The Flying Wire - EAA Chapter 124
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1. He was given credit for determining that the alarms were caused by a computer overload and were not flight critical An uncorrected problem in the rendezvous radar interface stole approximately 13 of the computer s duty cycle resulting in five program alarms and software restarts For his decision which saved the landing he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with Armstrong Aldrin and Collins Click Here for more info In the picture of mission control below Steve Bales is the man with the dark jacket in the center Wing Tips Grounded Mags Continuation of Hand Propping At the July meeting a suggestion was made to use an off position check of the mags during run up to be sure both mags are grounding effectively Don Pedrazinni emailed with the comment that this might cause backfire or afterfire damage and may be unnecessary given that a normal mag drop at run up verifies the same thing The topic is open for continued discussion Thanks Don Related to this issue and possibly to hand propping AD 76 07 12 addressed Bendix ignition switches found to stay ON ungrounded while in the OFF position Part of compliance for this AD required the following With the engine at normal idle rotate the switch key or lever through the OFF detent to the extreme limit of its travel in the OFF direction If the engine stops firing this indicates an airworthy switch For the text of the AD Click2. German fighter over the Tunis dock area became the subject of one of the most famous photographs of World War II An enemy 1 Top fighter attacking a 97th Bomb Group formation went out of control probably with a wounded pilot then continued its crashing descent into the rear of the fuselage of a Fortress named All American piloted by Lt Kendrick R Bragg of the 414th Bomb Squadron When it struck the fighter broke apart but left some pieces in the B 17 The left horizontal stabilizer of the Fortress and left elevator were completely torn away The two right engines were out and one on the left had a serious oil pump leak The vertical fin and the rudder had been damaged the fuselage had been cut almost completely through connected only at two small parts of the frame and the radios electrical and oxygen systems were damaged There was also a hole in the top that was over 16 feet long and 4 feet wide at its widest and the split in the fuselage went all the way to the top gunners turret Although the tail actually bounced and swayed in the wind and twisted when the plane turned and all the control cables were severed except one single elevator cable still worked and the aircraft still flew miraculously The tail gunner was trapped because there was no floor connecting the tail to the rest of the plane The waist and tail gunners used parts of the German fighter and their own parachute harnesses in an attempt to keep th
3. cost of new tables at places like Costco and stores that sell multiples at a discount Facilities Tractor is back now it needed a new water pump which total cost was 617 00 Treasurer Account is currently in the red due to expenses of the anniversary Parking has some delinquent rent to catch up on CAFE had offered 500 for anniversary celebration which has not been collected yet Vice President While at EAA National Mike got some information on how to make name tags and the equipment needed Fly out to Willits Sunday August 5th 9 to 4PM Booneville fly in August 10 11 with a Bar b que National EAA feels there may be a disconnect between National and Chapters National is starting the new Eagle program to try to get new members and younger people into flying Group of chapters in Texas has an information sharing program with a group of 11 chapters They are willing to share information on how to co ordinate between chapters Young Eagles Ray and Sher said next event is requested to be in joint with Sonoma Jet Center on October 6th Ray and Sher will need pilots and ground crew volunteers New Business Aero Electric has made a proposal to do the work to run power from CAFE hanger down to Chapter 124 hanger Cost estimate is 650 for a 100 ampere service to club hanger Gail Vann made motion seconded by Ray Shipway to approve the Aero Electric Proposal to bring power to Chapter 124 club hanger Motion passed Wings Over Wine Country P
4. from last year Also talked about newer and cheaper avionics now available has helped reduce the flights into terrain accidents iPad is taking over in the flight planning with all the software application available see latest Sport Aviation magazine Young Eagles Event Planned Ray and Sher said next event is requested to be in joint with Sonoma Jet Center on October 6th Ray and Sher will need pilots and ground crew volunteers Web Master Newsletter Editor Copies of latest newsletter are available on the front desk for visitors John Palmerlee had a copy of Standard Aircraft Handbook by Leavell and Bungay to look at Lots of how to do it for those building and restoring airplanes Wings Over Wine Country PCAM airshow is on August 17 through 19th Asking for 8 airplanes from the chapter to be over at PCAM EAA booth will need volunteers to help man it Lyn Hunt is in charge of the PCAM airshow Need to register your airplane with Martha at PCAM Builders Kevin Quirk talked about Rex Bullingers RV 12 Steve Barnes flew David Lynch s RV 8A and talked about what a nice flying airplane it is 5 Top Break for program at 8 17PM Respectfully submitted Jim Boyer acting secretary Chapter 124 Contact Information President Wayne Cook 11 12 Vice President Mike Tovani 10 11 Secretary Austin Rennard 10 11 Treasurer John Whitehouse 11 12 Board Ray Shipway 11 12 Kevin Quirk 11 12 Mark Tuma 12 13 Jas
