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Judy has (mostly) retired from several decades of being our Membership Chair. Jerry Stueve is stepping up to the plate for this very important duty and we thank him for doing so. Jerry joined EAA in 1979 at AirVenture and camped in Paul’s Woods at Camp Scholler for the week. He returned a few times to gather buttons pressed from tags and then in later years getting the wrist bands (not as collectible). He soloed in 1985 at Manassas with Squadron Aviation. During that time he also got in a couple of high speed, short runway landings at Dulles with his instructor. After that, life got in the way, he met his wife and the flying was history. The first

We meet on the 4th Tuesday each month. IMC Club at 7 PM. VMC Club at 8 PM. Come for one or both sessions; we usually meet beforehand at 5:30 PM for informal dinner at the Panera Bread at Bristow Center. The IMC Club’s purpose is to promote instrument flying proficiency, safety and education through a community of pilots sharing information and fostering communications. You don’t have to be instrument rated to come to the IMC Club. The VMC Club, for pilots wishing to improve their VFR flying proficiency, is modeled after the popular IMC Club providing organized “hangar flying” with a focus on VFR procedures, regulations and publications. TR Proven and Chuck Kyle are our facilitators for these meetings

THIS SATURDAY!August 23 Member Gathering Weather Briefings and Safety with Erica Gilbert Join us at 10:00 AM for the meeting;  9:20 AM for coffee and doughnuts. Erica Gilbert is a CFI / CFII, FAA Safety Team Representative, and Part 91 commercial TBM pilot. Erica’s passion project is AeroSafe, her YouTube series discussing aviation weather to help pilots fly more safely.  Erica will speak about key weather safety topics for pilots:  How to obtain a complete – and legal – weather briefing; Understanding various types of clouds and how to handle them; Thunderstorm formation and how to remain safely clear of dangerous storms; Caution around outflow boundaries.  Join us for weather education from a passionate speaker. Also, Young Eagles member Dag Guessford will give

50th Anniversary at AV 2025 by Angela Satterly Fifty years ago, Jack, EAA Lifetime 69122, and Anne McCombs, EAA Lifetime 78375, honeymooned in the most fitting place imaginable for two aviation lovers: the EAA Oshkosh fly-in. In 1975 they attended their first EAA convention and started a lifelong adventure, and they made sure to come back to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Jack soloed in 1969 after years of waiting. His love for aviation began as a toddler, sparked by his father, a pilot, who took him flying in his 1930s Alexander Eaglerock biplane. But when his dad gave up flying, young Jack was left building model airplanes, dreaming of the sky until he had the time and money to return

Our next movie night takes us to the Moon via an Australian sheep station! Well, sort of …. In July 1969, the 64-meter (210 foot) Murriyang radio telescope dish at isolated Parkes Observatory in Australia was the primary receiver in the southern hemisphere for live television signals from Apollo 11. The Australian comedy-drama film The Dish,released in 2000, tells the story of the role the observatory, its staff, and the nearby town of Parkes played in enabling the worldwide broadcast of the first Moon landing mission. The quirky characters in the movie are fictional and some historic details were tweaked or manufactured for dramatic or humorous effect, but most of the story is true, the control room set was absolutely

Judy has (mostly) retired from several decades of being our Membership Chair. Jerry Stueve isstepping up to the plate for this very important duty and we thank him for doing so. Jerry joined EAA in 1979 at AirVenture and camped in Paul’s Woods at Camp Scholler for the week. He returned a few times to gather buttons pressed from tags and then in later years getting the wrist bands (not as collectible). He soloed in 1985 at Manassas with Squadron Aviation. During that time he also got in a couple of high speed, short runway landings at Dulles with his instructor. After that, life got in the way, he met his wife and the flying was history. The first trip

Last month, we cued you in to new galleries opening this summer at the National Air and Space Museum on the Mall: now we have actual dates! The Milestones of Flight gallery – with its brand new, gorgeous winged portico entrance on the Mall – will open July 28, 2025, along with Pioneers of Flight, World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation, Futures in Space, and Innovations: Aerospace and Our Changing Environment galleries, and the updated Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Free timed entry tickets are available right now on the museum’s website (https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1029945/timed-entry-washington-the-smithsonian -national-air-and-space-museum-general-public): make sure you get yours for the date you want to visit! With more of the museum open to absorb the crowds, about twice as