A recap of the program/presentations at our
EAA Chapter 501 monthly meetings


2024
FEBRUARY
At our February 14 meeting in AST's meeting room we confirmed the dates for our 2024 Young Eagles Flight Rallies and N07 Fly-In. Matt Lamm chaired a discussion of kinds of pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight checklists that can be of benefit to aviators.

JANUARY
At the Aero Safety Training meeting room we chose dates for 2024 Young Eagles events and our annual Fly-In. Ideas were also discussed for "programs" for upcoming monthly Chapter 501 meetings. An AOPA video was shown: "Hidden Hazard", dealing with dangers of carbon monoxide in the cockpit.

2023
DECEMBER
Our annual Chapter 501 party meeting was held at the Sunset Pub and Grill on December 13. President Matt Lamm welcomed our guests Tom and Mira Van Wingerden and distributed EAA Chapter Service Awards to officers and committee chairmen. With over 90 members we are looking forward to a busy 2024!

NOVEMBER
Back again in the hangar, we had annual officer elections (only change is Steve Vail is stepping down as Secretary and Barry Morse will take over in January), settled details of our December 13th party/meeting... to be again at the Sunset Pub and Grill, and heard and saw up close a fascinating introduction by Barry Morse of the sport of hang gliding.

OCTOBER
In the Lincoln Park Airport hangar we covered the preparations for our 10/14 Fly-In (and weather risks in the forecast), and the 10/29 Young Eagles event. Matt Lamm presented slides of his BD-4 work-in-progress in his basement that will, at some point, will require a new larger door installation in the house before the BD-4 sees daylight.!

SEPTEMBER
In the Lincoln Park Airport hangar adjacent to Aero Safety Training. FAA's Bob Thorson presented Trevor Forde with a plaque... The Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, "...in recognition of your 50 years of exemplary aviation flight experience, distinguished professionalism, and steadfast committment to aviation safety." We followed up with discussion on how to plan out the next couple of months with our Fly-In, helping with the Oktoberfest car parking and scheduling one more Young Eagles event for late October.

AUGUST
In-Person/Zoom meeting again in the Lincoln Park Airport hangar adjacent to Aero Safety Training. Lincoln Park Airport Manager Tom Van Wingerden stopped by before the meeting to propose maybe linking our planned Fly-In with N07's Octoberfest event. No dates set yet. More discussions ahead! At our meeting our Loehle Sport Parasol was on display in the hangar so Bob Menier could show us the correct methods to make fabric repair patches to the rag wing ship.

JULY
In-Person/Zoom meeting in the Lincoln Park Airport hangar adjacent to Aero Safety Training. After introducing a number of guests and prospective new members several members who are planning to be at Oshkosh outlined their plans so they can meet up during that week. Also plans were fixed to hang our "Chapter sign" on a post outside the Blue Barn. Pete Nancoz and his sister have it ready to go and we saw a photo of the finished sign on the screen. Dave Jones reported that he has three applicants for the two Ray Scholarships we have available to grant. Approvals are a work-in-progress. At the end of the business meeting Joe Fenske gave us a very well informed presentation on the opportunities for current fliers to add a glider rating or become a glider pilot from scratch.

JUNE
June 2023's meeting (on Wednesday 6/14) started at Frank Galella's Lincoln Park Aviation hangar where he introduced chapter members to several ships in his new line of Pipistrel aircraft for sale. The meeting then moved to the hangar adjacent to Aero Safety Training where the June 11th Young Eagles event was recapped telling of the record breaking flying of 110 kids by 9 Chapter 501 pilots that day. A possible fall date for a Fly-In was discussed that could include a pancake breakfast or hamburgers for lunch.

MAY
At the Englewood Cliffs, NJ home of Dr. Bernard Rawlins Chapter 501 members got a closeup look at Bernard's considerable progress on his RV-8 under construction.

APRIL
In-Person/Zoom meeting in the Lincoln Park Airport hangar adjacent to Aero Safety Training. We recapped the needs for pilots and ground-handling volunteers to be on duty, weather permitting, at our April 23rd Young Eagles Flight Rally. Our presentation speaker, Michael Jackson, of www.jasflyer.com, described the usefulness of his Flight Data Viewer engine data analysis software.

MARCH
Hybrid In-Person/Zoom meeting at the AST meeting room. Our 501(c)(3) "EZ on-line" charity designation application came back from the IRS. They want the "long form" that will cost more. Chapter 501's BoD will talk it over. Allen Dunn and Ron Reinartz recapped the need for pilot and ground help for the March 19 Y.E. event. EAA has rewarded Chapter 501 with a 2023 opportunity to sponsor and mentor a flight training candidate to receive a Ray Foundation scholarship award. Ron Reinartz showed a very informative video on the hazards of helicopter wake turbulence.

FEBRUARY
Another Hybrid In-Person/Zoom meeting at the AST meeting room. We firmed up dates for four Young Eagles event, March - June. Chapter 501 members voted to officially accept the donated Loehle Sport Parasol Light Sport Aircraft "project" that several members brought down from Westchester County to Allen Dunn's Kinnelon basement garage on January 22. Steve Vail presented a slide show of the background of the LSA ship as well as photos of their recent attachment of the wings (for weighing the full assembly) and test-running the Rotax engine. Chapter 501 voted to go ahead with applying for a 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS allowing tax deductible cash contributions to be made to Chapter 501 by members of the general public.

JANUARY
At the A.S.T. meeting room we mapped out, to an extent, possible dates for our Young Eagles events and a Fly-In. We saw videos of Jack Pelton recapping his 2023 hopes for EAA Oshkosh activity as well as a good introduction to what's in your engine magnetos demonstrated by opening one up and taking it apart.

2022
DECEMBER
On December 14, 2022 we had our 13th annual Christmas/Holiday Dinner Party-Meeting at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Speaking to the assembled 38 members and guests Prez Matt Lamm congratulated our members who have made presentations at our monthly meetings, plus our pilots who flew 183 youngsters at our September and October Young Eagles events with the help of a large number of ground crew. Matt named Bernard Rawlins as "Chapter 501 Pilot of the Year" for his Eagle Flights that whittled down the backlog of applicants that accumulated during the covid interruption of our activities.

NOVEMBER
Again at the A.S.T. meeting room on October 12 with a hybrid Zoom/In-Person meeting, 27 members present agreed with the Nominating Committee's slate of officers for next year... reelecting the current officers and Greg Dwyer will replace Larry Kalb as a Board Member. Plans are firmed up for our December party-meeting to be at the Sunset Pub and Grill that is now closed for renovation but only for three weeks. A number of our new members have pledged to assist our committee chairmen in running the chapter, as well as running committees. Ian Azeredo gave a very interesting slide presentation of his 1946 Ercoupe restoration in progress, an activity he has undertaken after he gave up sky diving.

OCTOBER
Back at the A.S.T. meeting room on October 12 with a hybrid Zoom/In-Person meeting we recapped our successful September 25 Young Eagles Flight Rally. To get ready for our upcoming October 23rd Y.E. event we put together a list of who will be available to both manage the 10/23 event and also help direct car traffic at Lincoln Park Airport/Sunset Pub and Grill's 10/22 "Oktoberfest Bash".

SEPTEMBER
On September 14 we were able to borrow the hangar next to A.S.T one more time so Ron Reinartz could present a Rich Stowell's Wings-credit FAASTeam safety video on the big screen... "Avoiding and Recovering from Overbanked Attitudes". Our Young Eagles Flight Rallies, September 25 and October 23, remain on the calendar. Bob Menier outlined a plan for a possible half-day Young Eagles WorkShop, but we are running short of available days in 2022. And it looks like our Fly-In will be bumped to next year.

AUGUST
On August 10 we still had use of the hangar next to A.S.T so Ron Reinartz could present a Wings-credit FAASTeam safety video on the big screen on the loss of flight controls. We outlined the needs for piloting and running our Young Eagles Flight Rallies... September 25 and October 2. Members who had attended AirVenture reported on how good the event was this year. Josh Puerzer, our Ray scholarship recipient, reported on his flight training progress out of Solberg Airport which is expected to continue out of an airport near Pittsburgh where he will be attending college in the fall.

JULY
On July 13 we were permitted to use the hangar next to A.S.T so Ron Reinartz could present a Wings-credit FAASTeam safety video teaching stall/spin awareness. It was decided to cancel the November date for a Young Eagles event... too cold! Our Y.E. flyer work-in-progress will promote September 25 and October 23 for Young Eagles Flight Rallies. This year's Young Eagles WorkShop schedule has been scrapped, mainly due to the cancelled-due-to-weather April and June Y.E. Flight Rallies at which Y.Es would have been sold on signing up for the upcoming YEWSs. Our website YEWS flyer has attracted no participants. Maybe try again next year.

