At the November 2008 Chapter 1311 meeting, we will hold our annual election of officers and board of directors for 2009. Our slate of candidates:
We've all been around town trying to scrounge up a few AN bolts or perhaps some 4130 tubing to finish a last-minute weekend building or repair project. How much easier would it be to know where the best supplies of quality parts and materials are?
Local sources: AED Motorsport Products, 5375 W. 86th St., Indianapolis IN 46268, 317-334-0569 http://www.aedmotorsport.com. AED specializes in 4130 chrome moly, stainless, aluminum, titanium, FK rod ends and spherical bearings.
Chance Aviation, 4444 Decatur Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46241, 317-486-8802, http://www.chanceaviation.com. Chance is a parts supplier tailored to the local FBO's,
Earl's Indy, 302 Gasoline Alley, Indianapolis IN 46222, 1-800-331-INDY http://www.earlsindy.com. Earl's specializes in hoses and related supplies and service, plus AN fittings and hardware.
McKinney Corp, Lafayette, IN http://www.mckinneycorp.com. They stock a wide variety of 4130 steel and 6061 aluminum tubing, AN hardware, NACA scoops, and other items.
Northwest Lumber Company, 5035 Lafayette Road, Indianapolis, IN 46254, 317-293-1100, http://www.northwestlumberco.com. Stock of quality woods and woodworking tools.
Check out our online directory at http://www.eaa1311.org. Click on the link "Homebuilder's Resources" on the left. Note that all resources listed are merely suggestions; as a chapter we do not endorse any of them. Our recommendation: "Caveat Emptor" (let the buyer beware).
Second Tool Scholarship Complete
The chapter has already begun the funding process, with proceeds from the 50/50 drawing at the monthly meetings, plus some seeding donations from members. If you have some tools that you would like to donate or purchase for the tool scholarship, check download the list of needed tools from the web site. Because the list isn't updated as fast as tools could potentially come in, check with Gary Reynolds at 317-745-6223 or n98gr@att.net for the current status of the tool list.
Boone County Airport News
Hangar Space: All hangars are now rented. The club will post a waiting list for available hangars and will consider building new ones to accommodate new members. Anyone desiring to base an aircraft at the airport or use the maintenance hangar will be required to join the association. For more information contact Michael Mossman, association secretary, or see the website http://www.booneairport.org.
Young Eagles News
Calendar of Events
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Next Meeting
Directions from Indianapolis:
On the Radar:
Classified Ads
AIRCRAFT FOR SALE: 1946 Stinson 108, new paint, new tires and tubes, fresh annual, 1 radio and transponder, 1753 hours TT, 253 hours SMOH on engine, 73 hours SOH on prop, $30,000 OBO. Don Roberts 317-445-3229
AIRCRAFT KIT FOR SALE: Sonex kit #115. Have everything but the skins. Kit not started so it could be either a tri-gear or taildragger. $8,000. Contact Fred Baldwin 317-354-6200 (cell phone), bladexz2@comcast.net
WANTED TO BUY: Used Rotax 912, Jabiru 2200 or Rotax 582 engine. Contact Mark Rinehart 317-745-2466, capt_riney@yahoo.com.
FOR SALE: Piper jumper cables in excellent condition (round plug type), $50 or make offer. Portable intercom, $20. Contact Larry Rush k9hxt@sbcglobal.net or 272-2153
WANTED TO BUY: Used 4-foot brake and 4-foot shear. Contact Troy Grover, 317-919-6594 (cell phone), rv6grover@sbcglobal.net
AIRCRAFT FOR SALE: One-third interest in an RV-7A. Fully equipped for IFR, including autopilot and extended range tanks. Based at Eagle Creek Airport. $35,000. Contact Vern Sullenger at sullenger@iquest.net, cell phone 317-695-7929.
AIRCRAFT FOR SALE: '57 C172 TT approx. 3700 hr. Engine approx. 700 hr since overhaul. Good paint, nice interior. VFR: Narco Mode C, Narco 720 channel comm.; Horton STOL kit w/gap seals. Last annual 7/07. Hangared at Franklin, IN. $30,500. Reason for selling: starting a project. Tom Chapman, cell 317-625-3126, home 317-888-6866, chapman.t@comcast.net
AIRCRAFT FOR SALE: 1966 Alon A2, TT-2539, SMOHE 930, IFR panel, nice, $27,750. Mark Eminger 765-528-2146 or Robert Barnhart 765- 448-4024 for information 7-10:30 EST.
Aviation Humor
1. No flight ever leaves on time unless you are running late and need the delay to make the flight.
2. If you are running late for a flight, it will depart from the farthest gate within the terminal.
3. If you arrive very early for a flight, it inevitably will be delayed.
4. Flights never leave from Gate #1 at any terminal in the world.
5. If you must work on your flight, you will experience turbulence as soon as you touch pen to paper.
6. If you are assigned a middle seat, you can determine who has the seats on the aisle and the window while you are still in the boarding area. Just look for the two largest passengers.
