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EAA Chapter 569 Newsletter ~ Facebook.Com/Eaa569 ~ Lincoln, NE March, 2021 ~ ~ Volume 46, Issue 3 ~ ~ EAA Chapter 569 Newsletter www.eaa569.org ~ facebook.com/eaa569 ~ Lincoln, NE Meeting Announcement • We are resuming our traditional general meetings on the first nd Date: Tuesday, March 2 Tuesday of the month. • Next meeting March 2, 7:00pm Time: 7:00pm Seward Airport, Whisler Aviation. This is a fly-in location so if the Program: Greg Whisler weather is good saddle up the airplanes. Greg and his wife Terri own and operate • Prior to the meeting we will gather Whisler Aviation at the Seward Airport. at La Carreta Mexican Restaurant Besides all of the typical services an FBO for dinner at 6:00PM. It is located has to offer, they also specialize in the about 1 mile south of the airport on disassembly and transportation of non- Hwy 15 (3531 Progressive Rd, flyable or unairworthy aircraft. Greg will Seward, NE). share some of these adventures with us. • Agreed to offer an invitation to the Because Greg’s schedule can change in a NE Corvette Association to attend moment’s notice, please check the our breakfast when the weather Chapter 569 Facebook page or website improves. Airplanes and Corvettes before heading to the Seward Airport. (or display vehicle) sounds fun. Place: Whisler Aviation I would like to continue to find more Seward Airport (KSWT) ways to involve youth in aviation in addition to the Young Eagles events. Anyone who is aware of a youth that President’s Message has an aviation passion please let us know and help us get them involved. Tom Trumble EAA has other activities, besides Young Eagles, such as model building. It has been a long cold spell. My 172 is We would welcome volunteers to start so neglected it won’t speak to me. It just a program. sits in the hangar and looks sad. Tomorrow is the Crete breakfast which Please consider joining our chapter or I dearly love to fly to, but the forecast of renewing your membership. $20/year. low visibility and fog leads me not to See Cristi Higgins or visit our web site. plug the bird in tonight and drive to http://eaa569.org/ Crete. Several decisions were made at the last Our next business meeting is March business meeting on Feb. 16. Please read 16 at 7:00pm. This will be a Zoom the minutes for the details. meeting. We will send an email link. If Some bullet point items: you are unable to connect with a • The 2020 Christmas party was computer, the email will have phone officially canceled with the 2021 numbers that allow you to join the event scheduled for December 5th. meeting by phone. Page 2 of 8 EAA 569 Airplane-bike Touring many an old and picturesque mighty Elkhorn River has done to By Tom Winter building. Friendly people, too. The the town of Winslow. guy running the service station Planning helps. I often get on What if, when you land at a happily aired up my soft rear tire Google Earth, which is easier Nebraska airport, you want to from a compressor he had in the nowadays, just enter the town name explore the town? Take it from me, back of his truck. in the search box, click on the map, there are some great bike rides out At Scribner, you have a choice of then click on “satellite” at the lower there. Small town Nebraska is great small-town tours, because airport left, and zoom in. You can get close for bicycle tours, and the people you SCB is smack between Scribner and enough, if there is a highway, to see stop and chat with are delighted that Hooper. Skylar Steffes if there is a ride-worthy shoulder. the guy on the bike got there (Aeronautics Division Employee of This often doesn’t matter, as the (deliberately!) in an airplane. the Year 2019), will offer you a ride typical road from a small town Albion is a favorite, a three-mile into town. If your choice is Scribner, airport to the town is not heavily bike ride through rolling take him up on it. It’s no fun traveled! The road from Matt countryside, with pleasant stops bicycling three miles on Hwy 275. Christen’s shop at Pawnee City is along the way to admire, and even For biking, Hooper is the better two-lane blacktop, and you’ll be the to photograph the landscape, choice: ride straight east on County only traffic on it! Sometimes I call including a stop on the bridge over Road J four miles into Hooper. Matt to check on the grass strip first. Beaver Creek. There’s a Mom and Pop little Exploring Pawnee City, you will Red Cloud, as a