AirMail100 Centennial Flights Project: Segments By Pilots/Planes (Spreadsheet)

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To All,

This event will take place from September 11th, through the 13th with the final stop being Buchannan Field. ?PSA will be hosting the event at their FBO, Stephen Tucker is the contact person for this event.

Ron Lem

President, EAA Chapter 393

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From: BMoore <evworldeditor@...>
Subject: AirMail100 Centennial Flights Project: Segments By Pilots/Planes (Spreadsheet)
Date: May 14, 2020 at 10:58:08 AM PDT
To: BMoore <evworldeditor@...>

Greetings from Omaha!

As the contact person for your EAA chapter, I wanted to share with you the most recent spreadsheet listing the pilots and planes that have volunteered to fly one or more of the segments of the AirMail100 Centennial Flights project from New York to San Francisco. As you can see, we currently have 10 pilots signed up fly 7 of the 15 segments. Back in early March, it appeared that we tentatively had most, if not all, of the segments covered, then the pandemic locked down most the world’s economy, including here in America. ?Since the planned flight date is now just four months away, I want to firm up the list of volunteers and aircraft. To do that, I need your help. ?Could you continue to share the project with your members and if one or more pilots want to participate, ask them to sign up on the AirMail100 website. ?Here is the link:

The form takes maybe a minute to complete. We ask for the pilot’s name, the aircraft make and model they plan to fly, plus its N-number. ?We ask for their email, cellphone, and city of residence and EAA chapter. ?They then select the segment they would be willing to fly, as well as their willingness to share any photos and/or videos they may take during the flight. We’ve tried to include as much flight planning information on the website as possible, including sectionals and where available, airfield diagrams or Google satellite-based views.

The proposed flight schedule is here:

Thank you for your attention and, hopefully, assistance in helping make possible this tribute to the aviators that proceeded us and helped make flying a safe and joyous experience for us all.

Stay well. Fly safe.

Bill Moore
Event Organizer

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Air Mail 100 Centennial Flights
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https://www.facebook.com/wm.moore.735
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Re: Donated Sonex

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Yep,

Time to finish the Sonex. My thanks to Pete, Tracy, Harvard and Sara for their outstanding effort in acquiring the Samson Sonex.

I’m especially grateful to Pete for standing in my place due to my scheduling mixup.

More to follow on the renewal of the aircraft building classes with two goals in mind; 1. Enable members to gain tangible experience in experimental aircraft building and 2. Completing the Don Baldwin Sonex.

Stay tuned.

Ron Lem

President EAA393

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On May 24, 2020, at 10:38 PM, Tracy Peters <pacificflyer1@...> wrote:

We left Concord this morning at 9 with a 15 foot Uhaul box truck. Pete and I road together to SanCarlos and met up with Harvard and Sarah. Samson and the other members of the San Carlos EAA chapter were great. Sonex wings don’t fit in a 15 foot Uhaul. Get a 17 foot one next time. Sarah,Harvard ,Pete and I Jengad the parts in the U haul and Harvard’s car. Got to CCR in the afternoon, unloaded the parts into Harvards’ hanger and with great effort hung the wings. The canopy and cowl are in the Sonex build hanger. Returned the truck about 4:15. Total cost was about $175 with gas will turn expense report into Harvard.

We got all the parts. Time to finish the Sonex.

Thanks to Pete, Harvard and Sarah! Time to go to bed.

Tracy Peters

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Local Bonanza Formation Flyover To Honor Veterans Sunday 13:15 hrs

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People,

For those of you who know Diz, He will be at KCCR to view the flight. The honor flight will occur at 13:15 hrs military time. Please note, Because Diz is a WW2 fighter pilot with kills in both the European and Pacific Theaters, social distancing is mandatory! Scott and George have bleach sprayers and are not afraid to use them! Not really but please respect the distancing rules and the state and county guidelines in regards to congregating.

Ron Lem

Call sign “Stubbs"

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From: "Mt. Diablo Pilots Association" <admin@...>
Subject: Local Bonanza Formation Flyover To Honor Memorial Day
Date: May 22, 2020 at 10:42:02 PM PDT
To: "Ron Lem" <rjlbap@...>
Reply-To: "Rich Cunningham" <r66rc-mdpa@...>

1976-2020
Forty-four Years and Still Squawking!

