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EAA Chapter 724 Newsletter
April 2000, Volume 20, Number 4
Chapter 724, Experimental Aircraft Association, Merritt Island, Florida
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 320923, Cocoa Beach, FL 32901
Internet Web Site: http://www.beginat.com/EAA724
Officers
President: John Murphy 783-1515 Vice President: Pat Salamone 454-4746
Secretary: Dave Boden 242-0533 Treasurer: John Soukup 783-7128
Newsletter Editor: Fred Mahan 452-5797 Newsletter Publisher: Ted Yon 783-7966
Technical Counselors Young Eagle Coordinator
John Murphy 783-1515 Tony Yacono 459-0080
Ted Yon 783-7966
The next meeting will be on the FIRST Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 7:30 P.M.
Big Merritt Island Air Service Hangar, South Side of Runway
Second Floor, Southwest Corner Meeting Room
EAA Chapter 724
P. O. Box 320923
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
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Calendar of Upcoming Events Every Last Sunday, Quincy, FL, EAA Chapter 445
Apr 5-9 Bensen Days, Wauchula Aiport, Sunstate Pancake Breakfast, 904-421-4335.
Wing & Rotor Club, (941) 995-3435
Apr 8 War Birds Display/Open House, Albert
Whitted Airport, St. Petersburg. April Meeting
Apr 9-15 Sun ‘n Fun, 863-644-2431.
Apr 14-22 The Caribbean Classic 200 Air Race, The EAA Chapter 724 April meeting is to be
http://www.raceplane.com,1-800-354-9541. on the first Wednesday this month, not the second.
May 10 EAA Chapter 724 Banquet, The second Wednesday falls in the middle of Sun ‘n
Jun 10 EAA Chapter 724 Young Eagles Flight, Fun, which many Chapter members will be
Merritt Island Airport, call Tony Yacono, 459-0080. attending.
Jun 25-Jul 4 Int’nl Short Wing Piper Club Conv., __________________________________________
Linder Airport, Lakeland, 813-737-3463.
Jul 26-Aug 1 EAA AirVenture 2000 (Oshkosh) AOPA, EAA 'JUST SAY NO' TO FAA DRUG
EXEMPTION
Regularly Scheduled Florida EAA Fly-Ins Avflash, March 13, 2000
Every Fourth Wednesday BAA meeting. 7 PM,
Merritt Island Air Service, 321-636-5346. Last March, the FAA decided that the
Every Saturday, Cannon Creek Airpark, Lake system for giving charity flights was broken and
City, Fly-In Breakfast, 904-752-1957. "fixed" it by mandating charity flight pilots submit
Every Saturday , FIT Falcon Flight Team Lunch, to expensive FAA-approved drug tests, or else.
11-1, Melbourne, Donna, dwilt@winnie.fit.edu AOPA, EAA and other pilot organizations cried
Every Second Saturday, Charlotte County Airport, "foul" and asked the feds to work with them to
Punta Gorda, EAA Chapter 565 Pancake Breakfast/ come up with common-sense rules on such flights.
Young Eagles, 941-575-6360. And, when AVweb talked to FAA Chief Jane
Every Second Saturday, Tampa, EAA Chapter Garvey in April at Sun 'n Fun '99 about the charity
175 Fly-In Breakfast/Young Eagles, 813-654-2921. flight problem, she promised that her people were
Every Second Saturday, Homestead, Fly-In and working on it and help would be forthcoming within
"Chikee Chat" Seminar, 305-247-7886. weeks. Help, if you can call it such, finally came
Saturday after Every Third Tuesday, Kissimmee last month. Initially, EAA believed the FAA
Airport, EAA Chapter 74 Pancake Breakfast, 321- exemption to be a good thing. On closer
678-5873. examination, though, both EAA and AOPA have
Every Third Saturday, Valkaria Airport, Pancake determined the FAA has done them no favors.
