• Tyler Sibley and Brandon Youngblood will be presenting about their experiences flying UAVs
• The reminder of the fund raiser raffle tickets will be handed out prior to having to mail the unclaimed ones.

When we got the tickets early, we decided the Chapter could save some $$ by not having to mail as many tickets as we would have to mail if we mailed out all but what was handed out at the June meeting. So, the July meeting is critical to minimizing the cost of mailing tickets to members who didn’t attend either the June or the July meeting.

This, in effect, means that if you haven’t received your raffle tickets yet, PLEASE attend the July 21 meeting so we don’t have to mail them to you. This also means PLEASE contact every chapter member you know who isn’t on the Yahoo Group list or Board of Directors and ask them

• to come to the July meeting, or
• to let you pick up their tickets and deliver the tickets to them if they can’t attend the July 21 meeting.

We need to get going on a major raffle ticket sale project NOW if the fundraiser is to be a success.

Selling raffle tickets at fly-ins is not a new fundraising approach for our chapter. This approach was very successful in 2000 and 2001 to raise money to pay-off the hangar mortgage. This year because of the added cost of upgrading the hangar for year around activities (insulation, plywood on walls, painting, heating) the board has decided that the fly-in tickets sales will help to continue with our scholarship, young Eagle and hangar maintenance program(s).

We are asking each of our members to consider helping with the ticket sales at the following fly-ins. Ask someone from the chapter to join you at one of the following fly-ins. I will secure approval at those fly-ins where we have members signed-up. Contact me, Ed Hansen at 612-578-5449, or any of the board members to provide you with the tickets, cash box and Fundraiser sign. Remember, all of the fly-ins are in the A.M. so you would only be committing ½ day…….and besides it’s a lot of fun and you would be helping your chapter maintain its programs.

The following dates are available for coverage:

July 3rd Austin
July 11th Grantsburg, WI
August 8th Red Wing
August 14th Fleming Field
August 21st Forest Lake
August 28th Glencoe
September 11th Osceola
September 12th Fleming Field

More fly-in locations will be added as they become available.

Thanks to Bill Brown’s communications and organizing, we were invited to fly Young Eagles at the Red Wing Veterans’ Day event at KRGK. Bill’s arrangements with the folks there provided for a shade canopy as well as chairs and tables for our registration area. With six pilots (Jon Cumpton, John Schmidt, Bob Foster, Paul Pankratz, Mike Schoen, and Joel Ludwigson) plus a good ground crew (Bill Brown, Kris Olson, Ron , Paul Brown, Dave Olson, Bob Dunst, and myself) we managed to get rides for 93 kids in one day! The responses from the kids were all positive, and the pilots did a wonderful job of acquainting them with their airplanes and the processes of flying from RGK. The folks that put this event on have also invited us back next year to do it again.

I’m sure our YE numbers for this year will be the highest I’ve seen since I started working with Young Eagles following Mike Dolan’s ten year experience of coordinating the process. We also have a Boy Scout troop scheduled for the July YE event.

Program: This month,we’ll be visiting Ami Sela’s RANS S-19 project in progress. Eat before you come, but please bring desserts to share.

Directions to Ami’s Hangar:
Take 494 east toward South St. Paul, and take the 5th and 7th Ave exit south on 7th Avenue to E. South Street (stop sign). Turn left and continue on South Street to Henry Avenue. Turn right on Henry (toward the FBO). Turn left on 60th Street E before you get the FBO, continu- ing east until you can make two right turns, always bearing toward the SE group of hangars. Turn right on Delta Lane. Ami’s hangar is at 253 Delta Lane.

Here is a Google Map showing Pat’s house.

Here are directions from 494:

1. Get to I-35E Southbound
2. Take Yankee Doodle Rd exit. Get in 2nd lane from the right.
3. Turn right onto “Yankee Doodle Rd”. (heading westbound)
4. Go straight through the first stoplight which is “Pilot Knob Rd”. Get into the left lane.
5. Turn left at the stoplight onto “Federal Dr”
6. Federal Dr becomes “Blackhawk Hills Rd.”
7. Bear right on Blackhawk Hills Rd
8. Turn left at “Blackhawk Lake Drive”
9. We are the 4th house on right. The house is tan and will have a Blue VW Jetta in the driveway. Then numbers “1620″ are in black numerals above the garage door and are easily visible from the street.

Address is 1620 Blackhawk Lake Drive, Eagan, MN 55122
Phone:  651-688-7747

Look forward to seeing you there and thanks in advance to Pat and Mary for having us out!

The topic for the January meeting is a rib making demo by the Pietenpol group.  I suspect they’ll also be talking about the project a bit. Peter Denny, Dale Johnson, Greg Cardinal, Pat Halligan, and others will be active in the presentation.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Our meeting this month (Wed, Nov 18th) is at BSAEC (Bert Sisler Aviation Education Center, our chapter hangar) at Airlake – the grill will be on at 6pm as usual – please bring something to share, meeting at 7pm. Directions and program are on page 3.

Bill Brown is expecting a large group of Young Eagles Saturday, November 21st, so please let him know if you can help out.

Please note that the December chapter meeting, normally held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, is being replaced by the Sunday, December 13th Christmas party being hosted by Dick and Joan Navratil in their home from 2:30 – 5:30 pm. Directions to their home is on page 8 of the newsletter. Please mark your calendars and save the directions, as there will be no newsletter this December.

Finally, just a gentle reminder to send your 2010 membership dues to Kris Olson before year-end. Note that dues will remain at $25 for members receiving the newsletter electronically, but are now $30 for members who wish to continue receiving the newsletter via paper mail. As usual, charter, honorary and lifetime members continue to be exempt from all dues.