Idaho 99s Newsletter September 2011
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J 2011 MEETINGS SCHEDULE
Our next meeting is Saturday, October 15 at LuAnn Lyon's home in Sunrise Skypark. It is a two-story blue house on the river side of the runway. We will meet at 10 a.m. This is actually the third Saturday of the month, but the change was made to accommodate our speaker, Jim Price. He plans to attend the Balloon Festival in New Mexico, and this date gives him time to get back to Idaho. Jim set the altitude record in the Long-EZ and is also an excellent photographer. Attendees can either drive or fly to this meeting. Call Petra or LuAnn if you plan to attend, or for specific landing/parking instructions.
Petra (208) 861-9766 LuAnn (208) 249-4900
COMPLETE 2011 SCHEDULE
JANUARY 8thPlanning Meeting Blue Sky Café at the Nampa AirportFEBRUARY 8thFlying Companion Seminar Planning meeting at Jan Peterson’s HouseFEBRUARY 12thEAA Jim Morrow 9 AM Breakfast 10AM-meeting starts-Nampa cafeMARCH 12THBOISE TOWER TOUR –lunch at Willow Creek after contact: Aubree MillerAPRIL 9thFLYING COMPANION PLANNING MEETINGMAY 14THFLYING COMPANION SEMINAR-It’s a go! CONTACT: SHERRY KANDLEJUNE 11THSMITH PRAIRIE CONTACT: BETH SHANNONJULY 9thGARDEN VALLEYJULY 13th -17THINTERNATIONAL OKLAHOMAAUGUST 20THMCMINVILLE, OREGONSEPT 10THMCCALLSEPT 15-18thNWS VANCOUVER- OCTOBER 8TH SUNRISE SKYPARK TOUR Date change!
- NOV 10th MEMBERSHIP
- DEC 3rd CHRISTMAS PARTY Surprise location by C. Elf Pat Jenkins
***The meetings are also on our website events calendar. http://www.idaho99s.org ***
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McCall fly-in
Petra introduced the meeting and updates while we all enjoyed a tasty brunch
sponsored by Beverly Anderson and Christina Chapman. Beverlyʼs home was the
perfect location, set among pines, with view of deer and landing airplanes seen from the
clear zone of RWY 16.
Christina Chapman, M.A described her latest endeavor unveiled summer 2011: Woman Wise Airmanship Adventure held at Smiley Creek, Id. Topics included: How gender shapes us, stereotypes to strengths, aviation culture, traditional barriers for women, learned helplessness to learned optimism, and female styles of power and leadership dovetailed into new perceptions of success for women aviators,
regardless of their flying goals. Two sections will be offered next summer at Smiley Creek:
Following the presentation, the meeting came to an abrupt halt when we received news that there were five available seats on a Grumman Goose which was leaving McCall, landing at Cascade Lake, and then returning. Beverly quickly provided straws for the women to draw, but the number of available seats and number of available passengers matched perfectly. Five 99s had the rare opportunity to fly in Larry Teufelʼs completely restored 1944 stunning Grumman Goose. Mr. Tuefelʼs has flown Grumman Goose for nearly 20 years, of which 17 he flew Jimmy Buffet and taught him to fly it. HE sold his previous piston Goose to Jimmy Buffet and he upgraded to a turbine powered Grumman Goose, one of four in the country. Beverly Anderson and Christina Chapman shared turns flying. Banking turns, climbing, and descending was magnificently easy. Once splashed down on Lake Cascade, pilot, crew, and passengers all climbed out onto the top and bobbed in the lake with huge grins. It was quite an experience and Mr.
Teufel refused any offers to help with fuel. He thoroughly enjoyed his time with the 99ʼs
and was honored to treat us to a flight. Some pretty awesome pictures have been added to the Photo Gallery of our Web Site.
