Chapter 675

January 2004 Marshalltown, IA

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•President Garry Brandenburg 206 South St. East PO Box 96 Albion, IA 50005 641-488-2382 (hm) 641-754-6303 (wk) brandegb@netins.net •Vice President Doug Boyd 809 Patterson Ln Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-752-0506 doug.boyd @emersonprocess.com •Sec/Treas Charles Kuhlman 2402 Governor Rd Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-753-7903 charles.kuhlman @emersonprocess.com •Newletter Editor Corey Butcher 2940 Arney Ave State Center, IA 50247 641-493-2415 (hm) 515-331-2943 (wk) cdgarden@marshallnet.com Wright Flyer Photo by Dave Cheung See page 2 for report

January 2004 MEETING WHEN: FRIDAY the 9th 7PM WHERE: FISHER COMMUNITY CENTER PROGRAM: Yesterday to Tomorrow WHAT'S FLYIN' THIS WAY !!! Our next meeting will be your opportunity to provide reflection and suggestions for the direction of our chapter. Did you enjoy the activities we did in 2003? Did we do too much? Not enough? What would you like to see in the future? More community participation? More flying? More eating?? YOUR input is what makes our chapter fun and interesting, and is what defines us as such! President Garry is working on the specifics for our Rename-the-Airport Raffle we will be doing in the next month or so. Your ideas at how we can make this a big success will also be discussed at the next meeting. Your participation will guarantee a big return for the Airport fund. If you haven't been to a meeting for awhile, this would be a good one to make! WHAT FLEW BY LAST MONTH !!! Christmas Dinner Approximately 25 Chapter 675 members gathered at Dibs BBQ to eat and be merry for our annual Christmas party. The highlight of the evening was Will Gethmann's Airplane Weathervane he has built and donated to the chapter for the Rename-the-Airport Raffle. We will be displaying the Weathervane at different locations throughout the area. Raffle tickets for members to sell will be available shortly. Again, come to the January meeting for all the details. (See page 2 for Will Gethmann update.) HAPPY NEW YEAR !

  WILL GETHMANN ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL

As some of you know, Will was admitted to the hospital the weekend before Christmas with severe abdominal pain. He was air lifted to Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines where he underwent two surgeries to remove and repair some of his lower intestine. He has been in an induced coma since then. As of this writing, (Jan 3rd) he has undergone another repairative surgery and is on kidney dialysis and a ventilator in the cardiac care unit.
Kathy has a positive attitude and is being of strong mind so please remember Will, Kathy, and family in your thoughts and prayers. They will be going through some pretty rough air for the next few weeks.

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CALENDAR JAN 9~ Chapter 675 Meeting - Fisher Community Center Jan 10~ Young Eagles Rally - Davenport, IA June 5-6~ Fly Iowa 2004 - Washington, IA Will's Airplane Weathervane As you read on the first page, Will brought his latest Weathervane creation to the Christmas dinner. Depicting a Cub type taildragger, it is made in weather resistant metal, is approximately 18" long, 24" wide and stands about 24" high on a very sturdy base. Will spends hours building each weathervane and has sold most of his creations for approximately $125. As a chapter we had agreed to purchase one for our Rename-the-Airport Raffle, but before we were through, Will spoke up and said he would DONATE his weathervane as his contribution to the cause. How can you beat that?! Come to the next meeting to see how you can help with the raffle. You are also encouraged to make a personal contribution at the Wells Fargo bank in Marshalltown. They need about $5000 to approach the city elders with the intent of renaming the airport, the Niederhauser-Marshalltown Municipal Airport which recognizes and will memorialize the founding Niederhauser brothers. It's Been A Year... that I have been doing the newsletter and want to be sure you are satisfied with my "productions". Please do not hesitate to relay criticism and suggestions for style and format as well as content. I appreciate all the contributions I have received this past year and will do my best to meet the needs of this chapter with the newsletter. Corey

