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The July meeting was held at Tom
Muller’s hangar at Lewiston Auburn airport.
The meeting was a combined picnic and chapter
meeting. President
Charlie Gabelmann called the Meeting to order at 1920 with
a quorum of Board Members in attendance.
1.
TREASURER’S AND SECRETARY’S REPORT
The Treasurer and secretary’s
report were not presented.
2.
YOUNG EAGLES
Pilots' lunches for the June 19 Young
Eagles event at Wiscasset were paid for by Everett
Perkins. Tom
Muller advised that the chapter would reimburse Everett
for the lunch costs, and requested Everett submit the
charges. The
next Young Eagles event will be held at Wiscasset on
October 2nd.
3.
GENERAL
There were about 20 members in
attendance and all enjoyed the Red Hots grilled by Tom
Muller.
Members had a chance to look at the
boroscope purchased by the chapter for about $100.
Tom had removed the wing root fairings of his R9A,
and the wing wiring was inspected using the boroscope.
Leo Leclair has begun converting his
Glastar from tricycle gear to floats.
The aircraft is currently sitting on the floats but
it is not fully on the landing gear as yet.
Leo plans to fly off restrictions out of Twitchell
field.
Tom Fisher reported on the status of
his Zenair 601 XL project.
Tom reported that all required FAA modification
have been installed and the aircraft is currently being
painted. Modifications
required an extensive disassembly followed by an FAA
inspection of the modifications.
The mods took almost 1 year to complete and added
about 18 pounds to the empty weight.
The August meeting will be held in
conjunction with Mark Hayden’s annual picnic on Saturday
August 21. This
is a fly-in/drive-in, and will start around 10AM at
Mark’s Emmett field, 86 Old Lewiston Road, Monmouth
Maine.
The September meeting will be held at
Leo Leclair’s garage in Auburn and will feature
DJ Merrill’s Sportsman.
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