EAA Chapter 1112
and
Oroville Foundation of Flight
Meeting Minutes Archive

Meeting adjourned at 2233 hours.

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November 14, 2001

Minutes of the Annual Election of Officers Meeting.

Members and Guests in attendance: M.D. Short, H. T. Fairbanks, Joe Cook, Floyd Higgens, Rich Hodges, Nigel Parkhurst, Ron Turner, Dan Cook, Nell Cook, Terry Hodges, Cara Combs, Marv Hollander, George Fraizer, Leslie Wolfe, Tom Newlander, Bob Foster, Mike Gannon, Catherine Heindell, Dave Harmacek.

Meeting began at 1905 hours.

President Dave Harmecek started the meeting by introducing our new member Rich Hodges, and our guest speaker Nigel Parkhurst.
Nigel Parkhursts presentation and speach was on The History of the American Flags.  The Flags were provided by The Sons of the American Revolution, they possess a total of 16 Flags and Mr. Parkhurst brought 12 Flags with him. Everything from the Contenental Colors to the Flag that was carried at the Battle of Stoney Point and the Surender at Yorktown.  At the begining of the presentation Nigel shared with all that history such as this can be located at the Paradise Geneological Society. We thank you Nigel and hope you will share again.

Nigel Parkhurst

Following Nigel's Presentation, a goodie break, provided by Gary Briley.

Loose ends by Dave Harmacek: Lease agreement written by Joe Cook-Dave requested a motion that we as a whole except his proposal on the lease agreement. A minor discussion took place, fallowing that  the motion was made by Howard Fairbanks, and Seconded by Terry Hodges. The Lease in now in affect.  Secondly, Howards request to make Joe Cook a member of the Board of Directors. Dave went over the rules  not stated in the EAA National Handbook, as filling vacancys are not addressed. Dave nominates Joe Cook as one of the Board of Dirctors for the EAA, with the approval of all of the other Board of Dirctors , the nomination was put to a vote. All were in favor.

Election of EAA 2002 Officers: Nominiees for Officers in the EAA for the year 2002 are as follows - 
Bob Foster for President, Dan Cook for Vice President, Gary Briley for Treasurer, and Secretary Catherine Heindell, Dave then requested further nominations, none received. A vote was then taken to elect all nominated, all were in favor.  Next on the agenda is election of the new Board of Directors, 
according to the hand book, the dirctors will be class one dirctors which consist of the officers and 3 to 9 directors. A discussion took place the result is as follows following a vote to the members of the EAA : Dave Harmacek as past President, Terry Hodges, M.D. Short, Ron Turner, Howard Fairbanks, Ray Bell and Joe Cook. Other Staff positions voted on were, Tech Advisor-John Berg, Flight Advisor- M.D. Short and John Berg, Young Eagle Coordinator- Tom Newlander, Historian - Marv Hollander, Fly-out Coordinator - M.D. Short, Breakfast Coordinator - Terry Hodges, Raffle Chairman - needed, Activities Chairman - John Berg, Publicity - Ron Turner, Membership- All Members, Web Site Manager - Joe Cook.

Foundation of Flight Dirctors : The past President of the EAA becomes the President of the OFOF, the Vice President will be Dan Cook, the Treasurer will be Gary Briley, and a General Manager. There is a Secretary needed. Dave then called for an amendment to the Documents to have the Dirctors of the EAA be the OFOF Directors , as their business is mostly the same. The Amendment was motioned to amend the by-laws of the Foundation to allow more than 9 dirctors, for a total of 13 directors. Howard Fairbanks motioned, and Ron Turner seconded the motion, the motion was put to a vote, all were in favor. Dave Harmacek-past President, Dan Cook - Vice President, Catherine Heindell - Secretary, and Gary Briley - Treasurer, M.D. Short, Ron Turner, Terry Hodges, Howard Fairbanks, Ray Bell and Joe Cook. Dave requested a motion for all the above to become directors, a motion was made by Howard Fairbanks and seconded by Terry Hodges. The motion was put to a vote, all were in favor.

