Where: Elim Cafe - 561 Dimond Blvd

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

 

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis

We are meeting at Barbie's Cafe. The food is good and the service exellent.

Join us at Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis 9:30 AM Saturday January 12th 2013.

Where: Alaska Aviation Museum

TBA

We are asking for your consideration to help us make future deliveries to this shelter.

About the ZONTA Club of Anchorage (ZONTA Yellow Rose Foundation)

Each woman has her own story. She may be looking to further her education, she may be trapped in a cycle of abuse; she may need a new start... Whatever her circumstances, for over 51 years, Zonta Club of Anchorage has been helping non-profits in Anchorage and around the world provide needed services to women and girls of all incomes and backgrounds. With each life we touch, multiple lives are improved. We are part of a worldwide organization working together to advance the status of women through service, advocacy, leadership and fellowship.

The Zonta Club of Anchorage is proud to be a part of helping this women’s shelter. We have made one delivery (50 boxes) of much needed and appreciated donations to the shelter.

Through our Yellow Rose Foundation, any monetary donation is tax deductable. This would include any cost you would incur for gas used to transport another shipment to the shelter.

About the shelter:  Emmonak Women’s Shelter

Mission Statement:  

The program was founded for the purpose of providing emergency shelter and assistance to victims of domestic violence and abuse. The board and staff serve to enable alternatives to physically dangerous situations and to encourage self-reliance, and sense of personal worth and dignity. We are committed to developing culturally relevant prevention education and counseling for villages and Emmonak residents that we serve. We are further committed to the recruitment, hiring, and training of local and Yupik speaking persons to all aspects of the shelter operations.

Thank You,

Sheila Woodhouse

President of ZONTA Club of Anchorage

(907) 317-3094

Where: Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis

We are meeting at Barbie's Cafe. The food is good and the service exellent.

Join us at Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis 9:30 AM Saturday February 9th 2013.

Where: Elim Cafe 561 Dimond Blvd.

Rescheduled to Monday when the period of mourning for the 49ers should be over.

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: Anchorage Museum Auditorium

Terrence Cole, Professor of History, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Air Age Cartography:  How Aviation and the Second World War Put Alaska at the Center of the World

Rapid advances in civil and military aviation in the 1930s and the rise of air power spawned a wave of articles, books and maps calling for development of an entirely new discipline of education for the "air age." For a short time this torrent of cartographic reform caused a fundamental reordering of popular American cartography based on the supposed superiority of polar projections, such as the one displayed on the flag of the United Nations.  Nevertheless this educational campaign by government officials, cartographers, airlines, ad agencies and schools portraying the world as a sphere, not a flat rectangle, never broke the hold of the Mercator or other east-west projections on the public mind.  As a result the prevailing image of Alaska is generally at the far edge of the earth--if not in a box below California--but once there was a time, albeit briefly, when it was the center of the world.

Cook Inlet Historical Society lecture, starting at 7:30 pm in Anchorage Museum Auditorium, with snacks afterward. All programs are free and open to the public.

Where: Chuck Hosack's Hagar - Birchwood

Chuck Hosack's Hangar - Birchwood

 

South West Corner of Birchwood, Green Hangar #9. Drive all the way around the airport to the end.

Where: Elim Cafe 561 Dimond Blvd.

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis

We are meeting at Barbie's Cafe. The food is good and the service exellent.

Join us at Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis 9:30 AM Saturday March 9th 2013.

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Where: Anchorage Museum Auditorium

Norman Lagasse, Former Director, Alaska Aviation Museum, Anchorage

Topic: “Anchorage Aviation History.”   Mr. Lagasse will speak on the aviation heritage of Alaska, focusing on the trials and achievements of early aviators in Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska.

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Where: OAS Hangar - 4837 Aircraft Dr

Where: OAS hangar (US Department Of The Interior - Office of Aircraft Services (OAS)) at Anchorage International Airport the hangar is to the east of the Alaska Aviation Museum, along the taxiway, past the CAP hangar.

