MEETING REMINDER & UPDATE

EAA 31 JUNE 2016 MEETING UPDATE
MARK YOUR CALENDER
Wednesday June 1st.

Our special guest will be:
GARY BROWN
Here is more information about Gary: (if I can figure out how to get it uploaded)
Gary has been flying for 42 years. He has over 32,000 hours.
He flew for Continental Airlines for 25 years and currently spends
time as a DAR (Designated Airworthiness Represenative)

[NOT Daughters of the American Revolution or Downwinders At Risk
(a Texas saying) or any other of the 87 DAR definitions]

Gary will be talking about:
What it takes to license EAB (Experimental Amature Built) Aircraft.
Safety Topics
Natural Resource Aviation.
By the time he is done we will know a whole lot more than we did before.

This should be very interesting and certainly informative.

At the South End of Creswell Airport at the EAA31 clubhouse. Invite some people that don’t usually attend our meetings.

Burgers, dogs, salad & drinks 6:00 PM $5.00
Chapter Video (time permitting) & Gary Brown 7:00 PM $0.00

John Kuehl Ch 31 president

FAA Air Carrier Certificate 9BWA218N – “Carded” USFS and BLM
Natural Resource Aviation Specialists!

Brown Western Aviation, based in Independence, Oregon, specializes in natural resource aviation for government and private clients.

Captain Brown, (Continental Airlines – retired) and former Portland Police Officer, flies Fire Detection and Air Attack for the U.S. Forest Service, BLM, and Oregon Forestry, as well as wildlife aerial telemetry survey, pipeline right of way, and reconnaissance missions for government and private clients. The aircraft and pilots are “Carded” by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service.

BROWN WESTERN AVIATION, LLC *FIRE DETECTION AND AIR ATTACK
Gary Brown, Pilot/Operator *LAW ENFORCEMENT SURVEILLANCE
ATP A@P IA CFI DAR *RESOURCE RECONNAISSANCE
gdbrown@minetfiber.com *BACKCOUNTRY OPERATIONS
(503) 269-3907 (Cell) *WILDLIFE TELEMETRY
(503) 606-9752 (FAX) *LOW LEVEL SURVEY

BW Aviation Brochure-fire

EAA 31 June Meeting

EAA 31 JUNE 2016 MEETING
MARK YOUR CALENDER
Wednesday June 1st.

Our special guest will be:
GARY BROWN
Gary has been flying for 42 years. He has over 32,000 hours.
He flew for Continental Airlines for 25 years and currently spends
time as a DAR (Designated Airworthiness Represenative)

[NOT Daughters of the American Revolution or Downwinders At Risk
(a Texas saying) or any other of the 87 DAR definitions]

Gary will be talking about:
What it takes to license EAB (Experimental Amature Built) Aircraft.
Safety Topics
Natural Resource Aviation.
By the time he is done we will know a whole lot more than we did before.

This should be very interesting and certainly informative.

At the South End of Creswell Airport at the EAA31 clubhouse. Invite some people that don’t usually attend our meetings.

Burgers, dogs, salad & drinks 6:00 PM $5.00
Chapter Video (time permitting) & Gary Brown 7:00 PM $0.00

John Kuehl Ch 31 president

May Pancake Breakfast

BREAKFAST TOMORROW MORNING Sat May 21st

Ingest some MCEBBPOSSAC

(Milk, Coffee, Eggs, Butter, Bacon, Pancakes, Orange juice, Syrup, Sausage, And Camaraderie)

All for only $5 bucks.
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

See you there!

John Kuehl Ch 31 president

Meeting Minutes from the 5-4-2016 Meeting

EAA Chapter 31 Meeting, May 4^th, 2016
The dinner portion of the meeting started at 6:00 PM hosted by Virgil and Bridget Pratt. There were Costco Hot Dogs, great hamburgers, wonderful “Bridget brownies”, chips and a drink for only $5. Don’t miss her next great meal!!

