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T H U N F I E L D T H U N D E R
T H U N F I E L D
T H U N D E R
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
F E B M E E T I N G
M I N U T E S 1
T R E A S U R Y R E -
P O R T & V I S T O R
R E P O R T
2
N O R T H W E S T A V I A -
T I O N C O N F E R -
E N C E
3
M I K E L A T T A P R O -
J E C T P I C T U R E S 4
S E R V I C E B U L L E -
T I N 1 4 - 0 2 - 0 5 5
S E R V I C E B U L L E -
T I N 1 4 - 0 1 - 3 1 6
E D I T O R S C O R N E R 7
B I O G R A P H Y 8
S P E C I A L P O I N T S
O F I N T E R E S T :
Next Meeting: Tuesday
March 11th 7 pm
CAP building Thun
Field
VP Tom Brown is in California.
Andy Karmy added the tool crib in our website,
complete with pictures of all of our goods.
Joe Andre said that Harry Nelson donated wing
jacks for high wing planes. Joe also said that
someone has
called him about wing racks with casters for free
if the chapter would like them.
Kevin announced that there are six camping
sites at the Arlington Air show already paid
for (WB 8-10 and WC 8-10)
and has four more sites available. If interested,
please contact Kevin. Arlington Air show is
scheduled for July 10 - 12.
Camp sites are available the 9th through Sunday
the 13th.
Kevin announced Team Flight One is drilling
holes for the rear plexi-glass and with Team
Flight Two, part of the kids are working on the
wings and the other part are working on the fu-
selage. They will be bringing Team Flight One to
the Northwest Aviation Conference.
Ken Finney is heading up the Northwest Aviation
Conference and is asking for volunteers to "man"
or "woman" the booth.
You may sign up through our website that Andy
has designed. There are still some empty
slots. Ken is also asking for folks
who work our area (Rachel asked that we not
call it a booth, but area) to volunteer to help
Rachel with monitoring the FAA and the
IA seminars. A lot of folks try to walk in at the
last minute to obtain continuing education cred-
its and the FAA is trying to discourage that.
If you are someone that needs the credit, you
could kill two birds with one stone by tending the
doors and receiving the credit too.
You can sign up for either of these on our web-
site also. Andy said that the website is supposed
to send out reminders two days in advance.
Ken asked that we be clean shaven and sober!
Ken also said it would be a nice gesture to wear
our "squadron" gear so if you
have something with our 326 logo, try to wear
that so that we may represent our chapter.
Curt Bryan will be bringing his friends gyrocopter
to the NWC. Tables will be provided.
Bryce Johnson had his first flight of his RV9-A out
of Auburn and happy to report it was
"uneventful"! Congratulations Bryce!
Ken Finney wanted to let everyone know that we
have a chapter library if you have any aviation
magazines or books to donate.
Darin Anderson brought a brand new battery to
show off. It was a Shorai Lithium 12V with 405
cold cranking amps to replace the Odyssey. It
weighs only 4 lbs. and may be used on experi-
mentals only. The cost was $180.00 on Amazon
plus $80.00 for the charger.
Randy brought up the service bulletins from
Vans Air Force that are out on the tail and the
elevator attach points, making sure everyone
was aware of
the information going out. Where the front spar
on the horizontal stabilizer attaches to the fuse-
lage there are relieving notches that came from
the factory on the newer kits and the hairline
cracks are developing in that area. The older kits
don't have the relieving notches. Randy believes
that the cracks are caused by harmonic shaking
of the tail during prolonged slow engine idling.
The other bulletin was in reference to the eleva-
tor attach points where the uniball rod
ends come through. Randy cheked that area for
small cracks that propagated from the reinforc-
ing plate. Andy Karmy said it starts with jam
nuts. When they are loose, which is an early
indicator, it starts pivoting over time on just the
two rivets that hold the nut plate on back and
M E E T I N G M I N U T E S — F E B 2 0 1 4
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Bryce Johnson
had his first
flight of his RV9-
A out of Auburn
and happy to
report it was
"uneventful"!
will eventually cause cracks around the
two rivets. It will eventually crack through
the doubler and the spar. As long as the
jam nuts are tight, it will hold the sandwich
together. Andy said it doesn't seem to have
any correlation to the engine size or opera-
tions as some planes with big engines that
do aerobatics may have no cracks while an
IO 320 with few hours may have cracks.
