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Our next meeting will be Monday, September 18th,
7:30pm at the chapter hanger at Gundy's.
We'll hear from George Hurt, dealer for Challenger Aircraft.
by Craig Loomiller
Wow! For some reason, things have really gotten busy for me lately. It seems like I don't have time to get anything done. What I would like to do is just to blow it all off and go flying. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous. It makes it really hard to focus on the things you need to be doing.
It looks like the month of September will be the busiest aviation month of the year for us. In addition to our own chapter activities this month, there are several events that are "must attends."
The Tulsa Fly-in is celebrating its fiftieth annual birthday on September 22nd and the 23rd. The organizing committee has been going all out to ensure that there will be a lot of outstanding aircraft to look at. The special guest list is also outstanding. In addition to several of our own charter members, EAA's own Paul Poberezny will be there. He was also an in attendance at the very first fly-in fifty years ago. The banquets will be off airport and will be events that you will not want to miss. You can expect a phone call from me in the next two weeks asking for your help. We need a whole lot of people to help park and register the expected throngs of aircraft coming in. I truly hope you can help us out on this.
The following Saturday, September 30th features two different events. At noon on Saturday will be the annual Bean Dinner over at Airman Acres. This event is unique in that they serve over 100 gallons of beans in a short period of time. If you haven't been before, you must try to attend as nearly every aviator in town will be there.
Later that evening @ 6:30, will be Roger Wieden's Big Band concert at Gundy's Airport. Everybody sits around and listens to big band dance music from the 40's and 50's. It's usually a lot of fun. Be sure to bring your lawn chairs though, as seating is limited. The next day, Sunday, October 1st will be the Gundy's airport annual Wing-Ding. Roger Wieden supplies an almost unlimited supply of Barbequed chicken wings and hotdogs and everybody else brings a covered dish to go with them. There is usually quite a large crowd that attends this event. Roger always has something to do for everyone, including the kids. So please bring everyone out and have a good time.
We will be holding officer nominations at our next membership meeting. Here is your chance to take an active role in the governing of our chapter. We have one of the larger chapters in the nations with a large variety of things going on. It's been a lot of fun for me taking part. Each one of these positions requires a commitment of two Mondays a month of your time. All officer positions will be open, and we have people who have expressed a commitment to run for every position but that of Secretary. If you would like to run for one of the positions or be our Secretary, please talk to an officer or come to the meeting and announce your candidacy. Get involved, you won't regret it!
We will have George Hurt of Adventure Aviation for our guest speaker at the September membership meeting. George is based out of the Vinita airport and is the local dealer for Challenger Aircraft. The aircraft have been around for quite a while now and have a pretty good reputation. George is going to bring a Challenger currently under construction for us to look at. It should be a pretty informative meeting. I'll see you there.
Craig
This will be the last ice-cream social of the season. Bring your ice cream freezer or desert. The Sound of Music Orchestra of Tulsa (Bob's band) will be playing. Don't worry about dressing up: just dress casual. Ice cream at 6:00 and music will start around 7:00pm.
The annual Wing Ding will take place Sunday October 1st at 12:00pm. There will be a Jupiter-Jump and cotton candy. Food serving will begin at 1:00pm. The airport will provide the wings and hotdogs so please bring a potluck item to the Wing Ding. It will be a blast for all ages. I hope to see you there.
If you have any questions please call Mary or Roger at 272-1523.
Note: The dawn patrol meets at the EAA building Sunday 8 am with your airplane to make a flour-drop run on the other airports.
Roger
The following article is from the Tulsa Business Journal (tulsabusiness.com)
There's little reassurance when the first thing one notices in a vehicle designed to travel at 3,500 feet, and at speeds of 200 miles per hour, is a prominently displayed warning:
This aircraft is amateur built and does not comply with the federal safety regulations for "standard aircraft."
But for Bob Veit, and others like him, the thrill of building and flying experimental aircraft outweighs the risk.
Veit, a retired ConocoPhillips occupational health specialist, is one of a handful of Green Country residents who have taken to the skies in homemade planes.
"I spent 2,200 man hours building this plane," Veit said, grinning. "And that doesn't include all the hours my wife spent operating my pneumatic rivet gun."
