January 2012 Carb Heat January 2012 Hot Air and Flying Rumours EAA 245 NEWSLETTER Vol 42 No. 1 Published by EAA Chapter 245 (Ottawa) P.O. Box 24149 Hazeldean R.P.O., Kanata, Ontario, Canada, K2M 2C3 Contents Next Meeting: Presidentʼs Message"Page 2 Thursday January 19 at 7:30 PM Exhaust 30/20 years ago"Page 3 Bush Theatre Humour"Page 4 Canadian Aviation and Space Museum Editor!s Note"Page 4 Mark Briggs! Article"Page 5 Presentation: Ottawa - Restricted Areas"Page 6 A Grandfatherʼs Odyssey Jeff Whaley!s Article"Page 7 Ottawa - Victoria - Ottawa in a Titan Tornado Fly-Out Possibilities"Page 7 by André Girard For Sale"Page 8 Membership Form"Page 9 Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 245 Ottawa. We are a group of Amateur Aircraft Builders, Owners, and Enthusiasts with a hangar, lounge and workshop facility located@the Carp Airport, situated just west of Ottawa. President Cary Beazley 613-226-4028 [email protected] Vice President: Phillip Johnson 613-253-2229 [email protected] Treasurer: Curtis Hillier 613-831-6352 [email protected] Secretary: Peter Zutrauen 613-831-0348 [email protected] Operations: Ken Potter 613-259-3242 [email protected] Membership: John Montgomery 613-599-1240 [email protected] Webmaster: Russell Holmes 613-226-8273 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Yvon Mayo 613-830-1935 [email protected] or [email protected] Technical Information Officer: Nathan Aligizakis 613-730-1644 [email protected] Young Eagles Coordinator: Alfio Ferrara 613-836-8285 [email protected] Chapter Historian: Wayne Griese 613-256-5439 [email protected] Carp Airport Liaison: Martin Poettcker 613-832-1210 [email protected] EAA 245 Website: http://eaa245.org/ and http://www.245.eaachapter.org/ Page 1 of 9 January 2012 President’s Message collected on our behalf at several simplify plans, manuals and locations around town. instructions to decrease build times and improve completion rates. Aviation Estate sale The Open Source Aircraft project is John Firth is selling the last underway and looking for remnants aero books and volunteers in the Ottawa area that equipment out of the hanger at would like to get involved and help giveaway prices. Proceeds are out? going to a cancer charity. Very interesting, take a look or better yet - volunteer! Airport WCD Updates http://makerplane.org/ If you haven’t been out to the Happy New Year Everyone! airport recently, the roads have been paved from Carp Road to the Problems with 4130 Tubing I hope Santa was good and the Dilawri, RCMP and Helicopter Tom Parker elves were busy working on transport gates. ([email protected]) of the everyone’s projects. A new flying school is just starting Mohawk Builders group sent out: up at the FBO. Drop in. Lots of people have been out lately A warning For Builders with some of the better weather Temporary car parking is being Posted by: "Tom Parker" days and Sundays get together. plowed between some of the tie- [email protected] parkert51 Some folks are back to downs and the runway. Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:54 pm (PST) quintessential ski flying mode. People will have to be particularly Other planes are sleeping. careful not to get stuck; many areas Hello All! I’m looking forward to Moe’s chili! are impassible and leave ruts in spring. Recently I have purchased a good November CASARA Rust Martin is discussing some bit of 4130 tube. Here at Thunder Remover Seminar alternative plowing, road and Aviation we test every batch of I would like to thank Bill Barnard, parking arrangements with WCD material we will be using and have Harrison Westwick and Bill Reed for winter and spring. had some very disconcerting for their presentation - Be a It sounds like WCD is clearing results. This particular batch came Cooperative Target. There were of some of the final hurdles and from a major supplier of aircraft useful tips, tricks and discussion on construction should begin in products. Once it was unloaded we survival and signaling. As always, earnest shortly. took several random samples and some information and skills you performed pull tests with shocking hope you never to have to have to Makerplane - Open Source results. So we then pulled several use for real. And for those that Aircraft Project more samples for x-ray. We received 4130 chrome moly with as missed it, CASARA puts these on Back in November I exchanged many as 18 inclusions per inch! periodically. The seminars meet emails and had an interesting This is without a doubt junk the requirements for the two-year conversation with Jon Nicol after material. We had a similar recency. CASARA volunteers the November meeting. Jon is experience from a second major learn and fine-tune a variety of