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Chapter 101 of the Experimental Aircraft Association December, 2007

The President’s Page ……….by John Nowicki

Happy Holidays ! Sitting here at my desk thinking about the Holi-days that just seem to creep up with out warning’ as usual, I realize another year really has passed. I remember as a kid waiting forever for things to happen like school to let out, vacation and Christ-mas. My folks would say that patience was a vir-tue and things would happen when they were ready and that when you get older you would wish and hope for the opposite. I now know what they meant. We have had a very busy and exciting year. It’s difficult to remember all the activities we sup-ported this year as well as or own. Some of the more memorable ones always are at the top of the list such as Oshkosh and Sun N Fun. The other one that comes to mind that made the most im-pact at least in my mind was the chapter silk screening night. We were so proud how smoothly everything went and how many shirts we were able to screen. The assembly line was running like a finely tuned 27 cylinder high horsepower radial engine without oil leaks. The equipment and materials performed without a hitch, the cleanup crew shut the lights out well before midnight. A few days later, it was brought to our attention that something had terribly gone wrong. The ink did not dry on some of the shirts. I guess our finely tuned radial encountered some problems. It was later learned that the ink needed to be heat- set. It was very easy to recognize our chapter members at Air Venture 2007. All you had to do was look for a blue-inked tie-dyed type of a shirt and you knew where they belonged. We will get it corrected for the next time if you all trust us. There is a lot to be said for our bunch, we defi-nitely know how to have a good time, make a diffi-cult situation work, always be there for for fellow chapter members and most importantly, we make some great memories. Merry Christmas and

happy New year from my family to yours. Safety/Maintenance Pull-type starters on older Cessna aircraft: – When you flip on the master switch, click the mags to both and pull that “T” handle, you are actually causing the starter to engage with the engine through a set of gears. You can’t be lazy, you have to pull with some authority. If you don’t, you may start to cause improper wear on the gear teeth. If this mechanism is not properly adjusted you will do the same thing. If either of these conditions continue, the wear will also continue to a point where a fracture of one or more of the teeth will occur and your engine may not start. More importantly, all the broken teeth and metal shavings are now in your engine. I don’t think we need to elaborate on what comes next. Coupe Chronicles I thought painting an aircraft was fairly difficult. I think the engine parts are worse. Finishing up the engine case proved to be a bigger ordeal than anticipated. Taping over smooth aluminum is one thing, but taping over rough cast surfaces is an adventure. I think there is more time in pre-paring everything for paint than the actual assembly. I con-tinually get reminded on how long things take. It’s amazing how quickly we forget. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Story of the Month A friend of mine, who is an airline copilot, told the following stories about a captain with whom he often flew. This guy was an excellent pilot, but not real good at making passen-gers feel at ease. For example, one time the airplane in front of him blew a tire on landing, scattering chunks of rubber all over the run-way. He was asked to hold while the trucks came out and cleaned up

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Chapter Officers PRESIDENT John Nowicki 630-293-4043 e-mail: eagle18ln@aol.com VICE PRESIDENT Dave Thompson—630-529-2637 DIRECTORS Dick Cimino – 630-851-9756 Lou Bos – 630-543-4448 Glenn Linde—lindetool@sbcglobal.net Craig Nowicki – 630-969-4878 SEC/TREASURER Dolores Neunteufel – 630-543-6743 PROGRAM CHAIRMEN Rich Wegel—rwegel@comcast.net COMMITTEES PROJECT CHAIRMEN John Ditchie – 630-858-7920 Mario Ponton – 773–478-0820 TECHNICAL COUNSELORS John Nowicki— 630-293– 4043 George Brunkalla – 630-529-5944 YOUNG EAGLES COORDINATOR Chuck Soumar—708-788-6390 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Connie Bos – 630-543-4448 Kathy Thompson – 630-516-0842 SOCIAL SECRETARY Linda Ditchie – 630-858-7920 COMMUNICATIONS 101 fax – 630-543-9748 101 e-mail – eaa101@sbcglobal.net Web Site: http://www.eaa101.org

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Next Meeting Tuesday, December 18, 2007

7:30 P.M. Schaumburg Regional Airport

Schaumburg Regional Airport is located approximately one mile west of Roselle/Bloomingdale Road on Irving Park Road at Wright Boule-vard. Chapter meetings are always held on the third Tuesday of the month in the terminal building (in the ‘Meeting Room’) at Schaumburg Re-gional Airport. Everyone is welcome. Bring a guest.

November Meeting Notes

The meeting was called to order at 7:32 P.M by John Nowicki. . The min-utes and treasurer’s report were accepted. Kathy Thompson introduced new member, Walt King, and gave a short ex-planation of what our chapter is about. Bob Haney volunteered to host a builder’s night, probably in January. Chuck Soumar reported on Young Eagles and stated that any money do-nated to our Young Eagles program will be put into an interest-bearing ac-count until it’s needed. Glenn LaRocco gave an explanation of the airplane he is preparing that will be displayed on a pedestal at the VFW in West Chicago. The meeting adjourned at 8:11 P.M. followed by the program presented by John Nowicki. Submitted by: Dolores Neunteufel, Secretary

Program Ed Godfrey will be our guest speaker this month. Ed served in WWII, Korea and VietNam and has flown many different air-planes including the F4U Corsair and jets. He’s also had some experience in building and racing cars. This should be a very interesting program.

