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Chapter Officers
President:
John Wigney
704.664.4167
Vice President:
Kevin Cromie
704-366-8529
Secretary:
Don Sink
704.663.5834
Treasurer:
Sam Stewart
704-588-0776
Directors:
Dale Ensing, Sara Forrest, Bill Repucci, John Schroeder & Bob Thayer
Young Eagles
Coordinator: Don Sink
Technical Counselors: Kent Ashton, Neil Stewart, Dale Ensing, Andy Moscarelli, Ron Murray, Ronnie Brown and Glenn Babcock.
Flight Advisors:
Dale Ensing & Ronnie Brown
Newsletter & Web Page
Editor:
Ronnie Brown
704.892.5122
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Here's the schedule of upcoming Dinner Meetings planned for EAA 309. Go ahead and mark your calendars so YOU can BE THERE - EVERY THIRD MONDAY OF THE MONTH beginning at 7:00 pm
Monday, October 16 - Tour of Neal and Sam Stewart's Skybolt Biplane Project.
Monday, November 20, Meeting with Gastonia Aero Club at the Gastonia Airport - Presentation on Aircraft Clubs and Partnerships.
Monday, December 11 - EAA 309 Christmas Party at the Acropolis Restaurant in Cornelius.
If you have a suggestion for an upcoming speaker or tour, please let Kevin Cromie know! We need your suggestions and ideas for programs in 2007!
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By now the Denver trip was wasted - sche-dules blown. On Sunday I had to take a taxi to the airport-no willing worker on Sundays. We must have had 6 inches of rain Friday and Saturday. The creek behind the motel was at flood stage. Lots of wind and lightning. If the airplane had been gone I would not have been surprised. I do remember retying the lineboy's knots, thank goodness.
I am no longer flying a plotted course. I set Mount Vernon, IL into the GPS and followed its directions. I made two stops in Iowa before landing in Fairmont, Minnesota. I was now so early for the MN event that I decided to explore towns near my eventual destination. Mankato High School (MN) was my graduating school in 1946. I was returning for my 60th reunion.
I had a car reserved for the 27th but I was there, finally, on the 26th. Enterprise found me a car early so I toured the perimeter of Mankato. I had gone to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades on Winnebago 30 miles South of Mankato so I drove there, visited with the school's administrator, found an antique store (closed) and had lunch. In all I visited eight more towns on 26 and 27 of September. (I found one wrist watch and on pocket watch to repair when I got home.)
The party on the 28th was great but the
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Scratch Denver......
21.9 Hours in a Cessna 172
By Gary Witt
What started as a trip to Denver and a stop in Minnesota became a Minnesota-only due to lousy weather in Tennessee. I departed on September 21st figuring I would "fly out of it" by mid Tennessee.
First stop was McMinnville, TN (about 60 miles southeast of Nashville) due to low clouds and strong winds. I rested over night (RON) in the pilot's lounge because their police cruiser had a blown engine. The next morning was not any better but again the weather map looked like its western edge was close. Wrong again! This time the winds was so severe and turbulent it would change my heading 45 degrees without cockpit input. Then it would swing me back through center and 45 the other way.
Enough of that; I reversed course only to find the cross wind at McMinnville beyond my skills. On to Murfreesboro where the runways were aligned with the wind. You realize I am still only half way through Tennessee. Again no courtesy car but a willing worker took me to the Hampton Inn situated in the middle of commodious malls. Two more RON's.
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