Newsletter Editor
The Johnstown R/C Club
Roger A. Luther
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Special Edition Newsletter
AMA Charter # 718
Johnstown R/C Club’s Forty-Ninth Year
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Boy Scout Camporee and
the Avaition Merit Badge
Above is the Scout patch for the recently
held Avaition Camporee, which took place at
the Johnstown Cambria County Airport.
Doug Lengenfelder, who recently won the
Republican nomination for Cambria County
Commissioner, was chairman of the event.
Our Webmaster, Roger Luther from our club
assisted him in a number of ways and we had
15 other club members who volunteered to
help out at the weekend event. There were
about 160 Boy Scouts who took part, and
together with leaders and instructors, the
group totaled about 250. The boys camped
on the airport grounds for two nights in
tents, and spent Saturday moving thru 11
different instructional sections to learn the
requirements for the aviation merit badge.
Subjects covered in the sections included:
Aerodynamics, RC Models, Weather, Flight
Instruments, Flight Planning, Airplane PreFlight, Building Airplanes, Flying, Tower
Tour, Radar Control, and Career Opportunities.
75 boys got to take real plane
rides in a small Cessna 172, and all who
attended earned the aviation merit badge.
In the picture above, Fred, Jim, and Bill
Rosage demonstrate some of the various
features on several of their radio controled
planes.
Nearby, Paul, Neil and Mark
covered the subject of aerodynamics in
another training section.
On the other side of the airport, Bruce,
Sam, Caleb, and Cliff helped the boys make,
and then fly, plastic airplanes made from
picnic plates.
Club member Al Stein
conducted yet another class on the subject of
"Weather" as it pertains to aviation.
Above, Bruce Thomas helps a scout
adjust his control surfaces to make his plane
turn to the left. The weekend went well, the
rain held off, and the boys got to see a
number of planes at the airport including a
commuter, Apache and Black Hawk helos,
plus a C-130 did a number of low fly-by's
and touch and goes. Several small privately
owned planes were also active during the
day.
Boy Scouts, and to also perform a valuable
community service project.
Part of the camping area
Bruce, Caleb, Patrick, Sam, and Cliff
A local Johnstown pilot, Jim Loncella,
pulled his Piper Cherokee out of the hanger
and showed the boys how to do a "pre-flight
check" on his plane during his section of the
training.
Fred Rohde Demonstrates his Bi-Plane
There were 14 Boy Scout Troops
represented and 160 scouts. This event was
the last Camporee for the Penns Woods
Council, which will merge with the Greater
Pittsburgh Council later this summer. It was
a wonderful way for our club to assist the
Paul Yuhas, Mark Turzak, and Neil
Woffinden explain the complex subject of
Areodynamics to a group of attentive Boy
Scouts.
Below left, Camporee Chairman Doug
Lengenfelder shakes hands with Dave Devan
who ran the "Flight Instruments" portion of
the training.
Above, Roger Luther shows the Scouts his
Pulse XT RC Airplane in the Radio Control
Airplane Training Section.
The boys were all given T-Shirts with the
official Camporee Emblem. Moutain Top
Technologies provided the private plane for
the individual plane rides, and Subway,
Custom Cakes, and Galliker's Dairy provided
the lunches for the boys on Saturday. We
were very pleased at how the local Airport
Authority co-operated to let the Scouts camp
on the airport grounds, and have such unprecedented access to airport facilities.The
event was completed without a hitch and
everybody was well satisfied, including 160
happy Boy Scouts!
The "Aviation Weather" training section,
Johnstown RC Club member Al Stein talks
about weather as it relates to flying.
Doug Lengenfelder and David Devan