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FYI thurs arrivals .. I'll be there as well.

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

No place the Scott from Utah can hide ! No sleep ye shall get...Hoot Mon! Hoot Mon ! The Red Rocket arrives fully refreshed !

RB

Dan & Gloria are making Plans to be there , Rich is Sil going to fly right seat with you sounds like some of the wives are attending. Dave Flatter, did you get my message? Danieleggleston@rocketmail.com. Dan

No Sir ! Iam going solo. Sil has family commitments. Besides you and Gloria will have to keep Fraser out of trouble.

RB

Now that would be a task, keeping the Fraser outa trouble..............Dan

N71JE will be there... not sure if by myself yet. Shooting for thursday also. Room reserved.

John Evens N71JE
Arvada, CO

Two more booked.

Dick Wolff and Jim Mantyla from the Great White North, eh?

DW

N114JB will be there if it is done. If not, I will make the long trip in my C-140. Room reserved.

cubes will be there. Booked Friday and Sat.

A few of you asked me about rental cars in Fredricksburg ...

Here's the info ..

Enterprise Rent-A-Car
1318 S STATE HIGHWAY 16 # 103-
FREDRICKSBURG, TX 78624-5058
Tel.: (830) 997-1745

I will be arranging for a shuttle to run us back and forth that weekend as well, but if you would like to be master of your own transport the number is above.

Once in town everything is walking distance unless some of the girls would like to hit some of the winerys in which case they are all within 10 miles of town. I believe the shuttle could provide transport for the ladies while we're out flying around.

I'll be sending out a note soon with a tentative itinerary and some "tourist info" in the next few days. In additon I'm going to send out a mailer to Thorp owners in Texas all of the adjoining states to see if we can turn it up a bit for the event.

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

Some tourist info for you guys ... please pass these along to the ladies as they'll most likely be the ones to benefit from this ... we'll be out Thorpin'!

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

More info for the gals ...


http://www.visitfredericksburgtx.com

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

Sorry to keep blasting you guys with info but as Sun n Fun is now over I'm heads down on getting this event taken care of.

I just got off the phone with the local FBO, they're looking forward to our arrival and are more than willing and able to keep us fueled.

In addition I called the airport manager and here's where a small snag may have come into play. There's another group coming that weekend as well but I think we may be able to turn this to our advantage. It turns out there's going to be a T-6 formation clinic that weekend there as well, they're expecting around 18-20 airplanes to show up, the field has 35 main tie downs and 18 off on the north ramp. I told the manager that if it were a problem with space we'd claim the north ramp or use our own tie downs and give the T-6 group the main ramp. In addition they were planning on resurfacing the runway that week (!!!!) but he told me he'd reschedule to accommodate us.

This may be our chance to get a group of Thorps in on a T-6 formation ... I'm assigning Bob and Cubes as our group liaisons, at the very least it should make for some fun at the bar in the afternoon!

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

Just pulled the March 2012 FAA Aircraft Registration down. Can you believe there are 50 T-18's in the TX, AR, OK, LA, NM area? 30 in TX alone!

Where have all these jokers been hiding out?!

Good news for me, it looks like Jim Paine's old airplane is now here in town, that brings Houston's T-18 population up to 3!

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

This is gettin pretty excitin ! I am about ready to wet my drawers ! Hope the weather Gods keep their distance with the CB's ! No special transportation for me, I'll ride whatever wagon Fraser is on !

RB