A WONDERFUL YOUNG EAGLES AND FLY IN
We wondered on Friday if the rain was going to wash us out on Saturday, but NO! The Young Eagles Team did a remarkable job of scheduling and flying a big crowd of Young Eagles. My thanks to all of you who had a part. I had opportunity to visit with a couple of kids the following Monday and they were still smiling about their ride.
We parked planes, cars, and motorcycles with no bent fenders or feathers. We had super food and enough donuts to go around… and then some.
And then there was the raffle. Eric believes it was rigged. He put in 10 tickets for the Lewis supplied teak grips. Mark Edwards put in ONE ticket and Mark’s was drawn! We can not publish Eric’s reaction to this.
It was good to see Jim Ashford again in his Zenith, visiting from Independence OR. Jim won the “Old Timer” pilot plaque. Some of you may remember him telling about flying P-47s in England during WW-2. What an era to go from props to F-86 Sabers to F-100’s to F-102 Deltas and finish with F-4 Phantoms. What a career in the Air Force!
Again, thanks to all of you. From start to finish, we had the help when we needed it.
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PLANE WRECK AT WOODLAND DRAWS MUCH LAW
ENFORCEMENT
Last Thursday, June 19th, a Cessna Cardinal “pancaked”
at Woodland, wiping out the gear and bending the wings. This
event created one of the most guarded and protected crash sites I
have ever seen. In addition to the fire truck, there were over
one dozen law enforcement vehicles present. Maybe the word
“airplane crash” has a high priority when a 911 call
comes in. Avoid the special attention and don’t crash.
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PANCAKES AT BURNS, OR
Mike Lewis and I, along with Jim McClellan, took the RV’s to
Burns, OR for the annual pancake breakfast on June 7th. The
flight to Burns was at 9,500 and the trip back at 10,500. We were
experiencing our early June heat wave and the higher altitudes
were necessary for a smooth ride.
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I do not have a start date on my chemical flush job yet. Anyone have thoughts about the program?
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Health Update
The previous plan for radiation has been suspended for now, and
only the intravenous Rituxan will be given. This may be either
four or eight treatments at one treatment per week.
Radiation was eliminated as an initial treatment because
additional lab work and further study of the PET scan showed
previously unidentified tumors under my arms and on my back. The
lymphoma also shows up in my bone marrow so my condition is
described as stage 4 “chronic lymphoma”. The number of
tumors and the bone marrow issue make the radiation a less
effective approach, but radiation may be used as a follow up if
the Rituxan does not fully control the lymphoma.
I do not have an actual start date for the Rituxan yet, but I
have requested to start as soon as possible and be done with
this. The Rituxan is a very site-specific drug and does not have
the negative side effects that other chemo-therapy causes.
No cancer is good, but the good of all of this is that I have a
very treatable type of cancer that is easy to eradicate.
News Flash. The late Herb's plane is undergoing wing tank repair
and is
being run up on occasion. Henry and I visited with Todd Becker
who is doing
the repair work. This ship may fly again...
FLY BABY VISITS THE FLY IN
Ron Wanttaja, Fly Baby "historian" and guru, flew to
our event because it is one of his annual trips he likes to do.
Ron also writes for Kit Planes, often with a special emphasis on
the Fly Baby. He also has a web site that is loaded with nifty
aviation links. Our thanks to Ron for visiting us again. Check it
out: http://www.wanttaja.com/
Mike's Flybaby first public showing!
http://home1.gte.net/ikvamar/flybaby/Proshold.JPG
Maybe add into newsletter. I do not have a photo of Marks Cub
Report on JUNE 14 FLY-IN
Jim Ylvisaker, Director
This year's Fly-In was conducted under friendly flyable skies and
as a result we flew almost 150 Young Eagles on the 14th and if
you count the four that Sam flew the day before, the total is
152. That's a very healthy number and I want to thank Sam and
Sandy for all the excellent prep work in getting the word out, as
well as the excellent ground support in handling all those kids.
