Mike Parry

Massey Annual Open House – Fly/Drive

The first Sunday of December is fast approaching, and that means the Massey Aerodrome (MD1) Open Hangar Party and Fly-In is coming!

Join us this Sunday, December 3rd, at Massey from 10 am to 2 pm for the hangar party. Bring a dish or a dessert if you can. We will either drive or, if the weather conditions are good and there are no TFRs, we plan on flying there as well. Please register at events@eaa240.org if you’re interested in flying there and let us know if you have any open seats.

The plan is to meet at the EAA hangar at 10am for flight briefing with a departure no later than 10:30. 

UPDATE: Weather will be poor on Sunday, making this a drive-in event. Massey is approx 44 road miles from N57, taking just over an hour. The event starts at 10am and is well worth the drive (a toll road included) as Massey is a fine airport, museum and aviation center. They offer good foods and there are usually many people who attend the event, you are likely to see many N57 folks attending, as well as EAA240ers.

For more information, see Massey’s event page:

Massey Open Hangar Party & Fly-In 2025
Mike Parry

Chapter Workshop – Fabric

Busy morning at the Chapter hangar Saturday as 11 members participated in the third Chapter Workshop of 2023 – the Fabric Workshop.

Led by Chuck Shipman, the group had hands-on practical experience of covering an aircraft surface with fabric – done properly and per code! Several sample control surfaces were covered during the morning workshop, providing challenges with their shapes, fittings and more. Chuck demonstrated the best techniques, explained the choice of materials and offered counsel as the groups worked on their individual sample pieces.

There was a request for the next stage in fabric covering to be demonstrated in a future class, including rib-stitching, and Chuck will work with the Events Team to arrange.

This was the third Chapter Fall Workshops. The Events Team hope to have more workshops in the new year, including one on fiberglass. If you have any suggestions or requirements email us.

Pizza lunch finished the Saturday session, with thanks and appreciation to Chuck for putting the workshop together, assembling the materials etc, for the benefit of the Chapter membership. Much appreciated.

Mike Parry
President, EAA240

Mike Parry

Chapter AGM 2023 and Fly Mart

Members gathered Monday evening for our Chapter November Meeting, serving as our AGM, and also for our first Fly Mart event!

In addition to the updates on membership (188, 8 new members in the past 3 months), Financials (strong, no issues), Hangar updates, Christmas & Holiday sign-ups, upcoming Board Meeting (Nov 21st) the meeting voted on the two open Board Positions of Vice President and Treasurer. The Chapter President passed the meeting to Bert Shipman.

Chapter By-laws required voting for two Executive Board positions. Member Bert Shipman had taken on the task of Nominations Chair to oversee the voting process. Bert reported and directed the following at the meeting:

“Having received two nominations, one for Octavian Codreanu as Chapter Vice President (nominated by Mike Parry), and for Chuck Shipman as Chapter Treasurer (nominated by Bud Swenson) and, having received no additional nominations up to the published cut-off date , the meeting moved to vote.

All members present approved both nominations (no nays), and Bert congratulated Octavian and Chuck on their volunteer Chapter Board assignments”.

On completion of the regular business, the  attending members moved to the Chapter Hangar for the Fly Mart!

Chapter members also got a chance to try the new Brandywine Soaring Club’s Glider Simulator (thanks Eric!) – very impressive!

It was a very successful evening and one we’ll repeat next year. Thanks to all who contributed, bought or sold. A total of $185 was donated to Chapter funds. And, equally importantly, fun was had!

Mike
President, EAA240

Mike Parry

Chapter Fly-Out to Lock Haven

From Flight Leader Jay Jacobs:

Piper here, Piper there,
Piper, Pipers everywhere!!!

8 aircraft & 10 passengers attended the Chapter weekend flyout to William T. Piper Memorial Airport & a visit to the Piper Memorial Museum.  It was a huge success!  Ed Watson, the museum Manager & our guide, was a walking Piper aviation book as he toured us through two floors of Piper aircraft & memorabilia.  Unless you read ‘the book’, there was an awful lot of unknowns brought to light about Piper history on Saturday!  Do you know why GA Piper aircraft were yellow?  Either read the book, visit the museum, or ask an EAA240 member who attended the fly out :) for the answer! The Chapter made a donation to the excellent museum, the least we could do!

Our initial lunch plans crashed & burned shortly after walking out of the museum.   Thankfully, someone suggested a phone call ahead to warn of our large-crowd coming to lunch…and we found out the lunch destination wasn’t serving lunch any longer!  Plan B – Fly to Lancaster Airport, which we did, and make it a slightly longer day.  It was a good opportunity to brush up on our Tower skills as well!  This unplanned diversion was a huge success as well!

Several members took photographs during the trip, we’ve loaded these here at the Chapter Photograph Vault. and will add more as they come in.

Stay tuned for the next Chapter Fly Out!

Jay!