(WING-TIPS)
The Monthly Newsletter
of the
Southern
Nevada EAA Chapter 1300
P.O. Box 570561
Las Vegas Nevada 89157-0561
www.EAAChapter1300.org
May
2006
Volume 7, Issue No.5
May 10th Meeting Location:
Henderson Executive Airport
If you can make it Dinner starts at 18:00
at Last Chance restaurant.
2006 Officers and Directors:
President: David Lerner
Vice
President: Dean
Herrington
Secretary: Mike Perger
Treasurer: Brian Prinzavalli
Director
VGT: Armin Tuma
Director
BLD: Glenn Smith
Director
HND: Glenn Carlson
President’s Corner
April 2006
The
Young Eagles Rally at Overton’s Perkins Field saw 100 youngsters flown. Thanks for making this such
an outstanding event for the kids go to a great cast of
volunteers: Gail Smith and Brian Prinzavalli at the
Registration
Desk; Mike Perger as Air Boss; Charlie Braun as Ramp Boss; Micah Braun and the Explorer
Post
747 members as Ground Marshals; Mike Smith as our YE Flight Coordinator; and
the pilots including
Mike
Smith, Armin Tuma, Roy Campbell, Dewey Peterson, Mark Ott, Lonnie Roy, Bob
Doughty, Bob Rose,
Glenn Smith and Warren Erickson; and Jim Bonelli as our
overall YE Coordinator. You gave a lot of
youngsters
some very special memories on April 22nd. Special Thanks to Mardell Haskins and Clyde Fancher for their
work in organizing the Overton Day Program.
While
we always need volunteers to handle the crowd at the registration desk the
system worked very
smoothly and in a coordinated fashion for the
pilots and their respective flights.
Everyone I am certain
slept well Saturday night. I know I did.
Slept clear through and missed a Wrangler Hockey game.
During
the month progress was made in getting a group together to begin the work on
next years Discover
Aviation event.
The first group meeting will be held at VGT on Tuesday, May 9th
at 6:00PM to discuss and
begin the serious effort of revitalizing
this program. I was very pleased by the
initial response and potential
turnout for the meeting, which included a
number of our Chapter members and previous Discover Aviation
individual volunteers. A fairly comprehensive
discussion agenda outline was also sent out which will be
discussed at our next Chapter meeting in May as
well. The proposed new format for the new version of
Discover
Aviation will include the addition of an automobile and motorcycle show and
display as well as a
Young Eagle and aerobatic event for one day at Jean Airport. Mike Perger,
who is also Vice President of the
Greater
Las Vegas Jaguar Club, has sent out requests of interest to various car clubs
in the Valley and has
received an initial commitment from the Mustang
Club. Certainly a good omen for things
to come for this
important proposed program.
Nothing
new to report on the First Flight issue.
Separately, Michael Heintz writes:
“We are planning a
western regional fly-in and get-together for Zenith Builders and enthusiasts
in Northern California for
Saturday May 6th.
This has been announced for a while on-line, but we have discovered that a lot
of our
builders spend little time on the Internet. All homebuilders and
EAAers are welcome; the guest of honor
will be designer Chris
Heintz and the BBQ
will be going all day! Cloverdale is a lovely airport next to the
Russian
River and surrounded by vineyards; it is a great destination for
anyone looking for a place to fly
to that weekend.”
Last,
but certainly not least the thanks of the entire Chapter to Rich Kegelmeyer who after several years of
dedicated hard work is
leaving as editor of this Newsletter.
Hope
to see you all at Henderson Executive Airport on Wednesday May 10th.
Until
then safe flying and regards,
David
Lerner, President 2006
MEETING MINUTES –
April 12, 2006
PRESIDENT’S CALL TO ORDER:
Welcome and
Introductions
Meeting called to order at 1930 hrs by
President David Lerner
Visitors/New members
Visitors – Chuck and Joann Bodeen
BUSINESS MEETING:
Reading and
Acceptance of Minutes – Secretary
Minutes
as printed on website newsletter were moved and accepted.
