CHAPTER INTREPID AIRMEN 62 MARCH 2005 Volume 41 Issue 3 San Jose, CA President's Corner Jon Garliepp Any of the members who didn't get to attend the February CHAPTER 62 EVENT SCHEDULE meeting missed a great presentation about Andy Werback's experience of two weeks of intensive airplane building at the March 3 General Meeting Lancair factory in Vern Miller Aviation Oregon. He was able to make giant steps March 10 Board Meeting - RHV Terminal Bldg. forward in building his March 19 12 - 3 PM - Open Hangar/Garage Lancair airplane. He Erik Wahlstrom's Garage then had an open Erik is building an Aero Mirage TC-2 house at his hangar (see pictures on the April 2 - 3 Flyout to Monterey web site) showing us Visit Martin Hollmann & the Aquarium the results. Thanks April 7 General Meeting Andy. Vern Miller Aviation We had four guests at April 14 Board Meeting - RHV Terminal Building the February meeting, Michael Shebanon, Lorin Dueck, Key April 23 Flyout To Castle Air Museum Dismukes and George Black, and some are now members - welcome! We sent out 100 postcard invitations to our May 7-8 Flyout To Columbia meeting in February, and so far we have heard back from two recipients. We will send out 100 more this month. Guests are always welcome and encouraged to join in at all HAPPY EASTER and events. ST. PATRICK'S DAY! Air Academy information and an application are available on-line. Pass the word around, help us find a deserving candidate or two to send to Oshkosh Air Academy, boy or girl, 16 to 18 years old, a relative, friend or neighbor, get an In This Month's Issue application, fill it out, and turn it in. Dues - It is that time of the year, dues are coming in, but if President's Corner...........................................1 you haven't sent yours in yet, now is the time to do so. Calendar of Events..............................................2 Editor's Desk and Swap 'n Shop................................3 Upcoming Events - Check the calendar here in the newsletter General Meeting Minutes....................................4 and on the web site. We have had to adjust some of the Board Meeting Minutes.................................5 dates because of conflicts. The Board is working hard for Flight Sites...................................................6 all of us to have an interesting and fun year. Chapter 62 Contacts.....................................7 This Month's Program..................................8 We are in need of a Membership Chairman. We are looking for someone to volunteer, and this position takes only a small amount of time each month. www.eaa62.org March 2005 1 Calendar of Events March 5/7 - 5/8 - Wings of History Open House Annual open house, Young Eagles flights possible 3/3 - General Meeting - 7:30 PM Featuring Master CFI Max Trescott 5/7- 5/8 (NEW DATES) - Columbia Fly-out Bay Area Flight Safety Issues Flyout and camp at historic Columbia. For those that Vern Miller Aviation, Reid-Hillview Airport don’t like roughing it, there are several B&B’s and hotels available in the area. 3/5 - Frazier Lake Open House Antique aircraft at Frazier Lake Airpark 5/12 - Board Meeting - 7:30 PM http://www.frazierlake.com, 408-779-2356 Reid-Hillview Airport terminal building 3/10 - Board Meeting - 7:30 PM 5/13 - 5/15 - Southwest Regional Fly-in Reid-Hillview Airport terminal building EAA Southwest Regional Fly-in. New location at Hondo, TX (near San Antonio), 3/19 - Erik Wahlstrom's Open Garage http://www.swrfi.org, phone 830-997-8802 12 - 3 PM, Erik Wahlstrom's Garage See his Aero Mirage TC-2 under construction 5/19 - 5/21 - Hayward Proficiency Air Race April http://www.hwdairrace.org 4/2 - 4/3 (NEW DATES) - Monterey Flyout 5/27 - 5/29 - Watsonville Fly-in and Air Show Visit Martin Hollmann and the Aquarium. Consider One of the premier flying events in Northern California, staying overnight and go whale watching on Sunday. provides a wide array of activities for the entire family with a wide assortment of aircraft, food booths, aviation 4/7 - General Meeting - 7:30 PM merchandise, fireworks, world-class air show Vern Miller Aviation, Reid-Hillview Airport performers, and static displays. Now going into its 41st Program to be announced. year, the Fly-In & Air Show enjoys a reputation of being the best of its type in the San Francisco Bay 4/12 - 18 - Sun 'n Fun Area. http://www.watsonvilleflyin.org Sun ‘n Fun EAA Fly-In, Lakeland, Florida. Info at http://www.sun-n-fun.org, June phone 813-644-2431 6/3 - 6/5 - Golden West Fly-in Let’s make it a Chapter flyout. Detail are at 4/14 - Board Meeting - 7:30 PM http://www.goldenwestflyin.org/gwaahome.shtml Reid-Hillview Airport terminal building Have you done your taxes yet? Don't forget the flyout to Martin