Monthly Newsletter / January 2019 Issue 2 / http://eaa838.org/ Meetings Third Thursday’s 7:00 pm with Dinner at 6:00 pm Welcome to YOUR EAA Chapter 838 monthly newsletter. Send articles or pictures to [email protected]. Our next meeting is February 21st when Tracy Miller will talk about Young Eagles, Eagle Flights, and other youth programs available in our chapter. Come at 6pm for pizza for $5 donation and stay for the presentation at 7pm. Save the date for our next Pancake Breakfast. It will be April 13th and 14th, which is our Young Eagle weekend. Pancakes will be served from 8am until noon on Saturday and Sunday morning. Please email me at [email protected] with the shift you want to volunteer for. They are 7am-10am and 10am-1pm each day. Those volunteering for the second shift are asked to stay until everything is put away and cleaned. On Sunday, everything needs to be washed and put away. Please stay and help until everything is done, so a few people do not have to stay all afternoon or come back on Monday. We need a new Building Coordinator. Carl Bumpurs has been doing this for quite a few years and is retiring on March 1. We need someone willing to take over. Carl takes calls from people who are interested in renting our building. He gives them our rental cost structure, and if they want to see the building, he schedules a time for them to see it. If they want to rent, he gives them a contract to sign, then puts the rental on the chapter calendar. Then either Carl or another chapter volunteer works with the renter before, during and after the event. We have a list of volunteers who assist Carl and they will be able to help our new coordinator. Please consider this request. We have many chapter members who are willing to assist when someone is needed to work with the renters. Please call Carl at 262-497-6446 or Doug Doers at 414-852-6943 if you have any questions. We have a new Building maintenance Coordinator. He is Rodney Fields. Rodney thanks for taking this on. Rodney has also taken on the Chapter’s Facebook page. It is “EAA Chapter 838 of Racine, WI”. We would like all chapter members to like our Page. That way when someone updates the page, you will be notified of that update. We plan to have information about each meeting, as well as pictures. If you take pictures at the chapter, please upload them to our Facebook page. If you have a Facebook account, please Like our Facebook page. On the top of any Facebook page, in the search box, type: EAA Chapter 838 of Racine, WI Then Like the page. And you are done. Page 1 of 21 If you do not have a Facebook account. In order to accomplish this, you have to have a Facebook account. It is fairly easy. - Go to www.facebook.com/r.php. - Enter your name, email or mobile phone number, password, date of birth and gender. - Click Create an Account. - To finish creating your account, you need to confirm your email or mobile phone number. Each year the EAA Chapter 838 president gets to select someone to receive the president’s award. For 2018, the recipient was Tracy Miller. Tracy has been our Young Eagles and Eagles coordinator for many years. She sends out emails to all pilots in the area before each rally asking for pilots to come and help us fly youth. Every second Saturday she drives here from Chicago and oversees the program. It is a tough job trying to get enough pilots to fly each month. For all you pilots receiving this, please consider flying. Try it once, and you may enjoy it. She was unable to attend the Holiday Party where our awards were awarded, but she received it at our board meeting in mid January. Here are a few Save the Dates: Young Eagle Rallies for 2019 will be the second Saturday from March through November. Pancake Breakfast April 13-14 Future Meetings February 21 – Tracy Miller will talk about Young Eagles, Eagle Flights, and other youth programs available in our chapter If you have any suggestions for future speakers, please contact Rick Goebel at [email protected] Rick is always looking for new ideas. Note from Dave Finstad Do you know someone who might be interested in joining? Bring them to a meeting. New members: None this month. If your membership has expired, bring your check to a meeting, or mail it to the chapter at 3333 N Green Bay Road, Racine, 53404, or you can pay on the website. You can renew on the website now. Go to the Members tab, or print and complete a membership application at: http://eaa838.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2016-EAA-chapter-838-membership-application.docx Page 2 of 21 Purchase a Personalized brick on our Eagle Overlook Terrace. See: http://eaa838.