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This page gives our itinerary and schedules for flights. It has an ever changing log book for our pilot friends out there interested in the airplane and its modifications and flights. There is a section to thank the crew and workers who have given time and effort. It will change as we attend events or have news for you. Thanks.
Itinerary:
WOW! The Border To Border Air Show on Saturday March 15th in Douglas was a great, windy success. We sold 28 The Flights For Life Tee shirts and recieved several cash donations. The wind took our awning away, and several others and probably kept a few aircraft from flying in. Still, we had a great time and gave out a lot of info on The Flights For Life and the Mule Mountain Relay for Life. Thanks to all.
Next? EAA Copperstate at Casa Grande Arizona, and Wings and Spurs Fly-in at Tombstone Arizona
The first offical flight for The Flights For Life was the 2nd annual Border To Border Air Show in Douglas, Arizona. It was being held this year on March 15th at the Douglas airport. The 2007 air show was a great success and the 2008 show was even bigger and better. And best of all it was FREE. The little yellow airplane at The Flights For Life booth recieved a lot of attention. Many people came by to make a donation, make a pledge , become a sponsor, or buy The Flights For Life T-shirt. See the DONORS page Remember: 100% of the profit in 2008 and 2009 go directly to the American Cancer Society. It could really add up!
The Flights For Life will be at the EAA Copperstate Airshow and Fly-In at Casa Grande, Arizona in Oct and, we'll be at the Wings and Spurs Fly-In at Tombstone, Arizona. Date has now been confirmed for Nov 1st 2008.
The Flights For Life is always looking for local unannounced air shows or fly-Ins to attend. If you know of one, please drop us an e-mail at christians49@netscape.com
Log Book
08/13/2008
Back from Oshkosh and AirVenture 2008
Amazing airahow. A full week of it and I still did not see it all. Ya gotta go" New compass installed and #661 is getting some strut tanks added. This is a beautiful time to fly in Arizona and we have racked up flight time almost daily. Cool, calm mornings and unlimited skies.
07/19/2008
The new Bisbee runway is now finished and ready for visitors. We have 5929 feet of beautiful smooth new surface on 17/35, 60 feet wide, and great big numbers for those of us long in the tooth, and all new runway lights . The dirt strip, 2/20 is 2650 feet long, very wide, and is in excellent condition and will be graded again soon. Come on down!! Early morning flights are beautiful.
05/30/2008
Benson Arizona Muni Airport E95.
A beautiful round trip flight of 110 miles from Bisbee to Benson was flown yesterday. IFR all the way. (I follow roads) One touch and go at Tombstone Airport, P29 and on to Benson. The folks at Benson are a great bunch of people, and I really enjoyed my short visit there. 4.9 gallons of fuel, a cool soda and we started for home. If you can't fly all the way to Bisbee, Benson is a great place to take a break and fuel up. Pictures to come.
05/29/2008
Yea! Flying weather in Arizona has returned. After a long spell of way above daily winds, some in excess of 45 knots, our normal hot summer had arrived. Winds of 5 to 15 are the forecast for a while. The Flights For Life will be doing a cross country from Bisbee, to Tombstone, on to Benson for lunch/fuel and round trip back. Leaving Bisbee Muni. at 0800 on Sat. 05/30/08. Come join up all you bored hanger flyers! Wash the dust off. 122.8 on the radio if you join up enroute.
05/18/2008
Bisbee Muni P04 now has the dirt cross wind runways back in operations and the paving on the main runway, 35/17 is moving along. Come on down to the Bisbee Muni airport and see Art, the temp FBO. Borrow one of of the airport cars and enjoy a short drive to Bisbee Arizona.
04/25/2008
We flew early today. Needed to adjust the Bing carbs to get rid of a slightly lean mixture on the rear cylinder during long decents. Found the slides were not set equal. Three crosswind landings in increasing winds. 6 Knots gusting up to 15 by the last landing. Good practice, and the Xair handles it all very well. All traffic is still using the taxiway for takeoffs and landings at Bisbee Muni (P04) we're all getting used to narrow landing areas, but I sure miss the dirt crosswind strips.
04/08/08
Xair 661 was pulled out of the hanger and work begin on the addition of two "strut tanks." This will give an incease of 10 gallons of fuel and raise our flight endurance to be better equipped for the cross country flight ahead of us.
03/30/2008
Xair #661 is home. We flew back to the Bisbee airport fron Douglas Az. on March 20th. 13 knots of crosswind and a scorching 45 miles per hour over the ground. A very long 25 miles. The Bisbee airport is undergoing runway repairs and of course, both the cross-wind runways and the main runway are closed and all traffic is using the taxiway for operations. 45 degrees to the wind and sorta narrow. Thank goodness for the shocked landing gear on Xairs, a very firm landing.