The meeting started with the pledge of allegiance at 6:55 PM (John was ahead again!) President John Kuehl and Secretary/ Treasurer Randy Stout were present. VP Bill Johnson was in Virginia on business. The business and entertainment portion of the meeting was called then to order. There were 38 members and guests in attendance.

Next Chapter breakfast is Saturday, May 21st. Come out to the clubhouse in the AM and pay $5 for an “all you can eat” breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, OJ, coffee and camaraderie!! Starts at 9:00 and runs to about 10:30 or so. Our volunteers for this breakfast are (hopefully) the same group as last time Tom, Bill, Rod and John, who will coordinate getting the breakfast ready to serve. Thanks in advance guys!

There being no urgent business, the meeting was turned over to Yvonne Fasold (my son and daughters teacher while attending Sheldon High!) and Alice Riddle, who are now working with the National Rosie the Riveter group as coordinators with the few remaining gals who were such a big part of the war effort.

She began by outlining the goal of the group, which is to locate and identify as many of the 600,000 women who worked in WWII for the war effort, and to honor their service. The local group meets on the 2^nd Friday of the month at Willamalane center. She also had few books for sale (R is for Rosie, Free Falling for Freedom) and noted that their web site is rosietheriveter.net and also noted that the book “Americas Rosie the Riveters” from the McKenzie Chapter is in both libraries in town.

She then began the program by introducing the first of 4 “Rosies” who would in turn tell their story of service during the War:

Lorette Wedlake: She was at home weeding carrots, spinach and beets for 5 cents/Hr with hopes of earning 10 cents/Hr after 2 years, and 20 cents/Hr after 3 when she was offered a job at the hospital dressing wounds from incoming service men. These were mostly burns and required her to administer Tannic Acid Jelly. She worked in the surgery department for 3 weeks at the age of 16 after she got out of school at noon. When she was out of school, she began work at the BAR factory.

Ann Olsen: She began working in Vancouver BC at the Boeing factory producing PBY’s under contract. In 1942 she met her husband Ralph, but 3 days later he was shipped out for a year. She finally was able to see him again in Portsmouth VA. She had gotten a 30 day Visa to go to the States, but by the time she saw Ralph, she only had 3 days left on it. After much struggle, she found a sympathetic Chaplin who got her another 30 day Visa so she could finally spend time with her husband on a honeymoon. She is still working with the USS Block Island Association and will go to their reunion in St. Louis this year. Her job with Boeing was to file a part on the wings until she was later promoted to the office. She noted that the first airplane off the line would not fly, and had to be reworked for a week until it was ready to go.

Dorris Grantham: She lived in Virginia after High School graduation when a man from the U.S. Treasury came to town looking for typists. She went to work for them typing up War Bonds all during the War for $90/ month in Washington D.C. near the White House. She began dating a guy from the Weather Bureau after 1-1/2 years with Treasury, and moved to the Weather Bureau to be closer to him. That must not have worked out because she met and married her husband in 1945 in San Diego when he was transferred to the Navy.  Her husband had over 70 patents for things like Bow Doors for the LST, a Bathyscaphe Lift, Garage Door openers etc. She met Elinor Roosevelt at a Birthday Ball in the White House when she was 18 in 1943. She ending up having 5 daughters and brought in a War Ration Book for everyone to see. She noted that there is now a National Park in the Bay Area that is a Rosie the Riveter Park.