Reading and Acceptance of Treasurer’s Report – Treasurer
Treasurer’s report read, moved, seconded and
accepted as read.
GUEST SPEAKER:
Our program speaker was Chuck Bodeen
who made a presentation on the “Alpha Trainer” which
is compatible with the X-Plane program. Chuck went through the Alpha
program showing how a plane can
be designed to “your” specifications and then flown in the X-Plane program.
The Alpha program shows
the lift, drag and angles of attack in graphic form by showing the forces
the plane is being exposed to as it fly’s.
Putting the
plane through its paces will show where some modifications made have to be made
in the design
to improve the flight characteristics of the aircraft you designed. Very
well presented and very easy to see
where forces are generated on the flight surfaces during actual flight, even
though the flight is simulated.
Everyone in attendance
thought the program would be very informative and beneficial in learning where
the
forces are during flight. Very well done.
OLD BUSINESS:
None at this time
NEW BUSINESS:
Our June 14th meeting
will have as guest speaker’s members of the Nevada Highway Patrol
office to present a talk on the use of aviation in their line of work.
Discover Aviation 2007: Wings &
Wheels (DA) was discussed. It was decided that Chapter
1300
would be in talks with all parties of DA 2005 to let our Chapter head the
program, coordinate
logistics, aerobatics, YE’s, etc. Meetings will be held shortly to start that
process.
Also included in DA 2007 is the
“wheels” part of the program. It was discussed that asking the local
car clubs in town to participate by bringing some of their cars out for
static displays with the aircraft on static
display would be a creative different approach to the event. Mike Perger has
volunteered to contact all the
car club presidents in the area with the idea. Mike will make a presentation
about DA 2007 to any club
responding positively to the idea at one of their local business meetings.
It was also decided that the date would be April 21,
2007 because the car clubs in town have their
calendars pretty much set for 2006.
If we want them to participate contact will have to made early
so they can set their
calendars.
Chapter Committee Reports:
Safety/Accidents
None at this time
Builders
Support
None at this time
Help
Requests
None at this time
Young
Eagles
A YE’s event is scheduled for Apr
22, 2006 at Overton, Perkins Field. There are
expected to be 90-100 kids present. $786.00 was voted and
approved to cover the extra insurance
needed for the
aerobatic demonstration.
Air
Academy
Paul Gerner has two prospects for
the YE Air Academy this summer. Both are juniors
at Rancho HS. Paul is going to try to arrange for them
to be at the next chapter meeting to be introduced.
Flying
Activities – Fly outs, etc.
See the Web Page for Fly Out
Schedule
Membership
None at this time
Budget/Finance
None at this time
Future
Programs
None at this time
Nomination
None at this time
Social
None at this time
Home
Builders and Restorers
None at this time
50/50 Drawing
ADJOURN
Meeting adjourned at 2005hrs. Chuck Bodeen
then made his presentation on the “Alpha Trainer”.
Respectfully
submitted,
Mike
Perger, Secretary
Welcome new Members:
Chuck Bodeen
Webpage Material:
Everyone is
encouraged to submit material, information or pictures
of interest, for publication on the
Chapter’s Webpage.
Send material to
Jim Bonelli, Webmaster, bonelli.j@cox.net
Bookmark the
Chapter’s Web Page: www.EAAChapter1300.org
Volunteers provide refreshments each
month. We very much appreciate the
generosity
of those who participate. We are again asking for volunteers
for the 2006 Meeting schedule,
which follows for the balance of the year:
May 10
HEN
Jun 14
VGT
Jul 12
BLD
Aug 9
VGT
Sep 13
HEN
Oct 11
VGT
Nov 8
BLD
Dec 13
VGT
Remember to wear your name badge at the
meetings.
Thanks for reading the Newsletter and bring
a friend to
our next meeting
on May 10th.