| September Meeting
The next meeting will be held Wednesday, September 27th at 7:30 PM in McElmurry Hall.
The program for this month’s meeting will be the second half of One Six Right - The Romance of Flying. See you there.
Minutes of the August Meeting
President Blaise opened the meeting at 7:34pm with the 'Pledge to the Flag'. 19 members and guests were present.
Treasurer's Report: Treasured Frank Hurlburt reported a balance of $14, 270.
Secretary's Report: The minutes of the June and July meetings were accepted as printed in the newsletter.
Young
Eagles: Chip Miller asked for pilots to come out and help at the young
eagle flights. Over 30 kids were given flights at the last event.
Builder
Reports: Robert Mueller reports the tail feathers of his Sonex are
complete and he is now working on the wings. Brad Smith is modifying a
RV-6A into a -7A. He is also working on the wing. Vance Noles is
putting rivets in his RV-7A. Ziggy Feurersanger is in the 10 month of
building a Zodiac XL. He has 95% completed, but figures the last 5%
will take as long as the first 95%. He is shooting for taxi tests
mid-september. Rob Brooke is doing instruments and plumbing on his
Tiger Moth. Steve Walters rebuild of his Queen Air is progressing. All
of the components from both engines have been rebuilt. He is hoping to
have the engines running in about two weeks, with at least another 6
months of full time work left to complete the project. Bill Peters
spent 2 weeks working on his son's RV-9 in California. Frank Hurlburt
is finishing the lower cowling of his Lancair IV-P. He has the
instrument panel designed, and is starting fabrication. He estimates
another year and a half of build time. Blaise Pierson has 280-something
hours on his RV-8. He flew it to Pensacola last week.
New
Business: The Mid Atlantic Fly-in at Lumberton will be held May 17-19,
2007. Our Chapter has the tie down concession, and will need volunteers
to help out.
An RV event is taking place at Venice the middle of September.
Our
program for the evening was an extremely entertaining DVD on the
history of Van Nuys Airport in southern California. As we only had time
to view the first half, the remaining portion will be shown at
September's meeting.
Blaise closed the meeting at 8:56pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Rolf Bostrom, Secretary
Aircraft Identification Quiz Name
the planes in the line-up on the cover of the latest edition of Sport Aviation. Sorry for the short newsletter folks. Can’t print what I ain’t got. |