Inaugural Dinner by Howard Fairbanks: Schedueled for  Friday January 11, 2002 at the Moose Lodge on 14th street in Thermolito, Social hour at 6 p.m. dinner at 7. Catering by Zelma cost will be $10.00 per person. 

No Secretaries Report as the Secretary was away at a funeral during the October meeting.

No Treasurers Report as the Treasurer is not present.

Breakfast Committee: All is the same, anyone wanting to help, please come out at 0730.

Open Discussion: Ron requested that no one drive on the taxie way after a rain as the dirt is soft and the weight of the car leaves rutes in the dirt.
Howard Fairbanks requested a correction of the minutes of the previous OFOF meeting concerning his wife  Carolyn's  Tax prep services in place of Mathews and Hutton.

Bob Foster asked about signage  for the pancake breakfast and where to place it. M.D. requested his book be returned its called " The Wrong Stuff" if anyone has it in their stack please return it. Dan Cook shared with the newsletter editor how much he has been appreciated this year, and Dave was given a round of applause. Dave then requested more input from all for the newsletter.

A short discussion took place concerning the Sea Plane Base and the Chamber of Comerce.

Meeting adjorned at 2045 hours.

Respectfully Submitted 
Catherine Heindell /Co-Secretary 2001
future pilot

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Minutes of the Board Meeting by Catherine and Chuck Heindell, 
November 07, 2001

Members in attendence :  Chuck Heindell, Catherine Heindell, Joe Cook, Ron Turner, Dave Harmacek, Howard Fairbanks, Bob Foster, Tom Newlander, Ray Bell, and Gary Briley.

Meeting began a 1900 hours.

President Dave Harmacek began the meeting by opening the mail bag, and sharing with all that he has down loaded and put into a binder the newest version of the chapter hand book. Dave then offered, all to read the various chapter news letter that he receives. Dave also recieved new calander ordering information for anyone interested. Our President then continued through the mail bag until he reached the bottom and all questions were answered.

Secretaries Report: None Given as Secretaries were away on family emergency during last OFOF meeting.

Howard Fairbanks then offered the group his extra FAA publications.
Tom Newlander then shared with all, after a prompting by Dave, that you can get "notams" on the internet, they can be found at www.duats.com you can register in this site. Its valuable for finding out your route breifing, fuel consumption, weather, and notams.
Dave began talking about restricted areas for flying around nuc facilities, Joe Cook then shared that those restrictions were abolished this a.m.

Treasurers report by Gary Briley: EAA has $2,762.00 in the bank, the OFOF has $2,311.00 in the Bank, after paying Mathews and Hutton $303.00 for there most recent report. Gary still has the water bill to pay in the amount of $37.09 and an electric bill of $29.39. The next topic was donation letters for the people who have donated through out the year.

Howard Fairbanks then offered his wife Carolyn's services in replacement of Mathews and Hutton.
This topic was discussed for a while, and it was determined that Gary would mail Carolyn a copy of what the accountants filled out to see if it is something she would be able to help the Chapter with further discussion to take place afterward.

Nomination Committee by Ron Turner ,Bob Foster, and Howard Fairbanks: Howard reports that Bob Foster has offered to be our next President, Mike Gannon offered to back up the newletter editor if he can get a different job, Dan Cook for Vice President, Catherine volunteered for another term of Secretary, Gary volunteered for the Treasurer one last time, Dave will be President of the OFOF, Ron Turner volunteered to be the Publisist, John Berg will be the Activities director, Terry Hodges for Breakfast Chairman, Joe Cook volunteered to be Web Editor again, We have no one for Historian in mind at this time, as our past historians have not volunteered at this time, this is a very important job that requires a great deal of time and effort.  We are also in need of a raffle chairman, someone to go out into the community and get things donated from vendors (businesses) to be raffled. Howard Fairbanks then suggested he be dropped from the dirctor list and Joe Cook be put on the list, this was discussed and Joe is now a Board of Directors member.
Breakfast Chairman Chuck Heindell:  The Breakfast hours as everyone knows has been changed to earlier in the am, for those who wish to help, we need to be out at the hut by 0730 as breakfast will be served at 0800. A discussion then took place about signage for the road to direct the public to the hut and new publicity for this event location.

