May, 2021 ~ ~ Volume 46, Issue 5 ~ ~ EAA Chapter 569 Newsletter www.eaa569.org ~ facebook.com/eaa569 ~ Lincoln, NE Meeting Announcement face when cleaning the nose prints off the inside of the airplane windows. Date: Tuesday, May 4th Janice Fix has donated a leather jacket Time: 7:00pm that belonged to Jim. The jacket was used very little (as new). It is autographed by Place: Performance Aircraft John Glenn. We are raffling it at the September Picnic which will be at Address: 1760 W Kearney Ave, Lincoln, Shoemakers airstrip and hosted by Holly NE 68524 (Shoemaker) and Jon Dixon. Program: Mark Gaffney, FAASTeam Click here to see the jacket. Program Manager The drawing will be from the names on Topic: GA accidents Then and Now and our current Chapter roster. If you haven’t the Effects of New Technology paid dues for 2021 or are unsure, please check with Cristi or Jerry Mulliken. If you want a chance on the jacket our dues are President’s $20/yr. Message Several discussions were had at the last Tom Trumble business meeting held on April 15. Please read the minutes for the details. Our meeting on April 6, 2021 was at the Duncan Aviation training facility on the Some bullet point items. west side of the Lincoln Airport. Andy Bajc was our host. It was exciting to hear • We have resumed our traditional about this facility and the mechanic’s general meetings on the first Tuesday apprenticeship program Duncan Aviation of the month. is conducting. • Our next meeting is on May 4, 7:00pm Performance Aviation. The program offers a path for persons to The Program will be FAASteam obtain their A&P licenses while getting presentation by Mark Gaffney. This paid. will be a wings credit program. You should receive an email sign up for the We continue to update our membership wings. list. I am using the data from that list to Performance facility is on the east side send the Zoom meeting notice for our of the Lincoln Airport 2nd building business meeting. If you do not get the north of Silverhawk. business meeting invitation, please contact 1760 W Kearney Ave. me or Jerry Mullikan. I usually send the Lincoln, NE 68524 meeting invitation 4 to 7 days in advance. • The next business meeting will be a Zoom meeting on Wednesday, May 19 We have resumed the Young Eagles programs. It always puts a smile on my at 7:00pm. Page 2 of 8 EAA 569 The 100-Dollar Haircut, Chapter Fremont barber shop! Somebody I asked Colleen (say CO leen) take Two said “Stylemasters,” to which I before-and-after pictures with my By Tom Winter snorted “I’m not going to no beauty camera, and she did before-and-after I’ve decided that needing a haircut parlor!” Finally, Deb turned to the pictures with her cell phone, too. is just another excuse to get out and yellow pages. “It goes from ‘bank’ “No idea I was such a handsome fly! And that’s what I call it, the 100- to ‘basement’” she said. No luck dude” I said when she had finished. dollar haircut. Better for the there, but she dug out a visitor’s Only fly in the ointment: she shaved waistline than the burger! guide and found me a barbershop, the neck with a straight razor. The The old white hair was Long. (See downtown on 6th street. back of my neck had never been before picture!) The ol’ white mop Pulled out the folding bike, flipped shaved before and now the bare and was considerably overgrown from it open, aired up the tires (sitting in shaven skin itches. Another time, staying home and covidianly the plane for weeks between rides I’ll just ask to taper the hair at the avoiding dense people. Now, always means the tires soften) and neck. someone like Kermit Weeks can get hit the road. Stopped many a time It was a pleasant bike ride back, away with a ponytail, but he’s not along the way to admire and even with the wind picking up. Took my married to Joanna, so it really was photograph some of Fremont’s old time to enjoy the ride. Back at FET, time. My recent haircuts had meant houses. Fremont is in the wide Platte I folded the bike, stuffed it, and a flight to Scribner, where I unfold Valley, and, it is all level, unlike launched. On climbout, I got a good the folding bike, and bike the four Lincoln which is one darn hill after view of the new construction, and miles on County