March’s meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Doherty
presiding.
February meeting minutes approved.
Bill Bould, a new member in attendance, is building a Sonex.
Chris became a new member, he’s a transplant from Jefferson City. New members
see Bill Doherty for door codes, if you’re an existing member and are not paid
up your door code will become inactive.
Rick May addressed us regarding Young Eagles. First event is
April 9, Joe Miano will be out with Rick Friday night setting up, Rick will be
playing a bigger role in addition to being a pilot. We’ll start taking signups
at 8:00 a.m. Saturday. Much of last year’s crew of pilots will be active again
this year, and the RV project will be ready to fly in a month or so and will be
giving rides soon. Please let Rick know if you’re going to participate and have
completed the online checks. Pilots need training and the background check,
it’s possible for ground crew to just do the training. This year we technically
need two Youth-Protection trained on premises at each event.
We’ve got two new
freezers and need to move the old unit out. (Though the broken unit still works
as a great mouse-proof chip storage.)
We’re setting up a separate fund and committee for handling
memorial wall additions.
Chapter 32 will have a roughly 50x75’ section at the air
show and we’ll give two seminars. We will need lots of volunteers to meet the
public and recruit new members.
Joe Miano will take over Safety at the YE events, replacing
the late Bob Kraemer.
Dave updated us on the RV project. Among other jobs they’re
filling the outside rivet holes with epoxy in preparation for painting. (Using Polyfiber
Aerothane.) The plan is to set up a paint booth in the ARC. They’re using a 16
gauge needle with two part epoxy for rivet after rivet after rivet.
Avionics
will ship next week. Further updates will be posted on the Yahoo board. Sign up
if you’re not a member, link is on the chapter site.
Dave turned the meeting over to Don to cover last year’s
expenditures and the projected expenses for 2016.