Dave At The Centennial The following is a first hand report from member Dave Cheung of his trip to North Carolina. Dec. 13th 2003 Only 4 days separated us from the 100th anniversary of the 1st manned powered flight. It was a 5hour drive to the coast. The morning had a bite to it from the cold and the wind. We hit the road at 6:30 am. We took a break by mid morning for breakfast at a Waffle House. It is a small coffee shop type restaurant found mostly in the Southeast part of the country with about 4 booths and the rest of the seating was at the counter. If you want waffles and coffee, then you came to right place. We arrived at the Outer Banks or the coast of North Carolina about 11:30. The main part of OB [Outer Banks] is located on a strip of 4 lane highway with traffic lights. Two other parallel streets make up the rest of the peninsula. The Eastern most street faced the Atlantic Ocean and the other street faced the intercostals waterways. Seems the locals were prepared for this celebration. The street was decked out in banners on the lamp poles and on almost every intersection there we State Highway Patrol waiting to assist you if your foot got stuck to the accelerator. We arrived at Kitty Hawk and the National park where the celebration was to take place. Parking was off site and shuttles took you to and from the park. We wound up about 3 miles away from the Park. It is not laid out like Oshkosh, which was what I had in mind coming to this air show. As we entered the park I couldn’t help notice the soldiers in camouflaged uniforms with loaded weapons along the perimeter. I saw one then another and still another. To say that security was tight would be an understatement. I later took note of the command post, a radio truck under camouflage netting, at the highest point of the park, which was near the summit of the hill where the monument is located. We entered the park and went through security screening. Our bags were searched and we walked through metal detectors. Just as we entered the park, the sky show began. It started with about 50 skydivers. The last one had Old Glory attached to him or her. Nice way to start the show. What I thought was cool was the 15 knot wind they flew into. I am sure they thought that was cool too, maybe downright cold. Next came a formation aerobatic team of 4 T-38’s I think. We stood almost directly under the area they performed. There was a giant screen and a camera that followed them through the maneuvers. It was breath taking at such close range. Something like the shows you would see at Oshkosh only we stood a lot closer. You could almost tell the pilots needed a shave if it weren’t for the buckle of the chinstrap on the helmet being in the way.continued on back cover...

2003 IN REVIEW

January~~~~~War Stories February~~~~FAA Safety Seminar March~~~~~~Sea Cadets April~~~~~~~Young Eagles May~~~~~~~Hampton Museum

June~~~~~~Chapter Open House July~~~~~~Summer BBQ August~~~Oshkosh September~Ice Cream Social October~~~Hangar Flying with Doug November~Rename the Airport Discussion December~Christmas Dinner

Let's Have Another Great Year in 2004 !

There were two other solo aerobatic shows that followed and it seemed that each tried to outdo the other. Low was literally tree top level as they came out of their maneuvers. Outstanding is the only way to describe the performances. Another outstanding performance was the Beach Boys on an out door stage and they were really out standing in the cold weather. They wished that Orville and Wilbur were Mexican. They had one guitar player who was from Canada, said it was like spring here and took off his coat and shirt to play in his bare skin. Didn’t last long however. There were about 10 exhibit halls erected to house vendors and park exhibits. One near the original field that O and W used displayed the Wright Flyer that was scheduled for its maiden flight Wed the 17th. We visited the runway of the original launch and saw huge stone monuments to where they started and first landed. 120 feet sure didn’t look like a very long distance.

For 52 seconds, that means about 2.5 feet per second. If I am not mistaken in my arithmetic, Orville flew about 1.5 miles per hour and that’s with a 20 mile an hour headwind so I guess that makes it about 22 miles/hour. I hope my plane will do as good and maybe a little bit better. We wandered up to the Kitty Hawk monument at the top of Kill Devil Hill. The monument looks like a huge stone vertical stabilizer, about 50 feet high, pointing into the wind. The hill overlooked the park, the beach and the Atlantic. I thought it was cold on the flat areas till I climbed the hill. The cold wind really whistled through my shorts. We left the park around 3:00PM. We were cold and hungry. We didn’t have lunch there as the lines to the food counter stood about 20 deep. We opted for a local seafood restaurant and that was worth the wait. We headed home from there with the warm feelings of being part of history and good spicy food we enjoyed.