor
mount to accept the S400</td>
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</center></div><p>.</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo6.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo6_small.jpg" alt="photo6.jpg (14614 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="159" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Another shot of Todd’s AquaStar as it taxis in from a
really spirited flight. Very quick plane rises off the water with ease.</td>
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</center></div><p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo6a.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo6a_small.jpg" alt="photo6a.jpg (33694 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="164" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Grant Lord of Olympia, Washington brought this SIG
Senorita with a 63" span, powered by an Astro 25 on 16 cells with a 12x8 prop. Grant
is currently using the Panasonic NiMH 3000 cells with good results. Didn’t fair well
on water, but flew exceeding well at the main site.</td>
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</center></div><p>Returning back to the main field, the entrant’s list had noticeably
grown. Quite a few of the US entrants had come up to check out the Fairfield site as
the North Shore Electric Sport Flyers will be hosting the MAAC 2000 Canadian Nationals
Electric events there July 28, 29, & 30 2000. This is the first time Electric R/C
Scale (Sport, Stand-Off and Expert Scale) events will be included in the Nationals. Bob
Benjamin, Randy Smithhisler, Todd Long, Bernard Cawley and the Ezone’s Jim Bourke
were amongst the notable entrants from south of the border with Jim Bourke travelling all
the way up from Dallas. I felt sorry for Jim, as the Customs guys at our border obviously
don’t have enough sense to realize that airplanes are fragile. They managed to break
the tail of his lovely plane by crushing it in its case while closing the case after
examining the airplane. I guess it must’ve been the gun style case that he
carries his plane around in.</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bob Benjamin with his immaculate Tiger Cat. The airplane
is Bob’s original design, first flown in 1992 and published in Model Aviation in
1993. Span is 72", with Sig Koverall and butyrate dope cover and finish. Weight is
about 8.5 pounds Power is an MEC Turbo 10/20 (MaxCim 13D) brushless motor geared with MEC
Superbox at 4.3 to 1, MaxCim ESC and 20 x 2000 mAh NiCads. Prop is a MA electric 13-8. Bob
is currently upgrading the plan which will be offered in CAD format as "Miss Kitty
shortly. Look for it, it’s an awesome performer.</td>
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</center></div><p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo10.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo10_small.jpg" alt="photo10.jpg (28665 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="235" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Norm Cecil of Whidby Island, Washington scratch built this
slightly modified Airflair Sundancer. Power is a MaxCim 13D on 18x2000 cells, 3.69:1
gearbox, MaxCim 21B controller w/BEC. Span is 63", area is 700 sq. in., and weight is
96 oz., all of which equals about 138 watts/lb.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo11.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo11_small-1.jpg" alt="photo11.jpg (29409 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="224" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Another of Norm Cecil’s planes. This one is a
Fleet bipe from a Concept kit designed for electric power. The Fleet biplane is
powered by a MaxCim 13D on 14x1700SCR cells, 3.69:1 gearbox, MaxCim 21B controller w/BEC.
Span is 56", 890 sq. in. area, weight 105 oz.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center"><a href="/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo7.jpg"><img src="http://static.rcgroups.com/articles/ezonemag/2000/jul/chilliwack/photo7_small.jpg" alt="photo7.jpg (16801 bytes)" border="2" WIDTH="173" HEIGHT="100"></a></td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bruce Friend of Calgary's 60" wingspan Fornier RF-4D
flies by on its way 'round again at a very nice pace. Nicely designed kit by West Wings of
England weighs in at 24 oz. Bruce's plane is powered by a geared S400 on 8 X 500 mah
cells, swings a large prop 9 X 7, using a Schultz esc. Flies very gently and would be an
excellent choice for a first scale model. Bruce also recommends sheeting the top wing
surface for added rigidity.</td>
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</table>
</center></div><p>Breakfasts or lunches were started and the day’s flying activities
began for real. It was about then that the rain decided to make another unwanted
appearance. By 2:00 the rain had really picked up. Over 1" in less than an
hour’s time. This was followed immediately by a lovely hailstorm that showered us
with hailstones the size of small grapes. Just when you thought, "Gee it’s
getting bad"; the worst was still to come. After the hailstorm had tapered off a
thunder and lightning storm (appropriate weather for an E-Flight Fly-In - where do all
those lovely electrons come from anyway?) completely filled the skies. The lightning and
thunder continued for over the next few hours accompanied by strong winds, which were not
to die down until Sunday morning.</p>
<p>The weather helped everyone get together and talk about what else? E-Flight, flying
modifications, and dream building of more and more new planes. Everyone’s spirits
were buoyed with the hope of better weather on Sunday, but by the time Sunday morning
rolled around, most of the entrants were ready to fly come what may. A brief pilot meeting
was held and pilots got their planes ready to take advantage of any breaks in the weather.