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/EAA-Chapter-838-Eagle-Overlook-Terrace-trifold-page-2-V2.pdf We need to be very careful when we put items in the Recycle dumpster. There are items that cannot be put in the Recycle Dumpster, like Here are some tools for success – follow these simple rules to avoid contamination charges. RECYCLING DO’S RECYCLING DON’TS DO recycle all empty plastic bottles, cans, DON’T bag your recyclables – plastic paper and cardboard. bags and film get tangled in the machinery. DO keep foods and liquids out of recycling. DON’T include food-soiled items - they can turn an entire load of recycling into DO keep plastic bags out of recycling. trash. DON’T add sharp or dangerous materials like needles and electronics – they can cause injury to our workers. DON’T toss in “tanglers” like rubber hoses and wires – they can shut down an entire recycling center! DON’T include bulky items like propane tanks or construction debris. Ken Sack [email protected] 262-488-3807 Note from Jim Senft Jim Senft here. We (my high school program) are looking for the King A&P videos. Not sure if this is something that the EAA chapter 838 would have or if someone from your group of aviation friends might have. Thanks Jim Page 3 of 21 Chapter 838 History Lesson By Ken Sack At our Holiday Party in December, we had a ribbon cutting ceremony for the library. Scott Sherer spent numerous hours sifting the books and other items in the library. We still have a number of aviation books, so you can check them out. The Sunbird simulator is there and also available for chapter members. We dedicated the new, improved library for Quentin Rench for is donations to the original building and library. Scott was not aware of everything Quentin and his wife Barbie have done for the chapter during the early days of the chapter, and many of you may not know either. I did a little research, so here is a little history about their involvement. If anyone has any additional stories about members from the early days, write it up and send it to me. Here is the first of hopefully many articles about our early history. Chapter History Please notice the first page of this newsletter. You will see the logo and heading of the Chapter’s early newsletter. A group of aviation enthusiasts, led by Quinn Rench, organized Chapter 838 in September 1984. He subsequently acted as the chapter’s first president. Initially, Chapter 838 met in various locations around the Racine Area including member’s homes, hangars, and basements. The premier issue of the chapter newsletter Contact went to print in July of 1985. In December 1987 EAA Chapter 838 embarked on an ambitious building project: a permanent home for the chapter. On March 9, 1992, the chapter held a ground-breaking ceremony and began construction of one of the finest chapter facilities in the Experimental Aircraft Association. Also, that month, we signed the charter for the Southeast Wisconsin Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame. In 1999, we expanded the chapter building as part of our museum growth. Much of the chapter building was built by members. The classroom was a main portion of the building. Sam Johnson told me one summer day at the Aviation Explorer Base that he told chapter members that as part of any donation he would make for our building, the chapter would have to sponsor the Aviation Explorer Post. Johnson Wax was the original sponsor but was switched according to Sam’s wishes. He also told the chapter that they needed to build a classroom for the education programs that chapter would have. The operation and activities are member driven. The chapter is active in promoting aviation interests and education to the community at large. We are based at Batten Airport (RAC) in Racine, Wisconsin. Currently, we have more than 120 members, many with family memberships. We meet once a month and have an active Homebuilder’s Night, Young Eagles Program, a monthly newsletter, the Southeast Wisconsin Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame, and other events. Quinn and Barbie coordinated and ran the Southeastern Hall of Fame dinner each year at the Marriott. They raised many thousands of dollars for the chapter. Page 4 of 21 Chapter 838 Young Eagles See you all on March 9th! Remember second Saturday from March through November. Tracy Miller EAA #794015 Young Eagles Coordinator, EAA Chapter 838 Aviation Explorer Post 218 If you know any youth ages 14-21 who might be interested, please contact post advisors at [email protected] EXPLORER POST 218 GETS TOUR OF MITCHELL AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER Explorer Post 218 got the opportunity to tour the Control Tower at Mitchell Airport on December 27th.