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Our next meeting will be Monday, January 17th at 7:30pm.
Snacks: Last names starting with A-C.
by John Nys
We're greeting another new year! I hope everyone is well and had a great Holiday season. As a cap off to last year we received a check from EAA for the B-17 visit. Our share was just shy of $1800. Thanks to all the able volunteers for making it a success.
A reminder that dues for 2011 are due by the March Meeting.
At this time I'm not sure if we'll have a program, or what it might be. We are working on a couple of ideas. It might just be an old fashioned "Bull Session". That has happened before, and actually has been very enjoyable. What's more fun than talking airplanes and telling a few lies with your friends and neighbors?
I am heading down to sunny (I hope) Florida the morning after this month's
meeting. It's going to be an all day journey in the RV-12. Daybreak to sundown
and that's a little iffy if the winds and weather don't cooperate. The Sebring
Light Sport Expo is the event. John Kurt is hauling a fast build RV-12 project
for show and tell and possible sale. We'll probably have a number of good
stories from this adventure for next month.
See you Monday!
Fly safe.
John Nys
Board Report by Mark Chouinard
Only a few items to report during this mild winter we’ve been having (knocking on spruce). We raised $1760 at our Pie Auction in November and brought in another $1800 for helping with the B-17 while it was in Tulsa. Thanks to everyone who helped with these events, especially Geoff Alexander for coordinating the B-17 and Jim Smith for performing auctioneering duties again.
The Christmas Party was a hoot! Great food and great company... and we even had a toasty fireplace! Bob Zeng received a really nice gift... I’m sure he’ll make good use of it when he is out back flipping steaks. Careful not to get that thing too close to the fire Bob!
The hangar expansion is complete and in use... the walls have been painted and John Kurt has offered to build and install storage shelves, which he will probably have completed before I can finish this sentence. He sure deserves our thanks... seems that John is always doing something. The hangar is much more spacious with all of the chairs, tables, file cabinets and supplies stored away.
New officers have been elected... you can find their contact information on the EAA 10 home page.
Best wishes to each of you, and to our organization in the New Year! Let’s make sawdust and buck some rivets!
Mark
Carl Schultz, EAA #2, passed away on Christmas Day, 2010. Carl was born February 11, 1918 near Timmerman Airport and was married to Pearl. He soloed in 1937 and received his A&P rating before 1940. He had been employed by American Airlines and BF Goodrich. Carl owned filling stations in Milwaukee and Hales Corners. He worked for Outboard Marine Engineering from 1965-1975 on the development of the Williams Turbine engines. He owned a Luscomb airplane that was in the Hales Corner Museum.
Carl was Lifetime EAA member and a member of EAA Chapter 18.
The EAA web site has more about Carl and memorial info.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued two safety recommendations to the FAA that would require a detailed inspection at annual of all emergency locator transmitters (ELT) installed on general aviation aircraft to ensure that their mountings maintain their retention capabilities during an accident. The recommendations come as a result of NTSB’s investigation into the August 2010 fatal crash of a de Havilland turbine Otter airplane in Alaska that claimed the lives of five people, including former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens.
According to the NTSB, the aircraft’s ELT was found loose on the floor of the airplane by a pararescuer at the crash scene. It had activated but was separated from its mounting bracket and antenna; thus, satellite and aircraft involved in the aerial search did not detect vital aircraft registration information and the global positioning system coordinates that would have hastened SAR. Nor did the unit transmit the 121.5 MHz homing signal detectable locally by other aircraft, air traffic control facilities, or rescue personnel who use a compatible receiver.
“In this case, the airplane was equipped with a functioning 406 megahertz ELT, which can be a tremendous aid to search and rescue operations,” said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. “But this vital life-saving technology won’t do anyone any good if it doesn’t stay connected to the antenna.” Nearly five hours after the crash, volunteer airborne search personnel located the aircraft approximately 19 miles from where the flight originated. Four passengers were seriously injured. NTSB states that had the ELT remained attached to the mounting tray, it is likely that the signal would have been detected soon after the accident, and search and rescue personnel could have been dispatched directly to the accident site hours earlier.
