The Harbor Soaring Society

has an opportunity to work with

the Orange County Parks Dept.

to hopefully make the Tustin

Blimp Hangar accessable to

indoor model enthusiasts.  Go

to the above tab titled "Blimp

Hangar Project" for details.

At right is a group of flyers inside

the hangar, and below, one of the

rubber powered free flight

models by Kang Lee.

Photos Courtesy of Brian Furutani.

April member meeting featured Lucien Miller of Innov8tive Designs

It is rare when you can keep the attention of our meeting members for more than 3 minutes but our guest speaker on April 3rd had us riveted to his presentation for a full hour. Lucien Miller is the owner and President of Innov8tive Designs in Vista, California. He took this opportunity not merely to advertise his products but primarily to educate us on the hows and whys of model power systems. We all have bits and pieces of information on electric power systems for model aircraft but after Lucien's presentation we had the facts on how to select a proper power system for our own models. The lecture was reinforced with a Powerpoint presentation and a couple of handouts with all the important points to remember.You can download the 2 documents here.

Selecting Power Systems

Electric Power Systems Key Points

It's difficult not to notice Lucien's dedication to educating the modeling public. In addition to giving informative lectures, he has a youtube channel for innov8tive and lots of good info on their company sales website at innov8tivedesigns,com. Our next club newsletter will have more details on Lucien and Innov8tive Designs.

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