June 2013 Meeting Minutes

June's meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Doherty presiding. (Using a presidential new gavel to bring the membership to order.)

Former president Karsten Kessler was back today from his tour in the ex-chapter-officer's protection program. He's spent some time in Afghanistan applying his engineering skills.

Sherman Chancellor was also visiting to escape from in-laws. He's also a pilot who's interested in building, maybe an RV.

Motion made and seconded to approve the minutes for last-month's meeting.

Don Doherty was out, so Dave gave the treasurer's report, including checking and savings account balances.

The big project going on these days is building maintenance. We have a new mailbox, a new dvd player. Our projector has a loose connector in back, Art Zemon offered to take a look. The EAA sign is showing its age, Dave will work on replacing it and making a new one for the front of the building.

Last weeks Young Eagles event was cancelled and postponed until next weekend. This is our second, recent cancellation. There'll be another YE event July 13. There should be a big turnout, as it'll hit the weekend after the fair where we'll be promoting the event.

New business deals mostly with the B-17 tour. We're working together with Chapter 64 on this visit, and we're also getting help from the Fair and Air Show staff. Aluminum Overcast arrives July 1 for some press exposure. Tuesday, 7/2 p.m. Chapter 64 is hosting a dinner, including military pilots from WWII up to the present, our membership is invited. 7/3 we'll be setting up a tent at Lenore Kay Sullivan Blvd. with some aircraft. Note that there will be a practice air show around the time we're setting up. (For which we need volunteers.) Attendance at the Fair is projected at around 100,000 on the 4th, 5th, and 6th. We've invited several other local aviation groups to provide presence as well. The B-17 will open the air show on the 4th. We'll need volunteers for the tour stop to work the merchandise trailer, crowd control, and a person at the entrance and exit of the plane. We tear down our tent at the fair on the 6th, probably as the fireworks start.

Movie of the month is 633 Squadron, evening of 6/29.

The July meeting will be informal, primarily planning for Oshkosh. We also need to start thinking about new officers as we've got elections coming up.

A follow-up issue to our recent flood concerns planes we moved into the ARC. The executive committee is working on some rules for who gets priority, for example, members would get priority.