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The Hagerstown
chapters.eaa.org/EAA 36 Hagerstown, MD
Vol. 29 No. 11 November 2020
Chapter 36 Aircraft of the Month
Cessna 150, Elizabeth Thornwall
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EAA CHAPTER 36_______________________________________
November 2020
CONTENTS
Cover PageChapter Officers
President’s CornerChapter NewsAviation News
Scholarship UpdateMembers Pages
Plane of the Month
Published byEAA Chapter 36Hagerstown, MD301-797-1875
chapters.eaa.org/EAA36
The contents of The HagerstownHomebuilder are solely the view-points of the authors. No claim ismade and no liability is assumed,
expressed or implied as to thetechnical accuracy or safety of thematerial, opinions and/or views
presented. The viewpoints expressed are notnecessarily those of EAA Chapter36 or the Experimental Aircraft
Association
2019-20 OFFICERSAND SUPPORT STAFF
President: Ray Franze
262 Morningside DriveFalling Waters, WV 25419
Vice-President:Gary Keller
261 Ledge DriveChambersburg, PA 7202
Secretary:Dean Popio
4647 Old Scotland Rd.,Chambersburg, PA 17202
Treasurer:Dean Popio
4647 Old Scotland Rd.,Chambersburg, PA 17202
Young Eagles Coordinator: Curtis Berry
16137 River Bend Ct.,Williamsport, MD 21795
Tech Counselor -Flight Advisor:
Gary Hartle9894 Grindstone Hill Rd.,
Greencastle, PA 17225
Technical Counselor:Jack Raun
211 Taxiway Dr.,Hedgesville, WV 25427
Technical Counselor:Dean Truax
5884 Timber Ridge Rd.,Big Cove, PA 17212
Board of DirectorsAll current Officers, plus the immediately preceding Officers and
the following members at large.Joe Boyle Curtis Berry Jim Marsden
Webmaster Greg & Carl [email protected]
Newsletter Editors The Thornwall Family
Our next general membership meeting will be held on November 19th
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The President’s Corner
The times, they are a changin.’ Don’t overthink it—this isn’t really a nod to Bob Dylan or an overarching synopsis of 2020. It’s simply a reminder that we say goodbye to Daylight Savings Time this weekend. Not that many people are begging for an extra hour of 2020, but don’t forget the clocks go back an hour beginning early Sunday morning—and we’ll now be five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (UTC -0500).
Congratulations! are in order for Pete Walters who completed his check ride about two weeks ago. Pete’s Airplane, Single-Engine Land certificate gives him theauthority to be PIC on his own or with non-CFI passengers. Great job Pete! We look forward to sharing the skies with you.
I am happy to report that our Ray Aviation Scholar, Aidan Bedwell, completed his first solo flight at Frederick Municipal Airport approximately three weeks ago. As far as flying goes, the cross-country phase and checking off a few other boxes is all that remains between Aidan and his check ride—so fingerscrossed for good weather going forward. Of course, he will also need to complete the Knowledge Test too.
If you show up on Build Nights these days, you will likely find Aidan and Andrew Russell, another young man, doing what they can to help out with the V-Star and other odd jobs around the hangar. It’s good to see our youth taking an active role in chapter participation—and I look forward to seeing that grow as we move forward with new programs like the YE RC Build and Fly project.
Speaking of the YE RC Build and Fly project, earlier in the month we received most of the components needed to get the project going. The actual aircraft structure itself did not arrive yet. The manufacturer was awaiting specific materials before they could ship it to us; but by the time you read this it’s likely the final components have arrived.
Chapter elections are due to take place in November. Ihave heard from two individuals who expressed interest in vacant positions. Even if all positions go unopposed, we are still seeking a member willing to fulfill the Secretary position. I believe the only qualifications required for the Secretary position is a solid grasp of the English and legible penmanship—if you can read and understand your own notes, that works! Names and nominations will be accepted up tothe time of the election—TBD.