NWS Section Meeting, Vancouver, BC
Chapter members who attended: Chairman Petra Vawter, Secretary Pat Jenkins, Mary Ann Richards, Bev LaBrie, and Susan Harper. There were 36 at the business meeting and about 75 for Saturday Night’s Banquet. Rosella Bjornson was the keynote speaker. Her first “official” flying lesson was in 1964. By 1973, Rosella had 3,500 hours flying time, an Air Transport Rating and a Class I Multi-engine Instrument Rating, and applied to fly with the airlines. She was hired as a First Officer at Transair, the fourth largest airline in Canada. This gave her the distinction of being the first female to be hired as First Officer in North America on scheduled jet equipment, and the first female to be hired by a commercial air line in Canada. She was the first female member of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association.
Marjy Leggett, outgoing Governor, publicly thanked and praised Wendy Frazer for her work as Nominating Committee Chairman. I also noticed that Wendy donated a beautiful handmade ceramic bowl for the silent auction. The fly market was set up right outside the meeting/banquet room. No doubt that increased sales.
The weather was not cooperative, however, five or six 99s were able to fly to the event. Oregon Pines Chapter was awarded the Best Web site. Section Meeting 2012 will be held Aug 23-26 in Walla Walla, Washington.
International News
We want to hear from you! On Wednesday, September 14, every 99 with an email address will receive an email invitation to participate in the 2011 Survey of the Members. The survey results will be used to better understand our strengths and weaknesses, and your input will help determine the direction that our organization takes as we move forward. When the email invitation arrives, you are encouraged to honestly and thoughtfully respond. The survey should take about 8 to 10 minutes to complete and all responses will be treated with strict anonymity. Help us make The 99s better than ever! It will be available until Sept. 28th.
Do you want your 99 News before everyone else? Is your postal service still learning the meaning of the word ‘service’? Since 2007, each issue of our magazine is posted on our website and can be accessed at http://www.ninety-nines.org/index.cfm/99_news_magazine.htm. The magazine is purposefully placed on the public side of our website as a Public Relations tool and a reference for researchers. You are welcome to share the link with any interested individual, particularly future 99s.
The popular printed directory will be available in November. The cost is $15.00. Pre-orders are now being accepted.
AE Scholarship application for 2012 is now on-line. The 2012 Conference is scheduled for July in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Bob and I made a "trip home" to Wichita with the Silver Foxes, a group of retired Beech Aircraft distributors and factory sales folks vintage the sixties and seventies. Wichita is on the ropes with Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, Lear, Boeing and the numerous support companies in the survival mode. Beech is now down to 4,500 employees and we'd heard rumors of building airplanes in Mexico. The company President Bill Boisture met with us and we were terrifically impressed with him. There are, indeed, plants in Mexico now where they build the Bonanza and Baron. The pieces are then shipped to Wichita where they are painted, assembled and delivered. Of course we questioned quality control which was described as Wichita-equal in training and inspection and the FAA is right there also. It's a survival move - with the cost down there (non union) 20% of what it would be in the US. Even so, a new Bonanza will set you back just under $800,000. We also learned that 70% of the production is now delivered off the North American continent - I would guess most of the jets. We saw a King Air coming off the line going to the Algerian Air Force.
The salvation right now is the T6B which is really like a T34 (Bonanza), tandem with a canopy, turboprop (PT6 engine) built in the Wichita plant. President Boisture said that if we really want to help general aviation and write our congressmen, don't bother talking about airplanes because with the current administration the fat-cat jet owners are the bad guys. The word is jobs and trade. Aviation export now has the largest portion of our country's balance of trade. Gene Nora
Did you happen to notice our own Stacey Budell on the front cover of the latest 99 News? Her “story” is inside along with 23 other AEM Scholarship winners.
Scott W. Patrick, 59, of Boise, Idaho, died, Sunday, September 25, 2011, in a Boise hospital of natural causes. Services pending, Relyea Funeral Chapel. 344-4441
Idaho 99s Birthdays-from BJ Carter
99s BIRTHDAY GIRLS -- (the # after their names is the year they joined, not their age !!!):
September:
CHRISTINA CHAPMAN 03, WENDY FRAZER 02, CATHY HENRY 10, GENE NORA JESSEN 58, DEL KEYS 93, LORI MACNICHOL 98, DIA TERESE 95, SUSAN HARPER 89,
October:
PAT JENKINS 72, JAN PETERSON 83, RENEE RYDER 05, JENNIFER WINTERS 03, STACEY BUDELL 92
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