www.eaa407.org
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Austin Moses, President
Jerry
Phillips, Vice President
John
Bakken, Treasurer
Harold Mothersill, Website
Dale
Cresap, Newsletter
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President's
Message:
Next Meeting:
We invite you to attend the Rexburg Airshow for our June
EAA Chapter 407 meeting. The airshow will be held on June 17, 2006 at the
For the July meeting, Jerry Phillips is trying to
arrange for his son Ben to come from the Lancair factory. That will be on
July 15th. Then in August, Frank Prickett is asking
Have a great summer!
Austin Moses
President
EAA Chapter 407 Minutes May 20,
2006
The chapter met in
Pete Stewart filling in for Austin Moses. John
Bakken gave a summary of our financial status,
1863.82 plus CD's and Pete Stewart summarized the
minutes from the April meeting.
Dale's question for the Win-a-buck contest was: "What is
the largest number of people flown in
a commercial aircraft at one time?" The answer -
1087 by El Al in an Ethiopian Jewish airlift.
Closest answer was 750 by Pete
Stewart.
Old Business :
1. Dale Cresap summarized the Young Eagles Flight
at the
Deaf and Blind that took place on May 3rd. The
operation was an unqualified success. Fifty
Young Eagles were flown. Three pilots came in from
aircraft. All of the students were very
appreciative, many asking if we were going to come
back next year.
2. Hal Johansen made a motion that was seconded
that we provide 2-$250 scholarships, one for
a first year student and one for a second year student
to the
Approval was unanimous and John Bakken will forward the
money to the scholarship program at
ISU.
New Business:
1. The question was raised whether we should plan
on a repeat Young Eagles flight at the School for the Deaf and Blind next year
and Dale said he would consider it.
Meeting was adjourned.
Program: Paul Tremblay gave a presentation on antenna
installation. He discussed both HF and
UHF antennas and options for installation and had a
number of practical demonstrations on both.
Paul is available to anyone seeking help on antenna
installation in their own plane.
Pete Stewart
Secretary
Newsletter Editor
Some of you may have met Sophie, a foreign exchange
student who has attended some of our Young Eagle rallies. She has since returned
to
From
the first step to the last step of their lives, Humans can walk. They need two
legs.
The swimming pool, the lake or the ocean, people can also swim, they
need two legs and two arms.
Walking, swimming, flying ... where are our
wings?
Who never had, once, the dream to fly in between the birds?
In
1870, Clement Ader, a french man, invented airplanes. Before him, a lot of men
tryed during years to fly and nobody found the answer of how to do it before
him. He beat the nature of men to give us free access to the sky.
Used during
World War One and Two as a weapons, the aviation is today so develloped that
it's use as transportation.
Everybody had or will have the opportunity one
day, to go in one of those plane to go to a determinate place.
But, what will
happen if you change your mind while you are in the plane and decide not to go
to
Don't you
think that being able to pilot your own airplane to go anywhere you want,
whenever you want is way better?
Two years ago, I decided to take some pilot
lessons with three friends of mine. All of them wanted to be in the airforce as
pilots one day and I just wanted to learn something new!
As we were minors,
we needed a permission from our parents to be able to take those lessons. Only
three of us got it. My friend's parents cut her wings!
A year after, all
three of us were in the same car stressing because we were going to take our
pilot writting test. Unfortunatly, only two of us passed it. My friend's
laziness cut her wings.
Nine months ago, my last friend I was hoping to be
able to pilot with, had a car accident. Since, he can barely walk. An alcoholic
driver cut his wings.
Nowdays, I am all on my own, but I promised to all
three of them that, every day I'll get a chance to go in the sky, I won't do it
just for me, I will do it for all four us. None of my friend will get a chance
to accomplished their dream because life didn't let them get through it, but it
let me, why? I don't know but I know that I won't give up anything I started
because I know that somewhere there are people who wish to have the chance I
have and they don't so, even if I don't know them, I want to make them proud and
glade to see that, their chance to be in wasn't waste for anything.
Exactly
two weeks ago, I was piloting for deaf and blind young kids. I don't speak the
sign language or anything but kid's smiles are all the same. When I look at
their faces while they were in the airplane sit right next to me, I saw smiles.
Not any smiles, I saw the kind of smiles I will never forget in my life.
I
will be gone in two weeks and I know that, I'm probably not going to see any of
them in my life again but, I know, that at one point or another, they will
remember this day forever, and if they don't, I will remember it for
them.
Have you ever felt this sensation when, you share something you truely
love with somebody else? Even if they didn't get what you meant, you just feel
great because you get to share with them something you know. It's how I felt
this day, it's how I feel right now, talking to you.
I had a dream, the dream
to fulfill the dream of my friends. That dream makes me feel great every day,
but it also makes my friends feel good and by the same way some people I don't
even know feel great.
I don't want to persuade you to learn how to pilot a
plane, but I want to make you realize that you need to take time, one day soon,
to write down your dreams and to make sure that you will go through all of them
before it's too late.
All of us have dreams but most of us don't fulfill
them. If you were a sky during the night and if each one of your dream was a
star, how many stars could you light by the accomplishment of your dreams and
how many will be waiting for you to act?
Now it's your choice to decide if
you want a sad and monotone blue sky or if you want a shinny sky which will
light your life forever...