Thanks To

Chuck Soumar, Skip Meyers, Kathy Thompson and Cindy Thompson for their contributions to this newsletter.

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In Next Month’s Newsletter • What’s new at AirVenture • Summer events • Meet our Members

BIRTHDAYS: Happy Birthday to Bob Bejna, George Northam, Linda Ditchie, Diane Pisula and to all cele-brating a birthday in December. NEWSLETTER: Thanks for all your contributions to our newsletter during 2007. Keep sending your news items,

cartoons, photos and articles to 333 W. Fullerton Ave, Addison, IL 60101 – Phone: 630-543-6743 – FAX: 630-543-9748 – e-mail: eaa101@sbcglobal,net. The deadline for our January newsletter is January 8, 2008. FREE RAFFLE: We had three lucky winners of our free raffle at our November meeting, Butch Bejna, Rich Wegel and Dick Ci-mino. We’ll have another free raffle at this meeting JANUARY PROGRAM: Mike Stadfeld of Woodlake Refinish-ing at Sandwich Airport will be our guest speaker at our January meeting and will bring us all the latest information on how to get the best paint job on your airplane. CHRISTMAS PARTY: Kudos to the 38 intrepid 101ers who braved weather not fit for man nor beast and came to our 101 Christmas party on December 15th. We’ve always been pretty lucky to have decent weather for the party, but not this time. Eve-ryone enjoyed a lot of good food and went home with a with a gift. Lou Bos won the door prize, a DVD of Oshkosh AirVenture 07. Thanks to everyone who helped with the set-up, clean-up, etc. It makes the evening easier and more enjoyable for everyone. Cindy Thompson made the cute candy jar party favors everyone got to take home. And a big ‘Thank You’ to Santa’s helpers, Savanna and Lauren White, led us in a Christmas song and passed out the grab bag gifts.

E V E N T S December 18, 2007—Chapter 101 Meeting January 15, 2008—Chapter 101 Meeting April 8-17, 2008—Sun ‘n Fun July 28 - August 3, 2008—AirVenture Oshkosh

Chapter Chicks Our next meeting will be in mid-January. The date, time and place will be published in the January newsletter. Our next project will be making centerpieces for chapter dinner which will be in March. We found a cute idea at AirVenture last year and will probably duplicate that as a party favor. We still need an idea for the centerpieces, so if you know of something we can make, let us know.

PRESIDENT: Continued from page 2. His announcement: “Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m afraid there will be a short delay before our arrival. They’ve closed the airport while they clean up what’s left of the last airplane that landed here.” Then there was the time they were flying through turbulence. Some of the passengers became alarmed at how much the wings were bending in the rough air and one of the flight attendants relayed that message to the captain. His announcement: “ Ladies and Gentlemen. I’ve been informed that some of you have noticed our wings bending in the turbulence. In fact, the flight attendant told me that the wings are bending as much as ten feel in the bumps. Well, that’s perfectly normal; there’s nothing to worry about. Our wings are designed to bend as much as thirteen feet at the tips and, as you can see, we’re nowhere near that yet.

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Ads are published free to chapter members. They will run for three months unless oth-erwise specified.

Send information to: EAA Chapter 101 333 W. Fullerton Ave Addison, IL 60101

Phone: 630-543-6743 FAX: 630-543-9748 E-mail: eaa101@aol.com

Schaumburg Regional Airport 905 West Irving Park Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 6-172

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FOR SALE: Kit Plane, Tri-gear Quickie II. 75 hp. Revmaster engine, Almost ready for flight test. $22,000.00. Hangar 88 at Aurora Airport. Gordon Hanson—630-545-2107. WANTED: World War I engines/ air-frames or replicas—Hispano-Suiza, Mer-cedes, Hall-Scott, Liberty, OX-5, Sie-mens-Halske, Oberursel, Clerget, LeR-hone, Gnome, other rotaries, etc. 706-348-7514.

FOR SALE: 2001 RV-6. 340 hrs TT. Lycoming 0-320-1700 hrs TT. Dynon D10A, Garmin 250 XL GPS/comm – Garmin GTS 320Q Transp. $63,000 630-513-6671 FOR SALE: Pulsar. Oshkosh Cham-pion. Rotax 582 engine, GSC ground adjustable prop, VFR panel with Terra mini avionics, TTA&E480 hrs.

