January 26 - Our annual January dinner meeting date has changed by one week from Thursday January 19th to Thursday January 26th. Please make a note and plan to attend with your significant other. This year we will be meeting at a new restaurant which should be very good. Bill Swatling has made arrangements for a private room and separate checks with no minimums. We will meet at 7pm at: Bay Breeze Seafood 2418 Canton Road Marietta, GA 30066 (770) 485-9916. This annual dinner meeting has always been fun, so make sure you don't miss it! See you all on the 26th,

 

February 16 -Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

March 15 -Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

April 19 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

May 17 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

June 21 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

July 19 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

August 16 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

September 20 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

October 18 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

November 15 - Jon Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY) from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

 

December - No Meeting.

 

 

2011 Past Meetings and Events

 

December - No Meeting.

 

November 17 - We had an interesting speaker, Ashley Bull, for this meeting. Ashley spoke to us about his involvement in the MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship). Ashley had some interesting stories and videos to share with us. You can get additional information on the MAF at www.MAF.org

 

October 27 - Due to the forecast for cold weather and lack of good planning and preparation, we rescheduled our annual hangar dinner/October chapter meeting from Thursday, Oct 20th to Thursday, Oct 27th. We also changed to change the location to be at Rafael Garcia's house. (His Zenith CH750 airplane project is in his garage, so technically it was still a hangar dinner!) The hangar dinner was a pig roast/pot luck. Rafael knows the secret recipe for slow-roasting a pig over an open fire pit and it was great! Everyone that came brought either a salad, side dish or dessert. The chapter supplied the roast pig, sodas and plates/cups/utensils/etc. This was a  great meeting and fun was had by all who attended.

 

September 15 - Our Monthly Chapter Meeting was held at Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY).  Ron Russ talked about his Viking powered RV-12 and the number of interesting and frustrating challenges getting everything working just right in this, the first Viking engine RV-12 to fly. Ron discused some of the unique problems that he faced and how solved them.

 

August 18 - Our Chapter Meeting was held at Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY). This month we had a speaker, Rob Goodman, who shared some of his Vietnam experiences flying the Cessna O-2. This was a really fun and interesting meeting.

 

July 21 - Our Chapter Meeting was held at Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport (RYY). We discussed common repair and maintenance issues that apply to both our experimental and certified aircraft and the solutions that our members have come up with.

 

June 16 - Our monthly Chapter Meeting was held at Hansen Hanger, Cobb County Airport.  Jon Hansen was kind enough to talk to us about a new light sport aircraft that Jon is now handling, the FK-12. This plane, the FK-12, is a really slick light sport category biplane with some unique features that we found to be quite interesting. Here are some photos for you.

 

May 21 - Our monthly meeting was replaced by our Calhoun fly-in. Lots of fun by all in attendance. Static displays, Youn Eagles flights, food, etc. Here are some photos for you.

 

April 21 - This meeting  our speaker was one of our own, Joe Wolbert, who covered a subject that we all found interesting and very relevant to anyone who built, or is maintaining, and/or flying an airplane. For some time Joe has been researching NTSB accident records focusing on partial or complete loss of engine power and has come up with some conclusions that we all should be interested in. Not only didl Joe have some actual NTSB examples but he had  some visitors who shared their own real time experiences with us. Joe has many hours of experience in all types of aircraft from Chanps to MD1011s and was an interesting speaker. He currently owns a Piper Apache and a Aeronca Sedan (under restoration).

 

 

March 24 -Jeff Schans of Lycoming Engines, a div. of Avco Corporation was our speaker on the 24th. Jeff gave a presentation on Lycoming / Thunderbolt engines.

 

February 17 - This meeting our guest was from Essential Flight Technology. They presented their EFB product the "Chartflier". They had hardware available for hands-on demonstrations and familiarization. Essential Flight's products appear to be very complete, easy to use, and relatively inexpensive. I have included the address of their web site for your reference http://www.essentialflight.us/ . We got some hands-on experience on this new EFB technology. Fun and informative meeting. Here are some pictures for you.................

 

 

January 20 - Our Annual Awards Dinner was held at Kayson's Bar and Grill in Kennesaw. Spouses and friends were also in attendance.