THE LIPPISCH LETTER Experimental Aviation Association - Chapter 33 April 2014 Growing General Aviation & Chapter 33 you see here shows the seven county Every month the FAA publishes Welcome to Chapter 33! area covered by EAA Chapter 33. statistics on pilot numbers. Organized There are over 250,000 people in the Making the Future of state-by-state, county-by-county, and by seven county area. Aviation and EAA pilot license type, these lists are an important window into the trends of pilot I’ve been watching this chart decline in numbers, and may help us understand numbers for 15 years. Clearly we need how to improve the situation. The chart more pilots! IOWA ACTIVE PILOTS DETAIL 4/1/2014 STU SPT REC PVT COM ATP TOT FOR FLT US COUNTY PILOT PILOT PILOT PILOT PILOT PILOT PILOT PILOT INSTR BENTON 5 1 0 19 14 7 46 0 5 CEDAR 9 0 0 16 6 5 36 0 2 IOWA 4 0 0 4 7 6 21 0 5 In this issue: JOHNSON 56 4 0 128 37 38 263 1 46 JONES 3 2 0 9 5 3 22 0 3 LINN 76 5 0 217 87 55 440 11 70 Growing GA 1 WASHINGTON 2 0 0 17 12 4 35 0 5 Calendar 2 Apr-14 155 12 0 410 168 118 863 12 136 B-17 Tour 3-5 Welcome to The Lippisch Letter! Women’s Air Race 6-7 This is your Lippisch Letter. The only way to keep it alive is for you to help. What trips your trigger in aviation? Building, Flying, Restoring, Hangar Flying? Is it all about aluminum, steel tube & fabric, Fly Iowa 2014 8 composites, wood, avionics, engines, or none of the above? Are you a fixed wing fan, balloon lifter, Chapter Leadership 9 whirly girl, glider guy, seaplane sailor? Do you teach kids or adults? Tell us about your travels, your adventures, and your tests. Believe it or not, you are all experts in something. Share that vast The Editor’s Hangar 10 knowledge, and we will all get smarter. Show us photos from your flight breakfast adventure, your aircraft project, or you sharing aviation with friends young and old. Let’s make The Lippisch Letter a new source of fun! EAA Chapter 33 Calendar of Events April 26, 2014 June 16 - 19, 2014 Ames Municipal Airport (AMW) Women’s Air Race Classic Iowa State Flying Cyclones Iowa City Stop June 17/18 Fly-in / Drive-in Breakfast See additional information in this edition! 7:00 am – 11 am Pilots in command free June 26, 2014 7:00 pm Email:[email protected] EAA Chapter 33 Meeting Website: www.flying.stuorg.iastate.edu June 28 & 29, 2014 May 3, 2014 FLY IOWA 2014 Pella Municipal Airport (PEA) Iowa City Municipal Airport Tulip Time Flight Breakfast Website: http://www.flyiowa.org 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. Phone: 319-356-5045 (Michael Tharp) Shuttle available to Tulip Festival Email: [email protected] Pilots in command free Phone: 641-628-9393 (Shane Vande Voort) June 26, 2014 Email: [email protected] EAA Chapter 33 Meeting Website: www.pellatuliptime.com/ July 4, 2014 May 22, 2014 7:00 pm Iowa Falls Municipal Airport (IFA) EAA Chapter 33 Meeting Windsockers EAA 1324 Omelet Flight Breakfast Iowa City Municipal Airport 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PIC eats free June 1, 2014 Phone: 641-648-3191 (Airport) Washington Municipal Airport (AWG) Email: [email protected] Fly-in Breakfast 7 a.m. – 11 a.m. July 24, 2014 7:00 pm Pilots in command free EAA Chapter 33 Meeting Phone: 319-461-7022 (Tim Swift) Email: [email protected] July 28 - August 3, 2014 EAA AirVenture June 5 - 8, 2014 Oshkosh, WI B-17 Tour Stop @ CID Website: www.airventure.org See additional information in this edition! Phone: 920-426-4800 Email: [email protected] Waterloo Municipal Airport (ALO) Livingston Aviation August 9 & 10, 2014 Fly-in for Life (American Cancer Society) Quad City Air Show Dinner and Music Davenport Municipal Airport 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Website: www.quadcityairshow.com Pilots in command eat free Phone: 563-285-7469 319-291-3991 (Joel Harris) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] B-17 Tour Stop Cedar Rapids, June 6—8 by Tim Busch Since 1994, EAA's B-17 Aluminum EAA takes care of many of the "big Merchandise, Ground Tour & Overcast has made an annual tour issues" like crewing and maintain- Equipment Chairmen Works with around the USA promoting interest ing the airplane, flight operations the Senior Tour Coordinator after the in aviation, giving many thousands related issues, all bookings of air- B-17 arrives. of people unique access to an im- plane rides (both in advance and The Chapter is provided with a step- portant historic artifact, and preserv- when