Meeting Minutes August 18, 2018

EAA Chapter 1167

Old Business:

• Fall fly-in date set for Oct 27^th, the 28^th will be the rain date.

  • Al will will follow up with pilots to fly Young Eagles at the fall event.

    • EAA has a new website with a sign up feature to help.

    • If we can get a printer we can use it to print the certificates.

    • Looks like we have about 4 pilots to fly YE

    • We'll have a drawing for a tool kit donated Mr. Kelly

• B-17 visit Nov 8 – 11

  • Anyone interested in a B-17 ride should go on line to buy tickets ahead of time.

  • Aircraft tours should be available the day of the event, ~$10 tour admission.

  • We need volunteers for marshaling people and support the airplane ops. Looking for 6 to 8 people.

  • Should go online and take the youth protection training if not accomplished in the last two years.

New Business:

• National Aviation week event in Georgetown next week. FAAST Team seminar 1pm Saturday

Main Discussion / Tech Talk:

• Chapter 1092, (maybe 1095) for badges. $7 each. Charlie Becker pointed us to them. 

• Doug Floyd knows of a couple that are interested in providing flight instruction. They don't have a plane now. 

• Statistics from 2018 Oshkosh

  • The “One Week Wonder” (Kit built aircraft assembled during the show) flew at the end of the week.

  • 601,000 people were in attendance

  • 50,000 aircraft landings / take-offs, over 12,000 aircraft visited the field.

  • Record sales at all vendors

  • 132 kids went through the air academy making a lifetime total over 6,400 kids that have gone through the program.

• Electric planes

• Cliff's project progress

• The reason you sand down the edge of plexiglass (120 grit) is to eliminate stress risers. The same is true of metal and why you want to file out nicks in aluminum props.

• If you fly a newly built plane before painting it you'll have a tough time getting paint to stick. The oil saturates the aluminum and you really can't get it all out.