Mike Parry

April Membership Meeting

Monday April 4th, 2022

Gather at 6.30pm at the Chapter Hangar & Meeting Room for coffee, snacks, side-bars and hangar flying. Monthly Meeting commences promptly at 7pm in the Chapter Meeting Room.

Guest Speaker and topic this month:

Thorne Harkin – Delaware National Guard C-130H Pilot

Thorne started flying at 12 years old.  He went to school at Marywood University for Aviation Management.  After college, Thorne ran Reading Air school of flight and FBO.  While at Reading, he became the youngest airshow promoter and learned the airshow business.  Thorne was fortunate to get selected as a pilot in the Delaware Air National Guard and currently serves as a C-130H pilot, recently returning from a deployment overseas.

Presentation: Upset Recovery Training

The presentation will help alleviate those fears you may have of those dreaded spins or clear up some misconceptions about slips, skids, and spins. We will be covering many different topics, but will specifically identify how and when we could get into a spin, discuss preventative measures to keep us away from that point, and how to recover from a spin. This one will be a very fun and interactive evening.

Visitors & guests welcomed. We’ll be complete around 9pm.

Questions? Really? Try here

Mike Parry

Chapter Fly-Out to Cape May

Calling all chapter members!  

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 2nd as we have a Chapter fly-out to Cape May, NJ (Cape May Airport – KWWD) for breakfast at The Flight Deck Diner followed by a tour of the NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum. Meet at the Chapter hangar 8:30, for wheels up at 9am.

After breakfast, be ready to step back in time!  Jet aircraft (including a MIG-15), propeller aircraft, helicopters and much, much more are on display.  Adult museum admission is $14.  Veterans earn a $2 discount (bring ID).  By the time you finish the tour, it may just be time for lunch!  

A potential bonus – The Forgotten Warriors Vietnam Museum (open on Saturday; admission is a donation) on Essex Rd, is just behind the NASW Museum.

KWWD is a ~28 minute flight (approx. 60mi) to the south-east from N57.  Meet at the EAA240 hanger at 8:30am, for wheels-up at 9am.  

We need pilots, planes, and healthy appetites!

Please let the Flight Leader know via email (events@EAA240.org) if you’ll be piloting a plane (open seats and max weight please) or coming along as a passenger (weight estimate please).  

Let him know if you are available to fly Saturday, Sunday, or both days…pilot or passenger.

Join us!  Partcipate!  Contribute!

Please register for this event with an email to us, we need to reserve tables etc.

Questions?  Email the Events Team: events@eaa240.org

Mike Parry

Great (re)start!

After two years it was such a good feeling to be back in our Chapter Meeting Room and to hold a ‘normal’ Membership Meeting March 14th.
We had a wonderful speaker in Jay Sigmann of Falcon Jets, and were able to update the 30+ members who attended of planned Chapter happenings, our financial status and more.
Members remained long after the meeting wrapped, catching-up with each other and enjoying the camaraderie that EAA240 is known for.

We had two of our 2021 Scholarship Awardees with us, and they reported on their progress – all positive.

We were also joined by several new members who were enjoying their first experience of EAA240 Membership Meetings. Listening to them introduce themselves to the meeting it was evident that we’re adding much talent and aviation enthusiasm to our already rich group. Exciting!

Our next Membership Meeting is Monday, April 4th. We meet for coffee and hangar-flying at 6:30pm, with our meeting commencing at 7pm. All finished by 8:45-ish.

More details at the Web Site Event Calendar and in emails nearer the date.

Questions, feedback, comments, suggestions all welcomed – here please

Mike Parry

Lancaster KLNS for Lunch! New Date!

NEW DATE!

Adverse weather forecasts for Saturday means we’re moving our Fly-Out to 
Sunday, March 20th for Chapter fly-out to Lancaster Airport KLNS and Fiorentino’s for lunch. This a great opportunity to practice your controlled-airspace skills with a very friendly, accommodating and welcoming Tower and to enjoy a fine lunch with Chapter members, new and old! No TFR’s reported for this weekend!

Meet at the EAA240 hanger at 10:30am Sunday, for wheels-up at 11am.  

We’re hoping for planes, pilots and hearty appetites!!

