Our March gathering featured greeting new members, highlighting upcoming events, and soliciting of members for ideas for future activities and presentations. Our featured guest at the gathering was John Trione from the Lake Geneva Balloon Company. He gave a great presentation about his company and the excitement of taking a flight in a hot air [...]
At the February gathering, we had the privilege of having Paul Maloy from EAA headquarters make a visit to Galt Airport. He presented to the members the history and benefits of the AeroEducate program, which contains powerful free on-line learning programs for kids who are school ages K-12. They include learning sessions, quizzes, and [...]
On January 14th we had our annual chapter social event at the Rusty Nail in Ringwood. The event was well attended with 63 people coming out. As usual, we enjoyed good food, camaraderie, and handed out our annual chapter awards. Matt Buhlow played some great guitar cover music for us which livened up the [...]
November Chapter Gathering Recap On November 12 we had a really neat chapter gathering. Our guest was Lou Wipotnik, CFI. Lou is a really neat guy. He is 83 years old, and still very active in flying. With over 16,000 hours of experience, he holds an impressive array of pilot ratings, and was recognized [...]
This year, EAA Chapter 932 is excited to welcome the Illinois Region Model A Restorers Club to our Barnstormer’s Day event on June 18. Founded in 1955, club members, several of whom date their membership to it’s genesis, own various configurations of the famous Model A, from 2-door sedans to fire trucks and even [...]
Top Gun 2 – Finally!! For our June 11 chapter gathering we will have an exclusive viewing of Top Gun II at the Classic Cinemas Movie Theater in Woodstock. The viewing will be at 12 noon on Saturday June 11. The theater is located at 209 Main St Woodstock, IL. Prior to the viewing [...]
Too often flight reviews are treated as a formality - an obligatory “box to check” every 24 calendar months. The fact is, for most pilots, a flight review is often the only flight/ground training they will have received in those last 2 years. That small amount of training is often not enough to keep up [...]
Airplane Geeks On October 25, 2021, Arnie Quast was invited to be a guest on the “Airplane Geeks” podcast. Started in 2008, the podcast crew "aims to educate and inform you, explore and expand your passion for aviation, and entertain you a little along the way. [They] discuss commercial, military, and general aviation topics, usually [...]
Location: Galt Airport Bob Havens, whom is a highly respected docent at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh will join us for an intriguing discussion on the only Bugatti aircraft. Bob will talk about Etore Bugatti, designer of many luxurious automobiles in the early 1900s. Louis de Monge, the Belgian engineer that designed the aircraft is [...]
On August 14th , several Chapter 932 members met at Extreme Flight Simulations, Inc. in Gurnee Illinois for the opportunity to “fly” EFS’s 737-800NG simulator. 932’s Eric Rehm lead off the morning with a briefing and familiarization tour of the 737 cockpit and basic procedures. After that our pilot crews were put through their paces [...]
