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Oshkosh'94 Reserve AWARD WINNING AVIATION PUBLICATION 'I I ECI (~FS EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION CHAPTER 1 68 DALLAS, TEXAS SEPTEMBER 1994 VOLUME 25 ISSUE 9 Theater in the Woods was the site of years award presentations at Oshkosh. Oshkosh'94 Red Marron, quietly sitting in the audience, experienced a rapid increase in blood pressure as he heard Chapter 168 mentioned as the second place finisher in the Reserve Newsletter competition. I'm sure he was grateful that he attended Oshkosh, after his brief visit in Fond du Lac, to take pride in his chapters' recognition during this years Grand awards. (Welcome to Fond du Lac, Red!) Thanks to all those members who have contributed material to Hangar Echoes this Champion past year. It wouldn't have been possible without your input. But, like my Grand Daddy always said, "Steve, close only counts in Horseshoes and Thermonuclear War." So, maybe next year, huh? Location of Regular Meeting Has Been Permanently Moved to Farmers Branch Library PAGE2 Sept. 10th Fly-in September Calendar September 6: Regular Meeting September Fly-in will be our big yearly barbecue held Farmers Branch Manske Library, 6:30 pm-8:45 pm at the Flying "O". The event will be hosted by Mary Jane and Henry Odlozil and_family. This is a covered September I 0: Fly-in at Flying "O" Airport dish Fly-in lunch. Bring salad, vegetable, casserole, fruit or dessert. The chapter will provide the barbe­ September I 5: Directors Meeting Farmers Branch Manske Library, 7:00 pm-8:45 pm cued sausage and usual drinks, utensils, etc. Be there! September Z7: H. Echoes Assembly Director's Meeting, 8/11 /94 ~ Tom Lewis volunteered to have the October newsletter assembly at his house. ~ Photographer Jim Wilson will present a slide show at the September general meeting. ~ September 10th fly-in was discussed. The event will be held at the Odlozils Flying "O" airport. ~ Heated discussion regarding Chapter 168's displacement to the Farmers Branch Library. Sam Cooper informed all present that we have been permanently moved to the Farmers Branch Library. City government made decision to give priority to some dance group, despite our contract and our verbal agreement. Discussed possibility of having our Christmas party at the Farmers Branch Activity Sept. 8th Meeting Center. Made plans to approach the decision-makers Please Note: The Regular Meeting will now be held and the dance group regarding this topic. Mel made at the Farmers Branch Manske Library. See the new threats directed toward the decision makers as well as location on the map below. We will be using the the City of Farmers Branch. Mel also exercised his library as our new PERMANENT LOCATION. Our vocabulary of profane terms while discussing all of meeting this month will feature Jim Wilson, an aerial the above. photographer with some really exceptional photos to ~ October Fly-in to be hosted by Mel and Ann his credit. As the official shooter for the Eagles Asberry at Aero Country. Aerobatic team, Jim is well versed in all types of air­ to-air photography. He may even bring his latest work ~ September Door Prize will be ride provided by which was done for a spread on the Blue Angels. ~ Don Stoval in either his J-3 Cub or Mustang II. ~ Kerrville Program chapter page discussed and "delegated" to Steve Horn. Beltline Road Brookhaven Valwood Pkwv. Club Drive ~ Agreed to order 25 1995 EAA Calendars. ~ Discussed last Kerrville planning meeting. All is ,::, ,::, 0 Former 0 la well and on schedule. 0 CII Location ;: a: C CII C la C ai ...I ~ Discussed final preparations for the All-American w la i a. ... It) ...I la .c Fly-in. ' >, .c II) ~ CII "" Amber Lane (.) ..la II) • N 0 :E ~ New ~ l'J Location I Hangar Echoes Assembly VallevVlew The Hangar Echoes assembly will be held September 635-LBJ 27th at the home of Joyce and Vern Williams, 3450 Farmers Branch Manske Library, comer of Webb Chapel Rd and Chaperrel Dr., Farmers Branch, 484-7741 starting at Golfing Green Dr. First Tuesday of each month, ·6:30 - 8:45 pm. 7:00 pm. Vern has a plans built Zenair in progress. PAGE .1 ALetter From The President... Dear Fellow Members, Sometimes the weather.just does not want to cooperate with you. Tom Moe and I attempted to return from a short visit to Oshkosh on Tuesday, August 2nd. After dropping off a friend in Iowa, we were unable to get under, or legally over, a stalled front along the Iowa/Missouri border. Therefore, I missed our Chapter Meeting. So, we spent the night with Tom's family, which made the lengthened trip a lot