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August 2007
Next meeting: August 4, 2007
At the Clubhouse, Knutsford strip
Time: 10am.
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President's Letter
Another busy month
has flown by!! I made my way to another Edmonton
Indy Race. We had a good weekend, no major
disasters in the pits and the weather was great!!
Here
I am with Shaun Majumder from This Hour Has 22
Minutes.
Before
leaving Edmonton on Monday morning I visited the
Alberta Aviation Museum, known as the Hangar on
Kingsway. It was a very worthwhile stop!! The
display of aircraft is very impressive. Having a
large rebuilding shop on site and very talented
volunteers the work done is of a very high
caliber. An exact copy of the Curtiss
aircraft that Katherine Stinson used to fly
the first airmail between Calgary and Edmonton,
is beautiful. It was totally reproduced in the
fabricating shop. Every part was made in house.
With
Wright controls and a custom vanity in the dash,
the airplane was custom built for Katherine.
The
Wright controls were patented by the Wright
Brothers.There is no stick in the middle of the
cockpit.
There
are 2 control levers on the sides of the cockpit.
Fore and aft movement of the right stick controls
the airlerons. Rolling the wrist to the
right or left controls the rudders. Fore and
aft movement of the left stick controls the
elevators and rolling the left wrist to the
right increases the throttle. The gentleman
that took me under the ropes for a close up look
said that after about 10 minutes the controls
feel very normal and easy to use. He wondered why
more airplanes were not equipped with these
controls. Some airplanes are
exact non-flying replicas, due to wing spar
issues etc.
This
plane is a Noorduyn Norseman MK V. It was rescued
after 40 some years in the bush and rebuilt.
Other airplanes are still flyable and others are
scale versions of the real thing. If you are passing through
Edmonton and have the time, check out this
facility. They also have a well stocked gift shop
and book store.
The
Knutsford airstrip has been a hub of activity
lately. All of our existing hangars are rented
out and there is interest in more hangar space.
There have been enquiries for Ultra-light lessons
as well. At the present time lessons are
available in Salmon Arm if you have your own
plane and also down in the Lower Mainland. With the winds settling down
a bit now, there are more flying hours being
logged by club members. Hopefully the weather
will continue to co-operate. So far the weekend meetings
have been working out okay. The turnouts have
been good and the Bar-B-Que has been getting a
work-out!! The hamburgers and the cold pop have
been easy to consume. Hope to see you at the next
meeting, happy landings,
Dick
Suttie.
Berwin and Huxley
Dan
and Bill have been flying their Challengers
together lately, having a trip to Quilchena and
another to Salmon Arm.
Bill
arriving from Salmon Arm:
Dan
had posted quite a few pictures on his own
website, that you can access here:http://www3.telus.net/public/berwin01/
What
was that?!!!!!
My
propeller has been in the hands of the RCMP for
one month now, we should know pretty soon what
they think caused the damage. Stay tuned!
AIPLANES,
ALIENS and GLOBAL WARMING
There’s not much in this
world that isn’t predictable. Not many
things happen that someone would never see coming
until it was too late. Most of us have been
blind-sided once or twice, but who couldn’t
foresee the lawsuits in the crash of the Cirrus
SR-20 into a New York apartment building October
11 of last year (2006)? It didn’t take more
than a month or two before the lawyers were on to
that one like flies on fresh cow dung.
The pilot of that plane, baseball
pitcher Cory Lidle, could not have picked a
better (or worse) place to fly into a building.
The New York City Bar Association claims 23,000
members. Need an attorney? He came to the right
place. With 23,000 in the neighborhood,
there’s no lineups, no waiting. And he
couldn’t have chosen a worse (or better)
building to fly into. It was an upper East-side
apartment building, predictably occupied by upper
East-side “do you know who I am”
people. Important people with big money.
The NTSB, at this writing, has
yet to release it’s “probable
cause” report. However, that makes no
difference, as the rush of finger pointing gets
going before the finger pointers can become
confused with the facts. So far, the family of
the deceased pilot is suing the companies that
built the aircraft, the propeller and the engine.
One resident of the target building, a
dentist whose patients include Bruce Springsteen
and Donald Trump, has filed a lawsuit against the
estate of the unfortunate pilot and his on-board
flight instructor for damages to his apartment.
Another issue has to do with the
insurance from Major League Baseball. Cory
Lidle’s estate stands to collect well over
$1million dollars if it’s shown he was not
actually flying the airplane. So it gets more and
more complicated. This story is certainly not
over yet. That too is predictable. Stand
by for more.
IMAGE BY PAULINE
& ROBIN
DAY http://sfdaydreams.com
Here’s another item in the
news that’s worthy of some thought.
Alien spaceships, which not many of us have
actually seen, are apparently for real.
Governments know about them, but it’s all
kept hushed up, lest the uneducated masses rise
up in panic. We know this now, since
former Canadian defence minister, Paul Hellyer,
told an Ottawa newspaper he wants
governments to stop hoarding their secret alien
technologies and use them to stem global warming.
He says the advanced propulsion systems
from captured UFO’s could be used in our
aircraft to eliminate the burning of fossil
fuels. In the past, Mr. Hellyer has
announced that aliens are for real and that he
has personally seen a UFO. He also
believes that President Bush foresees building a
military base on the moon to defend earth from an
alien attack. Mr. Hellyer was a Liberal
national defence minister in the mid 1960’s,
and is now eighty three.
Advanced propulsion systems.
So that’s what they use. No
one would suspect a half-century old Continental
or Lycoming engine would be powering those
UFO’s but it makes you wonder what knowledge
the little green men possess that we’re
still searching for.
No one really has all the
answers. That’s because so many
questions keep us thinking, and before we can
solve one of the world’s problems, another
one pops up. Can attorneys sort out the
Cirrus crash case? Who should pay for the
damages to those peoples apartments? Can
the insurance companies successfully sue the
pilot? Who was the pilot? Is an
aircraft manufacturer actually responsible for
the death of two young men? And what about
those little green men and their UFO’s?
It’s all more food for thought
at your next coffee break.
And by the way, who’s
buying?
bcflyer@propilots.net
New in the Buy&Sell
Challenger II
Challenger
II on Amphibious Floats
Rotax
503 Dual Carb CDI with less than 100 hrs since
pro rebuild. New Paint and fabric. Includes
an Icom Radio, Headset, Doors, Amphibious Gear,
New style "tall" 2.6 : 1 reduction
drive, and GSC Ground Adjustable Prop.
Located
on Vancouver Island BC Asking $18,500
CDN O.B.O Photos can be seen at http://challenger.w2w.cc
Please
contact Marek at marek@w2w.cc or (250)-746-8334
CESSNA
150 FOR SALE
If you know
anyone interested, there is a Cessna 150 for
sale. C-FANG is based in Langley, has about 7000
hrs on the airframe but has a fresh engine. It is
owned by two partners; one has decided not to
pursue his license and the other has just bought
a C182. They are "motivated" to sell.
If you know anyone in the market have them e-mail
me and I will put them in contact with the owner
I know.
Enjoy the great weather and fly safe. wmaure@telus.net]
Newsletter
published by Camille
We
welcome your feedback. And we could also use some
help with the newsletter. Photo would be great!
And articles of any length will be gladly
accepted! If you would like to contribute with
photos, flying stories, or project updates,
contact:
President:
Dick Suttie, 1-250-374-6136 richard_suttie@telus.net
Vice-President: Dennis Seib 1-250-573-3714 dseib@mail.ocis.net
Newsletter Editor: Camille Villeneuve
1-250-374-4181 villeneuve@shaw.ca
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