2008 Calendar of Events
( * EOC Coupe Events)
*June 21—Reg 13, OH Coupers,
12N lunch, Fly Boy Café on field, Mansfield-MFD, OH
June 21—RCAF Young Eagles
Rally, free rides, 9 am-12 noon, Rio Creek Apt-W128,
WI
June 21—lunch, Jasper Apt-KJAS,
Jasper, TX
June 21—Creek Fest/Young
Eagles, Rio Creek Apt-WI28, WI
*June 22—Reg 7, SoCal
coupers, EOC Fly-out, museum tour/lunch, Torrance, CA
June 28—BBQ lunch, Palestine
Apt-KPAS, Palestine, TX
*June 29—Reg 3, OR Coupers,
monthly mtg, 1 pm lunch, Florence, OR
July 5—BBQ Lunch Fly-in,
LaGrange Apt-3T5, TX
*July 6—Reg 7, NorCal, EOC
Fly-out, 29er Diner,
Petaluma Muni Apt-O69, CA
July 5—Fly-in/Hangar Dance,
7:30 am-5 pm, Rio Creek Apt-W128, WI
July 12—Fajita Fly-in,
Angelina Co Apt-KLFK, Lufkin, TX
*July 14—Reg 8, AZ Coupers,
monthly mtg., 6:30 pm, Famous Dave’s, Mesa, AZ (*check
to be sure)
July 19—lunch, Jasper Apt-KJAS,
TX
*July 19—SoCal, EOC Fly-out,
Waypoint Café, Camarillo Apt-KCMA, CA
July 19—NorCal, 12th Annual
Old Time Fly-in, Colusa Apt-O08, CA
*July 23-26—EOC
National, Wausau, WI
July 26—BBQ lunch, Palestine
Apt-KPAS, TX
*July 27—Reg 3, OR Coupers,
monthly mtg, 1 pm lunch, Madras, OR
*July
28-Aug 3—EOC at EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, WI
Aug 5-8 CPAM & Field of
Firsts Foundation, 8-day tour
Seattle/Canada/Abbotsford Air Show. $2,849. Bob
Kovalchik. 301-474-4240.
*Aug 9—Reg 13, MI Coupers,
Annual Fly-in, Brighton Field-45G, Brighton, MI
*Aug 9—SoCal, EOC Fly-out
lunch, Oceanside Apt, Santa Barbara, CA
*Aug 23—Reg 13, OH Coupers,
12 N, rest field, Carroll Co Apt-TSO, Carrollton, OH
Aug 30—18th Annual
Fly-in/Cruise-in, 7 am-2 pm, Marion Apt, IN
Upcoming
Events
*July 28-Aug
3—EOC at EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, WI
(Fly together - Park together)
*Sept 19-21—Reg
9, Iowa Regional Fly-in, Knoxville- OXV, IA
This was written in 1974 by Club Member Chuck
Ferris and is appropriate today.
"I JUST SMILE"
When I land my
Coupe at an airport away from home, people seem
friendly. Somehow they seem friendlier than they ever
did when I landed there in a Cessna 182. People come
over, look at the twin rudders, or they look into the
cockpit for the rudder pedals that are not there, and
they chat.
When someone
says, "My Dad learned to fly in a plane like that when
he was a young man," I just smile. I think to myself,
that maybe this is the very same plane that his Dad
learned to fly. It was young once, too, twenty-eight
years ago.
And when
someone says, "I need rudder pedals because I like to
keep my turns coordinated," I just smile. I know that
the ball stays centered in my Ercoupe-turns better than
it ever did when I flew my Cessna-turns.
When someone
says, "I wouldn't feel safe in a plane that old," I just
smile. I know that I'll never come spinning out of the
sky just because I got careless in a turn too final. I
know that the only plane that I feel really safe in is
my Ercoupe.
And when
someone says, "Did you know that fuel prices have gone
up again," I just smile. And I think about my
getting twenty miles per gallon, and at more than a
hundred miles an hour.
When someone
says, "Too bad you don't have any rudder pedals. .
.there's a cross-wind today," I just smile. I know that
if I come in with my wings level, the sturdy landing
gear will swing me straight down the runway.
And when
someone says, "I can write off the first year's
depreciation from my new plane from my income tax, and
it is quite a lot the first year," I just smile. My
Ercoupe is worth more today, than it was the day they
pushed it out the factory door, twenty-eight years ago.
When someone
says, "Wow, my door came open just as I was taking off,"
or says, "The next plane I get will have to have air
conditioning. . .I can't stand that hot cabin," I just
smile. Then I step into my Ercoupe, put my elbow on the
window sill and take off into the cool sky.
I smile a lot,
because I can fly a lot. . . . .and fly. . . . .and fly.
--Charles R. Ferris
and
N3116H
