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Table of Contents
December Program ...................1Events Calendar ...................1
Vets Parade ….................1Holiday Treat ….................2
Fire From the Ground ….................3F ly Mart ...................4
News/Notes from the Editor ...................4Board Minutes ...................6
General Minutes ...................7Contact Information ...................7
The Flying WireChapter 124
Experimental Aircraft Association
Volume 54 Number 12Dec 2, 2015
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December 2, 2015 Program
Jeane Slone
Local Author and Pacific Coast Air Museum member, JeaneSlone talk about her third and latest book: “She Was An AmericanSpy During WW II”. Her historical novel tells of a young womanwho becomes a spy with the OSS. The book also describes herhusband’s selection into a program involving American glidersduring WW II.
Events Calendar
Please send info about upcoming events!Please send us information if it comes your way!
Bob Gutteridge: [email protected] Deal: [email protected]
January 1: New Years FlyoutNovember, December: Movie Night Canceled
Petaluma Veterans Day Parade(Contributed by Larry Rengstorf)
A little history about the parade from the website:From 1967 to 1983, Julius Forcucci & 2 WWI buddies walked
the parade together. In 1983 one friend died & the other was ill, so Forcucci walked
alone carrying an American Flag in 1984 and 1985. In 1986, 50 veterans joined him and the annual parade began.Julius Forcucci died Sept. 7, 1988 at age 94. During the 1988
Veterans Day Parade a riderless horse with it's stirrups tied to thesaddle led the parade in honor of Forcucci.
Over the years the parade has grown. In the early 90's theparade reached 100 entries. The 2014 parade had over 190 entrieswith over 2,000 participants. The estimated crowd was over40,000.
It is the largest Veterans Day Parade north of the Golden Gate.
Was in the Petaluma Veterans Day Parade, I rode with my goodfriend Darrel in his WWII Jeep.
He is a WWII vet (flew P-47's) and was a POW- only 94 years young.
We had a great time waving to the crowd. Really great turn out - 4-5 deep at times.
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Here's a few pics. I want to drive the Tank next year!! LR
(Ed. Whoever took this picture is someone that can get theseguys to smile. This is all good news)
A Holiday Treat From Congress (by Gail Collins from the NY Times )
In honor of the coming vacation travel season, the Senate isworking on a bill that would loosen the requirement that pilots takemedical examinations.
Yes! I know that’s been on your mind a lot, people. Next week,as you gather around the Thanksgiving table, be sure to expressyour gratitude to Congress. If you hear a small plane buzzingoverhead, drink a toast to the future, when the folks in America’scockpits may no longer be burdened with repressive, old-fashionedhealth monitoring.
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Pop quiz: Which of the following aviation issues would you liketo see your elected representatives resolve by the end of 2015?
— Ban those laser lights that stupid kids keep flashing in pilots’eyes.
— Do something about all the damned drones flying aroundairports.
— End the passenger peril of being squashed by a recliningseat.
“The U.S. Senate has an excruciatingly difficult time doinganything, and here they’re dismantling something that’s beenworking pretty well,” complained Senator Richard Blumenthal ofConnecticut. He is opposed to the bill in question, and that putshim in pretty select company. More than two-thirds of hiscolleagues are co-sponsors.
We are talking here about general aviation pilots, the men andwomen who fly private planes. They’re currently required to get amedical exam by an F.A.A.-approved physician every five years,and then every two years once they pass 40. The pilotshatehatehate this rule. They claim the doctors are hard to find andcharge too much money. But the great underlying fear is that somestranger with a stethoscope will strip them of the ability to fly.
It’s easy to understand why pilots want to stay aloft. I’veenjoyed every non-campaign-related private flight I’ve ever taken,including in the two-seater owned by an environmentalist who onceflew me over a lake full of pig feces that had been treated withchemicals that turned it the color of Pepto-Bismol.
However, I think I speak for most of America when I say thatwe ought to continue being a little picky about the people we let upthere.
The bill’s lead sponsor, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, is avery enthusiastic 81-year-old pilot who starred in an excitingairborne adventure about five years ago, when he landed hisCessna at an airport in Texas despite A) The large “X” on therunway, indicating it was closed, and B) The construction crewworking on said runway, which ran for their lives when he droppedin.
As a result, the senator had to take part in a remedial trainingprogram. This irritated him so much that he successfully sponsoredthe first Pilot’s Bill of Rights, which makes it easier to appeal thatkind of harsh, unforgiving judgment.
Pilots aren't afraid of the FAA mandated exams (or the cost),they're afraid that the results are reported. You can drive a car foryears...
