N1BZRich(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: Second annual Lightning fly-in |
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All,
Just a short note to let all Lightning listers know what a great time everyone seemed to have at the Lightning fly-in. I guess I should say Lightning / Esqual fly-in as Nick says it is for both types and I certainly agree with him that both aircraft types are closely tied together in their history with the SYI group both now and when they were in Wisconsin.
Pete & Barb, Nick & Dana, Mark & Claire, and all the Lightning team did a wonderful job of making us all feel welcome and provided outstanding hospitality. Besides the fun hangar talk and "BS" sessions, we had some great flying which included demo flights, fly bys, and a Lightning formation photo mission. Katie, the newest member of the Lightning team, was the formation flight lead, with Nick on the left wing and Dick Clevenger and Buz on the right wing. Ben was the photo "mission commander" and flew his Rans as the photo ship with Dana as the photographer. We will have to see how all the photos came out.
Dick Clevenger flew his Lightning from Colorado so he gets the prize for flying the longest distance. John from California actually came the longest distance, but he utilized the airlines. I took John for a demo flight and he certainly seemed to have a fun flight. Jim Goad flew up from Florida, "World Record Earl" flew up from Atlanta and Joe and Linda Mathias flew in from Virginia as did I. Earl won the contest for the most colorful socks, Jim won hands down for the "cutest" negligee, and Joe won the contest for who can seem the most interested in raising goats. Craig Sumner was up from Alabama (his Esqual is now in phase 1 testing), and Charles Gallagher was down from Nashville (he will be writing an article on the Jabiru engine seminar for the newsletter). All total we had seven flying Lightnings there (including Lynn Nelson's which Katie will be flying down to Lynn this coming week) which represents about 25% of flying Lightnings world wide. Not too bad.
Start your planning now to attend next year. I guarantee you will have a great time.
Blue Skies,
Buz
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