Meeting Minutes November 18, 2018

EAA Chapter 1167

Old Business:

• Fall fly-in Oct 27^th report available pilots flew 24 Young Eagles.

• B-17 visit Nov 8 – 11 was also very successful. Although weathered in on Friday Saturday and Sunday saw 6 full flights and a great turnout for ground tours.

  • Thanks to everyone that was able to make it out to help with the event.

New Business:

• Christmas dinner is planned for December 2^nd at Bimini Oyster Bar and Seafood Cafe; meeting at 5:00pm.

• Voted to procure Chapter name tags for all current members. - Jesse to make the order.

Main Discussion / Tech Talk:

• New arrival procedures for AirVenture next year.

• All Chapter members are eligible for the Young Eagles dinner at AirVenture.

• Cliff reported on the progress of his Sonex build. We’ll plan a meeting at his place in the coming year.

• Larry brought in a fiberglass clip board made by the students at the air academy this year. They used a scrap of pajama bottoms underneath the last layer of fiberglass to add some nice aircraft graphics.

• Larry also brought in a spark plug from an old radial engine and we discussed why four electrodes vs two. (redundancy and heat capability). Discussed how to read spark plugs to determine how the engine has been running. Larry mentioned that Tempest now has a resistance test set to verify plugs are still good. Half the electrode must be remaining.

• Discussed engine timing and data tag information to tell what each engine requires.