Big Winter Party Sat. Jan. 28 Royal Oak Country Club
Titusville................Door Prizes too!!
Eating, dancing to live music. It should be a nice get together!
Chapter Dues are due! The annual fee is $25.00 but wait! If you pay
your dues you may attend the party FREE!! If you buy a ticket to the
party, you've paid your chapter dues. You can't lose unless you don't
pay. Come to the meeting or the breakfast to buy your tickets or, call
me (Larry) 321 591 8783 and tell me you'll be there and you can pay
at the door. I need to know ahead of time to give the club a count.
YOUNG EAGLES FLIGHT RALLY
2010 — Great teamwork enabled us to have a successful chapter 866 Young Eagle day in 2010. Our members worked the registration, ground school, pilots, and chapter members who took pictures, greeted, and just acted friendly towards the folks and kids who attended our annual Young Eagle Rally. Civil Air Patrol cadets managed security and safety on the flight line and did an exemplary job of this. Skydive Space Center was busy and our pilots and the King Air pilot were communicating well and there were no conflicts with their operation. The event seemed to run like a well oiled machine!
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| A Stearman biplane with pilot and new Young Eagle. |
Last year the kids lined up to fly with Don Bolton in his 1941 open cockpit biplane, this year they lined up to ride with Ben Charvet in his 1929 design open cockpit monoplane. Who says kids don't like old stuff? Ben managed to fly six Young Eagle missions. Steve Miller seemed to always be up there somewhere flying kids in his C152, Greg Smith had a small glitch with his radio in his C172 but after getting that fixed he was out flying the kids too. Fred Burgess was first out and seemed to be coming and going a lot with his C172. Fancy, our Citabria, managed four delightful flights with kids ranging in age from 16 down to 8 yrs. Have you ever noticed that there is always a smile on both the kids and pilots faces when the climb out of their planes? It is great fun for all who are involved with this event.
Additional information about EAA and the EAA Young Eagles program is available on the Internet. Access to EAA's Home Page is available at www.eaa.org. The Young Eagles web page is www.youngeagles.org.
Following the flight, each young person received a certificate making them an official Young Eagle. Their names will be entered into the "World's Largest Logbook," which is on permanent display at the EAA Air Adventure Museum in Oshkosh, WI. The Logbook is also accessible on the Internet at www.youngeagles.org.
