Return-Path: Received: from mail2.teleport.com ([192.108.254.43]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219 ID# 0-52269U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 20:04:03 -0400 Received: (qmail 27840 invoked from network); 17 Jul 1999 00:07:16 -0000 Received: from i48-34-11.pdx.du.teleport.com (HELO fat-albert) (216.26.61.11) by mail2.teleport.com with SMTP; 17 Jul 1999 00:07:16 -0000 Message-ID: <00c301becfe8$5c107fa0$2a00a8c0@fat-albert> From: "Pat Weston" To: Subject: Re: LML as EAA chapter Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 17:06:21 -0700 X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> Marv, once again you're going above and beyond. I don't have any strong feelings regarding this but my interest was piqued as I thought the whole concept was pretty forward thinking and would help the EAA and aviation in general move into the 21st century. This I thought was one of the inherent albeit unspoken tenets of homebuilding airplanes at large. So from that aspect alone I would expect there to be an enthusiastic encouragement on behalf of the EAA, in fact I was further encouraged by Scott Krueger's willingness to take this further. I certainly understand too that this is an entirely different kind of chapter and there are things that will be different and some things similar to the traditional chapter. Regarding the social aspect, there is little reason why we couldn't nominate a youngster for an aviation related scholarship, perhaps the selection process could be around some task that is computer/aviation related. An essay is one albeit hackneyed process. Chapters are airplane type agnostic, however I live in the Portland/Hillsboro area and chapter 103 is pretty well represented by RX (or is RV?) builders :-) I believe that the mailing list archives are of significant value to a broad spectrum of plane builders, hydraulics are not really type specific, building techniques for the Lancair ports pretty well over to the Express and Europa, etc. The EAA could help in disseminating this information by providing links, advertising, search capability, etc on their web site, which is devoid of any real information besides marketing hype and articles from back issues of Sportplane. I really think this is great opportunity for the EAA to guide experimental aviation into the future, it's really a continuation of what they've done such an excellent job of in the past. I'll think more on this and bore you all with more babbling. Pat "Only three short years to go" http://www.teleport.com/~peweston >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML homepage: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html