Ron Lem, President of the Concord EAA Chapter 393 let us know of an interesting event for all MDPA members who want to get out of the house this Sunday afternoon:??
Local Bonanza Formation Flyover To Honor Memorial Day
The Memorial Squadron based at Livermore Ca is putting together a flight to honor veterans on?Sunday May 24th that includes KCCR on their air route..
Joining the Memorial Squadron for this honor flight will be the “Bonanzas To Oshkosh” group also known as B2OSH. A total of twenty aircraft have signed up to participate in this flight.?
All planes and pilots have gone through extensive training in formation flying and are qualified to fly in close formation.?
The flight will proceed as follows:
Join flight over KLVK (Livermore, CA)
Fly?I-680?North, passing over KCCR at 1000” with smoke.
Both the Memorial Squadron and the B2OSH will be formed up into a single large formation and will pass over KCCR at 13:15 on Sunday.
Fly down Travis Runway 1R with smoke.
Northbound left turn to Sacramento Valley National Veteran’s?Cemetery located at Dixon CA. We will make a pass, with smoke.
Eastbound turn to fly over a 100 year old WW2 Veteran’s house?between Sac Exec and Sac Mather, Making a pass at 1000’ AGL with smoke.

About the Memorial Squadron:? It is organized and led by Mark Becker who flies a Beechcraft Mentor based at Livermore. Mark is a Marine attack helicopter pilot who saw service in the Middle East. Members of the Squadron include five pilots located at Concord and other pilots from the Norcal area.?
About the B2OSH Group:? The B2OSH Group is a nationwide group of Bonanza pilots who train throughout the year to fly in close formation. They hold the world’s record for the largest civilian formation flight which stands at 157 aircraft.

Have fun!
Rich C.

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AirMail100 Centennial Flights Project NOTAM #2 (Youtube Video Introduction)

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To all members,

There has been a lot of interest in this event. Please check out the video!

Ron?

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From: BMoore <evworldeditor@...>
Date: May 22, 2020 at 3:21:23 PM PDT
To: bmoore@...
Subject: AirMail100 Centennial Flights Project NOTAM #2 (Youtube Video Introduction)

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AirMail100 Centennial Flights Project NOTAM #2

Hello Fellow Aviator….

Just a quick note to bring to your attention a video that I put together this week to provide an introduction to the AirMail100 Centennial Flights project. ?An EAA chapter member suggested that it might be helpful to explain the project's purpose and objective. ?You can view it at the following link:

I hope you’ll share it with your fellow chapter members and social media contacts. ?

Join us. Make history.

Bill

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Bill Moore
Air Mail 100 Centennial Flights
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https://www.facebook.com/wm.moore.735
402.575.8085 (M)
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Re: Question?

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13:15 from the south, northbound over runway 1L.

Ron?

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On May 22, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Guy Jones <thatguy1936@...> wrote:

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Re-reading you email RE: Group Flyover w/ smoke at KCCR on Sunday, May 24: There are two times mentioned. Does it apply TWICE, possibly- both on deployment and return to Livermore? Sure hope you guys enjoy being deployed in the midst of all this Non-sequestered time..............................

GUY

Honor Flight Formation To Pay Respect To Our Veterans

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Good morning Daniel,

The Memorial Squadron based at Livermore Ca is putting together a flight to honer veterans on Sunday May 24th. Joining the Memorial Squadron for this honor flight will be the “Bonanzas To Oshkosh” group also known as B2OSH. A total of twenty aircraft have signed up to participate in this flight. All planes and pilots have gone through extensive training in formation flying and are qualified to fly in close formation. The flight will proceed as follows:
Join flight over KLVK (Livermore, CA)
Fly?I680?North, passing over KCCR at 1000” with smoke.
Fly down Travis Runway 1R with smoke.
Northbound left turn to Sacramento Valley National Veteran’s?Cemetery located at Dixon CA. We will make a pass, with smoke.
Eastbound turn to fly over a 100 year old WW2 Veteran’s house?between Sac Exec and Sac Mather, Making a pass at 1000’ AGL with smoke.