Breakfast/Young Eagles, 321-724-8671. Under the FAA's euphemistically-worded
Every Third Saturday, Ninety-Nines Meeting, call "exemptions," fly-in and charity event sponsors
Bobbi Lasher at 321-636-5346 for location. would have to brief pilots on drug-free operations,
Every Fourth Saturday, Orlando, EAA Chapter 74 review pilot logbooks, and report back to AOPA or
Pancake Breakfast & Young Eagles, 321-841-7981. EAA all of the pilots who participated. Both EAA
Every Fourth Saturday, Crestview, EAA Chapter and AOPA are working now to modify the FAA's
108 Pancake Breakfast, 904-862-2673. offer.
Every First Sunday, Ft. Myers Airport, Chapter 66 __________________________________________
Pancake Breakfast, 941-945-7000.
Every First Sunday, Punta Gorda, Lo and Slo Details, details ...
Flyers meeting, 941-505-0493. Patrick Fanning, EAA Chapter 448
Every Second Sunday, Naples Airport, EAA
Chapter 1067 Fly-In Breakfast, 941-261-5701. When I got my 1955 Tripacer in 1989, the
Every Third Sunday, Kissimmee Municipal instrument panel was composed of seven different
Airport, west side of the field, 9 am on. pieces of aluminum, pop-riveted and machine-
Every Third Sunday, Sebring Airport, EAA screwed together. Previous owners had moved,
Chapter 803 Pancake Breakfast, 941-465-6996. replaced, and added instruments over the years and
Every Fourth Sunday, Bob Lee Airport, De Land, the result was an unsightly hodgepodge with flight,
EAA Chapter 635 Fly-In Picnic, 904-734-1032.
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engine, and navigation readouts scrambled together All the lettering for the average panel will fit on one
in a way that defied an orderly scan. 8½ by 11 inch sheet of paper. Make a photocopy of
Since I had to replace a dead navcom and that piece of paper, cut it up, and lay the markings
directional gyro anyway, I decided to rearrange the out on your tissue paper panel to make sure
left two-thirds of the panel. When I was done, I had everything fits and looks good.
an almost-standard grouping of flight instruments in Take the original black-on-white type to a
front of the pilot's seat, the new radio in the middle, large art supply store or a graphic arts photo studio
and everything securely mounted on a new that can make "color transfers". Color transfers are
aluminum panel. I scuffed the aluminum and spray- custom made rub-on letters, shapes, and illustrations
painted the old and new panel sections with that graphic designers use to make mock-ups of ads,
Randolph's "instrument panel dull black". packaging designs, book covers, and so on. If you
I wanted all the panel markings and placards have trouble finding a source of supply, call some
to look like they had been printed or silkscreened on local graphic designers and ask where they get their
the panel at the factory. I knew from experience that color transfers made.
I couldn't get the "rub-on" letters from the art The color transfer will be a "rub-on" version
supply store perfectly straight and evenly spaced of your type exactly as it appears on your original,
especially when lettering the parts of the panel that I and can be made in nearly any color you want.
couldn't remove from the plane to work on. I talked Also, you aren't limited to mere letters and
to a printer and a graphics designer about my numbers. Any black and white image that can be
options. After some experimentation, here's the photographed--logos, diagrams, drawings, etc--can
method I came up with: be made into a color transfer along with your type.
Make a tissue paper tracing of your It takes a day or two and will cost about $25 for an
instrument panel exactly locating all instruments 8½ by 11 inch original. While you're at the art
and switches. Then pencil in your call sign, switch supply store, pick up a burnishing tool for rubbing
ID's, warning placard statements, "NO SMOKING" down the letters and a spray can of matte artists'
signs, and so on. Experiment with the placement, fixative.
size, and spacing of the information until you're Treat your color transfer gently. Keep it dry
satisfied. and cool. Leave the sheet of backing paper behind it
Take your tissue paper to a computer nut at all times and don't put anything heavy on it.
