Lake Havasu New Year's Day Flyout 2014

[fred meyer]

Fred and Judy, RV8A, from Deer Valley, plan to fly into Lake Havasu tomorrow.

[Rosie]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, and we'll see some of you in the morning at Lake Havasu! Also, Desert Skies Aviation has offered us a 10% discount on all fuel purchases :-) Fly safe! Rosie & Tuppergal

[crpv22]

Originally Posted by Rosie

HAPPY NEW YEAR, and we'll see some of you in the morning at Lake Havasu! Also, Desert Skies Aviation has offered us a 10% discount on all fuel purchases :-) Fly safe! Rosie & Tuppergal

My wife Angie and I wanted to thank everyone that we met today at the Lake Havasu BBQ fly-in. We had an amazing time and really enjoyed meeting so many enthusiastic and motivated RV'ers! We really appreciate the time you shared with us along with the overwhelming warm welcome! We are already looking forward to the next trip!



Happy New Year!

Chris & Angie Phillips (loving our 6!)

[Rosie]

Happy 2014 to our VAF family of friends! We had another WONDERFUL turnout for out 14th annual New Year's Day Flyout with 32 RVs flying into Lake Havasu (KHII) :-) There were several other 'store-bought' planes that flew in to join us and were welcomed (since they flew in with an RV...you gotta have RV friends to join us!)

Our long distance award went to Don & Emma Jones who flew in from Las Cruces (~397nm) in their beautiful RV-9A. Andrew 'Sharkbait' Brandt and his Dad Charles came in close second at ~375nm flying in from Minden-Tahoe. We had fliers from California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico this year with lots of new faces - first timers to our NYD flyout.

MANY THANKS to all of you who joined us for a great day of food, fun, friendship and flying!

Keep poundin' them rivets because it's ALL WORTH IT!!! Rosie & Tuppergal

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The sand dunes near Kelso:



Here's a look at how the water flows into a riverbed following a torrential summer thunderstorm:



On final to Runway 32 at Lake Havasu:



Row 1:


Row 2:



Row 3:



The Gang...



The Gang continued...



Andrew 'Sharkbait' Brandt, his Dad Charles Brandt (who built half this RV-9A :-) and Tuppergal:



Ken & Chris Jones.....one of the last ones to leave! Ken...really....you need to give Chris at least a 6-inch booster cushion!!!!

[rvmills]

Nice work setting this up Rosie...thanks again! Great seeing everyone there! Sure we're a lot of beautiful RV's on the HII ramp today!

Happy New Year!

Cheers,
Bob

[Don Jones]

Thanks to Rosie and everyone for a great time. It's pretty amazing to be able to fly across 2 states for lunch,
meet up with some great people, see beautiful scenery on the way and be back home before the sun goes down.
All because of an amazing piece of machinery I built in the garage. They are truly amazing airplanes and the people
who fly them are some of the nicest you will ever meet.

Thanks again!!
Don & Emma Jones
Las Cruces, NM

[pmccoy]

Thanks to Rosie for setting this up. It was my first time participating, and I had a blast. I will be back next year.

[Chino Tom]

Thanks Rosie, it was a blast. My wife Lori made my favorite comment of the day..... "I've never heard the radio so busy before..... I don't see any of them" I laughed. We were still 15 miles out. A fun and safe time was
had by all. The perfect way to start a new year

[Omega232Devils]

Thanks Rosie for setting this up. It was great to meet you in person finally.

Sorry I was a late arrival and with the only seating left at the bar, I didn't get to meet a lot of the RV'rs there. I will make it early next year and shake some hands.

Great fun and enjoyed seeing the ramp full of RVs!!!

Dan

[Bad Sheila]

I was heading to Lake Havasu for the fly-in and BBQ and 30 mins out my engine starting running rough. I did a 180 and made it back home but sheessh I was really looking forward to it.
PS Hats off to my passenger. She hung together quite well.

Hope to meet you guys in Feb if I can get some formation flying in ahead of time.

Tony