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Our next meeting will Monday, April 19 at 7:30pm Chapter Hanger at Gundy’s.
Come enjoy Oshkosh style bratwurst and corn on the cob before the meeting at 6:30.
If your last name starts with I-L, it’s your turn to bring snacks.
Spring is finally here. We will kick off the flying season this year at our monthly meeting with our 2nd annual Brat cookout fest. We will also have a great program that will talk about 3/4 scale P-51’s.
Fly-outs are starting to happen every weekend. The Wild Onion fest at Cookson was the first of the season. I understand it was not for the faint at heart. I am not talking about the campout the night before but the weather (WIND!!!!!!). We did have three brave souls weather the wind and make it down and back without incident. I remember last year that Berek and I flew Dale’s plane down to the breakfast. It was also a windy morning but not near like this year.
Speaking of Dale’s plane, I did hear a report that it is staying in the air quiet regularly. Dale has so many beautiful places to fly. He told me that one morning he flew up to Tahoe for breakfast. He is also making flights to San Jose every week to drop off his kids. He says that he still has problems keeping the plane from going too fast!!
Plan to show up at 6:30 PM on Monday, April 19th for our meeting. We will begin eating then and start our program at 7:30. Loo, Wedman, and I will be cooking all afternoon. We will have Brats, Onions, Sour Kraut, Fresh Corn on the Cob, and all the fixins. You will not want to miss. Make sure and tell everyone about it and this would be a great time to bring a friend.
We will have our pancake breakfast on Saturday April 24th. We will add a Young Eagle Twist to it also. Plan on bringing your planes to breakfast and fly some kids. There have been some changes in the Young Eagles program. Please read Charles Freeland’s article about the details.
Plan on showing up early and I will see you at the meeting on Monday.
Bart
This month we are holding our second annual bratwurst feed at the chapter hangar before the meeting. The idea for this originated at Oshkosh a couple of years ago when Bhrent Waddell won the coveted “Chef of the Week” honor. Bhrent thought it was so great that we should do something like that for the chapter. THE RECIPE IS SECRET!!!!
Soooooo – show up about 6:30 and enjoy some really good eats.
Bart
Looking out the window in my office, you can definitely tell that spring has sprung here in green country. Everything is turning green and people are out and about. The birds are chirping and the pilots are in the air. Or at least they are thinking hard about it. There have been several days in the last couple of weeks where I swear that Gundy’s needed a control tower. There were six or seven aircraft in the pattern at the same time. It was a good day for flying!
Speaking of Gundy’s, I saw Roger Weiden out a couple of weeks ago installing a new sign at entrance to the airport. Check it out on the way out to our next meeting. You can sure tell that Rogers prefers aircraft without fuselage coverings though. I think it’s kind of nice.
If you missed last month’s meeting, you missed a good show. It was interesting to see just how much equipment it takes to shoot a video. Heck, I don’t have a chance with just my VCR camera. It was fun taking part in the production though. I enjoyed how everyone really got into asking their assigned questions. I probably practiced mine 5 or 6 times before my big moment. I just hope I don’t end up on the cutting room floor after all that work. I think Aircraft Specialties should be commended for introducing new products that we all can use. I just wish it wasn’t $30.00 a quart. My problem is that I’m a cheapskate.
This month’s meeting should be a good one also. We’ll start off at 6:30 stuffing ourselves with Brats just to get our juices flowing for Oshkosh. Well at least your juices flowing for Oshkosh, since I won’t be able to attend this year. This will make two years in a row for me. We did this same cookout last April and I think that everyone really liked it. At 7:30, we’ll have our regular membership meeting featuring a group that is building several P-51 replicas. I think they want to create an Oklahoma air wing. All I know is that they better not mess with the Warcoupe. I’ll shoot them out the air if they start butting their nose in my patrol sector. The skies aren’t big enough for both of us. Stay tuned.
On the cover of this month’s issue of Sport Aviation is a picture of Van’s RV-10 aircraft. This is an aluminum 4-place bird that will really take off like hotcakes among the homebuilt community. In fact, our own resident RV guru John Nys has three of them under construction right now in his new skunk works over on 161st. There is a mad rush to see who will fly the first owner built RV-10 to Oshkosh. My money’s on John to be the one to do it. John has built approximately twenty or more RV’s in the last several years. If you get a chance, get John to let you come over for a look. Hopefully, we can get him to give a talk on his progress before too long. I know he’ll have the time since he will be entering the ranks of the unemployed later on this spring.
