Air Race Classic entries for June, 2010 | The Pilot: Southern Pines, NC

Trip Back to Moore County

After the banquet the winning plaques and money distributed. We tried to settle down and sleep on Sunday night. Our plan was to get up about 6 a.m. finish packing and get breakfast before the 7 a.m. pick up to the airport. Well, 5 a.m. both Laurie and I were ...

The Final Banquet & Winners of the Air Race Classic

We had to attend two meetings today for the first time racer and their input for helping the ARC get better next year. Lots of suggestions were given, and many of the suggestions given by the first timers were also suggested by the return racers. Breakfast was during the second ...

Judges Inspections

We got the call yesterday to be at the airport at 9 a.m. for a re-inspection of the plane. Which means we may be in the top 12 contestants our of 51 planes. We lost one plane after the race started to mechanical problems and one dropped out before the ...

A Day of Rest for the Air Race

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New Faces at the race

A few individuals met us at Elkhart that I forgot to include JC Cannon's sister Christine Murdock met up in the Indiana Flight Center on Thursday morning. I knew that she was working the race but thought she was unavailable as a timer. (We have not been able to talk ...

Final Legs of the Air Race

We awoke to overcast skies after the tornadoe and thunderstorms of the night before. We decided it was best to check weather and wait for some clearing. Our intent today was to fly to Parkersburg, WVA, do a flyby to continue on to Frederick, MD the terminus. We got to ...

Second Day

Well, all best plans sometimes do lead to delays. We got our breakfast at the hotel great place a Best Western in Cameron, MO, nice folks a place that I could see Amelia Arhart going through in the 20's & 30's very quaint & really salt of the earth folks. ...

First Day of the Race

This a.m. we got up by 5 a.m. breakfast at 6 a.m. with a weather briefing by 6:30 a.m. We all hurried out to the airport got the planes ready by 8 a.m. and waited for the first 5 planes to start up and taxi to the runway. We are ...

Last Day before the race

Monday, We had to attend three meetings today for the race. We had the flyby meeting & what happens if a faster plane overtakes the slower plane when doing the timed flyby. Time counts in this race. We have a handicap of 167.87 knots so we need to get the ...

Sunday at the Air Race Classic

Sunday was full of meetings required for the race. Rules were covered, then future expectations of how to do a dual fly by, what happens if you need mechanical work done on the plane, our schedule for Tuesday morning and the race. We then had to go back to the ...

Arriving at the Race Starting Point Ft. Myers, Fl

Yesterday due to weather and severe thunderstorms we landed short of our destination at Melbourne, Fl. This A.M. it was beautiful, clear, smooth air, visability unlimited. We got to the airport at 7 a.m. flew out to Ft. Myers at 7:30 a.m. Arrived at FMY at 8:30 a.m. It was ...

Arriving in Florida

Today started out okay, picked up my co-pilot at RDU and returned to Moore County to get the plane ready and packed for the trip to Florida We started out at noon and the first 30 minutes were horrible lots of clouds we were flying in and out of with ...

Getting your handicap for the Race

This morning early I was informed that a race official would be landing at Moore County Airport, and to be prepared to fly the plane for my handicap. Since I knew that the offical would be in Sanford first I attended my Kiwanis of the Pines meeting at 7 a.m. ...

One More day before we leave

Getting everything ready to go on a race like this can be extremely tiring. First getting the plane clean and ready to go is a real chore, then getting necessary paperwork together can take a lot of time and effort. We need charts to fly with approach plates to get ...