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1999 OFFICERS

Presidents Corner By Chapter President Burrall L. Sanders

It would seem that soon it will be legal to charge a fee for the use of your homebuilt in order to provide instruction for the purpose of type checkout and for flight reviews. I believe that this is good news as it should increase the safety of the first few flights of a newly built or purchased homebuilt. Stats show that a large portion of accidents in homebuilts occur during the initial test phase. It appears to me that the highly publicized John Denver accident was the catalyst that brought about the anticipated changes to the FAR’s.

Don’t forget that this coming Tuesday is the Banquet!! Please, bundle up the family and come on out.  Since this is the last time I will have this forum to ramble, I am going to make it short. I am also going to take this opportunity to wish everyone in Chapter 72 and their loved ones the VERY BEST THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.

Fly High--Fly Low--Fly Fast--Fly Slow,

Be sure to Fly OFTEN

Annual Membership Dues 

It’s time to renew your EAA Chapter 72 Membership

Click here to print the on-line Membership Request Form

We need information from you to update our records. If you have any questions, please call me, Richard Martin at (719) 683-6587

Editor’s Comments

Please join me in Congratulating our new officers, Don MacNiven, Chuck Grow, and Bill Von Dane.

We are looking forward to maintaining the high energy level that Burrall has brought the past two years. I know we all extend a great Thanks to both Burrall and Joyce.

Please take a few minutes to complete the enclosed membership form so that we can update our database. We especially need to know what events, programs, fly-ins, fly-outs, etc. you are interested in and where you might be able to help.

Sandy and I also want to wish all of you a very Happy and Safe Holiday Season. Richard Martin

Feature Member

If you were at last month’s meeting, you might remember Craig announcing that he had finally gotten his plane home to Meadowlake. I want to thank him for letting us include his experiences in our newsletter. With Craig’s approval, I have reduced his seven pages to the story below. His entire story and pictures can be found on the website. As I read his accounting, I was reminded of Richard’s similar cross-country from Meadowlake to Daytona Beach, FL, in June. I’m sure many of you can relate to the weather, schedule changes, and especially the great people Craig met on his journey. Enjoy!!! Sandy Martin

Click here to read the article on-line

Lil’ O Cookout!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the cookout at the canteen last month. Bob Hall and Chuck Grow were the volunteers...great job, guys. Unfortunately, since Duke and Howard will be leaving that hangar, the canteen will no longer be available to us after December. We had already decided to cancel the December cookout because of the holidays. So we’ll be looking for a new spot for January 22nd. Any ideas you have for relocation will be most welcome.

As it turned out, for this last one, Bob estimated about 30 people in and out from 9:00 to 1:00 last month and we took in about $43.00. That means we broke even on the cookouts which is all we really wanted to do.

The intent is to have a regular place for members and other folks on the airfield to meet and enjoy themselves and maybe even get some other chapters to fly-in.

Again, any ideas are welcome. Just contact any of the other officers.

Feature Builder
Ray Lynn - RV-8 - N630RL

BACKGROUND

Ray Lynn and his family had moved around a lot before he and his wife, Sylvia, who quit counting their moves after they numbered 30, finally came to Colorado Springs from northwest Tennessee in 1992. Since then, 5 of their 6 children have followed; one is still in St. Joseph, Missouri.

His work as an engineer and raising 6 children kept Ray busy enough when he was younger so he waited until 1987 to get his pilot’s license. He bought his first plane in 1992, a Cherokee 235. He really liked the Cherokee but he wanted a new aircraft and decided the answer was in homebuilts. He made sure that when his home was being built he designed in enough room for his shop. Now, he just needed a project. After doing a lot of research, he knew he didn’t want fiberglass, but would consider metal or wood. Interested in tandem seating and tail draggers, he went to Longmont to look at a bi-plane or an RV-4. While there, he sat in an RV-8. A big deciding factor was the added shoulder room in the 8 (33”) compared to the RV-4 (27”).

RV-8 PROJECT

Ray received his first RV-8 kit in September ’97. He did get the tail completed the first year but didn’t have time for much else. However, this second year he has completed the wings and the fuselage. Like other RV builders, Ray’s experience with Van’s has been excellent. Many of the parts, like the empennage and wings, are pre-bent or pre-punched and THEY ALL FIT! The plans do require the builder to make some parts. Ray went through his plans and made all of them at one time which made it possible to just pull from his stock during assembly instead of stopping to build when needed.

