Doug - I'll help if I can but I usually post all my Brodhead photos in the after action reports, so if you look in the "Gatherings of the gaggle" forum under Brodhead 2011, 2010 etc you will find photos. If you need them sent directly just let me know.
Back to Brodhead 2012.
We had our usual Hatz board meeting, and also the general meeting. Here are a few photos of that........
One of the big topics that came up this year was having a Hatz presence at Oshkosh. For many of us we first saw, and fell in love with, the Hatz at Oshkosh. We have not made an effort to have a big presence,( i.e., a tent, forum, product sales, common camping spot, etc) for a number of years. The general consensus at the meeting is that we need to do that. We need to make a splash at Airventure. We need to grow the group and get this great little biplane more publicity. That will take a concerted effort by lots of folks but we really need to do that. So.......we will be trying to do that in 2013. We will probably need a few volunteers and help from everyone but I think it will be well worth it.
Chris flew his Hatz up from Oklahoma this year. I did not hardly even say hi to Chris this year. Things just kinda got busy. Sorry Chris. I did not mean to brush you off.
Here are a couple of pictures of Chris in his Hatz.......
Jewel Hardy came up from Oklahoma as well in Julia Clays Hatz. This one is a little unique in that it has outrigger landing gear. I think there have been three Hatz done this way over the years. I'll see if I can find a picture somewhere.
Mark made it to the gathering but he did not fly his Bantam this time. Seems someone offered him a TON
of money for his last one so he reluctantly sold it and he is building another. Here is a picture of that one.
Mark did bring his new fuselage for us all to oggle and drool over. It is welded up by a company out of Minnesota (the same that did my Supercub kit) called Javron. Man the welding and workmanship are fantastic. Mark at Hangar10 is offering a Hatz Bantam kit now with pretty much all the welding done. It is REALLY nice and will make the Bantam much easier to build if you decide to go that route. Perhaps Mark will chime in here and offer a little more info. Unfortunately I did not take any photos so maybe someone else will help me out a little.
More to follow in a minute
Bill
Doug - I'll help if I can but I usually post all my Brodhead photos in the after action reports, so if you look in the "Gatherings of the gaggle" forum under Brodhead 2011, 2010 etc you will find photos. If you need them sent directly just let me know.
Back to Brodhead 2012.
We had our usual Hatz board meeting, and also the general meeting. Here are a few photos of that........
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One of the big topics that came up this year was having a Hatz presence at Oshkosh. For many of us we first saw, and fell in love with, the Hatz at Oshkosh. We have not made an effort to have a big presence,( i.e., a tent, forum, product sales, common camping spot, etc) for a number of years. The general consensus at the meeting is that we need to do that. We need to make a splash at Airventure. We need to grow the group and get this great little biplane more publicity. That will take a concerted effort by lots of folks but we really need to do that. So.......we will be trying to do that in 2013. We will probably need a few volunteers and help from everyone but I think it will be well worth it.
Chris flew his Hatz up from Oklahoma this year. I did not hardly even say hi to Chris this year. Things just kinda got busy. Sorry Chris. I did not mean to brush you off.
Here are a couple of pictures of Chris in his Hatz.......
[img]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c59/billrusk/Hatzfly-in2010021.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c59/billrusk/Hatzfly-in2010022.jpg[/img]
Jewel Hardy came up from Oklahoma as well in Julia Clays Hatz. This one is a little unique in that it has outrigger landing gear. I think there have been three Hatz done this way over the years. I'll see if I can find a picture somewhere.
Mark made it to the gathering but he did not fly his Bantam this time. Seems someone offered him a TON :D of money for his last one so he reluctantly sold it and he is building another. Here is a picture of that one.
[img]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c59/billrusk/HatzatOshkosh2010019.jpg[/img]
Mark did bring his new fuselage for us all to oggle and drool over. It is welded up by a company out of Minnesota (the same that did my Supercub kit) called Javron. Man the welding and workmanship are fantastic. Mark at Hangar10 is offering a Hatz Bantam kit now with pretty much all the welding done. It is REALLY nice and will make the Bantam much easier to build if you decide to go that route. Perhaps Mark will chime in here and offer a little more info. Unfortunately I did not take any photos so maybe someone else will help me out a little.
More to follow in a minute
Bill