JUNE
On June 8 we met again using the hangar adjacent to the A.S.T. headquarters. Possibly the last meeting here as it is believed the hangar will soon have a rent-paying tenant. Lengthy discussion on getting ready for the Young Eagles event scheduled for 6/12 even though the weather outlook does not look too good. We covered our bets by agreeing on 9/25, 10/23 and 11/27 as dates for one or more Y.E. events to end the year. Linda Scully read a note from Ron Reinartz saying that the FAASTeam is providing three flight-safety videos for us to show at three successive meetings July-September. Members who register will get Wings credits. Pete Nancoz gave an interesting presentation on CloudAhoy, software for analysis of track logs.

MAY
On May 11 we met again using the hangar adjacent to the A.S.T. headquarters. The focus was on readiness for our N07 Fly-In coming up in 3 days and the June 12 Young Eagles event followed by Paolo Grassi's demonstration of the personal and commercial capabilities of his DJI Mini-2 drone that included a short flight inside the hangar.

APRIL
On April 13th we met for the first time in the hangar adjacent to Aero Safety Training. The hangar door was open to enjoy the warm breeze in the early evening. Using our digital projector and portable screen Dave Jones gave a slide show explaining EAA's Aero Educate Program that covers many activities for school-age kids. It represents a "next step" for those who have enjoyed a Young Eagles flight. Our April 10th Young Eagles event having been cancelled due to windy conditions, Allen Dunn outlined the needs to get ready for the scheduled June 12 event and possibility of adding a "make-up" Y.E. event in the fall. Steve Vail summarized the planning for our Fly-In scheduled for May 14th.

MARCH
On March 9, at Dassault Falcon Jet's Teterboro HQ, Chapter 501 members were treated to a tour of their facility that, along with another one on the west coast, manages the maintenance of Falcon Jets around the world. Our business meeting took place via Zoom on March 23rd with plans firmed up for a Lincoln Park Airport Cleanup Day on April 9, our first 2022 Young Eagles Flight Rally on April 10, and our Lincoln Park Airport Fly-In on May 14.

FEBRUARY
Our first 2022 In-person/Zoom-virtual meeting at Aero Safety Training began with a SPECIAL AWARD PRESENTATION: Ron Reinartz introduced FAA FAASTteam Program Manager Bob Thorson to recognize our member Bob Menier as recipient of the FAA Charles Taylor Master Mechanic award, which recognizes lifetime accomplishments of senior mechanics. Bob had a long career in aviation maintenance, most recently at Dassault Aviation in Teterboro. A very nice article on Bob's accomplishments appeared in The Record and Suburban Trends. 2022 event planning followed with tentative dates set for Young Eagles Flight Rallies and a Fly-In at Lincoln Park Airport. The meeting capped off with Matt Lamm's recap of the intallation of engine monitoring hardware and software in his Cessna 182.

JANUARY
Our first Chapter meeting of the year, on January 12th, had to be Zoom-only as a Covid "surge" is believed to be peaking. Prez Matt Lamm's agenda covered lots of ground so we can start planning dates for Young Eagles Flight Rallies, a Fly-In at Lincoln Park Airport and other activities that will keep us active with little risk of conflicts. Dates for the calendar will likely emerge from our February and March meetings.

2021
DECEMBER
After skipping last year's in-person party (it was replaced with a Zoom meeting) on December 8, 2021 we had our 12th annual Christmas/Holiday Dinner Party-Meeting at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Prez Jon Seibert saluted our members who got our Chapter events back up and running this year after a 2020 break for the pandemic. Jon yielded the floor to Matt Lamm, who will fill the Prez shoes in 2022. Matt saluted Jon for his eventful five year stint as Chapter 501 President and asked members to save some free time to help Chapter 501 plan and run a number of fun, aviation events to be on the schedule in the year ahead. The party-meeting capped off with awarding of prizes from the raffle that helped finance the evening at our favorite restaurant.

NOVEMBER
At our In-person/Zoom-virtual meeting at Aero Safety Training, we recapped the successful October 23rd Young Eagles Workshop and held our officer elections for the 2022 calendar year. The October 17 Young Eagles event had to be cancelled due to windy conditions. Looks like the next Y.E. event will be in the spring of 2022.

OCTOBER
We had an In-person/Zoom-virtual meeting at Aero Safety Training, recapping the successful September 25th Young Eagles Workshop and the successful September 19th Young Eagles Flight Rally (6 pilots flew 42 kids) and getting nominations going for a slate of 2022 Chapter officers.

SEPTEMBER
Our third in-person meeting since March of last year was also our first "hybrid" in-person/Zoom-virtual meeting. Jon Seibert got our newly acquired camera, tripod and microphone set up and 25 members joined in the meeting conversation. Along with discussing Young Eagles preparations and Y.E. Workshop details we also enjoyed watching a number of Eric Sampson's photos taken on his Alaska round trip. Eric narrated the slideshow from his IPhone while he was waiting at Minneapolis Airport for a commercial fight back home to New Jersey.

AUGUST
At our second in-person meeting since March of last year we got to work mapping out the needs for volunteers to help run our five upcoming events: Y.E . Flight rallies in September and October and Young Eagle Workshops in September, October and November. We also heard from several members who were at Oshkosh and got a look at about 130 photos on the screen.

JULY
We found that many members were on long over-due vacations right after July 4th. July meeting cancelled. Next meeting to be August 11.

JUNE
On June 9 we met in-person for the first time since March 2020. At Lincoln Park Airport's Aero Safety Training flight school we re-capped our successful June 5th Fly-In at Warwick Aerodrome, set September and October dates for Young Eagles Flight Rallies and, while enjoying pizza and beverages, continued detailed discussion of how best to resume all of our other activities that were cancelled by the pandemic in 2020. The evening concluded with a showing of EAA's June Chapter Video Magazine.

MAY
Our Zoom virtual meeting for the month of May had 24 members in attendance. The focus was ensuring that we will have enough members volunteering to help at the upcoming June 5 Fly-In at Warwick Airport and we got into some detail about the jobs that need to be done. As for Young Eagles events, some pilots are now willing to fly, EAA National is encouraging resumption of events, and some other chapters are holding events, but there is consensus that we should not hold an event before we can require and expect that youth participants will be vaccinated, probably not before September. It was decided to not fly any Young Eagles at the 6/05 Fly-In.

APRIL
Our April 2021 meeting was, again, virtual. Discussion included preparations now underway to host a Fly-In at Warwick Aerodrome, thanks to the invitation of the Warwick pilots' Board. June 5 is our likely choice of a date. Young Eagles flight rally dates are still uncertain, due to caution on the part of our participating pilots and continuing state mandated social distancing rules. Young Eagles Workshop dates are also yet to be set. Ron Reinartz announced that EAA has accepted Beck Youngberg's application for a Ray Foundation flight training scholarship. Beck's flight training has already been underway with Aero Safety Training and will continue over the year ahead, financed by the $10,000 award. Our meeting concluded with a great slide show narrated by Charlie Derk depicting the five year building process of his RV-10. Charlie recently celebrated the first anniversary of his RV-10 maiden flight.

MARCH
It was our 12th virtual meeting, with the help of Zoom host Paolo Grassi. We sadly shared the news that Lincoln Park Airport Owner/Manager Pete DeRosa had succumbed to Covid-19 on February 13th. Ron Reinartz announced that EAA has rewarded Chapter 501 with a chance to sponsor a Ray Foundation flight training scholarship of $10,000.00 to a deserving teenager. We had two applicants for the award and Beck Youngberg has been selected to forward his application to EAA for their approval. Once approved, Beck can continue the flight training he has already started at Aero Safety Training and Chapter 501 will mentor his progress in the year ahead. Chapter 501 will fund our runner-up applicant, Josh Puerzer, with $500.00 in flight training at Aero Safety Training. Josh will likely also continue his flight training at Solberg Airport. Our program for the night was a re-run of a slide show that Chapter 501 did 12 years ago to help Pequannock Township historians raise funds to post a bronze plaque on West Parkway where Reaction Motors, Inc. designed, built and tested rocket motors that powered Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 past the speed of sound in 1947.