Foundation of Flight by Ron Turner: Ron talked about his progress with the DWR and the Float Plane Facility to be built in the future. Ron went over a article that was published in a local paper, and the projected costs of building this facility. 

General Membership Meeting: Dave requested any and all ideas for a activity of speaker for the next meeting. Dave will aproach Nigle for the Flag presentation again. A suggestion for portable heaters for the next meeting was brought up by Ron. A discussion took place concerning the next inaugral dinner/installation of the officers, all were in favor of the Moose Lodge again, and and a caturer  Howard to look into getting it again for January 11, 2002. 
Fabric Workshop: Workshops will only be during the daytime as it is reported that John does not want to do evening classes. Dave will talk to John about future classes.

Newsletter: Dave requested any and all articles, pictures, advertisements. Tom suggested we get M.D. to write for the newletter,  or talk at the general membership meetings, concerning tech advise or anything of that nature. Chuck suggested we name the article "Dear MD" or "ASK THE DOCTOR".

Meeting adjourned at 2033 hours
 

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Minutes of 15 August, 2001, General Meeting, Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 1112. 

Meeting opened at 1900 hours at the Briefing Hut.

In attendance: Dave Harmacek, Gary Briley, Dave Cook, Marvin Hollander, Tom Newlander, M.D. Short, Mike Gannon, Bob Foster, Floyd Higgens, Leslie Wolfe, John Pontius, Dan Cook, Walt Ryan, Howard Fairbanks, Ron Caldwell, Chuck Heindell. 

Dave Harmaeck passed out agendas and introduced our guest; Walt Ryan a pilot from Redding.

Dave then rooted into his mailbag and routed its contents accordingly.  Included was the Insurance information for the EAA fly-in, other chapter's newsletters, other fly-ins, and  information on the new Sport Pilot's License.

Dave asked for a volunteer Newsletter Editor.  Echo answered.

The Secretary's report of the last meeting's minutes was read and accepted as is.

The treasurers's report was identical to the OFOF board meeting;  total of $4100.00 in OFOF , total of $3200 in EAA, with a grand total of $7300.00.   Additional information  is that the Department of Justice was requesting information on our organization that would be answered accordingly.

Tom Newlander reported on the preparations and expectations for the Young Eagles Event to occur on the 18th including; the plane and pilot manifest, legal resposibilities, timings ( flights 0900 to 1300 ), sign-up desk crew, ground crew and the display for the OFOF and the EAA and various announcements.

Since the Young Eagle Event coincides with the pancake breakfast, special attention to the quantitys of  consumables required were discussed and the related timings of flights starting at 0900 and the breakfast at 1000 hours with ceaseation of food at 1200 and flights at 1300 hours.  We will start at 0730 on Saturday moning.  In addition the drayage comittee was organized for 1800 hours on Friday to move the appropriate equipment for the Saturday breakfast.

M.D. Short updated all on the Beale AFB trip 31, August and its attendance.  Initial rally at the Oroville FBO at 0700 hours.

The Dessert Social was next with compliments to Marv Hollander for his low calorie offerings.

Following the light break, Air Venture 2001, at Oskosh was enjoyed , vicariously, by the personal experiences of all those who attended.  Dan Cook, Bob Foster, Gary Briley, M.D. Short, Howard Fairbanks, Ron Caldwell, Marv Hollander, and Tom Newlander all shared their personal experiences that described an Old World attention to American small town personal interaction and detail, the smell of oil and high octane fuel, a little confusion in bad weather, the sound of high performance engines and creative airframe design, and a return to positive values that was a pleasure to hear.

Dave  discussed the possible recognitions for Glen Lane for his generous loan/donation to the Chapter including a letter for Tax purposes.

Dave then discussed the current name tag possibilities  for the members still needing identification.  Ray Bell is looking into this.

