Hey there everybody hope all is well - I’ve was pretty busy last week so posting has been kinda low. Anywho…a few things. I thought you would enjoy this extensive restoration of a 1937 Fairchild. The guys did a very good job in my opinion and makes me envious of people that have the talent to do this kinda stuff.
On a related note, I attended my fist meeting for the Athens EAA 780 chapter on SAT morning and we discussed about a couple of goals we’d like to get accomplished for this year.
First, we’d like to create a common area for people to hang around the airport with picnic tables and such so they can watch airplanes take off and land, etc. Right now the airport doesn’t have one and we thought it would be cool to create in order to promote aviation within the community.
Second, we want to organize a local fly-in sometime in October/November. Ben Epps is a great airport to have such an event and the idea seemed to exite the airport manager. We don’t necesarily want to have a huge event with aerobatics, etc quite yet but the goal is to have it every year so we’ll start out small and work our way up. I think having a fish fry fly-in would be awesome. We talked about people camping out around the airport during the fly-in as well. Very cool. I’ll obviously keep you updated on our progress. Till then happy flying!