FEBRUARY
We had our eleventh "virtual meeting", this one hosted on Zoom by Paolo Grassi. We again concluded that it is too soon to start planning our events. The pandemic is still ongoing. Several pilots indicated that they are not ready to risk transmission in an airplane cockpit by flying Young Eagles at this time. There were concerns expressed about our and the airport's liability if someone should catch Covid-19 after a Young Eagle flight. Allen Dunn indicated that we have all the social distancing tools on hand and ready to employ when we decide to resume Young Eagle flights. Ron Reinartz said we might be ready to hold our first Young Eagles WorkShop in June and he appealed for volunteers to get ready to give workshop presentations on various basic aeronautical topics, outlines provided by EAA. Steve Vail agreed to contact airport management at Aeroflex to find out if they (meaning the State of New Jersey) will allow us to hold a socially distanced Fly-In event at 12N in the spring or early summer. Our program included Charlie Derk's description of how the use of Skew-T diagrams in flight planning can give you a better idea of the weather aloft.

JANUARY
We had our tenth "virtual meeting", this one hosted by Jeff Ross. Three new members are welcomed since our December meeting, including Century Air student pilot Allison Mack, Bernard Rawlins (Columbia 400 pilot at CDW), and John Weiswasser (former EAA 501 member, RV8 pilot). Development of our future monethly events to support EAA's new Young Eagles WorkShop program is underway. Dave Jones, Bob Menier and Ron have been preparing materials, making good progress. Looking for leaders for projects and instructional presentations. Let Ron know. However is too soon to start planning our events schedule. The pandemic is still heating up and even the Sunset Pub and Grill is not expected to re-open until maybe April. For our program Rodrigo Nogueira showed us very professionally how Solidworks works. It is a sophisticated CAD program that EAA has made access to for free to EAA members.

2020
DECEMBER
We had our ninth "virtual meeting", on December 9th, again hosted by Jeff Ross, thank you Jeff. We again discussed how to conduct Young Eagles events in the year ahead with possible social distancing requirements still in place. Some of the items we have purchased with 2019 Young Eagles credits will be used to help cope with the coronavirus rules. Ron Reinartz reported on the wood and metalworking preparations already in progress to set up for Y.E. Workshop sessions we hope to schedule for sometime in 2021. We voted to approve the changes to our By-Laws that now accomodate Chapter memberhip for school-age kids. We cleared the way for renewing our Chapter charter with EAA and also raising the limits on our insurance coverage. President Seibert read the list of EAA service award certificates he has for eventual distribution to our officers and committee chairman members.

NOVEMBER
19 members members signed on at our eighth "virtual meeting" set up on Webex by Jeff Ross, thank you Jeff. We welcomed Josh Puerzer as a new Chapter 501 member. We rendered a final salute to Dave MacMillan who passed away in October at the age of 88. Ron Reinartz expanded on the planned role we and Aero Safety Training will play in the scheduling of the new EAA Young Eagles Workshops that could come as early as April. Matt Lamm made a motion to change our By-Laws to include a new Student membership category, and to strike the requirement for new members to first attend two meetings. Final vote will be at the next meeting. Matt also explained the pending introduction of shifting our membership roster to EAA's new roster management web tool. No dinner party-meeting possible in December. Annual election was held, reelecting all the incumbents.

OCTOBER
17 members members signed on at our seventh "virtual meeting" set up on Webex by Jeff Ross, thank you Jeff. We continued discussion on when and how to resume face-to-face chapter meetings and activities. We welcomed Linda Scully and Beck Youngberg as new Chapter 501 members. We mapped out preliminary plans to set up monthly meetings of an adaptation of EAA's new Young Eagles Work Shop/Day Camp program. Our Nominating Committee earmarked several members who will likely be future Chapter officers, but, in this uncertain time settled on a recommendation that we re-nominate the current officers who all indicated willingness to continue their work at least through 2021. We agreed to continue the annual membership dues collection practice as spelled out in the by-laws, giving up on an idea proposed last month that 2021 dues be waived for current members as a way to compensate members for the dearth of Chapter events in 2020. We don't know what lies ahead, and we will likely be better off with the money in the bank.

SEPTEMBER
12 members members signed on at our sixth "virtual meeting" set up on Zoom by Paolo Grassi, thank you Paolo. We had general discussion on when and how to resume face-to-face chapter activities. The November Fly-In has been cancelled. Our December party at the Sunset Pub and Grill seems to be unfeasible.

AUGUST
18 members members signed on at our fifth "virtual meeting" set up on Webex by Jeff Ross, thank you Jeff. We had to cancel our September 13 and our October 18 Young Eagles events as we cannot count on any relaxation soon of the pandemic social distancing rules. Our November 7 Fly-In is still on the calendar. Steve Vail volunteered to make the purchases of $1,200 of Young Eagles event related items, selected and approved last month, that EAA rewarded to us thanks to our pilots flying 249 Y.E.s in 2019. The proposal to award 6 month memberships in Chapter 501 to adults who have completed "Eagle Flights" has been tabled until Eagle Flights resume after the pandemic subsides.

Discussion focused on working on a list of items, acceptable to EAA, to buy before the December 31 deadline, with the $1,200.00 in 2019 Young Eagles credits. (EAA requires a reimbursement request with receipts to be submitted by the first week in January.) We also discussed Mike Dzurny's proposal to award Eagle Fliers with a free six month membership in Chapter 501. Steve Vail and Mike agreed to put together a list, for presentation at the August meeting, of possible ways to make this idea workable.

JULY
19 members members signed on at our fourth "virtual meeting" set up on Webex by Jeff Ross, thank you Jeff. Discussion focused on working on a list of items, acceptable to EAA, to buy before the December 31 deadline, with the $1,200.00 in 2019 Young Eagles credits. (EAA requires a reimbursement request with receipts to be submitted by the first week in January.) We also discussed Mike Dzurny's proposal to award Eagle Fliers with a free six month membership in Chapter 501. Steve Vail and Mike agreed to put together a list, for presentation at the August meeting, of possible ways to make this idea workable.

JUNE
19 members members signed on at our third "virtual meeting" set up on Webex by Jeff Ross, thank you Jeff. Several of our Young Eagles pilots said that they would not likely fly Young Eagles if face coverings, social distancing, sanitizers and repetitive disinfecting requirements were still in effect on the planned September and October dates.

MAY
20 members signed on at our second "virtual meeting" set up on Webex by Jeff Ross for us. We discussed the chances, believed to be slim, of having our 2020 events going off on schedule. No conclusion yet on how to spend our $1,200 worth of 019 Young Eagles credits. New name tags high on th list.

APRIL
With "gatherings of any size" now banned due to the coronavirus pandemic in progress, Jeff Ross set up a "virtual meeting" using his Webex access. About a dozen Chapter 501 members signed on at 6:00pm on April 8 with their home-bound laptops to a Webex URL, and almost all were capable of seeing and talking to each other all at the same time. Order was restored and we had a productive 1.5 hour corona crisis meeting that unfortunately meant we needed to cancel the May 17 Young Eagles event. The May 30 Fly-In is still "up in the air."

MARCH
Chapter 501's Larry Kalb gave us a convincing and well-researched technical explanation, with flip charts and lots of math, of aerodynamics and flight dynamics... that is... how airplanes fly.

FEBRUARY
Chapter 501's Bob Menier, with his years of experience overseeing the maintenance of Dassault FalconJets, summarized for us all the maintenance items that private aircraft owners/pilots can do on their own airplanes. Owners can do a lot of their own maintenance, but the rules have to be followed and log books be detailed.

JANUARY
At Aero Safety Training we put together a very tentative list of dates for 2020's Young Eagles and Ely-In events. Also discussed what would be ahead if Chapter 501 gets cleared by EAA to sponsor a Ray Foundation pilot training scholarhip student.

2019
DECEMBER
Our 11th annual Christmas/Holiday Dinner Party-Meeting was at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Prez Jon Seibert distributed EAA Chapter Service Awards and raffle prize winners took home some interesting gifts donated by attendees.

NOVEMBER
At Casey and Charlie Derk's home in Park Ridge we got an progress report from Charlie on the RV-10 build in his garage plus a presentation by Jeff Schans of Lycoming Manufacturing on the Thunderbolt engine that Charlie has already installed on the RV-10.

OCTOBER
Members took the tour at CAE's Flight Simulator in Whippany, NJ. Many of the attendees got to perform (or tried to perform) a takeoff and landing of a FalconJet in a TEB flight pattern scenario.

SEPTEMBER
At Aero Safety Training we recapped the August 25 Y.E. event (9 pilots flew 84 kids), discussed the upcoming 9/29 Y.E. event, and saw the September EAA Chapter Video Magazine.

AUGUST
At Aero Safety Training we discussed in detail how the new EAA YEDay.org on-line APP will work for us on its first test at our August 25 Young Eagles event. Our program was a showing of the 1978 video tape (now DVD) of Ray Johnson's Volksplane flying out of Lincoln Park Airport.