Please let the Flight Leader know via email (events@EAA240.org) if you’ll be piloting a plane (open seats and max weight please) or coming along as a passenger (weight estimate please).  Please also let us know if you are available to fly Saturday, Sunday, or both days…pilot or passenger.

Please re-register for this event by clicking the link, as we need to reserve restaurant seating etc.

See you Sunday!

Questions?  Email the Events Team =- New Date

 

 

 

 

Mike Parry

March Membership Meeting

EAA Chapter 240 announces
Members Monthly Meeting – Monday, March 14th, 2022

Gather at 6.00pm at the Chapter Hangar & Meeting Room for coffee, snacks, side-bars and hangar flying.

Our March Membership Monthly Meeting, being held upstairs in the Chapter Meeting Room for the first time in many months, commences promptly at 6.30pm. Join the meeting for updates on key Chapter happenings and plans, and to enjoy our very special guest speaker:

Falcon Jet

Special Guest Speaker and topic this month:

Snr Field Service Representative, Falcon Jets
Jay Sigmann

Jay will present on the history of Dassault Aviation and Falcon Jets, and the role and responsibilities of an Aviation Technical Representative.

Visitors & guests welcomed. We’ll be complete around 8.30pm. Seating will provide for social distancing, as far as possible. Masks optional.

Renew your Membership or join the Chapter at the meeting, or here.

Octavian Codreanu
Vice President, EAA240
vp@eaa240.org

Mike Parry

Pancake Breakfast and Young Eagles

Volunteer Help Needed – Need Some Extra Team Members!

At last! We’re restarting our ‘Increasingly Famous’ Pancake Breakfast fund raisers, beginning Saturday April 23rd (NEW DATE) and we need some additional volunteers to join our Pancake Breakfast team.

We’ll be advertising the event far-and-wide, attracting fly-ins (TFR permitting), drive-ins and our local loyal followers – hopefully including you and your family and friends – to join us for this fun airport and Chapter happening, for the best aviation breakfast in the region.

We’ll be flying Young Eagles on the same dates (TFR and weather permitting), and it can make for a busy morning!

The funds we raise through breakfast sales are critical to our ongoing operations, our Scholarships, our hangar upgrades and so much more. That’s why we have five breakfast events planned up to October, dates are at the Chapter Events Calendar. We also hold breakfasts because they are FUN!

For all of that, and to ensure we offer a great breakfast experience, we need your help. On Saturday 16th we need hangar prep-ers, cooks, preparers, servers, cleaner-uppers and more.

Like to join this fun team, and get to wear an EAA240 Breakfast apron, even for part of the morning? Please volunteer by emailing us here. We’d be pleased to see you with us donating some time to the Chapter, and bring along family and friends to join us for a fine breakfast.

Questions? email us. New to our fund raiser Breakfasts? more information here.

Thanks!

Mike Parry
President, EAA Chapter 240
president@eaa240.org

Mike Parry

What’s Next? March-April 2022

What’s Next? Here’s what’s coming up for members of EAA Chapter 240:

Next Monday, March 14th, 6.30pm – March membership Meeting, upstairs in the Chapter Meeting Room, special guest speaker – Falcon Jets

Thursday, March 17th, 7pm – New Garden Flight Connection – ‘Departure From Controlled Flight: a Spin and Stall Awareness Forum’, Airport Conference Room

Saturday, March 19th – Members Fly-Out for Lunch at Lancaster Airport’s Florentino’s, practice your Controlled Airspace skills!

Tuesday, March 22nd, 6pm – Chapter Executive Board Meeting, Chapter Meeting Room, members welcome.

Saturday, April 2nd – Members Fly-Out for breakfast and Museum Visit, NAS Wildwood NJ

Saturday, April 23rd (NEW DATE), 8am, Chapter Pancake Breakfast Fund Raiser and Young Eagles flights N57

Note that we’ve opted to change the Pancake Breakfast and Young Eagles flights date to avoid Easter weekend. New date 23rd. eMail to follow.

Confirmations, times and further details of all listed above will be shared nearer the scheduled dates, and at the web site Events Calendar. Questions, feedback, recommendations here please.

Chapter Communications
EAA Chapter 240
communications@eaa240.org