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Issue #103 USUA Club #66
Richard E. Miller Chapter
December/January 2002-2003
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The next meeting of USUA Club #66 meeting will be held on
Saturday, January 18th at Tom Hettig’s place. Directions to T. Hettig's Home: From Great
Bend, Pa., take route 11 North, just outside of Great Bend, Pa., turn right
onto Randolph Road, continue straight on Randolph Road to Honeyhollow Road, and
Turn Right. Continue on Honeyhollow
Road a little over two miles, and turn left on Anne Road. T. Hettig's home is the first house on the
right, mailbox number 482.
December Meeting Notes
The December meeting was held at Tom Hettig’s.
The meeting was called
to order at Tom Hettig's place by Al Osterhout, Prior to the meeting the
club members & family members, and numerous guest enjoyed the annual
food fest. It was great! Thanks to all, that helped make it a
success.
27 people attended the meeting. L. Osterhout, and Ian Mcevoy became new
members.
Guy Roszel read the minutes of the last meeting, and Dave Swartz reported, that
there was $1088.00 in the club treasury
funds. January meeting all club member dues are due.
Old business: Club Charter & Objectives(On-going project) club
members are to continue to forward ideas to the president on this so a list can
be constructed, and presented at a later meeting. President read the one
T. Lewis sent from his EAA Club in Florida to stimulate some thinking on this
subject.
A name for T. Hettig's airfield is an on-going project. Keep sending your ideas to Tom.
The cook for our January meeting, is Gill Aitchison.
President presented the letter from the USUA on what happened to J. Ballentyne,
and the USUA Club # 66 material package from the USUA. These materials are available for sign out,
and are stored near the club videos. Club # 66 is a USUA member Club
until April 2004. Our Club will decide whether or not to continue when
our membership is up for renewal.
The $40.00 a month for the host of the club# 66 monthly meeting is a done deal
(Lets review it in 6 months or more).
New Business: Ray Osterhout is going to Print out Airport Use Liability
Forms for the up-coming 2003 flying season, for all club members, that have
airports, and want to participate. Ray will need your co-operation in
getting the proper airport names, and adresses on these forms. When
finished these forms can be brought to the Winter/Spring meetings for user
pilot signatures.
We need a volunteer for cook for the February meeting.
George Smith would like to have a airport directory of all airports used by
Club# 66 members/area. George, and Ray Osterhout will work on getting
something made up that can be distributed to Club members.
The club members voted to have the March dinner meeting at the Masonic Lodge in
Windor, NY. again this year . Ray Osterhout will work out the details
with the lodge - menus, cost, etc. – and will have this information by the
January/February meetings. We will need to start a list of who will be
attending and what they want to eat.
T. Hettig will announce a date for a work-bee at his airfield at the next
meeting.
Dr. Tony Romanzi, USUA Regional Rep., would like a list of Club # 66 concerns
sent to him by February 1/2003, so he can
present them for us at the USUA Annual meeting in Frederick Maryland.
Submitted by Guy Roszel & Al Osterhout.
News
Items
Ian Mcevoy from Deposit, NY is a new member. His address info is on the web site. Ian has a fixed wing PPL and owned an Aztec
until recently. If you want to contact
Ian, use email as he spends a lot of time in Asia where he is now.
L. Osterhout is also a new member.
Bob Lindsey furnished the following information regarding
Dart airport in Mayville Ny:
Saturday afternoons from noon to 4 pm – pizza – swap ideas – buy/sell
equipment.
Jan 18th Model airplane bash – Celebrating 44 years in R/C.
Feb 1st Ultralight Aircraft – See what’s here – Dealers invited.
Feb 15th Ski plane flying / Fly-in & ski plane rides.
Mar 1st Home built aircraft – Tour of all homebuilts at the airport.
Mar 15th Gliders / Sailplanes – Glider flying and training
information.
Mar 29th Museum Day – See what’s new/old in museum
April 12th Spring Fly-In.
Flying
I ran across an interesting article about maneuvering speed. It had to do with an accident involving an
Airbus 300. It seams that the vertical stabilizer
was rendered inoperative (read destroyed) due to massive overloads. The interesting thing was that the airplane
was flying at well below maneuvering speed.
What happened, the NTSB believes, was that the Airbus encountered two
wake vortices generated by a 747 and the Airbus pilots used rapid and severe
movements and reversals of the vertical stabilizer to counteract the wake. These severe movements caused excessive G
loads, which resulted in the failure.
What can we learn from this? Avoid severe
movements of any control surfaces be it an Airbus or Ultralight. Repeated severe movements can overstress and
lead to fatigue which one-day might result in a failure. Keep those movements smooth and relaxed.
Now the question. What happens to
maneuvering speed when the gross weight of a plane goes down? Does the maneuvering speed increase or
decrease?
Tom Lewis