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is proud to be an AMA Gold Leader Club!!!

Flying is a family experience. Children, some of them over the age of 30, will enjoy seeing the detailed models at our Nineteenth Annual Fly-in. The fly-in this year is September 25 & 26. The public show is from 9:30 to 4 at the Gilbertsville Polo Grounds.

Click for directions to Gilbertsville, NY.

PILOTS save time and hassel at the registration desk. Download the event registration form.

See all our events in the ORCF Events Calendar!

If you're not already a member of this growing and energetic group of R/C Model Airplane enthusiasts, perhaps you'll find information here that peek's your interests. We'd love to have you come out to the flying field with us, and maybe even get a free flying lesson if you're interested. We're pretty sure that if you do, you'll get the "flying bug" and become a member.

The next ORCF picnic is Sunday September 12.

Bring a dish to pass, beverage, and...and... oh yeah, A PLANE!!!

Warbirds Over ChenangoSee our Giant scale friends at the Binghamton Aeros Field!
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Our club has two family picnics each year. How great is the flying at Ross Field? Our newsletter publisher, John Heller, will never know. He says, "the best cooks in the North East are at our field"!!! That's one motion that that our members will pass. All in Flavor?

ORCF Happens

Sport Aviator

— Building A Wood Kit Trainer Part Three: Adding the Final Frame Touches

Part Three of this 4-part building series covers doing all the final touches, mounting the flying surfaces, installing some control systems and getting everything ready for the final finish covering. It is all starting to come together now. It will not be long before the LT_40 Kadet is airborne.
— The World Models AT-6 Texan EP ARF

The AT-6 Texan has always been a great first scale warbird. The World Models now offers the smaller electric pilot a chance at real warbird performance and maneuverability in a fast, easy to assemble ARF model. Even the retractable landing gear is pre-mounted. Bring a picnic lunch and join us...
— ElectriFly Tiger Moth ARF

Being a fan of biplanes and having had a Tiger Moth as my first electric RC airplane several years ago, I was thrilled to see the new ElectriFly Tiger Moth press release. After seeing one picture of this little gem with its scale details, I knew I had to have...
— Propwash Video’s Crash Action No. 2 Video or What Not To Do

Movies Added! Here is another entertaining “crash” video from Propwash Video that is exciting and fun to watch all the while being very educational. Learn what not, and what, to do from the experiences of other pilots. Grab the popcorn and your notebook. 7 short video clips with author...
— E-flite’s Alpha 450 Sport Electric Powered Park Friendly Trainer

Movies Added! Hangar 9' successful Alpha glow-powered Basic Trainer series has been teaching new RC pilots how to get into the air for almost a decade. The new E-flite Alpha 450 Sport looks and flies as well and as easily as its big brothers but is electric powered and...
— ElectriFly FlyLite ARF Electric Powered Trainer

Ready for some inexpensive, outside-your-house type flying? Try ElectriFly’s FlyLite. The FlyLite can be flown indoor in the larger than a gym venues and can handle moderate winds outdoors as well. This simple to fly Park Pilot type airplane can also be used to self-learn RC flying in a larger...
— Great Planes Cherokee ARF? Review

Long a favorite of private pilots everywhere, the Piper Cherokee series has not always been available as a model. Great Planes has changed that with its new Cherokee ARF. This sport airplane has amazing vertical and aerobatic performance on just a 46-size engine. Walk On The Flight Line, climb in...
— Hangar 9 Pulse 125 XT ARF

Movies Added!Here is a truly striking looking large airplane (76 –in. span) that performs like a master aerobatic airplane. But, its slow speed, polite manners and powerful engine remove all the stress from even the most advanced maneuvers. Yet this airplane is so easy to fly that it is probably...
— Hangar 9 New P-51D Mustang ARF

Movies Added!Remove the training wheels from the Hangar 9 Mustang PTS and this is what you get. Add flaps and retractable landing gear and this scale fighter becomes a classic performer. Descended from a trainer, this advanced aircraft is exciting and suitable for those pilots with a few airplanes already...
— Building A Wood Trainer Part Two The Fuselage and Tail

Part Two of the four part series details assembling the fuselage, finishing the bolt-on wing mount system and building the tail feathers. The LT-40 Kadet is now framed out and ready fro hardware.

AMA

— FAA NOTAMs

New NOTAM/TFR issued for Hagerstown/Thurmont, MD Fri, 9/3 - Sun, 9/6 and Milwaukee, WI 9/6
— AMA EAA Partnership

EAA and AMA pledging to work collaboratively on programs and initiatives.
— AMA Comments on FCC NPRM

The following documents detail the FCC's rules on "Personal Radio Services" and AMA's comments.
— AMA response to ARC recommendations

Listen to Rich Hanson's podcast with diydrones.com about UAV's and FAA regulations.

