Following a very successful Air Show last year, 2006, we were looking for an even better show this year.
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Mark Stitzer made a great video of the days activities this year.
Leo Lang gave us a good set of photos to remind us of the events of the Airshow.
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| The SCRC Club President, Curt Buergin, presenting a plaque in appreciation of her service to SCRC over the years. She was very touched, and pleased by our dedication of the show to her late husband, Will Coder. | ||
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| Do you think Daryl is trying to avoid the rain? | Al, with Nathaniel's help, is waiting for a pause in the rain. | Sometimes you just have to take things in hand! |
Click here for more of Leo Lang's photos.
Sam Stitzer, the SCRC newsletter editor, gave the following report of the show:
The SCRC Air Show
After nearly a whole summer of nice weather, it rained on our show! Ironically, Henry Margusity, our Air Show Committee Chairman works for Accu-Weather, but could not stop the front from sliding in to Centre Air Park! However, we did manage to get in two hours of air show before the rain got too severe. Many aircraft were flown and enjoyed by a crowd that I thought was pretty good for a rainy day! Henry’s committee did a bang-up job of organizing the show. A million details were attended to in a very competent manner. Thanks, guys!
Thanks go out to Mark and Chris Wharton for lending us a professional quality P.A. system! Chris does disk jockey work and even brought a couple roadies to help set it up. There was so much equipment it had to be brought in on a trailer! It worked great, too!
Thanks to Al Jones who served well as my co-announcer, and Nathaniel Rice who set up the list of pilots and acted as a “gofer”, prompting each pilot to be ready on time.
Thanks to Roy Long and the Civil Air Patrol guys who parked cars and performed a very nice flag ceremony for our opening.
Thanks also to Mike Songer and the Penn State Skydivers for an impressive parachuting performance even while it was raining!
The biggest thanks go to the pilots who flew a great show in bad weather! Their skill made it look easy! We had a few mishaps – balky engines, a radio glitch or two, the usual stuff, but we survived and gave a very good show!
Diana Coder was there and was presented with a plaque in appreciation of her service to SCRC over the years. She was very touched, and was pleased by our dedication of the show to her late husband, Will Coder. She brought photo albums with pictures of Will and others at R/C events going back to the 1970’s. Man, we all had so much hair back then!
I apologize if I missed thanking anyone who helped make the show possible. It was a remarkable group effort, and I was proud to be a part of it. As for the weather, well, there’s always next year!
We are looking forward to another good Air Show in the coming year, 2008!
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