JULY
At Aero Safety Training we recapped our May and June YE and Fly-In activities wioth a slide show, showed the July EAA Chapter video magazine and decided to make use of the EAA YoungEagleDay "app" in a limited way without disrupting our smooth running of Young Eagles events for the past 25 plus years.

JUNE
Eric Sampson organized a field trip to Greenwood Lake Airport where members of the Hackensack University Medical Center's Medevac operation gave a slide show of how they operate plus a tour of the helicopter that had just returned from a mission.

MAY
Again at Aero Safety Training, we reviewed preparations for the upcoming 5/19 Young Eagles event and the June 8th Aeroflex-Andover Fly-In. We also got a look at slides taken by Steve Vail at the Air Force Museum at Dayton, Ohio, on a one-plane Fly-Out flown by Jeff Ross in his Aztec. Passengers also included Allison Ross and Bill Pritchard.

APRIL
At Aero Safety Training we got a briefing from Mike Dzurny on the progress of the new Eagle Flights format. Ron Reinartz also described the monthly AeroSession held in Aero Safety Training's meeting room. We set a new Young Eagles event date, hopefully, for Sunday, May 19. We welcomed Eric Sampson back from Florida where he picked up his Commercial SEL ticket. We also watched the EAA April Chapter Video Magazine.

MARCH
At Aero Safety Training, Mike Dzurny outlined for us the steps for giving free Eagle Flights to adults who might be interested in getting a pilot's license. We also juggled our 2019 event calendar, scheduling our AeroFlex-Andover Fly-In for Saturday, June 8th, and postponing a decision on if/when in June to run a Young Eagles event. September 29 was put on the calendar for a Y.E. event that will replace the one we had hoped for in October. We also watched the EAA March Chapter Video Magazine.

FEBRUARY
Meeting at Aero Safety we reviewed our 2019 event schedule. Had to change the October 6 Y.E. event to September 29 due to conflict with "OctoberFest". Dates are not yet locked in. We also watched the EAA February Chapter Video Magazine.

JANUARY
At Aero Safety Training we tested the new digital projector and 10 foot indoor/outdoor screen and then nailed down a list of event dates for the coming year. Our program was conducted by Bob Menier. With years of experience in the business, Bob knows his stuff about rivets and fasteners used in aircraft repair. He showed us many types of rivets and fasteners intended for different applications and how using the wrong one can have serious consequences when used on an aircraft.

2018
DECEMBER
Our 10th annual Christmas/Holiday Dinner Party-Meeting was at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Prez Jon Seibert distributed EAA Chapter Service Awards and raffle prize winners took home some interesting gifts donated by attendees.

NOVEMBER
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room, after discussing how to use our 2017 Young Eagles credits, Jon Seibert gave a fascinating explanation with slide show of how major airports deal with winter weather.

OCTOBER
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room we reviewed plans for the 10/21 Young Eagles Flight Rally, discussed how to make use of the dollars we have earned from 2017 Y.E. flight credits, set a date/place (12/12 at Sunset Pub and Grill) for our Christmas/Holiday party-meeting, and watched selected parts of the EAA Chapter Video Magazine..

SEPTEMBER
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room we firmed up our October 6 Fly-In plans and also got a look at George Kouba's Oshkosh photo collection.

AUGUST
At Eric Sampson's home in Wayne. Eric introduced us to powered paragliding with a ground demo of his flight equipment.

JULY
At the Kinnelon home of Carol and Mike Elstien we got updated on the progress Mike is making on the RV-10 project.

JUNE
At the Kinnelon home of Kathleen and Allen Dunn we got a look at the partially completed Velocity project Allen acquired a few months ago.

MAY
At the Park Ridge home of Casey and Charlie Derk we got a close-up look at progress Charlie has made on his RV-10 construction project.

APRIL
At the Aero Safety Training meeting room we reviewed plans for the upcoming April 22 Young Eagles Flight Rally and the May 19 Aewroflex-ASndover Fly-In plus saw segments of the April EAA Chapter Viseo Magazine.

MARCH
Back at Aero Safety Training's meeting room Don Argintar of Flight Matters, LLC, gave us an update on BacicMed, the FAA's new replacement for 3rd Class medical exams, plus a refresher on how to avoid being intercepted when flying through VIP TFRs.

FEBRUARY
We met at Flight Safety International's Moonachie training center where Director of Flight Training Michael Burgher led a tour of the facility which specializes in all models of Dassault Falcon corporate jets.

JANUARY
Working over pizza at Aero Safety Training we reviewed all 12 months of 2018 for having special meetings, fly-outs and Young Eagles events and a Fly-In, and picked some dates for them.

2017
DECEMBER
Our 9th annual Christmas/Holiday Dinner Party-Meeting was at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Prez Jon Seibert distributed EAA Chapter Service Awards and raffle prize winners took home some interesting gifts donated by attendees.

NOVEMBER
The program recapped our great 11/04 Fly-In with 116 photos on the screen, and we elected officers for the 2018 year.

OCTOBER
Time was spent finalizing plans for our 11/04 Fly-In at Aeroflex-Andover, plus nailing down a slate of candidates for the 2018 election and watching the EAA October Chapter Video Magazine.

SEPTEMBER
We planned through to the end of year... 10/08 Y.E, 11/04 Fly-In, appoint the annual nominating committee, and started thinking about a Christmas Party. Then the September EAA Chapter Video Magazine was shown on Aero Safety Training's overhead projector.

AUGUST
Back at Aero Safety Training... FAASTeam Program Manager Robert Thorson gave us a presentation on safety issues to be alert for when building or flying experimental aircraft. He also updated us on how FAA and the Secret Service devises the VIP TFRs.

JULY
At the Kinnelon home of Nancy and Steve Vail we did some short and long term planning for the Fly-In and upcoming meetings, while being treated to beverages and dinner.

JUNE
On the road to the Midland Park home of Marylynn and Craig Reding where we got an update on Craig's RV-8 building progress and were treated to a poolside feast.

MAY
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room, we did final preparation for the 5/13 Fly-In followed up by a showing of the May EAA Chapter Video Magazine.

APRIL
After pre-planning our 4/23 Young Eagles event we saw the April EAA Chapter video magazine on Aero Safety Training's projector plus a short video of the Intrepid Museum setting up for a 6 month drone display.

MARCH
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room we began to firm up plans for our first Young Eagles event of the year plus the Aeroflex-Andover Fly-In. Then we got another look at Steve Vail's Alton Bay Fly-Out videos and slides.

FEBRUARY
We met at the Teterboro Airport conference room of Dassault Falcon Jet. 501's Bob Menier gave us an introduction to Dassault's TEB operations and a tour of their corporate hangar where several demo models of Falcon Jets were parked. We got a stem to stern tour of a Falcon Jet 7X, N260FJ.

JANUARY
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room we began to plan our 2017 activities. Young Eagles events to be April 23, June 4 and October 8. Aeroflex Fly-in tentatively to be May 13.

2016
DECEMBER
30 members and guests enjoyed our 8th annual Christmas/holiday party at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Jon Seibert was handed the gavel by Steve Vail. Bryant Dunn becomes our new V.P.

NOVEMBER
At Charlie Derk's house in Park Ridge we got updated on the progress of Charlie's RV-10 construction. Wings, fuselage and empenage are all in progress. Charlie has been at it for just over one year and 500 hours.

OCTOBER
At Sam Thornton's red barn in Hawthorne we saw the progress of Sam's Glasair III construction. Looking like an airplane now, although it's in the barn miles from an airport. Wings now are fixed to the fuselage, and Sam's next major step is to decide on an engine... possibly a 300 hp Lycoming.

SEPTEMBER
We showed the full length (20 minutes) September EAA Chapter Video Magazine using the projector (thank you Linda Scully) at the Aero Safety Training meeting room. Also carefully mapped out our October 1 Aeroflex Fly-In plans.

AUGUST
In the Aero Safety Training meeting room Vince Lalomia told us about his March trip to Talkeetna, Alaska where he signed up for a week-long winter bush flying course flying a ski-equipped Cessna 140. The talk was accompanied by a showing of some spectacular digital photos of landings and takeoffs on snow cover glaciers.

JULY
Steve Riethof introduced Rhode Island High School Science teacher Ross McCurdy who is behind research into using biofuels in diesel powered light aircraft. Mr McCurdy described for us how just the day before, he possibly set a world record for an 800 mile endurance flight in Paramus Flying Club's diesel Cessna 182 burning a 50-50 mix of Jet A and Camelina plant seed oil.

JUNE
At Aero Safety Training we discussed the possiblilty of rescheduling our canceled May 21 Fly-In for later this year. We also watched segments of the June EAA Chapter Video Magazine.

