EAA CHAPTER 25 MINNEAPOLIS / ST PAUL, MN SEPTEMBER 2003 Super Hatz Classic #1 By Dennis Simmons see page 4 Frank Hanish & young eagles Young Eagles at Airlake by Mike Dolan A mini Young Eagle rally can be just as much fun for all who are in- volved as the larger ones. The smiles on the new Young Eagles are all the same size anyhow, HUGE! Saturday, August 30th brought the best of the best as far as VFR flying is concerned. Mark Kolesar arrived at the Chapter hangar in his A36 Bonanza raring to start flying Young Eagles and he ex- claimed "Something must be wrong today. I didn't hit a bump all the way down here." It was that nice. Soon after (Continued on page 7) Cleared for Takeoff Pat Halligan P2 IO-470 Hot Start Procedure Frank Hanish p6 September Meeting/Announcements P3 Safety Wire Tool Don Sektnan p6 1903 Flyer at Mall of America Pete Gavin p5 Events/Fly-ins, Stuff for Sale/Wanted p7 Cleared for Takeoff by Pat Halligan The night of Sept. 17th is shaping up to be another excit- ing night at our hanger. We have Dennis Simmons lined up to bring his award winning Hatz (Reserve Grand Champion plans-built) aircraft to the hanger for a static display and presentation. It is also the monthly meeting at which we will draw the winner of the Ford pickup lease that Mark Gul- brandson has donated. If you have tickets and money to turn in, make sure you make it to the hanger as early as possible on the 17th. There will be a lot going on with the raffle, individual annual membership renewal, and tickets for the Nov. 16th award dinner/banquet on sale. If you are unable to make it and have money and tickets to return, please get a hold of me or another member and get the material to them before the 17th. For those of you who missed the Aug. meeting Photo by Noel Allard you missed a good one. We had over 65 folks Minneapolis/St. Paul present which made for a wonderful meeting. The highlight was a presentation by Jon Dauplaise Visit our website at eaa25.com who flew in from Duluth (the Norwegian Riviera) President in an SR22, the all glass cockpit aircraft from Cir- Pat Halligan 651-452-7050 rus. There is talk that maybe this fall or winter the [email protected] chapter could get a bus and head to Duluth and tour the Cirrus plant for a day. Vice President Jeff Coffey 612-915-1725 We had about a half dozen new aviators show up at the meeting as they had heard about [email protected] our chapter and they were checking us out. It looks like they enjoyed the activities and talking to our members, because most of them have already joined. You guys and gals Secretary are doing a good job getting the word out and bringing in new members each month. Greg Cardinal 612-721-6235 Please keep up the good work. [email protected] Peter Denny and his Washburn High School students are just getting back into the Treasurer swing of things as I write this column. Building the Sonex is going to be great fun. Pe- Chris Bobka 952-432-7969 ter wants our membership to keep an eye on the Sonex, but he also has so much more [email protected] available at the school that he would like to see our chapter take advantage of. He has a couple of engine cores from Darrell Bolduc that could be used for an engine rebuild Membership Ron Oehler 952-894-2332 class, or he could run a fabric covering class. Some of our CFI’s could give his flying [email protected] students some IFR training on their desktop simulators. ect.etc.etc… I need your input on what you would enjoy doing. Talk to me or any of the officers via phone or email Newsletter Editor and let us know what you are thinking, or stop by and check on the Sonex and talk to Pete Gavin 612-866-6676 Peter. [email protected] I want to keep things fun, interesting and educational, but I Young Eagle Coordinator need to hear from you!!!! I can’t read your mind. Heck, I Mike Dolan 952-652-2436 can’t even read my own mind sometimes. [email protected] “ Talk to me Goose” —Pat Technical Counselors Earl Adams 651-423-2973 Chris Bobka 952-432-7969 ON FINAL is published monthly by Chapter 25 of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) for the use, education and enjoyment of Chapter members and others to whom it is provided. No claim is made for the accuracy of materials Dick Burns 952-473-1887 presented. Editorial content is the opinion of the contributor and does not necessarily reflect the position of Chapter 25 William Faulstich 612-722-6597 nor EAA. 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ON FINAL SEPTEMBER 2003 2 This Month—Sept 17th—Chapter Hangar-6 pm Grill hot at 6 pm, Meeting starts at 7:00 Chapter hangar 34A on India Ln at Air Lake (LVN) Reserve Grand Champion Hatz—Come see Dennis Simmons’ plans-built Super Hatz Clas- sic, awarded Reserve Grand Champion at Oshkosh this year. Drawing for the Ford 150 4x4 Lease—We will be drawing the winner for this year’s chapter raffle at the meeting. Be sure to sell as many of your tickets as possible, and bring the stubs and cash early so they can be included in the drawing! Annual Dues—Please bring $25 for 2004 dues (due annually in Septem- ber). This will save Ron from a lot of work following up on unpaid dues. November Banquet Tickets on sale—Buy your tickets now—only $15 each this year—will be held Nov 16 at the Eagan Community Center. Food—Don’t forget to bring something to grill. Cold pop available for 50 cents donation. Side dishes, chips, cookies etc. to share would be very much appreciated by hungry members. Directions to Meeting: South on I-35 to Hwy 70 (Megastop), then East to Ham- burg Ave (3rd stop sign.) Right turn and South to airport perimeter road. Left on airport perime- Runway ter road then right on Hotel or India Lane. Please park in open grass areas between hangars rather than in front of hangars. See you there! Red Barons—Sept 17th—St Paul Downtown Airport On Sept. 17th from 9am until 2pm the Red Baron's will be at St. Paul downtown airport giv- ing airplane rides. Eight lucky Washburn High School students will get rides. They will be at Regent Aviation on the southwest corner of the field. This is a media day for the Red Baron's. TV stations will be there. They will be in Duluth the following Sat. and Sun. for an airshow. The Red Baron Pizza Squadron wants us to know “they are proud and happy to participate in the Young Eagles program”. —Pat Halligan Chapter 25 GP4 Project For Sale With the GP4 winning grand champion at OSH this year, we have decided now is the time to sell our GP4 project. We currently have an offer of $1000 and we will put it on ebay Oct. 16th (the day after our Oct. mtg.) It will have a minimum bid of $1100.00 and run for a week or 10 days. The receipts show $4000.00 worth of materials, all in excellent condition. Workbench included. The excellent work already completed will give the buyer a real head start on this project. Contact a Chapter officer if you are interested. Right: Grand Champion Plans Built GP-4 at Oshkosh, 2003. Our plans are the same, and the fuselage and tail feathers are well underway, with top quality workmanship throughout. ON FINAL SEPTEMBER 2003 3 Super Hatz Classic #1—See it at Airlake 9/17 by Dennis Simmons ( see cover ) My love affair with the Hatz began when I first saw Billy Dawson’s Grand Champion Classic at Oshkosh in 1997. I decided then to build a Hatz, and by October I had already started. That was almost six years ago, and a lot has hap- pened since then. Now I have a finished airplane, and al- though it is faithful to Billy’s design overall, I ended up mak- ing a lot of changes to get it exactly as I wanted it. Since the first flight on June 19th, I have put 50.3 hours on it (as of 9/7), and I can say that it flies beautifully in every way. But to appreciate what I’m flying, you have to know a little about the history of the Hatz biplane. Origin of the Hatz Classic The original Hatz CB1 was designed by John Hatz in 1968 as a 4/5 scale version of the RNF Waco biplane.