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T H U N F I E L D T H U N D E R

T H U N F I E L D

T H U N D E R

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

F E B M E E T I N G

M I N U T E S 1

T R E A S U R Y R E -

P O R T & V I S T O R

R E P O R T

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N O R T H W E S T A V I A -

T I O N C O N F E R -

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M I K E L A T T A P R O -

J E C T P I C T U R E S 4

S E R V I C E B U L L E -

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S E R V I C E B U L L E -

T I N 1 4 - 0 1 - 3 1 6

E D I T O R S C O R N E R 7

B I O G R A P H Y 8

S P E C I A L P O I N T S

O F I N T E R E S T :

Next Meeting: Tuesday

March 11th 7 pm

CAP building Thun

Field

VP Tom Brown is in California.

Andy Karmy added the tool crib in our website,

complete with pictures of all of our goods.

Joe Andre said that Harry Nelson donated wing

jacks for high wing planes. Joe also said that

someone has

called him about wing racks with casters for free

if the chapter would like them.

Kevin announced that there are six camping

sites at the Arlington Air show already paid

for (WB 8-10 and WC 8-10)

and has four more sites available. If interested,

please contact Kevin. Arlington Air show is

scheduled for July 10 - 12.

Camp sites are available the 9th through Sunday

the 13th.

Kevin announced Team Flight One is drilling

holes for the rear plexi-glass and with Team

Flight Two, part of the kids are working on the

wings and the other part are working on the fu-

selage. They will be bringing Team Flight One to

the Northwest Aviation Conference.

Ken Finney is heading up the Northwest Aviation

Conference and is asking for volunteers to "man"

or "woman" the booth.

You may sign up through our website that Andy

has designed. There are still some empty

slots. Ken is also asking for folks

who work our area (Rachel asked that we not

call it a booth, but area) to volunteer to help

Rachel with monitoring the FAA and the

IA seminars. A lot of folks try to walk in at the

last minute to obtain continuing education cred-

its and the FAA is trying to discourage that.

If you are someone that needs the credit, you

could kill two birds with one stone by tending the

doors and receiving the credit too.

You can sign up for either of these on our web-

site also. Andy said that the website is supposed

to send out reminders two days in advance.

Ken asked that we be clean shaven and sober!

Ken also said it would be a nice gesture to wear

our "squadron" gear so if you

have something with our 326 logo, try to wear

that so that we may represent our chapter.

Curt Bryan will be bringing his friends gyrocopter

to the NWC. Tables will be provided.

Bryce Johnson had his first flight of his RV9-A out

of Auburn and happy to report it was

"uneventful"! Congratulations Bryce!

Ken Finney wanted to let everyone know that we

have a chapter library if you have any aviation

magazines or books to donate.

Darin Anderson brought a brand new battery to

show off. It was a Shorai Lithium 12V with 405

cold cranking amps to replace the Odyssey. It

weighs only 4 lbs. and may be used on experi-

mentals only. The cost was $180.00 on Amazon

plus $80.00 for the charger.

Randy brought up the service bulletins from

Vans Air Force that are out on the tail and the

elevator attach points, making sure everyone

was aware of

the information going out. Where the front spar

on the horizontal stabilizer attaches to the fuse-

lage there are relieving notches that came from

the factory on the newer kits and the hairline

cracks are developing in that area. The older kits

don't have the relieving notches. Randy believes

that the cracks are caused by harmonic shaking

of the tail during prolonged slow engine idling.

The other bulletin was in reference to the eleva-

tor attach points where the uniball rod

ends come through. Randy cheked that area for

small cracks that propagated from the reinforc-

ing plate. Andy Karmy said it starts with jam

nuts. When they are loose, which is an early

indicator, it starts pivoting over time on just the

two rivets that hold the nut plate on back and

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Bryce Johnson

had his first

flight of his RV9-

A out of Auburn

and happy to

report it was

"uneventful"!

will eventually cause cracks around the

two rivets. It will eventually crack through

the doubler and the spar. As long as the

jam nuts are tight, it will hold the sandwich

together. Andy said it doesn't seem to have

any correlation to the engine size or opera-

tions as some planes with big engines that

do aerobatics may have no cracks while an

IO 320 with few hours may have cracks.