About the Memorial Squadron: It is organized and led by Mark Becker who flies a Beechcraft Mentor based at Livermore. Mark is a Marine attack helicopter pilot who saw service in the Middle East. Members of the Squadron include five pilots located at Concord and other pilots from the Norcal area.

About the B2OSH Group: The B2OSH Group is a nationwide group of Bonanza pilots who train throughout the year to fly in close formation. They hold the world’s record for the largest civilian formation flight which stands at 157 aircraft.

Both the Memorial Squadron and the B2OSH will be formed up into a single large formation and will pass over KCCR at 13:15 on Sunday.

??Ron Lem

President, EAA Chapter 393

On May 21, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Daniel Wick <Daniel.Wick@...> wrote:

Ron,
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Following up on our discussion regarding an RV formation flyover on Sunday, I would greatly appreciate any information you can share. As discussed, I will be making some posts online, and will probably share with Claycord, about the fly over in order to provide advance notice to the community.
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Additionally, if you have any information regarding a military flyover that is suppose to happen on Monday, Memorial Day, that would also be appreciated.
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Thank you,
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Daniel Wick
Administrative Services Assistant II
Environmental and Community Relations
Contra Costa County Airports
Buchanan Field and Byron Airports
(925) 681-4202

EAA393 Presidents Message May 2020 Covid19 Edition

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Greetings to everyone!

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I have to admit that I am at a bit of a loss as to how to begin this message. Our chapter finds itself in the worst medical event in our lifetime. Our freedoms have been restricted in the interest of saving people’s lives which only goes to demonstrate to me how privileged I am to live in this country. As an essential provider, I have learned that if someone is angry about the current state of affairs, that they don’t need to know my opinion, rather, they just need to be heard and then be shown some empathy. They don’t need my opinion!

I belong to a number of different organizations and recently received a notification that a local event in one of the states had to be cancelled due to restrictions imposed by the government (no, I’m not talking about Airventure). In the email put out by the leader of the group, he went on a rant about the local government. While he is certainly entitled to his opinion and he may have good reasons for his disturbed emotional state, including them in his email which was put out on a national level was wrong. My initial inclination was to send him a response with my opinion, but after thinking about it I decided to let him have his rant.

I’m pretty sure that once he calms down, he will realize that he exposed himself to several thousand people, most of whom he doesn’t even know. This will open hime up to criticism and eventually an apology. Otherwise the Organization will be tainted.?

This brings me to our chapter; before the onslaught of this virus our chapter was growing and I as your new president felt a certain amount of excitement about the chapter’s future. Changes were being made and will continue to reach out to the next generation and bring them into our chapter. That means we must make certain that all members feel comfortable. From my position that means political discussion is not appropriate in a meeting setting. We are not at EAA Chapter meetings to discuss our political views; rather we share a common love of aircraft and all things aviation.

Have I been guilty of the above mentioned conversation? Yep and I make a commitment to you now that I will not engage in such conversation in the future at chapter meetings. Again, please refrain from political conversations at chapter meetings, be respectful of others.

Ok, enough of that, lets move on. According to the treasurer’s report given by Harvard Holmes, our chapter is in excellent financial condition.

Pete Mitchell gave the secretaries report and stated that we have 89 members. I would like to take the opportunity at this time to welcome new member Bob Hubbard. Hopefully we will have a bio on him soon. At this time out of 89 members 78 have paid their dues. If you have not paid your dues and are financially sound please pay them. $30 to the chapter and $40 to the national. If you have been financially affected by the health crisis, please shoot me an email or text me at?925-395-0672. We will have a way to help you with your dues.

Young Eagles was represented by Stephan Tucker and Renee. No event is scheduled for May but we are holding out hope for June. Tracy Peters has tested several inexpensive PC computers and a printer. The total for three computers and the printer is around $600. This will be brought up and voted on at the general meeting this month. Stu Schuster has graciously donated a YAESU handheld radio for the ground personnel at the YE events. Thank you Stu!

The Newsletter continues along its path as a quality production by Bill Obrien. Both Bill and EAA National are looking for stories to put in their newsletter and monthly magazine. This is your chance for fame!

Lucy Hart was present for fund raising and it was agreed that we will not solicit the membership during the times of crisis.

Greg K. was present as master of ceremonies of the VMC Club. We will have another presentation this month.

