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EAA Chapter 765              January 2006            4560 Flightline Drive, Kingman, AZ 86401
                                                                                                                                

Regular EAA Chapter 765 meetings are held from
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday each month at the EAA Hangar on Flightline Drive at the Kingman Airport..

President             John Pool                   692-8026

Vice-President      Harry May                 718-5896

Treasurer            Scott Brackett            753-9075

Secretary              Dennis Macklin           692-5553   

 

President’s Message:

 

             Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 10^th. at 7:00 pm, in our hangar and will continue with the second Tuesday of each month thereafter.  The change in meeting time was decided upon by the chapter’s Board of Directors at their last meeting.  We hope this change will increase the turnout of chapter members at our monthly meetings.

 

             I am looking forward to 2006 and hope the plans that I will present to our membership in January will bring us more activities for our members to be involved with to further our chapter goals. 

 

John Pool

 

NEW MEETING DATE:  January 10, 2006

 

Notes from Board of Directors meeting.

 

A meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Monday, December 12, 2005, at 7 p.m. at the Brackett Aircraft office.

 

Present:  John Pool

   Harry May

   Scott Brackett

   Bill Aronson

   Paul George

   Dennis Macklin

 

Various items were discussed concerning improving the Chapter meetings and Chapter activities.

 

New meeting time was discussed and agreed to be the 2^nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm

 

Keep meeting length to 20 minutes maximum. Leave time at end to allow members to interact.

 

Hold quarterly chapter potlucks – Next would be March 14^th

 

John Pool presented solicitation letter to be given to businesses or individuals for donations to chapter. Letter was accepted.

            

Coordinate Young Eagles day with Kingman car show. Dennis to check with Dan Reaume as to date of event. Possibly end of April?

 

Scott Brackett volunteered to be Young Eagles coordinator.

 

Adjourned: 8:22 pm

 

The following message was received from Chapter Headquarters. 

 

ChapterEgram@eaamail.org

FEDS ORDER AIRCRAFT OWNERS TO UPDATE

REGISTRATIONS BY FEBRUARY 2006

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Aircraft owners and operators have until

February 2, 2006 to ensure their aircraft registration information is properly completed and up to date (including address) or they may be denied access to the National Airspace

System (NAS).

 

An FAA notice published in the Federal Register on December 9 indicates that FAA and TSA "will revitalize and refocus" U.S. airspace monitoring

capabilities to ensure that each aircraft operating within the NAS has met all statutory, regulatory

and certification requirements, effective February 1, 2006.

 

To read the complete story go to:

http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/051212_faa.html

 

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Bill Aronson wrote the following article and provided the photos.

Speed—the movie----Imax Production

 

Art Scholl cameraman, pilot; Bill Aronson

tow plane pilot

 

Bill Aronson’s adventures while filming the movie “Speed” in Mammoth Lakes, California,

November 1978.

 

Studio contacted me in September 1978 to make camera mounts for 2-32 Glider. One on the nose, and one on the right-hand wing, and one on the aft cockpit.  This camera weighs 90-some lbs including the battery pack. It took 26 lbs of lead on the other wing to balance it.

 

I did a reverse weight and balance to determine the locations of the camera mounts and their moments.

 

The other two mounts were made for four other movies: The Flyer for the Smithsonian Institution, To Make a Wish, Celebrity Dare Devils, and a Walt Disney movie, Skytrap.

 

We started off towing the 2-32 up to Mammoth Lakes for filming, flying mostly over Convict Lake. The tow to Mammoth took two hours and forty-five minutes. We had a headwind.

 

Ran short of fuel and landed at Independence up by Lone Pine. Fortunately, Diane was driving the truck up to Mammoth at the time, and I went to the highway and flagged her down as she drove thru. (We did not have cell phones then.) I borrowed several gas cans from the service station, filled them up and drove back to the airport to refuel the tow plane.

 

We made the takeoff from Independence without a wing runner without any problems.

 

Rented a hangar at Mammoth Airport, and that evening Art and I installed the mounts and cameras.

 

We used the wing mount for this particular Imax movie called Speed. It was positioned to where you made a left-hand turn over your subject and the wide-angle lens would take in the side of the glider with the left wing pointed down at the subject.

 

We launched the next morning at sunrise and I towed Art up to 15,000 feet a.s.l. We made three flights that day to accomplish the mission.  It was 50 below zero at 15,000 feet. I didn’t have any cabin heat in the tow plane.  It was cold to say the least, even though I was bundled up pretty good.

 

We proved the shots by mounting a video camera on the mount. That way we could immediately proof the shots we had taken.

 

The next day we removed the mount and camera and headed home. We had a tailwind. It only took an hour and twenty minutes to go home.

 

Unfortunately, Art Scholl was killed a few weeks later in lhis Pitts S-2 while filming Top Gun starring Tom Cruise. The only radio transmission they had from Art was “I’ve got a problem. I’ve got a REAL problem. He spun into the ocean trying to recover from an inverted flat spin. The plane and body were never recovered.

 

 

AGENDA

EAA CHAPTER 765

MEMBERSHIP MEETING

JANUARY 10^TH. 2006

 

Meeting call to order:

John Pool, President

 

Welcome to Guests:

Harry May, Vice President

 

Secretary’s Report:

Dennis Macklin

Approval of Minutes

 

Treasurer’s Report:

Scott Brackett

                   Approval of Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EAA Chapter 765

4560 Flightline Drive

Kingman, AZ 85401

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old Business:

Hangar Coordinator Report – Gene Wolf

 

New Business:

Meeting Time/Day – John Pool

Activities Coordinators – John Pool

Young Eagle

Scouting Merit Badge

Fly-Outs

Meeting Program

Public Relations

Potlucks

 

Meeting Program:

Zodiac 601 XL Project:  Paul George, Malcolm Hart, & John Pool

 

Adjourn