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Our next meeting will be Monday, March 16th,
7:30 pm at the chapter hanger at Gundy's.
Snacks: Last names starting with G-I.
by John Nys
Our speaker for March is Mr. Jim Bridenstine, former Navy pilot, currently the Executive Director at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum as well as a team owner in the Rocket Racing League where manned rocket powered aircraft are flown.
As we discussed and voted on at the last meeting, Chapter 10 has purchased a brick in the EAA Founders Wing. At that meeting David Tschopp donated $250 to the chapter to help defray that expense. Any donations to that end will be happily accepted. This week I received a packet from the EAA with two brochures, detailing the history of the EAA, and showing the plans for the Founders Wing. Forms were also enclosed if you would like to make a personal donation. We will have these brochures and forms at our March meeting.
It seems that spring has sprung. Discussion at our Officers meeting naturally went to spring fly-ins. The first one is the Tenkiller Wild Onion Breakfast and fly-in. It probably is the 28th, but no one could say for sure. Several adventurous souls talked going Friday and camping out. Their comments were followed by several stories of rain, hail, snow, winds, and innumerable unfortunate weather conditions at previous Wild Onion Fly-Ins. All agreed it was always fun and the food was great.
Last Warning, anyone who has not paid dues for 2009 will be dropped from the newsletter mailing list in April. If in doubt, check with Jim Gallaway.
That’s All Folks - See you Monday, March 16 @ 7:30 P.M.
John Nys
President EAA Chapter 10
When I moved to Oklahoma in 1991, one of the first things I heard about was the amazing annual Biplane Expo held at Bartlesville (BVO) each year. I attended my first Biplane Expo that year and have been back yearly ever since. Headquarters for The National Biplane Association, Bartlesville has hosted the Expo for 23 years. If you haven’t attended this event, plan on attending the Expo this year on June 4, 5, and 6. If you miss this Expo, there won’t be another like it in Oklahoma.
Charles Harris, chairman and president of The National Biplane Association, has advised the Oklahoma Aviator that this year’s Expo will mark the end of this annual biplane gathering.
However, this does not mean it’s time to stand around with heads hung low. The Biplane Expo has always feathered special honored guests, forums, food, vendors, and of course...lots of biplanes. The 2009 Expo will be no different. Details are still in the works, but it is planned to be a “Grand Finale.” As we hear more about the details over the next few months, The Oklahoma Aviator will keep you posted.
Mark the dates on your calendar. Don’t miss the Bartlesville Biplane Expo this year.
at Tenkiller Airpark, OK, sponsored by EAA Chapter 1040. This event informally opens EAA Chapter 10’s camping and flying season. Several individuals will, weather permitting, fly down the afternoon before, camp out, and contract a good case of red bugs! See Jim Gallaway.
Sponsored by City of Wellington, KS. You can sign-up at any Ponca City Fly-In Breakfast, 7 AM-10AM, 1st Saturday each month. Departing Ponca City and stopping at
Lunch will be provided to participants at Wellington after the event, 12 noon. Prizes, Poker Hand, handheld radio, Bomb Drop, Mahogany Model, Spot Landing, Mahogany Model. Donations are appreciated.
Volunteers needed to assist with parking and registration, see Bhrent Waddell or John Nys.
Donations accepted.
This explains it all. As aviators, we come from a long line of a secret society, formed around one thousand years ago. We are warriors, and here is the proof! Ground pounders can read it and weep!
Phu Khen, (pronounced Foo Ken) 1169-???, is considered by some to be the most under-recognized military officer in history. Many have never heard of his contributions to modern military warfare. The mission of this secret society is to bring honor to the name of Phu Khen.
A 'Khen' was a subordinate to a 'Khan' (pronounced 'konn') in the military structure of the Mongol hordes. Khan is Turkish for leader. Most know of the great Genghis Khan, but little has been written of his chain of command.
Khen is also of Turkish origin. Although there is not a word in English that adequately conveys the meaning. Roughly translated, it means, One who will do the impossible, while appearing unprepared and complaining constantly."
Phu Khen was one of ten Khens that headed the divisions, or groups of hordes, as they were known, of the Mongol Army serving under Genghis Khan.
His abilities came to light during the Mongols' raids on the Turkistan city of Bohicaroo. Bohicans were fierce warriors and the city was well fortified. The entire city was protected by huge walls and the hordes were at a standoff with the Bohicans. Bohicaroo was well stocked and it would be difficult to wait them out. Genghis Khan assembled his Khens and ordered each of them to develop a plan for penetrating the defenses of Bohicaroo.
Operation Achieve Victory (AV) was born. All 10 divisions of Khens submitted their plan. After reviewing AV plans 1 thru 7 and finding them all unworkable or ridiculous, Genghis Khan was understandably upset. It was with much perspiration that Phu Khen submitted his idea, which came to be known as AV 8. Upon seeing AV 8, Genghis was convinced this was the perfect plan and gave his immediate approval.