Hollman's in Monterey on April 2nd and 3rd, including 4/23 - Castle Air Museum the visit to the aquarium! Details to be announced. May 5/5 - General Meeting - 7:30 PM Vern Miller Aviation, Reid-Hillview Airport Program to be announced. www.eaa62.org March 2005 2 opens the second century of powered flight to a new horizon Editor's Desk Jim Manley and even bigger possibilities. SPACESHIPONE HITHCHIN' A RIDE: USE EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH AND WHITE RIDESHARE FOR TRAVELING TO OSHKOSH KNIGHT COMNG Visit www.airventure.org/rideshare to find a TO EAA pilot/driver with room, or to offer a ride to another EAA AIRVENTURE member. Private info is not displayed on the web site, and OSHKOSH 2005! coordination is via direct e-mail only between the pilots/ SpaceShipOne, drivers and riders who are matched up. the world’s first HEAD BACK IN THE COCKPIT successful civilian-built spaceship that captured the world’s attention last fall by winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, I've resumed the in-flight portion of my instrument training, is coming to Oshkosh! The history-making spacecraft and now that the weather is just rainy and cloudy, and not its carrier aircraft, White Knight, have been confirmed for thundering and lightning. See you at the meetings, on the arrival at EAA AirVenture, July 25th -31st at Wittman ramp, in the pattern, around the clouds ... and hopefully in Regional Airport in Oshkosh. This is the ONLY planned some sun, for a change! ... Jim public appearance of these two aircraft in one place. Preliminary plans call for White Knight and SpaceShipOne to be at EAA AirVenture for the event’s entire seven-day run. After arriving on Monday, July 25th, the aircraft will be available for up-close viewing on the main AeroShell Square Swap and Shop showcase ramp until their departure on Sunday, July 31st. Burt Rutan, the airplanes’ designer, and Mike Melvill, who last September flew the first of two missions required to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize for civilian spaceflight, will YOUR PERSONAL ADS WANTED HERE - FOR FREE! lead a delegation from Rutan’s company, Scaled Composites, at EAA AirVenture. Rutan and Melvill, both FOR RENT: Airventure Housing available longtime EAA members, hosted a number of extremely We will be out of town that week and would like the popular presentations at EAA AirVenture 2004, shortly after opportunity to let an EAA family use it for the week. SpaceShipOne’s successful test flight to the outer edge of Erwin Polenz, N1488 Fairwinds Dr., Greenville, WI Earth’s atmosphere. "Through the years, I have always 54942 Contact: Erwin Polenz at 1-920-757-6054 enjoyed flying my designs to Oshkosh", Rutan said. "EAA has always been the place where aviation innovation is FOR SALE: Ford V6 with a 2-to-1 reduction drive inspired and encouraged, and has been part of my life for A Ford V6 with a 2-to-1 reduction drive unit has been more than 30 years. We are eagerly looking forward to donated to our Chapter, it is all asembled, and it was bringing the aircraft to Oshkosh this summer." On to be installed in an airplane, but it did not happen. We September 29th, 2004, Melvill flew SpaceShipOne to 100 want to sell this unit, and it comes with a propeller and kilometers, and Brian Binnie followed up with the second a radiator. Jack Bowlus has the information on this (he flight on October 5th, over the Southern California desert. has the same unit in his airplane) "I have heard from many EAA members and aviation Contact Jack Bowlus at 831-637-1137 or e-mail enthusiasts since those flights, and I believe many of them [email protected] are just as excited about the achievement as we are", Melvill said. EAA AirVenture 2005 will offer all attendees the HANGAR SPACE FOR RENT: Looking for Pitts S- opportunity to see the aircraft that accomplished that goal and hear from the main participants exactly how it occurred. 1, Smith Mini Plane, or other similar size aircraft to "Everyone involved with EAA felt tremendous pride at the share space in Old County Hangar with our Cardinal accomplishments of SpaceShipOne", Poberezny said. Now, for $200/month. Contact Alan M.Craig at at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this year, we will have the 408-923-2308 or 408-404-8541 chance to join together and celebrate this achievement, which or e-mail [email protected]. www.eaa62.org March 2005 3 Wolfgang Polak said that there is nothing new to report Meeting Minutes about the website except that you can now print out a calendar of future events which makes things much easier to read. This will be especially helpful in the coming weeks and months since we have quite a few events coming up.