June 2025 Membership Meeting

The June Membership Meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 10 at Hangar 15, Harvey Airfield in Snohomish. We will have a Burger Burn and social hour at the Chapter House starting at 5:30. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM, with our speaker beginning around 7:00 PM. Thank you to Mike Henderson for being our Burger Burner!

If you can’t make the meeting in purpose, please join us on Zoom.

Our speaker this month is  Terry Burch, who will discuss aluminum fabrication. Terry has built more than 10 RVs over the past 30 years. He also worked for Glassair.

May 2025 Membership Meeting Recap

The May Membership Meeting took place on Tuesday, May 13 at Hangar 15, Harvey Airfield in Snohomish. Thank you to Curt Thompson for being our Burger Burner!

Our speaker was Kevin Holcomb, who gave us a very interesting open-source update on the evolution of electric airplanes in the past 5 years. He works for magniX, the electric powertrain company. Kevin has worked for a number of electric airplanes ventures.

April 2025 Membership Meeting Recap

The April Membership Meeting was held on April 8 at Hangar 15, Harvey Airfield in Snohomish. OThank you to Mike & Michelle O’Grady for bringing the snacks!

Our speaker was David Voetmann, who gave a very engaging presentation about growing up in the bush country of Africa before moving back to the U.S. to egage in creative pursuits and eventually becoming director of The Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Edmonds College, where ordinary people with extraordinary ideas gain access to an 11,000sf sandbox with the tools, training, and community to turn thoughts into things. Tours of the center are available every Tuesday evening.

February 2025 Membership Meeting Recap

Our February Membership Meeting was held on Tuesday, February 11 starting at 6:30 PM at Hangar 15 at Harvey Airfield. Many thanks to Tom Williams for bringing our refreshments!

Our guest speaker, Alan Jesmer of Precision Airmotive, gave a very informative presentation on carburetors, throttle bodies, and fuel injectors: how they work, and how to maintain them.

January 2025 Membership Meeting Recap

Our January Membership Meeting was held on January 14 starting at 6:30 PM at Hangar 15 at Harvey Airfield. Many thanks to David Weber for bringing our refreshments!

The University of Washington team for the Design Build and Fly Competition spoke about their past participation in this competition and their exciting plans for this year. Chapter members donated more than $400 to help the team in their 2025 competition efforts, and the Board added another $300 in funds. You can still donate if you missed out at https://www.dbfuw.com.

December 7 Holiday Party; No Membership Meeting this Month!

In lieu of our normal membership meeting in December, we will have our annual Holiday Party on December 7, beginning at 5:00 PM in Hangar 15 at Harvey Field. Dinner will be served at about 6:00 PM. After dinner, we will hand out chapter awards/recognition and hold our white elephant gift exchange. Dress is festive casual.

The dinner is potluck. Please bring an entree, side dish, or dessert. The chapter will provide drinks and two entrees, one meat-based and one vegetarian.

The gift exchange is optional. Please bring a gift if you wish to participate. Suggested gift cost is under $20, and you may bring a used item or gag gift. Please wrap your gift or place it in a gift bag. There will be two separate gift tables, one for pilots/aviators and one for non-aviators. You may choose a gift from either table regardless of what type of gift you bring.

If you would like to help with setup, please arrive around 4:30 PM.

I hope to see many of you there!

November 12 Membership Meeting Recap

Our November membership meeting was held on November 12 starting at 7:00 PM at Harvey Field’s Hangar 15. Many thanks to Gerry Bartosh for bringing the snacks!

Our November speaker was Jeff Schans, Director of Business Development at Tempest Aero Group. Tempest Aero Group is a leading general aviation company supporting a portfolio of independent brands including Tempest®, Alcor®, Marvel-Schebler®, Precision Airmotive®, Consolidated Fuel Systems™ and Stratus Tool Technologies™. Jeff gave a very interesting presentation about the theory, operation, and maintenance of aircraft engine spark plugs.

October 8 Membership Meeting Recap

Our October membership meeting was held on October 8 starting at 7:00 PM at Harvey Field’s Hangar 15, preceded by a Burger Burn at the Chapter House starting at 5:30 PM. Many thanks to Glenn Torgerson for doing the Burger Burn! Our original October speaker had to cancel at the last minute, but Chapter 84 member Mike Henderson stepped in to provide an informative presentation on lessons learned from an incident he had involving a flat tire during a landing at Paine Field.

September Membership Meeting Recap

Our September general membership meeting was held on September 10 starting at 7:00 PM at Harvey Field’s Hangar 15. We had a Burger Burn at the Chapter House starting at 5:30 PM. Many thanks to David Weber for doing the Burger Burn and to others who chipped in to help with setup and cleaning.

Our September speaker was chapter member and secretary, Mike Zyskowski, who gave a very interesting presentation on his trip to Oshkosh and what it’s like to have your aircraft inspected by EAA judges.