Meeting Minutes April 21, 2018

EAA Chapter 1167

Old Business:

• Spring Fly-in date set for May 19^th

  • Chicken bog, hamburgers, hot dogs

  • Currently two pilots available for Young Eagle flights

• B-17 visit Nov 8 – 11

  • Order tickets on line ahead of time…

  • We need volunteers for marshaling people and support the airplane ops.

New Business:

• No new business

Main Discussion / Tech Talk:

• Larry brought in a Bleriot aircraft prop that was hand carved. Made from a single piece of pine rather than laminated as we typically see today. 

• Larry also brought in a rib off a 1929 Fairchild constructed of Spruce with mahogany plywood and assembled with glue and brass nails. Some manufacturers pulled the nails, or staples, but others, obviously, left them in. The Hughes H-4 (Spruce Goose) had them pulled once the glue cured the to save weight.

• Someone landed a Piper Arrow on International drive. The plane had obviously been set outside a hanger for years at Luck field.

• We discussed the MB airshow schedule, content, and arrangements.

• Discussed an ADS-B wing mounted system (replaces the wingtip lights) - called sky beacon by uAvionix

• LSA rules update allows operation into controlled airports, operate reconfigurable gear (land to sea), and the logbook is now your license with DL as medical in the plane.

• Discussed the requirements for getting certified or type rated in a jet (ie. SubSonex)

• McCulloch gyrocopter type cert story and the changes in DARs since those days.

• Some people have been able to get the TSA approved South Carolina drivers license.

• Discussed travel restrictions and peculiarity of international travel and how much information about you is loaded in their databases.