Canards de Mayo 2008

[easyrider]

Canards de Mayo is 3 weeks away.
There is a full schedule of seminars planned this year, check out the web site
http://www.haltonbrat.com/2008seminars.htm

If you haven't registerd, which means making a dinner reservation, there are links on this web page.
Easyrider

[Joe Dubner]

Very nice assortment of seminars, Don!  We're planning to arrive early and stay late in order to catch 'em all.  Congratulations on putting together such a compelling event.

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Joe

[Dave in Eugene]

Don,

bumming a bit because I found out a close friend is having a surprise party in Seattle for his 50 birthday the same week-end...maybe we should go to both!

Dave

[easyrider]

Dave
If you don't come to the Canards I am going to raffle your sunglasses
Easyrider

[Dave in Eugene]

I will talk to the back-seater.

Dave

[Dave in Eugene]

back seater says we can leave Thurs night and camp through Sat morn...weather permitting!

Dave

[easyrider]

Dave
It means you will miss Sat's dinner but I won't raffle your sunglasses
Don

[Joe Dubner]

Looks like tomorrow (Thursday) is our weather window to make it over the mountains so we're departing Lewiston, ID for Columbia in the morning.  Hope others will also be arriving early so we can get together and do tourist-like activities.  We'll have a rental car and plan to briefly visit Yosemite -- anyone?

Thanks to APRS technology, you can flight-follow my Long-EZ at http://www.mail2600.com/cgi-bin/ui.cgi?call=K7JD-7 once we get airborne (hopefully before 1600Z tomorrow).  When you see 190 MPH groundspeeds in cruise, don't be thinking I swapped my O-235 for an O-320 -- there's a nice tailwind in the forecast <g>.

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Joe

[easyrider]

Joe
Char & Gary Spencer are flying in tomorrow.
I will be out buying supplies for the Flyin and I should be at the campground around 4pm.
Easyrider

[Dave in Eugene]

We are going to try for an afternoon departure...work and weather permitting...wish us luck,

Dave and Pam

[Dave in Eugene]

Don,

Thanks for your hard work...had to leave early because of a commitment but we enjoyed the slice we got..

Home at 10,500 and flew through a hole in the clouds near Eugene to get down.

2:36 Creswell to o22 with a tailwind (398 NM)
2:56 back with a headwind

See you next year and thanks for my sunglasses!

Dave and Pam

[Joe Dubner]

I'm a little late to chime in (flew home Monday) but I'd like to echo Dave's comment: thank you, Don, for your planning, execution, and no small expense.  <ComicBookGuy> Best fly-in ever!</ComicBookGuy>

With Dave Viglierchio and Paul Werner directing aircraft parking, things went oh so smoothly.  Thanks to Charles, the forums stayed on schedule.  Char Spencer gave up her trip to Yosemite with Harriet and me so she could tend to registrations on Friday.   Thank you Mark Zeitlin for your riveting forums on your in-flight prop loss.  I enjoyed Keith Spreuer's P-51 scoop cooling forum too.

I wasn't able to count all the EZs on the ramp (there were more than 40, maybe more than 50) and heard there were 90-some people for dinner.

Finally, I'm honored and pleased to accept the prize for traveling the furthest (after the couple from Kentucky and Joe Hull from Seattle had to leave <g>).

Flying time from Lewiston, ID to Columbia: 3:4 hours (523 NM).  
Return trip over a longer route and stop for lunch: 4.1 hours total.

I expect we'll see the same cast of characters at the Burtday Party (June 21) in Mojave.  Looking forward to it.

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Joe