But it could not have been done with out a large corps of
volunteer pilots and a great big thank you to the nine pilots who
did the flying. They are: Sam Archer, Lee Dines, Leon Smith,
Dwight Irby, Karen Fenton, Mike Lewis, Keith Hamilton, Wayne
Riggs, Jean Schiffman and Jim Ylvisaker.
The number of fly-in aircraft was a bit sparse, but when you
consider all the other aviation events going on the same day (RV
Gathering in Scappoose, War Birds in Olympia, etc) it was
understandable. Nevertheless, we had a good plan for keeping the
flow of aircraft smooth and safe on the ground and I want to
recognize and thank Charlie Rosenzweig and Bill Peiper, the key
people handling fly-in aircraft, for their efforts. If not huge
in numbers, there were nevertheless some very interesting
aircraft to ogle and Bill Peiper, Bob Taylor and Gary Trenner did
a right smart job of selecting recipients for the awards. The
same can be said for the cars and cycles - we were not exactly
overwhelmed with numbers but had some very attractive examples of
both to examine. Thanks to Gary Trenner for organizing that part
of our event.
I don't have the figures on proceeds from the raffle, but the
table was impressive and I am sure we added well to the Treasury.
Thanks to Fernando Cuglievan for a job well done.
The food concession was again very well organized by Bev Lewis
and with the help of a couple of terrific hamburger chefs, Bob
Taylor and Gary Trenner, plus plenty of good help at the cash
register, and the special added attraction of Krispy Kreme
donuts, a tidy profit was realized. However, it seems there is a
discrepancy in the accounting for the Krispy Kremes. Bev will
explain at the meeting July 3. Anyway, no discriminating palate
had cause to be disappounted at our Fly-In and the reputation for
great burgers reasonable priced just grows.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank the other
"Key" people who had responsibility for the other very
necessary tasks that made the Fly-In a success: Jerry Sorrell who
was in charge of set-up on Friday and was a veritable "jack
of all trades" on Saturday, Al Drewry who made sure visitor
parking was orderly, Terry Creamer who made sure clean-up went
well and helped with Young Eagles, Leon Smith for getting the
porta potties ordered and placed, Mike Lewis for doing the
flyers, Eric Hoppe for his work on publicity and also serving as
Safety Director, Harry Blair for again arranging for the use of
tables and chairs from his Church and helping Sandy Archer at the
Young Eagles reg desk, and Roble Anderson for making signs.
There were many more who pitched in, and spouses too, and it is
with real pride that we can say all the bases were well covered.
But this is characteristic of Chapter 1111; our members are not
afraid of a little work or responsibility. It was again a very
real pleasure working with all of you on this year's Fly-In. And
with a little knock on my wood desk, I shall also observe that
that there were no accidents or incidents of a negative nature
(at least none that I know of), which continues a rather
impressive safety record for our Club.
I understand that our meeting on July 3, 6:00 pm at the FBO, will
be pretty much devoted to a critique of the Fly-In. I look
forward to exchanging ideas with you on how we can improve future
fly-ins.
Thanks again to everyone who helped.
Jim
June 15, 2003
Howdy Everyone,
Well, I would venture to say we were a success Saturday, June 14,
2003. In all we flew 147 Young Eagles. There were 10 pilots
flying that day. We had 6 four place aircraft and 4 two place
aircraft flying. Needless to say the pattern was very busy but
there were no incidents and those grins when the kids deplaned
were pretty special.
Sam and I would like to thank each and every one of you for your
participation in this celebration of flight. A special thank you
to Jean Schiffman, who is from Vancouver, for joining us in this
special event. Her time and effort is truly appreciated by all of
us in Chapter 1111.
I personally would like to thank the Young Eagles ground crew as
well. Of course, we could not do this without the pilots but
Harry Blair, Phyllis Dines and Terry Creamer were really the key
to the success of this operation. Keeping the kids organized,
controlled and safe was a tremendous task.
