EAA 202 Newsletter. Chapter Meeting Saturday 9/20. Can you Identify the aircraft above? Oct. 3,4& Evergreen, Alabama.

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1 EAA 202 Newsletter Sept 2003 B17 in Panama City Oct 6,7 &8 Mark your calendar and volunteer to help! Oct. 3,4& Evergreen, Alabama Can you Identify the aircraft above? Answer is on the last page. Chapter Meeting Saturday 9/20 I assume the usual breakfast will be served prior to the meeting. Dick Smith will have more information on the up-coming B-17 party. Thomasville Ga. annual Fly-in October 10, 11, & 12, Weather will hopefully cooperate with the fall fly-ins. Let s try and have a loose formation flight to some of the better ones. My plans of returning to Panama City from working in Atlanta have once again been put on hold. As such would someone take up the Young Eagle flight coordinator job. I will be glad to help but it should be done by someone local. Vance whiteva@aol.com

2 Elba Al. Fly-in Oct. 25 More info at m November 7 & 8 Pitts biplane fly-in More info at September 27 Saturday, Bar B Que at my hangar located at PFN (noonish). Come by the TEXACO ramp and look for lots of smoke. Fly-in and park behind the Texaco FBO. RIBS, Burgers, Dogs and all the trimmings. Just drop me a note so I can plan on how many will attend. Are you a safe pilot? We are all familiar with the acronym I.M.S.A.F.E. It is an assessment of the pilot's condition before flight. Let's look at each of the letters individually. I = Illnesses. Do you have any illnesses, a cold, or severe allergies that would inhibit your decision-making capabilities or motor skills? If you do, you probably should not be flying. M = Medications. Are you taking any prescription or non-prescription medication? Prescription medication needs to be cleared by your Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). Non-prescription medication -- although it may not cause any adverse side effects while you are firmly planted on terra firma -- may cause adverse side effects at altitude. Non-prescription medicine also needs to be cleared by your AME. EAA Chapter We re on the Web! S = Stress. Are you under any kind of stress? Did you just lose your job, are you going through a divorce, do you have an extremely sick child? If so, you should not be flying, as your mind will not be focused on the tasks at hand. A = Alcohol. How long has it been since you had your last drink? Remember the eight-hour bottle-to-throttle rule. In addition to that don't forget the 0.04% blood alcohol content. Even though it has been longer than eight hours since your last drink, depending on how much and what you drank, your blood alcohol level may still be higher than 0.04%. F = Fatigue. Were you up early and worked all day and now you're planning a three-hour flight at 0-dark-30? Were you awake all night tossing and turning, thinking about that important meeting with that client that you have to meet tomorrow, which requires you to be airborne by 6:00 a.m. to meet him at 11:00 a.m.? Are you really as sharp as you could be? E = Emotions/Eating. Are you mad because you just had a fight with your boss? When was the last time you ate? If you are planning a four-hour flight and plan to be airborne by 3:00 p.m. and you haven't had anything to eat or drink since 7:00 a.m., watch out. The combination of being low on hydration and having low blood-sugar levels can set you up for extremely poor performance.

3 . Surprise Guests Will not be at the next meeting! QUOTE of the month! Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind. I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St. Louis.

4 SpaceShipOne Burt Rutan can be sure of one thing after the solo flight of his "SpaceShipOne" Aug. 7th -- it glides really well. Oct. 3,4& Evergreen, Alabama Then first test flight of the diminutive people carrier, designed to win the $10 million "X-prize," was thankfully uneventful as pilot Mike Melvill separated the craft from the White Knight mother ship, flown by Brian Binnie, at 47,000 feet. On the way down, he used pitch angle to try different speeds, from stall to a 150 kts. General aviation's voluntary security measures are working November 7 & 8 Pitts biplane fly-in Elba Al. Fly-in Oct. 25 EAA Chapter We re on the Web! Sept. 10 A sharp drop in the number of general aviation aircraft stolen this year shows that general aviation's efforts to enhance airport security are working. According to the Aviation Crime Prevention Institute, only three general aviation aircraft have been stolen so far in 2003 compared to 13 during all of "The drop coincides with the roll-out of AOPA's Airport Watch program," said AOPA President Phil Boyer. "AOPA can't and won't take credit for the drop. Instead, it goes to the airport managers and employees and individual pilots all across the country who took up AOPA's challenge to create a 'neighborhood watch' for their local airports." The Transportation Security Administration clearly agrees the self-imposed security enhancements are worth the effort. In a terrorist threat advisory, TSA urged pilots to follow the Airport Watch guidelines. Your article could have been here: OK, now you have a month to put something together for the next newsletter. If you are building, send me information and photos. This is the only EAA newsletter without a section on what the members are building. Send to whiteva@aol.com

5 Type: Experimental Interceptor Fighter Origin: Curtiss-Wright Crew: One Model: CW-24 First Flight: First Prototype: July 1943 Engine: Model: Allison V Type: 12-Cylinder Vee aircooled engine Horsepower: 1,275 hp Performance: EstimatedMaximum Speed: 390 mph (628 kph) at 19,300 ft mph at 16,400 ft. Cruising Speed: 296 mph (476 kph) Climb to 20,000 ft.: 7 minutes 6 seconds Service Ceiling: 34,600 ft. (10,545m) Normal Range: 635 miles (1022 km) at 296 mph Maximum Range: 1,440 miles Armament: Four.50 in. machine guns in nose. Ammunition: 200 rounds per gun.