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Randall
called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM and began by asking for new
business. It was announced
that long time Glue Dobbers member
Hugh Gary
passed away week or so prior to the meeting and his funeral was held
Friday before the meeting. Because
the funeral was held before the announcement in the newspaper we did not
get flowers sent to the funeral, discussions on what the club could do in
memory of Hugh ensued. A decision to make a donation to the Diabetes
Foundation in Hugh’s name was agreed upon.
Randall
then announced that the main gate at the field broke back near the hinge.
Jerald Summers
saw to the repairs and the gate is now back in good working condition.
It appeared that the gate suffered from metal fatigue and was not
subject to foul play.
Next,
Randall announced that the American Asphalt Company went out to the field
and took a look our runway and quoted filling and sealing 500 feet of
cracks at a price of $675.00. It
was decided at the March meeting that sealing the entire runway was
unnecessary and would not prolong the life of the tarmac.
Eventually, we will have to resurface our runway and spending money
now would not buy us any time.
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Grant
and Randall told of the
Muskogee
for the weekend.
Cliff Magee
and Grant flew the B36 twice. During
the last flight a whacking sound began coming from the B36 so Grant landed
and found the #3 engine had come loose from the motor mount and kept
running. The prop was half
gone and had taken a large chunk out of the leading edge of the wing.
Grant believes motor vibration shook the motor mount hardware
loose.
Randall
brought up the subject of mowing. John
Kelsey was doing the mowing for $75.00 per week.
John is no longer a member of the club and his prices increased to
$50.00 per hour. Discussions
about mowing have concluded we don’t need to mow every week.
The idea is that during the hot dry months of summer we should mow
more than twice a month.
Richard Sheldon
has stepped up as our new mower. Richard
will charge $100.00 to mow and will stick to the abbreviated mowing
schedule. Also, it was
mentioned that
Scott Matson
would do our brush hogging work latter in the summer.
It
was next mentioned that the chairs at the field are falling apart.
It was voted the club spend up to $200.00 on new chairs and we
throw away the broken chairs before someone gets hurt.
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Randall
then brought up the Buy N Fly coming up in May soliciting help cooking
hamburgers for lunch during the meet.
Next
Randall asked Tim for an update on the Jumbo.
Tim said we were in the AMA magazine and plan to run an additional
ad along with the contest calendar for the Heatwave.
The second ad should run in the June and July additions of the AMA
magazine. It was mentioned
that there is some concern that the high price for gasoline could limit
the turnout of pilots that travel from out of state.
Then the topic moved to volunteers for helping during the Heatwave.
Tim said that help was needed for the lunch concessions even for an
hour at a time. It was noted
that if we had enough volunteers no one would have to work more than an
hour or so at a time.
The
meeting was closed with Angel Vides showing off his new chipmunk purchased
on Ebay. Ultimately Angel was
disappointed that the Chipmunk did not have the scale wheel pants.
Submitted
by
Michael
Manring
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