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DOPE SHEET
FOR 62 YEARS — THE NEWSLETTER OF
CHAPTER 13 OF THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION
SERVING SPORT AVIATION IN THE DETROIT AREA
Volume 62 Number 8 website: EAACHAPTER13.ORG September 2017
September Presentation David Fatell
September’s speaker is a young man by the name of David Fatell from Davison, MI. David is currently 23 years old and an Air-line Transport Pilot flying the Embraer 175 jet. With over 4,200 flight hours, he holds many rat-ings including Sea-plane in both single and multiengine air-craft, Helicopter, and Glider. David is also a CFI and CFI-I in airplanes and heli-copters and a CFI in gliders as well.
David’s love and at-traction towards aviation began to infiltrate him when he was a very young boy. At the age of 8 he took his first Young Eagles flight in Flushing, MI at the EAA Chapter 77 Young Eagles rally.
Ray Hangar History Who Knew?
President Rex Phelps recently acquired a photo and some information about an old hangar at Ray Airport. More specifically it was about the round roof hangar attached to the Chapter #13 hangar. Or more cor-rectly, The Chapter hangar is attached to it. The old hangar wasn’t built on Ray Airport property initially. Originally it was one of three built at the Thomas B. Joy Airport (later Frazer), which was es-tablished sometime between 1936 and 1943. It first appeared on the Detroit Sectional map in October 1943. Here is a post WWII photo. Apparently the “Frazer” airport didn’t last long falling prey to the post war housing boom.
We’re making an assumption here, but about the time Frazer was going out of business, Ray Airport foun-der John Hudolin began to operate Ray Airport on a continuous basis. We are guessing (more research is required) but it appears that Hudolin acquired one of the three round-roof hangars and relocated it to Ray. (Continued on Page 3)
REGULAR MEETINGS
1ST
Thursday of Each Month
Our regular meeting place is Ray Community Airport, in the Chapter #13 hangar (#304) located on the Northeast corner of the field. The address is 59819 Indian Trail. Meeting time is 7:30pm to 10pm. Burgers and dogs are available for a donation be-tween 6:30 and 7:30pm.
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EAA Chapter #13 Officers President Rex Phelps
586 918 3838 [email protected]
Vice President Mike Fisher
586 995 2753 [email protected]
Treasurer Steve Greene
586 864 2815 [email protected]
Secretary Cliff Durand
248 853 0232 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor Tom Vukonich
248 794 3784 [email protected]
Asst News Editor Bill Appleberry
586 530 6387 [email protected]
Web Site Manager Carol Lynn
313 613 9038 [email protected]
Tech Counselor Bob Hunt
248 563 0927 [email protected]
Tech Counselor Ron Walters
248 435 0441 [email protected]
Tech Counselor Chuck Valade
586 707 4032 [email protected]
Young Eagle Coord Dennis Glaeser
248 953 0374 [email protected]
Building and Grnds Pete Dugdale
586 463 6906 [email protected]
Chapter Calendar 2017
Sept 7 Regular Meeting* 7:30-10 pm 10 Young Eagles Sunday 9A-2PM 14 Officers’ Meeting** 7:30 pm Oct 5 Regular Meeting* 7:30-10 pm 7 Young Eagles Saturday 9A-2PM 12 Officers’ Meeting** 7:30 pm Nov 2 Regular Meeting* 7:30-10 pm 9 Officers’ Meeting** 7:30 pm *All Regular Meetings (not all are listed) will have a pre-meeting Bar-B-Q/Setup that starts at 6:30 pm. **Officers’ Meetings are normally held the 2nd Thursday of each month, in President Rex Phelps’s hangar, 420C.
Speaker David Fatell (Cont)
Falling in love, he took additional flights when he was 9 and 10 and then began flight training at the age of 12. Racking up over 300 hours of flight time prior to his first solo (only because he was too young to solo), David soloed 4 airplanes on his 16th birthday. He then went on to achieve his Pri-vate Pilot’s license and Instrument rating on the same day on his 17th birthday and then his Com-mercial Pilot’s license on his 18th birthday along with CFI and CFI-I right after. His accomplishments were noticed by local TV and print media outlets and published in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
David knew he always wanted to fly for the airlines, so he elected to at-tend Embry-Riddle Aero-nautical Uni-versity in Day-tona Beach, Florida to best prepare him for the aviation industry. With Summa Cum Laude honors, David gradu-ated with his 4-year degree in 2.5 years and was promptly hired by Republic Air-lines 4 days after his 21st birthday!
As busy as David seems to be, he still enjoys giv-ing back to his community and Young Eagle roots. He enjoys giving Young Eagle flights in his Mooney (and prior Cherokee), and also helps out during Operation Good Cheer. David is currently based in Columbus, Ohio where he also lives and volunteers at the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
David looks forward to flying up in September and sharing his success story with everyone at Chapter 13!
Let’s all be there to welcome him to Chapter #13.
