Meeting Minutes July 18, 2020

EAA Chapter 1167

Old Business:

• B-17, Tri-Motor, or B-25 tour stop still indeterminate.

New Business:

• Discussed the YE rally request from Jeff at Union County Airport 35A. Under the current circumstances we don’t believe a YE rally is possible.

• We're not sure if the Air Academy is going to happen next year but if they do we have a spot for a candidate we’d like to send.

  • Note: Air Academy is coming up on 40 years of operation

  • The instructors will need an influx of new talent in the coming year(s)

• We decided that we should make the go/no go decision for the Fall Fly-in during the Sept. meeting. 

• Next meeting we'll do a coffee / doughnuts pre-meeting on the ramp. Start at 0930. Doughnuts and breakfast sandwiches planned.

Main Discussion:

• I passed on the sad news that Robert Burroughs passed away on July 13, 2020. https://www.myrtlebeachfuneralhome.com/obituary/robert-burroughs  

• The Vagabond Larry owns and the feature that had been planned for the model with Sentimental Journey. 

• More COVID discussion about virus transmission

  • Noted that masks build moisture and attract mold within 15 minutes so reusing a mask beyond two days could cause other respiratory issues.

  • The cloth masks actually make transmission worse because they stops the water molecule and the viron is ejected from the water molecule 

Tech Talk:

• The short runways and distances required for take-off out of short fields. Know your airplane and know yourself.

• Prop balancing

Future fly-in:

• Triple Tree events cancelled