We will see what's in the hangar and Ed Kornfield will have lots of facts and stories.

A pilot since 1970, Ed Kornfield holds an ATP, CFII, CFIG, Ground Instructor, A/P and IA certificates.  He began his aviation career flying a Norseman on floats in International Falls, Minn.  Ed later moved to Kotzebue where he worked as Chief Pilot for Baker Aviation before moving to Anchorage.  After flying for several commuter and air taxi operators in the Anchorage area, Ed began his maintenance career and started Air Care Specialists on Lake Hood.  During his flying career Ed has flown many different types of aircraft, including ferrying aircraft overseas.  Ed was a maintenance inspector and FAASTeam Safety Program Manager for the FAA.  He is a 30 plus year Alaska resident and currently works for the Department of Interior, Office of Aviation Services (OAS) as the Chief of Fleet Services.

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Where: Elim Cafe 561 Dimond Blvd.

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis

We are meeting at Barbie's Cafe. The food is good and the service exellent.

Join us at Barbie's Cafe on the corner of 68th and Lake Otis 9:30 AM Saturday April 13th 2013.

We have decided on dates. We will be arriving Friday Aug 16, staying the weekend in the Anchorage area. Then we will be in Talkeetna, Monday thru Friday, and return to the Anchorage area once again for the weekend departing on Monday the 26^th.

Nadia Farr is contacting your Chapter President in the hopes of setting up a Grass Roots Pilot Tour for Aug 17^th and I will be bringing Brady Lane so we hope to find some additional stories to shoot for the Chapter Video Magazine beyond the Bush and Floatplane training that we’ll be doing in Talkeetna.

Jeff Skiles, Lifetime EAA #336120

Vice President - Chapters and Youth Education

Where: Tom Wardleigh Hangar at Lake Hood

Registration at 8 AM, program begins at 8:30 AM

Let's hope that there is some open water by then.

Where: Alaska Aviation Museum

Gary Bennett from Northern Lights Avionics will be back from a major avionics show.

Where: Elim Cafe 561 Dimond Blvd.

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: FedEx Hangar

16th Annual FedEx Trade Show - Staturday and Sunday

We can always use some help at our booth.

Valdez Fly-In, Poker Run, pancake breakfast, Short Take-off and landing contest

Friday thru Sunday. The Short Take-off and landing contest happens on Saturday afternoon.

Where: Talkeetna

Where: Airglas, Inc. - 3500 O'Malley Rd

Tom Lawhorn and Cliff Bealleau will be giving a presentation at the Airglas factory at 3500 O'Malley Road.

Tom Lawhorn gave us the basic steps that he uses to create a cargo pod for a PA-18 using vacuum bagging. The mold has already been prepared. It has been cleaned and the fabric has been laid out dry. Over the fabric is a mesh that allows the resin to flow over the fabric. The vacuum bag has been put in place and sealed at the top edge. The inlet for the resin is located inside the pod at the bottom center. The vacuum hose is attached at one of the upper edges. Tom already had the whole set up tested before we arrived.

In the background you can see what almost looks like an old fashioned steam radiator. Those are some of the C clamps that they used to use to clamp the molds.

Measure the resin.

Add the proper amount of accellerant.

Put the inlet hose into the mixed resin and turn on the vacuum pump.

The resin is being pushed up the hose and into the mold by room air pressure into the lower pressure area in the mold.

It spreads out evenly, which looks weird. You'd think that gravity would be more an issue. It almost looks like a blob from a cheap science fiction movie.

The green mesh is what allows the resin to quickly spread. The resin barely oozes through the fabric, but it can flow through the mesh. There is extra vacuum bagging plastic that you can see folded up inside the mold. It isn't a problem because the room air pressure closes it up completely, and no resin gets inside the folds.

When the resin has filled the mold, the inlet hose is clamped off. The vacuum pump is left on.

Tom mentioned the pressure in millimeters of mercury, but my mind doesn't operate in millimeters of mercury.

