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Next COPA 45 Meeting
June 13,
2012
COPA 45's
Annual BBQ
at the Goderich Airport
Terminal Building |

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Weather Info at bottom of page ↓ |
June
10, Goderich COPA
45’s Annual
Fly-In Breakfast
Drive ins welcome, enjoy breakfast and see the planes!
8:00 a.m. until 11 a.m.
For more information,
contact Fred Bruinsma
fredmarilyn@rogers.com |
Looking for a place to Fly 'n' Dine?
that's walking distance from the airport or find the next
Fly-in
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We
have just received word that COPA 45 members Keith Brautigam and
Don Matheson both have COPA awards to be presented at the AGM in Hanover.
CYCE’s Rust Remover
April 2012
Saturday April 14 2012
was COPA 177’s first rust remover. Weather was marginal but some managed to
fly into the event despite a forecast of increased winds and rain after
lunch. Coffee and donuts greeted us after we registered and we enjoyed some
plane talk.
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LYME DISEASE – A Survivor’s Story
March 2012
By M. Bruinsma
With the arrival of spring and summer weather comes much more flying by pilots
and their passengers. This year of 2012 is no exception with the IPAT at the
end of May and the COPA Convention in Hanover in late June. With warm weather
comes bugs, black flies and mosquitoes.
At COPA 45’s March meeting, we heard Lyn Jerome from Clinton tell us his long
and uncertain journey with a tick bite which resulted in him being off work
for approximately two years. Lyn, an avid R/C aviator, was flying his radio
controlled aircraft in a ravine. He went to retrieve his stray aircraft when
he was bitten by a tick. Like any other bug bite, Lyn shrugged it off--just
another one of those pesky black fly or mosquito bites, he thought.
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Recognition Night
Balls retire B & B Aircraft Services
Feb 2012
For COPA 45 February is the month to have a mid-winter
dinner social to cut the winter blues for those not vacationing in the sunny
south. This year we decided to have a surprise recognition night for Allan
and Sylvia Ball who recently retired from their aviation business of B & B
Aircraft Services located west of the Goderich Airport.
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New Functionality in eAPIS -
August 10, 2010
click
here
Twelve Seconds of Destruction
By M. Bruinsma
It only took 12 seconds to devastate Goderich, Canada's prettiest town on
Sunday August 21.With only seconds of warning, the funnel cloud crossed Lake
Huron creating over 2 ft. waves. It travelled over Rotary Cove roared up West
Street straight through Courthouse Square down East Street cross country to
Benmiller clocking winds from 250 to 300 km. Winds at CYGD were 87km. The
airport, hangars and aircraft were spared. Sandy Wellman of Sky Harbour
Aircraft sustained no damage either.
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Oshkosh 2011
By Marilyn Bruinsma
The end of July and another Oshkosh is over. How sad to say good bye to all
our friends with whom we have camped. COPA 45's Fred and Marilyn Bruinsma
attended the 2011 AirVenture. Plan A was to fly there and camp under the
wing of the Cavalier in Homebuilt camping. E-APIS filed and plane packed,
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