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CHAPTER OFFICERS: PRESIDENT: BOB MOHR, 103 NORTH 12

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VICE PRESIDENT: WYATT CHMIEL, 511 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 848SECRETARY / TREASURER / NEWSLETTER EDITOR / SYD COHEN, 705 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 842TECHNICAL COUNSELOR: DAVE CONRAD, 1711 KICKBUSH STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 845WEBMASTER: ROGER GRAHL, 1730 EAST TURNER LAKE ROAD, LAC DU FLAMBEAU, WI 54538 (715) [email protected]

Volume XXVIII, Number 8

2014

This Month’s Meeting: Saturday

Bob Mohr’s hangar on the Wausau Airport

Lunch will be provided(Sorry for the late notice. AirVenture was fun!)

Be sure to bring this newsletter with you. We have a special access code

that is operative for August 9

Rick Coe’s hangar and park in by the fence. Type

the # key onto the keypad of the small walk gate and the gate will

unlock for you. Push it open and walk to Bob’s hangar. It is the second

new hangar from the north end. If you fly in, park your plane in the tie

down area and walk over to Bob’s hangar. You should bring your own tie

down ropes just in case not enough are available.

Last month’s meeting minutes:EAA CHAPTER 640, HAYMEADOW FLYERS


Meeting: The meeting was called to order at vendors at the Balloon Rally. 20 members and guests attended.June meeting minutes as printed in the July

STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 842-9823 [email protected] WYATT CHMIEL, 511 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 848-2815 [email protected]

SECRETARY / TREASURER / NEWSLETTER EDITOR / YOUNG EAGLES COORDINATOR / LIBRARIAN: SYD COHEN, 705 KENT STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 842-7814 [email protected]

TECHNICAL COUNSELOR: DAVE CONRAD, 1711 KICKBUSH STREET, WAUSAU, WI 54403 (715) 845-7545 [email protected]: ROGER GRAHL, 1730 EAST TURNER LAKE ROAD, LAC DU FLAMBEAU, WI 54538 (715) 588-7655

August

Our 35th

Year!

Saturday, August 9th, 2014, 12 noon


Lunch will be provided (Sorry for the late notice. AirVenture was fun!)


August 9 ONLY. Drive to the small walk gate behind

and park in by the fence. Type 20135 and then push

onto the keypad of the small walk gate and the gate will


gar from the north end. If you fly in, park your plane in the tie

down area and walk over to Bob’s hangar. You should bring your own tie

down ropes just in case not enough are available.

Last month’s meeting minutes: EAA CHAPTER 640, HAYMEADOW FLYERS

July 11, 2014


The meeting was called to order at 7:09 pm, after we ate dinner that each of us purchased from the members and guests attended. Bob asked for additions and/or corrections to the

July Haymeadow Flyer. None were offered, so Rick Coe

[email protected]

August,

12 noon


(Sorry for the late notice. AirVenture was fun!)


small walk gate behind

20135 and then push

onto the keypad of the small walk gate and the gate will


gar from the north end. If you fly in, park your plane in the tie-

down area and walk over to Bob’s hangar. You should bring your own tie-

ate dinner that each of us purchased from the Bob asked for additions and/or corrections to the

Rick Coe made a motion to

accept the minutes as printed and Terry Oestreich seconded his motion. The motion passed. Bob asked for corrections to the June Treasurer’s report as printed in the July Haymeadow Flyer. Again none offered, so John Chmiel made a motion to accept the minutes as printed and Mike Unertl seconded his motion. The motion passed.

New Members: none.

Guests: none

Project Report: Mike Unertl gave a report on the Aviators By Design Zenith 750 project. It will be on display at AirVenture near the Homebuilders Headquarters.

Baby Ace Report: Dave Conrad and Kurt Mehre reported that the Baby Ace is progressing quickly, and should be completed in time for AirVenture.

EAA Chapter 640 presence at the Wausau Balloon Rally: Bob asked for volunteers to help him at the Balloon Rally. We will have the Baby Ace project on display 8 am to 4 pm on Saturday, July 12, next to the air rides. We will also show an aircraft-welding example. Volunteers are needed.

Upcoming meeting schedule:

September – open

October 11 (Saturday) – Tomahawk airport at noon.

November 8 (Saturday) – Syd Cohen’s hangar on the Wausau Airport.