After the meeting, I did some back of the envelope calculations to try to understand what I was seeing. The vacuum pressure was about 80% of normal air pressure. That rounds out to about 10 pounds per square inch.

I figured that the cargo pod is about six feet by three feet (A foot deep by a foot wide, or 10 inches deep by 16 inches wide).

72 times 36 = 2,592 square inches

2,592 square inches times 10 pounds per square inch gives a clamping pressure of 25,920 pounds. Wow, that is a big number. How much is that in human terms?

One of the methods for proving the strength of a wing is to stack sand bags on it as a static test.

A 60 pound Tube Sand container is 33 by 11 by 5 inches according to one of the big box web sites. That's 60 pounds over 363 square inches, for a pressure of 0.165 pounds per square inch.

So it will take a 30 inch high stack of six 60 pound sacks of sand to exert one pound per square inch of clamping pressure.

That works out to a stack of 60 sandbags 25 feet high to equal the 10 pounds per square inch pressure provided by the vacuum pump.

So how many 60 pound sand bags are there in 25,920 pounds? 432 bags

In the foreground you can see the foam core composed of two different densities and flexibility. Dense in the middle where the attachment points are, and flexible on the ends.

On the wall in the background are the Pavehawk, Apache and Chinook helicopters outfitted with AirGlas skis.

Where: Palmer Airport

We are looking for volunteers to man some of the tables. Due to funding problems, the FAA does not have money to fund personnel for this event. if we don't run things, the event will be cancelled.

We need some people to explain some of the basics of flying, doing a pre-flight, getting weather, flying the pattern, reading maps, explaining stuff like that to the kids. Easy!

Where: Elim Cafe 561 Dimond Blvd.

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: TBA

Kenai Air Fair

Where: Merrill Field Airport

BBQ and hangar visit at the hangar of John Davis on Merrill Field. The new chapter trailer will be unveiled. Let's see how his latest RV is coming along.

The hangars are in The Chugach Hangar Complex (blue hangars) and are reached by entering the security gate off Reeve Blvd. The gate next to Revve Air Motive is broken. Look to your right, the gate next to Land and Sea Aviation / Hangar Dot Net is operable and the gate code is 7668#. Turn Left after entering the gate and the Johns Hangar is opposite the Chrysler Dealership on 5th Avenue.

X marks the spot...

Where: Jim Trudeau's hangar

Hey All...

The chapter meeting and kinda-annual BBQ will be at Jim Trudeau's
hangar on Tuesday, 7/9. The BBQ will be starting around 6pm. There
will be a grill set up and the chapter will provide the hamburgers,
hot dogs and condiments. The rest will be potluck. If you plan to
attend let me know so I can assign some stuff to bring. Probably some
chips, salads, sweet stuff and what you want to drink. So come on and
have dinner with 15-20 of your closest EAA chapter friends! Jim says
the runway "is in good shape" if you want to fly in.
For our EAA Chapter 42 friends, please join us!!!
Questions? Call me at 907-394-2294
Paul
GPS coordinates:
http://www.lat-long.com/Latitude-Longitude-1417786-Alaska-ArnessLakeAirport.html

DIRECTIONS TO JIM'S HANGAR

Take the Kenai Spur to Miller Loop (just past MI 19). Turn right and drive
to Dividend St. Right on Dividend and then the road will take a left and
turn into Warren. Take that to the end and then take a right. That will now
be Nolan. Go down about .2 miles to Betty Ann and turn left. That will dead
end into Cessna St. Take a left and it's the third or fourth hangar on the
right (beige with brown trim). It's actually easier than it sounds, if you
get lost, just give Jim a call at 252-2565. Hope to see you there!

Where: Elim Cafe 561 Dimond Blvd.

Postponed until the 10th.

Board meeting at the Elim Café, located in a strip mall on the the northeast corner Dimond Blvd. and Arctic. The cafe has good food, coffee, beer and wine. If we eat and drink more than $35 worth, the meeting room is free.