Road J to Hooper, another, so the pedaling was easy grabbed the camera and one-handed where Don’s Barber Shop is smack and relaxing. A pleasant, two-mile the camera through the pilot-side in the center of the town’s historic bike ride later, there I was, in front window. The picture turned out! block, and where $10 gets you of an actual barber shop, Kiel’s. Bumpy flight all the way to 4,500. looking like a soldierboy. And it’s Inside the shop two women are Wind at LNK was 16G22, but at 16, right next to a very nice restaurant. each busy cutting hair. One stops to i.e, right down the runway. Very But it was time to explore, so I ask “What can we do for you?” I pull nice landing. decided to fly to Fremont for a two- my locks sideways on both sides: “ Of course, in a few weeks I will fer: (1) Check if the construction has Take one look at me, and then take need another haircut. I’m already started on the new terminal building, one guess.” planning on trying Central City, and (2) get a haircut. (Here’s an How much is a haircut?” $20. where they also have a century-old “Executive Summary:” (1) I got the “Okay, I’ve got a 20 in my pocket.” Opera House! haircut. (2) They’ve prepared the ground for the construction of the terminal.) Wind being from the south, I had to start the wrong way, but I was happy with how quickly Departure turned me loose. Wind at FET was about 45º off 14-34, and gusty, so the landing was an exercise in concentration. I was glad to notice that foundation work has started, and got a picture right out the windshield but got a better one later, on climbout. And the haircut? Nobody in the terminal building could guide me to a (continued on page 3) Page 3 of 8 EAA 569 First Flight! Doug was top notch. He wanted to house next to my son’s pet hamster, By Doug Volkmer see the weight and balance data. He leapt into the air and came cruising wanted to see all the required by in front of us along with the April 18th dawned partly cloudy, paperwork was on board. He called sweet sound of that Lycoming low winds, mild temp. The forecast the tower and informed them of our cranking out 180 ponies. What a for the day was for it to get even intentions. He was awesome. sight! better. This could be THE day! Mother Nature hasn’t given us After I familiarized Doug with the Doug’s plan was to take it up to many days like this lately. systems, he buckled in and began 3,500 and race track it around above going down the checklist. the airport for about 20 minutes. He I had a quick breakfast then went cut it short to about 11 minutes. We for a run with my chocolate lab I built this plane with a ‘keep it had an issue with the radio. He Ranger. While running, I had a simple’ approach. My instrument could hear tower just fine. But feeling this could be the day my panel is rather sparse. I have an when he would transmit, he was RV-7 leaps into the air. The analog airspeed indicator and breaking up. Doug said the plane weather was fantastic. After a harsh altimeter sandwiched around a flew straight and true. The prop felt winter and a not so nice early spring, Dynon D-6 EFIS that I bought nice and balanced. Other than the this weather was a welcome relief. second hand. I also have a GRT CHTs running a little north of 400 I get back from run and check my 4000 EIS and a Garmin GTR 200 degrees, the engine data looked phone. I had a text from Dave Fritz. Comm Radio. A single axis good. The CHTs should come “Test flight today?” Yep, he felt it TruTrak autopilot will keep me down once the rings are seated. too. straight and level and a Sandia We still have a long way to go in Local aerobatic pilot Doug Roth transponder tied into a Garmin Phase 1. I have 40 hours to fly off. had offered a couple times to make GDL-82 that will satisfy Charlie My plan is to keep tossing Doug the the maiden flight. Doug is an airspace requirements. With no keys (and perhaps my credit card incredible pilot. He does things in paint on the plane, a fixed pitch too for fuel) and let him continue to his Staudacher that would make Sensenich prop and a light panel my exercise it. Heck, maybe he’ll want Bernoulli scratch his head. I took empty weight came in at a lean 1036 to replace his Staudacher with an him up on his offer.