Comanche Fly-in March 31-April 2, 2006

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Comanche Fly-in March 31-April 2, 2006
Maintenance Seminar
Famous Cosmosphere and Space Museum
Amish and Antique Shopping
Indoor Water Park
All in Hutchinson, Kansas www.visithutch.com
We've arranged an extra hour in this weekend so you can have time for all the fun as Daylight Savings time begins. This will be my fourth visit to Hutchinson. I live near Fort Worth and I keep coming back for more. Details will follow but here's what we have so far. This is a joint fly-in and all ICS members are welcome.
• Friday, March 31 Dinner at the excellent Airport Steakhouse. Business is so good that the restaurant has been expanded since I was last there. The food is great and the view of the ramp is wonderful. How cool will it be to have a lovely meal in sight of your plane!
• Saturday AM, April 1 Maintenance Seminar. Bob Weber will be speaking. If you would like to volunteer your Comanche to be on jacks for this seminar, let me know. I heard Bob speak at the Manassas convention and want to hear him again. There’s always something to learn. We’ve planned for some presentation and then a box lunch and then Bob will be available for questions. It was fascinating to have my plane in his shop. The stabilator AD was signed off but guess what? It was done for one of four attachment points and two more were loose. That wasn’t why the plane was in the shop but they checked it anyway and I’m so glad they did.
• Saturday PM, April 1 Famous Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Museum where you can see the Apollo 13 Command Module, SR-71 and so much more www.cosmo.org. There is also an IMAX theater here and once again, I keep coming back because there is so much to see. This is a Smithsonsian quality museum with a rare and wonderful ‘let me tell you the story’ approach to displaying artifacts. It is fascinating to all age levels.
• Other Saturday activities available are the 20,000 sq ft indoor water park adjoining the hotel, 150 downtown antique shops or visiting the nearby Amish community stores. Hutchinson has designated the area between the Arkansas River and the historic Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad tracks as their antique district. This is the southern part of a real downtown area. Just east of downtown is Avenue A which is a broad boulevard with fabulous Victorian homes – it’s great for an afternoon walk. If time allows, head on down to the Amish community located about 20 minutes southeast of town for their baked good and handcrafted products. If you’d rather just play in the space-themed water park, you need never leave the hotel. Oh, and across the street from the hotel is a contemporary shopping mall.
• Sunday, April 2 early brunch
• There is commercial air service to Wichita, Kansas if your own plane is not available. It is about an hour drive from Wichita to Hutchinson.
We’ll be staying at the recently renovated Grand Prairie Hotel and Convention Center with their Indoor Water Park www.grandprairiehotel.com so put this on your calendars now and plan to enjoy the education and fun that always comes with a gathering of ICS members. Contact Pat Keefer at pkeefer@charter.net to be added to the notification list and you will receive the details as they become available.
Wishing you Blue Skies and Tailwinds,
Pat
Patricia Jayne (Pat) Keefer
pkeefer@charter.net
ICS Member 08899
President, U.S. Air Race, Inc.
President, RTW (Round the World), A Motivational Company

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