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March 28th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
Chapter Meeting
Where: Alaska Airmen's Association Bldg, Lake Hood
Steve Novak will provide hands-on ForeFlight training at our March meeting. He is bringing 20 iPads for those who would like to follow along.
Steve is currently the Aviation Instructor at Mat-Su Career and Technical High School. He was Pilot and Training Manager at Guardian Flight for 8 years, serving as Assistant Chief Pilot for 3 of those years. He piloted at Era Aviation for 12 years before his time at Guardian.
Steve will also provide a project update regarding the RV-12iS build underway by students of his Airframes course. See https://alaskaairmen.org/get-involved-in-aviation-workforce-development/
April 5th 2023 - Wednesday 7:00 PM
Board Meeting
Where: Las Margaritas
Join us at Las Margaritas Mexican & Italian Restaurant at 541 W Dimond Blvd (on the north side of Dimond between Arctic and C Streets). When you walk in, turn left into the front room that is separated from the main dining area and we'll be on the right. So come, get your margarita and nachos and we will talk about aviation and maybe do some Chapter business. As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.
April 8th 2023 - Saturday 9:30 AM
Chapter Breakfast Get-Together
Where: Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd.
Our monthly Saturday breakfast get-together is at Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd. Great food and great conversation. See you there!
April 25th 2023 - Tuesday 7:00 PM
Chapter Meeting
Where: TBD
Chapter Meeting - TBD
May 3rd 2023 - Wednesday 7:00 PM
Board Meeting
Where: Las Margaritas
Join us at Las Margaritas Mexican & Italian Restaurant at 541 W Dimond Blvd (on the north side of Dimond between Arctic and C Streets). When you walk in, turn left into the front room that is separated from the main dining area and we'll be on the right. So come, get your margarita and nachos and we will talk about aviation and maybe do some Chapter business. As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.
Feb 28th, 2023 - February Meeting at Bernie's
Bernie was again the consummate host at his marvelous hangar. He sugared us up with coffee and home-made cookies, expanded our minds with marvelous "Bernie-ventions" (fuel line visual flow gauge, raisable ski dollys, etc.), and sent us off with solutions to nagging problems. In addition, Claude explained radio ground planes and how to test standing waves and signal strength. Tom showed a form he used for fabricating a fuselage-strengthening attach point for his tail wheel. It was a great night for the 14 of us.
--Scott McEwen
Feb 15th, 2023 - Saturday Morning Breakfast Fly-Out each month
A proposal to re-establish a Chapter 42 tradition – a Saturday Morning Breakfast Fly-Out each month, following the normal 4th Tuesday night Chapter meeting.
Initiated in the early 1980’s, a different/interesting location for a group Breakfast Fly-Out was selected each month at the Chapter meeting. Weather forecasts, field conditions, distance to the restaurant and food quality were considered.
Airplane owner/participants volunteered their open seats and interested Chapter members made reservations to ride along. Sometimes the PAX got a little cruise stick time. Sometimes PAX rode back in a different plane. Always, the cost of fuel was shared equally by pilot and PAX.
This was one of our most popular Chapter activities.
Winter operations on skis can be considered, as well as summer operations on floats. How many Chapter members have airplanes with these capabilities?
I recall favorite Fly Out destinations included Kenai, Talkeetna, Skwentna, Sheep Mountain, Eureka, and the old Wasilla Airport behind the strip mall on Parks Hwy (it’s gone now).
Of course, there are probably many more now available, including private airstrips, near a good restaurant.
Maybe you know a great place to go?
Contact:
Jim Moss:
T: (907) 243-5151
M: (520) 440-2191
email: james@northside-aviation.com
-or-
Scott McEwen
M: (303) 895-5058
email: wsmcewen@gmail.com
Jan 24th, 2023 - January Meeting at the Alaska Aviation Museum
Chuck hosted our January meeting at the Alaska Aviation Museum. He briefed us on the Museum's project to restore this Norseman for static display, along with the Alaska history of this aircraft. Lars added to the presentation with his own experiences flying other Norseman aircraft.
18 were in attendance and had a wonderful time. We subsequently voted to contribute $500 to the project.
Chuck invited EAA members to come out to help with this project on weekdays.
The Director of the Eagle River Boys and Girls Club visited with her colleague, Jayden and recruited volunteers for this year's annual Summer Solstice Young Eagles Rally at Birchwood Airport.
Oct 25th, 2022 - October Meeting to visit Ed White's RV-4
At this month's meeting 15 of us, including new faces and friendly FAA faces visited Ed White's new RV-4. Ed captivated us with fascinating details of his 13.5 yr. build and current testing.
We wish Ed all the best during the rest of his flight testing.
Sep 27th, 2022 - September Meeting
Dave Ciocchi – A&P, IA - discussed with us some of his experiences as a design engineer for Boeing and his current working title: "Compromise and the Art of Aircraft Design" with subtitle, "What Were They Thinking?"
We also met our newest member - Mark Frischkorn. Welcome Mark!!
A sincere Thank you to the Alaska Airmen's Association for the use of their facility.
Sep 24th, 2022 - Ed White flies his RV-4!!
Today Ed White flew his new RV-4 N907EW twice, logging 2.4 hours of flight test time at Birchwood airport. This was the culmination of 13 1/2 years of work.
On the second flight Bob Edison "chased" him in his RV to help validate some of his readings and supervise as Ed did full stalls. Stall speed was 46 knots and on the final approaches Ed used 65K (1.4 Vso) as his approach speed.
Rick Henry acted as ground support.
There are videos of his first takeoff and last landing on our FaceBook page:
EAA 42 Facebook page
Congratulations Ed for a job well done!!
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Chapter Meeting Alaska Airmen's Association Bldg, Lake Hood |
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| Wed Apr 5 7 PM |
Board Meeting Las Margaritas |
| Sat Apr 8 9:30 AM |
Chapter Breakfast Get-Together Kava’s Pancake House at 100 Muldoon Rd. |
| Tue Apr 25 7 PM |
Chapter Meeting TBD |
| Anchorage, Alaska | |||
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