5. CAM airshow is on August 17 through 19th Programs for future are Wayne Cook for September 5th Larry Rengstorf has October and Jason Wildman has the program for November Board meeting adjourned at 6 46PM EAA Chapter 124 General Meeting Minutes August 1 2012 Jim Boyer Acting Secretary General Meeting Mike called general meeting to order at 7 22PM All members were welcomed and cooks and shoppers were thanked for their work Kevin Quirk Jason Wildman Mike Shook and others Guests were introduced by themselves with short intros on their aviation interests Guest present were Rick Anderson Tom Woruel John Thompson Nicole Sarkisian Jim Saltzer Bob Gutteridge moved Jim DuVander seconded motion to approve minutes for July 2012 Treasurer Account is currently in the red due to expenses of the anniversary Parking has some delinquent rent to catch up on CAFE had offered 500 for anniversary celebration which has not been collected yet Basic financial status is less money due to big anniversary celebration Facilities Caution to be very careful about causing any fires especially around EAA site due to dry long grass Tractor is back now it needed a new water pump which total cost was 617 00 CAFE Brian Seeley talked about Pipistrel Electric VTOL airplane being worked on Big change at Oshkosh home built airplanes down mostly only high dollar airplanes now 500 000 people were at Oshkosh which was down 38 000
6. Here Given Don s comment and others I ve seen on the web best not to perform the test unless required for switches listed in the AD text Rivets and the AC 43 13 1B If you ve bucked rivets on an aircraft then you probably learned how to tell if they re driven correctly and the importance of the number 1 5 The un driven rivet should protrude through the hole 1 5 rivet diameters and after driven should be 1 5 diameters wide and 5 diameters thick If a rivet is too long it is very difficult to drive straight and will provide extra material that does not improve the strength of the joint Countless tidbits of information like this are published in the Advisory Circular AC 43 13 1B replaces 1A The circular includes materials science safety inspection finishing fabric plastics composite structures you name it If you re interested in browsing this document go online to the following FAA link and you ll find the circular divided up into numerous smaller PDF documents and one listing the contents Click Here for the AC 43 13 1B 4 Top EAA Chapter 124 Board Meeting Minutes August 1 2012 Jim Boyer Acting Secretary Board minutes Mike Tovani Vice President called the meeting to order at 5 53PM Wayne Cook President is out of town Old Business Old wooden tables are in terrible shape Do we need a committee to investigate getting new tables Motion tabled Larry Renstorf and Ray Shipway will investigate
7. Table of Contents September Program Events Calendar Wings Over Wine Country B 17 Survival Story Fly Mart News Notes from the Editor Trivia Wing Tips Board Minutes General Minutes Contact Information The Flying Wire Chapter 124 Experimental Aircraft Association Volume 51 Number 9 September 5 2012 Board Meeting 5 30 pm Dinner 6 15 pm General Meeting 7 00 pm www EAA124 org www CafeFoundation org www EAA org EAA Chapter 124 5550 Windsor Road Windsor CA 95492 September 5 2012 Program Fly Around the World with CarolAnn Garratt World record holder pilot and author CarolAnn Garratt will be landing at Sonoma County Airport KSTS and speaking to EAA Chapter 124 about flying around the world in a J model Mooney This fast paced presentation will cover the flights and countries that she visited with lots of stories and pictures CarolAnn s presentations are educational as well as inspirational After her previous presentations many pilots said I wish I d brought my wife and kids to this presentation CarolAnn travels around the US and Europe giving presentations about her world flights to raise awareness and donations for ALS Lou Gehrig s disease research Events Calendar Please send us info about upcoming events We want to keep everyone informed about local and regional events so send us information if it comes your way Bob Gutteridge bob gutteri
8. age Picture Here See Great Plains Site for more info Call Bob Ferguson 539 5665 For Sale Matco Parking Brake model PV 1 plus adapters Never used David Lynch 578 2087 For Sale 1946 Aeronca 11AC Chief in very good condition Light sport fun flyer Mode C exempt Contact Kirk Wilder at 895 2949 Flyer at the following link Aeronca Chief Flyer News Notes From the Editor Neil Armstrong 1930 2012 When I read about Neil Armstrong s death August 25 I went back in time to watching his first steps on the moon on July 20 1969 at my grandmother s house on a not so hot color TV But the images stuck solid of this American Hero taking the first steps onto lunar soil Here s a short recollection of that day from NASA Click Here Interesting Aviation sortof Links Thanks Brien Steve W others Short Video about Oshkosh 2012 Click Here Interesting story about the history of car radios Click Here Mars Rover Curiosity broke records by driving 15 meters It reminds me of Wall E Click Here for a recent NASA video Trivia Significance of s 1201 and 1202 July 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin received program alarms 1201 and 1202 during their descent to the moon in the Eagle Receiving the program alarms during the powered descent brought up an abort situation 3 Top The burden of making that go no go decision fell on 26 year old Steve Bales who was Guido guidance officer at the time