The plan was beautifully simple. Phu Khen would arm his hordes to the teeth, load them into catapults, and hurl them over the wall. The losses were expected to be high, but hey, hordes were cheap! Those that survived the flight would engage the enemy in combat. For those that did not survive? Well, surely their flailing bodies would cause some kind of damage.
The plan worked and the Bohicans were defeated. From that day on, whenever the Mongol Army encountered an insurmountable enemy, Genghis Khan would give the order, "Send some of those Phu Khen's AV 8-ers." This is believed, though not by anyone outside our secret society, to be the true origin of the word Aviator (AV 8-er).
Phu Khen's AV 8-ers were understandably an unruly mob, not likely to be socially acceptable. Many were heavy drinkers and insomniacs. But when nothing else would do, you could always count on an AV 8-er. A Phu Khen Aviator.
Denied, perhaps rightfully so, his place in history, Phu Khen has been, nonetheless, immortalized in prose. As the great poet Norman Lear never once said: "There once was a man named Phu Khen, Whose breakfast was whiskey and gin. When e'er he'd fly, He'd give a mighty war cry: "Bend over, here it comes again." Consider it an honor to be a Phu Khen Aviator. Wear the mantle proudly, but speak of it cautiously. It is not always popular to be one of us. You hear mystical references, often-hushed whispers, to 'those Phu Khen Aviators.' Do not let these things bother you. As with any secret society; we go largely misunderstood, prohibited by our apathy from explaining ourselves. You are expected to always live down to the reputation of the Phu Khen Aviator...a reputation cultivated for centuries, undaunted by scorn or ridicule, unhindered by progress.
So drink up, be crude, sleep late, urinate in public, and get the job done. When others are offended, you can revel in the knowledge that... YOU are a PHU KHEN AVIATOR!
I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read, perhaps I will get a short nap,' I thought. Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation. 'Where are you headed?' I asked the soldier seated nearest to me.
“Chicago to Great Lakes Base. We'll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we're being deployed to Iraq,” he said.
After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that sack lunches were available for five dollars. It would be several hours before we reached Chicago, and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time. As I reached for my wallet, I overheard soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. 'No, that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch. Probably wouldn't be worth five bucks. I'll wait till we get to Chicago,' his friend agreed.
I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant a fifty dollar bill. 'Take a lunch to all those soldiers.' She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. 'My son was a soldier in Iraq; it's almost like you are doing it for him.'
Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and asked, 'Which do you like best - beef or chicken?' 'Chicken,' I replied, wondering why she asked. She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class. 'This is your thanks.'
After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room. A man stopped me. 'I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.' He handed me twenty-five dollars.
Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked, I hoped he was not looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand, and said, 'I want to shake your hand.'
Quickly unfastening my seatbelt I stood and took the Captain's hand. With a booming voice he said, 'I was a soldier and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.' I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers.
Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He left another twenty-five dollars in my palm.
When we landed in Chicago I gathered my belongings and started to deplane. Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. Another twenty-five dollars!
Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to the base. I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. 'It will take you some time to reach the base. It will be about time for a sandwich. God Bless You.'
Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow travelers. As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals. It seemed so little...
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The USA' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Most of the world does not really understand how recognition is extended to a fighter pilot for superb performance of his duties. Certainly some would take the rascal to the bar and buy him a round. That is appropriate for the helicopter crew that just plucked you from the jungles and the sure clutches of “Charlie” but not for someone like Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger of US Air, A320 fame and the Hudson River ditching. No, something more appropriate must be devised. Fortunately for the 150 passengers and 4 other crew members such a pattern is already in place. We speak of none other than Roof Stomp 101!
Roof Stomping is a time honored tradition among Air Force fighter pilots. AF Manual 35-10 contains the details of this elaborate and extravagant ritual. Rather than break out the manual let me lead you thru the actual event so you will be able to judge fairly how “Sully” should respond.
In January `87 Texas A & M was playing in a bowl game. At Luke AFB, AZ our Air Division commander, Maj. Gen. Billy McCoy was an Aggie and proud of it! He was a very personable individual and a superb F-15 instructor so our Royal Air Force exchange officers decided to visit a good roof stomping on ‘Billy’ to convey their profound respect and pleasure. Unknown to the group the McCoy’s had invited the mayor of Phoenix and other local dignitaries to view the bowl game in their on base quarters. This is really a mere detail.
On the afternoon of bowl game about a hundred fighter pilots and their lassies gathered at the 461st TAC Fighter Squadron to caravan to a vantage point for parking. It is important that the “host” not see the Huns coming. We snuck down a large drainage ditch, hid behind a hedge and gained access to the back side of their garage. From there about 25 or 30 select individuals climbed on to the garage roof and moved quietly to the center of their house. Fortunately the program to give this house a pitched roof had been delayed so we had the ease of a flat roof.