Vice President Mike Cunningham was present and discussed the Zoom General meeting which was held last month. While not necessarily satisfying our (read mine) need for socializing Mike felt the Zoom meeting was a success and we all agreed. A suggestion was made to hold the May General Meeting outdoors off airport perhaps and find a way to provide food and drinks. Please respond to this email as to whether or not you think that is a good idea. A decision will be made by the Board?in 10 days?as to how the May General Meeting will be held. Your vote on this is important. I have not read the new order for opening up certain venues but believe that it might happen by the end of next week.

Or it could go the other way, we just don’t know yet. Regardless state and local guidelines will be followed and the decision about the General Meeting will be based upon the voting in combination with the guidelines.

Building and Facilities? Tracy was at home persuading his children to do their Zoom homework….

The Sonex project has been on hold for the last two months and necessarily so! Project manager Lee Teicheira has been contacted and his response is pending as of the time of this email. I will say that some of the responsibilities for the project have been split off and I along with several other members who have yet to be volunteered, will be picking up a Sonex kit from a gentleman named Samson Phan out of San Carlos. Hence the name “Samson Sonex”. We are looking for a temporary spot for the Samson Sonex which will probably be cannabalized for our chapter Sonex. Looking for someone who can help us keep the Sonex at KCCR for three months. If it goes beyond three months, our chapter will suffer a penalty of $100 a month until the plane finds a new home.

Membership coordinator Bennett Ashley is in Texas as I compose this email. He is Ferrying an aircraft to Oklahoma and spent last night in Sedona, AZ. We wish him a safe journey.

Preparations move forward for the Sacramento Airshow. Tracy Peters is involved and I’m hopeful that the event will happen.

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Thats all Folks,

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Ron Lem

President,?EAA Chapter 393

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EAA 393 April General Meeting Invitation

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Ron Lem is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Topic: April 22 EAA Chapter Meeting

Time: Apr 22, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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EAA 393 General Meeting To Be Held Tonight At 7:00 Please See Attached Agenda

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? ? April General meeting Agenda Coronavirus Edition

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The meeting will be held on Zoom tonight at 7:00 pm

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1 Welcome? and introduction of any guests or new members.?

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2 Treasurers report- Harvard

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3 Secretaries? Report-Pete

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4 Young Eagles Report- Stephen and/or Rose; May event is canceled by Stephen Tucker.

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5, Introduction of Advanced Air Academy Recipient Hannah Nilsen Brief Introduction: Our Chapter’s selection for the EAA Air Academy is Hannah Nilsen.? Ms. Nilsen has an intense interest in aviation and has been a member of the CAP for 5 years.? Her experiences with the CAP included a Black Hawk orientation ride, and that ride convinced her that she wanted to be an Air Force pilot.? She hopes to achieve her solo wings through the CAP.

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She attends Diablo Valley College and hopes to get a degree in the medical sciences in addition to pursuing her flying goals.

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6 Sonex report-no activity

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7 Newsletter report- Bill O’Brian

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8, Fund Raising-Lucy

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8.A. Issues from the floor

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9 Guest Speaker VMC Club Moderated by Paul Milner

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10? adjournment?

Zoom Precursor Test Meeting Now

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As Mentioned In Previous Chapter Email Join A Zoom Meeting

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Join Zoom Meeting

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EAA Chapter 393 April General Meeting

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Greetings to All,

First of all I want to express my hope that all of you guys and gals are doing well and staying safe while the Shelter In Place order is in effect. I have not heard any reports of any of our members being infected with this deadly virus. I hope that is the case. Like you all, my life has been greatly affected in that it has restricted where I go, who I can go with and what I can do when I get there, wherever "there" is. Like everyone, I watch the news, but nowadays I limit the amount of news that I watch or listen to, looking mainly for facts about the disease and how it is affecting our local community on a daily basis. This is important to me because the work that I do has been deemed an essential service and I need to know how to stay safe while performing those services.

Unrelated to the pandemic, it is with great sadness that I have to announce ?the passing of two of our long time members, JR Gibbs and Bob Belche. JR Gibbs passed away on April 2nd after a long courageous battle with cancer. Bob Belche followed him West the following day according to his daughter. As soon as I receive information regarding services for both JR and Bob, I will pass the information along. Both men were greatly loved and respected in our chapter.