Kevin mentioned putting a lock washer with
the jam nut to spread the stress out a little.
Randy checked our jam nuts and they were
all tight. This information is off of Vans
website and if you notice cracks, you may
go to their website for further instruc-
tions. The directives do say to check your
airplane before the next flight, no matter
how many hours. Even if you are still build-
ing, it is advised to check.
Norm with Treasury Report:
Start - $6,587.28
expenses - $ 295.69
rent x 2 yrs. $ 900.00
end - $5,391.59
A check for $3,000.00 has been written for
the trailer but has not been deducted yet
from account.
Reminder that Norm has t-shirt and slip over
clothing, but no hats at this time. Contact
Norm if your wardrobe needs updating.
T R E A S U R Y R E P O R T — F E B
V I S I T O R S — F E B R U A R Y
Dave Crawford from Puyallup and a friend of
Mike Latta is an Air force Meteorologist.
Mark Stewart joined the chapter. Mark is from
Orting and is interested in LSA / building.
Shawn Magin has joined the chapter. Shawn is
from Puyallup and has built a ton of RC
planes and wants to graduate to bigger
planes. He obtained his PPL in 1999.
Randy Bourne joined our chapter online and
has been a member of the Army Flying club.
Harry Nelson’s Rocket
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N O R T H W E S T A V I A T I O N C O N F E R E N C E
The Northwest Aviation Conference
was held at the Puyallup Fair-
grounds the weekend of February
22nd and 23rd. Here are a couple
of pictures I took of our Chapter
booth and the Young Eagles display.
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P R O J E C T R E P O R T — M I K E L A T T A
A few pictures provided by Mike Latta of his Interstate Ca-
det project.
S E R V I C E B U L L E T I N 1 4 - 9 2 - 0 5
http://www.vansaircraft.com/pdf/sb14-02-05.pdf
Date Released: February 5, 2014
Date Effective: February 5, 2014
Subject: Cracking in elevator spar web near elevator attach points.
Affected Models: All RV-3, 4, 6/6A, 7/7A, 8/8A Flying aircraft
Required Action: Inspect for cracks as described in this document. Stop-Drill cracks (if present) then apply E-00001A and E-
00001B Hinge Doubler fix as required to cracked elevator hinge positions. RV-3,4 and 6/6A customers will need to fabricate their own doublers using E-00001A and E-00001B as a guideline.
Time of Compliance: Inspect before further flight.
- If no cracks are detected, re-inspect at every annual condition inspection or until E-00001A or E-00001B Hinge Dou-bler repair has been installed.
- If cracks are detected, the E-00001A and E-00001B Hinge Doubler repair must be installed at the cracked hinge po-sition before further flight.
Supersedes Notice: SB14-02-03
Synopsis:
Cracks have been found near the rivets attaching the nutplates that hold the elevator rod ends to the E-702 Spar and E-610PP or E-611PP Spar Reinforcement Plates. See Figure 1, Figure 2 and corresponding elevator assembly plans pages.
Method of Compliance:
NOTE: Installation of this service bulletin as preventative maintenance is not recommended. If cracking has occurred at an outboard
hinge position, install a doubler only at that position.
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S E R V I C E B U L L E T I N 1 4 - 0 1 - 3 1
Date Released: January 31, 2014
Date Effective: January 31, 2014
Subject: Cracking near the bend in horizontal stabilizer front spar.
Affected Models: All RV-6/6A,7/7A,8/8A Flying or under construction
Synopsis:
Cracks in the forward spar of the horizontal stabilizer have been found emanating from the stress relief notch at the inboard end of the spar flanges.
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Greetings everybody! My name is Darin Ander-
son and I have volunteered to take over as editor
of our chapter newsletter. I have never done
something of this type before so it's going to be
an adventure for all of us. There are really two
reasons why I asked for this position. First I want
to get to know everybody in the chapter and I
couldn’t think of a better way.
Next I want to help others that might be new to
the chapter, or just a little shy, in getting to know
the chapter members. As such I am going to ask
each of you to do me a favor and send me a little
biographical information about you. I am going
to include mine below and in my bio I tried to
answer a few questions that I thought others
might be interested in. You don’t have to follow
the same format, in fact you don’t have to follow
any format, just tell us a little about you.