Ed
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Ray and the Frazer Hangar (cont)
Over the years the old hangar doubled as a mainte-nance and storage building for airport operations. But, have you really noticed her most recently?
The Hangar has been cleaned out and repairs to the structure accomplished, a new concrete floor poured, new old-style doors installed, roof repair and paint job. She’s looking pretty elegant now. Check it out.
She is also sporting the old style checker board roof. It’s still a good idea. From the air, you can spot her miles away.
This was a new lesson to the Newsletter staff. If you have anything to add, stop by at the next meeting and
share it with us. Ed
The term “Hangar Queen” takes on new
meaning here.
Doors Rolled Open
Doors Closed
Ham Radios At AirVenture
What? There’s a HAM radio station at Oshkosh. Yep, and you’ll find it at KidVenture, located at Pio-neer Airport across from the AirVenture Museum.
Bill Appleberry is a Licensed HAM operator. Thus he had an interest in HAM operations at Airventure. A little checking around and here is what we found.
KidVenture offers a great variety of interesting
activities, including but in no way limited to:
Kiddie Hawk Air Academy Airplane and Helicop-ter Trainers
Simulated Mars landings, the Dream Flight space bus/exhibit shows kids what flight outside the atmosphere is like.
Inspiring Tuskegee Airmen in the “RISE ABOVE” Traveling Exhibit panoramic movie theater, part of the CAF Red Tail Squadron.
In "Area 51-1/2," kids build a balsa glider along with a wooden model of EAA's B-17 Aluminum Overcast and the legendary P-51 Mustang of EAA Founder Paul Poberezny.
A replica of the Mercury 7 space ship for the kids to sit in along with video of its flight into space.
Talk on the KidVenture HAM radio station to other people around the country and the world.
An entire fleet of F-14 pedal planes await the youngest of the future aviators.
Real aircraft and gliders for kids to sit in and have pictures taken in the "cockpit climb" area. If you have kids, this is a must see the next time you attend.
Personally, as a pre-novice on-looker, I had only one question to ask: What does HAM stand for? An-
swer, provided by Simon Davison:
The meaning of HAM comes from the three gentle-men who made amateur radio possible. H stands for Heinrich Hertz for his work on the theory of elec-tromagnetic waves. A stands for Edwin Armstrong who invented FM, frequency modulation. And M stands for Gugliemo Marconi, the first man to trans-mit radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that either. Ed
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July 15, 2017 Ray Dawn Patrol Submitted by Peter Dugdale
The Dawn Patrol is another great activity for Chapter #13 and Ray Community Airport; We want to thank all of the volunteers that helped in making this event a success. We had a good showing of aircraft visiting, including a U. S. Customs and Border Patrol Blackhawk heli-copter flown in by David Loyd and Christopher
Dobo, and a Raven II R-44 helicopter from the Macomb County Sheriff's Department flown in by Jimmy Gall and U. S. Marshall Justin Ethimeu.
We also had a great showing of aircraft modeling skills by the Radio Control Club of Detroit (RCCD), and we thank them for their ongoing strong support. And finally, at the request of Tom Hoover, we had a
number of vintage automobiles club owners and drivers arrive to add to the appeal of the event.
J o h n V e r -meersch saw what was going on here and showed up with his 1932 ford Roadster just for the heck if it.
Below is an accounting of the number of break-fasts served and expenses paid:
Income for the Fly In Breakfast 7/15/2017 171 Paid Breakfasts $1151.00 Ford Model A Rides $43.00 Sale of Unused Food $20.00 Total $1214.00
Expenses for Fly In Breakfast Bob Hunt—Food and Supplies $177.00 Lorne Minor—Food $206.00 Peter—Permit, Tables, Supplies $231.00 Total $614.00 Net Profit $600.00
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Young Eagle Flights
August 12, 2017
Submitted by YE Coordinator Dennis Glaeser
109 Missions says it all!! We had a banner
day, and everyone worked hard to pull it off! We even ran out of registration forms! Marla and Julie figured out that the Airport office copier was ca-pable of double sided printing and saved the day. I had gotten quite a few calls leading up to this event, so the banner turnout was tenuously ex-pected. Hopefully the trend will continue.