7. Only passengers seated in window seats ever have to get up to go to the lavatory.
8. The crying baby on board your flight is always seated next to you.
9. The best-looking woman on your flight is never seated next to you.
10. The less carry-on luggage space available on an aircraft, the more carry-on luggage passengers will bring aboard.
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Support Our Servicemen
SERVICEMAN UPDATE NEEDED: In December of 2002 Jim Griffin joined Chapter 1311. Shortly before the war with Iraq started Jim signed back up as a Major with the Marines and has been serving in Iraq. If anyone knows how to contact Jim, or knows of his whereabouts or of any way to track him down, please contact the newsletter editor at michaelandkatie1@comcast.net.
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Chapter 1311 Board of Directors for 2008
Newsletter editor: Michael Mossman, 1-765-483-9533, michaelandkatie1@comcast.net
2008 Membership Roster
Did we miss anybody? Please let us know; we'll get it updated right away.
Membership Roster Updates Needed
October's Program
Just 11 years later on August 17, 1859, aviation came to Indiana, which was the site of the first U.S. Postal air freight. 123 letters and 23 circulars were carried in a balloon flown by John Wise of Lancaster PA, in a flight sponsored by the U.S. Post Office. The balloon landed in Crawfordsville then the letters were taken by train to New York. Parker claims that those letters are now worth six figures each. Seven years after that first mail flight Indiana got its own resident balloonist, John H. Pierre, from Indianapolis.
Parker noted that 100 years later a group re-created that first airmail flight in 1959, with the U.S. Postal Service issuing some commemorative stamps. They are planning another recreation in 2009, which will be the 150th anniversary.
From that point on, Indiana figured prominently in the advance of aviation with many major and minor figures:
In 1883, Albert Zahm, a Notre Dame teacher, collaborated with Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian. Zahm was the secretary of the International Conference of Aerial Navigation at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Zahm was chief of the Aeronautical Division of the Library of Congress until 1945. He lived long enough to see aviation thrive.
In 1892 on the northeast side of Indianapolis, the Brightwood Aerial Navigation Company met in secret and built one aircraft that crashed and burned. The company burned their plans and disbanded.
In 1896, Octave Chanute, a bridge builder and civil engineer with a phenomenal résumé, flew 359 feet in 14 seconds at the Indiana Dunes, which was the first sustained manned flight project. Later, The Wrights corresponded extensively with Chanute for his notes and theories on heavier-than-air flight.
Co-inventor of the first powered airplane Wilbur Wright was born in Milville IN in 1867. Wilbur and Orville both attended school in Richmond.
Lawrence & Grover Bell of Bell Aircraft used the Indianapolis-built Allison V-12 engine in their Bell P-39.
Art Smith, who was only 15 when he began construction of his first aircraft, died on an airmail flight in 1926. A replica of his first aircraft is on display at Fort Wayne Airport. Smith Field at Fort Wayne (SMD) is named after him.
In 1912 Airmail flight began in earnest. Indiana resident Paul Baer died flying mail in China.
In 1930, during the Golden Age of Aviation, Ellen Church of Terre Haute, single, 25-year-old registered nurse, no taller than 5'4". She was a pilot and applied to become an airline pilot but was turned down because she was a woman. Since she was a registered nurse she lobbied for an opportunity to be a flight attendant and became one of the first eight female flight attendants.
In 1928, Edwin Link, who was born in Huntington, IN, built the Link Trainer flight simulator. Thousands of these machines were built for training in the following years.
1922 SATTCO Transports, based in Wabash IN, converted WW-I DeHavilland bombers to civilian-carrying transport aircraft.
Famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart taught classes at Purdue University and had been sponsored by Purdue. Purdue paid for her last aircraft, the Lockheed Electra that she and Fred Noonan flew when they disappeared somewhere in the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Aviator Wiley Post once made an emergency landing at Purdue University. He got his picture taken with the Purdue president by the news media. He then used the photo to "prove" that he went to a university.
Famed air racing pilot Roscoe Turner settled in Indianapolis and owned a Beechcraft dealership. He formed Turner Air, which later became Signature Air.
During WW-II P-47s were made in Evansville IN, while Allison Engines were made in Indianapolis.
At Madison IN, a facility was established from which WW-II aircraft flew, although not officially an Army Air Force base.
Applegate-Weyant, a company in Elkhart IN, bought the rights to the Culver Cadet and built about 10 Applegate-Weyant aircraft before ceasing production.
Later, in the mid 1980s, Sun Ray built about four or five prototype airplanes intended for border patrol.
