Herb Sanders wrote:
Last year, we had a successful gathering of rotary enthusiasts in
Memphis in late Sept. In spite of the 9/11 event, we had about 25 attend
- only Tracy flew in. Since Tracy & Laura have a gathering in the fall,
it would seem to work better to have a spring event on Memorial Day
week-end. Last year several indicated they would attend this year given
enough notice. I would hope we might attract Ed, Finn, Greg, George
Graham, Chuck, Perry Mick, David Atkins, Tom Jordan, and others to this
central location.
Friday arrivals would be handled, activities would start Sat morn
(5/25/02) with a great dutch treat breakfast the Chapter 182/Memphis
hanger at DeWitt Spain airport (MO1) on the bank of Miss River just
north of downtown Memphis. Morning will be filled with forums by Tracy,
Greg, Dave Atkins, Bruce Terrentine, or appropriate vendors in the
rotary group. Builders / flyers of rotaries could spend time discussing
problems / solutions with their installation.
At noon, we have a group to offer Bar B Que and home cooked dishes
(dutch treat). Mid afternoon, we could have a timed speed trial event
for rotaries. Don't say air race - that voids the coverage on most
insurance policies. What we want to accomplish is that a rotary
installed in a given airframe (RV, Long EZ, E Racer, etc) will perform
about the same as a Lycoming and that it is able to safely fly cross
country to fun events.
Mike DeFrisco was a member of Memphis Chapter 182 and news letter editor
a few years ago and we may be able to get him to visit with us and write
an article for Sport Aviation documenting the performance.
Saturday evening, we would have a dinner/ gathering at my home (my
treat) for all who want to attend. Some of the activities available in
Memphis for the balance of the week-end are the Mississippi River
History park (60 million $ spent and worth seeing), Beale St for music,
Tunica cassino area 30 mi south for shows (mini LasVegas), Graceland
-Elivis stuff for tourist, etc.
Mostly it will be good fellowship and airplance talk with guys from the
forum.
For the guys who fly-in and time their airplanes, I would like us to
raise some prize money. Perhaps some of the vendors like Wicks, ACS, and
others would pitch in a bit and I have someone working on FedEx -
hopefully Paul would give some plugs to the newsletter subscribers for
any commercial contributors. On an individual basis, maybe guys and gals
on the forum who are not flying, but appreciate the efforts of our lead
group would be willing to pitch in $10 or $20 bucks to build a pot for
the guys willing to fly in and share their experiences.
I need some feed back before any more arrangements are made to be sure
we have something of interest and will have a crowd.
Respond to Herb Sanders on this forum or at
<hsanders@bellsouth.net> or call home 901-754-6784 or office 901
458-1630.
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