December 13 (Saturday) – Combined Chapter Christmas Party at Merrill.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:32 pm. Motion by Rick Coe, seconded by Mike Unertl

.

Next meeting at Bob & Deb Mohr’s hangar, August 9, 12 noon, on the Wausau airport.

Treasurer's Report for July, 2014:

Beginning balance.............................................................................................................$ 2,524.92

Plus dues & donations received.............................................................................................. 16.00 Plus checking account interest............................................................................................... 0.09 Minus postage .......................................................................................................................... 11.27 Minus copies ............................................................................................................................. 21.83 Minus reimbursement for Baby Ace parts paid to Dave Conrad …………………………….. 118.36 Minus reimbursement for Baby Ace parts paid to Kurt Mehre ……………………..……….. 191.11 Minus reimbursement for Baby Ace parts paid to Clifford Hatz ………………………….. 175.00

Minus reimbursement for Baby Ace parts paid to Dave Conrad …………………………….. 160.67 Ending balance.................................................................................................................... $1,862.77 which is..................................................................................................................................$1,727.29 in checking plus............................................................................................................................................ $135.48 in cash

Payzer Gift Fund Report for July, 2014:

Estimated Balance 6/30/14 ……………………………………………………………………………….………$ 41,517.91 Plus estimated interest 6/30/2014 to 7/31/2014 (0.25%) ……....…….….…… ….………………15.01

Estimated balance 7/31/14……………………………………………………..………………………………… $41,532.92 Harold Straw Young Eagles Fund Report for July, 2014:

Beginning balance.............................................................................................................. $673.49 Plus interest……………………………………………….………..……………………………………………………..………..… 0.03 Ending balance...................................................................................................................... $673.51

Baby Ace Completed and is Displayed at AirVenture

Article from AirVenture Today:

Baby Ace Took a Village to Get Here

By Randy Dufault

Kurt Mehre with Baby Ace, Paul Poberezny's famous design featured in Mechanic Illustrated. EAA Chapter 640 combined efforts to build the plane with the engine and firewall forward donated by Bob Mohr, Chapter President. Photo courtesy of Phil Weston

July 29, 2014 - Early in 2011, EAA’s late Founder, Paul Poberezny, began a new version of the homebuilding project that really launched the organization to national prominence: the Corbin Baby Ace that appeared on the May 1955 cover of Mechanix Illustrated magazine.

In the spirit of all his projects, Paul enlisted help from any volunteer with an interest, regardless of his airplane-building skills or experience. Several signed up, including Kurt Mehre from Wausau, Wisconsin. As things got underway, an EAA chapter from Indiana took on building the wing ribs. Others took on other tasks, and came and went, but Mehre was the one constant.

After Paul passed away last year, Audrey Poberezny and other members of the family asked Mehre to see the project through to completion. Mehre accepted the challenge, but knew he couldn’t do it alone.

“I took the idea [of a project] to my local chapter 640 in Wausau [Wisconsin], and got on a meeting agenda,” Mehre said. Other members agreed it was a worthy endeavor and in November 2013 took possession of what had been completed so far.

From the beginning, the goal was to fly the craft here to AirVenture 2014. There was much to do, and not much time, so a dedicated core team that included Mehre, Dave Conrad, Lyman Hatz, Clifford Hatz, Bob Mohr and a host of others, both young and old, set out to finish an airplane.

By July 1, wing-rib stitching had just gotten underway and it looked as if the AirVenture goal was beginning to slip away. But Clifford Hatz stepped in, picked up the wings and returned them just four days later ready to hang on the airframe. According to Mehre, Hatz’s efforts helped drive others to make sure the goal was met.

It took some convincing to get the FAA to come and inspect the project, as there was some trepidation about the quality and workmanship for such a short-term project. However, the level of skill and experience on the team overcame any concerns, and the airworthiness certificate was issued on July 17.

The first flight took place two days later. A flurry of flying by Mehre and three others completed the craft’s restrictions this past Saturday and, on Monday morning, the Baby Ace arrived in Oshkosh. So far the only squawk is a need to adjust the rudder trim a bit.

The chapter did get some sponsorship help from Poly-Fiber, who donated the covering materials, and Hooker Harness, who donated the custom-made restraint system. Chapter President Bob Mohr donated the engine.

Mehre believes there are three stories the little plane can tell.

“The first story is what this design did for the EAA, and the fact that it is Paul’s last project,” he said. “Another story is what it did for our chapter, bringing in new life and energy.