more pleasant. I came back commercially on Wednesday, and Tom brought the airplane home on Thursday. Next time one of us will have an IFR ticket. I would like to thank my fellow Officers for covering the Meeting for me in my absence. I understand that they also did some impromptu work to put a program together at the last minute. I promise not to fly myself again on the same day as the Meeting. I understand from several reliable witnesses that we had an excellent turnout for the August Fly-in at terrell. Over twenty planes came in, and a number of people took the opportunity to visit the Silent Wings glider museum. I would like to thank our hosts, Dian and Tommy Spangler, for helping us have another successful Fly-in. I was unable to attend the August Fly-in because I was_participating in an aircraft marshaling training session for the All-American Sport Aviation Fly-in (9/ 16-18 at Alliance Airport), at Spinks Airport. We will be holding a similar training session(s) for Dallas area marshal and wing walker volunteers in the Dallas area before the Fly-in. As you have probably noticed, we are still holding our Meetings in the Farmers Branch Manske Library (FBML), instead of the Senior Adult Activity Center (SMC), which we have used for the last several years. We will be holding our meetings, unless we decide to move, in the Library from now on. I have been as upset as many of you about this quick change of events. Some explanation of this is in order. Farmers Branch sponsors an ethnic dance group which meets twice a week for practice sessions, Tuesdays for grade school children, Thursdays for teenagers. They are not a large group, but their music and foot action is loud. The school gym they had been using was not an ideal local, their dancing tended to drown out the music. So, the city of Farmers Branch has been trying to find them a better location to use from their available facilities. The relocation for the summer was supposed to be temporary, while the school gym the dancers had been using was closed. The SMC is a better facility for the dancers, but it is not ideal, Conversely, we can easily use the FBML, while the dance group cannot. At the end of the summer, after looking at all of their options, the city of Farmers Branch decided to relocate us to the FBML and to keep the dance group in the SMC. I was told that the decision went all the way to the City Manager's Office. I was only informed of the decision after it was made. Unfortunately, neither I or the Board suspected that this option was being considered. At this point, I can only plead ignorance and naivete in the ways and methods of local government. I will be a lot more vigilant in the future. Our September Meeting will feature aviation photographer Jim Wilson, as our guest speaker. Jim has taken the excellent photographs that can be seen hanging in several local FBO's, Exec Air in McKinney has several. I am looking forward to seeing more of his work at the meeting. In addition, we are working on having another airplane ride as the door prize. Let's keep building and restoring, so we can keep them, and us, flying. PA GE-I Oshkosh 94 Report B Y M ARVIN BROTT Let me provide you with a short summary of Oshkosh Heavy Metal 1994. This was the biggest Oshkosh from the stand­ The B-2 Stealth Bomber made an appearance (fly by point of number of airplanes and people. The number only) which is one of the first public appearances of l 68 chapter members and other local airplane nationwide. Believe me, it really looked strange. people was also great. The following outlines some The C-17 transport was exhibited and demonstrated the big items of interest: tremendous short-field capability. Of course the landings seemed a little hard. The South Africa The Lot Was Full Airways restored DC-4 made it to Oshkosh after an By Wednesday at 4:45PM, the airport closed to tran­ 8,000 mile trip from Cape Town. The Concorde sient aircraft. Fond du Lac (Did anybody see Red?) arrived and provided rides for $800 a trip. Kermit and Appleton had a considerable number of planes. Weeks brought the days of the luxury flying boats to As Tom Poberezny indicated, we always have room Oshkosh with his Sunderland flying boat. The MATS to park the show planes. This year they opened up 40 Lockheed Constellation returned to fly each day. · more rows to the South which took the parking past Rare Bear, a Grumman F8F Bearcat, hailed as the the end of the runway. Believe me, the airplan~s were world's fastest piston-powered plane also made an really packed in.
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