October 2012 Meeting Minutes

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

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

Notification of an uncashed check from the B-17 event in 2006 arrived from Oshkosh HQ. This amounted to $1600. Don followed up and a new check is in the mail.

We had a couple of visitors this month. Pat Donovan has flown Young Eagles, but this is his first EAA32 meeting. He's also looked over our taxes in the past. Nathan Peck has a single seat Rutan Quickie at our airport and this is also his first meeting at the ARC.

By-Laws: we need a final meeting before running it by the legal department at HQ, after that it will be presented to the membership.

Dave McGougan continues to work on the chapter veterans' project. Several members have responded, Dave has 3 complete so far. He knows more that are veterans and will contact them himself. He's also looking for photographs, so if you respond please include pictures. Art suggested putting the stories on the web, he's saved them in Word format, so Laura has asked for copies and she'll get them published.

Young Eagles events are over for 2012. We're estimating that we flew around 300 Young Eagles this year.

There's still some ARC housekeeping to do before next week's open house. Next Friday we'll hold a work party starting as soon as you can get here. Dave will start around 0800.

We're providing food and have invited as many owners/aircraft as we can think of. Partially complete projects and parts thereof are also welcome. We're thinking about awards, recognition for pilots that come in. Dave McGougan is chairing a committee for the event. We need lots of volunteers starting at roughly 0900. Try to wear your EAA32 shirt and nametag if you have one. If you're bringing a plane make a small sign/poster explaining what it is. Dave also suggests an attended table in the ARC dedicated to rounding up new members.

We've been thinking of getting a freezer to store food for such events. Rick moved to purchase one for the chapter, Gale seconds. Laura and Jeff know of a potential source for a good used freezer, we authorized them to pursue this.

Rick May built a rolling, wooden container for our tent. Loaded it's about a four man lift. In honor of Halloween it looks something like a casket.

Bill Doherty had completed repairs to the door lock.

Gale spoke about a Fly-Baby that may be available to our chapter. It was flying at one time at one time and has been restored once, but now has no engine. We could use it for fabric covering projects. All we have to lose is a little more space in the ARC. Gale and Bill Jagust can retrieve it using Tim Finley's trailer. Dave McGougan moved and Bob Dooley seconded to retrieve it.

Bob Kraemer attended the Reno Air races. He reports changes to the course, and to security: not surprising due to last year's accident. There was a memorial for the people who died, and a ceremony to recognize the first responders, including a pilot who had a Huey on display and flew out victims.

Our next big event is the holiday dinner on December 15. If you'd like to go please RSVP, see the newsletter for a form.

Bill Patin finished his RV-10.

Tom Crosby soloed in his Grumman.

Dave Doherty will be attending an event at Parkway School district with an eye towards building an aircraft with a group of high school students.