The next EAA Chapter 908 meeting Wednesday
April 16.  19:00

Doughnuts and coffee at 18:00

No announcements regarding any Directors meeting.

The next meeting
 Mike Ketchpaw has arranged to have propeller specialist & FAA FAAST Team Leader Rep Charles "Skip" Seila. He'll display & discuss propeller dynamics & balancing, plus. He's very knowledgeable & a good speaker.

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Send youth to Oshkosh? Now you can send them to the Florida Air Museum’s Destination Aviation residential summer camp for a different experience. They have a flight-based curriculum and are a lower cost alternative for chapters in the S.E. More information may be found at Air Museum. Maybe we should work this into the Young Eagles program as a yearly drawing.

Last call! Don't' miss it. Second Annual Air Poker Run!!
Hobe Sound/Port Salerno Rotary Club. April 26, 2008. Rain date April 27, 2008. Witham Field, Stuart, FL is the starting point. Doc Jerry Gordon and Romeo will be greeting the planes and will be passing out part of the winning hand at EAA FPR. What is an Air Poker Run? Contact Tony at 772.263.0529
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More information from Mike Ketchpaw about the "Fantasy of Flight" Tour. The day we have selected for the tour of Fantasy of Flight in Polk City is May 10.  The group rate for admission is $19.54 per person for day pass(normal $28.95). Travel arrangements will need to be further discussed at the next meeting to see how many members would go. A bus would cost $1100.00 for the day,  if we can get that much interest. Other options are van rentals or personal auto. The hours are 1000 to 1700. They also have a cafe for lunches, $7.38 to $14.45. All are invited, spouses, friends, kids (optional) Lets see what happens Wednesday. Best regards, Mike. http://www.fantasyofflight.com/

 

This is how runway incursions happen, even here at KFPR. Read this account from our Airport Manager Todd "TC" Cox.
"This afternoon (Mon 4/7/2008) we had a runway incursion involving an non-tenant vehicle crossing Runway 14/32. The vehicle operator had been given the access code to one of the code gates by an Airport Tenant. The operator, not being familiar with airport operations in general, and the Airport's rules and regulations," Read more

The Sun Dancers R/C Flying Club of Saint Lucie Florida held their Radio Controlled model airplane fly-in on March 28, 29& 30th. If you never saw and heard model Turbine engines fly by at high speed or seven model P-51s flying the pattern simulating Pylon racing... you missed the boat. Check out some slides of the models. Click here.

Picture of the Month.
"Aim for the red and white strips."

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If you don't recognize this, it is the Gates key-pad and its protecting steel pipes. Watch it whenever your backing up.

908 e-NEWS is looking for someone that would be interested in soliciting and possible creating  ad banners for businesses that will be advertising on this email. Contact Ron Knaggs if your interested.
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