People, one day in the hopefully not too far future, we will be over this pandemic, and in the meantime it is important for us to stay in touch with each other and insure that Chapter 393 continues to exist and function. This means that we will have the April General meeting to conduct chapter business and have a VMC presentation to stimulate aviation related thought and lively discussion.?Your Chapter Board has decided to hold this month's General Meeting on the regular third Wednesday of this month which is the 22nd at 7:00 pm.

You may be asking "Ron how is that even possible?" It is made possible by the internet, more specifically Zoom. This may cause some angst among you guys, so let me share with you that the board has held two meetings on Zoom with good results. For those who are new to Zoom or indeed new to the idea of an online meeting, we have a solution for helping members to check in to the meeting on Zoom.?
Starting Sunday evening, the following members have volunteered to make themselves available as Personal Assistants to help those of you who wish to participate sign in to Zoom. I will get to who those volunteers are and what area they will specialize in (PC or Mac/Apple) in a moment. What I want to emphatically emphasize is that Zoom is free and does not require any type of registration. If you want to participate, you will need a password which will be provided to you via the Zoom invitation that will be sent out.

Here are the Personal Assistants and their areas of expertise:
Rose Desmond ? ? ?707-483-4861 ? ? ? ? PC ? ? ? ? ?
Bennett Ashley ? ? ?925-323-6670 ? ? ? ? PC and MAC/Apple
Mike Cunningham 925-890-8631 ? ? ? ? PC
Harvard Holmes ? ?510-526-5347 ? ? ? ? Ipad
Pete Mitchell ? ? ? ? 925-685-3700 ? ? ? ? Android
Ron Lem ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 925-395-0672 ? ? ? ? MAC/Apple and some PC experience

Please respond to the forthcoming Zoom invitation and if you encounter difficulties, call or text one of the Personal Assistants who will help you check in.?

Newsletter

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Hi all,

The March newsletter has been uploaded to the current website at:

http://www.eaa393.org/Cleco/Cleco20/Cleco2003.pdf

Hope you are all doing well at home or at work if you are still going there.

Stay safe,

Renee

To Fly or Not To Fly-That Is The Question

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Ron?

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From:?Paul Millner <millner@...>
Date:?March 18, 2020 at 10:48:01 AM PDT
To:?Ron Lem <chaptereaa393@...>
Cc:?Carol Healey <chealey05@...>
Subject:?Re:? Shelter in Place, but going outside is ok

Hi Ron,?

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Shelter-in-Place and GA Flying

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To understand what the Shelter-in-Place order might mean for our flying, we have to look at the entire document, not just stop with the first paragraph. And we have to consider both the intent and the words of the order.

The underlying intent is to avoid travel that involves possibility of contagion. Flying your airplane, or driving your car, does not present that risk. Note the following specific language in section 10:

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"individuals may leave their residence only to perform any of the following “Essential Activities

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iii. To engage in outdoor activity, provided the individuals comply with Social Distancing Requirements as defined in this Section, such as, by way of example and without limitation, walking, hiking, or running."?

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I don't know how y'all fly, but my flying is all an outdoor activity, and I make EVERY effort to stay at least six feet away from any other person while flying!! I think taking along folks from your personal household is no greater risk than sitting across the breakfast table from them. Taking along others? Unless you have a really big airplane, the social distancing requirement will prevent that.

So I think continuing GA flying meets both the intent and the letter of the shelter in place order. Each of us makes our own decisions, naturally... but telling people shelter in place means they can't fly? Not supported by the intent or the words of the order.

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Note: Bay Area restaurants are closed, except for delivery or takeout orders. It is possible of course to fly to other jurisdictions where restaurants at or near the airport remain open for business as usual. To my mind, flying to eat at a restaurant violates the spirit of the order... and since the exemption for the essential activity of outdoor activity requires social distancing, unless the tables are all six feet apart, I think also violates the letter of the order as well. But, fly a picnic lunch to an airport with a picnic table? Follow the social distancing rules, and have at it!

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March General Meeting Canceled

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To all members, due to the current pandemic, the March general meeting and the March Young Eagles event at Byron have been canceled. Be safe everybody.

