Introduce yourself!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 1:53 pm
I figure a good way to start things off is with introductions -- I know some of us have known each other for years, but this will be a great way for new members to figure out who's who. You can create your own thread, or post in this thread. I'll start us off.
My name is Ian, and I've been involved with EAA Chapter 84 for about 3 or 4 years now, and am on my second year as the newsletter editor. I'm flying a 1956 Champ 7EC, which I call Norbert, after the dragon Hagrid hatched in the first Harry Potter story, because it's black and green, and it flies. No fire-breathing, fortunately. We've been as far as LA to the south, and Oshkosh to the east, but mostly fly around the local area.
I'm building a Marquart Charger (https://marquartcharger.org/), which is a two-place biplane that looks a bit like some of the 1930s designs to my eye. I'm about a year and a half into a 10-20 year build, working on building and assembling all the wing parts before I launch into actually assembling whole wing panels. I should be building wing panels by the end of the year, unless something changes. I'm currently welding steel brackets, which are typically used for attaching the interplane struts or cabanes to the spars, and after that I'll be trying my hand at painting those brackets with some Stewart Systems paint and a small spray gun.
I do lots of other things besides aviation, though aviation has been my primary focus lately. I'm also a theater tech, a photographer, a cellist, an embedded systems designer, and a writer, when I'm not programming computers for The Man.
My name is Ian, and I've been involved with EAA Chapter 84 for about 3 or 4 years now, and am on my second year as the newsletter editor. I'm flying a 1956 Champ 7EC, which I call Norbert, after the dragon Hagrid hatched in the first Harry Potter story, because it's black and green, and it flies. No fire-breathing, fortunately. We've been as far as LA to the south, and Oshkosh to the east, but mostly fly around the local area.
I'm building a Marquart Charger (https://marquartcharger.org/), which is a two-place biplane that looks a bit like some of the 1930s designs to my eye. I'm about a year and a half into a 10-20 year build, working on building and assembling all the wing parts before I launch into actually assembling whole wing panels. I should be building wing panels by the end of the year, unless something changes. I'm currently welding steel brackets, which are typically used for attaching the interplane struts or cabanes to the spars, and after that I'll be trying my hand at painting those brackets with some Stewart Systems paint and a small spray gun.
I do lots of other things besides aviation, though aviation has been my primary focus lately. I'm also a theater tech, a photographer, a cellist, an embedded systems designer, and a writer, when I'm not programming computers for The Man.