Builder updates

[Sonex Foundation]

Hey everyone,

Check out our website at http://sonexfoundation.com for recent updates.

As the buzz from Oshkosh fades, we are working on the August 2015 newsletter - we always like to include updates on our members projects! Also, in our May 2014 newsletter we began a new feature on member aircraft. We would like to continue this tradition in each newsletter.

We are asking owners, pilots, and builders to send an email, with photos, to robbie@sonexfoundation.org and answer the following:

What is your Sonex's (Waiex/Onex/Xenos) Serial number

What gear configuration do you have?

Any modifications to the stock setup?

When did you start building and when was the first flight?

What do you have installed? Please be specific - Engine, electronics, etc. A full list please

What modifications and customization did you do?

What else do you have planned for the airplane?

Where are you based?

What made you choose Sonex?

What did you find most challenging about this build?

What would you do differently looking back?

What advice could you offer to someone currently building a Sonex?

Do you have an online build log or web site?

What can you tell us about the first flight? How did it feel? Did anything surprise you bout the airplane?

How did you prepare for that first flight?

Now that you have flown the Sonex, does it match your expectations?

What goals do you have now? (Trips? Completing the 40 hours? Going to Oshkosh?)
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We send our current newsletter to members via email, and post archived issues on our website for everyone to see.

Archived issues of Shop Talk are located on the http://sonexfoundation.com/Newsletter_Archives.html page under the News section of our site.

If you aren't a member, please join! We have a two-tier membership structure.

Our intent is to run a low cost type club, with revenue coming from voting membership dues and member donations, and to be responsive to membership needs. As a grassroots not-for-profit organization, it is the members who will provide much of the content and direction of the type club.

Tier 1 – Club Member - Being a Club Member is free and does not require paying dues.

Tier 2 – Voting Member – Voting Members pay dues of $25 per year, have voting privileges, and will help steer the direction of the Foundation.

The Sonex Builders & Pilots Foundation has received tax exempt status from the IRS. The Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization and was granted this status in June of 2014. Any donation beyond the membership dues is tax deductible, so we are always happy when someone chooses to donate to our cause.

Send donations or Voting Membership dues ($25 annually) to Sonex Builders and Pilots Foundation, c/o Carl Orton, Treasurer, PO Box 820082, Ft. Worth, TX 76182-0082. You may also use the PayPal feature on the link below. When making dues donations, please fill out the registration form at the link below.

http://sonexfoundation.com/Become_a_Member.html