Project Police Reports

Project Police Orientation

How I had so much time during my Christmas and New Years break yet seemed to accomplish so little (January 1992) - If it's not one thing, it's another. Read about the importance of proper humidity control when skinning a fuselage with plywood. Also, Norm does some rhinoplasty on his Long-EZ.

The Saga of Bruce's RANS S-10... (April 1992) - The first 250 hours of building a tube and fabric kitplane.

Genesis of the Project Police (April 1992) - This is the one that started it all!

The First Ever Chapter 1000 Airport Barbeque - The Chapter's very first public event.

Project Police Blotter, June 1992 - Project reports on a Long-EZ, Glasair II, and the hazards of trying to land your homebuilt on the numbers.

Project Police Blotter, July 1992 (July 1992) - More project reports, and what happens when the #2 commander on the base gets his own homebuilt project.

Project Police Brutality!! (September 1992) - Sacrifice a sprinkler head for the good of the Project Police! Also a report on a BD-5B.

From the Lame Duck Prez... (November 1992) - The out-going president makes a weak attempt to cover his tracks after being caught red-handed by the Project Police.

Project Police Raid Elementary School? (April 1993) - So how would you explain aircraft stability to a bunch of 10 year olds?

Interstate Project Police (April 1993) - What might happen to you if you move out of the state and don't update you address in the chapter database.

The Project Police Do Aerobatics (June 1993) - President Bob flies with a former member of the Russian Aerobatic Team and gets a Czechoslovakian headache.

Upcoming Events and Paramilitary Actions (February 1994) - Be inspired by the rousing speech delivered by President Bob prior to Operation Rubidoux Sundown II.

Rosamond Fly-In and BBQ - AWESOME! (June 1994) - Report on the Annual Fly-In and Spot Landing Contest.

Pulsar Update (July 1994) - George gives some pointers on maintaining your motivation while building.

Showdown at the Jackpot Corral (July 1994) - Norm races the Long-EZ and wins the ribbon cutting contest.

P2-Triple-D-I! (January 1995) - Learn about the Project Police's terror secret weapon.

Chapter 1000 BBQ a Success! (June 1995) - See the results of the Spot Landing Contest at the 4th Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Breakfast and Barbecue

Project Police Assault - ABQ/KAFB (November 1995) - Paddles' unique view of the Albuquerque Balloon Festival and meeting with exiled CAP'N BOB.

A PPO Rookie in the Big City (May 1996) - A rookie almost makes a big bust at Whiteman Airport

EAA Chapter 49/1000 Embarrass Scott Horowitz For Not Taking Us Along on STS 75 Breakfast and Lunch Fly-In (June 1996) - Our first astronaut attends his 5th Annual Going Away Breakfast and Barbecue and talks about his Space Shuttle flight without using the word "tether"

Project Police Strike Again.....T-18 In the Sights (June 1996) - Travel with the Super Secret Undercover Project Police.

Where's Waldo? (February 1997)

A Couple of E-Mails From Dan Falbe, EAA Chap 1000 Det 6, Mildenhall, UK (February 1997)

Project Police Officer Saves Hubble Space Telescope (April 1997)

KIS Cruiser Breaks Rod Bolt (April 1997)

EAA in Sweden (April 1997)

Aggieland Update (May 1997)

Chapter 1000/49 Fly-In: The Greatest Party West of Greenwich (June 1997) -- another resounding success for the Sixth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In

PPTAF Stricken By Mysterious Disease (June 1997)

Project Police Blotter -- Secret Project Investigated (June 1997)

Life In The Fast Lane (July 1997)

I'd Be Happy With Just One Award Winning Airplane... (July 1997)

Project Police Take On Tehachapi; Find Gross Buffoonery (August 1997)

Aussie Project Police (August 1997)

Project Police Influence Spreading (August 1997)

Why I Joined EAA and Chapter 1000 (September 1997)

Boredom Fighter Update (October 1997)

Boredom Fighter Update (December 1997)

Letters From The Airline Zone (January 1998) -- Pete Orengo checks in

A Quick Note of Significance From Jim Piavis (January 1998)

Chapter 49/1000 Annual EAA Awards Dinner (February 1998) -- Banquet speaker Astronaut Carl Meade

Chapter 1000 Leaders Hang Out With Bob Mackey (February 1998)

Det 4 To Close (February 1998)

Notes From The Field (March 1998)

Sky Tour of the Mojave (March 1998)

Boredom Fighter Engine Runs! (April 1998)

Waldo's Grand Champion (Class) Engine Overhaul (April 1998)

Finally, 16 Years Later... (April 1998) -- Russ Erb finally soloes a glider...again

Project Police Check Out Rocket II (April 1998)

A New Aviator (May 1998)

Project Police Peruse Pitts P-seudo Project (May 1998)

Bryan Duke Swimming Upstream! (May 1998)

Major Surgery on Brian Martinez's Q-200 (May 1998)

Scotty Horowitz Returns To Rosamond; Thousands Flock To Send Him Away Again! (June 1998)

Chris Reeder Moves To Texas; Cited With Gross Buffoonery! (June 1998)