The Senate commerce committee is now considering Inhofe’s
P.B.R. 2, which would eliminate the current medical examrequirement. Instead, pilots would just write a note in their logevery four years saying they’d been to a physician who saideverything’s fine. The bill has 69 sponsors.
Very little in the current world of Washington is that popular.You may be wondering why. Well, although Inhofe is best known asthe climate change denier who once brought a snowball into theSenate to prove the globe isn’t warming, he’s also a very powerfulguy, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment andPublic Works, an architect of this year’s $350 billion highwayconstruction bill.
Plus, there are hundreds of thousands of private pilots, manyof them rather wealthy. “Most of them are single-issue people, so itwould be very good to join in on this,” Inhofe said pointedly in arecent Senate speech. Some small-minded observers suspect healso has personal skin in the game, what with having hadquadruple bypass heart surgery and all.
The bill hit a small snag on Wednesday when Democrats on theSenate commerce committee proposed that the doctors who do thenew exams — who could be anyone from a dermatologist to agolfing buddy — be given a government-approved checklist ofproblems to look for.
They lost on a party-line vote. “My trust is in the physiciancompared to the F.A.A.,” said one of the Republicans. The realproblem was apparently resistance from a certain snowball-makinghighway bill author.
“The answer has always come back from Senator Inhofe’sstaff: No,” complained Bill Nelson of Florida, the ranking Democraton the committee. Nelson, you understand, was not arguing that adermatologist should be off-limits as a pilot medical examiner. Hejust wanted to increase the chances that the patient would beasked if he was subject to dizzy spells.
At that moment the committee suddenly discovered it waslacking a quorum. But everyone expects the bill to rise again intriumph. “It would have been laughable except it’s so serious,” saidBlumenthal.
A version of this op-ed appears in print on November 19, 2015,on page A31 of the New York edition with the headline: A HolidayTreat From Congress. Today's Paper|Subscribe
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The Valley Fire from the Ground(by Judy and Myron Meek)
The Valley fire started about 1:30 Saturday afternoon at 5:00p.m. The TV and CalFire web site said it was about 400 acres andabout 10 miles away behind a hill, so we weren't really concerned.But the smoke overhead was concerning so we left our YankeeValley Rd. home planning to go into town for dinner and the moviein the park.
At the mail boxes on Hartman Rd., we saw a backed up streamof traffic on Donkey Hill Rd trying to get out of the South 9 ontoHartman. We quickly changed our minds and decided to go homeand grab medications and valuables and evacuate. When we wereable to make a u-turn into the mailbox area to go home we sawflames on the hillside between Hartman and Donkey hill within amile of home as the crow flies.
We went back to the house to grab essentials. The power wentout and when we tried to leave again we found smoke and flameshad crossed Boucher Lane in our direction. We turned around andwent back past our house toward the chained exit near the stables.Flames were already closer than the stables and we could not seethe chain through the smoke, so we were trapped. We returned tothe house and decided that since we couldn't get out, our lastresort would be to jump in the pool with wet blankets over ourheads if it became necessary.
The winds were swirling and sending embers in so manydirections that you had no idea where it was safe. Myron startedthe generator so we had water for hoses and the built-in roofsprinkler. Within about 15 minutes of our getting back home, thetree top high wall of fire hit our pool area from over the top of thehill. We were able to keep the wall of fire heading towards us at thefar edge of our defensible perimeter, the back fence. We then hadto defend the well house, the right side of the arbor in the poolarea, Note that flames passed through the weed eaten pool heaterarea but were stopped at the garden fence which was in hoserange.
A a fire crew showed up next door checking on people stilltrapped two hours after the fire passed. They escorted Judy (herhouse burned down at age 3) along with others out of the area -they had to change the route two times because of flames andwires down but Judy did get out to Hwy 29 and at that point allthey could do was tell her to head north. Myron refused toevacuate because we had already stopped the fire in the Cobb
direction. He stayed to keep the generator going and wet down hotspots and stop the back fire. We later realized that the only reasonthe fireman could get to where the fireman met Judy was becauseour and the neighbors (Valdez) perimeter defenses had held. Thefireman was worried about the fire coming up toward us and ourfire breaks at the creek from the opposite direction from right toleft. But the backfire was coming upwind and thus moving slowly,and without flying embers ahead of the flames. I was able to talkto my daughter Melanie on my cell phone holding the garden hosewith the other hand without concern until flames reappeared in thepool area. This required another move of a garden hose. Due tothis reawakening of the fire we lost the corner fence post nearestthe well house. In an oak tree between the well house and the poolarea there was a burning mass, fortunately just withing the reachof the garden hose which had the best distance nozzle on it. A firein a hollow tree near the well house 20 feet into the black was sureto bring it down. The hose reached so I could put it out.