I spent last week up in Seattle on a business trip. It is one of those cities that’s a great place to visit but that you wouldn't want to live there. I enjoyed my stay up there in the birthplace of commercial aviation. I was sent up there to attend some training at Boeing. For years and years, Boeing has been the leader in commercial aviation but I think that AirBus is catching up to them. Last week, they didn’t have anything going out the door. There were no 737’s ready, production has been canceled on the 717’s, 757’s, and the 767’s. The only really active line is the 777 line. In talking to the Boeing people, their new 7E7 won’t hit the runway for another 5 or 6 years. It as kind of strange seeing all those production hangars empty.
The local sport aviation community seems to be pretty strong though. I asked several local aviators how much flying they get to do with the overcast conditions that are usually present up in the pacific-northwest. They told me that as long as you are prepared to go IFR at any time, you are able get a lot of flying in. My instructor at Boeing was also active in sport aviation. He lived on an airport community that had an 1800-foot paved runway with TALL trees at both ends. It sounded kind of short to me though, but I was told that they take twins in and out of there all the time. I guess it’s just what your used to that makes the difference. I know I wouldn’t want to experience an engine failure anywhere up there. You have a choice though, you can land in the trees or you can land in the water. I thought the water would be a good choice until I found out that it stays at about 44 degrees year round. Boy, it sure isn’t Oklahoma! Again, A nice place to visit, but I sure wouldn’t want to live there.
Our newsletter editor, Lynn Coltharp, would like to see more contributors to the newsletter. If you have an interesting or unusual story to tell, write it down and send it to Lynn. You too can be a published author, all it takes is the ability to blab on and on about something you know a little about. So come on and give it a try! Just remember that the more articles you guys write, the less often you’ll have to read mine.
Keep the shiny side up.
Craig
March 27 was the date of the annual WILD ONION BREAKFAST at the Tenkiller airport at Cookson. As many of you know Tenkiller is an Airpark with many nice folks living on the airport. It is truly a beautiful and peaceful place.
Each year the folks that live on the airport gather up some wild onions and use them to mix in with scrambled eggs. They put on quite a feed with a full breakfast and they usually have quite a few airplanes fly in. This year the turnout was low because of the strong winds in the area.
The runway at Tenkiller is 5 and 23 and the wind was straight out of the south so everyone had to contend with a strong crosswind. The trees tend to block out the crosswind when the plane gets close to the ground but the approach is a bit intimidating.
Friday evening three airplanes from Chapter 10 flew down to campout and get a head start on the breakfast bunch Saturday morning. We had a very enjoyable evening and the airpark residents came over and visited with us. They are a very nice bunch of people. There were five of us camping out and we used the airport limo to go into town and eat that evening.
I arrived first in the Mooney and got a sudden "drop in" from about 3 feet when I landed. When Paul Shireman arrived he also got that same "drop in". When Jeff Wedman arrived he seemed to avoid the "drop in" and made a nice landing in his tail dragger.
The next morning we ate the great breakfast and sat down to watch the arrivals. In spite of the strong cross wind a few airplanes came in and handled the crosswind quite well but. The low turn out really cut down the number of landings we got to grade.
As we were leaving someone announced they were a "flight of ten" for arrival. We listened on the radio as they made a couple of approaches and then announced they were not going to land but, return to their home airport.
Our flight home was quite bumpy due to the 50mph tailwind. The landing at Gundys was a bit unstable but at least the wind was nearly down the runway even if it was gusting.
Oh, by the way, thank you Ken Cook for loaning me your sleeping bag tto use since I had forgotten mine.
Lynn
The Tulsa Chapter 10 of the Experimental Aircraft Association will conduct a Young Eagles Rally at Gundys Airport east of Owasso on Saturday, April 24th, from 9:00 a.m. until noon. (The bad weather alternative date is May 1st.)
We will need all of the help we can muster. We will need at least 10 pilots and planes, and 8 – 10 ground crew. Ground crew include:
Pilots, get ready! Finish your annuals. Check your medicals, BFRs, fly off your landings & takeoffs, dues paid up at EAA National, insurance paid up. Speaking of insurance, each pilot must have aircraft passenger seat liability insurance. For those EAA members who choose to insure at a level of $100,000 per passenger seat, EAA will automatically provide an additional $1,000,000 liability umbrella policy. This coverage is only in effect while participating in Young Eagle Flights. Pilots who choose to insure at lower levels may still participate, however, the additional insurance will not apply.
I have already heard from a home schooling coordinator who says she is bringing up about 30 kids from the Tahlequah area. The Tulsa World has been given our announcement. Other announcements will go to the Owasso Reporter, Chelsea Reporter, Claremore Daily Progress, The Collinsville News, The Oologah Lake Leader, and the Skiatook Journal. We are trying to make this a major rally. We need everyone’s help. Come for breakfast and stay to fly kids!
For further information and volunteering, call Charles Freeland, 272-9829.
Charles
Bart had told us that last month’s meeting was going to be filmed by a professional film maker. AIRCRAFT SPECIALTIES was going to make a promotional film for their new product called CAM GUARD.