9. ccessories Works GREAT drives an autopilot but not IFR certified Upgrading to Garmin GTN 650 MSRP for unit alone 1 799 Asking 1 195 Including Air Gizmos panel dock 99 value Will ship 2nd day FEDEX to purchaser Email for pictures User manual Help Wanted Building a discontinued Falcon 80 build kit complete Seeking experienced Falcon Builders for support Raymond Hillcrest 707 963 9281 Angwin Airport For Sale 4 12 RV 6 kit and engine 25 000 Fuselage is a factory built Quick build All wings empennage control surfaces and some other items are built Engine was removed from a certified plane in Santa Rosa due to airframe corrosion The engine is a 0320 A2B Lycon rebuild with 250 hours Has all airframe kit parts except finishing kit Steve Barnes 707 972 3582 Wing Rack 2 12 Free to anyone who can use it Built for an RV 9A wing but should work for other RVs or perhaps other wings as well Call John Swanstrom 758 9017 or Email John at john _swanstrom agilent com For Sale RV6A Half partnership available See it Here Call Chris Wallner at 364 1195 For Sale Partially Built Spacewalker 2 project 1930 s open cocpit trainer replica Wings complete less covering Fuselage factory welded No Motor Must See Call Ted Baggett 823 5325 For Sale Easy Eagle project Airframe and 3 out of 4 wings are finished with accessories wheels brakes VW adapter starter and more Price Negotiable Fusel
10. dge pacbell net John Palmerlee jbpalm sonic net Upcoming Events September 12 16 Reno Air Races Click for Info September 13 Travis AFB tour operations briefing for airmen Starts 9am Click for Info September 28 30 Clear Lake Splash In at Lakeport October 6 Chapter 124 Young Eagles at Sonoma Jet Center Help Needed sign up at the September meeting October 25 27 Copperstate Fly In at Casa Grande Saturdays 12 to 1 30pm BBQ at Sonoma Skypark Chapter 1268 EAA 124 and CAFE at WOWC 2012 Thanks for the notes and picture Mike Tovani Thanks to all that participated in this year s Pacific Coast Air Museum s Wings Over Wine Country Air Show We had 9 aircraft displayed thanks go to Larry Ford s Glasair I Bob Gutteridge s Jabiru Joe Lacchia Starduster Steve Barns Barnstormer Ralph Curran s RV 7 Kevin Quirk amp John Swanstrom s RV 12 Ray and Sher Shipway with two aircraft their Starduster and Quicksilver and my amp Joe Wiegand s Tri Champ We also had two display booths up one for the CAFE and one for EAA The CAFE Foundation had a film on the Green Flight Challenge and Chapter 124 handed out information on the EAA and Young Eagles and gave out magazines and sectionals see Mike for more pictures of participating aircraft B 17 Survival Story February 1 1943 Thanks for finding this story Mike Tovani Source Click Here A mid air collision on February 1 1943 between a B 17 and a
11. e tail from ripping off and the two sides of the fuselage from splitting apart While the crew was trying to keep the bomber from coming apart the pilot continued on his bomb run and released his bombs over the target When the bomb bay doors were opened the wind turbulence was so great that it blew one of the waist gunners into the broken tail section It took several minutes and four crew members to pass him ropes from parachutes and haul him back into the forward part of the plane When they tried to do the same for the tail gunner the tail began flapping so hard that it began to break off The weight of the gunner was adding some stability to the tail section so he went back to his position The turn back toward England had to be very slow to keep the tail from twisting off They actually covered almost 70 miles to make the turn home The bomber was so badly damaged that it was losing altitude and speed and was soon alone in the sky For a brief time two more Me 109 German fighters attacked the All American Despite the extensive damage all of the machine gunners were able to respond to these attacks and soon drove off the fighters The two waist gunners stood up with their heads sticking out through the hole in the top of the fuselage to aim and fire their machine guns The tail gunner had to shoot in short bursts because the recoil was actually causing the plane to turn Allied P 51 fighters intercepted the All American as it crossed ov
12. er the Channel and took one of the pictures shown They also radioed to the base describing that the empennage was waving like a fish tail and that the plane would not make it and to send out boats to rescue the crew when they bailed out The fighters stayed with the Fortress taking hand signals from Lt Bragg and relaying them to the base Lt Bragg signaled that 5 parachutes and the spare had been used so five of the crew could not bail out He made the decision that if they could not bail out safely then he would stay with the plane and land it Two and a half hours after being hit the aircraft made its final turn to line up with the runway while it was still over 40 miles away It descended into an emergency landing and a normal roll out on its landing gear When the ambulance pulled alongside it was waved off because not a single member of the crew had been injured No one could believe that the aircraft could still fly in such a condition The Fortress sat placidly until the crew all exited through the door in 2 Top the fuselage and the tail gunner had climbed down a ladder at which time the entire rear section of the aircraft collapsed onto the ground The rugged old bird had done its job Fly Mart For Sale Garmin 560 color touch screen GPS Installed in an RV 10 in 10 2011 Last Garmin data expired 7 26 12 includes navigation safe taxi obstacles American terrain and AOPA US directory Original Garmin box with a
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