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CHAPTER OFFICERS: PRESIDENT: BOB MOHR, 103 NORTH 12VICE PRESIDENT: WYATT CHMIEL, 511 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 848SECRETARY / NEWSLETTER EDITOR: DUSTIN BURT, 9033 NORTH [email protected] TREASURER: DAVE CONRAD, 1711 KICKBUSH STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403YOUNG EAGLES COORDINATOR / LIBRARIAN: SYD COHEN, 705 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) [email protected] TECHNICAL COUNSELOR: DAVE CONRAD, 1711 KICKBUSH STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 845WEBMASTER: ROGER GRAHL, 1730 EAST TURNER LAKE ROAD, LAC DU FLAMBEAU, WI 54538 (715) [email protected]

Volume XXIX, Number 2

This Month’s Meeting: Sunday

Wausau Downtown Airport FBO

725 Woods Place, Wausau, WI 54403

2PM

Last EAA CHAPTER 640, HAYMEADOW FLYERS

In the FBO maintenance hangar

Treasurer's Report for December, 2014:

Beginning balance.........................................Plus dues & donations received................................................................Plus checking account interest.(0.05%)Minus Buttercup supplies to Dave Conrad …………………………………………………………………….240.00Minus Chapter Renewal Fee to EAA ……………………………………………………………………………..330.00Minus postage ........................................................................................

Minus copies ....................................................................................Ending balance...............................................................................................................which is........................................................................................plus.................................................................................................

PRESIDENT: BOB MOHR, 103 NORTH 12TH

STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 842-9823 [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT: WYATT CHMIEL, 511 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 848-2815 [email protected]

: DUSTIN BURT, 9033 NORTH 28TH

AVENUE, MERRILL, WI 54452 (715) 212-4522

1711 KICKBUSH STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 845-7545 [email protected] LIBRARIAN: SYD COHEN, 705 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 842-7814

TECHNICAL COUNSELOR: DAVE CONRAD, 1711 KICKBUSH STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 845-7545 [email protected]: ROGER GRAHL, 1730 EAST TURNER LAKE ROAD, LAC DU FLAMBEAU, WI 54538 (715) 588-7655

February

Our 36th

Year!

Sunday, February 22, 2015



Last month’s meeting minutes: EAA CHAPTER 640, HAYMEADOW FLYERS

Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014

In the FBO maintenance hangar

Merrill Airport

Merrill, WI

, 2014:

Beginning balance.............................................................................................................$ 1,336.65 Plus dues & donations received........................................................................................... 122.00

(0.05%)............................................................................... 0.07 Minus Buttercup supplies to Dave Conrad …………………………………………………………………….240.00 Minus Chapter Renewal Fee to EAA ……………………………………………………………………………..330.00

......................................................................................................................... 11.27

Minus copies ............................................................................................................................ 21.83 Ending balance.................................................................................................................... $ 855.62 which is..................................................................................................................................$ 722.79 in checkingplus............................................................................................................................................. $132.83

[email protected]

February, 2015



in checking

132.83 in cash

Payzer Gift Fund Report for December, 2014:

Estimated balance 10/31/14……………………………………………………..……………………………… $38,580.22 Plus estimated interest 11/1/2014 to 11/31/2014 (0.25%)……………………………………… 15.01 Estimated balance 10/31/14……………………………………………………..……………………………… $38,595.23

Harold Straw Young Eagles Fund Report for December, 2014:

Beginning balance.............................................................................................................. $673.62 Plus interest……………………………………………….………..……………………………………………………..………..… 0.03 Ending balance...................................................................................................................... $673.65

LEARN BUILD FLY BUILDERS’ GROUP

REPORT

The Learn Build Fly group is busy building wing ribs for the Wittman Buttercup project. See the pictures below. We meet every Tuesday evening at Rick’s hangar on the Wausau airport, 7 to 9 pm. Volunteers are always

welcome.

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CHAPTER 640 T-SHIRTS

If you have not yet ordered yours, but want to have one, please use the handy order blank below, or contact Syd with your preferences.

Name __________________________________________________ Address ____________________________ City ______________ State ______ Zip ___ Please circle your choices: Size: SMALL MEDIUM LARGE XL XXL (ADD $3) Shirt color: WHITE ($15.60) GRAY ($19) LT. BLUE ($19.19) YELLOW ($27.20)

Prices include shipping.

DEPRESSED BECAUSE WINTER IS HERE, RUINING THE EVENINGS? WELL, SMILE AGAIN!

WE ARE HOLDING FLYING MOVIE NIGHT

EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT

6:30 PM

IN THE TERMINAL AT THE WAUSAU AIRPORT.

