Gary Hamilton Presiding
December 6, 2007

Attendees Roster sent around

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Visitors

David Remington -

moved to austin, transfer from chapter 488 in Quincy Ill.
looking for an LSA

John Remington (brother)

same interest

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Meeting Minutes

Posted on web site, approved.

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Treasurer's report

Down $12 from last week

Treasures report accepted as read

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Events

Checkout www.eaa187.org
send to lister

not too much for this time of year

Will update the calendar for the spring activities in January

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New Business

Annual banquet will be at County Line BBQ
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 7 p.m.

Country style

Members voted for Country Style in November.  Total $25 per person.  The

Chapter Will *NOT* have a meeting on January 3

Annual dues for 2008 are $15 payable now

Project updates:

Barry Gould
had plane inspected along with sid Mann's inspection
John Schmidt  (talk to Barry for the phone number)

Ed Tynes
RV-6 inspected by Seth and others
on gear and wings on
Seth building a eci 340 engine for him (~185 hp)

Roger Ritter
Kingsbury
Fokker Triplane running but it really grounds loops (repairing)
Two thomas moore scouts being recovered now
Curtis Jr donated and being rebuilt, strucuture together and working on engine
45 horsepower and 9 cylinders

William Bennet
has 17 hours of flight
removed dash and rebuilding to install in a dynan 1000

Gary Hamilton, RV-7 building
wings ready to go on airplane
priming and painting of spinner
hooked up verticle and horizontal bolted on
the "flappers" bolted on
went to start and had to recharge battery... sucessfully
(van's article on painting spinner 1/3 white to scare off birds, like a strobe)
needs to be inspected
instrument panel is in, screw down access panels
IO-360, 200 HP, constant pitch prop

Seth Hancock
Vagabond, redesigning controls to remove 8# to 10#
moved brakes to right side

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Presentation

AOPA Decision making video

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Leaning your engine - Stu McCurdy

no instruments - lean until missing and then 3 turns of verner back

w instruments/fuel injection -

taxi with it lean not to foul plugs
run up checks with rich enough not to have problems
full rich for take-off
start leaning after 500 ft

with EGT on all 6 cylinders, look at each until they go up to peak EGT
lycomming says best fuel economy
do not exceed 75% power

best power (standard)
50-75 deg rich of peak

with a carberator, will get one cylinder thta will start to shudder

with FI, will get closer in all cylinders

work to 50 lean of peak, might get 75 or 100
50 lean of peak seems to be the accepted setting

75% 50 degrees rich, 8.6 GPH
75% 50 degrees lean, 6.8 GPH

at 1200 hours, had one cylinder that had some problems around one exhaust valve

with 4 new cylinders getting

now CHT goes above 400 (390 limit) when leaning to try to get to 50 lean of peak

turning off advance on magnetos reduces CHT about 20 degrees

best to have CHT/EGT all around
fuel flow

Meeting adjourned at 8:55 p.m.