At the given signal the whole lot began stomping around on the roof. In the yard the assault on the front of the house began with loud cheers.
Inside Mrs. McCoy was prettified! ‘Billy’ knew exactly what was going on. He broke into a huge grin. Not so for his wife. She was petrified because her china was jumping around in the hutch. She exclaimed, “Billy, get out there and get those idiots off our roof.” The poor mayor and his entourage were completely bewildered.
‘Billy’ lead their guests outside to the front lawn and began to shake hands and hug necks while lamenting they could not possibly host such an august group. We quickly broke out sufficient refreshments for a sizeable party and a good time was had by all when their guests realized this was a typical fighter pilot antic.
So, a similar pattern can be followed for ‘Sully’ whom we must admit did a fantastic job of brings his A320 down safely in the Hudson River. A spring roof stomp is a must if the passengers and crew are to honor his contribution to their longevity! Anyone have a better idea?
Editor's note:
Col. Humphrey R. Glocko was the mascot for the
433 TFS when I was stationed at Ubon Royal Thai Air
Force Base. His exploits are legendary and encompass
many facets of the Air Force’s fighter forces during the
60s thru 80s.
Approach: "Cessna 1234B, what code are you squawking?"
Cessna: "We're squawking [CODE]. Is everything O.K.?"
Approach: "Cessna 34B, you're inside Class B air space, you don't have a clearance to
enter Class B, and you're squawking the wrong code. Other than that, everything
is just fine."
This is a photo of the first MC-12 “liberty” air craft to be delivered to the Air Force for the new ISR squadron that Phil will be standing up later this year. It’s quite a change from his F-15C, but with all of the 21st century toys it will have on board, I suspect it may turn out to be about as dangerous as the “Eagle” for the bad guys.
“The son of a high school classmate and fellow Eagle Scout, Lt. Col. Phil Mason, will command the first of three squadrons. Lt. Col. Stewart spent most of his time in the F-15 Eagle. He is departing a current position as executive officer for the commander of the Air Combat Command. When Mason asked me about this I pointed out what Phil needed at this time was not an F-22 but a position that would give the Air Force a reason to single Phil out for his next promotion. The MC-12 purchase is for 35 air craft. They will be crammed with modern sensors to help our soldiers on the ground locate enemy concentrations and to relay their locations to potential strike aircraft of any variety. The first 12 or so will be normal range. The remainder will be a long range variant. I think this is a close copy of the King Air 350. In a word, Phil fell in the ditch and has come up smelling like roses!” by Terry Boswell
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Waco UMF-5 Biplane Waco UMF-5 218 hours TTAE 240 HP W-670 Radial Radio, intercom, and ELT 40 gal fuel 350 mi range 110 lbs baggage 3 place 25 awards: Grand Champion @ Bilplane Expo AAA Blakesburg, TX, Nebraska & Kansas, Oshkosh & Hondo, TX
This stunning beauty is built to Waco prints from
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To list your aviation items for sale, contact newsletter editor Terry Boswell.
| Day of Week | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | March 16th | Chapter meeting @ Gundy's 7:30pm |
| Saturday | March 21st | Pancake breakfast @ Gundy's 7:00 - 9:30am |
| Saturday | March 21st | 20th Annual Mary Kelly Wild Onion Breakfast @ Tenkiller Airpark |
| Saturday | March 28th | Fly-in Luncheon @ Claremore Regional Airport 11:00am-1:00pm |
| Saturday | April 4th | Wellington, KS Fly-in and Poker Run and lunch
signup at and starting from Ponca City |
| Saturday | April 4th | Ponca City Breakfast Fly-In |
| Monday | April 20th | Brat Feed and meeting @ Gundy's |
| Sunday (before the third Monday) | May 17th | Chapter 10 Picnic @ Gundy's |
| Thursday - Saturday | June 4th - 6th | Biplane Expo Grand Finale@ Bartlesville ( BVO) |
| Monday | August 17th | Chapter meeting and watermelon feed @ Gundy's |
| Friday - Saturday | September 18-19th | Tulsa Fly-in @ BVO |
| Saturday | December 12th, 2009 | Christmas Dinner Party @ Gundy's |
To add an item to our calendar, get the information to the newsletter editor Terry Boswell. See the contact info on the 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 Monday | 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 |
| Last Saturday of the month | Fly-in Luncheon @ Claremore Regional Airport | Claremore, OK | 11:00am-1:00pm |
If your last name starts with G-I then March 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 (Brat feed) |
| May | Annual Picnic |
| June | M |
| July | N-P |
| August | watermelon provided |
| September | Q-S |
| October | T-V |
| November | W-Z |
| December | Christmas party (no Monday meeting) |
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