Thursday, July 17, 2014

June 21, 2014 Meeting Minutes

Our June meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Doherty presiding.

We approved last month's minutes as written.

Don Doherty gave the Treasurer's report, including checking and savings balances. We got a check for the B-17 stop.

June 14 was our last Young Eagles event. We flew 26 kids.

There was a discussion about a KR2 project with a Corvair engine. It's pretty rough but has quite a few parts that would be useful on the Fly Baby, and Dave proposed doing this. Ron Wright says that most of the damage is cosmetic and he'd like to take a good look at the plane, but feels this is the way to go. In the meantime we'll need to store it.

Don is looking for a machine shop to complete sectioning our display engine.

President and Secretary positions are up for election in October.

We need a chairperson for our holiday dinner. The 21st is open at the St. Charles Banquet Center. Dave had proposed the 6th but has not heard back yet. Jeff Stephenson volunteered, and Bob Kramer says he can arrange a speaker if the 6th is open.

Several people noticed the Waco/Great Lakes fly-in at Creve Coeur. The Zenith open house is going on today in Mexico, Missouri.

Dave is looking for workshop topics. There's interest in seeing some fabric covering.

Art has a refrigerator and a single-wheel powered tug that he offered to donate to the chapter.

Next month is Oshkosh. We will have a meeting. Mark Irvin with FAA ATC will give a presentation on flying into AirVenture from the controller's perspective.

Alan Frazier, a former McDonnell test pilot, will be with us in August.

Vince donated a full set of the Sportsman Pilot magazine.

The meeting closed, followed by a presentation about aviation medicals by Dr. Matt Miriani.