spearheading a new Open Source supplier and a nightmare issue with skills. Check them out: Aircraft project. This is what EAA some 5052 aluminum that would www.casara.ca is all about and there is already barely weld. The problem with the interest from EAA HQ. chrome moly is by looking you Aluminum Recycling program Some of the goals and aims are to would never have realized a Irving is still looking for one or take advantage of modern CNC problem. Without testing I wonder more volunteers to periodically machines and services to create how much of this material is out pick up cans that are being accurate parts very quickly and there flying around now? Page 2 of 9 January 2012 My best advice folks is to require a As usual, many chapter members supplier to certify country of origin Around the patch get together for dinner prior to each when ordering such materials. And Elves are busy. EAA 245 meeting at Swiss Chalet only accept materials from the US (corner of St Laurent Blvd and and Germany. We have found no EAA 245 Club Stuff Montreal Road) @ 5:30PM, issues with materials from these We are continuing our Sunday Everyone is welcome. two countries. morning get together around 10am at the Carp EAA hanger. Come on See you at the meeting! Tom Parker out. Thunder Aviation Cary http://thunderaviationengines.com The club has a newly donated large diameter tubing bender for intakes and exhausts. Thanks for forwarding that Michel. Hopefully no one is affected. Meeting Schedule 19 Jan 2012 Ottawa – Victoria – Ottawa in a Titan Tornado – André Girard 16 Feb 2012 Portable Devices in an RV-9A - Alfio Ferrera 15 Mar 2012 Bearhawk patrol at aeroliteflight.ca – Steve Busby EXHAUST – from the Carb Heat Archives in the newsletter too, having including problems facing amateur suggested a bus trip to the national builders in Canada , relationships Airspace Museum in Washington, with other groups, and how to D.C. Irving was also thanked for ensure that Canadian chapters had procuring some high quality ready access to amateur-built carpeting for the Chapter lounge. aircraft inspections. Lars reported “Wanted” items for the chapter’s that, at the end of the day it was hangar project included – a obvious that the EAA was very supervisor for the laying of a supportive of what we as a chapter concrete floor in the shop area; were trying to do; that is, the wallboard (gyprock) for hangar; promotion of grass roots aviation electrical supplies for hangar and the protection of our rights to 30 YEARS AGO wiring; electric generator. build and to fly our aircraft. Lars January 1982 also included some statistics he gathered for the Oshkosh meeting: The following was taken from Carb Chapter 245 averages 70 paid-up Heat. 20 YEARS AGO members per year; our membership January 1992 includes the owners of 20 factory- 42 people attended the January built aircraft, 19 completed 1982 EAA Chapter 245 meeting at amateur-built aircraft and 18 active the N.R.C. The evening’s speaker amateur-built aircraft projects as of was John Martin, an the end of 1991. aerodynamicist and Director of Lars Eiff, President of EAA Transportation for the Post Office. Chapter 245 attended, on our [email protected]. Thanks. He spoke about aircraft stability behalf, a meeting hosted by EAA and why most low-wing aircraft International at the EAA Aviation resemble Piper Cherokees and Center in Oshkosh, January 25, . high-wing aircraft look like Cessna 1992. Problems facing Canadian Wayne Griese 172s. Irving Slone was mentioned EAA Chapters were discussed, Page 3 of 9 January 2012 Bartoon Barnstormers issue 199 Aviation Humour - AVWebFlash - 26 December 2011 One day, while flying over the Denver Center: Denver Center: Rockies with a strong jet stream "Roger, United 123. How's your "Thanks, United 123. Break, break. and many turbulence reports in the ride?" Air Canada 456, how's your ride at Denver airspace, I heard Denver United 123: FL350?" Center ask for ride reports. "Well, the captain is having his Air Canada 456: United 123: lunch, and he just jabbed himself "Sorry, Denver, we can't tell. We "Good day, Denver. United 123 with his fork; so we could call it as haven't eaten yet." with you at FL 350." moderate turbulence." Bruce Hargis, via e-mail Editor’s Comments In this issue, we will be missing available. So if you are submitting along; these make it all the more Charles Martel’s “East End News” an article, feel free to send me a interesting to read. since he is not in a position to picture. contribute for this month. However, a few members submitted If you have ideas for changes you articles. We have an article from would like to see, send me an Email Mark Briggs concerning a Young (either [email protected] or Eagle.