MAY
Again at Aero Safety Training we finalized plans for our May 21 Fly-In and June 5 Young Eagles event. We also watched a clip from the May EAA Chapter Video Magazine showing how to successfully bend Plexiglas.

APRIL
At Lincoln Park Airport's Aero Safety Training we pre-planned for our upcoming Young Eagles events and our Fly-In now scheduled for May 21 at Aeroflex-Andover Airport. Selected clips were shown from EAA's March and April Chapter Video Magazines.

MARCH
Our meeting was at the CAE Northeast Training Center in Whippany for an introduction to and tour of the massive simulator facility. 501's Bob Menier, of Falcon Jet, organized the event for us.

FEBRUARY
We got a little stick time on the full-motion Redbird Simularor at Aero Safety Training, thank you Linda Scully! In the business portion of the meeting we laid some groundwork for hosting a possible Fly-In in May.

JANUARY
At Aero Safety Training's meeting room we did some 2016 planning and saw a Nashua to Manchester flight segment of the Real World VFR video series.

2015
DECEMBER
32 members and guests enjoyed our 7th annual Christmas/holiday party at the Sunset Pub and Grill.

NOVEMBER
In his Lincoln Park Aviation hangar Frank Galella gave us a detailed introduction to his new commercial drone business.

OCTOBER
Nancy and Steve Vail hosted us at their Kinnelon home to have a look at Steve's plans-built Acrosport II project in progress. At the BBQ grill Matt Vail whipped up some great eats for us!

SEPTEMBER
With burgers and dogs at Nick Kapotes' N07 hangar. After the business portion of the meeting we walked over to the L.P.A. hangar where Nick's 1942 Aeronca L3B Grasshopper was in for its annual. Nick showed us all the improvements done during the bird's restoration in 2013.

AUGUST
We BBQ'd at Paolo Grassi's N07 hangar and got a look at his AutoGyro both on the ground and in flight. Jon Seibert won the raffle and got a ride in it.

JULY
Field trip: At the Kinnelon home of Mike Elstien where Mike has an RV-10 under construction. Horizontal stabilizer is on the workbench. We got an expert riveting demo!

JUNE
All business: At Aero Safety Training's meeting room we de-briefed the June 7 Young Eagles event and pre-planned for our June 14 Chapter picnic at Warwick, NY Aerodrome.

MAY
In a return visit to Sam Thornton's red barn in Hawthorne (last was October 2013) to see Sam's Glasair III construction-in-progress. The wing is now sealed and landing gear is installed. The rudder is just about ready to be sealed up. Focus is now on controls, panel and engine planning.

APRIL
Thanks to Aero Safety Training for the use of their meeting room. We nailed down plans for our April 19 Young Eagles Flight Rally and watched a segment of the March EAA Chapter Video Magazine familiarizing pilots with flying an AutoGyro.

MARCH
Our video program had to be canceled because Sunset Pub booked other reservations into our meeting room. We did discuss planning for a possible Fly-Out picnic at Warwick Aerodrome sometime in June as well as the April 19th Young Eagles event.

FEBRUARY
A slide presentation by Professor Steve Vail gave us a college course level look at "Animal Aerodynamics - Animals that have the power of flight". There are a lot more critters with wings (or winglets) out there than you might think!

JANUARY
All business, at the Sunset Pub and Grill (with dinner and refreshments). We discussed possible dates for our 2015 Young Eagles Flight Rallies, and got a look at the new safety vests we bought with EAA's cash credits from the 2013 Young Eagles events.

2014
DECEMBER
Our sixth year-end party meeting held at the Sunset Pub and Grill. New officers introduced. Service awards handed out and raffle prizes won by almost everyone. Dining room filled to capacity.

NOVEMBER
EAA 501 member and Warwick, NY, Aerodrome manager Dave MacMillan told us how this gem of a small airfield operates with great success in a time when so many airports are endangered.

OCTOBER
Back at the Sunset Pub and Grill, we firmed up plans for our October 12 Young Eagles event and then heard from our own CFII and EAA Flight Advisor Ron Reinartz about how new avionics technology is changing the way pilots get their instrument ratings.

SEPTEMBER
Again at Aero Safety Training, we laid down plans for running our 27th annual Fly-In (scheduled for September 27th), for the second year in a row to be held at Caldwell Airport. Then Bob Menier briefed us on how Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC), currently commonplace with air transports and scheduled airlines, will eventually be introduced to general aviation.

AUGUST
At Aero Safety Training we got a look at Frank Ghio's Oshkosh photos and heard all about AirVenture from Frank, Bryant and Allen Dunn and Nick Kapotes.

JULY
In the pilots' room of Aero Safety Training we enjoyed (repeat performance demanded) Frank Ghio's great video of our June 8 Young Eagles Flight Rally at Lincoln Park Airport.

JUNE
In the pilots' room of Aero Safety Training we enjoyed Frank Ghio's video of our June 8 Young Eagles Flight Rally at Lincoln Park Airport.

MAY
At the Sunset Pub and Grill. Ron Reinartz brought a history video of air-to-air combat, Mirages vs MIGS, during the Arab-Israeli war in 1967.

APRIL
We were hosted by Steve Riethof at the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum at Teterboro Airport. Steve showed us a video recap of New Jersey's impact on aviation over the years and then led us on a very interesting and detailed outdoor and indoor museum tour.

MARCH
Using the Sunset Pub's HDTV, Ron Reinartz showed a good history video about the Flying Tigers.

FEBRUARY
At the Sunset Pub and Grill. We picked up where we left off in January, planning for this year's Young Eagles events and Fly-In.

JANUARY
At the Sunset Pub and Grill new Prez Larry Kalb led discussions on when to schedule Young Eagles events this year, and when and where to run our Fly-In. Former Prez Allen F. Dunn distributed EAA service certificates and pins to officers and committee chairmen.

2013
DECEMBER
Our annual Holiday Party-Meeting... the fifth at the Sunset Pub and Grill. 34 members and guests enjoyed the festivities!

NOVEMBER
A return visit to Bill Cannon's in West Milford to check up on the RV-10 work-in-progress. Bill is busy on lots of wiring before the nooks and crannies become inaccessible.

OCTOBER
At Sam Thornton's red barn in Hawthorne where we got our first look at Sam's Glasair III under construction. At a major milestone: The fiberglass wing is just about done and ready to be sealed up.

SEPTEMBER
Back at Lincoln Park Airport's Sunset Pub and Grill, Jon Seibert and Ron Reinartz did a show and tell (using their expertly done videos) of their participation in the B2OSH formation flight on July 27.

AUGUST
At our last meeting of the season at Jim Miller's CDW hangar, Chapter 73 members joined with us to finalize plans for our 26th Fly-In, scheduled for September 7 at Caldwell Airport.

JULY
Back at Jim Miller's CDW hangar Jim showed us videos he took on commercial photo shoots of several events on the Hudson River.

JUNE
We met at the Kinnelon home of Nancy and Steve Vail to have our first look at Steve's plans-built Acrosport II aerobatic bi-plane construction project. Steve acquired the partially built aircraft several years ago and expects to make steady progress for several years to come.

MAY
Once again we enjoyed hot dogs and beverages at Jim Miller's Caldwell Airport hangar and Larry Kalb gave us a slide show and technical talk on the mathematics of aerodynamics. Fascinating, and way above what you get from your flight instructor.

APRIL
We enjoyed hot dogs and beverages at Jim Miller's Caldwell Airport hangar. Then our own Bryant Dunn, who is connected with the giant aviation insurer Global Aerospace, gave us a slide presentation of how aviation insurers tackle the chore of settling insurance claims. Many unsettling photos of storm damaged formerly-beautiful aircraft.

MARCH
At the headquarters of Caldwell Airport's Fischer Aviation flight school, Tom Fischer gave us an introduction to their relatively new operation. Then a number of our rusty pilots were treated to short rides in Fischer's CRX Max Pro-Motion Simulator.

FEBRUARY
This was our last seasonal meeting at the Sunset Pub (probably until after Labor Day). Curtis Brewington, FAA tower manager at Caldwell Airport, gave us some FAA updates, including the planning in progress to land and park a couple of thousand airplanes at area airports next year for the Super Bowl.

JANUARY
All business. In addition to setting dates for 2013's Young Eagles Events, we clarified the steps required to conduct an Eagle Flight and also began to explore when and where we might have a Fly-In this year. Our supply of EAA calendars was nearly sold out.

2012
DECEMBER
Our fourth annual Christmas/Holiday Party-Meeting was at the Sunset Pub and Grill. 34 members and guests enjoyed the festivities!