While we ended up scrubbing our official Young Eagles events for the entire year, a few of our Young Eagles’ pilots have been accomplishing YE flights over the past month and a half. I believe our count is closing in on 10 YEs flown, if not slightly beyond at this point. With everything that’s been going on this year, the flights have been at the discretion of the individual pilots and it seems most pilots had a familiarity with the youth and/or their family prior to the flights. We’ll fall short of our 150-250 kids we usually fly each year; but it’s good to see our YE pilotsdidn’t abandon the program altogether—still making an impact when and where we can.
Again, I would like to thank the Thornwall family for allowing us to use their hangar to host our second in-person chapter meeting since February. I was getting nervous as the time drew closer to 7:30 and the turnoutwas still light, but we ended up with a solid in-person showing. We used the occasion to celebrate Aidan’s solo flight with delicious cupcakes courtesy of Mark and Sandy (Thank you!). Again, we had several members who tuned in via the GoToMeeting App and I understand the audio was much better this time around—with more improvements possibly coming soon.
More to come including official announcements regarding November’s events, until then ….
Safe skies!
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Chapter 36News and Events
October’s In Person Meeting Minutes: What’s Been Happening: Board Meetings, Build Nights, News &Noteworthy- Navigating a Return- Current Projects: Build Nights V-Star Project, Scholarships,Young Eagles- Upcoming Projects: YE Build & Fly RC Project, Flyouts, Pedal Planes, Elections,- Finances: Current Status, Dues Revision, Fundraisers- Celebrating Members: Member Accomplishments
Meeting Attendees: Pete Walters, Austin Colby, Jim Marsden, Curtis Berry, Kate Berry, Sandy Hissey, Mark Hissey, Aidan Bedwell, Ted Bedwell, Ginny Keller, Gary Keller, Ray Franze
Online Attendees: Dean Popio, Tobias Mottley, Michael Williams,Jack Raun, Thornwall Family
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Weekly Build Nights at the Chapter36 Hangar, Monday nights at 7 PM
November
In person meeting
Our next in person meeting will take place in hangar 6K onNovember 19th at 7:30 PM.
November Fly-out
To be determined
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Hagerstown Aviation Museum has itsown home
Article by Dave McMillion, The Herald Mail
The Hagerstown Aviation Museum reached a big milestone Sunday afternoon. For the first time in its 25-year history, the museum has its own home.During an event near Hagerstown Regional Airport, museum officials announced they have an agreement to lease a building on the property to house the museum. The museum helps tell the story of Washington County’s aviation history, especially about when the Fairchild Aircraft plant near the airport produced military aircraft during World War II.More than 10,000 people worked there at one time.The museum has a number of planes in its collection, including a C-82 and a C-119, which were built by Fairchild. But the museum didn’t have a permanent home, and museum officials have shown their planes at different locations over the years. They always talked about having a home. It came true Sunday in anold hangar once used by Fairchild, where museum President John Seburn signed a lease with New Heights Industrial Park. In coming months, museum officials said they will start turning the building into their home. The property was bought by a group last summer and Seburn said previously that the two sides had been discussing a possible deal. Tom Riford, a member of the museum’s board of directors, said it is exciting to know the museum will be in a building once used by Fairchild. Riford said the dome-shaped building was a test hangar where Fairchild would do a“run-up” on new aircraft before rolling them out onto the airport.“They would have been coming out of this room you’re looking at,” Riford said, standing just outside its entrance. Seburn declined to disclose terms of the contract. But he said it is a lease with the option to buy, and he expects the museum to start a capital campaign to raise money to buy the hangar.The museum had been discussing possibly getting twobuildings on the property, but Seburn said museum officials settled on one. More than 50 guests, who paid$15 for tickets, gathered in the hangar to observe the lease signing. Applause went up from the crowd.Museum officials talked about the area’s aviation history and their collection, which includes thousands of photographs.
