KEY TO CONTINUING EVENTS:
First Friday Flicks: on the First Friday of each month (moved for a few holidays) we get together at Five o'clock at the EAA Chapter One Hangar, where we eat pizza and consume beverages and cookies, and watch an old aviation movie, preceded by a chapter of Sky King or an aviation serial. Most movies shown are fifty or more years old, back to the silents, and bring back the days when flying was glamorous.Third Saturday Display Day Fly-In, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show. On the third Saturday of every month Flabob hosts a pancake breakfast, with $5 breakfasts from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m., and featuring tours of hangars, our DC-3, a car show, and other happenings at Flabob. Owners of California "Airplanes of Historic Significance," fly in and show off your ship while getting your display signoff for the friendly tax assessor.
EAA Chapter One: NEW! The first and largest EAA Chapter has traditionally met on the second Sunday of each month at one p.m., at the EAA Chapter One hangar for a good program and EAA fellowship. Young Eagles flights have been on the preceding Saturday. This means two trips to the airport. On a six-month trial basis, from April to September of this year, the Chapter One meeting will be moved to Saturdays, after Young Eagle flying. Your comments to the Chapter on this change are solicited.
Design Group: This gathering of any and all interested in how airplanes are made and why they fly meets on the third Saturday of each month (moved for a few holidays) at 10:00 a.m. at the EAA Chapter One Hangar for programs, reports on member's progress and projects, and general discussion. No special expertise needed, we have all levels.
Young Eagles: Chapter One flies Young Eagles (8-17) eleven times a year (no flights in December), weather permitting, on the second Saturday (moved for a few holidays). On an experimental basis, Chapter meetings will be moved during a six-month period (April to September) to follow the Young Eagles flights. Check the calendar for the date you are interested in. Volunteer pilots are always welcome.
AUGUST
21 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
21 Design Group Field Trip. One of the fine features of the original Design Group was the occasional field trip. We are reviving this tradition this coming Saturday, August 21. Instead of the usual meeting at Flabob, we urge all to go to Long Beach for the Red Bull Flugtag.
Here is the background. Some decades ago, a bunch of wacky Brits organized, more or less, a contest to see who could fly the furthest off the end of a pier in a foot-launched flying contraption. Most contestants plummeted like a stone into the water but a few ingenious lads managed to eke out a few yards of glorious flight before the inevitable dunking. Later, this peculiar sport was taken up by the Japanese, and more recently it has been adopted by the Red Bull people as a supplement to their Red Bull Races, with which you are familiar no doubt. The Red Bull event, dubbed "Flugtag" (flying day), is held at numerous venues around the world, including at Long Beach this coming Saturday, the 21st. I will set forth all the details but first, here's why it has been deemed worthy of a field trip.
This thing is a hoot, as you will see when you look at some of the video links I will give. Currently, the world's record for the air part before the water part is 207 feet, starting from a 30 foot pier, a respectable 6.9 glide. Can we design something better? Maybe. Will we all get together and build it? Quite possibly. Will any member or members of the Design Group be nuts enough to jump off a pier in it? Well . . . . But, and here's the beauty part, one of the reasons for our existence is intergenerational learning, to communicate our erudition and sagacity to the Youth of Flabob. Can we get them to participate in the design and construction of the "Flabob Flopper" or whatever we call it? Sure. And can we get thrill-crazed youth to jump off a pier in it? Did James Dean drag-race right up to the cliff and did his buddy go on over? What do you think young people are for?
So, that's the object of the field trip, in addition to being a heckuva of a fun outing: check out the Red Bull Flugtag as a DG project in conjunction with our Flabob Youth for the 2011 event.
To whet your appetite, the following link will tell you what, where, when and who:
http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/LongBeach2010
(Don't forget to check out the individual team sites at the bottom. Points are awarded for showmanship and I personally will back Flabobians to be as goofy as anyone on the planet.)
So, DO NOT come to Flabob for the Design Group meeting this Saturday, the 21st. Go to Flugtag instead.
21 Design Group Field Trip. One of the fine features of the original Design Group was the occasional field trip. We are reviving this tradition this coming Saturday, August 21. Instead of the usual meeting at Flabob, we urge all to go to Long Beach for the Red Bull Flugtag.
Here is the background. Some decades ago, a bunch of wacky Brits organized, more or less, a contest to see who could fly the furthest off the end of a pier in a foot-launched flying contraption. Most contestants plummeted like a stone into the water but a few ingenious lads managed to eke out a few yards of glorious flight before the inevitable dunking. Later, this peculiar sport was taken up by the Japanese, and more recently it has been adopted by the Red Bull people as a supplement to their Red Bull Races, with which you are familiar no doubt. The Red Bull event, dubbed "Flugtag" (flying day), is held at numerous venues around the world, including at Long Beach this coming Saturday, the 21st. I will set forth all the details but first, here's why it has been deemed worthy of a field trip.
