HANGAR FLYIN'

Now we regularly feed 80 every second Saturday. Plans are in the works to highlight nearby cities EAA chapters and invite them exclusively to attend

our breakfast. In return, we would attend their function. We have such a great tool to keep our membership active and to bring our members together once a month. Now we will show off our great breakfast to other chapters. When you have a good thing, show it off!

We are a great group of aviators with a great airport to fly from. Our NW side provides us a great location for our Young Eagles, and our future fly-in/Airshow September 20^th. Plans are to have the main event on September 20^th, with early arrivals Friday afternoon and late departures Sunday morning. When we gather or talk aviation to friends, family and other pilots in our city and others, we need to take the time and SPREAD THE WORD of our great event. We will have spent a lot of labor by September 20^th, and the same labor effort will be put forth whether we have 500 folks show or 5000. Get your family to come to the Abilene Regional Airport. Get the neighbors to come. Just be at the airport September 20^th. . Get as many folks to come as you can!!

Our fly-in airshow is coming together and looks better everyday. Please reference the following links to see who is coming . . .

The American Bonanza Society, http://www.bonanza.org/calendr.htm, The Swift Flying club, http://members.napanet.net/~arbeau/swift/flyin.htm ,

The short wing Piper cub club from Odessa, http://highplainschapter.freeyellow.com/,

The Cozy Builders group, http://www.cozybuilders.org/, American Yankee Group, http://aya.org/events/,

The L-5 Group, http://www16.mawebcenters.com/sopa/Events.ivnu

Carter Copters, http://www.cartercopters.com/,

Cessna 120-140 Association, http://www.cessna120-140.org/calendar/Calendar_Header.htm,

Van’s Airforce Southern California Wing, http://socal_wvaf.rvproject.com/id18.htm ,

Carroll Bird's daughter donated the following items to Chapter 471….

Upright freezer

Refrigerator

Electric skillet

Cast iron skillet

Pots and pans

Silverware

Kitchen utensils

2 Wall hangings

2 Chess sets

Napkin holder

Salt and pepper shakers

Canisters

Baking pan

Dishes

Bookcase

4 Chairs

Sofa

3 Tables

4 Lamps

Desk

Lawnmower

Electric weed eater

Four Drawer File Cabinet

The list of planes and passengers:

Passengers who need rides

1. Gray and Hobby

RV6A N96LE

2. Lew Jones & Charlotte

C-182 N795GN

3. Audie and Harley

PA-12 N3218M

4. Tim McMurray & Lon B.

Pacer N6176D

5. Seymour B. C-182

6. Russell F. RV-6A

7. Steve Fehr

C-172 N2DY

8. Chris & Debbie

Cherokee 140 N95032

9. Ken Keef

10. Mic & Steve Super Cub

11. Sterling

12. Dave Martin Pacer

13. Tiny Malm & Brian B.

BT –13 N826BT

14. Gary Potter C-170

15. Mike Gommal RV-4

16. Dick & Julia Humphrey

Cherokee 140

People who need rides

Billy Tucker

Rachael Tucker

Robert Landrith

Lucretia Landrith

Don Bledsoe has been working with Concession Supply to acquire some real plates, real silverware and a storage unit on wheels to keep them in. Concession Supply has graciously donated and reduced the cost of these items (Significant Reduction).

From: Airport Homes [michele_chambre@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: eaa newsletter

Dear EAA 471,

I am a pilot living here in Texas and my husband is also a pilot and member of eaa ( he is building an RV-4).

I have a web-based business which markets aviation properties. These properties are  houses located right on  residential airports so a pilot can keep an airplane right at home. I think homebuilders are especially interested in these types of properties because they would have much more time to work on their project. Would it be possible to make a note of this website, www.AirportHomes.com in your newsletter?

Thanks for your time,

Michele Chambre

1007 Angel Fire Lane

Arlington, TX 76001

- Sent in by Gary R Hockensmith

and Charlotte Rhodes

The pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, then asked the navigator, "Do you know what I use this for?"

The navigator replied timidly, "No, what's it for?"

The pilot responded, "I use this on navigators who get me lost!"

The navigator proceeded to pull out a .45 and place it on his chart table.

The pilot asked, "What's that for?"

"To be honest sir," the navigator replied, "I'll know we're lost

before you will."

Contributed by Charlotte Rhodes

Checked this out with Urban Legends....seems legit.....a good thing to

do......

PLEASE DO THIS AND PASS IT ON

Please visit the Department of Defense web page below and sign in thanking

the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom.

The compiled list of names will be sent out to our soldiers at the end of the month. So far, there are only about 4.0 million names. What a shame. National Military Appreciation Month. The entire exercise takes 10 seconds...literally.

Please pass it on to your email friends.

I thought you and the members of your EAA chapter might be interested in a new website that was just launched on December 21^st 2002 at www.homebuiltairplanes.com .  If you like the site could you please pass it on to your fellow members?  If so, I would very much appreciate it. 

Homebuiltairplanes.com is basically a discussion forum centered on homebuilt aircraft and the techniques for building and flying them.  I believe that it’s a great format for Experimental Aircraft enthusiasts to get together to swap ideas, share stories, post pictures, add links, publish technical data, and simply chit chat about homebuilt aircraft.  There is also an area for people to let others know what they need or what they have for sale.  This site is in it’s infancy at the moment, but I am confident it will grow quickly to become a great resource for the Experimental Aircraft community.  Feel free to stop by and register (it’s free).    If you have any questions you can post them to the forum or send me an email at admin@homebuiltairplanes.com.  

Thanks for your time. 

Jake Crause

We will have a chapter meeting after the breakfast cleanup has been performed. Roughly 10:30am. Discussion about chapter fly-outs, Young Eagles, OSKOSH, and the chapter fly-in/Airshow will be covered. If you are interested in having input or keeping track of activities, make plans to attend. A mixed board meeting will occur during regular meeting time to discuss some purchases the chapter needs to make. Board members please make an effort to attend or send a proxy.