Sunday, October 7, 2012 – Dr. Robin Crandall gave an excellent presentation of the 1949 Hawker Sea Fury FB 11 (Sawbones) he owns. Sawbones won 4th place in Gold in the Reno Air Races at a speed exceeding 400 MPH this year! Thank you, Pat Halligan, for arranging this exciting presentation. A number of members are planning a group trip to the Reno Air Races next year!
Bob Tesmar won the first prize of $500 in the 2012 raffle ticket drawing. Jerry Farrell won the 2nd prize check for $250 and the 3rd prize glider lesson went to Sheri Johnston. Chapter 25 earned $462 in the silent auction, with gift items donated by and bid on by Chapter 25 banquet attendees. We netted $2,500 from the raffle. So, we earned approximately $3,000 from your fundraising efforts this year.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 – Amy Lauria of the Commemorative Air Force at South St. Paul Fleming Field will show us a screening of the first episode of “The Restorers”, a video series being produced about the restoration of antique airplanes at our October 17th Chapter meeting. The CAF is looking for people who might be interested in investing in the series as well as learning more about the museum and how they can get involved. Here is another opportunity to get involved in aviation. In November, our own Gary Stinar will discuss his MIA search and recovery trips to New Guinea.
Saturday, October 20, 2012 This will be the Young Eagle “third Saturday of the month” flying day.
At the Chapter 25 meeting on the 19th this month, Darrell Bolduc of Bolduc Aviation Specialized Services, Inc. which specializes in engine rebuilding and repair, will use the Pietenpol Project’s Continental A-65 engine to demonstrate and discuss engine rebuilding and maintenance.
Saturday, August 18, 2012 – The Young Eagles event this month will be on August 18th. Contact Bill Brown if you can provide rides or work on the ground crew. Several of our members are regular contributors. Without them it would be difficult to keep up with the number of kids who come each month. We would like to encourage more of you to consider serving as a pilot. If more of you would be willing to come and serve on the ground, some of the regular ground crew may be able to fly kids for a change. We need ground crew to assist the pilots and provide ground school class to kids while they are waiting their turn.
Monday, August 27th, 2012 – EAA Ch. 237 will be hosting Jeff Skiles’ Pilot’s Grassroots Tour at their hangar at Anoka County – Blaine Airport. EAA leadership team members, Jeff Skiles, EAA Vice President, Chapters and Youth Education, Rod Hightower, EAA President/CEO and Mac McClellan, EAA Director of Publications will be featured guests at this free event open to all pilots and their friends and families. It promises to be a fun, informative evening where these speakers will be on hand to discuss leading aviation issues and what EAA is doing to grow participation in aviation and inspire the next generation of aviators. Social hour begins at 6:00 pm followed by a program at 7:00 pm.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 – At the Chapter meeting on the 15th his month, Ron Sekenski and his hangar partner, Paul Erickson, will discuss and show their Christen Eagle and RV7A projects. We will have our regular BBQ and pot luck supper starting at 6:00 pm followed by a short business meeting at 7 pm. Then Ron and Paul will provide an overview of their projects and walk us to their hangar a few lanes west of BSAEC.
Saturday, June 9, 2012 – BSAEC Hangar Clean-Up Day and Airplane Project move-in. We need volunteers to meet at the BSAEC at 8:30 am to clean up the hangar. Pat Hoyt is asking for volunteers to meet at his house at 10:00 am to help load his Zodiac and haul it to BSAEC. Afterwards, Pat and Mary have invited all volunteers to their home for a cookout and comaraderie. E-mail Pat at: buy you a drank lyrics if you can help. Directions to their home are on the Chapter 25 Yahoo Groups page. Click on the link under Search on this page to access the Yahoo Groups page. If you have not subscribed to the Chapter 25 Yahoo Groups site, please do. It is an important means of communicating with members inbetween meetings.
Saturday, June 16, 2012 – Young Eagles and Chapter Picnic – So far 77 kids have registered for Young Eagles and that number will surely climb. Bill Brown, Young Eagles Coordinator is short of both pilots and ground crew. Please let Bill know if you can help in either capacity. We will have our annual Chapter picnic at the hangar after Young Eagles. Bring a dish to pass. Spouses and kids are invited.
Saturday, June 23, 2012 – Boyceville, WI Fly-Out – Mike Tompos has organized a lunch fly-out to Boyceville, WI. Gather for a briefing at 9:30 am at BSAEC. Departures will begin at 10:00 am. We will have lunch in Boyceville (57 nm from KLVN) and return at 3:00 pm. Following is a link to the Google docs spreadsheet Mike is using as a sign-up tool.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkXjo1x1inY-dGxyQlJWQmFIU3lfNzh4Ui0\
tOUkwX0E#gid=0
June 20, 2012 at BSAEC – Tyler Sibley will give a presentation on UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), with emphasis on the integration of UAVs into the national airspace system. Tyler currently is a UAV pilot instructor for Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, living in Hood River Oregon.
Tyler was an Aviation Electrician in the Navy working on P-3C Orion and C-130 Hercules from 2005 – 2009,which included a 6 month deployment to Bahrain.
Following his discharge from the Navy in 2009, he took a job as a Field Service Representative (UAV Pilot / Operator) with Insitu. He did two 6 month deployments to Iraq as a civilian, flying missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.