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President’ s Corner ………………………… Pg 3 Rewriting Aviation Weather.......................... Pg 5 Chapter Meeting........................................... Pg 7 November Breakfast........……….…...…. Pg 10 Waiex Photos …………………………,.…. Pg 15 Advertisements............................................ Pg 24 Tech Page ……………………………….... Pg 38
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Hey folks,
I hope you’ ve had a decent flying month. I’ ve been able to take the 140 out several times lately, and the cold air makes for great climb performance. I even managed a couple of landings of late that were tolerably non-horrible! Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate on December 3 rd, the day of the big Mountain Flying seminar at the War Eagles Museum at Santa Teresa. Plenty of chapter members made the drive down in spite of the rain and gloom, and it was a terrific learning opportunity. Many thanks to NMPA for presenting, and to War Eagles and Chapter 1570 for hosting.
Later that night, Carol and I were also able to attend the Pearl Harbor anniversary festivities at War Eagles. We had some other plans fall through that night, and I’ m really glad we were able to make it to Santa Teresa at the last minute. We got to celebrate with EAA friends, other members of the local flying community, and a veteran who’ d been a B-17 bombardier in the 8 th Air Force during WW II. Again, big thanks to War Eagles and Chapter 1570. There are a couple of photos from that event here that I stole from the First Aero Squadron Foundation web page( which you can read for yourself at http:// firstaerosquadron. com / 2016 / 12 / 06 / fasf-memberscelebrate-wwii-generation-and-pearl-harbor /)
Over the years, I’ ve been fortunate enough to meet quite a few 8 th Air Force veterans. Most were B-17 crew members. When I was 11 or 12 years old, I helped a former B-17 pilot clean out his house, and he ended up giving me all his airplane and engine manuals. I spent a lot of time poring over those, and I guess you probably wouldn’ t have found too many other kids in junior high in the 1970’ s with my level of familiarity with antique bomber technology. But, I had to get a lot older before I really came to understand how difficult and tragic the war had been for the men who went to war in those airplanes. I know some of our readers lived
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