I came by the hangar earlier in the day to drop off some cleaning supplies and they were swarming around the hangar getting all the equipment set up. It was kind of awesome to see all the equipment they were using to get the lighting and sound just right for the filming. We never give a thought to how the professionals get such great films and our home stuff looks not so great. Well, looking at all their lights and reflectors and all the myriad of things I did not understand it was apparent to me they put a lot more effort and know-how into their product.
Ed Kollins, the featured speaker, gave us quite a presentation on lubricants and we all learned a lot. At the end we asked some scripted questions for the film and then questions on our own.
The folks filming had told us at the start that they would probably need to “re-take” some of the stuff but, at the end they told us we had done a good job and they did not need to re-take anything. I always knew Chapter 10 was a bunch of “hams”.
Greg Merrill with Aircraft Specialties handed out a bunch of door prizes to show us his appreciation for using our facilities and all the chapter extras (members).
At the end of the newsletter I have put in some pictures of the setup and presentation. So, take a look at them. In one of the pictures I had captured Bob Williams looking like he was ready to take on one and all comers and I just could not resist putting it in the newsletter. (I hope I don’t make Bob mad at me!!)
On march 29th Lil Klebs died after a short bout with her heart and a long bout with alzheimer’s disease. Lil had been around Chaper 10 for a long time and we all loved her. She was always a joy to be around and had a smile for everyone.
Her husband, Earl Klebs, is finishing up another airplane and awaiting final inspection for flight. This makes 7 or 8 airplanes Earl has built.
As you may have read, the Young Eagles program is pleased to announce our
new Chairman Mr. Harrison Ford.
Mr. Ford has been an EAA member since 1996, an active pilot and a Young Eagles Flight Leader with over 90 Young Eagles to his credit and that of EAA Chapter 1049. He has a passion for aviation and sharing it with others, especially young people. We are looking forward to working with him as Young Eagles continues to launch the dreams of young people worldwide.
An interview with Mr. Ford will also appear in the May issue of Sport Aviation magazine.
In addition, we are also pleased to let you know that Gen. Chuck Yeager will assume the new post of Chairman Emeritus. We are grateful to the General for his support, leadership and guidance through the years as we strived to reach our initial goal of flying 1 million Young Eagles. The General will continue to be actively involved in the program, especially through his activities at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
If you would like to obtain a complete text of the news release and photos please visit the Young Eagles web site at http://www.youngeagles.org/.
Thanks again for your support of the EAA Young Eagles program.
Steve Buss
Executive Director
EAA Young Eagles
| Day of Week | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | April 19th | Brat Fest and Meeting @ Gundy's (food at 6:30) |
| Tuesday - Monday | April 13-19th | Sun 'n Fun EAA Fly-In |
| Saturday | April 24th | EAA10 Pancake Breakfast 7:30-9:00 |
| Saturday | May 1st | Ponca City Breakfast Fly-In |
| Friday - Saturday | May 14-15th | Southwest Regional Fly-In @ New Braunfels, TX |
| Sunday | May 16th | Annual Chapter Picnic @ Gundy's |
| Friday - Saturday | May 28-29th | Atchison, KS / Kansas City Fly-in @ K59 |
| Friday - Saturday | June 4-5th | National Biplane Expo @ Bartlesville |
| Saturday - Sunday | June 26-27th | Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In |
| Tuesday - Monday | July 27th - August 2nd | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh |
| Saturday | December 11th | Christmas Party @ Gundy's |
To add an item to our calendar, get the information to the newsletter editor Lynn Coltharp. See the contact info on the cover for e-mail, phone, and mail addresses.
| Day of Month | What | Where | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Monday | Board meeting | Chapter hangar | 7:00pm |
| 2nd Monday | Newsletter Folding | Chapter hangar | 7:00pm |
| 3rd Mondy | Chapter meeting | Chapter hangar | 7:30pm |
| 1st Saturday | Ponca City Breakfast Fly-In | Ponca City | |
| 1st Saturday after 3rd Monday | Pancake breakfast | Chapter hangar | 7:00-9:30am |
If your last name starts with I-L, then April is your month to bring a snack to the chapter meeting.
| Month | Initial letter(s) of last name |
|---|---|
| January | A-C |
| February | D-F |
| March | G-H |
| April | I-L |
| May | Annual Picnic |
| June | M |
| July | N-P |
| August | watermelon provided |
| September | Q-S |
| October | T-V |
| November | W-Z |
| December | Christmas party |
If you would like to get the newsletter on the chapter website ( http://www.eaa10.org/ ) every month, this saves us on mailing and printing costs, helping to keep your dues low. Just send Jeff Wedman or Bob Minich an e-mail and we'll stop the paper version and send you a monthly e-mail when the newsletter is posted online.