03/20/2008
Xair 661 is still tucked away at the Douglas airport waiting for a not too windy day to return to Bisbee. We were really glad we flew in two days early as the winds on airshow day were from 20 to 40 knot gusts. We had six tiedowns on the plane to keep it grounded, but had to roll it back to the hanger after all of the booth awnings blew away.
03/18/2008
Xair #661, The Flights for Life plane, was flown to the Douglas Municipal airport on 03/13/08 for the 2nd annual Border to Border airshow. It is a flight of only 25 miles from Bisbee airport to Douglas airport right down the International Border between the United States and Mexico. What amazing views. We flew in two days early due to the forecast of high winds on the days of the airshow. Richard of the Douglas Airport welcomed us after an excellent flight on a beautiful day and is allowing the plane to stay safe and snug in the public hanger until the airshow. We wouldn't have been able to fly there as we now have winds forecast of up to 40 knots. Thank you very much Richard.
The Flights For Life airplane is back from the Sierra Vista airport. We had a new Icom A200 aircraft radio installed to allow better communications on the flights to and from the fly-ins and air shows we attend. The friendly experts at Southwest AeroTech did an excellent job. It sure is great to talk to other aircraft and airports again, and it was a beautiful flight home. We hope to add them to our sponsor list soon. You can contact them at 459-3640. Ask for Dave.
03/08/2008 N349AZ now has a new throttle cable, 4 new NGK spark plugs, all new fuel lines and filters, a new intercom installed and new "The Flights For Life" decals on the fibergalss pod. We want to be seen! Check out the photo gallery for new photos soon.
We also want to thank Brewery Avenue Designs in Bisbee, Arizona for the great work on The Flights For Life T-shirts, and a great price too. We are on out third order and more to go we hope. Thanks Larry.
08/13/2008
Back from Oshkosh and AirVenture 2008
Amazing airahow. A full week of it and I still did not see it all. Ya gotta go" New compass installed and #661 is getting some strut tanks added. This is a beautiful time to fly in Arizona and we have racked up flight time almost daily. Cool, calm mornings and unlimited skies.
07/19/2008
The new Bisbee runway is now finished and ready for visitors. We have 5929 feet of beautiful smooth new surface on 17/35, 60 feet wide, and great big numbers for those of us long in the tooth, and all new runway lights . The dirt strip, 2/20 is 2650 feet long, very wide, and is in excellent condition and will be graded again soon. Come on down!! Early morning flights are beautiful.
05/30/2008
Benson Arizona Muni Airport E95.
A beautiful round trip flight of 110 miles from Bisbee to Benson was flown yesterday. IFR all the way. (I follow roads) One touch and go at Tombstone Airport, P29 and on to Benson. The folks at Benson are a great bunch of people, and I really enjoyed my short visit there. 4.9 gallons of fuel, a cool soda and we started for home. If you can't fly all the way to Bisbee, Benson is a great place to take a break and fuel up. Pictures to come.
05/29/2008
Yea! Flying weather in Arizona has returned. After a long spell of way above daily winds, some in excess of 45 knots, our normal hot summer had arrived. Winds of 5 to 15 are the forecast for a while. The Flights For Life will be doing a cross country from Bisbee, to Tombstone, on to Benson for lunch/fuel and round trip back. Leaving Bisbee Muni. at 0800 on Sat. 05/30/08. Come join up all you bored hanger flyers! Wash the dust off. 122.8 on the radio if you join up enroute.
05/18/2008
Bisbee Muni P04 now has the dirt cross wind runways back in operations and the paving on the main runway, 35/17 is moving along. Come on down to the Bisbee Muni airport and see Art, the temp FBO. Borrow one of of the airport cars and enjoy a short drive to Bisbee Arizona.
04/25/2008
We flew early today. Needed to adjust the Bing carbs to get rid of a slightly lean mixture on the rear cylinder during long decents. Found the slides were not set equal. Three crosswind landings in increasing winds. 6 Knots gusting up to 15 by the last landing. Good practice, and the Xair handles it all very well. All traffic is still using the taxiway for takeoffs and landings at Bisbee Muni (P04) we're all getting used to narrow landing areas, but I sure miss the dirt crosswind strips.
04/08/08
Xair 661 was pulled out of the hanger and work begin on the addition of two "strut tanks." This will give an incease of 10 gallons of fuel and raise our flight endurance to be better equipped for the cross country flight ahead of us.
03/30/2008
Xair #661 is home. We flew back to the Bisbee airport fron Douglas Az. on March 20th. 13 knots of crosswind and a scorching 45 miles per hour over the ground. A very long 25 miles. The Bisbee airport is undergoing runway repairs and of course, both the cross-wind runways and the main runway are closed and all traffic is using the taxiway for operations. 45 degrees to the wind and sorta narrow. Thank goodness for the shocked landing gear on Xairs, a very firm landing.