Most pilots were able to get a couple of flights logged but it was somewhat iffy,
due to rainsqualls passing through for most of the morning. Lunchtime saw a clearing of
sorts, but the entrants, after the abbreviated awards ceremony had began to clean up and
get ready for their trip’s homeward after an extremely soggy weekend. The more hardy
fliers stuck around and were rewarded by a relatively calm Monday ending this year’s
Spring Classic event.</p>
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<td width="100%" align="center" height="38">Jim Bourke, Roger Taylor, and Bernard Cawley
(back to camera) discusses E-flight with a newcomer to the sport using Bernard’s LT
25 as a demonstration model.</td>
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</center></div><p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">All eyes are skyward watching the flights in progress
during one of the breaks in the weather.</td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Awards were handed out for different categories during a
wet period around lunch Sunday under cover of the awning. Notable winners were Bob
Benjamin for Best Scale, Ivan Pettigrew for Best of Show for his PBY Catalina, Stephen
Cheung for Most Aerobatic (as usual, Stephen’s won it three years running)</td>
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</center></div><p>The feeling amongst the entrants was that it wasn’t Ron’s
fault that the weather wouldn’t co-operate, but my heart still goes out to him, the
Fraser Valley R/C club, and Brad Trent for really organizing a good show, regardless of
weather. Ron, Brad Trent, and the Fraser Valley R/C club have done a marvelous job by
continuously promoting E-Flight in the Pacific Northwest. This year was no exception with
a showing of some of the nicest models around and one of the most interesting.
I’ll certainly be back for the next one. As Ron said very tongue in cheek when
talking about T-shirts for the event "I really didn’t think the "I Survived
Chilliwack 2000" were going to be as appropriate as they were"!</p>
</blockquote>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bruce Friend’s beautifully detailed ME 109F is
powered by an out of the box Graupner geared Speed 480 unit using a custom made
three-bladed prop. The 109 is approx. 1/12 scale and has a 34" wingspan, weighs in at
1.75 lb. ready to fly with an 8 cell 800AR battery pack, Schulz slim-24be ESC. The custom
made prop is a 10X8 with modified Master Airscrew 12X 8 replacement props cut down and
profiled to a scale like shape. Plans for this little screamer are available from Bruce
and you can contact him at <a HREF="http://rcgroups.com/shared/nospam.php?u=friendb&d=home.com">friendb(at)home.com</a></td>
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<p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Ron Dodd, host of the Chilliwack Memorial Day weekend with
his large Partenavia twin. Ron has a great time flying this scratch built beauty off of
water or land. Ron got the idea from the Graupner kit and enlarged it somewhat using a
Selig 3021 airfoil. Powered by two Magnetic Mayhem reverse motors wired in parallel on
Master Airscrew 3 to 1 boxes, with 11 x 9 Master Airscrew black plastic props. 10 Sanyo
2000 mAh cells (also will fly on 9) give 8 Min. duration - slightly more if you are
careful with the throttle. Span is 75 inches, wing area is 975 sq. in.. Ron is using
a home made speed control (from Stephan Vorkoetter’s published plan). It is
covered in Mica film and Solarcote. All up weight ready to fly is 5 lbs., 11 oz. </td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">NotForSale by Jamie McBride of Burnaby. Scratched from
plans published by Model Airplane News, it's powered by a MEC Turbo 10 on ten cells geared
6:1 using an MEC SuperBox. Jamie uses a Pegasus 35 esc. The plane's AUW is 4lbs. 4oz. with
a wingspan of 52". </td>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Brad Trent of Surrey, BC fielded this unusual scale
Chinook ultra-light model. Flew extremely scale in attitude and power. Graupner kit
designed for glow. The Chinook’s span is 79", area 940 sq.in. weight ready
to fly 8 lbs. The fuse is ply, plastic, and aluminum tube; the wing and tail are built-up
balsa with Coverite fabric. The power system is a Magnetic.Mayhem geared 2.85:1 turning an
APC 13x9 tractor prop, since the rearward facing motor and gears make a pusher
unnecessary. Fueled by a 10 cell pack of Sanyo RC2000's.</td>
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</center></div>
<p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Bob Benjamin’s beautiful scale rendition of a De
Havilland DH 60 Cirrus Moth "sort-of-scale" from the English DB Sport &
Scale kit (now out of production, I am informed). Span on this is 58", with an all up
weight of about 7.5 pounds. Power is a geared MaxCim 15Y brushless on 16 x 2000 mAh
NiCads. Covering is 21st Century Fabric with their paint on the cowl, LG, struts, etc.
Prop is a custom reworked 14-7. </td>
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<p> </p>
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<td width="100%" align="center">Ivan Pettigrew with his Bristol Beaufighter. Beautifully
scratch-built by Ivan from his own plans, this Beaufighter really rocks. You could imagine
him coming down in a strafing run as he flew past the field at top speed. The Beaufighter
specs are as follows: Span 73 inches, wing area 765 sq. in., weight with 18 - 1700 mAh
cells is 7 lb, 12 oz. Wing loading is 23.4 oz/sq.ft. Covering is dove gray Monokote with
Mica film under the wings. Trinity Gem "Ruby" series 16 turn racing car motors
are used with 6:1 ratio gearboxes driving 14x12 Zinger props. They give 80 oz. static
thrust at 4,200 RPM drawing 30 amps. Motors are in series, so it is equivalent to nine
cells per motor. Six channels include flaps and home made retracts.</td>
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