Our next meeting will be on 20th of November.  It will be at the restaurant at Greene Airport again and everything will be the same as before with the food and drink.

We've been told to fly-in weather permitting.   We can park outside of the restaurant if we want.  I will send out an e-mail asking how many will be able to attend when we get near the time for the meeting, so that Connie may prepare on the food.

    Everyone came in at around noon for their eats.  We had 14 people attend and the clam chowder and rest of the food was very tasty.  We had one problem -3 guys forgot to pay for their food.  I have the receipts of those who didn't pay.  My guess is they forgot and left after the meeting.  George Smith reached into his pocket and gave Connie what was owed.  So whoever forgot owe George 15 dollars; two were for $3.50 and one was for $8.00.  Everyone seemed to be happy on the service and Connie was pleased with our business.

    Mel McKinney started the meeting at 1 PM with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.  We now have a new flag to bring to our meetings. I received one in the mail from Norm Dibble.  Thanks Norm!

    We have a concern about trying to get new members to join our club and also people being able to buy aircraft.  Many of our members are getting older and are not flying but there are those who still enjoy the fellowship of the club.

    Mel McKinney suggested that we run an add in the Press or Pennysaver for new members around the March time frame in hopes new members will show at our April meeting.

    We discussed more on Sport Pilots and talked a little about some of our real fat ultra-lights and how they will be affected.   

    Norm Dibble suggested that some of our club treasury be put towards the USUA Magazine and Mel McKinney suggested that Tom Decker take control of the magazine and bring it to the meetings so we can share its info.  This motion was seconded by Tom Botheuser.  The secretary will contact Gil Aitchison for releasing the funds and sending the USUA Magazine to Tom Decker's address.

    We started our round table review with Tom Botheuser and his Mini-Max having many issues to fix. He has to re-do some of the work that had been done to make it structurally sound. 

    John Torta has been doing some fiber glass work on his Flight Star and he is hoping he will have it flying by next year.

    Tom Decker elaborated on his design for an ultralight that we can well afford. So far a 4 inch tube will be utilized; Mel McKinney would like to see them use a 6 inch tube for more structure integrity.  A search will no doubt be made for 6 inch.  It will be a cross between a Kolb and Skyseeker.  Effort will be made to make it a legal ultralight aircraft weight wise.  A 35 hp engine should be enough to propel the craft similar to the Rotax 447.  The craft will be strut braced with foldable wings.  The landing gear is yet to be determined.  Tom figures 700 dollars for the airframe not including fabric.  The balance, of course, will be the engine and instruments.

    I made a suggestion to Tom on making a Proto-Type first and make our refined tweaks, then order several for the club members to build.  This way parts and fabric will be less expensive overall.

    Dave Schwartz had problems with 2 plugs fowling in one cylinder on his Cherokee 235.  Dave took Paul Nulton for a ride in his Cherokee 235.  Then he took his Purple Piper out for a ride with Paul.

    John Finn got a new prop for his Challenger. He has a 503 Rotax to swing it.

    John Sherman is building a Tiger Cub (looks like a J-3) or (like a J-3 Pup) he's ready to work with the fabric.  Bill Johnson out of Pa. will get the control surfaces covered this next winter.

    Alan Huntley flies out of his own farm town of South Otselic . He owns a Hawk and flown it approximately 30 hours.

    Duane Ross, who flies a Hawk, put in 4 1/2 hours on a perfect Wednesday and has approximately 65 hours in for the year.  He's never had any engine failures and has 250 hours presently.  He previously put 600 hours on his engine before overhaul.

    George Smith is still flying his Quicksilver and continues to work on his Savannah .

    Dave Thomas has around 10 hours on his Affordaplane. He is presently working on his jet engine.  He wants to put it on a Garden Tractor and take it to the Harford Fair.  It idles at around 3500 RPM's.  He's also working on a fiber optic Tachometer.

    Tom Lewis has had 3 students who commute from long distances to fly. He has got 50 plus hours in so far.

    Norm Dibble is trying to keep legal with 254 pounds as required by ulralight standards.

    Mel McKinney would like us to give Tom Lewis a little report on the kind of biographical information background of our flying info for the club records.  We can add this to the information in the internet.

    The meeting was over at around 2:30 PM. and was enjoyed by all.