What a great time we all had at the 5th Annual Pluckrose fly-in. Alex
would have been proud. We had 20 registered pilots with 30 planes. the
parking lot was almost full. We even had a large motor home. The weather was
great with a nice wind that was initially from the East and later in the day
switched to the North. In attendance were a great bunch of flyers from Cherry
Creek's Denver Eagles. They brought almost a dozen planes with them. They
also did some nice formation flying. The combat flying contest was won by the
following: Roy Olsen received a certificate for Airplane Presentation. Paul
Noveshansky received the Public Service award. I think it was because Paul
cracked up his combat plane before the combat flying got started. Paul is
real good at cracking up airplanes. In fact he cracked up two today. Denny
Edwardson received the Top Gun Certificate. All were awarded by Adam Bryant.
Marvin Sanders presented Robert Mueller with his Solo Certificate.
The four trophies went to the following flyers: 1st place to Bruno Mary of
the Denver Eagles for his beautiful P-47. 2nd Place to Tom Toledo, again of
the Denver Eagles for his T-33. 3rd place to Bill Peters for his Stauncher.
This was a really big and beautiful plane. Sarah Hanselin won the Junior
event.
The following twenty were registered pilots; Ric Emerson, Bill Peters, Roy
Olsen, Jim McGee, Jim Holt, Paul Noveshansky, Dave Teich, Tom Hanselin, Sarah
Hanselin, Jim Lewis, Tom Toleda, Joe Vadovat, Bruno Mary, Adam Bryant, Denny
Edwardson, William Martin, Clark Graves, Bill Swanson, Dave Fritzler and Doug
Knowlton.
Most of the planes that were flown by the Denver Eagles were War Birds and
what a great job of flying they did. At times there were three planes flying
in formation and once there were four.
Again our chief Chef, Phil Kenney did a great job with the noon time crusine.
Our CD was Bill Peters, Tom Hanselin and Roy Olsen worked the impound
station. Marvin Sanders and Ric Emerson did airplane inspections. Adam Bryant
was in charge of the Combat awards. Dave Teich took 23 pictures and they will
be sent to our webmaster for inclusion on our web site.
We also had a lot of visitors to watch the flying. Several of the members
ladies were present with their children. I can't remember all their names but
it was good to see so many.
I believe all that were in attendance thought it was a very good Fly In. We
all stood for a minute of silence in Alex Pluckrose's memory. I hope I
haven't missed anyone. All club members pitched in to make this a very good
success.