The acre we mow from the creek to the back fence areCalifornia brown. The other four acres are black. The mowing lastspring of the grass near the house, the built in sprinkler on theroof, clearing of dead branches, the generator wired to pump waterand being forced by circumstances to go home allowed us tosucceed.
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Additionally the neighbors toward the stables (Valdez) effortsdeflected the fire so that the fire did not hit us simultaneously onall of the Cobb side of the house. The owners grandsons Kevin &Matt, were also trapped, they actively defended her house with 60gallon jugs of water. They had tree fires near Del's house and wereout with chain saws at 1:00 am. Their house is in the trees on theridge toward Cobb from our house. The cleared back yard helpedthem and us. The house and barn behinds us survived except foran over the road tractor and horse trailer between them. Butacross Yankee Valley Rd. three neighbors houses are gone. Arivulet of aluminum 6 feet long and as big as my wrist, stretchedacross one driveway from the wheels of a car. About 1300 of about2500 houses in the fires path were lost. All 76000 burned acres arein the Middletown school district. Our neighborhood lost 42 with 27surviving.
Since we had intended to both leave together, everything wasin Judy's car including Myron's medications and cell phone charger,so he only had enough with him to last through Monday. When hisblood pressure got up to 165 he headed out Tuesday. Theneighbor's grandson ran our generator at least twice a day until wereturned in exchange for access to water, refer/freezer contentsand hot showers at our house. Another Valdez grandson walkedmedicine in for our across Yankee Valley neighbor 9 miles from
Morgan Valley Rd. They stayed despite losing their house to carefor horses. Care could be brought in through the check point foranimals but not for people.
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Fly Mart
For Sale: (10-15) Stainless Steel firewall material. 26 gauge 4ft X 7ft. $90 for all or $50 for half. Jim Duvander 707-953-0129 [email protected]
For Sale: (8-15) disassembled continental A65 – needs crank andcamshaft. New engine gauges, ammeter, airspeed indicator, new aluminum prop extension and new brake actuator. Paid $400 - Byron Barnes 707-980-4818 [email protected]
For Sale: (7-15) Seat Parachute - needs a fresh repack but otherwise in very good condition. Will sell it cheap to a member if interested $350. Steve Pizzo, 707-829-7038
For Sale: (7-15) RV-6A Tricycle, Less than 80 TT, 180 HP - $79,900. See Flickr link below. Ogden Utah. Call Angelo at 801-391-3873 https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelosrv6a
For Sale: (7-15) Two Bendix magnetos for 4-cylinder Lycoming (Oor IO 320); converted Falco to dual electronic ignition. 1 left, 1 right rotation; both with impulse couplings. Harness, impulse coupling adapters, long mounting studs included. Time in service: 344 hours. Also available: 4 new Tempest massive electrode spark plugs, 4 well-used Champion fine-wire spark plugs, 1 brand-new TSO’d magneto noise filter. $250 each, $450 for both. Peter Lert, [email protected], 707-508-7500.
For Sale: (7-15) Garmin D2 pilot watch with GPS, worldwide airport database. Bought for Atlantic ferry flight that was canceled; worn 1 day to prove it works great, so basically new.Original box and all accessories included. New $450, will sell for $375. Peter Lert, [email protected], 707-508-7500.
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For Sale: (5-15) 1947 8E Luscombe, 85 hp Cont. Engine and airframe TT 1907, 836 SMOH. Annual 2/2015. 800 x 6 tires. Apollo SL60 GPS Receiver and VHF Comm Transceiver. Worn paint. New battery. Ellen Jori (707) 823-7150 [email protected]
For Sale: (3-15) Looking for a partner in a PA24 Comanche. Please contact Don: [email protected]
For Sale: (11-14) Aero Tug E-200 with New Batteries - $800 – contact Bill at (707) 938-1465
For Sale (11-14) Engine Stand for Lycoming and Continental engines - $250 – contact Bill at (707) 938-1465
Share For Sale: (8 - 15) A 1/3 share of an RV-9A is available, hangared at KSTS. TT on 942WG is about 925 hours. Aircraft is worth about $60K total. There is now about 80 hours on a brand new Lycoming O-235-L2C engine, which was installed in March, 2014. 2WG was a "Best of Show Monoplane" award winner at Capital Fly-in (2008). Full Garmin Stack Including a 430 GPS, 2 axis auto pilot, Catto Composite Prop, Electric pitchand flaps, Slider canopy, leather seats, dual controls, nice hangar, and much more. For Details Contact: Mike Shook 707-239-6261. [email protected]
For Sale: (8-13) RV8 – 1/3 Share. Superior IO 360/9.5 pistons, Hartzell Blended Airfoil C/S Prop, IFR Equipped all Glass Panel, Auto Pilot, Smoke System, Approx. 300 hours total time, Contact: Carl von Doymi, [email protected], (415) 845-6448
For Sale: (3-13) AirTech Fuel Cap Tool. This high tech tool helps pilots open many types of aircraft fuel caps, doors and latches. Contact Ryan Beck, [email protected] for information.