The Newsletter wa discussed and a request went out for contributing author .  The current article on the history of the Oroville Airport was lauded.

The Nominating Commitee was named to suggest next year's officers.  Bob Foster, Ron Turner, and Howard Fairbanks are the individuals who happily accepted this task. 

The volunteers for the refreshment providers were named for the following months; September, Mike Gannon; October, Gary Briley; November, Bob Foster; December, Dan Cook. 

The meeting was adjourned at 2130 hours.
 

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February 14, 2001
EAA Chapter 1112 General Membership Meeting

Minutes by Secretary Chuck Heindell.
Members & Guests present: Chuck Heindell, Catherine Heindell, Dan Cook, Gary Briley, Ron Turner, Tom Newlander, Mike Gannon, Terry Hodges, Ed Knox, Howard Fairbanks, John Burg, M.D. Short, Marv Hollander, Bill Duval, and Floyd Higgens.
 

Meeting opened at 1910 hours with each  member's and guest's introduction and current aircraft interest.

Minutes of previous EAA meeting were offered.  It was moved and seconded to accept the previous meetings minutes as posted on the internet.

The treasurer's report was outlined for both the EAA and the OFOF with  movement and second for acceptance as is.

To help acknowledge appreciation of our guest speaker's time and efforts on our behalf  his presentation was first on the agenda.  Bill Duvall, a confirmed advocate of  floatplane driving, captured his audience for the better part of an hour, sharing a chronological sequence of his personal and professional adventures hydroplaning lakes and rivers in search of the perfect step and golden trout.   Bill shared route charts and personal details of his long planed airborne Canadian fishing adventure while fielding many technical questions concerning the intracies of  floatplane technology and its differences and similarities to land based aviation. Bill helped us all understand another facet of our hobby.  Bill has generously offered his experience with cross country floatplane flying to help us answer several questions concering our proposed floatplane base for the Oroville Afterbay.  M.D. Short shared that the presentation for the Oroville Afterbay Floatplane base was not yet ready but was gathering momentum.

Following a refreshment break provide by Dan Cook,  the agenda turned to future responsibilities.

The upcoming Saturday's brunch/fly-in was introduced with a set-up crew starting time of 0800.   This crew  will  also serve to move the EAA inventory from Terry Hodges' hanger to the Briefing Hut   The menu for the brunch was briefly outlined and Dan Cook suggested everyone take a look at our most recent outside donation of a R1300 engine, now on site.

It was announced that the riveting demonstration would be held over the last week of March and the first week of April.

It was suggested by Dan Cook that EAA move and second  a resolution to seek a suitable proposal to apply  a topical herbicide to permanently remove the star thistle and any other living plant from specific areas of the Briefing Hut site.  Costs were discussed and the search approved.

The Aluminum Overcast  Event (May 21-24) was introduced with its chairman Ron Turner  updating the project's status.  Photos were available from the last event for everyones inspection.  Dan Cook asked that in the three monthly meetings that were left, till the event, that each meeting highlight some related topic to the B-17 such that the May event was even more special than the last time.  It was discussed that at our next Wednesday evening meeting at Jones Flying Service that two B-17 Wright Cyclone engines were available for viewing as well as the potential of a B-24 pilot for a guest speaker.  Further a list is available from Howard Fairbanks of  the local B-17 pilots one of which Ray Bell will be in contact with.

The Starduster open house event (May 10-12) was introduced with Howard Fairbanks asking in the name of the ill George Frazier that the Starduster open house manual be utilized and the specific areas of  event responsibility be filled.  Ray Bell currently has this event book.  Dan Cook asked that those areas and there chairpersons be defined.  The current areas and chairpersons are as follows: Signage, Ray Bell; Transport of the Pilots,  to be determned; Food service,  to be determined; Houseboat for recreation, Starduster corporation; and publicity  and permission letters for generators and  other support from the City of Oroville, Catherine Heindell.

Marv Hollander reminded us that there are over 200 aircraft models available as a donation to the group from a local man.  Ray Bell is going to contact him to start arrangements.

