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EAA TULSA CHAPTER 10JULY 2001NEWSLETTER
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Little Planes can be Useful Cheat the Devil Flyout/Campout Oshkosh Who Brings Snacks? Calendar For Sale |
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EAA TULSA CHAPTER 10JULY 2001NEWSLETTER
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| Words From the
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Little Planes can be Useful Cheat the Devil Flyout/Campout Oshkosh Who Brings Snacks? Calendar For Sale |
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by Bart Dalton
This Summer is flying by so quickly and Oshkosh is just about here. This month is always packed full of things to do from the Fourth celebrations to lake outings and finally Oshkosh. The heat has also decided to show up again this year. It will be perfect for another Cheat The Devil Flyout. This is one place I don't think you will find me attending.
This month's meeting will be a very SPECIAL TREAT. Tom Gutman, Richard Harrigill, and the Ran's gang took a very daring adventure South of The Boarder in their Ran's planes and are still living and will be here with wing tip to wing tip footage to be shown on a big screen TV. This will be a great adventure TALE that you will not want to miss. ( However you Pres. And Vice Pres. Will most likely be absent).
I am really excited about Oshkosh this year. This will be my son's first time to go experience the event. I have been waiting for this day for a long time and every time I think about it I have a hard time keeping my eyes dry. Tom Poberezny shares a great article about sharing experiences with other people in this month's Sport aviation. Tom shares about how it is these experiences that make us keep up the extra effort when we can influence other people. Words cannot express the fulfillment that the Young Eagles program has brought to me. I will never forget the times that I spent learning about flying and airplanes and the people who took so much interest in helping me. I now know that although it was so neat for me back then that for me to help someone now and see the progress is so much more rewarding. Aviation people in general understand that sharing ones life and gifts with others is what keeps the cycle going. I am so glad that our Chapter is so involved in sharing aviation with others. Have fun and fly safe.
Bart Dalton
by Jerry Vaughan
My brother and I spent our early years at home, building things. It didn't matter what it was we needed, if it could be build verses bought, we built it. This mindset led to careers in engineering, mechanical for me and electrical for him. Today he lives in Austin Tx and I live 8 hours of hard driving away in Owasso. Our visits (project building week ends) have been few due to the commute time.
A solution to this inconvenience has been found in the form of a fast, fuel efficient, time saver that goes by the call sign N60JV. This little twoplace airplane can cover the 435 air miles door to door in less than 3 hrs (usually better if winds are favorable) burning about 20 gal of 100LL. He lives next to Lakeway Airpark in the northwest Austin metro area. The commute by airline takes 4 hrs oneway and $300 (round trip fare) if you don't make a non-refundable advance purchase. The jets do fly faster but they almost always stop at Dallas or Houston to give you a chance to change planes, get some souvenirs, or find some other way to kill the hour layover time. My brother also has the misfortune to live an hours drive from the Austin airport.
Last weekend I used my little experimental Sidewinder N60JV to make that trip
to Lakeway to provide some help on the latest family project in Austin. To recap
the trip, I left Gundy's at 7:30am Saturday morning after packing a few clothes
and checking the weather on the computer. There was a warm front to pass through
but no significant activity on my flight path. A tail wind helped my progress
until reaching the red river. Flying below the broken cloud deck at 3000 MSL my
indicated speed was 160 mph and the GPS showed 195mph at 2600 rpm. A little
bumpy but the clouds provided shade that was appreciated on a warm spring
morning. After crossing the front, the sky open up and I went higher to get the
AC working better. The wind direction had shifted, my indicated speed was now
150mph after leaning the engine at 6500 MSLand my ground speed 165mph. at the
same 2600 rpm. An hour and 15 mins after take-off the Dallas metro area came
into view with the area lakes and urban sprawl far to my right avoiding the
class B air space. I am VFR but always tune into approach when in this area. I
assume that there are a lot of big planes climbing and descending on crossing
paths. However, I didn't see another air-born plane on this trip, the same as on
many trips before. Continuing on, clouds started forming below me around Waco, I
hate it when that happens, so checking current weather at Austin which was 2500
broken, I decided to leave the cool smooth 6500 ft level and dropped down to
below the forming cloud deck. Reducing power and pointing the nose down
established a 170 IAS decent, this increased my speed and helped my trip
averages, but all the time gained on decent was lost while bouncing around at
reduced power below the broken layer for the last 100 miles. The temperature and
humidity went up along with the turbulence. It may still be spring in Oklahoma,
but it is summer in central Texas. Finally the blue water of lake Travis was in
view and I knew Lakeway Airpark was not much further. A mile east of my direct
line and 10 miles short of the airport my brother's house sits on a hill over
looking the lake. A pass 500 ft above with a circle and return to previous
heading saved a phone call. He drove up as I was tying down. Total time from
lift off to touch down 2 hr 40 min. We put 22 gal in to fill it back up for the
return trip the next day. The sidewinder averaged 163 mph and 19.8 mpg , with
little or no help from the wind.
