South East Idaho Officers:
Austin Moses, President
Jerry Phillips, Vice President
John Bakken, Treasurer
Harold Mothersill, Website
Dale Cresap, Newsletter
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President's Message:
Our next meeting will be for breakfast in Arco on Saturday September 16. The airport is not within walking distance of Pickle's Place, so we will be depending on our members who are driving for limo service. Plan on being at the airport at 0900. We had hoped to hold a Young Eagle event after breakfast, but that will be cancelled as Dale has been unable to get a response from the Arco contacts.
In addition, there is a BBQ at the Red Baron on Friday 9/15 sponsored by Aero Mark. This is not an EAA event, but all are welcome. Come have a burger and do some hangar flying.
Austin Moses
President
EAA CHAPTER 407 Minutes, Aug 19, 2006
Jim Wolper spoke to the chapter in Pocatello about navigation. He is a math professor, but promised that there would be no formulas and he was true to his word. He told about some of the weaknesses of the GPS system that we are all so fond of, so it is still important to keep track of heading, altitude, and fuel in the tank.
Editor's Column
I noticed an email address cub40hp in a list and sent this message:
I got your address from an EAA mailing and I couldn't resist inquiring from what your address implies. Do you really have a 40 hp Cub? What field elevation do you fly from? I flew a 65 hp Aeronca Chief from 5000 feet and a Champ with the same power at sea level is friskier. You have my admiration if you can climb with 40 hp.
Hello Dale: What an interesting inquiry! I really HAD a 40 HP Cub and your E-mail is stirring up many memories. My wife and I bought it in 1945 after only two years of marriage and have so many fond memories of it that when needing an E-mail address Helen suggested the one we have. It was built in latter part of 1937 just after Bill Piper bought company from C.G. Taylor so was a Piper J-3. Everyone called them 40 HP but the engine was a Continental A40-4 with single ignition so was rated at max 37 HP. Soon dual ignition was required so the engine became an A40-5 with really 40 HP. My plane was NC20217. No private flying allowed along west coast during WWII so I restored plane (OH'd engine, recovered airframe, etc.) and had it ready to fly when flying reopened in mid-1945. Kept in at the former San Carlos Airport on the SF Peninsula which was at sea level so no density altitude to figure out. Flew it a lot- nearly everyday- and a cross-country in it would be a trip to Monterey, CA or something similar. Checked speed on a measured course and it was per specs: 60 MPH. Service ceiling was advertised as 12000 ft. but I never could get it over 9000 ft. After flying it for two years in California I was transferred to Honolulu and had it brought over in a Philippine Airlines DC-4- the 1st plane air freighted to Hawaii- all had been via crating and ship. Again all the airports were sea level and no hot days there. Hangared it on Honolulu International and after each take-off on those huge runways the tower always advised "Cub 217 please make 1st turn as soon as practicable". They didn't want to hold up airliners, etc. any longer that necessary! Transferred back to mainland (I was mechanic for UAL) in 1950 and sold plane to a service man at Hickam AFB. When restoring my J-3 in 1945 I also restored an early 1937 Taylor Cub, a J-2, for a United captain. Same engine, and neither had brakes, of course. In exchange for work he let me fly his a great deal. Together he and I bought an unusual one, a 1931 Buhl Bull Pup. I did work required to re-license and enjoyed flying it. Was a single place mid-wing, metal fuselage and fabric wings and a 3cyl. radial engine, a Szekely, of 45 HP. Went on to fly many planes for 25 yrs. but the best memories are those three early planes. Now that is long in the past and I just keep busy helping our EAA chapter, helped to restore the Spruce Goose here in town and now am a docent (like a guide) at Evergreen Air Museum where the "Goose" rests.
Thanks so much for your message, Dale, and for getting me started down memory lane.-----