THE February 19 MOVIE WILL BE

A YANK IN THE R.A.F. STARRING TYRONE POWER, BETTY GRABLE & JOHN SUTTON

(1986)

FREE ADMISSION, FREE POPCORN, FREE SODA, FREE HOT CHOCOLATE AND FREE HOT APPLE CIDER WILL BE SERVED

PRESENTED BY EAA CHAPTER 640

Donations support the Menominee Range Historical Society Invasion Glider Restoration Project

Upcoming movies

FEB. 19, 2015 – A Yank in the RAF (1942) Tyrone Power, Betty Grable & John Sutton

FEB. 26, 2015 – The Dambusters Raid (2001)

MARCH 5, 2015 – Pirates of the Skies (1939) Kent Taylor, Rochelle Hudson & Regis Toomey

MARCH 12, 2015 – Doomsday Flight (1966) Jack Lord, Edmond O’Brien & Katherine Crawford

MARCH 19, 2015 – Broken Arrow (1995) John Travolta, Christian Slater & Samantha Mathis

MARCH 26, 2015 – The Final Countdown (1980) Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen & James Farentino

APRIL 2, 2015 – Hypersonic(2002) Antonio Sabato, Jr., Adam Baldwin & Alex Jolig

Thinking about going to Sun N' Fun?

Why not fly in as a group?

Make your plans now!

I'm planning to leave Wausau, WI on the morning of Friday, April 17,

with a fuel stop in Galesburg, IL, fuel & lunch stop Creve Coeur, IL, and fuel stop in Clarksdale, MS and overnight in

Baton Rouge, LA, weather permitting.

We leave Baton Rouge Saturday, and fly to New Orleans Lakefront. We spend the day sightseeing in New Orleans.

Sunday we fly from New Orleans to DeFuniak Springs, FL for fuel and lunch, then head and land at Cannon Creek

Monday we'll fly to Cedar Key, FL for lunch, Zephyrhills, FL for fuel and then into Sun N' Fun as a group!

We plan to tour Kittyhawk, NC on the return trip.

Syd Cohen

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, February 14 EAA992 Annual Ski Plane Fly In and Chili Feed Marshfield, Wisconsin 7:00 a.m. - 12 p.m. Come join us for good times, great chili, and ski planes! Ski planes, ultralights, wheel planes, walk-ins -- everyone is welcome! We'll have many different styles of chili from which to choose, all made by your EAA members of Chapter 992.

Tuesday, February 17 –Tuesday may 5 IFR Ground School Green Bay, WI IFR Ground School hosted at Jet Air Group beginning 2/17/15 at 6pm. Price is $245 and includes book and 1 hour of simulator time. Saturday, February 21 Ski Plane Fly-in Royalton, WI

Weather permitting, wheeled and ski airplanes as well as drive ups welcome. We will have chili and other goodies to eat, and everyone pilot who flies in eats free. Hope to see you there!

Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, January 25 SportAir Workshops - Composite Construction Oshkosh, WI

Saturday 8am to 5pm & Sunday 8am to about 3pm The Composite Construction course will present basic composite building techniques.

Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, January 25 SportAir Workshops - Fundamentals of Aircraft Construction Saturday 8am to 5pm & Sunday 8am to about 3pm Oshkosh, WI Thinking about building an aircraft? Not sure how to take the first step? EAA’s new offering, “Fundamentals of Aircraft Building” is a weekend course designed just for you.

Saturday, February 28 Wisconsin Light Sport Safety Seminar Saturday 9am – 4:20pm Oshkosh, WI

22nd Annual Light Sport Safety Seminar; Speakers, Wes Hackri "Stabilized Approaches and..." Joe Norris "Aircraft Transitions" Tom Boyer CFII/DPE "Radio Etiquette" John Moody "Lessons Learned from an UL Pioneer"

Some interesting

Charles Lindberg Cockpit

Bell X-1 Cockpit

interesting pictures of cockpits

Fokker D7 Cockpit

Airbus A-380 Cockpit

pictures of cockpits

Want Ads

(Send me a list of anything you want to sell or buy)

Light Sport aircraft FOR SALE, Earthstar Odyssey 2 Place, flying N159BS I have an excellent two place Amateur Built Earthstar Odyssey for sale. I am starting my sales procedure by contacting EAA Chapters nearby to give those interested a chance to travel to see it without it being too far away. This flying machine is flying and has less than 400 hours on it. Cruise at 85 MPH with a burn of about 2.5 gallons an hour. I am asking $25,000. I have a web site where it can be seen at www.Weidemannphoto.com Thanks much, Skot Weidemann EAA #2594, Member of EAA Corben Chapter 93 (Madison, WI) and EAA 1389 (Middleton, WI) 1123 Sherman Avenue, Madison, WI 53703, 608/310-4548 Home: 608/255-3201 Cell: 608/576-