Other Indiana Notables:
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Start thinking of the places where you locally buy for AN hardware, sheet metal, paint, tools and other items. We'll need an address, phone number and web site, if they have one. Be sure to let us know if you would recommend them to others or not. The idea here is that members should be able to look to suppliers that you trust and would continue to do business with. Please forward your ideas and recommendations to Michael Mossman at michaelandkatie1@comcast.net
With a successful first tool set completed and loaned, Chapter 1311 has now fully funded the second Eric Gustafson Tool Scholarship. The intent is to aid a financially stressed person get a start on the basic tools needed for the required courses while pursuing the A & P license.
The chapter has accumulated a second starting set of tools for a worthy Vincennes University A&P student. The basic tools to start with may be new or used but serviceable (not junk) and be contributed to the chapter. Just about every person involved in aviation ends up with surplus tools and equipment as time moves on and they no longer have a use for them.
New Ratings: Charles Westerfield has completed all of the flight requirements for a Light Sport Pilot license and only has to take the flight test and oral exam.
EAA Young Eagles Update: By newsletter publication date more than 1,422,125 Young Eagles have taken their first airplane ride.
Chapter 1311 will try to list the aviation-related events in Indiana and surrounding states, plus the major events across the country. Do you know of an event that isn't listed? Please inform the newsletter editor to get it included.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m., at Hendricks County Airport. Chapter elections will be conducted at this meeting. Program: Russ Ryle from Bloomington will talk about Indiana's Ghost Airports.
Take U.S. 36 (Rockville Road) west past Avon.
Turn left (south) on CR 300 E (84 Lumber is on the SW) corner of the intersection.
At about 1/2 mile turn right (west) into the airport.
The operations building is straight back from the road.
November 5, 2008 — Chapter Elections. Program: Russ Ryle on Ghost Airports
December 3, 2008 — Chapter Christmas Party, L.A. Café, Whitestown IN
January, 2009 — TBA
February, 2009 — TBA
March, 2009 — TBA
April, 2009 — TBA
May, 2009 — TBA
June, 2009 — TBA
July, 2009 — TBA
August, 2009 — TBA
September, 2009 — TBA
October, 2009 — TBA
November, 2009 — TBA
December, 2009 — TBA
January, 2010 — TBA
AIRCRAFT FOR SALE: Cessna 170A, Imron paint, 1-piece windshield, slide out pull handles, hew headliner, door panels, baggage compartment, floor panels, firewall panel. King KLX 135 GPS/com, KT76A, XPDR, Sigtronics 4-place intercom, single channel EGT, vernier throttle and mixture, many new engine parts. AC TT 4465.88, ESMOH 559.22, ESTOH 506.3. Ernie Winters 317-996-3696 pr 317-727-6504, flywithwingsaseagles@yahoo.com
Murphy's Laws for Frequent Flyers:
Thanks to Mike Foushee, Chapter 729 Newsletter Editor
"A billion here, a billion there; pretty soon you're talking real money." Misattributed to the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen.
If you have an opinion on any story that appears in the newsletter, or any other aviation-related issue, we want to read about it. We will make editorial space available for your responsible comment. Please contact the newsletter editor at 1-765-483-9533 or send it as an email to michaelandkatie1@comcast.net.
Be sure let the newsletter editor know if any of our members or their families has someone in the service, especially if they have been called up for active duty. We'd like to recognize them and thank them for representing us so honorably.
EAA Chapter 1311's newsletter is published by email notice on the 15th of each month, with a PDF version available on the chapter web site around the 20th. Newsletter contributors: Please email your material to the newsletter editor by the 14th of the month.