the airplane is in town), by-step tour stop manual that out- ing the memory of WWII through providing collateral for marketing lines their duties and provides guid- flight experiences and tours. of the tour, etc. Six people travel on ance based on our past experience. EAA Chapters have What are the bene- been a vital part of fits? this, and are im- There are benefits portant to the con- to all the work in- tinuing success of volved in hosting the B-17 tour. If the B-17! The B-17 your EAA Chapter program always is interested in brings positive me- hosting Aluminum dia coverage to Overcast on its your airport and tour, this is your Chapter and pro- chance to get in- jects a positive volved! tour with the airplane to each loca- message about avi- All EAA Chapters in good standing tion, consisting of 2 pilots, 2 ation in your local community. At are eligible to apply to host a tour maintenance personnel, and 2 tour every tour stop we make at least one, stop. The information below pro- coordinators. sometimes two free flights full of vides useful background information local media representatives. Each What we really need help with are about how the B-17 Tour works and tour stop generates an average of things that need local input - like how Chapters play a part. There is a about 20 new EAA members (and local knowledge and extra bodies to simple application form above to fill potential new recruits for your Chap- help with the smooth running of the out and return if you are interested in ter). being a host Chapter. tour stop. There are financial benefits too. Each Chapter is asked to provide What do Chapters do? Chapters receive a commission on two key volunteers: We ask EAA Chapters to assist with seats, merchandise and ground tour the preparation, planning and execu- Marketing Chairman This volun- sales. Proceeds average about $3,000 tion of each stop. teer will work directly with the per Chapter. EAA Headquarters Marketing Staff. B-17 continued Iowa Plastic Model Show To book a flight please call 1-800- April 26, 2014 Chapter 33 Communications Corner 359-6217 or b17.org The Eastern Iowa Airport Daily Flight Schedule: 10:00 – 11:00 – 12:00 – 1:00PM These days, there must be a million The Alexander Lippisch chapter of ways to communicate inside and out- the Iowa Plastic Modeler’s Society Ground Tours are scheduled from 2 side an organization. Here are just a (they must be cousins!) is hosting a few ways Chapter 33 currently com- to 5 PM. Scale Model Show and Contest at municates with you: the Cedar Rapids Eastern Iowa Air- Newsletter: The Lippisch Letter Pricing: port April 26, 2014. Plastic model- Website: www.EAA33.org Pre-book - for EAA members $409, ers from across Iowa will meet, Facebook: EAA Chapter 33 for non-members $449. compete, and sell their wares. The YahooGroups.com: EAAChapter33 Walk-up – for EAA members $435, event will be held at the former PS Email: Leader emails & phones on for non-members $475 Air building, 3435 Beech Way SW page 5 in Cedar Rapids. Ground Tour Pricing - Cost $10 per Email: [email protected] adult, $20 per family. Active Mili- Come see what attention to detail These are low-cost methods of keep- tary, Veterans & Children 8 and un- REALLY means! Check out their ing us in touch with each other. Why is this important? Because we der are Free. club on the web at http://ipms-usa- are more effective if we stick togeth- lippisch-chapter.org/wordpress. EAA is offering historic flight expe- er. We can respond to legislative challenges faster (user fees any- riences in its beautifully restored B- You might even find an exact repli- one?), we can learn faster (who 17G Flying Fortress “Aluminum ca of YOUR airplane! They’re just knows where to find the chapter Overcast.” One of only 13 Fortress's like the real thing, only smaller! scales?), we can participate quickly (who’s going to Sully for break- still flying, this aircraft is an icon of fast?), etc. the Allied strategic bombing effort We have the capabil- that helped turn the tide of battle in ity to post files, pho- World War II. Unlike reading a his- tos, internet links, tory book, you can actually fly a calendar items, our membership list, mission back in time and feel the and much more. might of this magnificent machine, Please take ad- just as those brave young men did vantage of all this more than 60 years ago. communications ca- pability. The more http://b17.org we use it, the better Contact: Olivia Rasmus we get.