October Membership Meeting – Designing Your Own Parts

Join us Monday, October 6th for our first official meeting after the summer break. We’ll gather downstairs for food (we’re grilling hot dogs!) and hangar flying around 6:30pm, with the meeting officially starting at 7pm.

We’ll start with a quick recap of our summer activities, followed by an update on what’s coming for the end of the year and our 2026 plans. We’ll discuss the upcoming November elections for the Chapter Board and our volunteer situation, before switching to our main topic for the evening: Designing Your Own Parts (and Building Them).

Have you ever thought about using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) to create a part or tool? Is the idea of 3D printing such parts or tools something you’d like to know more about?

Octavian Codreanu, our chapter VP, will give us a quick primer on what it takes to start designing a part or tool, discuss the pros and cons of some of the CAD packages available today and start the conversation on how your design can become a 3D printed reality. 

See you Monday – bring your appetite and your curiosity with you!

Visitors & guests are welcome. We’ll be complete no later than 9pm.

Beautiful Day to Fly – WWD Fly-Out Report

Smooth air and nice skies greeted us on our fly out to Cape May New Jersey for breakfast and a museum tour.  Four aircraft departed New Garden and one from Wilmington with 12 hungry EAA Members to enjoy a great breakfast at the Flight Deck Diner B-25, B-52, P-51 style.  Some of our newest young eagle vets got a chance to fly the aircraft and see the coastline view from above.  Following full bellies and aviation stories all told at breakfast, we headed to the NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum for a great look back at aviation history.  The trip home from Cape May was just as nice!  A big thank you goes out to the pilots and planes completing a great morning in aviation!