Saturday, September 21, 2013

September 21, 2013 Minutes

September 2013's meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Dohery presiding.

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

Dave got a letter from Oshkosh regarding the commission for the recent B-17 stop. We made approximately $2,500. Chapter 64 got a similar check.

Al Jones joined today. He has a flying MiniMax and is working on a Long-Ez at about 70% complete.

Dave Doherty mentioned Paul Poberezny's recent passing. He attended a few of our Christmas parties. Dave got to meet him as a several times, once explaining a bit of trivia: he was born the same day EAA was founded. Paul asked, "How did you get so old?" Ron Burnett has a friend who was in the National Guard with Paul. They were working on a dented intake and took a DC-3 out to the boneyard to retrieve some intakes. Starter issues with the DC-3 led to an overnight stay, and Paul ended up hand-propping the DC-3. Ron knew Paul was tall but still can't figure out quite how he managed that trick.

The National Air Races were held last week. We met Steve Hinton last year. The Rare Bear, the plane Bob Kraemer's associated with, came in fourth.

Our December holiday party is coming up, December 14 6:00 to 10:00 at the same location as last year. Reservations start today, cost is $25.00 per person. Libby Yunger will speak on Women and Aviation. We'd like to do a back sale and silent auction in addition to our usual awards presentation and gift exchange.

Pending ARC projects include gutter painting and redoing the signs.

Seminar season is upon us. Dave would like to do a fabric covering workshop next month. Steve Morse will to a foam/composite presentation, and could give others provided sufficient interest.

Elections are coming up in October. If anyone would like to nominate themselves or others for a position please submit an article to the newsletter.

Rick May spoke about last month's Young Eagles event. We had 10 pilots but only 19 kids. We flew 183 kids over the year. Ron had 17, Joe had 15, Jeff had 30, Dave got 8, Don flew 19, Eve and Tom each flew 9 as did Gale, Jim flew 8, Pat took 5. We only had 5 events with two rained out and an extra in June. Mr. Bill and Paul Smith were present for all of them.

We have a separated form for Eagle Flights. The difference is that this is more than a 20-minute ride; actually more of a mentoring program. Eagle Flights is a stand-alone program managed by a separate person from YE in Oshkosh.

Registration for Air Academy is open for 2014. Rick has a couple of kids in mind to follow up with and asks for suggestions, if you know of anyone who'd be interested. We'd like to send two: one younger and one for the older, more advanced program.

Rob Burnett had Shop & Save and Dierberg's cards.

Upcoming events include an Ercoupe and Stinson Fly-In. The CAF Hangar Dance is tonight. Next week the Jefferson City chapter will have a fly-in and pancake breakfast. Also, on the 31st of this month we'll show Bat-21 at the ARC. Movie starts at 7:00 after at pot-luck at 6:00. Our next meeting is on October 19, followed by a workshop. We'll be selling food at the St. Charles Flying Service Pumpkin Drop on October 26. They'll be shuttling people back and forth. Note that, from our location, we have a prime viewing spot. They anticipate approximately 800 people. That night we'll show It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the ARC.