Newsletter - July 2008

Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines Newsletter
July 2008


July meeting: Sunday, July 20, 2008
Lunch at noon at Creve Coeur Airport
Meeting at 1:30 pm

Each Sunday Creve Coeur owner, Al Stix, prepares a barbecue lunch with a choice of meat, salads, and dessert. Price for the lunch is $6, so it’s really a great deal (but remember that although there may be two or three different meats offered, each person can select only one meat!) The meeting will follow at 1:30 pm in the FBO meeting room.

To get to Creve Coeur Airport from the North, South or East, take your favorite route to I-270. Get off I-270 at the Page Avenue extension (Rte 364 West). Exit Rte. 364 at Maryland Hts. Expressway (you can only go north). The entrance to the airport is about 1 mile on the left. To get to the Airport from St. Charles, take I-70 east to Earth City Expressway South. This will become Maryland Hts Expressway. The entrance to the airport is about 3 mi from I-70 on the right. Of course, for those of you with airplanes, you can always fly in (1H0).

There will be no Chapter meeting and no Newsletter in August.

Other Upcoming Events

EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI, will be held from July 28 through August 3. Jean Murry will be working in the Ninety-Nine’s tent for one day. This is a great opportunity to tell women pilots about the benefits of membership and the scholarships available to flight and academic students. Other members planning to attend AirVenture are encouraged to stop by the Ninety-Nine’s tent.

Another opportunity at AirVenture is KidVenture, the Young Eagles Flight Education (YEFE) program. It will be open from 9 am to 3:30 pm daily, except Sunday when it closes at 2 pm. There will be programs for folks of all ages from toddler to adult! They are looking for volunteers to man the 10 YEFE learning stations: Registration, Regulations, Weather, Navigation, Human Factors, ATC, Aircraft Design, Pre-Flight, Flight Training and Post Flight. KidVenture is called a destination for fun through education that focuses on Science – Technology – Engineering – Math (STEM). If you are interested in helping, contact John Teipen at john@teipen.com or call him at
314-863-5941. For additional information about KidVenture, see http://www.airventure.org/2008/events/kidventure.html
or page 27 in the current FAA Aviation News Magazine: http://www.faa.gov/news/aviation_news .

An idea for a future local event: The EAA Museum is completing two YEFE traveling kits. We might work with either the local EAA or the St. Louis Science Museum aviation program to bring these training materials to St. Louis.