Ron Lem

Presidents Notes: March Is Volunteer Appreciation Month

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Greetings to All!

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I would like to start off by thanking everyone who showed up to honor Bill Bower’s at last month’s General? ? ??Meeting. I could tell from the look on Bill’s face that he was truly pleased and it was well deserved.?

The attendance was 35 which is an excellent number for February, a month which also brought some great flying weather!

The Board meeting started off with Bill Obrien taking on the subject of the Cleco Newsletter updates. Bill is soliciting pictures from the membership of their aircraft, projects and stories associated with them. On the National level, EAA National is asking for?stories related to any of the following:

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? ? ?. ? ? ?Individual pilots making their first trip to Oshkosh,?

·???????A community restored aircraft being flown to Oshkosh

·???????Chapter members mentoring the next generation of aviators

·???????Chapter veterans with unique stories

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Bill commented that he would contact certain members with stories along the above guidelines.

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Next up was Treasurer Harvard Holmes with a report that the chapter is in sound financial condition.

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Secretary Pete Mitchell who also worked on the Contra Costa County Election staff during last weeks primary gave his Secretaries Report

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Stephen Tucker and Rose Desmond were present and discussed the Young Eagles Event which is scheduled to be held at Byron on March 21st with the Patriots. Both Rose and Stephen share a great deal of enthusiasm for this years’ YE events.

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The new email system is up and running after burning some midnight oil with Harvard Holmes. It wasn’t actually midnight, but we did finish late into the evening, far beyond my normal bedtime which I will not disclose.

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Lucy Hart demonstrated how to sign up for?. It is quite simple: go toe??and hit sign up! you will be asked a minimum of personal information and a credit card number. Escrip?does not ask for the expiration date or the code on the back!?That’s it. When you go to one of the almost 200 restaurants listed in the directory, use the credit card that you put on file with?. The chapter will automatically receive a percentage of the bill. To test this program the Board has elected-at it’s own expense- to have the next Board meeting at a local restaurant.

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VMC Coordinator Greg Karamanougian ( the first person who can correctly pronounce Greg’s last name gets the last cookie at the next General Meeting…!) spoke on the VMC Club. We will have a VMC presentation during the last thirty minutes of the dinner at the General Meeting. I’m hoping that Paul will be able to check in with regards to the IMC club.

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Speaker for the General Meeting will be the physical presentation of the Sonex at the clubhouse. This will be followed by Lee Apaca of Team Light Aviation located in Rio Vista. Team Light Aviation specializes in Experimental and Light Sport Aircraft Maintenance and Repair. They are located in Rio Vista.?

In regards to the Sonex, the current plan is to tow the aircraft to the Clubhouse for all the members to look at and ask questions about the plane and the building process.

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Thanks to Bennett Ashley, we have new postings on Facebook. For those of you who don’t have a Facebook account Bennett can post your airplane pictures and videos for you. For those of you already on Facebook you can post your videos, pictures and stories at EAA 393. We appreciate Bennett! In regards to Social Media, here's something strange: yesterday I tried to sign up for Twitter. When I put in my email address, Twitter came back with "account already exists". I hit "forgot my password" and the next message which I assume was a password reset request came back in Russian! True story folks.

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Sacramento Airshow- Discussions continue about the Sacramento Airshow. Current discussions center around what our chapter will do at the airshow. Hot dogs have been a money maker in the past provider they are bought from the right source (read Costco). The logistics are being explored with the idea being that some members (read volunteers) will bring up the supplies while other members (read volunteers!) could fly in and do the preparation and sales. Four hour shifts are being discussed with the need for dedicated volunteers to help with the end of the show when everyone wants to Bogie on outta dere!

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This month’s General meeting theme is Volunteer Appreciation Night. While this applies specifically to the Young Eagles Volunteers of the past and present and the Sonex Volunteers (Dat’s right all you'se guys!) If you Volunteer elsewhere i.e. Oshkosh, MDPA please come and hang out. For those of you who have them, please wear your volunteer T-shirts.

The Menu to be prepared by Chef Rick Bourgeois and myself is:

Ricks’ Famous Meatloaf

Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Asparagus

Garden Salad

Garlic Bread

Sodas

Coffee

Water

Ice Cream

Cookies