Next Meeting - The next
meeting will be Monday, November 2, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. at
Greenville Downtown Airport, in the meeting room. All are
invited. Robert Bryant, president of the Greenwood EAA
1023 chapter will be our guest speaker. His topic will be
Losing Your Medical and Getting It Back/ A Heart
Condition Diet. Incidentally, they meet every 1st
Thursday at the Greenwood
airport, visitors always welcomed.
October Meeting Dannys
dad, Joe, told us a true war story about CFISW
Controlled Fight into Smooth Water. Any landing you can
swim away from
Interesting item about bottle
rockets the water bottle kind. H2Orocket.com will
show you how its done. Another story about pigeon
bombs and B.F. Skinners operant conditioning got a
few laughs and comments.
Follow up on Leon Barnes
passing: donations for his memorial will be accepted by
Alvin or Charlie Baumgardner. It seems appropriate that
one who contributed to South Carolina aviation should end
up On the Rock. We should all be fortunate
enough to earn that respect.
Young Eagles Day October
3rd, Young Eagles at Stevens Aviation, GSP was
a huge success by any measure. Plane rides, ground
school, static displays, food, fun and even a clown
showed up! Final count: 210 kids ferried by 12 pilots.
Good show Stevens went all out for this and
everyone appreciated the effort. October 10, at GMU, Col.
Capp at Wade Hampton High had another group of ROTC
students eager to try the Y/E airplane ride. Dave, Bill,
Ad and Van gave 17 students rides. Nice weather, the
usually good kids and Mr. Binford demonstrated zero Gs
for the passengers. Saturday, Oct. 31 at Greenwood A/P
the 1023 chapter will host a Young Eagles Flight. Sorry
for the short notice. Interested pilots are invited to
add to the airlift.
AGL (A Good Laugh)
It was a really nice day, right
about dusk, and a Piper Malibu was being vectored into a
long line of airliners in order to land at Kansas City.
KC Approach: "Malibu
three-two-Charlie, you're following a 727, one o'clock
and three miles." Three-two-Charlie: "We've got
him. We'll follow him."
KC Approach: "Delta 105, your
traffic to follow is a Malibu, eleven o'clock and three
miles. Do you have that traffic?"
Delta 105: (long pause and then in
a thick southern drawl): "Well...I've got something
down there. Can't quite tell if it's a Malibu or a
Chevelle, though."
Diplomacy is the art of saying
nice doggie!
while looking for a
rock.
There are three kinds of
people; those who can count and those who cant.
If we arent supposed to
eat animals, why are they made out of meat?
Give me ambiguity, or give me
something else!
Flying Tales I forgot
to credit last months insert story to Danny Kight.
Fortunately, his
engine stop now
happened right over the airport, so it was only a scary,
quiet glide back to the safe place. I had a similar lucky
flight a few years ago with Roy Wright. He gave me a ride
in his Ercoupe while testing out some new autopilot
circuitry he was developing. The oil filler cap is fairly
smooth, and he failed to tighten it completely. The
autopilot wasnt working as well as the earlier
ground test showed, so we cut the flight short over
Easley and went back to the shed. He taxied to the hangar
and stepped into a growing puddle of 40 W the
crankcase had pressurized enough to pop the filler cap
off and was coughing oil all over the fuselage. We had
planned to track the Foothills VOR to test things out
not the best place to go gliding.
Oh, well. Any landing you can slide
away from
This months tale is told by
Ad Claessens. Many a pilot was buried on a sunny
day.
Ad was smarter than that and
resisted the get-home-itis urge.
Any other I learned about
flying from that stories from the members
would be appreciated, both for the lessons learned the
cheap way and for their story value. Everyone who has
attended a meeting knows how much we love a good hangar
tale, and the smart ones stay around to hear more of
them.
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