Veit's plane, an RV-6A, was made by Van's Aircraft in Aurora, Ore., and assembled by Veit from a kit at his home in Bartlesville. The plane now calls a hangar at the Bartlesville Municipal Airport home.
The plane has a wingspan of 23 ft. and is just over 20 ft. in length. It sits empty at nearly 1,600 lbs. and has 110 SF of total wing space. The plane is powered by a 200 HP engine and gets 20 to 22 miles per gallon of high-octane fuel commonly called "avgas."
The Federal Aviation Administration considers Veit's homebuilt RV-6A and other, similar aircraft "experimental." The designation was originally intended for designers who wanted to do research or for home inventors who wanted to learn about aerodynamics as they built their own piece of equipment.
Because these aircraft were barred from commercial use, the FAA never considered it necessary to put them through its exhaustive process for certifying a new type of plane.
This doesn't mean the aircraft isn't fun to take on a Sunday drive, Veit said.
"This plane, as compared to a Cessna, is like hopping out of the family station wagon and getting into a Corvette," adding that "the plane is recreational aerobatics capable, but the pilot is not."
According to the Experimental Aircraft Association, there are more than 25,000 planes similar to Veit's cruising the American skies. While the aviation industry, in general, has had its ups and downs over the past 25 years, the homebuilt aircraft segment of the industry has shown continuous growth and comprises more than 15 percent of the single-engine piston-powered general aviation fleet.
The EAA also states about 1,000 experimental aircraft are registered each year and that in some years the number of newly registered homemade aircraft surpasses that of preassembled aircraft of a similar size.
The cost of experimental aircraft is the reason people like Veit are drawn to the homebuilt, rather than a factory built, models.
"The Grumman Tiger is the nearest thing to what I fly, and those can cost $200,000 new. Mine was built for around $45,000."
Wow!! Jake Barber and Ben Hill really gave us a first class presentation about their activities at the EAA Air Academy camp. It was a real high tech presentation with a Power Point presentation and music to accompany it.
These are the two young men the Tulsa chapters sponsored to the Air academy this year. They were both very personable young men and they obviously put a lot of thought and effort into the presentation. We really thank them for the "show."
EAA Tulsa Chapter 10 really appreciates the other Tulsa chapters that so willingly chipped in to enable us to send both of these fine candidates this year.
And of course, following the presentation that chapter enjoyed much delicious, cool watermelon.
At the recent board meeting the chapter officers had a discussion about the monthly pancake breakfast for September. The regular schedule for it is the 23rd of September which is the Saturday of the Tulsa Fly-in.
All the people that usually do the setup/cooking/cleanup are planning on being at the Fly-in that morning. It was discussed to not have the breakfast in September and it was decided to open that decision at the meeting to see what the members thought. So, be thinking about it and offer your opinion at the meeting.
At the September meeting, it was decided not to have a pancake breakfast this month. Try us again in October!
FOR RENT 60X24 Building with heat and air at Gundy's See Roger Wieden 798-2060
To list your aviation items for sale, contact newsletter editor Lynn Coltharp.
| Day of Week | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | September 18th | Chapter meeting @ Gundy's 7:30pm |
| Friday - Saturday | September 22nd - 23rd | 50th Tulsa Fly-in @ Bartlesville Municipal Airport (BVO) |
| Saturday | September 23rd | EAA 10 Pancake Breakfast and Fly Market 7:30-9:00 @ Gundy's
(might be canceled due to Tulsa Fly-in) |
| Saturday | September 30th | Bean dinner @ Airman Acres Airport (OK93) |
| Saturday | September 30th | Gundy's Ice Cream Social at 7:00pm |
| Sunday | October 1st | Gundy's Annual Wing Ding at noon |
| Saturday | October 8th | Ponca City Breakfast Fly-In |
| Friday - Sunday | October 21st - 23rd | Reklaw Flyin @ Flying M Ranch (7TA7) |
| Saturday | December 9th | Christmas Dinner 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 (or home page) 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 & Fly-Market | Chapter hangar | 7:00-9:30am |
If your last name starts with Q, R, or S, then July is your month to bring a snack for the 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 John Nys or Bob Minich an e-mail and we'll stop the paper version and send you a monthly e-mail to let you know when the newsletter is posted online.
