April 2013 Meeting Minutes

April's meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Doherty presiding.

We approved the minutes from March.

Don gave the Treasurer's report, including checking and savings balances.

By-Laws have all signatures and are ready to go out to IRS, HQ, and the state.

Rick reported on last weekend's YE event. We flew 68 kids, about a third each of Sea Cadets, Scouts, and others. Anybody involved with YE, Rick has mailing lists for ground crew and for pilots. If you have not seen these emails and are volunteering contact Rick. Our next event is May 11, and Chapter 1402 is having an event on April 27, if you would like to volunteer.

We've re-purposed one of our YE storage cabinets as an IT cabinet for our electronics.

Don Doherty has begun disassembling the Sonerai engine, converting it into a presentation piece.

Jon Thayer is working OT at his regular job and will get to work on the Fly Baby soon.

We've replaced our faulty refrigerator that was freezing and blowing up our canned soda. Thanks to Jim Bower and Don Doherty.

Dave is starting a project to add an EAA32 sign to the front of the ARC and repair the one on the back.

B-17 is coming during the week of July 4. The CAF B-29 and B-24 will be in town as well. Dave will attend a meeting of the St. Louis Fair and Air Show on April 29. We're planning to have, at least, an information booth at the Arch fairgrounds. Dave would like us to consider extra activities: selling raffle tickets for B-17 rides, seminars on learning to fly, building an aircraft, etc. When we attended the fair in Chesterfield we gave seminars and had planes on display. Volunteers needed to man the booth.

Richard Conners from Honor Flights visited and described the program. Their primary goal is to get all WWII veterans out to Washington D.C. to see the memorial. They are always in need of volunteers and escorts to help in this mission. It's a one-day trip from St. Louis to Baltimore, and returns out of Reagan airport. After arrival they go directly to the memorial and spend 2 to 3 hours, followed by lunch. After that they his several attractions in the National Mall, drive by the Pentagon, the air museum, Arlington, the Marine Corps Memorial. Then there's a quick tour of D.C. before returning to the airport. It starts at around 4:00 a.m. and returns after 8:00 p.m., so it's a long but full day. Richard left some forms for volunteers and escorts and sign-ups for veterans.

Art Zemon needs a few inches of 8x2.5x2.5 T-6061 aluminum angle.

Flooding is predicted on the Mississippi, cresting on Tuesday. The hangars on the north end of SET will get wet. If the crest gets above 31 feet we'll need to move stuff in the ARC, so keep your eyes on the Yahoo board.

Next weekend at the ARC we'll show the movie, 6 Days and 7 Nights.

Meeting adjourned while Joe Gurney prepared his presentation on the Blue Angels.