NASA JPL

— ATHLETE Rover Steps Up to Long Desert Trek

The ATHLETE rover is poised to go 40 kilometers in the Arizona desert as part of the 2010 Desert RATS test.
— Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic Arm

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in...
— Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle

Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
— NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye

Two advanced weather instruments from JPL are busy flying above Hurricane Earl, as NASA's field campaign to study how hurricanes form and intensify continues.
— NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter Mission

NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before....
— Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids

New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide...
— Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert

How did water end up around an old, dying star? The Herschel space observatory has new clues....
— NASA Images Dissect Hurricane Earl

As the U.S. East Coast prepares to duke it out with large and powerful Hurricane Earl, NASA satellites and instruments are busy gathering valuable information on the storm.
— NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star.
— Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere

One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily profiles of the changing structure of the planet's atmosphere.
— WISE Captures the Unicorn's Rose

Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's WISE mission shows the Rosette nebula in the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn.
— NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Niños are Growing Stronger

A new type of El Niño is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new NASA/NOAA study that has potential implications for long-term weather forecasting.
— Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
— Vote for NASA Panels at South By Southwest

NASA has cool tools to share with armchair astronauts at the 2011 South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. Here's how you can help make that happen.
— History-Making Mars Mission Launched 35 Years Ago

NASA's Viking 1 mission, launched on Aug. 20, 1975, put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars and delivered the first successful lander to the Martian surface.
— NASA Images Show Anatomy of Pakistan Flood Disaster

A series of new NASA satellite images provides useful perspectives on the origins, extent and effects of the massive...
— Cosmic Lens Used to Probe Dark Energy for First Time

Astronomers have devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe -- dark energy.
— Galaxies' Glory Days Revealed

Astronomers have experienced the galactic equivalent of discovering pictures of a mild-mannered grandmother partying as a wild youth.
— Move Over Caravaggio: Cassini's Light and Dark Moons

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has returned Saturnian moon images from its flyby late last week, revealing light and dark contrasts worthy of chiaroscuro...
— Cassini Bags Enceladus 'Tigers'

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its flyby over the "tiger stripes" in the south polar region of...

Daily Planet

— Plymouth Rock: 90 Days in a Minivan

At first I was excited to read press reports of a Lockheed-Martin concept for a bare-bones human asteroid mission, using a pair of Orion capsules yoked together. Finally, a near-term plan! Because the Orion is mostly built, the first “Plymouth Rock” mission could fly as early as 2016, nine years...
— Pégoud Flies Upside Down, 1913

French aviator Adolphe Pégoud ranks as one of the best and bravest pilots in history, and he knew how to wow a crowd. On this day in 1913 he introduced a trick that scared even other pioneers of flight—he flew upside down, for an audience at the Juvisy aerodrome outside...
— Aliens Confirmed Dead

In researching a reader’s letter about “Department of Flying Saucers” in the Sept. 2010 issue, I came across a report on the Web site, UFO Casebook, which claimed that General Omar Bradley had been flown overseas to view alien beings retrieved from a UFO crash site in the Arctic Circle....
— Stand up, sit down, fall off

It’s not new material, but if you haven’t seen this, you owe it to yourself to take a couple minutes to watch. Austrian skydiver Paul Steiner did some ambitious wing walking earlier this year in this Red Bull video, with a pair of Blanix gliders flown by Ewald Roithner and...
— A.W.O.L.

You may have read about the X-37B, the U.S. Air Force’s new unmanned orbital spaceplane, in our January issue. The secretive satellite with space-shuttlesque delta wings made its first launch on April 22 of this year atop an Atlas V rocket, and has been in orbit since, visible on the...
— Stripped-Down Spaceflight in Denmark

However the Copenhagen Suborbitals project turns out, you have to give these people points for nerve. The eventual plan is to launch a human to an altitude of 100 kilometers inside a capsule barely large enough to fit one person, standing up. For the moment, the Danish team would be...
— Gossamer Condor: The First Human-Powered Flight

It took 18 years for someone to claim the $100,000 prize offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer for the first sustained (mile-long) human-powered flight. On this day in 1977, the Gossamer Condor, built by Paul MacCready and flown by bicyclist/ hang-glider pilot Bryan Allen, won the challenge. The 1978 video below...
— Wings of Honor

The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was built to honor the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during that conflict, the more than 400,000 who died, and all who supported their efforts from the homefront. But the Greatest Generation is aging rapidly, and about 1,200...
— Remembering Belka and Strelka

By some definitions, you could say that spaceflight began 50 years ago today. On August 19, 1960, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 5 capsule containing 40 mice, two rats, a rabbit, some fruit flies, plants—and a pair of dogs, Belka (”Whitey”) and Strelka (”Little Arrow.”) They were the first living...
— B-24 Understudy Fills Big Shoes