Ray pointed out the carpet on the shop floor, a tip he got from Loyd Remus, who’d put carpet in his garage while building his RV-4 —— saves the knees. Ray has passed along the wing and fuselage jigs to Bill Von Dane with the caveat that he keep them or pass them on. Ray had gotten them from Bob Hall.He also got a great tool from Bob for bucking rivets that creates a really smooth surface. It can’t be used everywhere, but where possible, like the fuselage, it’s a great look. Some of you guys will want to see a demo of that.

By the time Ray is finished he figures he will have 3 years and $50,000 in his RV-8. That includes a a new 0360 Lycoming engine for $20,700 and $7,000 in avionics. He plans to equip it for night VFR. He’ll have flashing wing tip lights and strobes, a wing leveler, and GPS. Some added touches will be black leather interior and a white lexan panel. He knows someone who will do laser etching on the lexan that will result in black lettering. The model cutout of his panel shows the instrument placement as well as the flight checklist and “engine failure” recovery steps that will be etched into the panel. He has his paint selected, white with neon red trim, and is working on the final paint scheme.

Be Sure You're Right -- Then Go Ahead
War 1812
Davey Crockett

What’s next? Ray will be flying N630RL to Copper State (Arizona) in October 2000. Sylvia has even promised to take one ride with him since he has put so much work into it. He’s thinking he can talk her into at least 4 or 5 rides.

Then what? Well, he can’t decide which he likes best, building or flying. He does know that he can’t do either one all the time, so maybe next a wood project. As I was leaving Ray’s shop, I noticed a banner in the family room with the quote to the right.

Ray explained that that quote was displayed in many Japanese factories as part of the quality movement. He always liked it and traced it back to Davey Crockett, another Tennesseean, during the War of 1812. I mention it here, because I get the impression that that is the way Ray will decide what to do next; be sure he’s right — then go ahead.

Ray Lynn with RV-8 Inverted Fuselage

Meeting Minutes

November 16, 1999
Recorded by: Sandy Martin

Attendance:  33

Visitors:  Dennis Mattingly —Hopes to build a Pietenpol when he retires Don Zimmerman—Current member, hasn’t been in awhile.

Elections:  By a show of hands, the new officers were elected:

President: Don MacNiven

Vice-president: Chuck Grow

Secretary: Bill Von Dane

Treasurer’s Report:  $1539.17 plus $189.00 donations (When Pete goes back in the records, he sees Treasurer Reports of $20.00)

Chapter Scrapbooks:  Burrall brought in the Chapter Scrapbooks and ask that members start adding for the new planes that have flown and/or projects that have started.

Young Eagles:  Loyd gave a report on the last Young Eagles event. 13—15 kids flew in 6 to 7 planes.

A procedure change: Repeat flights will be taken in the next available plane. 5/30 News covered the Young Eagles on their program. Dennis Krummel has the tape if anyone missed it. Also, they printed Loyd’s phone number, and he did get lot’s of calls.

Loyd would like to plan a couple events in 2000, with the next one being in January or Feb ruary. National will help out with news releases. It was suggested that we ask folks to RSVP to better plan the planes needed.

Program: Gil Gildersleeve brought his Pietenpol.

Gil took his first passenger, Bill Creech of the glider club, up on Sunday, 11/07. Gil said he poor guy ’bout got blown to pieces. There was no wind screen, no helmet, and no goggles, but Bill was a good sport.

Phase II of the Fly-off is complete. Technically, Gil can go anywhere now.

Next Meeting

Program:  Banquet / Awards
Date:  Tuesday, December 14th
Time:  7:00 PM
Place:  Bennett’s Bar-B-Que and Steaks. 5245 N Academy Blvd (1 blk north of Union westside of Academy)
Order off the menu - individual checks - prices $6.50 to $15.00

To be sure they have enough servers, we need to provide a rough headcount, so please call 683-6587 or email me at wemartin@sprintmail.com by the 13th.

Richard Martin

For Sale

Ultralight for Sale - Quicksilver Sport

Assembled by Leading Edge Airfoils (LEAF) Aug 1996. Approximately 165 hrs TT. (I am still flying it at every opportunity, so this will change.) Rotax 447, BRS Chute, Instrument Pod (CHT, VSI, Altimeter, Tach, Hobbs, Hall Airspeed). Big wheels and brakes, steerable nose wheel, tail braces. Always hangered. Excellent condition. $7000.
Mark Carlson
markcarl@pcisys.net
(719) 593-0681, Colorado Springs, CO

Wanted

Enclosed airplane trailer to rent or borrow to retrieve an AVID MarkIV
Please contact:
Mike Higgins at (719) 638-6502 or Tamarahi@gateway.com