President Ron Linn (541) 449-3630

V. Pres. & Y/E Jeff Guenther (541) 276-0431

Secretary Wilma Cheney (509) 522-1743

Treasure Cub Culbertson (541) 276-1908

News Letter Jim Smith (541) 276-3533

Presidents Corner

July meeting next week!

What can I say to make this newsletter more fun and informative?

Well--, some of our people are getting ready to go to Arlington, some are planning to go to Air Adventure. Chet Prior went on a tour in his Piper Malibu and ended up in Barrow Point, Alaska. What a trip! We are going to get him to give us a “talk” on that one! Barrow Point! That’s as far North as you can go without a passport!

Me?

I’m just sitting here not doing anything adventurous. But I would like to.

When the world was partly unexplored people went out for many reasons and many ways. Finding their way around and getting back was a real challenge. With the development of a timepiece that would give them accurate time the voyagers of old were able to “fix” longitude. Before then they only could be sure of latitude.

The drill was to sail to the Latitude of the target destination and then sail down the longitude until they “fetched” the destination over the horizon. This did not give very good use of wind and currents. The ships of old weren’t very handy to weather and not knowing where they were longitude wise made a lot of the world hard to get to and hard to get back from once you got there!

If you shot a celestial body (heavenly body) and reduced the sight, you would find a circle on the globe that would correspond with the angle, or altitude, of that body above the horizon. A celestial shot measures the height of the target above the horizon. All this was figured out centuries ago. Even before computers!

Anyway, one shot only gives you this one circle on the globe. What you need is another shot, of another body, so you will have two circles on the globe. These two circles will cross each other at two points. One of the crossings of the two circles will be WAY off. One will be the “fix” you are looking for.

A good navigator can reduce the sights in maybe ½ hour.

GPS is quicker and works in the fog.

I need to take a trip!

See you at the meeting and we will talk!

Ron

Secretary’s Corner

No secretary report this month. We did have the best weather condition’s at Doug Drake’s Fly-In. The members that didn’t show missed a superb outing.

Editor’s Corner

Some members are getting ready to go to Arlington Wash, and to Oshkosh this month.

If any body has any item’s that just seem to get moved from one place to another, then we might be able to list them on our newsletter. Drop us an e-mail will try to get together with you.

Jim, News letter editor

Calendar Of Events

EAA 2003 Calendar

.July 12-13 NW EAA Fly-In,

Arlington WA.

.July 18-19 Oregon Antique/

Classic Fly-In,

Cottage Grove Ore

.July 29- EAA Annual Fly-1n

Oshkosh Wisc.

August 4

.August 21-24 ??? Aerobatics Competi-

tion, Pendleton.

.August 30 ??? Prosser Fly-In

.September 12-14 Pendleton Roundup

.September 20-21 Martin Airfield Open

House College Place

Wa.

.December 6 ??? 219 Christmas Dinner,

PDT EAA 2003 Calendar

3^rd Tuesday (except June,Dec)

EAA 219, PDT, 7 p.m.

4^th Saturday Breakfast, Hangar Workday

PDT, 9 a.m.

Chuckle Corner

Nearly fifty yars ago when I was a NAVCAD (Naval Aviation Cadet), one of our classmates had an accident. One of the accident board members asked him what he thought caused the accident.

His reply: "Well sir, I ran out of airspeed, altitude and ideas all at the same time." Excerpt from AvWeb 9_28a.Quiz Me

Here's a question asked by an AOPA member last week of our AOPA technical specialists. Test your knowledge.

Question: How do I find out if an airport has a rotating beacon?

Answer: The legend on a sectional chart shows a star with a solid white circle in its center as the symbol for a rotating airport beacon, operational from sunset to sunrise. This symbol is used with both towered airports (blue on a chart) and nontowered airports (magenta) to designate the presence of a beacon.