EAA members don’t have to wait for an official FAA response to these NTSB recommendations.” stated Randy Hansen, government relations director. “Next time you’re doing a preflight or annual inspection, take a little bit extra time to examine your ELT mounting system to ensure the connections are tight and there is no corrosion or other visible issues at the mounting points. These are simply reasonable safety precautions that you would take prior to any flight.”
Read the complete NTSB recommendation for complete details.
Discovery Channel – January 14 – 8pm Central
Meet the unconventional family that rules Alaska's most dangerous skies in the new 10-part series FLYING WILD ALASKA, premiering on Discovery Channel Fridays at 9 PM E/P, beginning January 14, 2011. Operating their family-run airline, Era Alaska, the Tweto family battles unforgiving Alaska weather and terrain to transport life's necessities to one of the most remote and extreme regions of America.
With no freeway system for hundreds of miles, Era Alaska is the lifeline for the isolated rural inhabitants of the Bering Sea coastline, but where the roads end, life for the quirky Twetos begins. Wildly determined Jim runs his company with passion and looks to his tiny but fierce wife, Ferno, for support. She's cargo runner, dispatcher and mom to their two daughters, Ayla and Ariel, who also play a vital role in the operation. Year round, Jim and his family are motivated by the fact that the livelihoods of thousands of people depend on their business and employees every day.
Battling -40F degree winters and hurricane-like winds for months on end, the intrepid pilots of Era Alaska are among the best in the world. Ranging from a professional skateboarder in search of ultimate freedom to a local Alaskan native who has grown up around this business his whole life, they combat big storms in small planes — a scenario only suited for the most experienced, especially with such precious cargo. From champion snow dogs bound for the Iditarod, to medicine for sick children, to groceries for miners working on the North Slope, Era Alaska transports a wide range of goods.
Era Alaska was founded in the small city of Unalakleet with just one small plane and a service area of a few hundred miles. Today, the company has nearly 75 planes and destinations throughout the large state. Valued at millions, the airline handles everything from large, cross state commuter flights to tiny off-airport "bush" flights. Despite his company's achievements, Jim refuses to relax for even an instant, because he knows that his community's well-being depends on him.
Aviation’s most enduring unsolved mystery may be on the verge of being solved, as researchers at the University of Oklahoma’s Molecular Anthropology Laboratories examine a bone fragment found on the remote Pacific atoll Nikumaroro by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), reports The Telegraph. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, famously vanished 73 years ago while flying a Lockheed Model 10E Special “Electra” around the world. TIGHAR found the bone, said to possibly be a phalanx from a human finger - but also may be from the flipper of a turtle - at the site of a castaway’s encampment on the uninhabited island, part of the republic of Kiribati.
TIGHAR found the bone last summer along with a number of other interesting items at an apparent human campsite: remains of a 1930s woman’s compact; a small bottle made in New Jersey in 1933 with the remnants of what appears to be hand lotion; a mid-1930s zipper made in Pennsylvania (of a design that was never exported); and a broken pocket knife of the same brand listed in Earhart’s aircraft inventory.
We should have the results in a few weeks, but if the results are positive we won’t announce anything until the test is duplicated by another lab,” TIGHAR executive director Ric Gillespie told The Telegraph. “If human DNA is extracted, it will be sequenced to Earhart’s DNA.”
I’m relatively new to this game so I don’t want to seem like I’m complaining, but I felt that I should share my experience with Charles Vogelsong and The Dillsburg Aeroplane Works in order to save others the frustration that Mike Aichele and I recently went through. Back in November I spent several days on the phone with Mr. Vogelsong in an attempt to get accurate quotes on several lengths of 4130 tubing. Mike and I combined our material lists in order to save on shipping... a small order from what we were told (over 30 full lengths and nearly $1800), but none the less it was everything we would need to complete our projects... and then some. Mr. Vogelsong does not have e-mail... everything must be confirmed by phone and then faxed to him. How he manages to supply Aircraft Spruce, Wicks and other vendors (his claim) is beyond me. Anyhow, with our sizes, quantities and final quotes nailed down, we faxed it over to him... all neatly typed in spreadsheet format. A Marine and an Army paratrooper... oh yeah, it was organized... heck, my six year old could have understood it.