Opel Nelson:    She was on the front page of the Register Guard 2 weeks ago talking about Rosies. She left town at age 18 to get away from $1/Week babysitting, going to Southern California where they paid $5/ Week! (and she had a boyfriend there!) She got $20 saved and decided with a friend to go as far as that would take them (to Denver). Got jobs there, saved enough for the rest of the trip to Santa Monica and went to work for Douglas Aircraft, working on the A-20 on the graveyard shift for 2-1/2 years. Her job was to drive the rivets that the bigger men in the jig couldn’t get. She told how the outside person holding the bucking bar would bang on the fuselage; once meant “hit it again”, twice meant “OK”, 3 times meant “hit it again just once”. She married her boss, who promptly got a draft notice and they didn’t see each other for 2-1/2 years. During this time, when no longer working for Douglas, she applied to be a Porter on the Erie Pacific Rail Road where she worked for several years and remembers people standing in the isles, it was so busy. She said that she will be turning 49 this year and has got only one medical problem- dyslexia!

The ladies were all thanked for their presentation and service.

There being no other business, the meeting was then adjourned at 8:15 PM
Respectfully submitted,

Randall Stout, Secretary/ Treasurer

Garmin Avionics Seminar at Synergy Air

Garmin Avionics Seminar to be held at Synergy Air facility located at:

90451 Boeing Dr
Eugene, OR 97402

6:30 P.M. – Social gathering with refreshments planned.

7:00 P.M. – Expected seminar start time. Garmin Experimental & LSA Product Line Overview Featuring G3X Touch

• Seminar will feature our latest products for the experimental and LSA markets and G3X Touch.

• Seminar Savings Bucks for Garmin products will be available.

• G3X Touch and other new products will be on site for a live demonstration.

• As an exclusive benefit of attending the seminar, all participants will receive a free 3-month Garmin Pilot subscription for their iPad or Android tablet.

• Light refreshments and door prizes will be available.

• Please send your RSVP to Charlie Walker at 541-736-6701 or

walkerkramer@msn.com by May 18th

Bring a chair!

Tonight’s The Night

TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
REMINDER EAA 31 MAY 4th MEETING

“ROSIE THE RIVERTER” group
2 RIVETERS , a FARM WORKER, a WAR BONDS PREPARER and a rosebud (the next generation down) who’s mother was a WELDER.

We’ll have a display of some WWII items and some “Rosie” books for sale.

Very special guests will be sharing their stories.
All these great Gals are in their 90’s now, but during WWII they built airplanes and did all sorts of jobs. They did every job that needed doing while the men were away fighting. Maybe your Grandmother or Great-Grandmother was a Rosie!
Bring your Wife or Girl Friend.
Learn some History and find out what it was like on the home front during WWII. This should be very interesting.

NOTE: If one of you has a video camera – please bring it. I will bring a
sturdy camera tripod.

At the South End of Creswell Airport at the EAA31 clubhouse. Invite some people that don’t usually attend our meetings.

Burgers, dogs, salad & drinks 6:00 PM $5.00
Meeting and “ROSIES” 7:00 PM $0.00
Chapter Video – time permitting.

John Kuehl Ch 31 president

EAA May Meeting Reminder

UPDATE AND REMINDER EAA 31 MAY 4th MEETING

WE KNOW WHO’S COMING!
5 GUESTS FROM “ROSIE THE RIVERTER” group
2 RIVETERS , a FARM WORKER, a WAR BONDS PREPARER and a rosebud (the next generation down) who’s mother was a WELDER.

We’ll have a display of some WWII items and some “Rosie” books for sale.

Very special guests will be sharing their stories.
All these great Gals are in their 90’s now, but during WWII they built airplanes and did all sorts of jobs. They did every job that needed doing while the men were away fighting. Maybe your Grandmother or Great-Grandmother was a Rosie!
Bring your Wife or Girl Friend.
Learn some History and find out what it was like on the home front during WWII. This should be very interesting.

NOTE: If one of you has a video camera – please bring it. I will bring a
sturdy camera tripod.

At the South End of Creswell Airport at the EAA31 clubhouse. Invite some people that don’t usually attend our meetings.

Burgers, dogs, salad & drinks 6:00 PM $5.00
Meeting and “ROSIES” 7:00 PM $0.00
Chapter Video – time permitting.

John Kuehl Ch 31 president