Kevin mentioned putting a lock washer with

the jam nut to spread the stress out a little.

Randy checked our jam nuts and they were

all tight. This information is off of Vans

website and if you notice cracks, you may

go to their website for further instruc-

tions. The directives do say to check your

airplane before the next flight, no matter

how many hours. Even if you are still build-

ing, it is advised to check.

Norm with Treasury Report:

Start - $6,587.28

expenses - $ 295.69

rent x 2 yrs. $ 900.00

end - $5,391.59

A check for $3,000.00 has been written for

the trailer but has not been deducted yet

from account.

Reminder that Norm has t-shirt and slip over

clothing, but no hats at this time. Contact

Norm if your wardrobe needs updating.

T R E A S U R Y R E P O R T — F E B

V I S I T O R S — F E B R U A R Y

Dave Crawford from Puyallup and a friend of

Mike Latta is an Air force Meteorologist.

Mark Stewart joined the chapter. Mark is from

Orting and is interested in LSA / building.

Shawn Magin has joined the chapter. Shawn is

from Puyallup and has built a ton of RC

planes and wants to graduate to bigger

planes. He obtained his PPL in 1999.

Randy Bourne joined our chapter online and

has been a member of the Army Flying club.

Harry Nelson’s Rocket


N O R T H W E S T A V I A T I O N C O N F E R E N C E

The Northwest Aviation Conference

was held at the Puyallup Fair-

grounds the weekend of February

22nd and 23rd. Here are a couple

of pictures I took of our Chapter

booth and the Young Eagles display.


P R O J E C T R E P O R T — M I K E L A T T A

A few pictures provided by Mike Latta of his Interstate Ca-

det project.

S E R V I C E B U L L E T I N 1 4 - 9 2 - 0 5

http://www.vansaircraft.com/pdf/sb14-02-05.pdf

Date Released: February 5, 2014

Date Effective: February 5, 2014

Subject: Cracking in elevator spar web near elevator attach points.

Affected Models: All RV-3, 4, 6/6A, 7/7A, 8/8A Flying aircraft

Required Action: Inspect for cracks as described in this document. Stop-Drill cracks (if present) then apply E-00001A and E-

00001B Hinge Doubler fix as required to cracked elevator hinge positions. RV-3,4 and 6/6A customers will need to fabricate their own doublers using E-00001A and E-00001B as a guideline.

Time of Compliance: Inspect before further flight.

- If no cracks are detected, re-inspect at every annual condition inspection or until E-00001A or E-00001B Hinge Dou-bler repair has been installed.

- If cracks are detected, the E-00001A and E-00001B Hinge Doubler repair must be installed at the cracked hinge po-sition before further flight.

Supersedes Notice: SB14-02-03

Synopsis:

Cracks have been found near the rivets attaching the nutplates that hold the elevator rod ends to the E-702 Spar and E-610PP or E-611PP Spar Reinforcement Plates. See Figure 1, Figure 2 and corresponding elevator assembly plans pages.

Method of Compliance:

NOTE: Installation of this service bulletin as preventative maintenance is not recommended. If cracking has occurred at an outboard

hinge position, install a doubler only at that position.


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S E R V I C E B U L L E T I N 1 4 - 0 1 - 3 1

Date Released: January 31, 2014

Date Effective: January 31, 2014

Subject: Cracking near the bend in horizontal stabilizer front spar.

Affected Models: All RV-6/6A,7/7A,8/8A Flying or under construction

Synopsis:

Cracks in the forward spar of the horizontal stabilizer have been found emanating from the stress relief notch at the inboard end of the spar flanges.


Greetings everybody! My name is Darin Ander-

son and I have volunteered to take over as editor

of our chapter newsletter. I have never done

something of this type before so it's going to be

an adventure for all of us. There are really two

reasons why I asked for this position. First I want

to get to know everybody in the chapter and I

couldn’t think of a better way.

Next I want to help others that might be new to

the chapter, or just a little shy, in getting to know

the chapter members. As such I am going to ask

each of you to do me a favor and send me a little

biographical information about you. I am going

to include mine below and in my bio I tried to

answer a few questions that I thought others

might be interested in. You don’t have to follow

the same format, in fact you don’t have to follow

any format, just tell us a little about you.

