RV Fly In at Air Tractor, Inc. (Olney, TX)

[Brent Colvin]

Visibility. They are still hard to see. I fly with several others on same field and used to looking for them, you would be surprised how well they blend in with the surroundings.

[cropdusterengineer]

Originally Posted by TThurston

So why are they all yellow? There have been other threads about color vs visibility, so I was wondering.

Same reason John Deere tractors are green, Pepto-Bismol is pink, and Coke cans are red with a white swoop........because the marketing people said so!

We all had a really great time yesterday. When we decided to put this "little RV Fly In" together, we had NO IDEA there would be 80 airplanes. In spite of having 4 times the crowd we expected, everything went really smoothly.

Thanks, everyone, for a great time!

Mike R

[mrreddick]

Wow!
Thanks to everyone that posted the photo albums! Some really great shots in all those collections. Looking forward to the NEXT annual(?) fly-in at Olney. Everyone up there really did a great job in handling a much-bigger-than-expected turnout. What a great day!

[Jaypratt]

Reddick is right on! Great photos and fun for all who attended. Great time!!

Mike was our tour guide, good job. Hope you guys have us out again.

Thanks for a fun day

[Tim 8-A]

This was my first fly-in, what a great time, the RV community is really a great group. Thanks to Spring creek Aero Club for putting this on and to Mike for the enlightening tour.

[tcard]

Originally Posted by TractorDrafter

A huge THANK YOU to all of the great folks that came out for the first "RV Fly-In" hosted by Springcreek Aero Club... S.A.C. is a flying club for the employees of Air Tractor, and we currently have a Piper Warrior, although one of our members is currently working on his -7 fuse kit... During the cleanup this evening, several other members have expressed an interest in building a "club" RV!

What's the best way to keep that interest alive? Your own personal RV Grin, of course. IF (not assuming anything here, I made it a big IF for a reason) Air Tractor is kind enough to sponsor another gathering for us, it seems that an appropriate way to say thanks would be to offer RV rides to the folks that generously give us their time.

[LifeofReiley]

Looks like we missed a good time... had an AOG as the Lightspeed EI went south on us.

[jbDC9]

Originally Posted by TractorDrafter

S.A.C. is a flying club for the employees of Air Tractor, and we currently have a Piper Warrior, although one of our members is currently working on his -7 fuse kit... During the cleanup this evening, several other members have expressed an interest in building a "club" RV!

And with that facility and all those tools handy, you guys would have it done in a month! Maybe two...

[Ironflight]

Originally Posted by jbDC9

And with that facility and all those tools handy, you guys would have it done in a month! Maybe two...

I'm guessing that the tool crib knows EXACTLY how many clecos Air Tractor Inc owns....and keeps track of them....for just such a reason...

[TractorDrafter]

Originally Posted by tcard

What's the best way to keep that interest alive? Your own personal RV Grin, of course. IF (not assuming anything here, I made it a big IF for a reason) Air Tractor is kind enough to sponsor another gathering for us, it seems that an appropriate way to say thanks would be to offer RV rides to the folks that generously give us their time.

Several of the AT guys are no strangers to the RV grin. The first thing I did after getting my tailwheel endorsement was to go fly with Alex D. in his -6; Kyle's been to OSH and back in a -4 (This might explain the -7 canoe parts in his shop...) Mike spent some vacation time recently flying his dad's freshly built -9 (or is it a -7? I forget...)

However, we do have about a dozen SAC members who have not experienced the 'grin' yet. We'll have to do something about that...

JJH