EAA Chapter 932 Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the 2018 winner of the Ed Moricoli Flight Training Scholarship is Justin Thuma. The award was officially presented to Justin Thuma at the Chapter's May12th meeting. Justin has been interested in flying since 3rd grade when he began playing with flight simulators. He went [...]
CALL FOR BAKERS AND VOLUNTEERS Please save the date and start planning your baked goods masterpieces to help EAA 932 raise funds! Scour Pintrest, bring Granny’s prize winning pie recipe or donate your latest creation. We want it all! The guidelines: • The item must be non-hazardous, i.e. Baked: cookies, cakes, breads, fruit pies, [...]
A Bright Future When an emergency situation developed on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, Captain Tammie Jo Shults responded as a true Pilot-In-Command. Years of training and experience combined with sound judgement and a striking presence-of-mind, enabled her to bring 148 souls back to earth safely after a catastrophic [...]
President’s Report Greetings EAA 932 Members, Our board met for a regular business meeting on March 15th. Minutes from the meeting are available from chapter secretary Paul Sedlacek. We've been working hard to come up with some good activities for the coming months. Keep an eye on our chapter [...]
by Ron Friend, EAA Chapter 932 My name is Ron Friend. My wife, Lori and I got involved with aviation relatively late in the game. I was born when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president and it was in September of 2015 when I enrolled in the JB Aviation Ground [...]
President's Report Greetings EAA 932 Chapter members! I hope that everyone is working their way through this cold winter we are having. With all of the extreme weather and snow that we have had, it has been a bit of a challenge to get out and enjoy some good flying [...]
At our February 10 Chapter Gathering, EAA 932 was pleased to host guest speaker and fellow EAA member, Mr. Andy Miller from the Aircraft Owner’s and Pilot’s Association (AOPA). In his capacity as the AOPA’s Great Lakes Ambassador, Andy covers six states...in the air when he can, and on the ground [...]
We had a neat program at Galt on Saturday January 13th. The Northern Illinois Raptor Rehab and Education Foundation put on a great show in our maintenance shop at Galt. They brought along a variety of raptors and owls for us see. The birds were tethered, and the director of the foundation gave us [...]
“What kind of a fuel system needs 13 sumps?” I asked myself. The C172 I had last flown only had one in each wing and a t-handle under the belly that shot a stream fuel onto the pavement when I pulled it. It turns out that this was just the one of many changes [...]