I plan on adding a few new (or new to me any-

way) items to this newsletter. You will notice I

sprinkled a couple of chapter member aircraft

pictures into this newsletter. I would love to do

more of this in future newsletters so please send

me any pictures you wouldn’t mind sharing with

the newsletter viewers. You can send anything

to me at my email address

([email protected]).

Finally I would love to be able to do some

project status updates in this newsletter. If

you have a project status you would like to

share please either email me an update or

point me at your blog/website status and I

will pull some information from there to be

published here.

E D I T O R S C O R N E R

Jeff Bloomquists’ RV-7A

I plan on adding

a few new (or

new to me

anyway) items

to this

newsletter.


Current Airplane(s): RV-9A building

Tell us a little about you.

I am currently engaged to a wonderful woman, Amy, and I

have two adult children Travis and Mariah. I will soon

have two step children but not sure when that will happen.

I work downtown Seattle in the Assisted Living industry as

an IT Director. Besides flying and building airplanes I am a

big technology geek.

How did you get involved in flying?

I have been fascinated by airplanes as long as I can re-

member. I remember doodling airplanes on the margins

of my homework and notes while in grade school (ok, it

might have been on the desk too). My dream was to be-

come a military pilot followed by a career as a commercial

pilot but those dreams were somewhat derailed by the

fact that my vision was not 20/20 uncorrected which at

the time rules me out of military flying, or so I was told. It

wasn’t until I was in my 30’s before I finally took the

plunge and got my PPL.

How did you get involved in building/EAA?

Well, as everybody knows, building is much cheaper than

buying right?!? Ok, so now I know that’s not true but grow-

ing up I had fond memories of Lancairs, Velocity’s, and

Glasairs filling my head. Of course those

were all dreams that I figured I would have to

win the lottery to fulfill. That all changed last

year when my brother asked me to look at a

Cherokee he was interested in purchasing. In

the hangar with the Cherokee was an RV-7A

that sent my mind whirling! I knew I wanted

to get back into flying (I had pretty much quite

for about 15 years) and after a month or so of

looking at spam can’s I sat down and asked

myself what I really wanted out of an airplane.

Well no production aircraft could meet all of

my needs but that RV-7A kept popping back into my

mind as an airplane that could meet all my needs. It

didn’t take me long to drive down to Van’s, purchase the

empennage kit, take a ride in the RV-9A and head home.

On that trip home I stopped by Thun field to purchase a

pneumatic rivet squeezer from Jeff Bloomquist who not

only took me over and introduced me to Harry Nelson

but also took me flying in his 7A! His generosity and

enthusiasm is something I have come to find is very

common in the EAA.

What is your most memorable flight ?

It’s hard to pick a most memorable flight but if I have to

choose it would be the first time I flew in the left seat. It

was during one of those “discovery” flights down in San

Diego and the only thing I really remember about the

flight was looking down at the runway as we made our

approach and wondering how the heck we were going to

land on that tiny strip of asphalt! Needless to say that

flight was the beginnings of a dream come true.

B I O — D A R I N A N D E R S O N

Darin Andersons RV-9A



E A A C H A P T E R 3 2 6

http://www.eaa326.org

President - Randy Albritton 253-214-6035

Vice President - Tom Brown 253-847-2507

Secretary - Kerry Albritton 253-214-6035

Treasurer - Norman Pauk 253-630-6396

NL Editor - Darin Anderson 206-491-5232

Photographer - Andy Karmy 253-333-6695

Webmaster - Andy Karmy 253-333-6695

Young Eagles & Eagles Nest - Darrin Dexheimer 312-520-4300

Technical Counselor - Harold Smith 253-752-5480

Technical Counselor - Charlie Cotton 360-893-6719

Chapter Flight Advisor - Jim Triggs 360-438-1482

Chapter Flight Advisor - Marv Scott 253-691-5496

Program Coordinator - Steve Dickinson 206-948-2563

Biographer - Kerry Albritton 253-214-6035

Tool Custodian - Joe Andre 253-539-2408

Chapter Hangar Project - George Lightner 253-584-9477

EAA Chapter 326

The Mount Rainier Chapter

Pierce County Airport - Thun Field

Puyallup, WA 98374