Here are the totals: Jim McDaniel – 24 Dennis Glaeser – 9 Bob Mahieu – 21 John Kean – 11 Joe Gores – 8 Steve Greene – 17 Pete Dugdale – 2 (joined us at noon, after return-ing from vacation!) Greg Bohm – 10 Doug Conciatu – 7
The ground crew stepped up as usual, bringing the paperwork to the pilots to save time when the lines were longest. Thanks to: Lorne Minor, Allen Numeric, Julie Rouse, Marla Smith, Aviation explorers Eli Szypa, Nicole Hedges and Keegan Gudobba, Dave Nellis on the grill, Chuck Valade, Mark Fulmer, Vern Lancaster keeping the ramp orderly and safe. And as usual, hopefully I didn’t forget someone… Thanks to all for a great day. See you at the meeting! Dennis
Young Eagle Flights
July 9, 2017
Submitted by YE Coordinator Dennis Glaeser
Another great day for flying – and what a turnout for both kids and pilots! 71 kids!! And it was a breeze with 10 pilots flying!!! We even had a guest pilot stop in and help out! Mike Woodley, a former Chapter 13 member – now located in Midland, was in the area and flew some kids! Here is the summary: Mike Woodley – 4 Dennis Glaeser – 6 Jim McDaniel – 6 Pete Dugdale – 7 Dave Nellis – 9 Ron Lendon – 6 Doug Conciatu – 5 Bob Mahieu – 7 Joe Gores – 5 Steve Greene – 16 Ground Crew : Bill Appleberry, Alan Numeric, Vern Lancaster, Marla Smith, Eli Szypa, Chuck Valade, Tom Mack, John Shonka on the Grill, Tom Vukonich taking pictures. (and I probably forgot someone) Thanks to all for another big success! We only have a few days to rest – the Fly In Breakfast is on Saturday!! See you there.
YE’s Signing Up.
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Explorer Scouts at Airventure
In view of the fact that Marla Smith of EAA Chapter #13 established Aviation Explorer Post #13 this past year, Bill Appleberry and I decided to pay a visit to the members of Explorer Post 76 in atten-dance at Oshkosh this year. We found them bil-leted across the street from the Warbirds area. Un-fortunately, we missed the explorers who were on duty assisting with aircraft parking duty. It is our understanding that explorers can be assigned to any number of activities, wherever they be needed.
We did however meet Chuck Jansen and Dawn Hecox, the adult supervisors for Explorer Post 76. Chuck is a member of EAA Chapter #1414, in Pop-lar Grove, IL. He is also an advisor with the Poplar Grove Aviation Education Association and Vintage Wings and Wheels Museum (vintagemuseum @gmail.com). Taking a peek at the museum Newsletter, we found that Chuck took over the re-
sponsibilities of the Explorer Post earlier this year.
With so much going on, we never made it back to meet the explorers them-selves. Perhaps next year we will be able to visit our own explor-ers at the event and get a report on their assign-ments and ex-periences.
Ed
Notes from Past Members
Following is an original poem submitted to the Chapter members back in the 80s. WACO Bob Grider found this in his files, written on the back of a Christmas card. He thought we might share it again. Some things never change.
Also, while on “Tram” duty at Oshkosh this year, a fellow noticed my Chapter #13 name tag. He intro-duced himself as Dave Ostergard who served as the Chapter Secretary back in the 90s. He has been living in Atlanta, Georgia but will be soon mov-ing to Corpus Christie, Texas.
He asked us to say “howdy” to all of the members that have been around along enough to remember
him. Ed
EXPLORERS
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Aircraft for Sale Sonex Onex kit Reduced to $29,000 OBO
Sonex Onex kit, Tail wheel airframe ~90% complete, spars and center
wing section requires assembly. UL 260IS (107 HP) engine mounted
along with fuel pumps, ignition, and ECM. Requires prop, instru-
ments, interior, and paint. Death forces the sale. Contact Peter Dug-
dale (Michigan), Cell# 586-219-7907.
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Aircraft for Sale Lake LA-4 200 Buccaneer $85,000 OBO
1182 Hrs TT, 58 Hrs SMOH by ProAero, new CW crank (AD), electronic
ignition, new prop in 07, new 5 color exterior paint in 16, high end
dove grey leather interior. Many mods, nose wheel steering, cargo
door, hull plates, 2 puck Cleveland brakes, bat wings, VGs, high lift
wing tips, spinner, bilge pump, glare shield, JPI analyzer, door lifts,
rudder trim, Causely kit, healthy heater, renegade yokes and arm
beams. Always hangared, never in salt, no damage or corrosion. Fresh
Annual. Death forces the sale. Contact Peter Dugdale (Michigan), Cell#
586-219-7907.
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Aircraft for Sale Manta Foxbat
Submitted by Emily Widmar and Posted in the Ray Airport Office
Foxbat Ultra-lite for sale. GREAT condition.
Built and flown by Doug Widmar for the past 30 years, at Johnson
Airport in Smiths Creek, Michigan. Call Emily Widmar at
586-321-8600 for additional information.
The Foxbat was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehi-cles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg). The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 200 lb (91 kg). It fea-tures a cable-braced high-wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle land-ing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. The control system is unconventional and uses a hang glider style control bar for weight shift control of pitch and roll, augmented with wing tip rudders for yaw, acti-vated by hand controls on the control bar. The fuselage is an open frame structure that is attached to the wing via a flexible single point mount, to allow weight shift control. The pilot is accommodated on a sling seat. The landing gear is of tricycle configuration, with a steerable nose wheel. The Foxbat wing can be folded for ground transport and storage.
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We are taking a break from the “Who’s Building What” series to show you what the scene of
the Dawn Patrol Breakfast looked like from the air. Photo submitted by Peter Dugdale.