NOVEMBER
We swapped Hurricane Sandy stories, planned for the December holiday party/meeting and elected our officers for next year. Then Jon Seibert showed a string of slides of Teterboro Airport getting flooded at the peak of the storm.

OCTOBER
Back at the Sunset Pub we watched a presentation of Jon Seibert's and Don Provost's photos of the September 8 MGJ Fly-In and the October 7 Young Eagles event at N07. Jon also showed airborne photos he took while formation flying with Ron Reinartz in Ron's Bonanza during a September Air Show at Martinsburg, West Virginia.

SEPTEMBER
At Jim Miller's Caldwell hangar we shared stories about our successful 25th Fly-In held on September 8. (Six visiting aircraft braved the weather to be welcomed by fifteen 501 members on hand.) We also discussed at length the problems and opportunities that go with EAA's new Eagle Flights program, and agreed to explore ways it could be implemented at Chapter 501.

AUGUST
On our fourth yearly visit to Kate and Bill Cannon's place in West Milford we got an update on Bill's progress on the RV-10 construction project. Wings and empenage are done. Careful wiring is in progress on the instrument panel before the fuselage is closed up. During outdoor meeting on the deck we were treated to a cookout and beverages while we firmed up plans for our September 8 Fly-In at Orange County Airport.

JULY
Once again at Jim Miller's Caldwell hangar, we did some planning for our September 8 MGJ Fly-In. We then got an update from New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum Trustee Bill Leavens on how the museum cannot survive without volunteer help, and how an urgent need exists for volunteer docent/tour guides to assist showing large tour groups around the Teterboro facility.

JUNE
Jim Miller hosted our meeting at his new hangar location at Caldwell Airport. The grill was on for hot dogs and the Almbergs brought a "sendoff" cake to celebrate Eric's departure for the U. S. Air Force Academy at the end of the month. Jim then showed a DVD video of a new Smithsonian Channel Aerial America episode in which Jim did the flying for a helicopter tour of Pennsylvania.

MAY
Digital slide shows: Jon Seibert showed his Young Eagles and Shuttle Enterprise photos. Dick Wedemeyer showed pix of his Sun 'n Fun visit.

APRIL
Jon Socolof chaired our first planning session for the September 8 Fly-In at MGJ. Ron Reinartz showed a DVD of the history of Van's Aircraft Corp.

MARCH
Former 501 President Bart Cocchiola brought his R/C multi-rotor drone helicopter up from Hunterdon County to show us the fast developing technology of using these drones for aerial photography. It was too windy to fly, but we saw the equipment close-up where we met in the 2nd floor dining room of the Sunset Pub.

FEBRUARY
Using the Sunset Pub's HDTV, Eric Almberg showed great videos of his aerobatic flights with Sean Tucker's pilots in Sean's Extra 300L.

JANUARY
After talking planning for the 2012 year Ron Reinartz put on a good DVD video that puts you in the left hand seat of a B-17.

2011
DECEMBER
Wined and dined at our annual Christmas/holiday party at the Sunset Pub and Grill. Young Eagles pilots were thanked and everyone looks forward to a prosperous new year!

NOVEMBER
Using the Sunset Pub's HDTV screen, Jon Seibert showed his great AirVenture airshow photos and also recapped the formation flight of 106 "B2OSH" Bonanzas (including Ron's) from Rockford to Oshkosh on July 23rd.

OCTOBER
The B2OSH 2011 story (that is a tight formation of 106 Bonanzas flying from Rockford to Oshkosh) was told by participants Ron Reinartz (his Bonanza), and passengers Jon Seibert and Allen Dunn.

SEPTEMBER
Back for the winter at the Sunset Pub, Ron Reinartz gave us a run through of all the aviation application features on his new Apple IPad.

AUGUST
At Kate and Bill Cannon's place in West Milford we saw the work-in-progress on Bill's RV-10. It has GROWN since last year, displacing all the cars from the garage. Bill is now busy wiring a complex all glass panel and rigging flight controls.

JULY
We visited the Pompton Plains home of Eileen and Nick Kapotes where Nick gave us an update on the restoration of his Army built 1942 Aeronca L-3. As a member of the Military Transport Association, Nick also showed off his parade-worthy Army trucks.

JUNE
Jim Miller hosted our meeting outside his Avantair hangar at Caldwell Airport where we were treated to hotdogs and soda (Thank you, Jim!) and surrounded by the "big iron" that is home-based and active at CDW.

MAY
Linda Scully introduced us to Aero Safety Training's brand new Cessna Skycatcher, not only with a guided tour of it on the N07 ramp, but also by generously donating a 20 minute demo ride in it as a prize in our meeting's raffle.

APRIL
We debriefed our April 10 Young Eagles at which 5 of our pilots flew 85 Young Eagles. Then we saw a Nova video on the competition between Lockheed and Boeing for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter contract.

MARCH
Back at the Sunset Pub we enjoyed Dave Mege's videos of the maiden flights of Ray Johnson's homebuilts: Volksplane (1978), and Coot (2000).

FEBRUARY
We met at the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum where Steve Reithof gave us the run of the museum and showed a Teterboro Airport history video. We also paid our respects to the Gloria rocket plane hanging in the Great Room. EAA 501 members in 1987-1991 did a restoration of the aircraft that flew from the ice on Greenwood Lake on February 23, 1936, in an historic early experiment of liquid fueled rocket propulsion.

JANUARY
SarahMaura Dwyer gave us a great Powerpoint slide presentation of her August 2010 adventure to Alaska where she picked up her seaplane rating at a lake in the mountains north of Seward.

2010
DECEMBER
There was good cheer at our holiday/Christmas party, and special thanks goes to the anonymous member who picked up the bar tab! Sunset Pub and Grill was the venue. President Jim Miller made sure we saluted our Young Eagles pilots who flew enough kids in 2010 to pass the 1,000 Young Eagles mark for our chapter. And we thanked Jim for being a great hangar-host of quite a number of our meetings in the last few years.

NOVEMBER
After some planning for the December party and the annual elections, Ron Reinartz ran a good video: A Nova program highlighting the development of U.S. military drone aircraft over the years.

OCTOBER
Meeting at the Sunset Pub for the winter we saw a series of AirVenture 2010 photos, screen-projected by Harrison Wood. Woody's expert recall of aircraft make/model/types is unmatched and no questions were left unanswered!

SEPTEMBER
On the ramp at Greenwood Lake Airport we got our first look at Jon Socolof's new Lancair Legacy Racer N332E. Jon built it at Lancair's Redmond, Oregon facility over a 3 year stretch. With its 310hp Continental IO-550, the 2 place 1,600 pound aircraft cruises at 240kts. We held our meeting in the passenger cabin of 4N1's Lockheed Constellation.

AUGUST
Ali Ispahany, FAASTeam Program Manager at the Teterboro FSDO Eastern Region, reported on the FAA's efforts to promote safe flying habits in general aviation pilots. We learned that the FAASTeam group operates independently from the FAA's regulatory branch, and that FAASTeam members are not out looking for violators.

JULY
At Jim Miller's hangar, Bob Suess gave us a demo of his brand new hand-held Garmin 696 GPS navigator. Lots of bells and whistles!

JUNE
We returned to Bill Cannon's home in West Milford for an update on Bill's RV-10 building project. The fuselage is nearly complete. Bill said the "quick build" fuselage as delivered had to be partly disassembled in a couple of spots in order to install com antennas and conduit. Sort of 2 steps forward and 1 step back!

MAY
Ron Reinartz showed a DVD of the 1996 PBS-Nova program "Top Gun Over Moscow," exploring the operation and and capabilities of the Russian Air Force.

APRIL
Curtis Brewington, FAA's Chief of the control tower at Essex County-Caldwell Airport updated us on recent changes to rules for flying in the New York area airspace.

MARCH
Susan Loricchio, an historical expert on Amelia Earhart and consultant on the recent movie, narrated a slide/video presentation on Ms Earhart's life and influence on aviation in the 1930s.

JANUARY
501 member SaraMaura Dwyer presented a slide program of her plans to pick up a seaplane rating during an Alaska visit this coming summer.

2009
DECEMBER
32 members and guests partied at the Sunset Pub and Grill. The annual awards ceremony and introduction of 2010 officers did not interrupt the great feasting and fraternizing. Many thanks to Jim Miller for organizing the event.

NOVEMBER
Harrison "Woody" Wood, with his expert aircraft knowledge, narrated a showing of a selection of his photos from Airventure 2009.

OCTOBER
At the Sunset Pub we ran a video "slide" show of our 2009 aviation activities, photos taken by Allen Dunn, Dick Wedemeyer and Don Provost.