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905 West Irving Park Rd. Phone: 847-985-9777 FAX: 847-985-1978

Contact: Mr. Mark Clements

Services at Northwest Aviation – Aircraft rentals

Flight Instruction + Ground School + Flight Reviews Instrument Proficiency Checks Single Engine + Multi-Engine

FAA Approved Simulator

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Fresh Annual with sale. $30,000.00. Mark Burrow—816-795-8871. FOR SALE: Used Lycoming oil filter spin-on adapter, like new, fits most Lycomings. FAA, PMA. $200—906-770-1368. FOR SALE: 1946 Cessna 140 TT:2956. TSOH: 733. Hangared. Broadhead, WI. $21,000. 608-882-6508

101 Eagle – O – Meter

Ed Wolter 1 Francis Wolfe 3 William S. Widden 6 Norm Wandke 129 Ron Wagner 6 Bob Wagner 10 Tom Thompson 9 Paul Tanzar 4 Mark Streitz 6 Sam Slocum 2 Bryan Sill 70 Ben Scola 251 Darrel Puls 2 Mario Ponton 251 Joseph Pate 5 John Nowicki 42 George Northam 49 Mike Neunteufel 100 Ken Miess 26 Skip Meyers 31 Reinhard Metz 11 Keith McNab 33 Patrick McIntyre 32 Steve Mrowczynski 247 Joe Mayer 112 Steve Matter 16 Cynthia Madsen 98 Ken Machynia 146 Glenn Linde 47 Kurt Lawson 10 Ron Laade 22

Glenn Linde 125 Ron Laade 22 Kurt Lawson 10 Bob Krone 3 Michael Kerwin 11 Robert Karton 58 Steve Jans 7 Bob Jaeger 24 Dave Hinkelman 137 Steve Haupert 149 Dave Harvey 21 Victor Hanson 5 Steve Hammond 355 Bob Haney 7 James Hall 6 Ed Hall 6 John Fitzgerald 23 Will Fann 23 Mike Eannarino 91 John Ditchie 33 Bob DeMerrit 6 Russell Danwin 26 Hubert Curry 11 John Cuellar 88 Chris Coltrin 34 Krista Coltrin 4 Larry Coltrin 4 Tim Coltrin 217 Gordon Clark 10 Rhonda Buss 357 Jim Burnham 2 George Brunkalla 16 Lou Bos 253 Bill Borgstrom 20 Bob Bentley 38 Butch Bejna 1379

Total Young Eagles Flown — 1,365,928 ~ Young Eagles Flown By Chapter 101— 5769

Next Young Eagle Rally

Sunday, April 6, 2008 11:30 – 2:30

Schaumburg Regional Airport Contact Chuck Soumar—708-788-6390 for Young Eagle information. Lunch will be served for volunteers. Come out and join in the fun.

Bob Zbonski 24 Ed Wolter 1 Francis Wolfe 3 William S. Widden 6 Norm Wandke 129 Ron Wagner 6 Bob Wagner 10 Tom Thompson 9 Erik Taylor 6 Paul Tanzar 4 Mark Streitz 16 Tim Stencel 3 Chuck Soumar 44 Sam Slocum 2 Bryan Sill 133 Stephen Sievert 22 Ben Scola 261 Bob Richards 12 Kevin Reardon 6 Darrel Puls 2 Richard Pool 3 Mario Ponton 320 Joseph Pate 5 John Nowicki 79 George Northam 55 Mike Neunteufel 112 Ken Miess 76 Skip Meyers 85 Reinhard Metz 11 Keith McNab 33 Patrick McIntyre 32 Steve Mrowczynski 247 Joe Mayer 141 Steve Matter 70 Cynthia Madsen 98 Ken Machynia 146 Ray Luttrel 9

responsibilities of the 101 Young Eagles program. There was a bit of a learning curve, but with the help of everyone in-volved, I got through the first year. I look forward to next year and hope to make it bigger and better. A huge ‘Thank You’ to Kathy Thompson for doing all the paperwork and making sure it got to Oshkosh on time. Thanks to our great volunteer ground crew. You saw some of them pictured in last month’s newsletter but thanks again to George Northam, Tom Thompson, Kathy Thompson, Betty Iwanksi, Dave Thomp-son, Cindy Thompson, Connie Bos, Mario Ponton, Chris Cato, Ed Iwanski, Bob Krone, Kathy Linde, Rich Wegel, John Ditchie, Suzy Nowicki, Jim White, and Lauren and Savanna White To the pilots who gave of their time and experience, thank you very much. It’s difficult to have and Young Eagle Rally without you. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did and I hope to see you all again next year. Merry Christmas to all and a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Here is a partial list of pilots who joined us throughout the year. Complete list and totals next month. Mario Ponton—8 Joe Mayer—16 John Nowicki—22 Lou Bos—34 Chuck Soumar—34 Glenn Linde-23 Mike Eannarino—8 Skip Meyers-17 Steve Haupert— 5 Bryan Sill—24 Bob Zbonski—4 Butch Bejna-41

December Young Eagles By Chuck Soumar

Well, even with all of my optimism about having great weather in De-cember like we had in October and November, it wasn't meant to be. Our last Young Eagle Rally of the year was weathered out with grey skies and low clouds. But this gives me a chance to say ‘Thank You’ to all the great people of chapter 101 who made our year so enjoyable and so much fun. I first want to thank the board for having the trust in me to take on the