President: Dale "Gus" Gustafson, 1-317-293-4430, dalefaye@msn.com
Vice President: Doug Moncreiff, 317-280-1621, cdmoncreiff@sbcglobal.net
Secretary: Michael Mossman, 1-765-483-9533, michaelandkatie1@comcast.net
Treasurer: Vern Sullenger, 1-317-839-8728, sullenger@iquest.net
Director: Dennis Crawley, 317-387-1737, Crawley27@comcast.net
Director: Dave Helton, 1-317-745-7916, davehelton@heltonssoc.com
Director: Chuck Long, 317-892-3146, LoneEagleHDS@aol.com
Director: Glen Matejcek, 1-317-839-5444, aerobubba@earthlink.net
Director: David Morton, 317-745-4846, djamorton@sbcglobal.net
Director: Gary Reynolds, 317-745-6223, n98gr@att.net
Director: Paul Vogel, 1-317-272-2106, p_vogel@sbcglobal.net
Current as of October 15, 2008
See our chapter roster online at http://www.eaa1311.org/memberroster.html
NAME EMAIL ADDRESS PROJECT(S) BALDWIN, Fred bladexz2@comcast.net Bladerunner twin jet BEETHAM, John jabeetham@earthlink.net Fokker D VII, Piper Dakota BRAAF, Bob bbraaf@msn.com Cessna 210-5 BROYLES, John broylesjohn@sbcglobal.net — BUDNY, Skip skbudny@tds.net Mini 500 helicopter BYRUM, Jon jbyrum@byrumarchitects.net RV-7A CHAPMAN, Jeff PoP6756@aol.com Piper Tri-Pacer CHAPMAN, Tom chapman.t@comcast.net 1957 Cessna 172 CLARK, David davecpd@att.net 1946 Aeronca Chief CRAWLEY, Dennis Crawley27@comcast.net Grumman Tiger EMINGER, Mark tjemee@yahoo.com Christavia Mk1 GRIFFIN, Jim jimg@netcapade.net Questar Venture GROVER, Troy rv6grover@sbcglobal.net RV10 GUSTAFSON, Dale DALEFAYE@msn.com Piper J-4 HATFIELD, Doug hatfielddoug@hotmail.com Zenair 640 HELTON, Dave davehelton@heltonassoc.com Piper Tri-Pacer HENDERSON, Robert robert_10215@msn.com Christavia MK2 KOPESCHKA, Dave iedvk@iquest.net Little Wing Autogyro KOPESCHKA, Steve stephen.j.kopeschka@rolls-royce.com Little Wing Autogyro LATHROP, Steve lathropdad@worldnet.att.net BearHawk LAURENZANO, Mike mikelaurenzano@yahoo.com Bushby Mustang II LeBARON, Tim tjlebaron@sbcglobal.net RV-4, Ercoupe LEUCHT, Chuck charlesleucht@sbcglobal.net RV-9A LEWIS, Jimmy rudder4@aol.com RV-7A LONG, Chuck charles.long@allisontransmission.com Zenair 601 HDS MATEJCEK, Glen aerobubba@earthlink.net RV8 MATEJCEK, Robin aerobubba@earthlink.net RV8 MELCHIOR, Dirk d-r-melchior@msn.com F1 Rocket MONCREIFF, Doug cdmoncreiff@sbcglobal.net JDT Hi-Max MORTON, David djamorton@sbcglobal.net — MOSSMAN, Michael michaelandkatie1@comcast.net Zenair 601 HDS NELSON, Cale cale_nlsn@yahoo.com Cessna NG, Bart bng@math.iupui.edu RV-7A PARKER, David hoosierwingsfilm@live.com Pietenpol Air Camper PRINCELL, Rick GRPContracting@comcast.net GP-4 RAHM, Kenneth riptide757@aol.com — REYNOLDS, Gary n98gr@att.net RV6A RINEHART, Mark capt_riney@yahoo.com Kolb Mark III Classic ROTTLER, Mark mark@rottler.org — RUBERSON, Bryan bruberson@aol.com Aeronca Chief RUSH, Larry k9hxt@sbcglobal.net RV6A, RV-8 SHUMAKER, Kim kkrv-9a@sbcglobal.net RV-9A SMITH, Shaun — — SNYDER, Jim jim.snyder1@comcast.net Cherokee 180 STUCKER, David d.j.stucker@worldnet.att.net — SULLENGER, Vern sullenger@iquest.net Cherokee 140, RV-7A VOGEL, Paul p_vogel@sbcglobal.net Sonex VONDERSAAR, Bob rvondersaar@austin.rr.com Steen Skybolt VONDERSAAR, Teresa tvondersaar@ausin.rr.com Steen Skybolt WEATHERS, Steve indy.pilot@hotmail.com Wag Aero Sport Trainer WININGS, Jim winingsj@aol.com Rocket WINTERS, Ernie lwinters@pow-wowfitness.com Cessna 170 A
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By Michael Mossman
Chapter 1311 member David Parker, who was born in Indiana and lived in Lafayette area until earning with an A&P license and began working as AAR, has had a life-long interest in Indiana aviation and has started filming a documentary on Indiana aviation. In his research for filmable facts, he has started collecting memorabilia and artifacts for film.
Parker noted that Indiana aviation started more than 150 years ago. He opened with a quote from "The Powers and Possibilities of the Human Mind" by Carleton M. Shipley, a prominent Muncie lawyer, politician and businessman, August 31, 1848: "May we not reasonably predict … in the imitation of birds of the air we will journey by the aid of artificial wings?"
In 1875, John Anthony, a Martin County farmer, built a glider with wooden wings. In 1881 he built a more conventional glider that was mildly successful.
During WW-I Indiana resident Harvey Weir Cook flew with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in the 94th Pursuit Squadron. Cook died in WW-II. Indianapolis International Airport was originally named Weir Cook Airport. The new airport terminal is now named after Cook.
Aviation Organizations Headquartered in Indiana:
Parker has started a great knowledge base on Indiana aviation history and had much more material than could be presented in a short meeting program. If you have some items that may be used in his documentary, he is welcoming contributions. I look forward to viewing this film.