“And the third is that tube and fabric airplanes seem to have been forgotten. We all talk about the cost the fly. What does it cost to build an [average kit]? This airplane, I believe, could still be built for around $12,000. And it flies on less than four gallons per hour. This is an everyman’s airplane that the average middle class American can afford to build. And can afford to fly.”

Article from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Rebuilt 'Baby Ace' plane brings AirVenture back to its Wisconsin roots

Kurt Mehre (left), project manager for the “Baby Ace” kit plane, led the Wausau, Wisconsin chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association in rebuilding the open-cockpit, single-engine plane started by EAA’s late founder, Paul Poberezny. The replica is on display at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh.

By Meg Jones of the Journal Sentinel Aug. 1, 2014 Paul Poberezny (left) and Carl Walters work on the “Baby Ace” plane in 1954 at Poberezny’s Oshkosh home. The plane was on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated in May 1955.

Oshkosh — This was the plane that put the Experimental Aircraft Association on the map.

The red and yellow open-cockpit, single-engine "Baby Ace" built by Paul Poberezny was featured on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated in May 1955 along with an article explaining how it could be constructed for just $800.

After the cover story was published, the small group of plane nuts based in Hales Corners quickly grew into what's now a worldwide organization that draws thousands of planes, pilots and aviation enthusiasts each summer to EAA AirVenture.

When the EAA founder died last August at age 91, his last unfinished project was a faithful re-creation of that original Baby Ace. The Wausau EAA chapter acquired the plane and worked overtime to get it finished and air worthy in time to fly to AirVenture this week in Oshkosh.

Poberezny began cutting tubing in January 2011 with a group of volunteers, and much of the fuselage and wings were done when he died. But it was just a bare-bones aircraft, said Kurt Mehre, the replica project manager and Wausau EAA chapter member.

"He felt that he wanted to bring back some of the energy and grass roots of EAA, to build the plane that started EAA," Mehre said in an interview inside a building near the home-built area of AirVenture where the finished plane is on display.

After picking up the completed parts in Oshkosh in November, volunteers in Wausau spent hundreds of hours finishing the control system and ailerons, covering the wings with fabric and putting the leading edges on the wings, among other tasks. Wausau chapter president Bob Mohr donated the Continental A-65-8 engine. Volunteers worked Tuesday nights and Sundays with a half-dozen to 20 people showing up each session.

On July 4, volunteers were still stitching the fabric for the wings. But by July 17 it was ready for its FAA inspection, and two days later the Baby Ace made its first flight.

The plane was flown to Wittman Regional Airport for AirVenture on Monday. The chapter plans to display it at air shows and conventions for the next few years.

In addition to completing a project started by EAA's beloved founder, the chapter also boosted its membership and introduced the excitement of building a plane to youths, said Mehre, who lives in Schofield.

"This airplane represents so much — the birth of EAA and the connection to Paul," Mehre said. "It was also a way to rejuvenate our chapter and bring in fresh blood."

The Baby Ace was designed in the 1930s to be built by hobbyists in home workshops with easily acquired parts and materials. The one-seater has a maximum speed of 130 mph with a cruising speed of 85 mph. After Poberezny built his Baby Ace and published his how-to articles in Mechanix Illustrated, so many people wrote asking him questions and wanting to join EAA that he bought a bigger mailbox.

The original plane is on display in the AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh. Meanwhile, the recently completed replica has its own Facebook page.

"It's really a great way of closing the circle. It's a replica of an aircraft that brought national recognition to EAA," EAA AirVenture spokesman Dick Knapinski said. "To have an EAA chapter finish Paul's last project is a wonderful way to remember how far we've come."

Baby Ace Opens the Wednesday evening airshow at

AirVenture

Dave Conrad circles the airshow grounds at Oshkosh

Central Wisconsin Wednesday Hamburger Night Social Schedule: August 6 – Stevens Point August 13 – Marshfield

August 20 – Wisconsin Rapids August 27 – Merrill

Northwoods Wisconsin Thursday Hamburger Night Social Schedule: August 7 – Eagle River August 14 – Land O’ Lakes August 21 – Phillips

August 28 – Tomahawk September 4 – Manitowish Waters

UPCOMING YOUNG EAGLES FLIGHT RALLIES

SEPTEMBER 6 (SATURDAY) – ANTIGO OPEN HOUSE AND YOUNG EAGLES FLIGHT RALLY

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CHAPTER 640 T-SHIRTS

If you have not yet ordered yours, but want to have one, please use the handy order blank below, or contact Syd with your preferences.

