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Welcome home, Tim Anderson! Tim’s beautiful Cessna 182A is the first full time resident to be back in the museum hangar.

A hearty welcome to you, Nancy. Hope to see you more often (a tall order now that the RV-12 wings are on) . . Looking forward to the May concerts! -a

I wasn’t laughing at your landing, I was laughing at the balls it took to take an untested aircraft around the pattern. Hats off Alex. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Had a great time, y’all . . . I lost track of how many burgers, brats, Italian Sausage, etc we put away but we did the airfield proud … thanks to all who came and that is to those who stuck a little in the cup toward goodies for the next free for all. Daryl Habit called all the way from Cincinnati to lament he was not there. Mark and I had a great time talking about the Kolb’s first flights and the tweaks that are being applied, one at a time. Once tuned in, the airplane should be a delight to fly. Meanwhile flight #2 met the earth convincingly (on purpose, .. I was trying to stretch my glide so I’d know when it would pay off in ground effect. Well, that’s my story. Kemper laughed) Make plans to attend the Saluda Spring Concert “Mountain Song” featuring Hummel builder/pilot and, of course, Fairweather Flyer: John Wilkinson. It sure is great to be back at the Airfield!

Owen pulled some strings: May 3rd (Sat) B’fast at the H’Ville CC Grill 7:30 am. Pay w/ Credit card. Avoid wearing blue jeans Prices seem surprisingly reasonable. Le Menu: (attached)

I’m fairly sure many of us receive General Aviation News every day as I do and appreciate the quick review it offers in the latest aviation occurrences. Today’s article was a bit different and I’d like to share an impression (My unfortunate psychiatric training is responsible for this, so apologies). Please study this photo that illustrated one of the newsworthy items today: Did you see it? I found it really interesting that all of the men in this group of A&P students uniformly held their arms in an adversarial or “crossed arms” position while all of the women (again uniformly) held theirs in a submissive position. With the increasing validity of the real worth of women in aviation, I was disturbed by this. I’d really like to have seen the women cross their arms to accentuate their value rather than to have assumed what appears to an observer to be a position of subservience. Our gals in the WASPS, the 99’s, the WIA, so many other worthwhile groups and the great female pilots (aviators) and instructors I’ve known and trained with deserve acknowledgement and appreciation. I don’t expect them to be bossy but at least equal. They have to know this and act accordingly. Vive La Difference!!

I met the builder/owner of this RV4 today in Shelby . Super interesting IA who's helped build at least 6 RVs (?). He does aerobatics in it . Evidently, it won an award at Sun-n-fun after it was completed, years ago. Tim H.

Begin forwarded message: From: Alex Nelon <alex.nelon@...> Subject: What a day! A job well done! Almost ready for Airplanes in the museum hangar! Date: April 26, 2025 at 10:37:18 PM EDT The last hangar door is up! Thank you, all who were there. 14 of us managed to complete the initial part of the job in record time - just under 3 hours - and all that is left is the weather stripping and holdbacks so they don’t drift open while airplanes are being moved in and out. Dan topside, Dennis at the bottom, Bill watching (they also serve who gaze in wonder), Jerry sweeping (they also serve, etc), Pete in the background doing something (?). Tim A explaining the finer points of floor sweeping. Management is essential. Placement of bottom rollers . . . everybody got into the act. This door went really smoothly . . . a great crew makes the work flow right along. Ed and the paramotor club installed weather stripping all morning and will be back to do what they can this week (we may need more material) … There’s still some basic cleanup to do but we’re just about ready for the first airplanes to come home! The next big step is paving a taxiway from the apron on the NW end of the Museum hangar to the museum taxiway … that is supposed to start late next week and should, if all goes according to plan, be ready for use about 2 weeks from now. A few hours with friends, doing something really worthwhile, beats the heck out of going to car shows or flying jets (you KNOW who you are). Thank you .. Thank you .. Thank You, all who were there and all who have been there all along in this project. Your just showing up means a lot . . . a LOT. -Alex and Mark