Website: http://co-opa.com	           June 2012, Vol. 12, Issue 6
President's Message:

As always we'll have the usual 6:00pm hanger flying , chow down at
the 6:30pm pot luck and 7:00pm meeting.  All taking place downstairs in
the KBDN Flight Services Building.

Bend Airport Day is back!  Conveniently on our already scheduled
Fly-Out day.  Be there for the 8am pancake breakfast, check out the
cars and planes on display and stay on for the lunch.  Gibson Air will
have prizes for the kids, gliders will be gliding and much more will be
happening.  Don't miss this one!

Calendar:

21 June – Monthly Meeting
23 June – Monthly Flyout – Bend Airport Day

19 July – Monthly Meeting 
21 July – Monthly Flyout – Prospect?

16 August – Monthly Meeting
18 August  - Monthly Flyout
24-25 August – Airshow of the Cascades (S33)

7-9 September – WAAAM Fly-In (4S2)
20 September – Monthly Meeting
22 September – Monthly Flyout

Web doings:

The FAA has tweaked their Practical test Standards (PTS) and thus the
content of Flight reviews.  You can grab a free copy the newly revised
“AC 61.98B, Currency Requirements and Guidance for the Flight Review
and Instrument Proficiency Check” from their web site.

https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2012/Jun/AC_61-98B.pdf

Check out current and past CO-OPA newsletters, view our membership   
list and view hot aviation links on our website at: co-opa.com          

To access the members only areas the username is "BDN" and the
password is "123.0"

May Flyout:

Five planes headed up to Hood River (4S2) for our May Flyout.  Being
a hungry and dangerous crowd our first stop was the Twin Peaks Drive-In
just past the west end of the runway.  By all accounts the food was good
and cheap, as all $100 breakfasts should be.

Once the inner beast had been tamed we headed to the always
fascinating Western Antique Automobile and Aircraft Museum (WAAAM) to
check for new, or newly appreciated exhibits.  

My INBOX:

Phase 2 of the West Taxiway project should be done in the next week
or two.  That will complete the work from the gas pumps to the north.
Then work will move to the south end.

Kent Couch is at it again.  The current plan is to depart Bend at
10am on July 14 to lawn-chair fly all the way to Montana.  Hoping to set
the World Record for the longest two man cluster balloon flight.  Let's
all wish him luck!

Random Thoughts:

My charge last month was to seek out the best aviation movies out
there and make a top ten list.  A bigger task than I thought, and more
controversial than I expected.  For example, the Navy officially hated
Top Gun when it came out, and yet it has a lot of cool footage of real
fighters flying.

Another fondly remembered movie, Tora, Tora, Tora has only a few
short shots of T-6s, in level flight, pretending to be zeros.  So does
not make the cut.

To make things harder, a lot of the ones I wanted to check out are
not available on Netflix.  So, as a work in progress, in no alphabetical
order, I offer up:

Bridges of Toko Ri
Dawn Patrol
Final Countdown
Midway
Spirit of St. Louis
Strategic Air Command
Top Gun
The Battle of Britain
The Memphis Belle
The Right Stuff

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