Name __________________________________________________ Address ____________________________ City ______________ State ______ Zip ___ Please circle your choices: Size: SMALL MEDIUM LARGE XL XXL (ADD $3) Shirt color: WHITE ($13.60) GRAY ($17) LT. BLUE ($17.19) YELLOW ($25.20)

Prices include shipping.

MUSKY DAY

Land & Sea Fly-In

Boulder Jct, WI,

Sunday Aug 10,2014 A Tribute to Bob Payzer

*Famous Darko Chicken Pilots & Crew 12 Noon

*One of a kind Complementary Authentic Cap to PIC

*Sea Plane Dock / Beaching

*Free Transportation to Downtown Activities 9-3

*Exclusive Taste of Musky

*Antique Car Show

*Crafts of all Types

*Fly-In Starts at 9:00am

*Boulder Junction Airport KBDJ

*Camp under your Wing Saturday Night

*CTAF 122.9 No Facilities / Fuel on Request Contact Info: Steve Krueger 715-573-9873

[email protected]

Want Ads (send me a list of anything you want to sell or buy)

Light Sport aircraft FOR SALE, Earthstar Odyssey 2 Place, flying N159BS I have an excellent two place Amateur Built Earthstar Odyssey for sale. I am starting my sales procedure by contacting EAA Chapters nearby to give those interested a chance to travel to see it without it being too far away. This flying machine is flying and has less than 400 hours on it. Cruise at 85 MPH with a burn of about 2.5 gallons an hour. I am asking $25,000. I have a web site where it can be seen at www.Weidemannphoto.com Thanks much, Skot Weidemann EAA #2594, Member of EAA Corben Chapter 93 (Madison, WI) and EAA 1389 (Middleton, WI) 1123 Sherman Avenue, Madison, WI 53703, 608/310-4548 Home: 608/255-3201 Cell: 608/576-0201 [email protected] [email protected] www.Weidemannphoto.com

FOR SALE -- 1990 Kolb Firestar, 503 Rotax $4,500. David Breger 920-410-4671.

FOR SALE – KX-99 handheld radio. Contact Dick Mork 715-891-2157 or [email protected]

FOR SALE – Acrosport biplane. Bill Knutson, [email protected] or 715-842-7573.

FOR SALE – 1964 Piper Short Wing, needs paint and interior work. Asking $8,500 ($10,000 invested). Have all logs. Rob Pichelman, 715-536-1386.

FOR SALE -- LYC. 290 D2 ENGINE. Contact Dick Mork 715-891-2157 or [email protected]

Chapter Library -- You are invited to borrow aviation-related books and videotapes from the Chapter Library, which is located in Syd Cohen's hangar. Look them over at the next meeting or call Syd at 842-7814 and the hangar will be opened for you. They are all available for free loan.

Email -- If you prefer to receive the Chapter newsletter by postal mail and now are receiving it by email, please email me at [email protected] and indicate such. Please bear in mind that postal mail is more

expensive, though. If you are receiving the Chapter newsletter by postal mail, but do have email capability, please email me and I'll send it to you by email from now on.

Dues reminder: Check your mailing labels if you’re receiving the newsletter by postal mail. It will tell

you if your dues are paid for 2014 or not. Dues are $8.00. If you can't make it to the meeting please mail it to Syd's address, which is at the top of the first page of the newsletter. Checks should be made out to “EAA Chapter 640.” Those of you receiving the newsletter by email will receive an email reminder.

AIRCRAFT �HITS FOUR �BUILDINGS� ��This is tough to see. It just shows the dangers of attending these �events. ��Amazing photo below shows

great detail. �The pilot at �low level had no control over his aircraft. �It narrowly misses a �crowd gathered for the air show�and slams into four buildings. One �can only imagine�the horror of the occupants inside those buildings. ��No one was killed, but it probably scared the crap out of them.�

� ��

The Haymeadow FlyerNewsletter of EAA Chapter 640Syd Cohen, Newsletter Editor705 Kent Street Wausau, WI 54403



The Haymeadow Flyer Newsletter of EAA Chapter 640 Syd Cohen, Newsletter Editor

Wausau, WI 54403-6933


Wausau, WI 54403-6933


Wausau, WI 54403-6933

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