FOR SALE BY BUILDER 2003 CHRISTAVIA Mk1, N822RM

EAA Air Venture 2005, Plans Built, Bronze Lindbergh Award Winner

N822RM SPECIFICATIONS

Power Plant TCM O-200A (70SMOH) Horsepower @ RPM 100 @ 2750 Propeller Sensenich W69T5EK-50 Length 21’ Wing Span 32’-6” Propeller Diameter 69” Height 7’ Wing Area 146 SF Cabin Width 30” Empty Weight 1060# Gross Weight 1600# Load Factors +4.5G –2.8G Fuel Capacity 19 USG Fuel Consumption 6 GPH Oil Capacity 6 Quarts Airframe 70 Hr TT Fabric Ceconite 101 Finish AirTech Polyurethane

Digital Fuel Gauge Dual Flight Controls Comfortable Foam Seats Electric Starter Airspeed Indicator Front Hydraulic Toe Brakes Full Width Rear Seat 60 Amp Alternator Sensitive Altimeter Entrance Step Vinyl & Fabric Interior Digital Volt/Ammeter Recording Tachometer Left Opening Pilot Window Cabin Heater Navigation Lights Vertical Card Compass Steerable 8” Tail Wheel Deluxe Instrument Panel Wingtip & Tail Strobes Electric Turn Coordinator Wing Tie Down Rings Rheostat Cabin Lights Float Fittings Tinted Windows Anti-Glare Panel Cover Cowl Mounted Landing Light Twin Headset Jacks Sigtronics Intercom Push to Talk Both Ctl Sticks Digital Outside Air Temp Front Seat Greenhouse Roof Digital Clock/Timer Concord Sealed Battery ACK ELT 121.5 Mhz King 76/78 Transponder Vertical Speed Indicator Wheel Pants Spin On Oil Filter VAL COM 760 VHF Transceiver

$38,000.00 USD

John Milliman, 402 Tyrone Drive, Forsyth, IL 62535, 217-875-6869 (Please Leave Message), or email: [email protected]

Hangered at Decatur, IL (KDEC)

0201 [email protected] [email protected].

FOR SALE -- 1990 Kolb Firestar, 503 Rotax $4,500. David B

FOR SALE – KX-99 handheld radio. Contact Dick Mork 715

FOR SALE – Acrosport biplane. Bill Knutson,

FOR SALE -- LYC. 290 D2 ENGINE.

Chapter Library -- You are invited to borrow aviationLibrary, which is located in Syd Cohen's hangar. Look them over at the next meeting or call Syd at 842and the hangar will be opened for you. They are all available fo

Email -- If you prefer to receive the Chapter newsletter by postal mail and now are receiving it by email, please email me at [email protected], though. If you are receiving the Chapter newsletter by postal mail, but do have email capability, please email me and I'll send it to you by email from now on.

Dues reminder: Check your mailing labels if you’re receiving the newsletter by postal mail. It will tell

you if your dues are paid for 2014 or not.

mail it to Syd's address, which is at the top

to “EAA Chapter 640.” Those of you receiving the newsletter by email will receive an email reminder.

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory”

[email protected] www.Weidemannphoto.com

1990 Kolb Firestar, 503 Rotax $4,500. David Breger 920-410-4671.

99 handheld radio. Contact Dick Mork 715-891-2157 or [email protected]

Acrosport biplane. Bill Knutson, [email protected] or 715-842-7573.

. Contact Dick Mork 715-891-2157 or [email protected]

You are invited to borrow aviation-related books and videotapes from the Chapter Library, which is located in Syd Cohen's hangar. Look them over at the next meeting or call Syd at 842and the hangar will be opened for you. They are all available for free loan

If you prefer to receive the Chapter newsletter by postal mail and now are receiving it by email, [email protected] and indicate such. Please bear in mind that postal mail is more

eceiving the Chapter newsletter by postal mail, but do have email capability, please email me and I'll send it to you by email from now on.


you if your dues are paid for 2014 or not. Dues are $8.00. If you can't make it to the meeting please mail it to Syd's address, which is at the top of the first page of the newsletter. Checks should be made out



- Ingred Bergman

[email protected]

7573.

[email protected]

related books and videotapes from the Chapter Library, which is located in Syd Cohen's hangar. Look them over at the next meeting or call Syd at 842-7814

If you prefer to receive the Chapter newsletter by postal mail and now are receiving it by email, and indicate such. Please bear in mind that postal mail is more

eceiving the Chapter newsletter by postal mail, but do have email capability,


Dues are $8.00. If you can't make it to the meeting please of the first page of the newsletter. Checks should be made out



The Haymeadow FlyerNewsletter of EAA Chapter 640Syd Cohen, Newsletter Editor705 Kent Street Wausau, WI 54403



The Haymeadow Flyer er of EAA Chapter 640

Syd Cohen, Newsletter Editor

Wausau, WI 54403-6933

The Haymeadow Flyer Newsletter of EAA Chapter 640 Syd Cohen, Newsletter Editor

Wausau, WI 54403-6933

Flyer Newsletter of EAA Chapter 640 Syd Cohen, Newsletter Editor

Wausau, WI 54403-6933

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