The next field trip to Beale AFB was updated ( March 14) by M.D. Short.  The opportunity list includes the U2 car chase,  observation of M.D. Short in the high altitude chamber (sponsored by the area's glider pilots) , the morning high altiude suit-up of the U2 pilot, and lunch at Beale AFB.  It appears that twelve each souls from both Paradise and Oroville are currently interested in the experience.  M. D. Short will get a sign-up list at the Saturday brunch.

The meeting adjourned at 2110 hours.

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February 07, 2001
 

EAA Board Meeting Minutes.

Members present: Catherine Heindell, Ron Turner, Howard Fairbanks, Gary Briley, Tom Newlander, Terry Hodges, Dave Harmacek, George Frazier, Bill Burg, John Burg.

Dave passed out the evenings agenda, and welcomed all.

Secretary's report was posted in the newsletter, so report was omitted.

Gary gave the Treasurer's report.

Ray Bell not present for the newsletter report, but it was out early this month.

Dave then talked about inventorying the lunch items for the upcoming lunch on the 17th., the various hanger locations that hold product and the keys and lock combinations for entry.

George Frazier - Fly-in chairman, talked about the upcoming fly-in during May, i.e. transportation, food, flyers, etc...
Dave requested George make a sign up list for committees to get the various projects done for the fly-in. Dave then went over the help we got from Cornucopia last year, and looking into their help again this year.  A discussion took place on Cornucopia -vs- our labor.

Then a discussion took place on advertising with the Oroville Chamber of Commerce and offering Community vendor booths.
The Idea of having the fly-in at the Cook House, was entertained and summarily dismissed.
Tom graciously volunteered he and Richard's hanger again, for both the fly-in and the Aluminum Overcast event.   A discussion took place on the possibility of businesses sponsoring rides in the B-17.

A suggestion was made to approach Paul Satur, for passing the word on the Overcast event.

Young Eagles: Tom Newlander.
Application forms are in the FBO, fill it out any time you give someone a ride between the ages of 8©18 and we will get credit for the ride.  A formalized Young Eagles event is possible in late summer. Tom suggested we support, the outlying chapters of Young Eagles. Ron showed a list of people, who are willing to help with Young Eagles.

Gary - Our new, non-official, fund raising chairman suggested fund raising be an activity of all people.
A discussion took place on fund raiser suggestions.

Ron stated that Bob Foster would like to do the Riveting classes March 27,28,29, and 30, 7-9 p.m..
Terry thought he would be able to cover most of those, Bob could do the rest or they can figure out a schedule.  A discussion took place concerning various classes that could happen.

Tom brought the "$100 Hamburger Book", for various airports. A discussion took place on fly-outs.
Ron would like to see us go out once a month to start and work up from there.
Dave reminded us of the Paradise fly-outs, we are invited to.
Ron talked about starting a kitty for fly out rides for planes with empty seats, as a fund raiser.

Dave then brought up field trips, flying or driving which ever works, all talked about that for a while.
Dave reminded that all need to help the chairman for breakfast/lunch.

A discussion took place on raffle possibilities. Gary talked about plane ride raffles.
A discussion took place on getting publicity out in the plane magazines, and local papers.
Ron talked about fund raisers, selling posters ect...
Dave reiterated the need for all to look for speakers.
Gary suggested we get a chairman for speakers. Dave volunteered.
Dave then went over the refreshment responsibility roster for upcoming EAA meetings.
Dave talked about speaker advertisement, to get more people to come to the meetings.
Another discussion took place on various teaching class possibilities.

Dave's new EAA slogan: "Ask not what the EAA can do for you, ask what you can do for the EAA"

A discussion took place on the Wright, R-1300, radial engine that that was donated by Oroville Solid Waste. Ron is researching the history of  this engine.

Dave asked Ron if we had speakers for the Aluminum Overcast event.  Answer: Yes.
Request was made for ideas for the location of the next meeting, various ideas were suggested.
The conclusion was that the March meeting is to be held at Jones Flying Service in Oroville.

Meeting adjourned: 8:37 p.m.