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Aviation News & Other Interesting InformationEAA Chapter 12 Recognized at AirVenture 2002
During the ceremony, they answered the question "Why is Chapter 1 in Riverside CA?". Before EAA chapters existed, Ray Stits asked Paul Poberezny if he could start the "West Coast Chapter of EAA". That was the beginning of the EAA Chapter infrastructure. The current President for EAA Chapter 1 is David Stits. EAA Chapter Awards at AirVenture 2002For those that may be wondering about the results of the EAA Chapter awards for Newsletter Editors and Web Editors, here are the results: EAA WEB EDITOR AWARD 2nd Place: Wolfgang Polak EAA Chapter 62 - San Jose, California http://www.eaa62.org/ 3rd Place: Scott Plischke EAA Chapter 267 - Amarillo, Texas http://www.eaa267.org/ 4th Place: Penny Dunham EAA Chapter 227 - Waterloo, Iowa http://www.eaa227.org/ 5th Place: Bill Johnson Warbird Sq. 17 - Kennesaw, Georgia http://www.warbird17.com/ EAA NEWSLETTER EDITOR AWARD 2nd Place: Pete Gavin EAA Chapter 25 - Minneapolis, Minnesota 3rd Place: Tom Davies EAA Chapter 168 - Farmers Branch, Texas 4th Place: Mary Shortridge EAA Chapter 377 - Garden City, Kansas 5th Place: Jay & Abbie Friddell EAA Chapter 790 Barrington, Illinois EAA Southwest Regional Fly-In News from Stan Shannon
The EAA SW Regional Fly-In ( SWRFI ) was started in Georgetown Texas in 1964 by Tony Bingelis and his chapter 187 in Austin. It later moved to Kerrville and then to Abilene. After listening to our membership , conducting surveys, extensive evaluation by a site selection committee the Board of SWRFI voted to move the event both in time and location.
Beginning in 2003 we will be on the third weekend of May and located at the New Braunfels Airport –BAZ-- in central Texas. The Fly-In is in Abilene September 27-28,2002 and in New Braunfels thereafter.
EAA SW Regional Info. www.swrfi.org Chapter Member Takes Delivery of Velocity SUV KitThe chapter's very own Chris Barber has ordered his Velocity SUV, and received it on June 9th (2002). Chris has set up a website that documents his progress, which will make it easy for all of us to keep up with his progress. May 2002 Chapter MeetingThe monthly chapter meeting for May was held at Don Parsons' home. The whole chapter got an opportunity to to see his Lancair ES project under construction. Quite a few members, spouses, and guests attended. All seemed to have a great time. The chapter should have more of these. December 2001 Meeting ProgramDon Parsons brought some of the parts from his Lancair ES kit, and talked about how things were going with his new project. November 2001 Meeting ProgramNovember was the month that Chapter 12 had the annual officer elections. The results of this election has been posted in the Chapter Information section of this website. AirVenture 2001 Web Editor Award Winners2001 was the 2nd year that EAA has offered a Web Editor Award at AirVenture. EAA Chapter 12 received 4th place this year. All of the web editors that were awarded are listed below.
Annual Chapter DuesJuly is the when the chapter collects membership dues. Starting this year, chapter dues are $24 per year. Also starting this year, new members joining midyear will be charged prorated dues for the remaining months of that year. If you have not paid your dues for this coming year, please make arrangements to get your membership dues payment to the Chapter Treasurer Terry Ford. Details for payment are available in the Information section of this website. Discovery Wings Channel Online ScheduleThe Discovery Wings Channel (DWC) offers aviation programming 24x7. This is the answer to an EAA members prayers. The channel’s website has a very nice online schedule that will help you find out when the shows of most interest to you will be on. If you cannot attend AirVenture this year, but would love to still see what goes on, you should plan of checking the DWC schedule during AirVenture. DWC is already running advertisements about their AirVenture coverage. Houston Area Does Well in NATA 100 Most Needed AirportsBack in January of this year the National Air Transportation Association published at statement titled “America’s 100 Most Needed Airports”. Four airports from the greater Houston area were named in this list (DW Hooks, Galveston Scholes, Houston Southwest, and West Houston). Those interested in the future of aviation will want to read this document. EAA Establishes a Sport Pilot WebsiteNational EAA has set up a website (http://www.sportpilot.org/) for the Sport Pilot. This new website is a good resource for keeping up with current events related to the new Sport Pilot category. The Land of Enchantment RV Fly-In - Las Cruces, NMAs reported here, the Cougar Landing RV Fly-In was a huge success. A significant portion of that success if being attributed to the promotional information that Doug Reeves posted on the VAF - WWW website. The next RV fly-in is scheduled for September 14, 15, & 16 in Lac Cruces, NM. Doug is doing similar promotion for the Land of Enchantment RV Fly-In. So... it should be a very worthwhile event. If you are interested in RVs, and you have any possible way to get there, you should make a point of going. Illustrated Guide to Engine HangingThe Tampa RV Builders Group has written an Illustrated Guide to Engine Hanging. The plane they used first hand was an RV, but most of the information given can be used for other aircraft as well. Formation Flying ArticleThere is an interesting article on formation flying in AVWeb. The article is titled "Up Close and Personal: Formation Flying". Since there are so many RVs flying, and they frequently travel in groups, it should be no surprise that RVs are well represented in the photos. RV-8 QB "From the Ground Up"EAA TV and the Discovery Wings Channel will be broadcasting a series that go through the process of building an RV-8 QB kit. The series is titled "From the Ground Up". Each episode is broadcast multiple times per week.
FAA Documents for Home BuildersOk, Ok... not everything I post here is "New", but I know that many are not aware of some resources that are available to us. This happens to be a good place in the website to call your attention to it. Do you wonder how you go about reserving an N number while it is under construction, or certifying your aircraft when it is completed? Do you have questions on how much commercial assistance you can receive on building your aircraft? Do you wonder what forms you need to fill out and where you can get them? If your answer to any or all of these questions is "Yes", than you need to know that the FAA publishes a free document titled the "Amateur Built Aircraft Reference Manual", and it is available for free. "But wait, there's more!!!" The FAA has it available to us online, also for free. Speedvision & Aviation ProgrammingIf you subscribe to satellite TV, or if you get digital cable, it is possible that you able to tune to the SpeedVision channel. Those of you that subscribe to DirecTV will find SpeedVision on channel 607. SpeedVision does include a some aviation related programming. Some of the shows include "Sport Aviation" (which is products by EAA and SportVision), "Air Show World", "Legends of Airpower", "Planes of Fame", and "The Airline Story". For current programming schedules, refer to the online guides in the following websites: SpeedVision Network - http://www.SpeedVision.com/ |
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As a part of the 50 Year Celebration activities for EAA
this year at AirVenture, there was a ceremony that honored the oldest
currently active EAA chapter in each of the US states. EAA Chapter 12
is the oldest currently active EAA Chapter in the state of Texas.
Chapter President Don Parsons represented the chapter in the ceremony.
Chapter Vice President Dean Doolittle was als present at the ceremony.