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Breakfast Fly-In Summary

The breakfast fun fly held August 9th was an overwhelming success. Many thanks should go to Marv and Carlos who organized the fun fly and to Jerry Knebel and his wife Virginia, his son Alan and Alan's wife Marsha for the very tasty breakfast they prepared and served.

The fun fly was opened with the raising of the American fly by Treasurer Carlos Rangel and the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. Following this was the ribbon cutting ceremony. A double ribbon was stretched across the center of the field. Several pilots took to the air in an attempt to cut the ribbon to dedicate our new black top field. Cutting the top ribbon was Al Moser, Treasurer of TRCC; the bottom ribbon was cut by Chuck Brooks, also of TRCC. The ribbons were cut by the rudders of their planes as they passed through.

We had 21 pilots signed up for the fun fly and over 35+ who enjoyed breakfast. There were more than 32 planes displayed. The event coordinator was Larry Lee who did a fine job and Keith "Bear" Brock who assisted as a timer. Unfortunately, due to the fact we had so many pilots entered in the three events and so many pilots flying free-fly, things got a little out of hand. It took much longer to get the first event completed and, due to the rising temperatures, the target bomb event and the five card draw poker were cancelled. The winner of the first event, which was climb and glide, was Bill Hemple of TRCC.

Because of planes landing and taking off at the same time and planes taxiing on the runway in different directions, flying was temporarily halted by the Field Safety Officer, Bob Fitzgerald. Proper flying procedures were then implemented; the remainder of the morning was a successful fun fly. Those of you who weren't there missed a great time [ Editor: tell me about it... ] and you should plan now to attend our next fly-in.

-Paul


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Craig Kulesa
Fri Dec 4 19:26:59 MST 1998