Next Chapter 32 Meeting - Saturday, May 19th at 10am

Aviation Resource Center - 6410 Grafton Ferry Road, Portage des Sioux MO

Missouri Aviation Historical Society Newsletter

Young Eagle Rally, Saturday, June 9th - International Young Eagles Day

Ground crew and building set up @ 8:00 am – Please arrive early to help us set up
Pilot Briefing @ 8:30 am
YE Registration begins 9am until 12:00 Noon

If you need to contact us that morning about weather conditions, please call 636-250-4257 after 8am. Boy Scout Merit Badge will be held at 9am, rain or shine. Flights might be delay if the weather doesn’t cooperate. Scattered showers are expected, but who know, it is spring in St. Louis!

Parents
We will hold the Boy Scout Merit Badge rain or shine. Young Eagle flights may be delayed or cancelled due to the weather but the Aviation Merit Badge will continue. If you have an questions about the weather on Saturday, call 636-250-4257 after 8am.

If you have any questions about our Young Eagle program, please visit EAA 32's Young Eagle page or the national Young Eagles page. If you any questions, please email EAA 32's Coordinator at youngeagles@eaa32.org or call 636-250-4257.

Chapter Newsletters

Movie Night: TBA
Saturday, May 26

Chapter 32 Events

• We are hoping to set up a fabric covering seminar or classes later this year. Due to material cost and preparation items we may have to charge a small fee to cover items such as frames to cover and materials. I would like to keep this no more than $20-$30 for members. It should include basic covering as well as rib stitching. Fellow chapter members will teach this. How many people would be interested? Please contact a chapter officer.
• We have a number of members who are proficient at MIG and to some degree TIG welding. Please contact Don Doherty on helping with other members learning to weld.
• Volunteers are needed to help grass cutting once a month. During active growing season the grass needs to be cut once a week. During the dry season this sometimes drops to every two to three weeks. Volunteers need to be checked out on the mower. Cutting time takes about 1.5-2 hrs. Right now we have 2 or three people and need a couple more that are reliable. I would like to spend some of my weekends flying instead of cutting the ARC grass. Please contact Don Doherty.

Upcoming Area Events

RV-1 Tour
The original RV that Richard VanGrunsven built has been restored and is currently flying up the east coast to Canada, then back down to the US.  It will traverse the midwest to the Rockies, then up the west coast to Oregon.  Eventually, the RV-1 will make its way to Oshkosh for AirVenture, where it will be presented to the EAA AirVenture Museum for permanent display.

In an effort to afford as many EAA members as possible the opportunity to see this part of aviation history as it passes across the country. See the flier. For more information, see: http://rv-1.org. The nearest tentative stop will be on May 29th, at Marshall County Airport (C75) near Peoria IL.

SLSA Open House & Fly-in Pancake Breakfast
Saturday June 2, 2012 8am - 5pm
Highland/Winett Airport (H07)
See flyer for more information

Woman With Wings & the St. Louis Chapter of Woman in Aviation, International - Fourth Annual Airplane Wash
Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 9am - Noon
Pancake Breakfast 8am - 11am
Mt. Vernon Airport, Mt. Vernon IL (KMVN)
See Flyer for more information

If you know of any aviation related up-coming events, please email the details to webmaster@eaa32.org and newsletter@eaa32.org.

We need some new pictures of Member's Projects. Even if you haven't completed a whole lot on your project, send some new pictures to webmaster@eaa32.org.

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For Sale: Super Hornet My plane's a "Super Hornet".  They were  made in Ramona CA but the company has gone out of business because of the economy.  They let me build the plane myself in the factory with their equipment and help.  I flew it from CA to KSET.  It cruises at 110mph with over 3hrs of fuel on board and can hold a 492 pound payload with full tanks (600lb useful load). It has a lot of extras and would have cost over $70,000.00 if made in the factory in 2007.  I'm asking $30,000.00.  Some of it's equipment: SUPER HORNET E-LSA 100hp Rotax 912s two 9gal fuel tanks (18gal total) electric pitch trim on both front and back sticks two storage areas two GPS's Alt + AS both front and back hot mike intercom VHF radio (ptt on sticks) Mode C transponder Position and strobe lights Side doors Extra large tundra tires Deluxe seat covers Electric flaps BRS chute EISl   I can be contacted at 314-265-6123 or at  jeffmckee@earthlink.net

6/9/10

Wanted: Dave McGougan is looking for a good deal on a handheld transceiver.  It must have a BNC antenna connection and headset jacks.  If you can help him out, please contact him at 314-921-5598.

For Sale:

Airplane is Zenair Zodiac CH601 HDS.  The S stands for tapered speed wing.  It’s a 2 place side-by-side, all metal, low wing tail dragger.  It is a kit fabricated in Mexico, Mo.  It use’s appr. 8500 aircraft quality 1/8 and 3/16 pop rivets for construction.  All welding and bending has been done at the factory.  Kit included all parts except engine, instruments, engine cowling and upholstery.  Construction is appr. 50% complete.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to see the aircraft.

Ralph Morris
Rgmorris2@charter.net
636-346-4045

Help Needed

From Richard Jimenez, one of our Young Eagle Pilots:

I am in need of help.  I have been selling vortelator kits for both type certified and homebuilt aircraft for ten years.  The vortelator kits reduce the air drag of aircraft thus allowing them to fly faster saving fuel in the process.  We are introducing a new coating called MegaGuard® that has been wind tunnel tested to reduce air drag by 2%.  It is a clear coating that is not a wax however, polishes surfaces just like a car wax but has many more benefits than a wax.  From some testing that I have completed there is a possibility that using this coating in combination with vortelators it may be possible to increase gas mileage of cars by two MPG and maybe even more than two MPG.  Attached to this e-mail are bulletins F-12 and F-81.  These bulletins will give background information on these two products.  The help I need is to have this e-mail posted on the chapters web page with links to the two bulletins plus a posting in the news letter informing members that I am looking for a person that would be interested in using their car to conduct testing to see if in fact vortelators and MegaGuard® can increase gas mileage or not.  If the person for some reason does not want their car to have vortelators the car can easily be restored to the original condition with no after effects to the car.

The car needs to be a reasonable aerodynamically clean car such as a Chevy Avero, a Ford Focus, or a Toyota Camry.  Have a light color paint job and be a car equipped with a computer that shows the MPG.  It would also be helpful to have the person who owns the car be retired as this would allow more freedom to schedule testing.  

Richard Jimenez can be contacted at 363-528-4967.

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Chapter 32 meets the 3rd Saturday of the month at the Aviation Resource Center at St. Charles County Airport / Smartt Field (KSET). General Meeting at 10am and presentation to follow. (Except July and December)

If you are a new member, check out the New Members section, for meeting information, membership application, link to join EAA national, and more. The Membership Committee will be contacting you to give you Membership Packet and Chapter 32 T-Shirt.

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