Mississippi Wing

     We’d like to acknowledge the support of the Anglo American Lightning Aircraft Organization and their donation of a magnetic compass to our restoration project.  Special thanks to Mr. Robert Simms for coordinating the donation for us.

     Work continues on the engine and COL Art Davis has now got the cylinders ready to be glued on (that ought to clue you in to MY mechanical aptitude!).

     This next photo was taken on a recent trip to Midland by one of the staff.  It depicts the names of “flying” level aircraft sponsors for our Stinson 10A.  The plaque is prominently displayed at the National Museum in the large aircraft hangar.  If you can’t quite make out the four names already listed, maybe you would consider a “flying” level donation and your name can be more clearly listed as well the possibility of flying the little Stinson when it is completed (very soon)!

There are a few multi-engine pilots working on their C.A.F. checkrides in the C-45 under the watchful eye of COL Ben Cunningham.  These new pilots are COL Mickey Meeks and COL Dan Fabian.  Their CAF qualification in our big blue beast is critical to the Wing’s plans for the upcoming summer so please urge them along when you next see them.

WING DUES:

It’s a new year, please keep in mind that it is time to pay our local Mississippi Wing dues of $35.00 per member.  Wing dues cover administrative expenses through the course of the year.  Hangar rent for non-CAF airplanes covers electricity and land lease payments while PX sales and C-45 show-fees covers the costs of operating and maintaining the Beechcraft.  Costs of the Stinson restoration are covered by special contributions made to that plane.  Thanks go out to each of you for dues support each year . . . this $35 donation is a large support!

SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING AIR-EVENTS

March 27/28   Tyndal AFB

April 3/4     Eglin AFB

April ?       B-17 / B-24 visit

to Madison

April 17/18   Meridian NAS

April 24      Keesler AFB

May 8/9       NAS Atlanta

Jun 5/6       Maxwell AFB

Jul 9/10      Pensacola Beach

Oct 16        Wings Over Houston

Oct 23/24     New Orleans NAS

Nov 6         Madison's Veterans

Day Celebration

Nov 13        Pensacola NAS

     Other possibilities under consideration include speakers with first-hand accounts of World War II, another trip to Camp Shelby to watch aerial gunnery, a trip to Baton Rouge for the USS Kidd, New Orleans for the National D-Day Museum, and Pensacola NAS for the Naval Aviation Museum and Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show!  If you have suggestions or comments on any of this, please feel free to contact COL Eric Hollingsworth.

     If you have news of personal visits you have made and would like to share, please contact COL Pete Vozzo.  He will gladly include you in following newsletters.

     I trust everyone has had a chance to visit our wing “on-line” at www.MississippiWingCAF.org.  We thank COL Danny O’Keefe for the work he has done in creating the site and also have a special note of thanks for our “virtual presence” due to web-hosting space donated by AirBase-One, www.airbase1.com. They are a company that specializes in “cybernautical services for aeronautical businesses”.  Please check them out and consider taking any web based business you may have their way – they have done a lot to make our site possible!

The Wing has submitted two entries into the C.A.F.’s national level poster contest.  They are the poster we distributed for our Veterans Day Celebration/Open House and the poster we distributed for our Big Band Dinner Show.

Wing COL brainstorms with fellow passenger during trip on Airline History Museum’s Lockheed Constellation

     If you would like to have your newsletter delivered electronically via e-mail, please contact Pete virtually at petev@misschem.com and help us save money on postage.

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