Meeting Minutes December 11, 2006
EAA Chapter 704 held its regular monthly meeting on Monday, December 11, 2006 at the Sparta Paul C. Miller Airport pilot's lounge.
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by President John Gill and the minutes of the previous meeting were approved as printed in the newsletter.
Dennis Byrne, a guest, spoke on behalf of a group of boys who would like to form a new Boy Scout Troup looking for a sponsor. Dennis described a bit of the responsibilities of a sponsor and asked the chapter to consider taking on this task. There was a general consensus of willingness within the group but the decision was made to take it under advisement until we can check with EAA headquarters to see if this sort of thing is approved by them. A decision will be made at the next meeting.
Dennis was quite fascinated by the chapter and EAA in general and has decided to join our group.
President Gill presented awards to the staff of 2006 who had served in various capacities during the past year.
President Gill also advised us that a new updated roster would be in the making soon and asked the members to be sure we had all their information? EAA numbers etc.
Paul Zimmer announced that he and Paul Kovalak are both purchasing RV7 kits and will be starting to build very soon.
Larry Bauer showed the group a number of aircraft parts he is manufacturing and selling for use on experimental aircraft. He is building a somewhat modified PA17 and showed the firewall he had built for it. He also showed brake assembly he makes as well as a rudder for floats, a nose wheel for floats that pretty well eliminates shimmy on the roll out, some tail wheel springs a gas gauge and a master cylinder for brakes. There was also a carbheat box in his collection, His son, Ben, works with him and does a real fine job of welding on these carbheat boxes.
Larry is very innovative and is able to create and build doggone near anything you want for you experimental project.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm
Jay T. Dean Sec pro tem
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment