Re: EAA Chapter 493 August Meeting Minutes
From: Thomas Dufresne (pbavionhotmail.com)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:05:17 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for the minutes Don, I ended up with grand children last week and missed the meeting.

Thomas Dufresne
Poor Boy Avionics
325-277-2803


From: EAA493 <eaa493-bounces+pbavion=hotmail.com [at] fly-web.us> on behalf of Donald Treadwell <pilot.dt [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 11:17 PM
To: Tom Dufresne <pbavion [at] hotmail.com>
Subject: [EAA493] EAA Chapter 493 August Meeting Minutes
 


     Ron Lentz, Vice President of Chapter 493, called the meeting to order in Bob Reece’s absence. There were eighteen people in attendance, including a guest, Kyle Bristow, an ASU student from Ozona, Texas.


     Nancy York reported on Airventure 2019. She attended Oshkosh this year with a friend from high school, Karen Sue. They both have a strong interest in aviation, having taken flying lessons and spent many hours around airplanes. They enjoyed a three week driving vacation, stopping in Arkansas to visit Karen’s farm, the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, the St. Louis Arch, the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, and other interesting stops. They spent four days at Airventure, watching the arrival of various aircraft, some in groups flying in formation, like Bonanzas to Oshkosh (B2OSH) which started the same-type mass arrival, Cessnas to Oshkosh, Mooney Caravan, Cherokees to Oshkosh, and the RVs. The people attending Airventure were cordial, polite, and neat, as usual, including Gerry Hatch and Don Smucker. Nancy attended the Women in Aviation luncheon and heard Col. Kim Campbell talk about flying the A-10 in Iraq. Campbell was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism when she was able to successfully regain control of her A-10 and return to base after being hit by a surface to air antiaircraft missile while supporting troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

     Bob Heiser related how he flew into Oshkosh one year just for the day, having made no plans to stay the night. Carol noticed the local Motel 8 next to the field and said they should check to see if they had any vacancies. Bob thought there was no way they could be so lucky but he eventually called and was able to get a room, as many people had left early because the weather was hotter than normal. 

     Andy Spinks told us how he made a touch and go on the grass strip at Pioneer Field the day after Oshkosh ended one year.  He wanted to add OSH to his logbook and was unable earlier in the week when the field closed to arrivals for lack of available parking. 

     Doug O’Conner disclosed how he saw an airplane powered by a two cycle engine land short one year at Whitman Field and it was not because of fuel exhaustion.


     The meeting was adjourned at 7:30PM.  Refreshments of cookies, brownies, and drinks were provided by Nancy York and Tim McTaggart. 


     I saw our president, Bob Reece, at the airport the next day. He was most apologetic about missing the meeting.  He came home from working in the heat and fell asleep, not waking until after the meeting was over. Bob related how there were 1,083 homebuilt aircraft judged at Airventure this year. If you are not aware, Bob is in charge of the homebuilt judging during Airventure, a position he has held for many years.  This year the EAA awarded Bob a large paver at the Brown Arch, the historic welcoming gate to Airventure, for fifty (50) years of volunteer service to EAA.  Besides being one of the ten original founders of our chapter 493, Bob has chaired the EAA Southwest Regional Fly In and served on the Board of Directors of EAA. 

     I found Bob working on an RV-8 at Mathis Field. The airplane is for sale if anyone is interested in a bare metal, 180 HP Lycoming powered, local homebuilt with a constant speed propeller. 

     There are many videos available on YouTube covering this year’s Airventure at Oshkosh. I had mentioned previously on this reflector seeing some programs that were sent live from the Theatre in the Woods each night. Those presentations are still available on YouTube.  I did not attend Airventure in person this year, but was able to experience much of the event live over the internet. 


Don Treadwell

(There have been assumptions made and an extraordinary expansion of available testimony in the minutes as presented which may need several pages of corrections before the truth will be known.) 

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