(WING-TIPS)
The official Monthly
Electronic Newsletter Of the
Southern Nevada
EAA Chapter 1300
P.O. Box 34311
Las Vegas Nevada
89133-4311
Website www.EAAChapter1300.org
JULY 2005
Volume 6,
Issue No.7
JULY
13, Meeting Location:
Our
next meeting will be held at Boulder
City Airport,
Glenn Smith’s Hangar (TW1-16) at 7:30 pm.
The
group dinner will be held at 6:00 pm. At the Boulder Creek
Golf Club 1501 Veterans Memorial
Pkwy.
August
meeting Program:
We’re
honored to present Mike Perger to be our Guest
Speaker for the evening.
2005
Officers and Directors:
President: David Lerner
Vice
President: Paul Gerner
Secretary: Herman Leong
Ass’t
Secretary: Bill Lawbaugh
Treasurer: Ken Wyatt
Ass’t
Treasurer: Justin Kelly
Director
VGT: Armin
Tuma
Director
BLD: Glenn Smith
Director
HND: Glenn Carlson
Presidents
Corner July 2005:
It
seems only yesterday when Jim Bonelli and I rolled out to North Town
to pick up Plane and Pilot Editor, Lyn Freeman, who was
to speak to our chapter that evening.
For those of you who missed this meeting well you missed a good one to say the
least. Lyn is both the kind of person
that you would want to have as a friend as well as a speaker one couldliterally
listen to for quite some time and not get tired of his seemingly endless
aviation anecdotes. A major cause of his which
he talked about is to bring aviation to youngsters around the world through a
program called Build-a-Plane.
Briefly
Build-a-Plane is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating programs to
involve high school-aged kids in aviation: (web site is www.buildaplane.org).
Lyn indicated that there were six or seven projects presently underway
throughout the United States and he was looking for a project for a group of kids
about 100 miles outside of Moscow,
Russia. The
kids are already signed up, a Russian aerospace engineer has offered to run the
project, the local school has donated classroom
space for formal aviation lectures and instruction, and a local airport has
provided the space and manpower to began.
All
they need is a project. Lyn mentioned
that if anyone has an aircraft or components to donate log on to the web site
above.
A
disappointment in our program efforts as neither our Astronaut meeting
featuring Jeff Ashby nor this last meeting with Lyn
Freeman were as well attended as I had hoped. Please get back to me as to whether or not
this is the sort of meeting
you really want. Personally I can’t
imagine coming to a meeting each month to discuss relatively the same
subjects.
Our
August meeting will feature Mike Perger discussing
electric basics. He has put a great deal
of preparation into
this
presentation so I hope you will mark your calendars for what promises to be
another excellent session.
Lyn
Freeman sent over some goodies to raffle off at the August meeting as well.
See
you at Boulder City July 13th. Until then safe flying and best regards,
David
Lerner.
Meeting
Minutes:
June 8, 2005
President Dave
Lerner called the meeting at VGT to order at 1935 Hrs. 11 members and 4
guests were present.
The guests were Morris
Mansell, Wayne Bunt, Robert Southerland, and Sarah
Metcalf. Morris is looking to build something but has not decided on anything
yet. Wayne Bunt is Paul Guerner's
Father-In-Law. Sarah is this year's Chapter
1300 nominee for Air
Venture Academy. She is in the Rancho High School
Aviation program and aspires to become a commercial pilot. The May
minutes were approved.
Justin Kelly
gave the Treasurer's report and it was approved. Our cash balance on May 31, 2005 was $3,179.99.
Our guest
speaker Lynn Freeman was then introduced. Lynn is the editor of Plane & Pilot and
the Pilot Journal, a rather recent publication. Lynn gave us a very
interesting account of what it's like to be an editor of an aviation
magazine. He claims it's
the best job in the world because he gets to fly in many different kinds of
aircraft, travel all over the world and meet many of the movers and shakers in
the world of aviation.
The fly-out to Oceano was cancelled because not enough people signed up for
it. The next scheduled fly-out is to
Palm Springs in September. Our annual picnic is scheduled for
October 22nd.
One of our
members who works at the Nevada Test Site said the there have been many
incursions (6 in the last 3 months) into their airspace. Jim Bonelli
advised that if you stay West of hwy 95 until you pass
Jackass Junction you should be all right.
The August 10th
meeting will feature a talk on Electricity Basics by one of our members. The
July meeting will be at
Boulder City airport (61B) in Glenn
Smith's hangar.
There was no 50/50 drawing. The meeting was adjourned at 2135 Hrs.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Herman Leong, Secretary
Chapter 1300
Welcome
new Members:
No
new Members to report at this time.
Webpage
Material
Everyone
is encouraged to submit material, information or pictures of interest,
to chapter members for publication on the Chapter’s Webpage.
Send
whatever you have to Jim Bonelli, Webmaster, email
address: bonelli.j@cox.net
The
Chapter webpage URL is’ http://www.EAAChapter1300.org
Be sure to bookmark this URL.
Young
Eagles:
Classified
ads:
No
Classified ads to mention at this time.
Refreshment
Calendar:
Glenn
Smith will be our refreshment host for the July Meeting.
From EAA Chapter 1073:
Heads up
everyone!
I thought I'd
pass this on to all our members and chapters who might have members
interested in
attending our next monthly meeting in July as this
will be a rare opportunity to hear and meet the man
behind a new breakthrough in
propeller design. This presentation is going to be extra special so
mark
the date and time on you calendars.
Paul Lipps, engineer and entrepreneur will be here to talk about
this new propeller design.
Last year
his propeller design broke many records at the Reno Air Races in the
Bi-Plane class.
When:
Third Wednesday of the month, July 21st, 6:00 pm, dinner. 7:00 presentation
Where: Truckee Tahoe EAA 1073 Chapter Hangar
(SW corner of
the two runways) Look for the big blue "EAA" letters on the building
which you can't miss.
Plane
and car parking in abundance.
RSVP: tiger@telis.org so
we know how many to plan for.
Hope to see you
there,
Tim LoDolce
President EAA
1073 Truckee Tahoe (TRK)
Remember to wear your name badge to the July
meeting.
Thanks for reading the Newsletter and we will see you On
the 13th.
Bring a friend……..