I plan on adding a few new (or new to me any-
way) items to this newsletter. You will notice I
sprinkled a couple of chapter member aircraft
pictures into this newsletter. I would love to do
more of this in future newsletters so please send
me any pictures you wouldn’t mind sharing with
the newsletter viewers. You can send anything
to me at my email address
Finally I would love to be able to do some
project status updates in this newsletter. If
you have a project status you would like to
share please either email me an update or
point me at your blog/website status and I
will pull some information from there to be
published here.
E D I T O R S C O R N E R
Jeff Bloomquists’ RV-7A
I plan on adding
a few new (or
new to me
anyway) items
to this
newsletter.
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Current Airplane(s): RV-9A building
Tell us a little about you.
I am currently engaged to a wonderful woman, Amy, and I
have two adult children Travis and Mariah. I will soon
have two step children but not sure when that will happen.
I work downtown Seattle in the Assisted Living industry as
an IT Director. Besides flying and building airplanes I am a
big technology geek.
How did you get involved in flying?
I have been fascinated by airplanes as long as I can re-
member. I remember doodling airplanes on the margins
of my homework and notes while in grade school (ok, it
might have been on the desk too). My dream was to be-
come a military pilot followed by a career as a commercial
pilot but those dreams were somewhat derailed by the
fact that my vision was not 20/20 uncorrected which at
the time rules me out of military flying, or so I was told. It
wasn’t until I was in my 30’s before I finally took the
plunge and got my PPL.
How did you get involved in building/EAA?
Well, as everybody knows, building is much cheaper than
buying right?!? Ok, so now I know that’s not true but grow-
ing up I had fond memories of Lancairs, Velocity’s, and
Glasairs filling my head. Of course those
were all dreams that I figured I would have to
win the lottery to fulfill. That all changed last
year when my brother asked me to look at a
Cherokee he was interested in purchasing. In
the hangar with the Cherokee was an RV-7A
that sent my mind whirling! I knew I wanted
to get back into flying (I had pretty much quite
for about 15 years) and after a month or so of
looking at spam can’s I sat down and asked
myself what I really wanted out of an airplane.
Well no production aircraft could meet all of
my needs but that RV-7A kept popping back into my
mind as an airplane that could meet all my needs. It
didn’t take me long to drive down to Van’s, purchase the
empennage kit, take a ride in the RV-9A and head home.
On that trip home I stopped by Thun field to purchase a
pneumatic rivet squeezer from Jeff Bloomquist who not
only took me over and introduced me to Harry Nelson
but also took me flying in his 7A! His generosity and
enthusiasm is something I have come to find is very
common in the EAA.
What is your most memorable flight ?
It’s hard to pick a most memorable flight but if I have to
choose it would be the first time I flew in the left seat. It
was during one of those “discovery” flights down in San
Diego and the only thing I really remember about the
flight was looking down at the runway as we made our
approach and wondering how the heck we were going to
land on that tiny strip of asphalt! Needless to say that
flight was the beginnings of a dream come true.
B I O — D A R I N A N D E R S O N
Darin Andersons RV-9A
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E A A C H A P T E R 3 2 6
http://www.eaa326.org
President - Randy Albritton 253-214-6035
Vice President - Tom Brown 253-847-2507
Secretary - Kerry Albritton 253-214-6035
Treasurer - Norman Pauk 253-630-6396
NL Editor - Darin Anderson 206-491-5232
Photographer - Andy Karmy 253-333-6695
Webmaster - Andy Karmy 253-333-6695
Young Eagles & Eagles Nest - Darrin Dexheimer 312-520-4300
Technical Counselor - Harold Smith 253-752-5480
Technical Counselor - Charlie Cotton 360-893-6719
Chapter Flight Advisor - Jim Triggs 360-438-1482
Chapter Flight Advisor - Marv Scott 253-691-5496
Program Coordinator - Steve Dickinson 206-948-2563
Biographer - Kerry Albritton 253-214-6035
Tool Custodian - Joe Andre 253-539-2408
Chapter Hangar Project - George Lightner 253-584-9477
EAA Chapter 326
The Mount Rainier Chapter
Pierce County Airport - Thun Field
Puyallup, WA 98374
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