bike ride, is barely restaurant at the edge of town where soon find a bike trail past steel worth mentioning, as you could spit you can refresh yourself with a soft sculptures, that are aptly titled from the airport to the town, but you serve cone. Don’s Barber Shop, on “Children at Play.” The Pawnee unfold the bike anyway, for the sake Hooper’s historic main street, is City bike trail ends up in the 710 of exploring Red Cloud. Park where I go to get my haircut. $10, Trail. Again, you’ll be the only anywhere. Drop in at Scott and you “look like a gentleman,” as traffic on it! Osborne’s bookstore for a Don puts it. (The Hundred Dollar What makes all this possible is a hospitable free coffee and Haircut!) Bicycle straight east 4 folding bike that you can throw in discussion. It’s the first building more miles and you can see what the the back of the plane. south of the Willa Cather Center. Ditto Falls City, which is also a “stone’s throw” from the town, but so many people have tried it that the road is “paved” with rocks as big as your fist. I learned to ride a bike 70 years ago, and never have I ever dumped a motorcycle but I dumped the bike navigating this rock-strewn route. The Mars Rover would not be safe to land on it. Philip Chaffee there at Brenner Field asked me if I would like to use the courtesy car. Next time, I’m going to say yes — and stuff the folder in the trunk so I’m not stuck with a car when I get Downtube Nova folding bike, in front of The Bluebird of Happiness, ready for to the town. Love the town, though. the ride and tour of Superior, Nebraska. Many an old and picturesque house, (continued on page 3) Page 3 of 8 EAA 569 Back in November Jerry Mulliken Minutes of the Club Meeting grade school in April and another in and a newly-minted pilot Jeremy David City in May for the Boy Griffin flew in from Fremont to The meeting was called to order over Scouts. meet me at my hangar. Why? To Zoom on February 16, 2021 at 7:00 check out the folding bike that lives pm by President Tom Trumble. The EAA is offering $10,000 behind the seats of The Bluebird of scholarships. The recipient must be Happiness! So I demonstrated. Attending were: Steve Nast, Doug 17-19 years old and active in an EAA Maybe you are interested too. Volkmer, Lori Oliveros, Dennis chapter. The chapter also must be The procedure: Crispin, Don Osborne, Wayne Woldt, qualified and must submit the Open the right hand door, slide the Tom Winter, Jon Sullivan, Cristi candidate. Tom Trumble offered to passenger seat all the way forward. Higgins, Kermit Wegner, Tom coordinate. He is gathering To keep the seatback out of your Trumble and Jerry Mulliken. information. way, tie that seatback forward (I use a tie-down rope looped through the Treasurer Cristi Higgins is logging Rather than try to reschedule the handhold). Reach in, grab the bike, donations for Jim Fix and Mark December, 2020 Christmas Party for turn it upright, carefully pull it Werth memorial plaques for the the spring, it has been decided to through. Let the wheels roll over the Oshkosh wall, which cost $500 each. cancel it. A reservation will be made sill. Flip up the handlebar post and Dennis moved, Lori seconded motion by Tom Trumble at the Villa Amore cam-lock it. Shake the bike in to use chapter funds to make up any for Dec 5, 2021 for the Christmas midair like shaking a blanket. You donation shortfall for purchasing two party. hear the Snap! as it unfolds and plaques. Motion passed. locks. Raise the saddle post and A member meeting will be held cam-lock it. Unfold the pedals. Dennis Crispin moved, Tom Trumble March 2 at Whistler Aviation at Click click as they lock into seconded the motion to approve Seward. Greg Whistler will speak position. Hop on and ride! Seven February minutes. Motion passed. about his aircraft relocation service if speeds. I rode it around the apron, he is available. Tom Winter will then Jeremy rode it around the Lori Oliveros announced the bring 2020 chapter service awards to apron. Then I folded everything February 20 flight breakfast will give out. back up and stuffed it back in the proceed. plane. MAC 80 will have a play day on The Folders: Tom Trumble asked if he could invite March 27th, 11:00am at Seward. At the Monkey Wrench bike shop, members of his Corvette Club to a they recommended Dahon folding future Chapter breakfast. The Help will be needed this spring to bikes (usa.dahon.com).
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