SEPTEMBER
Ron Chadwick and Steve Seidel of International Aerobatic Club Chapter 52 gave us a "hold onto your seats" slide and video introduction to aerobatic and competition flying.

AUGUST
Back at Jim Miller's hangar, our Board of Directors met and then, at the general meeting, we discussed long term plans and ideas for meetings, fly-ins, Young Eagles, membership recruiting and filling elective and appointed positions in the Chapter.

JULY
At Kate and Bill Cannon's West Milford home we checked up on Bill's RV-10 construction in progress. The empennage is nearly complete. Fuselage and wing kits are on order.

MAY
Don Provost showed slides about Reaction Motors' development in Pompton Plains of the rocket motor that powered Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 past the sound barrier in 1947.

APRIL
At Jim Miller's hangar now that the weather is warming and days are longer. Bob Suess rolled out his freshly painted new Glasair Sportsman for everyone to check out.

MARCH
Video: 1996 NOVA television episode "B-29 Frozen in Time", about the attempted recovery of a B-29 stranded on the ice in Greenland.

FEBRUARY
Video: Demo'ed the different uses for helicopters in industry and emergency services.

JANUARY
Video: A group of adventurous Cessna pilots do a 6,000 mile circle tour of Australia.

2008
DECEMBER
This was our second meeting at the new Sunset Pub and Grill where Tuesday is roast beef night. No quorum, so we couldn't have elections, but we enjoyed the "One Six Right" video, a history of Van Nuys, California Airport.

OCTOBER
Harry Barker did his expertly narrated annual photo recap of his Oshkosh visit. Harry used a digital camera for the first time on many of the photos. In another first for Harry, and a sign of the times, the presentation was done using MS Powerpoint and with the help of Jim Miller's digital projector.

SEPTEMBER
Ron Reinartz, who flew into Air Venture this summer with 92 other Bonanzas, showed a DVD introducing fliers to the discipline of formation flying.

AUGUST
Sue Miller presented video of Jim and Sue's JetRanger trip to AirVenture-Oshkosh in July.

JUNE
Back at Johnathan Macy's in Kinnelon, we saw his "finished", ready-for-paint, GlaStar, before Jon trucks it to MGJ. First flight should be some time this summer.

MAY
At Jon Socolof's West Milford home for an inspection tour of Jon's 3/4 scale Fokker DVIII kit plane now under construction. Jon is about 150 hours into an expected 400 hour project. Should be ready for paint this fall and first flight in 2009.

APRIL
In Jim Miller's hangar for hot dogs, an Oshkosh DVD on the screen, and welcoming a mini-fly-in from Easton of Chapter 70 members.

MARCH
At Allen Poulsen's West Caldwell home to see the details on Allen's Sonex project. Rapid progress. Wings and horizontal stabilizer are in the garage. Fuselage is in the basement. Basement door has been widened. Allen is looking for a hangar somewhere to do final assembly.

FEBRUARY
Lynn O'Donnell, retired United Airlines 747 driver, described a few experiences from earlier in her aviation career. For several years she was a trans-Atlantic ferry pilot. Twelve hour over-water legs, solo, in a variety of singles and twins made for some really interesting flying, and lots of stories.

2007
NOVEMBER
Jon Socolof presented a slideshow of the construction of his new all-composite Lancair Legacy.

OCTOBER
Harry Barker recapped this year's Air Venture with his annual slideshow and extremely well-informed narrative.

SEPTEMBER
Jon Weisswasser gave a great Powerpoint presentation on the construction and flying of his RV-8.

AUGUST
Our fourth visit to Johnathan Macy's Kinnelon home where his GlaStar is nearing completion. Jon has hung a Mattituck/Lycoming engine on the ship and the glass panel is assembled and ready for final installation. Summer of 2008 will probably be the first flight, possibly up at Orange County.

JULY
We combined our July meeting with the annual picnic at Warwick Airport. Ten members and 15 guests enjoyed the food and great weather. A lucky few went aviating with Dave MacMillan in his Stearman.

JUNE
Again, we feasted on burgers and dogs at Jim Miller's N07 hangar. At this meeting Jon Socolof had his new Lancair Legacy on display. Jon had just flown the ship in from Oregon.

APRIL
We feasted on burgers and dogs at Jim Miller's N07 hangar, and then Ron Reinartz demo'd (on his Bonanza) the art of doing an eco-friendly and safe oil change.

MARCH
501 member Allen Poulsen showed a videotape of the last two surviving Martin Mars flying boats and how they are still in service putting out forest fires in British Columbia.

FEBRUARY
Damian DelGaizo of Andover Flight Academy gave us some timely tips, given the rotten winter weather this last week, on flying and the ground maneuvering of ski-equipped aircraft.

2006
DECEMBER
In a joint meeting with Lincoln Park Pilots' Association members in LPA'a Pilots' Room, we celebrated the season with food and drink. President Ron Reinartz handed out Chapter Service Awards and specially thanked the Macys and the Poulsens for letting us meet at their homes this year for a look at projects-in-progress.

NOVEMBER
At Lincoln Park Aviation's Pilots' Room: 2007 Election results: Ron Reinartz; president; Allen Dunn, vice president; George Brewer, Secretary; Don Provost, treasurer; Harry Barker and Jim Miller to 2 year terms as class II directors. The balance of the meeting was spent on a few 2007 pre-plans, hangar talk or watching an EAA tape on the skills required for homebuilding.

OCTOBER
Back at Lincoln Park Aviation's Pilots' Room: The annual "Oshkosh recap" slide show... Harrison "Woody" Wood expertly narrated slides taken at Air Venture by Harry Barker. Harry was out of town for this showing, but returned and did an encore presentation at EAA Chapter 891 in Sussex and also for the Greenwood Lake Pilots' Association in early November.

SEPTEMBER
At Allen Poulsen's West Caldwell home to see the details on Allen's Murphy Rebel project. The kit was delivered on Allen's doorstep in August, 2005 and he has put in over 600 hours on the all-aluminum fabrication, with wings just about done and fuselage in progress.

AUGUST
At Jon Macy's Kinnelon home on the third visit in three years: Jon's GlaStar is closer to completion, awaiting only avionics and the Mattituck engine on order.

JULY
We found our usual meeting place, the Clubhouse Cafe, locked up and out of business! After a brief business meeting on the outdoor patio, we went in all directions... many westbound to Oshkosh.

JUNE
Holding our meeting at the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum, we saw a great video about the history of Teterboro Airport and then had the run of the museum.

MAY
After a rundown on preparations for the upcoming Warwick Fly-In and Young Eagles, we saw an A.O.P.A. video on preparations for an instrument flight in convective activity.

APRIL
Peter Vajsabel, from Caldwell Air Service, led the discussion of "Owner Maintenance: What you can do and what must be left for the mechanics."

MARCH
"Oshkosh 2003" was the DVD being shown during an animated day-before-St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Clubhouse Cafe.

FEBRUARY
Ron Reinartz presented an AOPA video Seminar-in-a-Box - "Lost and Crossed", showing how it's not too hard even for experienced pilots to lose track of where they are, run low on fuel, and face a 25 knot crosswind at the last remaining choice of airports.

JANUARY
We watched a videotape recap of the past year's aviating by 501 members.

2005
DECEMBER
Icy roads limited attendance at the meeting. The showing of a 2005 Oshkosh video was complemented by President Reinartz' special holiday refreshments.

NOVEMBER
Jim Bordino and FAA Safety Counselor Stanley Sanders presented the interactive AOPA Seminar-in-a-Box - "Never Again", recounting the misfortunes of 3 pilots who did not adequately prepare for the weather ahead.

OCTOBER
In our meeting place in the Pilots' Room of Lincoln Park Aviation, Harry Barker presented his annual recap of the most interesting aircraft and events at Air Venture - Oshkosh 2005.

SEPTEMBER
We were back at Jon Macy's in Kinnelon, where Jon showed off the now completed riveting of all flying surfaces of the Glastar. Jon thanked Harry Barker and Allen Dunn for their riveting assistance. Main gear and nose gear assemblies are finished. Flight controls, cabin interior, panel and engine are still ahead.

AUGUST
501's George Brewer hosted our August meeting at his Wayne home where we took the tour of his Sonex project in progress. The all-aluminum Sonex will be a 2 place, low wing, tricycle gear, lightweight ship that fits into the new Light Sport Aircraft category. (This is quite a contrast to when Captain Brewer commanded C-5's in the USAF about 30 years ago.)

