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Old 11-04-2014, 02:30 PM
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Ok folks...looks like several pilots will be arriving tomorrow (Wednesday) and we are ready for you! One more day to pre-register on line at www.rcflightdeck.com, after that you can register on site.

Pilots Steak Dinner is Friday at 5:15pm center field at the Club House. We will make sure and have some extras for walk up registration folks.

Looks like we will end up with close to 60 pilots this year! Great weather, great flying, great people, great fun!

Will be posting pics as the event progresses.

Safe travels everyone. See you soon!
Rex Briant
Old 11-06-2014, 11:02 AM
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Wednesday afternoon Pre-event pic of Dino and Kim DGiorgio, Jimmy and Mim Davis, and Pedro Sachez...flexing the weather away!!!
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Old 11-06-2014, 11:06 AM
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Apparently...the flexing worked...rain cleared out by noon, pilots are starting to arrive more and more, registration is up to 51 pilots so far and TONS OF SUNSHINE and light winds....
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Awesome day today, Friday...day two of the event! Weather is SPECTACULAR!!!

54 Registered Pilots as of 11:30am, 14 States represented!!!

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It's Saturday and 60 degrees, light East wind...not a cloud in the sky!!!

Some pics fro late yesterday and prep for our Pilots Steak dinner...

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More pics...
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More pics from Saturday...
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Saturday afternoon pics...
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Corsair line up...
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Had to post this pic of the evening gathering of Monroe, LA boys...Jeff Naul doing what he does...and all the "translators" he needs when he says something...

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A few of our award winners...

Pilots Choice: PJ Ash-Meister Zero
Best WW II: Jimmy Davis-Meister P-47
Best Modern Military: Jeff Stubbs-Skygate Mk66 BAe Hawk

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Rex,

Linda and I made it home safe last night. We want to thank you and the folks of GMARC for a awesome time. What a great event! We saw a lot of people from last year a met a lot more this year and we are looking forward to seeing everyone again next year.

If you haven't made this one folks you need to add to you list!
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Jeff, Glad you are safe and sound my friend! We ARE grateful for such an incredible group of pilots, volunteers, the GMA Venue, Dino DiGiorgio, Pedro Sanchez, Scotty Brinson...WOW!

Being able to hand Dino $2,380.00 yesterday in the name of Dino DiGiorgio Sr, to American Lung Assoc. 100% of the Raffle proceeds...AWESOME! Thanks to all of our Featured Sponsors for your donations towards the Raffle. You ARE so important to us!

Final Tally: 63 Registered Pilots, from 14 States, great weather, great flying, great fellowship and a great accomplishment for the ALA!

Will announce next years event dates ASAP.

Thanks to all the Pilots...safe travels as the rest of you make your way home.

Rex Briant
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Default David Scott's Awesome work

Most of you may know David Scott. He was at the event and apperently visits the GMARC field. He took some awesome pictures of the event. Here is just a couple that he emailed me so I could post of my jet.




Here is the link to his photo page. It is worth a few minutes to visit. He has photos of some of the past events if you have not seen them yet.

http://www.davidscottimages.com/?p=952

His work is awesome!!!!
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700 + miles today - and arrived home just now. Had a GREAT time!

Wide variety of aircraft - and that's what we came for! A few of the "scaled" out planes really stood out and were AWSOME.
Really enjoyed seeing them, both on the ground, and in the air!

Us? We flew plenty - I flew the tail off the Macchi... sort of. Minor repair and it flew again. [Not mentioning the other part that detached from the plane . Ha!]

Very nice event.. well organized, and that Fri dinner? Let's just say us "healthy Eaters" had our fill of killer steak!

The charity raffel ? Great prizes ... and a good cause.

Good job gentlemen! Thank You!


A few pcs .. first is our travel van... 4 planes and equipment? , No problem!
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A few more pics to share ....

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How did the Macchi fly? Didn't see any pics of it in the air. Nice stable of birds you got there.
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What an awesome collection of aircraft!!!! Very disappointed to have to miss. PJ, that Zero is wonderful. Hope ours looks as good. Meister was so well represented. Good deal.

Next year guys.
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Rex and IFly: thanks for the pictures. Sure does look like a great event.

Brian
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want up load pics properly I will try again.

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Thanks for posting pics and sharing comments!

OFFICIAL EVENT DATES for next year...

November 5-7, 2015

See you there!
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Jeff,
Loading pictures:
What I've found is you can only do one post with pictures, then you have to get out of the thread and back in to properly load the next post of pictures.
A bug that's been around at least since last spring and they haven't fixed.
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Just a quick video from Friday.


http://youtu.be/R-AUXAGERgw
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Seasons Greetings to all!
Yesterday I received my event video from SKS in the mail and...WOW! Best one I have seen, EVER! not just the normal high quaility SKS stuff but some incredible onboard video with the Meister P-47 you have GOT TO SEE...as it follows the B-24 with smoke and a few others...looks like a real dog fight and great aerial footage!

Here is the link to order yours today:http://www.sksvideo.com/dbID/405.html


Have a wonderful Christmas and Holiday season. Keep em flying!

Rex


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