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Officers:

President: Tony Gallo 489-4486                    Treasurer: Wm. Lander 528-4260           EFR Hotline: 550-9892                        

Vise President: Andy Brennan 783-2337      Secretary: Daryl Riekki  550-4131


Coming Events

 

Monthly Club meetings are at the trailer.  Meetings starts at 9:00

This is our Meeting schedule for 2011

          January 8th                       May 14th                            September 10th

          February 12th                 June 11th                      October 8th

          March 12th                       July 9th                         November 12th

April 9th                              August 13th                      December 10th  

 

 

                                                         

Club Officers for 2011

 

Daryl Riekki is taking over the job of Secretary.  Other officers are the same as 2010.  The voting was tabulated at the December meeting. 

 

 

Meeting Minutes

 

Meeting Minutes are not posted on line.   Click the link on the list or the left side of the home page.

 

 

2010 in Review

 

Membership 

 

We started 2010 with 67 members (as of 01/28/10). We finished the year with 73 members (as of 12/22/10).   We saw 19 new members and we lost 11 members.   Note: on feb 28, 2009, we had 59 members. 

 

New members in 2010 are

Martin Bialy

Robert Campbell

Brian Dzukola

Matthew Easton

Richard Fischer

Matthew Grabowski

Clint Hartman

Chuck Jennings (returning)

David Niebuhr    

Suzanne Patrick

Robert Powell

James Reilly

Peter Reilly

Charles Reilly

Mike Rittenhouse

Tom Schmidt

Scot Sneed

Steve Wagner

Shawn Weaver

 

 

 

Events in 2010

 

Fun Fly

 

Our Fun Fly was held on May 22nd.   For the first time in years, we had several contest planned and prizes to award.  At our 2009 fun fly, people started eating around 9:30.  Pat Kenner was delivering food and saw everyone eating and she made the comment “if you are going to eat so early, you should have breakfast rather than a barbeque.  So we decided that we would start serving pancakes and sausage along with Starbucks coffee at 8:30.  That morning turned out to be cold and windy, so we set up tables for eating inside and the back room of the trailer was converted to a kitchen.  Don Rogers was in charge of the breakfast.  With the help of Alice Rogers, Barbara  Akle, Anne Brennan, and Delores Jocober running the kitchen and serving, everyone was fed by 10:30.

 

The contest though got off to a rough start, with winds of around 10 mph and gust up to 22mph and a balmy 54 degrees at 8:30 and a high of 56 for the day.  Some of the contest were canceled but finally a few brave soles decided they could still fly the bomb drop and pylons and some impromptu events.  Check out the photos and videos (never seen before) at  SLO Flyers Fun Fly May 22nd 2010 (Barbara Akle)  All in all, it was a very successful day.

 

 

Activity on the flight line                                                              Pate and Kenner solving the problems of the world.

 

These are the rules and That’s That.  AKA pilots meeting.              After the rush at Slo Flyers Lounge and Café

 

 

Left to right  Delores, Anne, Barbara, and Alice doing their magic  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aero 101 Day

 

Aero 101 day was held on Oct 30th.   Aero 101 day is when teams of four Cal Poly first year aero students fly, or attempt to fly blue foam gliders of their design.  Flight time times the number of pennies they carry is the score for that flight.  Each team is given up to three attempts, if the plane holds together that long.  Each team later has to make a presentation on their analysis of the flight.

 

Barbara Akle took some photos and a video of the day.  The video can be seen here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tempelton Middle School day

 

On November 5th, Tony Gallo, Daryl Riekki, Fred Jacober, and Rick Johnson showed up at the field to find a couple Cal Poly Students setting up a rather large rocket on the runway.  It turns out that they were preparing for a presentation to a group of Templeton Middle School students.   As rockets are not allowed at the EFR or on the ranch, Tony made several calls and got the rocket firing called off.  However, there was still a bus load of kids about to show up a the field.  The fearsome foursome reached in the magic hat and pulled out a demonstration and lectures on all aspects of flying at our field.  Daryl demonstrated aerobatics, Fred gave a helicopter demonstration and Rick flew a demonstration Glider flight.  Tony was the narrator and also flew his electric for the kids.  Wade Akle, Paul Genshaw, and Herman Obrikat were also on hand to help and provide examples of different planes.  What started out to be a bad situation turned into a great day for the kids.

 

 

 

Other photos from the year.

 

Mar 29

Andy Brennan, Wade Akle, and perspective member Howard Grisham sanded and sealed the flight line and picnic tables.  Tony Gallo donated the sealant.

 

 

Glider Day

 

Starting back in August, we are dedicating one day a month to gliders.  The current day is the fourth Saturday each month.  We are starting to see quite a few more gliders at the field now.  There was initially a concern about powered planes landing and taking off with the tow line still on the runway, but that turned out not to be a problem.  Dig out your old gliders and bring them out. 

 

This is my last issue of the Windshear.  Daryl Riekki is taking over as Secretary and Windshear editor for 2011. 

 

Don Rogers