Secret Project Revealed (June 1998)

Zenith Zodiac CH601 HDS (June 1998)

Air Racing With Chapter 1000 (July 1998)

More Air Racing With Chapter 1000 (August 1998)

New Pilot Down Under (September 1998)

Project Police Kommandant Under Attack--Narrowly Escapes! (November 1998)

Copperstate Dash Results (November 1998)

Joseph F. Ware, Jr. Advanded Engineering Laboratory (November 1998)

More News From Det 10 "Down Under" (November 1998)

Operation PROVIDE SCHMOOZE (December 1998)

Boredom Fighter and Pulsar Update (December 1998)

Another Cessna 170B Comes to Chapter 1000 (January 1999)

Gary Sobek's RV-6 Struck By Car (February 1999)

Bryan Duke Gets OTS Date (February 1999)

Van's Air Force: SOCAL Wing (February 1999)

Boredom Fighter Update (February 1999)

Defiant Derivative CFD Analysis (February 1999)

Det 10 Update (February 1999)

Bryan Duke At OTS (March 1999)

Boredom Fighter Update (March 1999)

New KIS Super Cruiser Rolled Out (March 1999)

New Project Police Aviator (April 1999)

Chris Reeder Reports In From Pilot Training (April 1999)

New Project Police Assault Vehicle (May 1999)

Boredom Fighter Almost Ready To Fly (June 1999)

Scotty Horowitz Returns to Rosamond with Reinforcements; Happily Sent Away Again (June 1999)

Boredom Fighter Update (September 1999)

Norm Dewitt Air Show Update (September 1999)

Norm Howell Wins Copperstate Dash (November 1999)

Gary Sobek in the Mesquite NV R.A.C.E. (November 1999)

Scenes From The Eighth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going-Away Fly-In (April 2000)

Project Police Project Tour (April 2000)

Rocketman! (April 2000)

Talk About Your Dissimilar Formations! (April 2000) - Boredom Fighter

Project Police Trainees On Tour (May 2000)

Atherton Pilot Wins Aerobatic Competition (May 2000)

David Munday Buys A Cassutt (May 2000)

SoCal VAF/Det 11 Inspect Boredom Fighter (May 2000)

Scott Horowitz Makes Low (Earth Orbit) Passes Over Ninth Annual Fly-In (June 2000)

Another RV-6A Ready To Leave The Nest (June 2000)

Project Police Officer Training Field Trip III (September 2000) Announcement | Summary

N628PV Rollout Party! (November 2000)

Bill Irvine's Cessna 310 Phoenix (December 2000)

Chris Shearer Mounts Wings, Welds I-Struts (March 2001)

New EAA Chapter 1000 Barbecue Grill Makes "First Flight" (March 2001)

And More From Det 10 (April 2001)

Chris Shearer Sets Up Shop (again...) (April 2001)

Whither the S-10? (April 2001)

Tech Counselor Visits (May 2001)

10th Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In (June 2001)

Chris Shearer Sets Up Shop (continued) (July 2001)

Det 12 Update (August 2001)

Bearhawk Progress Report (January 2002)

Acroduster Semi-Update (February 2002)

Eleventh Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In (June 2002)

Acroduster Update (July 2002)

Flashback! (November 2002) -- from the July 2002 project tour

Project Police Inspect Cirrus (November 2002)

Piavis RV-7 Update (January 2003)

News from EAA Chapter 1000 Det 12, Melbourne Florida (February 2003)

G-202 Project Police Visit (December 2003)

12th Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In (June 2003)

If You Had Come To The Twelfth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In, This Is What You Might Have Seen... (June 2003)

If That Horowitz Guy Wasn't At The Fly-In, What Has He Been Up To? (July 2003)

Det 12 Update - Final Phases for Moving (August 2003)

Fagan Bearhawk Wins Award (August 2003)

Det 12 Update - Final Phases for Moving (September 2003)

Vince Sei's F1 Rocket Kit (October 2003)

G-202 Update (December 2003)

G-202 10 December 2003 Update (January 2004)

Piavis RV-7 Update (January 2004)

David Stits Memorial Brick (February 2004) Photo of Brick (December 2005)

Vintage Gliders Take To The Sky (February 2004)

Det 12 Update (February 2004)

If You Had Come To The Thirteenth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In, This Is What You Might Have Seen... (June 2004)

Charleen Beam Submits An Alibi... (June 2004)

News Flash! Dave Vanhoy Wins At Copperstate! (October 2004)

The "Moon Man's" Rocket Gets "Finished", But Is Not Yet Complete (October 2004)

News Non-Flash! Dave Vanhoy Wins At Copperstate! (November 2004)

N115VS Moves To Mojave Airport (February 2005)

Fourteenth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In Report (June 2005)

Fourteenth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In Photo Gallery (June 2006)

Fagan Bearhawk Wins More Awards (August 2005)

What Ever Happened To That Stinson? (August 2005)

SpaceShipOne Glass Cockpit (August 2005)

Project Inspection Tour (December 2005)

Project Police Inspection Tour Photo Addendum (December 2005)

EAA Chapter 1000 Appears In National Publication (January 2006)

