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Balloon Super Bowl

KLTV reports: …
- The biggest hot air ballooning event in the nation could soon be coming right here to east Texas. Longview officials are bidding to host the US-hot air balloon championships, hosting a weekend conference of selection delegates.

Familiar faces from the great Texas balloon race were on hand at a meeting with delegates from the balloon federation of America to pitch Longview as the next venue for the U-S hot air balloon championships.

Since 2009 the event has been held in Battle Creek Michigan. The decision for the future will be made in the next 2 weeks, 4 cities including Longview are frontrunner’s.

Good Luck Longview !

Written by Ernst at 5:57 pm on 1/16/2011

Filed under: ,Fly-In,General,History,Politics

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Our New President …

… is Arnold Phillips, in the background
(the foreground belongs to Abby):

Greetings Everyone !
Let me say right up front….I did not take any campaign contributions nor spend any of my personal funds to get (railroaded) elected as your new President for the next term.(Did he say two years??)

Garnet (and Melinda) have set the bar high along with help from Ken, Harold, Steve, Bill, Robert, and Bart. Sue and I realized quickly that we will have to wear many hats. Stop and think about it. We will have to fly, organize, cook, eat, make decisions, fly, clean, plan, build, fly, eat and be present and responsive at any function we have..

Usually, I do not make New Year Resolutions until after Super Bowl Sunday. This way, I do not break as many within the first week of the New Year…… A few things I have been thinking about: I think we should resolve to add new members and make sure we keep our present members involved. We have a great resource available to us. The talents of our members. I am sure we have a vast array of talent represented by our members. If you or your spouse have experience in certain areas, let us know. Whether it be flying, fabric work, welding, construction, painting, music, photography, cooking, speaking…whatever; let us hear from you.

I also would like to move along on the con-struction of a pavilion at 07F. I think we will all agree, a covered meeting place would benefit us and our guests. We may even need to look at a project. ( Maybe an electric plane..Ha) Of course we will continue the much debated Young Eagles Program. I think Sue is also going to start a “Telephone Committee” to call our member who do not have computers and i-phones, about upcoming events or needs.(Believe me, she knows how to talk on the phone). She will be calling on some of you for help.. Well, that covers some of the stuff I have on my mind (you cannot publish some of my thoughts..thank goodness) Just a little trivia: My first plane I bought was in 1983. It was a 1946 Luscombe. All metal with a rebuilt engine and new glass. I paid $3500. for it. Flew it around West Texas and loved it. After about a year, I sold it for $4500 and moved “up” to a Cub…

Thanx, Arnold, Sue and Abby

More you find in the January-Edition of our Taildragger.
Robert Caldwell send all our members and known friends the new issue of our Newsletter.
Here is what’s inside for our readers who are not on the mailing-list
(as “not yet”-members and unknown friends). This is inside:

  • The Pres sez … by Arnold Phillips, see above !
  • The Eagles Nest – by Bill Vawter
  • PA-12, 2928, N4045M – by Gregg Dohrer
  • New Years Day at Cherokee Co (JSO) – by the editor
  • The Current Team of Officers 2011-2012
  • Local Fuel Prices

Enjoy & stay up to date. Click here, for this
edition
, – or the buttons at the left side for all other
Newsletters. The actual one, as all the last NL’s.

Written by Ernst at 3:44 pm on 1/8/2011

Filed under: Fly-In,General,History,Newsletter

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Taildragger February 2009

Robert Caldwell send all our members the new issue of our Newsletter, again ready in PDF. And here is what’s inside for our friends who are not on the mailing-list:

  • the Pres sez by Garnet McClure
  • the Eagles Nest by Bill Vawter, YE coordinater
  • Pietenpol Turns 80
  • Aircraft for Sale
  • Coming Aviation Events
  • Local Fuel Prices
  • Chapter Officers

Enjoy & stay up to date. Click here, for this edition, – or the buttons at the left side for all other Newsletters.

Written by Ernst at 3:59 am on 2/12/2009

Filed under: History,Newsletter,Trade

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Taildragger January 2009

Robert Caldwell send all our members the new issue of our Newsletter, again ready in PDF. And here is the summery for our friends who are not on the mailing-list:

  • the Pres sez – (only 23 more of these to go),
    by Garnet McClure
  • the Eagles Nest by Bill Vawter, YE coordinater
  • Chapter Awards 2008
  • Remembering 2008
  • Local Fuel Prices and
  • Coming Aviation Events

Enjoy & stay up to date. Click here, for this edition, – or the buttons at the left side for all other Newsletters.
You can read the NL with the free, powerfull & comfortable Acrobat Reader which is mostly already integrated in the PCs software-enviroment.

Written by Ernst at 2:10 pm on 1/5/2009

Filed under: Fly-In,General,History,Newsletter

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Taildragger November 2008

Robert Caldwell send all our members this issue of our Newsletter, again ready in PDF. And here is the summery for our friends who are not on the mailing-list:

  • Roger That! –
    a Fun Full of Festive Flight Features,
    by Roger Wieting
  • New Slate of Chapter Officers.
    Voted and Passed Roger W.
  • True or False (AOPA magazine)
  • Civil Air Patrol in World War Two (Editor)
  • Liason Airplanes (Editor)
  • Galveston Area Visited (Jerry)
  • Local Fuel Prices and
  • Coming Aviation Events

Enjoy & stay up to date. Click here, for this edition, – or the buttons at the left side for all our download-stuff.
You can read the NL with the free, powerfull & comfortable Acrobat Reader which is mostly already integrated in the PCs software-enviroment.

Written by Ernst at 1:07 pm on 11/10/2008

Filed under: Fly-In,General,History,Newsletter

Permanent link to this post: Taildragger November 2008

 

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