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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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