After two days hard labor in the sun, putting up a new garage, I was ready for
the flight home. An hour after the roof trusses were set in place I took a
shower, checked weather and was airborne on my way home to Gundy's. Lift off at
5:15pm with no clouds to fly around, I climbed at full throttle 150 IAS to 5500
MSL leveled out and backed off to 2600 rpm for the trip home. The wind was
directly on my tail and from the GPS readings showing 210 mph ground speed , the
wind speed must have been about 35mph at that level.
The trip back was quick with that strong tail wind and I kept it moving by
not reducing power on a shallow decent starting 50 south of Tulsa. Speeds on the
GPS were bouncing around 220 mph. Landing at 7:26, I taxied to my hangar amazed
at what N60JV had just accomplished. I put 19 gal in her tanks the next day.
Stats for the trip home 435 miles in 2.18 hr burning 19 gal of fuel. That is
199.5 avg mph and 22.9 mpg, with a little help from a friendly tail wind.
So in conclusion, if the weather is right and the desire to travel 500 miles or
less is present, a little airplane can beat the time and cost per trip of a much
bigger jet liner. Therefor little airplanes can be useful and my airplane hobby
is fully justified and the wife should look elsewhere for financing her new car.
The insanity event of the year is scheduled for July the 14th this year. It will be at the Tenkiller Airpark.Show up about five or six in the evening. This event was started several years ago when some of us decided we ought to go on a mid summer campout. We somehow managed to pick the most miserably hot, humid and windless day of the year (maybe the century?). We decided that if the people up north could have fun going swimming in the middle of winter, we could have fun sweltering through a miserable night in a tent.
We have upgraded our sanity level a bit however. We moved from the windless bottom at Whitehorn Cove to the breezy hilltop at Tenkiller Airpark. We also decided to coincide with the Cookson Jubilee celebration. They will have food, crafts and entertainment adjacent to the airport. So bring your tent, a big jug of water and your insanity and join in on all the missing and moaning.
Oshkosh starts on Tuesday July the 24th this year. Get your stuff together and come to this annual gathering of airplanes and people. There will be quite a few from our chapter attending. They will be traveling by every imaginable means. Some of us will be camping with our airplanes and encourage others from our chapter to join us. We plan to leave Tulsa on Sunday the 22nd of July. This assures us of getting our chosen parking spots on row 56 this area is at the very northwest corner of the airport. It has easy access to business across from the Oshkosh so we can get supplies, etc. So bring your tents and join us. By the way, one of the fun things we have been doing is appointing a couple of people each night to do the camp cooking for the bunch. You will be surprised at the gourmet meals people manage to come up with. We really do have a great time and really have great comeraderie.
Below is a list of who brings snacks for each meeting. The M's really took their duty seriously last month so, The pressure is really on the N-P's for July.
January A-C
February D-F
March G-H
APRIL I-L
June M
July N-P
September Q-S
October T-V
November W
1st Monday Each month Board Meeting at the chapter hangar at Gundy's 7:00pm
2nd Monday each month Newsletter Folding at the hangar - Gundy's Airport 6:30pm
3rd Monday each month Chapter 10 EAA meeting at the hangar - Gundy's Airport
1st Saturday each month Ponca City Aviation Booster club Breakfast Fly-In.
1st Saturday after 3rd Monday - each month Pancake Breakfast - Gundy's
Airport
July 24-30 OSHKOSH
Aug 20 EAA Chap 10 Watermelon Feed/mtg.
Aug 31 Campout at Ponca City Airport. Get an early start on the Monthly First Saturday Breakfast
Dec 08 EAA Chap10 Christmas Party.
Fun , economical Bi-Plane
½ partnership -- $6500.
Hangered at Harvey Young Airport
742-7143 Jack Woodward
Pazmany Pl-1(Laminar) project. Wings done many parts & aluminum.
Carolyn Borucki 369-5158
Building lot at Gundy's. 1 ¼ acre lot $60,000
call Sallie Coltharp REMAX 274-1600 272-7255
Contact our chapter officers by e-mail
President: Bhrent Waddell bwaddell@tulsa.oklahoma.com
Vice President: Bart Dalton Planenutts@Worldnet.att.net
Treasurer: Craig Loomiller ccaloom@webzone.net
Secretary: Jerry Vaughn GVAUGHAN48@AOL.COM
EAA Chapter 10 Home Page
E-mail:eaa_chap10@yahoo.com
URL:http://www.eaa10.org/Newsletter/2001_07/index.htm
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