ISSUE #94 USUA CLUB #66, Richard E. Miller Chapter NEWSLETTER |
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April-02 |
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This month's meeting will be held at
Bob Lindsay's house in Windsor on Saturday, April 20. |
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The
food will be ready by noon and the meeting will start at 1PM. Directions to
Bob's are below. |
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Depot
Hill Rd runs perpendicular between Rt 7 next to the Fireside Inn in Port
Crane, up over the hill, |
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It
crosses Nolan Rd and ends at Old StateRd.
Coming from Binghamton, take the Port Crane exit |
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At
the stop sign, turn right. Follow the
road through a hairpin turn to the left.
Take the second road |
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to
the right. Number 189 is white house
with pine trees. It is the fifth
house on the right after you |
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cross
the railroad tracks. |
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Coming
from the Oneonta direction on Rt88, you will take a left at the stop sign and
then follow the |
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rest
of the directions above. |
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Bob
has the only barn with a windsock.
Please drive around back. There
is an upper and lower |
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driveway. The ground is soft so parking may be
tight. We might have to double park. |
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Last month's annual dinner meeting was
well attended and enjoyed by all present.
There was beef |
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and
Broiled fish and they even set us up with a veggie platter!!! The meal was excellent as always. |
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We
had just short of 50 people there and everyone had a good time. As usual, there was a lot of |
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hangar
flying; but I also heard conversations on everything from mowing lawns to
square dancing. |
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There
wasn't a lot of business done. There
was really no incoming mail and no business to conduct |
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so
Paul kept it short |
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Joe
Accavino , an ultralight instructor from the Liberty area spoke as guest
speaker. He outlined |
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the
benefits of ultralight certification and offered his services for any future
courses we desire. |
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Paul
and I got talking and the biggest problem we have right now is a place to
hangar the planes. We |
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can't
be bulding 15 and 20 thousand dollar hangars, Most of us can't drive out the
garage door and |
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fly
down the 600 foot driveway. I'm stuck
with a flightstar I can't fly because there is no place to put |
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it
except my garage. Several people in
the club have the same problem, Come
to the next meeting |
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and
bring your ideas. Be it tents,
nursery shelters, you name it. We
have to find a home for the birds. |
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Tis
spring!!! The birds are out and the snow doesn't stick for more than a day or
so. If you're fat |
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enough
like me, you won't even get cold. The
itch is in the air and guys are getting ready to fly! |
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It
is also the time to go over your airplane with a fine tooth comb. You haven't been up in five months. |
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You
probably haven't laid eyes on the bird in more than two months. Make sure the mice haven't been |
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there. Make sure no water left in a fuel line froze
and messed up the line. In short, do
a long slow walk |
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around
your plane and check out every nut, bolt, stitch, rivet and joint. Dump any of last year's gas |
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and
re-fill with good stuff. Premix oil
last only two weeks before turning into chemical sandpaper in |
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your
gas. I ran a two year old Echo
chainsaw on old premix last fall and wound up having to buy a new |
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saw. The whole back side of the piston had been
eaten away and wedged, blowing the cylinder.
It's |
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a
two stroke and it had less than three hundred hours on it. Luckily I was cutting a log on the ground |
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and
wasn't riding around on it at 1500 AGL. (Whooooo!!!) |