We are the oldest flying club in Maine so a lot of our early history
is lost in the mists of time. There was also a tragic fire at the
secretary's house about twenty years ago that destroyed all records up
until that point.

We thought we were called the Bald Eagles Flying Club when I joined in
1999 and figured the first members must have been a bunch of bald
pilots. We thought about changing the name thinking it might be a
barrier to female members and then learned that it is actually the
Bald Eagle Flying Club after the bird, not the hair loss. What a
difference an "s" makes.

We retrieved the copies of our original incorporation papers from the
secretary of state recently to check our exact status and were
surprised to discover that we were founded by three non-pilots with
Italian names for the purposes of promoting aviation interest among
young people and providing support to the Civil Air Patrol (don't get
me started on how ironic that is). Evidently, the idea of buying a
plane and becoming a flying club popped up shortly afterwards.

A member recently resigned who actually joined two years after the
founding. We never could get him to tell us much about the early
history except that, everything used to be better before we wasted all
this money worrying about FAA Mickey Mouse paperwork, weren't ruining
our engine by preheating it in cold weather so all the oil drained off
the camshaft, it's not the club's business whether you medical is
current, etc., etc.

--

Roger Long



"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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http://baldeagleflyingclub.org/Potwbig.htm

Roger, can you explain the "baldeagle" in that URL?

The reason I ask: Bald Eagle mountain is just a few miles from
here,
in central PA, just north of UNV; it was named, we're told, after an
indian chief Bald Eagle.

Is there a similar story behid your baldeagle?

Thanks. vince norris