Thank you again for your time and commitment to this worthwhile
program and may you always have blue skies and tailwinds.
Sincerely,
Sam and Sandi Archer
Young Eagles Program Coordinators, 2003
Young Eagle Flights June 14, 2003
Jean Schiffman 14
Lee Dines 17
Karen Renton 9
Jim Ylvisaker 22
Dwight Irby 11
Mike Lewis 9
Wayne Riggs 10
Leon Smith 23
Kieth Hamilton 3
Sam Archer 28
Total 146
These were flown the week before June 14 Flights
Phillip Phillips 1
Sam Archer 5
Total 6
Grand total 152
For the most part the concessions for the
2003 fly-in turned out great and with a small profit. The weather
cooperated, the donuts arrived right on schedule and the health
inspector gave us a perfect score.
The only negative thing seems to be the disappearance of
approximately 20 dozen donuts. Just before clean up, the unsold
donuts were counted at 44 dozen. Upon completion of cleanup the
remaining count was 20 dozen with no record of any sales. That's
us gang! Where is the money?
The remaining donuts were all gracefully sold for us by Chucks
Chevron on Spirit Lake Hwy and they said they could have sold all
we had. So---bottom line is our profit turned out to be just a
little under $400.00 instead of a little over $500.00.
Beverly Lewis
Discussions:
5 oficers and 4 members (Bev, Leon, Fernando, Bob Taylor)
Bev has food taken care of. Bev wants to get Krispy Kremes. Needs $400 initial investment. Will take a vote during club meeting.
Jerry to be in charge of set up on Friday night. Trailer to be moved over Friday night from the chapter hangar.
The layout of everything was displayed to group. Lots of other logistics discussed.
Merrill is doing a good bit of advertising. It looks like our Young Eagles are totally booked so we are not advertising.
Treasurer's report:
checking $131.76, building $2410.44, cd $11412.82
Discussions:
21 members present, 5 officers
An open request for people to help set up was put on the table by Jerry.
Young Eagles has lots of kids that have pre-registered. We will take walk-ins, but they may not be able to fly. Seven planes are ready to fly.
JimY is currently away. Mike Lewis will send personal mailers to previous fly-in participants. Eric H has sent out e-notice to National EAA for email distribution. Bev has food taken care of. She wants to get Krispy Kreme donuts. There was a short discussion about the terms. A motion was made to get them, seconded, all 'aye', no 'nay'.. Food consessions to use Karen's hangar.
Fernando is in charge of the raffle. Cordless drill, small tools, air tank, are lined up so far.
GaryT is talking to the cars people trying to get them to come.
CharlieR has solicited CAP to help. Bill P is in charge of plane registration. Eric H is safety director. Terry C to clean up. Harry B to bring tables
| I was born and raised in Nyssa, Oregon which is right on the Idaho border. The third of four children, my interest in aviation was instilled early by an older brother who flew model airplanes and later served in the Air Force. I made my first model airplane at age 6 out of toothpicks and tissue paper. Needless to say it didn't fly well at all. Better models followed including primitive radio control airplanes. | |
| College took me to Oregon State
University where I enrolled in Air Force ROTC. My junior
year, the military paid for civilian flying lessons in a
flying indoctrination program giving me 35 hours of time
in a Piper Colt. With another 5 hours, I took the private
pilot check and got my license. Money was tight in
college so I didn't fly much after that but did check out
in a Cherokee 140 and took my future wife, Barbara, up a
couple of times. As a low time pilot I didn't scare her
(although maybe it should have)because she still likes to
