29 members and guests attended the August 5th meeting of the Heartland chapter of the Missouri Pilots Association. The meeting was held as a picnic at Cuba Airport.
The program for the evening fell through, but Bill Collette flew in with his RV4 which had just recently been signed off for flight testing. The members of the chapter were universally in awe of his craftmanship, and rivet work in particular.
There was quite a bit of chit chat during the picnic about this years Oshkosh.
The September 2nd meeting will be at Shoney's. Erhardht Aviation Insurance Agency will be here talking about the state of the aviation insurance industry and what we can expect.
The October meeting is tentatively scheduled to be a picnic meeting at Vichy with Ed Schmidt looking at the planes in the main hangar.
There are plans in the works to have a Young Eagles Day/Airport Day at Fort Leonard Wood (TBN) on Octover 4th or 18th.
Chapter information, future meetings, and minutes of the meetings are available at the chapter web site: http://www.mopilots.org/heartland
Safe flying.