Project Police Take Over Microsoft? (February 2006)

Virtual Project Police Raid -- Piavis' RV-7 (March 2006)

Aluminum Overcast Survives The Project Police (May 2006)

From the Publisher, Republic Press (May 2006)

Fifteenth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In Report (June 2006)

You Are There: 15th Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In Photo Gallery (June 2006)

Project Police Operations After Action Report B-17G "Flying Fortress" (July 2006)

That's "Doctor" Mom To You! (August 2006)

Bill Grahn Gives Up On Rudder Pedals (August 2006)

Project Police Sweep Top Flight Test Awards (October 2006)

Piavis Does It Again (October 2006) -- founder of EAA Chapter 1000 founds another EAA Chapter

Project Police Inspect the Bearhawk and the Belch Fire 290 (December 2006)

Det 51 Inspects The Bearhawk (February 2007)

EAA Chapter 1440 Approves New Logo (February 2007)

Det 51 Goes To Tehachapi (March 2007)

Project Police inspection of Stormy's RV-8A and Erbman's Bearhawk (April 2007)

Sixteenth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In Report (June 2007)

Current Project Police Project Status (June 2007)

PPO Makes Famous! (July 2007)

Project Police Make Unannounced Raid on EAA Chapter 1000 Det 51 (November 2007)

Aluminum Overcast -- The Photographic Evidence (May 2008)

Seventeenth Annual Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In Report (June 2008) -- or What If They Gave A Fly-In And Nobody Did?

Piavis Converges On RV-7 Paint Scheme (September 2008)

Project Police Officer Wins OLC World Championship (November 2008)

Possible Candidate for Kommandant? (January 2009) -- Jim Piavis' announces he will be coming through L00 on his way to Texas to get his airplane painted

Operation PECOS CRAYOLA (February 2009) -- Jim Piavis' RV-7 paint job begins

Operation PECOS CRAYOLA (March 2009) -- Jim Piavis' RV-7 paint job in progress

Operation PECOS CRAYOLA (April 2009) -- Jim Piavis' RV-7 paint job completed as an homage to his Dad's North American Yale

Eighteenth Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2009)

First Project Police F-35 Pilot Named (September 2009)

Project Police After Action Report (January 2010) -- Stormy catches Erbman building the Cessna 1.72

Nineteenth Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2010)

Glamorous Glasair Rollout Party (May 2011)

Twentieth Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2011)

Brian Martinez' Modified Defiant Project (April 2012)

Adelanto Residential Airpark Invitational Fly-In (May 2012) -- Hellmuth offers bribes of wine

Twenty First Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2012)

We Flew To Hellmuth's!! (May 2013)

Twenty Second Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2013)

Mojave Experimental Fly-In (Plane Crazy) 19 April 2013 (June 2013)

We Flew Didn't Fly To Hellmuth's!! (May 2014)

Yes, There Are PPOs Building Airplanes! (May 2014) -- Inspection of Miles Bowen's projects

Twenty Third Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2014)

Project Police Raid At Hellmuth's!! (May 2015)

Twenty Fourth Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2015)

Det 5 Project Police Inspection Report (January 2016) -- Junior Project Police Officer Emmy goes on her first inspection raid

Twenty Fifth Annual Project Police Airport Barbecue Report (June 2016)

Adelanto Adventure 2016 (June 2016)

Project Police Attend EAA Chapter 119 Meeting (April 2017) -- Airshow celebrity Sean D. Tucker achieves his lifelong dream of meeting the Project Police

History of the Scotty Horowitz Going Away Fly-In (April 2017)

History of the Adelanto Adventure Fly-In (April 2017)

Adelanto Adventure 2017!! (May 2017)

Report From EAA 1000 Det 5 (July 2017) -- Stormy tries to claim progress on the RV-8B Astroblaster, then casually slips in that he's getting married

It's A Texas Miracle! (January 2018) -- despite all of the hype, five years later the TRC of the RV-8B Astroblaster has not changed

Project Police Raid on Brian Martinez's Defiant Project (April 2018)

Stormy Weathers, EAA Chapter 1000 Det 5, Receives Short Notice Project Police Inspection, Fails Spectacularly (April 2020)

Stormy Weathers, EAA Chapter 1000 Det 5, Receives Short Notice Project Police Inspection, Fails Spectacularly -- The Rebuttal (May 2020)

1 December 2007 Bearhawk Final Assembly Flashback (i.e. filler pix) (June 2020)

Operation Rubidoux Sundown VI Official Report to the Membership (July 2020) -- from 1998, reprinted in 2020. Why? Why not? You gotta do something when the pandemic means you're short on material

What I Did on My Spring Break (August 2020) -- Opie graduates from Lycoming Engine School, then harrasses the Dets on his way home

This Just In--Recently Declassified Photos Revealed From Operation Rubidoux Sundown V (April 2021) -- Chuck Firth uncovers some ancient photos

Alton Bay NH Ice Air Ops (April 2021) -- Chuck Firth tries out ice runways while rapidly contracting hypothermia

CONFIDENTIAL Project Police Access Only (August 2021) -- Kanard launches his first Project Police raid from his new base in Shelbyville TN


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