The meeting of 08 November was unique particularly
for one reason. The Talleys weren’t there! This means Scenes from
the Meeting is being written by cheap imitation stand ins. Bear with
us as we try to approach Miriam’s work.
The meeting was preceded by a great rendition of German cookery by none
other than Jeorg Thees and honorary German Bob Edwards with considerable
help from Linda Edwards. This gang put together a fantastic feast of
kraut and sausage; memorable long after the kitchen was cleaned.
Norris called the assembly to order with announcements of coming events.
Brad filled us in on the Explorer Scout Aviation Merit Badge program
on 15 November and the Boys Club Young Eagles event on 6 December.
John Latour introduced the visitors and I made some mention of the 17
December Grey Eagles event starting at 10 am and going, as per usual,
until nobody wants to fly anymore. This will be a fun, easy, fly event
for any chapter member that wants to fly or ride along. It’s a
Wednesday. Can you think of a better excuse to play hookie?
Norris had a letter from Paul Poberezny in which Paul praised our resident
author Dave Talley for his “News from Around the Patch”.
This kind of “Who’s doing what and where” reporting
is one key to why our newsletter is the award winner that it has become.
Keep it up, Dave.
The Warren High School plane building project is in need of more volunteers.
If you can help, let Norris know.
Bob Cabe, safety advocate, had some good words for showing off good
flying skills while showing off good safety habits at the same time.
He related some events from Reklaw where the flyers showed good judgment
in performing aerobatics well away from the pattern, but still in view
of the crowd.
We welcomed Kris Kilmer back from the war. Kris was in Iraq with the
332nd Expeditionary Air Wing, which is a C-130 rescue squadron responsible
for fast response to downed airmen and aerial refueling of the Blackhawk
helicopters.
Thanks, Kris and we’re glad you’re home safe.
Don Staats presented the slate of chapter officers for the next two
years. As there were no nominations from the floor, the assembly voted
for the slate as presented. I have no idea who won the election, but
these are your officers:
President, Steve Carlson
Vice President, Dave Baker
Treasurer, Joanne Warner
Secretary, Lee Ann Carlson
The best part of our gathering, of course, was the program. I know,
some of you only come for the food, and, personally, I come for homebuilder’s
corner, but the program is the thing and Deck Yoes did a great job of
illuminating the dangerous task of Carrier Operations. Deck was on the
Yorktown, an Essex class carrier as a cryptographer. He had a great deal
of background knowledge of the development of carrier operations from
recips through jets, from hydraulic cats to steam, from 15 wires to 4.
He had a great story of exercises off the China coast where the US Navy
launched the entire squadron toward the coast to get the Chinese to scramble
to meet us and light up their radars to detect us, all to provide an
opportunity for one lone recon to fly the coast and document the Chinese
defensive capability. This was an excellent program that obviously took
a lot of work to prepare and it showed.
Lee
Carlson
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