Just two weeks ago, the Commemorative Air Force returned its B-29 Superfortress, Fifi, to flight after six years of down time while the airplane was fitted with customized engines (maintainers had found metal shavings in the engine oil). The CAF planned to re-launch Fifi as the signature aircraft for its...
— Astronomy’s To Do List

Every ten years or so, the nation’s astronomers put their heads (actually committees) together to come up with a collective wish list for the projects they’d like to see funded over the next decade. Politicians tend to like this method of setting scientific priorities, as it saves them from choosing,...
— He May Be a Smart Physicist, But…

Here’s Stephen Hawking, commenting on humanity’s future: …Our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance...
— Zephyr Goes for the Record

With UAVs becoming more capable and taking on more missions each day, military users are clamoring for one feature in particular: longer dwell time in the air. DARPA’s Vulture program aims to build an unmanned vehicle that could stay up for five years. That’s still quite a stretch, considering that the...
— Dog Ate My Homework

The cabaret known as the U.S. Air Force’s KC-X tanker competition is getting in some high-kicks now, baby. This summer, a little known company with 30 employees called U.S. Aerospace, which had changed its name from New Century only last March, and which has had some recent questions surrounding its...
— Low Jinks in the Mach Loop

How do you complete a marathon in four minutes? In a jet fighter, of course, at 400-plus knots. That’s how this Tornado pilot and others fly the Mach Loop in Wales. The loop is a 26-mile ring of valleys in a region designated by the British military as Low Flying...

HowStuffWorks

— Beech Staggerwing

The Beech Staggerwing airplane was known for its unusual landing gear and wing structure. Read about and see specifications of this classic airplane.
— Bleriot XI

The Bleriot XI's fast success soon led to its downfall. Learn about the daring pilots who flew this classic airplane and its specifications.
— Boeing 707

The Boeing 707 opened the doors to international travel. Check out this article for photos, specifications, and facts about this classic airplane.
— Boeing 747

When the Boeing 747 was introduced it awed the public and changed air travel forever. Read about and see specifications of this classic airplane.
— Chronicle of Flight

The Chronicle of Flight details the history of flight and the aviation industry. Check out the Chronicle of Flight
— Classic Airplanes

Learn about classic airplanes and the stories behind them. These profiles take you through the history of classic airplanes with photos and specifics.
— Conquering Air and Space

Conquering air and space really took off in the 1970s with advances in space flight and jetliners. Read about conquering air and space.
— Conquering Air and Space Timeline

The conquering air and space timeline explores aviation history in the 1970s and early 1980s. Learn more about flight in the 1970s and 1980s.
— Curtiss Golden Flyer

The Curtiss Golden Flyer, built by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, was a gem among classic airplanes. Learn about its history and specifications.
— Dawn of Flight Timeline

The Dawn of Flight Timeline detailing the early history of the aviation industry. Learn more about the dawn of flight timeline.
— Flight in the Depression

Flight in the Depression was a time where the design of aircraft changed dramatically. Learn about flight in the Depression.
— Flight in the Depression Timeline

The Flight in the Depression timeline chronicles some of the major milestones in this era of aviation. Check out the Flight in the Depression timeline.
— Ford Tri-Motor

Ford Tri-Motor classic airplanes were used in military and other operations for many years. View the specifications for this classic airplane.
— Golden Age of Flight Timeline

The Golden Age of Flight timeline chronicles some of the major milestones in this era of aviation. Check out the Golden Age of Flight timeline.
— Granville Brothers Gee Bee Super Sportster R-1

The Granville Brothers Gee Bee Super Sportster R-1 classic airplane was a very sophisticated aircraft. View the airplane's specifications here.
— Hawker Hart

The Hawker Hart was known for its clean lines, strong structure, and Rolls Royce engine. Read about and see specifications of this classic airplane.
— Jets and Rocket Flight

Jets and rocket flight took off in the middle of the 1950s. Read about the rise of jet engines and rocket flight.
— Jets and Rocket Flight Timeline

The jets and rocket flight timeline covers the history of flight from the 1950s to the 1960s. Check out the jets and rocket flight timeline.
— Lockheed Vega

The Lockheed Vega was a classic airplane made famous by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh. View the specifications of the Lockheed Vega.
— Martin Model 130 China Clipper

No airplane embodied glamour and sophistication as much as the Martin Model 130 China Clipper. See specifications for this classic airplane.

The Oneonta RC Flyers monthly meetings are held at Ross Field on the first Wednesday of the month. Meetings start promptly at 7pm. Flying is encouraged before and after the meetings.

ORCF club flying days are Wednesday and Sunday. Ross Field is open to all AMA members and their guests. AMA cards are required to fly. Non AMA guests can fly with an AMA certified “Intro Pilot” instructor. Come join us!!

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 August 2010 15:54

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