This thing is a hoot, as you will see when you look at some of the video links I will give. Currently, the world's record for the air part before the water part is 207 feet, starting from a 30 foot pier, a respectable 6.9 glide. Can we design something better? Maybe. Will we all get together and build it? Quite possibly. Will any member or members of the Design Group be nuts enough to jump off a pier in it? Well . . . . But, and here's the beauty part, one of the reasons for our existence is intergenerational learning, to communicate our erudition and sagacity to the Youth of Flabob. Can we get them to participate in the design and construction of the "Flabob Flopper" or whatever we call it? Sure. And can we get thrill-crazed youth to jump off a pier in it? Did James Dean drag-race right up to the cliff and did his buddy go on over? What do you think young people are for?
So, that's the object of the field trip, in addition to being a heckuva of a fun outing: check out the Red Bull Flugtag as a DG project in conjunction with our Flabob Youth for the 2011 event.
To whet your appetite, the following link will tell you what, where, when and who:
http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/LongBeach2010
(Don't forget to check out the individual team sites at the bottom. Points are awarded for showmanship and I personally will back Flabobians to be as goofy as anyone on the planet.)
So, DO NOT come to Flabob for the Design Group meeting this Saturday, the 21st. Go to Flugtag instead.
SEPTEMBER
3 First Friday Flicks.
11 Young Eagles
11 Chapter One, 1 p.m. Chapter One Hangar After Young Eagles
18 Design Group, 10:00 a.m. Chapter One Hangar
18 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
25 EAA Chapter One Open House. The longest-running aero event in the West, first held in 1955. Displays, forums, tours, a gala banquet.
5-9 Air Academy Home Schooled
9 Young Eagles
10 Chapter One, 1 p.m., Chapter One Hangar Return to Sunday Date
16 Design Group, 10:00 a.m.. Location TBA, Sportair Workshop in Chapter One Hangar
16 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
3 First Friday Flicks.
The September First Friday Fabulous Flying Flicks will Feature one of our rare double features, so prepare to stay a little longer. The first feature is Zero Hour (1957) with Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden and Linda Darnell. This is one of the first airliner suspense thrillers: the pilot and copilot both get food poisoning, and the plucky stewardess must help a passenger fly the airplane. (Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.) The passenger, Ted Stryker, is an Air Force vet suffering from PTSD from his disastrous last mission, and to boot, is in love with the stewardess. The gruff chief pilot has to talk the flight down and it is a near thing. There is the usual cast of mixed passengers, air traffic controllers and extras. Is any of this sounding familiar? I hope so, because you will then be able to guess the name of our mystery second feature, which I will not mention for various reasons. But you will understand and appreciate our purpose in coupling these two flicks when you see them, and we can promise an evening of hilarity. OK, you want a hint, check out this site.
11-12 30th Anniversary Glasair Fly-in11 Young Eagles
11 Chapter One, 1 p.m. Chapter One Hangar After Young Eagles
18 Design Group, 10:00 a.m. Chapter One Hangar
18 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
25 EAA Chapter One Open House. The longest-running aero event in the West, first held in 1955. Displays, forums, tours, a gala banquet.
OCTOBER
1 First Friday Flicks5-9 Air Academy Home Schooled
9 Young Eagles
10 Chapter One, 1 p.m., Chapter One Hangar Return to Sunday Date
16 Design Group, 10:00 a.m.. Location TBA, Sportair Workshop in Chapter One Hangar
16 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
NOVEMBER
5 First Friday Flicks6 FLABOB'S VETERANS' DAY OBSERVANCE
6 Air Show Jacqueline Cochrane Airport, Thermal
13 Young Eagles Return to Sunday Date
14 Chapter One, 1 p.m., Chapter One Hangar
20 Design Group, 10:00 a.m. Chapter One Hangar
20 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
DECEMBER
3 First Friday Flicks (May be moved because of Ch. 1 Christmas Party)
4 Chapter One Christmas Party 6:01 p.m. Chapter One Hangar
18 Design Group, 10:00 a.m. Chapter One Hangar
18 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
Every day's a fly-in at Flabob. Come in, walk around, meet the Flabobians, check out the projects, enjoy our old-time airport cafe.
6 Air Show Jacqueline Cochrane Airport, Thermal
13 Young Eagles Return to Sunday Date
14 Chapter One, 1 p.m., Chapter One Hangar
20 Design Group, 10:00 a.m. Chapter One Hangar
20 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
DECEMBER
3 First Friday Flicks (May be moved because of Ch. 1 Christmas Party)
4 Chapter One Christmas Party 6:01 p.m. Chapter One Hangar
18 Design Group, 10:00 a.m. Chapter One Hangar
18 Aircraft Display Day, Pancake Breakfast, Tours and Car Show
ONGOING
You can see the AIAA Wright Flyer Project most Saturday mornings.Every day's a fly-in at Flabob. Come in, walk around, meet the Flabobians, check out the projects, enjoy our old-time airport cafe.
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