Meeting reminder

It’s almost time for our February meeting!  This month, we’ll be having spaghetti, so bring your appetites.  Additionally, it’s time to cough up 2010 membership dues, so see Randy if you haven’t yet.

We’ve got two days before we get together, so let’s outsource some research items:

• Patio lighting.  We’d like to put something up to illuminate the outside area that doesn’t require a permit (either something that uses a low power DC line or maybe plugs in to an extension cord?  Let’s get creative!  And cheap!)
• LCD projector.  I (Ben) will check out what Best Buy has, but anyone out there with some Google-Fu or personal experience who knows anything or wants to do some research, bring any data you have.  The main challenge, I think, will be something that’s bright enough to be usable during the day.
• After-action report on the visit to Specialty-Aero’s hangar.

Dinner is at 6:00 PM as usual, with the meeting at 7:00.  See you there!

Breakfast reminder

Just a reminder, we’ll be having breakfast tomorrow at 9AM as usual.  During breakfast, we’ll be spending a couple minutes spreading some loam that Daniel dropped off, so bring a rake and/or shovel!  This will help with the effort to re-seed the taxiway transition to our lawn.

Afterwards, we will meet at Tony Horvaths hangar at the north end of Creswell for a shop tour!

January 6, 2010 meeting

The meeting started with our plentiful hamburger/hotdog/chips and drinks Bar-B-Q at 6:00. It is still only $3!!!

Meeting called to order at 7:09 PM by President Ben Hallert with V.P. Bill Dewey and Sec./Tres. Randy Stout also present. The 24 members and guests in attendance then introduced themselves. Guests and returning members in attendance included; Sid Voorhees, Tom Preuss, Bruce Lamont, Tony Horvath (and his wife Megan) and Larry Wickheiser and his wife. Welcome to all!

The next breakfast will be held on Saturday, 16th of January. Continued raking crew activity (bring a rake!!) to help spread a load of loam that Daniel Cathy has provided. This should take seed and make a better taxiway this next spring when the grass grows up. After this breakfast we will meet at Tony Horvaths hangar at the north end of Creswell for a shop tour.

Randy Stout mentioned that local weather (at least local in the Jasper area) is provided online at: Http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KORSPRIN8

This is a great site- check it out!

The Christmas dinner was then discussed, but without past President and dinner coordinator Dave Petersen being in attendance, we will wait until next meeting for a report and list of ways to make it even more fun this year.

The new video projector purchase was discussed, with no further action to report at this meeting. Ben has been working on his www.starwarsuncut.com video clips. This should be a hoot when done. Check it out!  (ed: #1 and #2)

Dave Heisley, our water master and clubhouse manager has announced the annual cut off of water will occur just after the meeting, to be turned on before the next meeting. He also asked and was granted a rent reduction for the South Lane Modelers group, from $250 to $125 due to his efforts that offset some of this rental money. Thanks Dave!

Bill Dewey had suggested that we install a low voltage lighting system on the new covered deck area, in order to see better without needing another building permit. No further research has been accomplished to date on this project.

Speaking of Bill Dewey, we had our nomination for Volunteer of the Year award and his name was the unanimous choice. Congratulations Bill!!

The Challenger II belonging to George Oswald was the next topic of conversation. It was sold last week and so the clubhouse is now available for the next project. Several ideas were bounced around, but no one idea has risen to the top yet. Everyone keep looking around!

Daniel Cathy rose to mention that the Columbia River Chapter of the Short Wing Piper club will be at Creswell on the 20th of March, which coincides with our EAA breakfast.  He also spoke about the upcoming OACAC Oregon Air Tour starting on July 18th to the 23rd, and a as yet to be dated trip to Lake Chelan. He noted that the next OACAC meeting will be held at the Roseburg Airport in Dave Olsons hangar on the 23rd of January.

Last falls shop tour of Dale Young was wonderful, and he has now run the engine on the airframe. You can post news like this to the web site by emailing Ben at ben@hallert.net and requesting a password to post.

There being no new business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:18 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Randall Stout
Secretary/ Treasurer

Oregon Air Tour

The Oregon Antique and Classic Aircraft Club will host the biannual Oregon Air Tour this year from July 17th thru 23rd. All flyers are invited to join OACAC and participate in this great biannual flying event.

At present, the tentative schedule is:
July 17th – OACAC quarterly meeting and tour registration at the OAHS hangar, Cottage Grove airport. RON
July 18th – To Tillamook; tour museum/lunch. ToManzanita/Yehelem Bay; welcom dinner; RON
(weather alternate: McMinnville)
July 19th – To Hoquim, WA; RON
(weather alternate: Chehalis, WA)
July 20th – To Prosser, WA; RON
July 21st – To LaGrand, OR; RON
July 22nd – To Madras, OR; End of tour dinner, awards, etc; RON
July 23rd – Return to home fields or meet at Sandy River for one final night out.

A meeting will be held at the Roseburg airport, hangar 2785 at 1:00pm, January 23rd, that will provide a presentation on the beginning history of the Oregon Air Tour followed by discussions concerning air tours of the more recent past.

Driving directions: I-5 exit 127. Southbound, turn left (east) at light after departing I-5. Travel east about 1/4 mile and turn right on Aviation Drive (Motel 6 on right). Go south on Aviation Drive about 1/2 mile and turn left at first set of gates into Airport hangar area. Code for both gates is 1973. Pass through both coded gtates and turn left Hangar 2785 is second one to your right.

Flying: Landing Rwy 34. Roll out (north) next to last taxiway, turn left (west). Taxi straight ahead (west on north side of hangar rows. Turn left (south) at last taxiway. Hangar 2785 is fourth hangar on your left. Directions after landing and parking assistance available on 122.75.

If you want to have a good time with as many as 50 other aircraft (and of course, manyh great pilots and crews) touring to the above sites, I heartily recommend you consider participating in this event. So come join us. If I can be of any assistance (I will be driving down to the meeting and have space in the car) please give me a call at 541 942 2286.
Daniel Cathey

First meeting of the year!

The first EAA Chapter 31 meeting of 2010 is just around the corner.  This Wednesday at 7PM (dinner at 6 as usual), and remember, it’s time for membership renewals again, so bring delicious, delicious money.

See you there!

DIRT 3

For all you local people who overate last night (as did I) and need to work some of it off, I offloaded another yard of topsoil on the parking lot ramp today that needs raking and leveling. Believe this will be enough, but if it is determined we need more, let me know and I will try to arrange getting some city dirt via Rusty.

Will let this set through a couple of good rains and then will get a sack of seeds to rake in.
D.

Dirt 2

Someone got a little exercise today. Checked my pile about 3PM and it was all spread out. Definitely need more; if it doesn’t rain, snow, sleet or hail for a couple of days next week, will get another full yard of dirt and a sack of seed and just maybe we can get a good looking ramp by next spring. In the meantime, the parking area will be closed to protect the ‘very expensive’ top soil and seeds from damage by our very cheap aircraft.
D.

DIRT ON SITE

Delivered and unloaded one yard of good topsoil to a pile on the south side of the crossover to the EAA parking area. If any of you have a rake and shovel and want some good exercise, recommend you come over on saturday and start shoveling/raking.
D.