March (2006) Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes
March 13, 2006

The meeting was called to order by President Gill at 7pm. We had 2 visitors, Bob VanStream, who is building a RV6 and is currently flying a Quicksilver on floats and John Gill’s grandson, Evan.

P.J. Bevelacqua showed a model he built of the Tomahawk that he learned to fly in.

Dave Duperon gave a brief update on the Smith’s Super Cub is he building. Bob Rector, Homer Tiestma and Jim Jastepher mentioned that they had spent time helping the sheriff look for a gentleman who had walked away from a home in Lowell. They mentioned that the sheriff might want volunteer who would be willing to help look in the future. A list of names of pilots interested was started.

Dave Jeltema told about his experience when the right wing of his Stits playboy developed holes during flight.

Dan Bauman gave a demonstration of swaging with a Nichol press tool and how to safety a turnbuckle.

Tom Kozura showed a video of refueling a B52 and doing 15 second interval takeoff.

After a short break for coffee and cookies Greg Toman and Todd Stehouwer of Grand Rapids Technologies gave a demonstration of their new EFIS system which pretty much blew everyone’s mind away.

Ben Schaefer of Rockford joined.

The meeting a adjourned at 8:41.
-Kathy Hakeem, Secretary, Treasurer, & Young Eagles