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/local/hagerstown-aviation-museum-has-its-own-home/article_cd599038-bef9-
5d20-b57b-f33e6e9dcdb9.html
Ray Franze’s Photos from the Museum:
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Chapter 36 Ray Aviation ScholarshipUpdate
Our Ray Aviation Scholar, Aidan Bedwell, completed hisfirst solo flight on Saturday, Oct. 10th at FrederickMunicipal Airport.
“On October 10th, I completed my first solo doing 2 full stop landing on my own. On October 17th, I completed my first cross country, flying from Frederick to Lancaster and back. On other days like Sunday, whenthe weather wasn't great, I trained in the pattern and did groundwork such as looking through maintenance logs and the POH to prepare for my written and check ride.” – Aidan Bedwell
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Members Pages
Congratulations to Pete Walters for passing his Private Pilot Checkride!
“I passed my checkride this past Saturday (the 17th). My DPE was Mitch Pennington, and the location was Petersburg, WV, W99. Saw this beautiful Aeronca while there and watched some gliders winch launching. Kudos to my CFI, Pete Bastien at Martinsburg, KMRB. AeroSmith originally, and recently bought by Bravo Flight Training of Frederick.” – Pete Walters
Member Fly-out
“Well 8 members & Spouses met for breakfast at Runways for plan B about 9:30 am since today's fly-out was abust due to the weather. Gary & his wife, Jim & his wife, Curtis & Kate, Sandy & I. Good breakfast, social &hangar talk. Talking about weather, possibly going to the Flying Circus show next Saturday. Also a Christmas
party at Curtis & Kate's home, TBD. We departed about 11:30. Good way to spend a rainy morning with friends& fellow pilots.” – Mark Hissey
chapters.eaa.org/EAA 36 Updated EAA Chapter 36 website. Please check it out and provide feedback.
Celebrating Chapter Members: Have you recently completed a milestone in flighttraining? Taken a special flight? Have any interesting aviation related news? Let
us know for next month’s newsletter!
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Chapter Members Visit First Flight AirportOn Monday, October 5th, chapter members Jim Hauber and
Tobias Mottley flew down to First Flight (FFA), on NC’sOuter Banks at Kitty Hawk; site of the Wright brothers firstpowered flight. They flew down in the Chapter 36 Flying
Club’s Cessna 172, N8223U.
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Elizabeth Thornwall’s Instrument Training
“I am continuing to build flight time towards the 50 hours of pilot in command cross country time that isrequired for an instrument rating. I currently have just over 30 hours, so I’m more then half way there. This
month I flew to Redding Regional Airport (KRDG), Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport (KSHD), Front RoyalWarren County Airport (KFRR), Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Airport (KJST), and Stafford Regional
Airport (KRMN). They are all very nice airports, and the flights have always been interesting. When landing atJohnstown, the tower controller instructed me to “check wheels down” on my fixed landing gear Cessna 150.And while flying back to Frederick from Stafford, Potomac Approach gave us a short cut through the class Bairspace and SFRA. This took us over Leesburg Airport and near Dulles International, and we flew past some
jets landing and departing Dulles. I have also been watching the trees slowly change color over the past month.The photos from the flights were taken by Jay Chiang.” – Elizabeth Thornwall
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Aircraft Of the Month:N14CW, 1969 Cessna 150J
About the aircraft: “This is one of 1,714 ‘J’ model 150s built by Cessna in 1969. Unfortunately, it was damaged when a solo student pilot hit power lines while flying low and crashed the plane into a lake. The pilot survived but the NTSB report lists the damage to the aircraft as ‘substantial.’ It was repaired but now flies slightly crooked and will drop the left wing if stalled. We bought it in 2019, and despite its problems it has turned out to be a great little airplane. My farthest flight with it so far was from Frederick, MD, to Millville, NJ (just over 100 miles), but I am planning to fly it down to First Flight Airport in the future.” – Elizabeth Thornwall
Any members who would like their aircraft featured in future newsletters as Aircraft ofthe Month, please send information and photos to Greg Thornwall at [email protected]
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