Just a heads up gang, this years date is set as February 26th. weather permitting. This is what was in the RVator last year. I'll keep everyone informed. I know it's not Friday but I'll be away tomorrow.
WOW, what can I say? 86+ RVs and over 107 total aircraft this past February 28th at i39 Richmond, KY. http://members16.clubphoto.com/rick742624/guest.phtml Big thanks to Rick Schwandt for the pictures. What started out as an informal UFO (Ultimate Fly Out) by the Ohio Valley RVators to my shop, turned into a great kickoff for this years fly-in season. As most on the RV lists are aware, I moved the event from my shop to the airport two weeks prior to the event. At that time, I made some phone calls to round up door prizes. The weather forecast for the entire east coast promised beautiful weather, this time we were not disappointed. The first arrival was from the Michigan, Indiana border and was at 7:40AM. By this time the local EAA chapter had coffee and free donuts. Shortly thereafter, the pattern was full of RVs coming from all directions. It was a continuous dialogue of flight of four inbound with traffic in sight, flight of two following flight of two. Give credit to the pilots, at no time did I ever witness anything remotely compromising. I took care of parking RVs on the ramp until it filled. The ramp was double stacked, leaving taxi space between rows. My youngest son and a friend took care of directing arrivals on the taxiway where pilots were allowed to park there own airplanes as they wished. The taxiway is nearly 1500 long. We had RVs and certified, parked wingtip to wingtip nearly to the end of the taxiway. By the way, we tried to only allow RVs onto the ramp. Reserve parking was saved for TeamRV and the Ohio Valley RVators as they promised to put on three different formation flights. TeamRV, led by Mike Stewart arrived from Atlanta with a flight of 9, as did Ohio Valley, led by Rick Gray. Ohio Valley had either 17 or 18 arrivals. Indy Wing topped the list with 20 RVs which included 2 fire breathing Super 8s. 12 represented the TN VALLEY BUILDER GROUP; the Palmetto Wing had 3 along with 3 from SERV. I believe the group from Pontiac, MI made it in along with a two from Florida, west from MO and from north east of DC. At noon I took a little break and started counting airplanes. A couple RVs had already left by then so I added them to the count. At noon we had 86 RVs and 107 total aircraft for the fly-in. More RVs arrived after noon but I did not try and keep count, as I was busy with lunch, formation flying and the door prizes. I also squeezed in a little shopping time walking and looking at RVs. After a lunch of hamburgers, hotdogs and free Hooters wings TeamRV, as a flight 5 and Ohio Valley, as a flight of 5 put on individual formation flight demonstrations, which would make the most harden envious. Icing on the cake came form a final 8 ship formation showcase as a joint formation flight demonstration made up of both teams. A reporter and photographer went up with TeamRV. Stunning photographs now grace the front page of the local Sunday paper. http://www.richmondregister.com/articles/2004/02/29/news/news01.txt Door prizes were given out from the following supporters: Van's Aircraft, Builders Bookstore, Control Vision AnyWhere Map, EZ Pilot Auto Pilot, engalt.com/aviation.htm fabulous post light system, Experimentalair.com CAD designed and water jet cut instrument panel, Kitlog Pro, Grand Rapids, Trutrack autopilot discounts from aircraftextras.com, Avery and Cleaveland. Thanks to all who attended and yes, same time next year!! Dana Overall 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host Richmond, KY i39 RV-7 slider, Imron black, "Black Magic" Finish kit 13B Rotary. Hangar flying my Dynon. http://rvflying.tripod.com