A week or so goes by and I get a call from Mike... time to meet at his place to unload the truck. We opened the carton and were surprised to find that much of the material was severely scratched... one piece even had a major dent near the center. Wow! This isn’t the top notch stuff we were told about. In addition to that, we were short several pieces, but received more than we requested of other sizes... the prices that we were quoted had changed too. We were scratching our heads at this point, thinking this certainly must have been an honest mistake. Mike offered to call Mr. Vogelsong to sort things out, which he did... when he described what we had found to Vogelsong his reply was, “so, what do you want me to do about it?” Mike told him that we would like the pieces that we were shorted, to which he replied, “don’t have em... might not have those sizes until February.” Well, a fine time to tell us! He continued to ask Mike, “What do you want me to do about it?” As if he couldn’t care less about us lowly builders trying to scrape up the parts for our flying machines. I’m not sure if he is struggling with his age or what... I’ve heard nothing but good things about his operation and had looked forward to buying from him, but this was the last time either of us will do business with Dillsburg. I hope others have better experiences, but for anyone considering buying from this guy, being detailed and thorough isn’t enough... he obviously doesn’t care the way that he once did. Too bad, his outfit had a good reputation.
FOR SALE BY OWNER Glasair I/II RG 300 hrs TTAF Lycoming O-320 70 hrs SMOH Lightspeed electronic ignition High compression pistons Large rudder Dual sliding canopys Panel mount GPS, xponder, intercom and more New 3 blade MT propeller New custom interior Extended wing tips 80% completed Ready for your paint $47,000 See at Gundy's (O38), Owasso, OK Contact Mark Fridley @ 918-274-3574 or 9rmfridley@cox.net (NOTE: remove the leading 9 to make email work)
Franklin Aircraft Engine Model 4AC171 60 HP 37/8 bore x 33/8 stroke 6/2 C.R. s/n 2052 17/32 venturi Eisenman magnetos complete No log book $1000 Contact Ken Smith 698-4129.
Lycoming O-235-0 T.C. 223, 100 HP, 2600 RPM, SM 1571-15 Two magnetos, no carburetor, otherwise complete. No logbook $1,000 Contact Ken Smith 698-4129.
Lycoming O-290-D2 135 HP, T.C. 229, no magnetos, has vacuum pump engine damaged at L/H magneto mount area L/H crankcase broken out accessory case broken out data plate is titled Lycoming Aviation Engine No logbook $1,000 Contact Ken Smith 698-4129
Acreage for sale 2.5 Acres with 330’ of Runway frontage Airman Acres Airfield, Collinsville OK Sets on dead end road. No covenants. Secluded area. Build exactly what you desire. $67,500 Contact Darren 918-857-2728
1967 Beech Musketeer A23-24 200 HP fuel injected IFR capabnle but not certified since 8/2008 Flies and looks great. Hangar at Pryor but can be moved to Harvey Young or Gundy's. Seeking partner. Contact Larry Murray 918-557-3020.
Precious Pete Basic Pietenpol 85 HP Continental Enlarged, extended 2-piece wing Steel tube fuselage Roomy cockpits Metal prop Flies great! Contact Roger White 918-698-3771.
Quickie Q200 Project – $6000 Includes disassembled zero-time O200 engine. Go to home.swbell.net/blsh948/Q200/Q200.htm for details and pictures. Contact Ron Cross 918-838-7992 9blsh948@swbell.net.
To list your aviation items for sale, contact newsletter editor Mark Chouinard .
| Day of Week | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | January 17th | EAA 10 Chapter Meeting & Pie Auction @ Gundy's (O38) 7:30pm |
| Saturday | January 22nd | Pancake breakfast @ Gundy's 7:00 - 9:30am |
| Saturday | January 29th | OkieFlyers monthly Fly In @ Claremore 11:00am - 1:00pm |
| Saturday | February 4th | Ponca City Breakfast Fly-In @ PNC 0730-1000 |
| Saturday | December 2011 | Christmas Dinner Party @ Gundy's |
To add an item to our calendar, get the information to the newsletter editor Mark Chouinard. 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 |
If your last name starts with T through V then October 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 (no Monday meeting) |
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