JULY
At 501 member Tom Ware's house in Wayne we got a look at his Wheeler Express CT project in progress. Tom showed us how one wing is complete and hanging up. The other is on jigs for the addition of speed brakes and landing gear bracket. Interior work is in the planning stages. Instrument panel is on the bench taking shape. The fuselage has an IO-540 installed and waiting. Construction is somewhat complicated by Wheeler's bankruptcy and the need to do a lot of networking to get parts and advice.

JUNE
Field trip to Teterboro's New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum where we got to operate 2 new flight simulators and saw, among many other exhibits, rocket plane Gloria (restored by EAA 501 about 25 years ago) and a display photo of Ray Johnson flying his Volksplane VP-1. NJAHOF said they will put Ray's donated Volksplane on display when the museum gets enlarged!

MAY
We saw CD slide show of the 5/15 Warwick Fly-In and also, a professionally done 1985 video of Sky Manor pilot George Bunnell and the maiden flight of his RV-3.

APRIL
Curtis Brewington, Tower Manager at Essex County Airport gave us an idea, from his perch, of what it's like handling GA traffic in this area.

MARCH
Video of Van's RV history and production facilities.

FEBRUARY
After we mapped out plans for 2005's Warwick Fly-In and Young Eagles events, Ron Reinartz ran a DVD highlighting the flying and ground activities at last year's Oshkosh air show.

JANUARY
We enjoyed the annual videotape recap of activities of EAA 501 members throughout the past year, airborne and on the ground.

2004
NOVEMBER
Mid-Atlantic Aviation Coalition President Bob Checchio explained his group's main mission: preservation of New Jersey’s public use airports and improvement of their safety and capacity. MAAC also is a forum to express concern about threats against our freedom to fly, and it monitors political actions and decisions that may affect General Aviation.

OCTOBER
Our Chapter President and Sonex builder George Brewer showed a video featuring the flight characteristics and technical features of the Sonex.

SEPTEMBER
The unique aircraft at Air Venture 2004 ("Oshkosh") were recapped by Harry Barker with a slide presentation he put together with the help of Harrison Wood.

JULY
Hosted by Susan and Jon Macy at their Kinnelon home, we toured Jon's Glastar project in progress. Wings are the latest milestone. Subaru engine to be delivered this fall followed by the electronics. First flight targeted for late next year.

APRIL
Bill King, veteran air show pilot at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, showed some amazing video clips of memorable Rhinebeck performances. Another video highlighted his visit to Australia and air show performance there two years ago with a Rhinebeck crew of planes and pilots.

MARCH
Paolo Grassi and Jim Bordino narrated Dick Wedemeyer's video about the trio's trip to Winter Haven in January to pick up seaplane ratings.

FEBRUARY
Dave MacMillan brought members up-to-date on the FAA rules for determining and getting approval for airworthiness of a new aircraft or changes to an old one.

JANUARY
We watched the annual video featuring the activities of EAA 501 members throughout the past year.

2003
OCTOBER
We met at the Oakland home-workshop of 501 member Dolf Battifarano. Dolf schooled us on "Fabric Covering Basics" with live demos and video, citing lessons learned from his recent re-covering of his Citabria.

SEPTEMBER
Harry Barker and Harrison Wood brought back from July's Oshkosh Air Venture and shared with us, in the form of slides and anecdotes, a wealth of aviation information.

AUGUST
501 member Johnathan Macy gave a Powerpoint presentation on the step-by-step process he went through leading to the selection of a 210 hp NSI-manufactured Subaru engine for his under-construction Glastar. Before the decision was made, he carefully ranked the criteria of safety, cost, performance and long term implications against the alternative choices of buying a new engine, a certified rebuilt, an EXP XP 360, or an alternative Subaru.

JULY
501 member Harrison "Woody" Wood presented slides and gave us a run-down on activities at EAA's annual Florida (April 2-8, this year) Sun 'n Fun Fly-in in Lakewood.

JUNE
This was our first meeting on the new monthly meeting date of the "third Monday". The informal session allowed us to enjoy the surroundings of our new meeting place: Lincoln Park Airport's Clubhouse Cafe.

MAY
Meeting was at 501 president Bart Cocchiola's in Nutley where in his workshop Bart demonstrated basic applications of oxy-acetylene gas welding equipment for aircraft construction and how his Skybolt is taking shape using these techniques.

APRIL
501 member Mike Maniatis brought everyone up to date with a talk and slideshow on construction progress of his scratch-built DH Moth Major. Many original parts are being procured from sources around the world. There are only three Moth Majors in existence.

MARCH
Alex Pucciarello, an EAA Technical Counselor, presented "The ABC's of Technical Counseling" and the importance of this guidance as it relates to the stages of construction of a homebuilt aircraft.

FEBRUARY
Continuation of January topics.

JANUARY
Incoming President Bart Cocchiola led the discussion of planning ahead for 2003 events. Topics included expanding the membership, fundraising, Young Eagles flight rallies, the Warwick Fly-In, organizing possible weekend fly-outs under our sponsorship, and tentative schedules for holding monthly meetings on-site at Chapter members' projects under construction.

2002
DECEMBER
Members were taken on a VHS video tour of the countryside as seen from the cockpit of a Cessna 172 and Dave MacMillan's Stearman.

NOVEMBER
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and particularly the duties of and opportunities for membership in Flotilla 10-20, Air Station Caldwell, were explained by Air Station Commander Darryl Laxon and Personnel Services Officer Dennis Gagnon.

OCTOBER
Teterboro tower air traffic controller and 501 member Tom Matthews shared experiences and provided tips for helping to keep controlled-field operations flowing smoothly and safely.

SEPTEMBER
Harry Barker and Harrison Wood demonstrated their fabled encyclopedic knowledge of aircraft and aviation topics with a presentation of highlights of the awards competition at July's Oshkosh Air Venture 2002.

AUGUST
Slides were shown of the July air race of homebuilts from Kittyhawk to Oshkosh. EAA 501 Vice President Bill Shannon flew his recently completed RV-5A in the race and brought back first hand experience of the event.

JULY
EAA 501 member Dolf Battifarano described the 1,500 hours step-by-step process of the refurbishment of his Citabria.

JUNE
EAA 501 member Don Provost told, with slides, how in 1980 he flew his Cherokee to Alaska and above the Arctic Circle and back on a two week, 8,800 statute mile, 770 gallons round trip.

APRIL
Master Flight Instructor Steve Riethof (Lt.Col, USAF, Ret.) presented "A Case Study of Pilot and ATC Human Factors", an account of a real ATC rescue of a pilot in trouble, and how the interaction between participants, for better or worse, affected the outcome.

MARCH
Members of the Walter J. Schirra. Jr. Composite Squadron of the
Civil Air Patrol briefed us on the duties and responsibilities of "CAP." Guest speakers were... Jack Soldano, Captain CAP, Squadron Commander; Mike Castania, Major CAP, Aerospace Education; Tom Donohue, 1Lt. CAP, Director of Operations; John Donohue, 2Lt. CAP, Director of Emergency Services; Mike Marrinan, Cadet Captain--Cadet Commander; and Carly Gibson, Cadet First Sergeant.


FEBRUARY
Helping us to get ready for next year's 100th anniversary of powered flight, aviation history expert Steve Ivester delivered a slide presentation, "Wright Brothers-Context, Competition and Invention."

JANUARY
United Airlines B-777 pilot Lynn O'Donnell recalled for us her early years of flying Piper singles on trans-Atlantic ferry trips. She described the 12 plus hours ferry flights as a great way to build night and instrument time!

2001
DECEMBER
Video highlights were shown of our 2001 activities including 501's Warwick Fly-in in May and the Young Eagles Rally at Lincoln Park in June.

NOVEMBER
Member Mike Maniatis gave a report with slides of his summer trip to England which included the Woburn Abbey Annual Tiger Moth Rally, and the Shuttleworth collection at Old Warden.

OCTOBER
Guest speaker Bill Weiss, WWII Hellcat pilot and veteran of 150 missions in the Pacific theater, recounted some of his experiences flying from the aircraft carrier Lexington.

SEPTEMBER
Harry Barker, assisted by Harrison Wood, recapped their week at Air Venture 2001 ( OSHKOSH !) with a series of extraordinary slides of the participating aircraft. Harry Barker was also presented with the Chapter's first Lifetime Membership for outstanding service to the organization.

AUGUST
501 President Bill Shannon held the meeting at his home in Cedar Grove and rolled out (from his garage, literally) his under-construction RV-5A.

JULY
Guest speaker at the July meeting was Donald Sweet, USN retired, who spoke about his World War II experiences aboard a PBM Mariner Flying Boat in the Western Pacific. He has authored several books on the subject.