03/20/2008
Xair 661 is still tucked away at the Douglas airport waiting for a not too windy day to return to Bisbee. We were really glad we flew in two days early as the winds on airshow day were from 20 to 40 knot gusts. We had six tiedowns on the plane to keep it grounded, but had to roll it back to the hanger after all of the booth awnings blew away.
03/18/2008
Xair #661, The Flights for Life plane, was flown to the Douglas Municipal airport on 03/13/08 for the 2nd annual Border to Border airshow. It is a flight of only 25 miles from Bisbee airport to Douglas airport right down the International Border between the United States and Mexico. What amazing views. We flew in two days early due to the forecast of high winds on the days of the airshow. Richard of the Douglas Airport welcomed us after an excellent flight on a beautiful day and is allowing the plane to stay safe and snug in the public hanger until the airshow. We wouldn't have been able to fly there as we now have winds forecast of up to 40 knots. Thank you very much Richard.
The Flights For Life airplane is back from the Sierra Vista airport. We had a new Icom A200 aircraft radio installed to allow better communications on the flights to and from the fly-ins and air shows we attend. The friendly experts at Southwest AeroTech did an excellent job. It sure is great to talk to other aircraft and airports again, and it was a beautiful flight home. We hope to add them to our sponsor list soon. You can contact them at 459-3640. Ask for Dave.
03/08/2008 N349AZ now has a new throttle cable, 4 new NGK spark plugs, all new fuel lines and filters, a new intercom installed and new "The Flights For Life" decals on the fibergalss pod. We want to be seen! Check out the photo gallery for new photos soon.
We also want to thank Brewery Avenue Designs in Bisbee, Arizona for the great work on The Flights For Life T-shirts, and a great price too. We are on out third order and more to go we hope. Thanks Larry.
OUR CREW, and people who have donated time and effort.
The creation of The Flights For Life began simply as a wish to help support the American Cancer Society. Without so much help from all of the people involved we could not have come to the point we are at now. Our many thanks to all involved for all the hard work. Hang in there crew, only 15 months left to work on this.
Denis Cournoyer: District Executive Director, American Cancer Society, Great West Division, Tucson, Arizona.
Kim Christian: My wife. Organizer, bookeeper, and supporter. Kim is the daughter of Adrienne Kay Eldridge, who was a recent victim of cancer and to whom this entire wonderful effort is dedicated to.
Cobban Barnett: A new friend and webmaster with incredible skills and ideas for our website.
Katie and Jerry Howard: Another new friend and the event co-chair of the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life in Bisbee, Arizona. Thanks for all of the help Katie, and all of the Bisbee Relay For Life crew, Tom, Carol, Clara, Robert and others I have failed to mention.
Bob Haufman: A builder of Xair ultralight airplanes, loaner of tools, fellow pilot to be, ground crew and chase vehicle driver for the great flight to Oshkosh, Wisconsin and AirVenture in 2009.
Kyra and Kylie Reese: Daughter and granddaughter of Adrienne Eldridge. They flew from Michigan to help us at the Border to Border Airshow. We really enjoyed having them. Nice tattoos girls!
Myself: Kim Christian (yes, same name as my wife listed above) Flying is always great, but flying with a purpose makes it even greater. Thanks to all.
Others being added all the time. Thanks.
The creation of The Flights For Life began simply as a wish to help support the American Cancer Society. Without so much help from all of the people involved we could not have come to the point we are at now. Our many thanks to all involved for all the hard work. Hang in there crew, only 15 months left to work on this.
Denis Cournoyer: District Executive Director, American Cancer Society, Great West Division, Tucson, Arizona.
Kim Christian: My wife. Organizer, bookeeper, and supporter. Kim is the daughter of Adrienne Kay Eldridge, who was a recent victim of cancer and to whom this entire wonderful effort is dedicated to.
Cobban Barnett: A new friend and webmaster with incredible skills and ideas for our website.
Katie and Jerry Howard: Another new friend and the event co-chair of the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life in Bisbee, Arizona. Thanks for all of the help Katie, and all of the Bisbee Relay For Life crew, Tom, Carol, Clara, Robert and others I have failed to mention.
Bob Haufman: A builder of Xair ultralight airplanes, loaner of tools, fellow pilot to be, ground crew and chase vehicle driver for the great flight to Oshkosh, Wisconsin and AirVenture in 2009.
Kyra and Kylie Reese: Daughter and granddaughter of Adrienne Eldridge. They flew from Michigan to help us at the Border to Border Airshow. We really enjoyed having them. Nice tattoos girls!
Myself: Kim Christian (yes, same name as my wife listed above) Flying is always great, but flying with a purpose makes it even greater. Thanks to all.
Others being added all the time. Thanks.
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