ESA Western Workshop Labor Day weekend

Here is schedule - all are welcome.
Janice Hagen Armstrong




38th Annual Experimental Soaring Association Western Workshop - 2018
Friday afternoon August 31-Monday September 3, 2018 (Labor Day Weekend)
Mountain Valley Airport (L94), Tehachapi, California

NOTES:
• Lectures in Byard Hangar
• Registration and merchandise in the Armstrong Hangar
• Registration: $10/day or $18/both days. Students free, speakers free. Register on site, no preregistration needed
• For Potluck BBQs – bring meat and drink for yourself plus something to share. Utensils, plates, cups, etc provided.
• For Saturday night auction – donations of items gratefully accepted – clean out your workshop and bring that white elephant, which might be someone else’s treasure…

SCHEDULE – subject to change
FRIDAY August 31
5:30PM - Potluck BBQ at the Byard Hangar (See notes above)

SATURDAY September 1
8:30 – 9:20 AM - Dan Armstrong – Ultralight Sailplanes
9:30-10:20 – Jeff Byard – Soaring in Tehachapi
10:30-11:20 – Neal Pfeiffer (remote) – Is There a Case for A Club-Built Two-Place Glider?
11:30-12:30 – Sonja Englert – Caro 1 Motorglider
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH
2-2:50 PM – Bob Kuykendall – Teamwork in Sailplane Development
3-3:50 – Kathleen Fredette – Across the Finish Line: Start of a New Adventure
4-5 - Dean Sigler – How Cheap Can You Get? Low Cost Electric Airplanes that Could Revolutionize Electric Flight
5:30 PM – Potluck BBQ Dinner – Byard Hangar (see notes above)
7:00 PM – ESA Auction – Auctioneers – Dan Rihn and Doug Fronius

SUNDAY September 2
8:30 – 9:20 AM – Phil Barnes – Configuration Aerodynamics: Theory and Applications
9:30 – 10:20 – Al Bowers – Prandtl Wing Minimum Drag Update
10:30 – 11:30 – Richard Starke – A Sailplane Design
11:30 – 1PM - LUNCH
1-2 PM – ESA Business Meeting
2-2:50 – Jack Norris – Ideal Propellers: A Second Look
3-3:50 – Rol Klingberg – Klingberg Wing MKII
4-5 – Murry Rozansky – Stairway to Heaven, What are the Steps?
5:30PM – Potluck BBQ Dinner – Byard Hangar (see notes above)
6:45PM – ESA Wrap-Up and Thanks
7:00PM – Keynote Speakers – Dan Rihn and Mark Danielson- 50 Years of Flying

MONDAY September 3 - Flying and fun and visiting and cleanup

For soaring flights, tows, camping – contact Skylark North at Mountain Valley Airport – 661-822-5267. Mountain Valley RV Park is onsite also – 822-1213.

Workshop questions, lodging questions – contact Janice Armstrong – 661-619-7750 or armstronghagenatsbcglobaldotnet

Come experience wonderful Tehachapi and Mountain Valley Airport!