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EAA Chapter 249
November 1998 Newsletter

  Next Meeting - The next meeting will be Monday, November 2, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. at Greenville Downtown Airport, in the meeting room. All are invited. Robert Bryant, president of the Greenwood EAA 1023 chapter will be our guest speaker. His topic will be ‘Losing Your Medical and Getting It Back/ A Heart Condition Diet’. Incidentally, they meet every 1st Thursday at the

Greenwood airport, visitors always welcomed.

October Meeting – Danny’s dad, Joe, told us a true war story about CFISW – Controlled Fight into Smooth Water. Any landing you can swim away from… Interesting item about bottle rockets – the water bottle kind. H2Orocket.com will show you how it’s done. Another story about pigeon bombs and B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning got a few laughs and comments.

Follow up on Leon Barnes’ passing: donations for his memorial will be accepted by Alvin or Charlie Baumgardner. It seems appropriate that one who contributed to South Carolina aviation should end up ‘On the Rock’. We should all be fortunate enough to earn that respect.

Young Eagles Day –October 3rd, Young Eagles at Stevens Aviation, GSP was a huge success by any measure. Plane rides, ground school, static displays, food, fun and even a clown showed up! Final count: 210 kids ferried by 12 pilots. Good show – Stevens went all out for this and everyone appreciated the effort. October 10, at GMU, Col. Capp at Wade Hampton High had another group of ROTC students eager to try the Y/E airplane ride. Dave, Bill, Ad and Van gave 17 students rides. Nice weather, the usually good kids and Mr. Binford demonstrated zero Gs for the passengers. Saturday, Oct. 31 at Greenwood A/P the 1023 chapter will host a Young Eagles Flight. Sorry for the short notice. Interested pilots are invited to add to the airlift.

AGL (A Good Laugh)

It was a really nice day, right about dusk, and a Piper Malibu was being vectored into a long line of airliners in order to land at Kansas City.

KC Approach: "Malibu three-two-Charlie, you're following a 727, one o'clock and three miles." Three-two-Charlie: "We've got him. We'll follow him."

KC Approach: "Delta 105, your traffic to follow is a Malibu, eleven o'clock and three miles. Do you have that traffic?"

Delta 105: (long pause and then in a thick southern drawl): "Well...I've got something down there. Can't quite tell if it's a Malibu or a Chevelle, though."

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie!’… while looking for a rock.

There are three kinds of people; those who can count and those who can’t.

If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?

Give me ambiguity, or give me something else!

Flying Tales – I forgot to credit last month’s insert story to Danny Kight. Fortunately, his

‘engine stop now’ happened right over the airport, so it was only a scary, quiet glide back to the safe place. I had a similar lucky flight a few years ago with Roy Wright. He gave me a ride in his Ercoupe while testing out some new autopilot circuitry he was developing. The oil filler cap is fairly smooth, and he failed to tighten it completely. The autopilot wasn’t working as well as the earlier ground test showed, so we cut the flight short over Easley and went back to the shed. He taxied to the hangar and stepped into a growing puddle of 40 W – the crankcase had pressurized enough to pop the filler cap off and was coughing oil all over the fuselage. We had planned to track the Foothills VOR to test things out – not the best place to go gliding.

Oh, well. Any landing you can slide away from…

This month’s tale is told by Ad Claessens. ‘Many a pilot was buried on a sunny day’.

Ad was smarter than that and resisted the ‘get-home-itis’ urge.

Any other I learned about flying from that stories from the members would be appreciated, both for the lessons learned the cheap way and for their story value. Everyone who has attended a meeting knows how much we love a good hangar tale, and the smart ones stay around to hear more of them.

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are held in the front conference room located in the main terminal building of the Greenville Downtown Airport, Cornerstone Aviation, 100 Tower Drive, first Monday of every month at 7:30 PM. The Chapter 249 Newsletter of the Experimental Aircraft Association is a monthly publication and is distributed to all members in good standing of Chapter 249. Any articles, items, stories, etc., contained within are not to be interpreted as 100% factual. Reproduction and use of material printed in this publication is approved and encouraged, and permission of EAA Chapter 249 is not required unless stated otherwise. Kindly cite the source as the Chapter 249 Newsletter. Articles published herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Chapter, the editor, membership, or officers. The deadline for items to be published is Monday following the monthly meeting. All copy and other materials should be mailed to the Newsletter Editor at 115 Greenbrier Dr., Simpsonville, SC 29680.


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