All EAA Chapter members are welcome!

Where: TBA

TBA

Where: Chuck Hosack's House

Chuck's latest project is a Zenair CH 750 partially painted in Aerothane, with all the construction and painting done in half of a two- car garage. Power will be a Rotax 912S due for delivery in Oct.

 

Chuck's address for the meeting is 9340 Emerald St. Directions - drive West on Dimond Blvd, .5 mi past Jewel Lake intersection, turn left on Emerald, yellow house on the right.

Where: Oshkosh

EAA Oshkosh Convention

Cancelled

Where: TBA

TBA

On view Feb. 9 through Aug. 11

Arctic Flight illustrates the state's early aviation history through artifacts including wreckage from the Will Rogers/Wiley Post crash of 1935, a military-issued electric flight jacket from World War II, and the exhibition's centerpiece, a 1920s Stearman C2B biplane.

This exhibition demonstrates how, in just 100 years, airplanes have evolved from frivolous spectacle to crucial part of the Alaska way of life.

Arctic Flight Exhibit at the Anchorage Museum

Where: Alaska Air Museum Restoration Hangar

Jeff Skiles from EAA headquarters in Oshkosh,WI will discuss the role his team plays in engaging people in aviation through chapters, youth, education, communities and much more.
He will also discuss his heroic experience with the "Miracle on the Hudson".

Admission is free. Friends and family are welcome.

RSVP: EAA.org/Grassroots

 

After the public gathering at the Museum, we will have a Chapter BBQ at Sara Maurer's hangar just across the road from the Alaska Airmen's Building. Since we have use of the hangar, it will still be fun and dry, even if it's raining.

We need volunteers to help out with all kinds of stuff, on days before the event and the day of the event too. We are inviting all EAA members from all over Alaska to join us. If you have a spare bedroom for someone travelling into town, please let us know.

Call Ed White at 230-6332 and let him know that you can help.

Some of the food at the hangar.

Our new trailer.

On the evening of August 26th, 2013, N113DU went from a bunch or airplane parts to a bunch of airplane parts flying in close formation.

No meeting on our normal Tuesday night, due to the BBQ on the 17th.

We will not be having our BOD meeting this evening.  The Elim Cafe has been notified.

Where: Coast International Inn - McKinley Room

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is in the process of a Master Plan Update, which will help guide future airport development. The public is invited to an open house on Thursday, September 12, 2013, from 5:30 - 8:30PM at the Coast International Inn, McKinley Room, 3450 Aviation Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99502. The evening's presentation will begin at 6:15PM.

At the public open house, ANC will share the results of the alternatives evaluation, as well as the draft plan for ensuring the Airport's ability to meet long-term aviation needs.  Comments on the draft plan will be collected and used to assist the planning team in finalizing the plan in November 2013.  The Master Plan Update will be finalized at the end of 2013 and identify trigger points that would establish the need for future airport development.

Visit www.ancmasterplan.com to join the automatic email update list, to learn more about the Master Plan Update, for information on upcoming meetings, or to make a public comment.

Where: TBA

TBA

Where: Alaska Aviation Museum

We will be meeting at the Alaska Aviation Museum on Lake Hood.

Jonathan Fant will be speaking about iPad/iPhone aviation technologies.

Where: Elim Cafe on Dimond Blvd

The October Board Meeting will be held Wednesday, October 2nd at 7pm.

It'll take place at the Elim Cafe on Dimond Blvd.

As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.

Looking forward to it!
Bob

Where: Merrill Field

You are invited to an Open House at my hangar on October 5^th, from 1 PM to 5 PM.

Come see Miss GiGi (my RV-8) and the hangar.

Light snacks and drinks included.

Enter at the Reeve Blvd. Gate, see access code below. DO NOT DRIVE ON THE TAXIWAY. Drive between the yellow line and the parked airplanes.

Please pass on to others that may be interested.