who is into desktop publishing. For both Apple and Those little letters are sticky on the down side and
IBM type computers, there are programs that allow want to adhere to anything they touch. That's good
you to set professional-looking type on a home because it means you can use color transfers to
computer, running it out in crisp black on white on letter bare metal, painted surfaces, wood, or plastic.
a laser printer. If you don't have access to a laser Cut the color transfer into the individual
printer, most large copy shops have them these words or paragraphs that you want to transfer to
days. You bring in your data on a floppy disk and your panel. Make sure the panel surface is clean and
the copy shop runs out the type for you. If you can't dry. If it's very slick, dull it a little with 0000 steel
find someone with a desktop publishing setup wool or a plastic scuff pad. In awkward places, you
who'll work with you for the fun of it, go to a might want to use a strip of masking tape below
regular typesetter who will charge you about $35 where you want the words as a guide to keep the
for a panel's worth of type. lettering level. Short words and letters can be placed
There are two advantages to having your by eye.
own type set. First, you are not limited to the sizes Put the transfer against the panel where you
and styles of lettering that are available as "rub-on" want it. For big pieces you might want to tape one
letters at the art supply store. You can exactly match edge in place to hold everything in alignment. Now
the factory typefaces originally used on your just rub over each word with a dull pencil or a
airplane or use any style that pleases you. You can burnishing tool. Carefully peel the transfer material
fiddle with line length and type size until everything away making sure that each letter adheres properly.
is perfectly spaced and looks just right. The second Put a piece of the non-stick backing paper over the
advantage is that all the lettering will be perfectly letters and give them a final rub to make sure
spaced, perfectly straight, and it will stay that way. everything is flat.
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The transfer lettering will cure over time a lump of nickel and iron weighing 300,000 tons,
like paint, becoming tougher and sticking tighter. 150 feet across, struck the earth at 40,000 miles an
To give it added protection from scuffs and hour, scattering white-hot debris for miles in every
scratches, spray on a light coat of satin polyurethane direction. The hole measures nearly a mile across
or matte artists' fixative (also available from the art and is 570 feet deep." From the cabin, a passenger
supply store). I've used both and there doesn't was heard to exclaim: "Wow! It just missed the
appear to be any compatibility problems between highway!"
the transfers and the clear coatings. If the clear
coating makes your panel too shiny for your taste, Classified Ads
dull it carefully with a plastic scuff pad. Spinner - Fits 2 blade, constant speed,
I put white letters on my black painted metal Hartzel for Piper Arrow. With backing plate adapter
panel. I had so much fun doing it that I made a and front support. $100. Bill Harris, 242-0583
panel cover of 1/8 inch mahogany plywood and did Tailwind Project - 88% Complete W-8
it all over again. I stained the wood a dark reddish- project with 0 time O-200 Continental. Almost
brown, applied light yellow lettering, then finished $15,000 in parts. Asking $11,800 obo. Barrett
with polyurethane. It looks a lot better than the Bailey, 12117 Driver Ln., Spring Hill, FL 34610,
aluminum jigsaw puzzle I started with. 813-9996-1554, Babailey@gate.net
__________________________________________ Aircraft Instrument Repair. Experienced,
retired part-time instrument repair: gyro horizons,
Aviation Humor DG’s and turn and banks. I can fix most problems
A Delta Air Lines jet was traversing Arizona inexpensively. Call John Soukup, 783-7128, or see
me Saturday mornings at Merritt Island Airport.
on a clear day. The copilot was bombarding
HELP WANTED: Sun-N-Fun attendee to
passengers with remarks about landmarks over the
PA system. "Coming up on the right side of our put SPORT AVIATION bundles in the fly market.
Funds are used to enhance Young Eagles activities.
cabin, you can see Meteor Crater. A major tourist
Call Ted Yon, 783-7966.
attraction in northern Arizona, it was formed when
