The Pasco Flyer

Chapter 791 Hidden Lake May 9th, 2009

President: Scott Murphy tenraii@verizon.net
Vice-president: Steve Carper
Secretary: Pete Porebski
Treasurer: Les Conwell
Newsletter Editor: Dean Psiropoulos Phone: 727-937-7986 dean.psiropoulos@verizon.net
Flight Advisor: Les Conwell Phone: 727-841-9764
Technical Counselor: Rodney Daulton

The regular chapter meeting will be held on June 13th. Future chapter meetings will also be held on the second Saturday of each month, and will be continued on that date for the foreseeable future. Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in building, restoring, and flying airplanes. The meetings will be held at the Hidden Lake Pavilion in the Hidden Lake Community starting at 9:00 AM. There is ample parking in front of the building. Remember to get to the pavilion you go in the WEST entrance to the community and follow Airway Boulevard parallel to the runway to the north end. Continue through the open gate till you see the cars and park on the left. Hidden Lake Community is off Ridge Rd about three miles east of Little Rd.

Presidents Corner: Hello everyone. I would like to thank you all for being patient with me as I try to fill the shoes of our ExGlorious leader John Edwards. I would like to thank John again for the wonderful job he did for us in the past term. I just hope that I can come close to the quality that he provided for so long. I have striven to make the presentations interesting and informative. If you have any suggestions on future programs, please let me know. I have truly enjoyed my time serving you so far and will continue to try and improve not only myself in the position but our chapter as a whole. Thank you all and God Bless.

We had our fist flyout of 2009 a couple of weeks ago. We had 28 people fly down to Sebring for breakfast. A Great turnout and certainly Great company. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope to do 3 to 4 per year if possible. Please feel free to submit possible future flyout locations to me. We have mentioned Bartow, Crystal River, and another one or two I cant remember as possibilities. Please email me any ideas you may have so that we can talk about it a couple of months ahead to set it up.

Also keep in mind that we will need someone new to do the coffee snd drinks for next months meeting.

Opening: Scott Murphy called the meeting of EAA Chapter 791 to order at 0910 hrs on May, 9th, 2009 at Hidden Lake Airport Pavilion with the Pledge of Allegiance and a Moment of Silence.

Guests and First Timers: Chuck Plummery who is building a Mustang.

Approval of Previous Months Minutes: Previous months minutes were approved.

Treasurers Report: See Les Conwell for more information. We have 43 dues paid members. If you have not yet paid your dues for this year please do so ASAP.

Announcements: Pete Goutierre presented the following interesting tidbits from Col D. G. Swinford, USMC, Ret and history buff.

• The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese (China 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), highest ranking American killed was Lt Gen Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. So much for allies.
• The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham,USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.
• At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced 'sink us'), the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler's private train was named Amerika. All three were soon changed for PR purposes!
• More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71 percent.
• Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
• It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
• When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).
• German Me 264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City, but they decided it wasn't worth the effort.
• German submarine U120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
• Among the first Germans captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.
• Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United States and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands 21 troops were killed in the assault on the island. It could have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the island.

Old Business: Quick discussion of the camping at Sun N Fun. See photos below (In particular see Bruce's baby!)

New Business: The chapter has EAA credits for our sponsered Young Eagle flights. Apparently, these can be used up at Oshkosh Air Academy. Now these can be used for other promotional materials. We need to figure out what to do with these. John Voda was not present and Sid discussed Young Eagles. Sportys has a scholarship program. Les discussed a Chevron scholarship for more details see Les. More discussion of the SNF camping. Put pictures from iphone in the newsletter. Discussion of the wives coming to be encouraged. Needed a volunteer for the coffee and drinks at the June 13th meeting and Scott Post graciously volunteered. Any memebers have ideas for future presentations? Please contact the president if you do, we alwasy have a need for new and interesting subjects to educate and entertain our members.

Safety Tips: Summer heat means density altitude, even at sea level. Take some time to refresh your memory about this important subject, especially if you are planning an airplane trip out west. Don't let this "gotcha" get you!

Meeting Program: Richard Brinkerhoff gave a presentation of the building process and brought his RV-7. He gave us a presentation 2 years ago on the building of his engine.

• Started in October 2004, completed October 2008, build time 2183 hrs
• Slow build wings, fast build fuselage
• IFR equipped with autopilot.
• Built in a garage at his home in Trinity.
• EFIS is Blue Mountain avionics, EMS is VMS 1000C
• It took longer than he thought it would!

Some modifications he made were the seat pans to fit strobe light electronics underneath. Framework to install instrument panel in a modular basis. Cowling was a Sam James model, used Sam James plenum system. Instrument panel labeling process used was a computer graphic generated dry transfer process that is economical but involves a little learning. Richard can provide more information if interested. Phase I issues Included:

• Low reading ASI
• Ammeter Issue turned out bot be shielded cable
• VMS setup parameters (too sensitive just required resetting)
• WOT is over 2700 rpm (need to repitch prop from Sensenich 72 by 85 inch pitch)
• Heavy left wing (fixed by hand squeezing trailing edge)

Lessons Learned include:

• Wait as long as possible before purchasing avionics, EFIS, EMS systems
• Pre-wire and plumb into front bulkhead termination points
• Technology advances every year
• The Hot Vendor this year may not be around next year
• A low price on a mature product may not be a deal
• Do not abandon flying while you are building! Les Conwells emphasis

Idea of a weekend breakfast flyout to Sebring on May 30th was agreed on.

Have not had a Pancake Breakfast in a while. Decided to do in the fall. Consensus was for Jerry and Bernie to be in charge.

Project Status:

• Pete P. (Falco) Ordering spruce for longerons.
• Les C. (GP4) Working on the control surfaces.
• Marcel (Lancair) Up to 70 hours on Hobbs.
• Rodney (Swift, Skybolt) Polishing the Swift.
• John V. (Lancair) No progress.
• Dean P. (RV 6A) Running tests to find engine idle problem.
• Mike M. (Mustang II) Engine swapout.

50/50 Winner: Total was $31. Winner was our esteemed president Scotty who dontated it to the chapter. Thanks Scotty!

Adjournment: Scott Murphy adjourned meeting at 1115 hrs. The next general meeting will be at 0900 hrs on Saturday, June 13th at the Hidden Lake Airport Pavilion

SNF 2009 Photos Below

 

Our little patch of airport heaven

 

Bruce and his baby

 

Lounging at the campsite

 

Waiting for the evening show

If you haven't camped with us yet why not try it next year, its a great time.