Jonathan E. Fant

Where: Kava's Pancake House

Bob Edison has been doing extensive quality testing of as many items on the menu as he can. We have been hearing great reviews of the food and service.

Kava's Pancake House is located right next to Merrill Field, just northwest of the Northway Mall.

Bring your friends and family and join us at 9:30 AM on Saturday morning, October 12th.

Where: Alaska Air Museum

Doug from Anchorage Center will give a short presentation, and then most of the program will be a question and answer session.

Bring your maps and questions. Doug does not work at at the tower, so questions about contacting approach control out in the valley as you head into Merrill are great. Questions about what goes on inside the Merrill Field pattern are not what he works at the center.

Don't forget about the $75 Gift Certificate to Northern Lights Avionics that we hand out as a door prize!

Where: Alaska Aviation Museum

Have fun and help support the Alaska Aviation Museum which provides us a great place to meet for free.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Friday October 25 from 6 to 10 PM.

• Marge Ford and the Alaska Polka Chips Band
• Cash Bar - Beer and Wine
• Food
• Silent Auction
• Book signing by Lowell Thomas Jr

See you there. Support the museum.

Where: Elim Cafe on Dimond Blvd

As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.

October BOD Minutes

Nov Treasurer Report

Where: Kava's Pancake House

We have been hearing great reviews of the food and service. Kava's Pancake House is located right next to Merrill Field, just northwest of the Northway Mall.

Bring your friends and family and join us at 9:30 AM on Saturday morning, November 9th.

Where: Alaska Aviation Museum - Lake Hood

Gary Bennet from Northern Lights Avionics --- The latest and greatest in avionics.

We will have updates about the latest proposed FAA medical changes.

The Board of Directors has been talking about buying our own digital projector.

Door prize is a $75 gift card to Northern Lights Avionics. If you don't show up, you can't win.

Where: Elim Cafe on Dimond Blvd

Bob Edison has left for a winter flying job in the Philippines.

During the next few months, Chuck Hosack has graciously agreed to act in Bob's place. This is with the approval of our Vice President, Mike Kelly. Chuck has been present at almost all of our general meetings and board meetings and has valuable experience with National EAA and local chapter issues.

We will discuss buying a digital projector for the Chapter.

Website changes.

Any ideas for 2014? Are we having a Board Meeting on January 1st?

Anchorage International Airport Master Plan Open House - Wednesday Dec 11th - 5:30 to 7:30 - Coast International Inn.

As always, all Chapter 42 members are invited and encouraged to attend.

Where: Coast International Inn - McKinley Room

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is in the process of a Master Plan Update, which will help guide future airport development. The public is invited to an open house on Wednesday, December 11, 2013, from 5:30 - 7:30PM at the Coast International Inn, McKinley Room, 3450 Aviation Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99502. The evening's presentation will begin at 6:00PM.

At the public open house, ANC will share its final plan for ensuring the Airport's ability to meet long-term aviation needs. Comments on the revised plan will be collected and documented in the final report. The Master Plan Update will be finalized in early 2014.

Visit www.ancmasterplan.com to join the automatic email update list, to learn more about the Master Plan Update, for information on upcoming meetings, or to make a public comment.

Where: Kava's Pancake House

Kava's Pancake House has great food and fast service. It is located right next to Merrill Field, just northwest of the Northway Mall.

Bring your friends and family and join us at 9:30 AM on Saturday morning, December 14th.

Where: Chuck May's House - 2811 Leeward Pl

6 PM to 10 PM. Once again, Chuck May is having a holiday party, and all EAA members and their spouses are invited. This is not an official EAA function. It is a lot of fun.

Driving directions to Chuck's House..

• From the Seward Hwy
• Exit on Huffman Rd.
• Turn East (Left) then turn South (Right) on Lake Otis which changes name to Westwind at the first 4 way stop.
• The first street after stop is Spinnaker turn Left and then Left again on Leeward
• Chucks house is second from the corner, 2811 Leeward Pl.
• If you get lost call Chuck at 345-4703.