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President’s Desk
Anyone had enough cloudy, rainy weather? I sure have.
Reminds me of winters up north where you don’t see the sun for
weeks or months at a time. I moved south for a reason – the
sun!
Have had some fun helping a couple of young gentleman with a
homebuilt project. Nandi’s sons Jay
and Dev had a school project that
involves a wind turbine. As part of
the experiment they wanted to put a
shroud around it to see if that improved the efficiency. So, they came
over to my shop and we
cut some aluminum
strips to make the
shroud. They learned
about cutting, filing,
drilling and clecos. They
also got to use some
wrenches as part of the
assembly. It was fun to
UPCOMING EVENTS
Mar 9: EAA 172 meeting, 10AM at Daniel Field, Augusta (DNL)
Mar 28: EAA 172 Night Out, 6:30PM at Southbound
Smokehouse, Augusta
Apr 13: EAA 172 meeting, Pea Patch (61GA)
South Carolina Breakfast Club
Mar 17: Lexington County Airport, Pelion (6J0)
Mar 31: Lee County - Butters Field, Bishopville (52J)
March 2019Chapter 172 Augusta, Georgia
Chapter Officers President Allen Nodorft
706-955-1049
Vice President Nandi Shetty
Secretary Jeff Lovejoy
Treasurer Sandy Walther
Tech Advisor Dave Dent
Webmaster Joseph Britt
watch them learn. The boys won 3rd place with their project. They ran the wind turbine with and
without the shroud to see if there was any efficiencies from the shroud. They demonstrated a 4%
increase in efficiency with the shroud attached.
Maybe someday they can build their dad an RV-12. I bet if they do, Nandi will never get to fly it –
they’ll be in it all the time!
Fly safe!
Al
March Meeting: The March meeting will be at Daniel Field, in the upstairs conference room. Our presentation will be
about flying in Antarctica from Dave Rossi, who spent quite a bit of time down there. There will be
coffee, pastries, and other goodies. If you feel like baking and bringing something along, by all means
please do! After the meeting, the plan is to go to lunch over at the Village Cafe. Hope you’ll join us!
This month’s Night Out/Eat Out will be at the Southbound Smokehouse at 1855 Central Avenue,
Augusta, (706) 733-5464. We’ll meet about 6:30PM on Thursday, March 28th. Please join us -- we try
to get there a little early for socializing and beverages!
February Meeting Minutes: Thanks to all who came to Augusta Regional Airport for the tour of StandardAero. We had a good
showing of 27 members, and four guests.
There was no actual meeting, so no
minutes/items were discussed. The tour of
StandardAero’s facility was conducted by
David Coley, who showed us the airframe
overhauls, and Chris Jones who provided
details of their engine support services. We
were split into two groups where each
learned about Standard’s Major Periodical
Inspections (MPI) and Core Zone
Inspections (CZI) of the Honeywell TFE731
turbofan engines, overhaul capability of
TPE331 turboprop engines, line service and
“minor” servicing of the HTF7000 engines,
and full overhaul capability of the GTCP36-
150 series auxiliary power units (APUs).
We also heard about
their scheduled
airframe inspection
and repair services as
well as avionics
services and
installations. There
were Bombardier
Challengers, Dassault
Falcon 90s & 2000s,
an Embraer Legacy, a
few Hawkers, and a
couple of Learjets all
in various states of
disassembly! Many thanks to David and Chris who took time out of their Saturday morning to
provide the tours.
Meeting Schedule Month Day Time Event Location Food March 9 10:00
am Flying in Antarctica - Dave Rossi
Daniel Field Coffee & Pastries Village Deli (lunch)
April 13 12:30 pm
XP-82 Flights - Don Bush Pea Patch Fish Fry
May 11 9:00 am
Young Eagles Flights Daniel Field TBD
June 8 11:00 am
Tour of FAA Tower & Airport Rescue & Fire Fighting, Augusta
Augusta Regional
Sconyers BBQ (?)
July 13 TBD TBD TBD TBD August 10 12:30
pm Vacation Flying - Sandy Howard Pea Patch Burgers & Hot Dogs
September 14 9:00 am
Wrens Fly-in Wrens N/A
More From the President’s Desk
All, I recently received this letter from Light Sport USA. I don’t usually post advertising material, but
this sounds like a pretty good deal if you’re looking to upgrade your avionics and/or your panel!
Al
For Sale
Parting-out 1968 Cessna 177 Cardinal (fixed-gear), Lycoming O-320, 150hp. If interested, contact Don Gay at [email protected] -or- (478) 982-3421 / cell (706) 871-0241.
NAME THAT AIRPLANE?
This month’s homebuilt is a scratch-build from plans, similar to last month’s airplane. The design
has won several ‘Grand Champion, Plan-built Aircraft’ awards at Oshkosh through the years. Plans
are available online for free, and yours to download if you can identify this aircraft!
Last month’s ‘name that airplane’ was a Stolp SA-500 Starlet. There aren’t many out there,
but this tube & fabric aircraft is available as a “plans” airplane from Aircraft Spruce. The
Bi-plane version is called the Starduster. This particular airframe, N23ME, resides in
Arizona.