First to Fly 2013

[Chuck Feldman]

8:00 am January 1st Stuart Florida.  Flights by Dennis Toth and Lynn Handyman.

[Tim Wescott]

I can't remember names, but there were three or four members of the Northwest Fireballs who were out at Delta Park around midnight December 31st, putting in the last flights of 2012 and the first of 2013.

[Chuck Feldman]

Those are IFR flights. We claim the VR flights. But congratulations to them. Now wait they could have been night VFR. Still we got the day VFR.

Chuck

[Tim Wescott]

Those are IFR flights. We claim the VR flights. But congratulations to them. Now wait they could have been night VFR. Still we got the day VFR.

Jim Walker Memorial Field is at the far Northwest corner of Delta Park.  It gets lots of lights from the off-ramp that wraps around the that particular arm (armpit?) of the park.  So (I'm told, I'm pretty boring after about 10:00PM) there's plenty of light.

And some of the planes were lit up.

[Robertc]

Glad to see the tradition continues.  Wish I was there instead of the windy, cold El Paso.

[Howard Rush]

I think the Aussies had you guys beat. 

[Chuck Feldman]

Tim,

Amazing that I and many others have driven with 100 yds of that circle and never knew it. Did it in 2005 I think? We where on a vacation that took us to Woodland Washington and then Glacier. We visited Mt St Helen's the Spruce Goose and so forth I thought the circle outside the Evergreen building was Named for Jim Walker? Nice to hear from you.

Chuck

[Chuck Feldman]

Howard,

No doubt but we are talking USA here.

Chuck

[Howard Rush]

This is like talking with my wife.

[Steve Helmick]

Tim,

Amazing that I and many others have driven with 100 yds of that circle and never knew it. Did it in 2005 I think? We where on a vacation that took us to Woodland Washington and then Glacier. We visited Mt St Helen's the Spruce Goose and so forth I thought the circle outside the Evergreen building was Named for Jim Walker? Nice to hear from you.

Chuck

The circle in McMinnville was the "Dalton Beebe" circle. Spelling could be wrong. I'm not sure if it was a Memorial Circle or just what the term was. It was a nice place to fly, despite the huge grove of oak trees on the north side and the museum to the east. There is some hope that there'll be a new circle there, sometime in the next few years. Fingers firmly crossed!

The only bad part was the traffic on weekends and weekdays, if you came/went direct to Portland via Newberg. I prefer to shoot down I-5 to the Brooks/Wheatland exit, then W. to SR 221, north to SR 18 and west to the Evergreen Aviation Museum. Very little traffic that way, vs. stop & go bs via Newberg.  Steve

[Chuck Feldman]

Howard,

You talk to your wife? I talk to mine to mostly I say yes. I see what you mean. So I will stop.

Chuck