fly with me. Four days after graduation from college I was on my way to Air Force Pilot training at Reese Air Force Base, Lubbock Texas. After graduation from undergraduate pilot training a year later, I was sent to instructor school and stayed at Reese as a T-38 instructor pilot and functional test pilot accumulated 1780 hours in the T-38. My next assignment took me to the Strategic Air Command as a B-52 aircraft commander. Instructor upgrade followed and I spent over 15 years flying the B-52. Once identified as an instructor I couldn't get out of the B-52 to another aircraft and ended up flying the aircraft in various positions and bases until my retirement in 1989. At the time I retired, only 5 other people in SAC who were active flyers had more time in the B-52 than I did. I was deeply honored when a B-52 made a flyover pass at my retirement ceremony. My retirement only lasted a month and I was fortunate enough to get a job with Northwest Airlines where I've been for over 13 years flying first the 727 and now the 757. Memorable moments in flying are many, but several stick out in my mind. My first solo in a jet aircraft was in the T-37. My instructor was a stick rider so the day I soloed I didn't know for sure if I could fly the airplane without his "help". It went well, so he must have known I could do it. Later while a student pilot in the T-38 we were doing night solo round robin flights. My first aircraft had a maintenance problem and I had to go to a spare aircraft putting me at the end of the stream of students who all followed each other on the route. Unknown to me, a thunderstorm had built up along the departure route and those ahead had climbed over it. While flying the departure, in the radarless T-38, I saw the towering mass of the CB just 1 second prior to flying into it at about 35,000 feet. In a turn to get out of the cloud, I simultaneously was hit by a huge static discharge, my canopy iced over instantly, and one engine flamed out due to ice ingestion. After what seemed like an eternity, but was only about 10 seconds I came out into clear air. I finally got the flamed out engine started at about 27000 feet and returned to an uneventful landing. I was fine till I was standing next to the airplane writing it up and my knees started knocking. As a B-52 G instructor pilot we were making max gross weight water augmented takeoffs for an all night flight. The engine had a catastrophic turbine failure during the takeoff and one blade hit an oil line on the adjacent engine resulting in the loss of two engines when the second engine seized due to no oil. The engine that shelled out was vibrating so badly I was afraid it would separate from the aircraft and we orbited over an uninhabited area while burning off fuel to land. The B-52 cannot dump fuel so we had to orbit most of the night burning down to emergency landing weight. Water augmented takeoffs were very hard on the engines and interestingly enough we lost another engine in the very next flight we flew. Another instructor suggested I switch brands of snake oil I was using. |
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| The final highlight was flying my Glastar for the first time. After many years of dreaming of building my own airplane while in the service but not having a place to do it, and seven years of actual construction, it was almost surrealistic to take off and fly my own airplane. Doing my own maintenance, making cosmetic changes, and flying when and where I want to are all pluses for having built your own experimental. Future plans may include building my own design but have not decided exactly what that will be. In the mean time am enjoying flying to the coast or inland for the classic "50 dollar hamburger". Plan on hitting some of the West Coast EAA fly-ins when work allows and doing more exploring of the western states. | |
Joe Hennessy is looking for a rivet gun: ---posted February 2003
Joe Hennessey is looking for anyone who would like to loan, sell a 3x rivet gun with accessories.
| President & Tech Counselor | Jerry Sorrell | 263-1532 | jsorrell@wa-net.com |
| V. President | Mark Edwards | 225-8821 | cubace32@hotmail.com |
| Treasurer | Al Drewry | 274-6115 | |
| Secretary & Newsletter Editor | Eric Hoppe | 263-6691 | behoppe@tds.net |
| Tech. Counselor | Jay Tabor | 425-6278 | jtabor@scattercreek.com |
| Member at Large | Mike Lewis | 274-8860 | michael@kalama.com |
| Historian | Karen Fenton | 546-1550 | figi152@aracnet.com |
| Hospitality Chairperson | Bob Taylor | 576-3806 | bobtaylor15@attbi.com |
| Young Eagles Coordinator | Sam and Sandi Archer | 425-7777 | sas@toledotel.com |
| Fly Out Director |