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Well, another Fly-in has come & gone. Here's a couple of teaser pics of this year's happenings. Always a picture of the current year's Fly-in fashion wear.  And of course we can never forget the guys in the band. The Honky Tonk Twisters.  The big draw this year was the return of the Army Blackhawk. This time they came to show off their flying  machine to the public instead of bringing in the Adj. General to attend a funeral. Here's a pic of a Hiller  that flew in for breakfast. For a complete overview of the weekend, check out the photos in my friend Mike's Photobucket album.

AND for something truly exciting (to me anyways) is the video of me waving the Blackhawk in for its landing.

About the same time as the Fly-in was going on, we were in the midst of building the storage shed for all of our airport toys.  

It seems as the summer of 2007 rolls around, we're finding ourselves in a buying/building spree. First of all, we installed a hose reel  near our fuel tank to make refueling a bit easier. It was then decided as long as the hose reel was installed, why not also keep the planes on blacktop while refueling? So, one thing lead to another and we relaid blacktop on the east end of the club hangar  and laid down a new fueling pad  along with an overlay of the old blacktop coming out the west end of the club hangar. As for more building, we just inked the contract to build a 36' x 60' storage shed/maintainence facility for our grounds equipment. This will be going up shortly and I'm sure a picture or two will follow. A 1972 C172 with a nearly new engine  was recently purchased by Al & Pat Van Straten, Jim Kobus & Jason Marcks. The plane was just delivered and so is still in the hangar getting a good waxing before venturing out.

We recently had a local soldier killed in Iraq and the Adj. General flew in to attend his funeral. This is what Generals fly around in now days:   An impressive piece of machinery that when here had only 120 total hours on the clock and still had that 'new chopper' smell to it.

Here's some pictures from our 2006 Fly-in. Here's a pic of our 'mighty flightline' on Saturday morning before the crowds hit.  A Mousketeer, 3-172s and a couple of 150s. One of our pilots was AWOL in West Virginia for the weekend and on Sunday we were short a 150 and due to concerns over possible fuel contamination, we grounded the Mousketeer. Towards the end of the day on Sunday we were faced with a 2½ to 3 hour wait on the flightline but our customers pretty much took it in stride.  It helped that the weather was in the low 80ºs F instead of the humid 90ºs temperatures we 'enjoyed' before and after the Fly-in.

This is a family event...  Our virgin eyes!! Things slowed down a little bit Saturday evening while the band was setting up,  so SFC member Rick Verhagen (L) took advantage of the time by having a cold one or two or three....

Our Saturday night entertainment were the Honky Tonk Twisters from parts unknown if from just down the road.    

Sunday morning as always was a madhouse with the usual several hundred folks stopping in for a potato pancake breakfast. Of course yours truly tries to avoid such situations and is more content to see what's on the outside of the hangar such as things quite rare in these parts like oh say... a Yak 52?

When we originally asked the Outagamie County K9 unit to stop in for a visit on Sunday morning we never dreamed we'd also get the bomb squad to also stop in for a visit. Nothing causes a stir quite like this:  waiting out on the highway to turn into a little country airport. These guys get to play with robots  and wear super padded suits  while working with stuff that will blow off things bigger than fingers. And the K9 unit? Here's Conan, taking it all in.