News/Notes From the Editor...
Yes the Holidays are upon us
Another season of being difficult to buy for is rolling toward uslike a freight train. You can make a list, but before you know it you
will find yourself clicking on the “Place Your Order” button andchanging your list again. Of course, some folks have the disciplineto refuse all gifts and tell everybody to give it to a deservingcharity. But that only puts a cork in the need for the expressivespending that is part of the season.
But wait! You are a member of a club that gets the whole “If itflies, it's good by definition!” thing. You can be yourself and shareyour urge to fly and talk about aircraft. Nobody looks at you weirdfor saying you could build an airplane. You get encouragement tofollow your dream at every turn.
So feel brave and strong and let that confidence carry youforward. Yes the holiday spirit is everywhere but since you arefeeling strong, you can make it through. We are on your side.
Interesting Aviation Links (thanks Larry Rengstorf)
Spitfire Presentation- Click HereValdez Fly-In & Air Show - Click HereBucket List Fodder – Click HerePBOR2 - Click Here
(Reprinted with permission of John L Hart FLP)
EAA Chapter 124 Board Meeting MinutesNovember 4, 2015
We will print the minutes if they become available.
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EAA Chapter 124 General Meeting MinutesNovember 4, 2015
We will print the minutes if they become available
Ryan SCW
Chapter 124 Contact Information
President: Jim Boyer (15/16) (707) 571-8001
Vice President: Andy Werback (15) (707) 823-5616
Secretary: Mark Tuma (14/15) (707) 953-2403
Treasurer: John Whitehouse (15/16) (707) 539-5549
Board: Ray Shipway (15/16) (415) 584-9682
Ben Barker (15) (707) 838-0238
David Heal (14/15) (707) 953-5021
Steve Smith (14/15) (707) 538-4522
Sher Shipway (15/16) (415) 584-9682
Ron Cassero (15/16) (707) 291-8958
Facilities Chairman: Larry Rengstorf (14/15) (707) 575-0331
Facilities Committee:
Dwayne Green, Dale Wittman, Jim Long
Webmaster: John Palmerlee [email protected] (707) 566-8560
Newsletter Editor: Stuart Deal (707) 328-4206
Technical Counselors:
Bob Gutteridge (707) 539-5188
David Heal (707) 953-5021
Jerry Rice (707) 431-0206
Kevin Quirk (707) 539-8589
Doug Dugger (530) 526-4997
Rolf Unternaehrer (707) 763-7729
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Flight Advisers: CJ Stephens home: (707) 836-1458cell: (707) 799-2878
David Heal home: (707) 838-0261cell: (707) 953-5021
Young Eagles: Sher & Ray Shipway (415) 999-0949
Librarian: Walt Ferris (415) 482-8331
EAA Chapter 1245550 Windsor RoadWindsor, CA 95492
Chapter meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm. FOOD ($7) AND SOCIALIZING (free) from 6:15 to 7:00 pm. EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
Directions: The site is located on the west side of Sonoma CountyAirport. Take the Shiloh Road exit from Highway 101 in northernSanta Rosa. Turn left at the stop light (west) and continue to a “T”intersection. Turn left again and follow the road to the EAA sign onthe left.
Members are invited to submit articles of interest. You will be notified whether or not an article will appear in the current issue.
Please email articles to: [email protected] mail to: Stuart Deal
430 Secretariat CtSanta Rosa, CA 95401
Deadline for newsletter submissions is the 20th of each month.Articles submitted after that date will be included in the newsletterat the discretion of the editor. All articles are copyrighted. Toreproduce any article, please contact the editor.
EAA CHAPTER 124 is not responsible for any modification ormaintenance items appearing in the newsletter or in any othercorrespondence. It is the responsibility of the reader to getapproval for such items from the appropriate A&P, FAA or othergovernment official.
Ryan SCW
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