5k Run the Runway for the Angels
I can’t say how excited I was…the thought of getting to land on the runway and then park my airplane there just seemed like too much! Going home to the first airport I trained at, JeffCo, helping Angel Flight West with their 5k Run the Runway…what a dream come true! But not quite yet sir…The weather during the week before […]
Read More →Notes from the Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting 2020 On January 11th, 2020 the FNLPA held their annual meeting. President James Hays read the vision statement as follows: The FNL Pilots Association supports general aviation at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport by advocating on behalf of its local pilots in the use and development of FNL. Membership at this same point in 2019 was 85 individuals […]
Read More →Christmas Eve at my house
As I sit at the computer today What was I going to do any way Christmas was coming there was no delay Santa would be here soon with his sleigh The tree was decorated all sparkly and bright soon it would be the big man’s night Would there be snow would there be rain what if the wind blew Oh! […]
Read More →Neil Schaal
Neil grew up a ranch and farm kid in rural Berthoud attending UNC on a ROTC scholarship where he studied education and aerospace. He went straight from UNC to Webb Air Force base in Texas where he was the last class of American students that went there. They had 15 Iranians and Americans flying together. That was when the Shah […]
Read More →Braniff’s “Cowboy”
Recently I ran across an old box from my younger years and in it I found a newsletter from the airline school I attended, Atlantic Airlines School in Kansas City, MO. The Lighthouse, as the newsletter was named, was from November of 1969. That was decades ago and in a past century. Wow I’m getting old! Not as old as […]
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