Volunteers needed for Air & Space Museum Event

[hang_pilot]

What: Become a Pilot Family Day
When: Saturday, June 14, 10 am – 3 pm
Where: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Udvar Hazy Center (Near Dulles Airport)

In a competitive process, the Smithsonian has accepted CHGPA's application to exhibit at Become a Pilot Family Day: http://www.nasm.si.edu/becomeapilot/. Become a Pilot draws the highest attendance numbers annually at the Museum, with crowds typically exceeding 10,000 people.

This event and the Kite Festival comprise our club’s major PR activities for the year and we need your support. I will set up my Moyes LiteSport and Ozone Buzz but need friendly folks to help me chat up free-flight to an aviation-minded audience. Please let me know what time frame you can swing by to help me man our display: dbrox@gwu.edu.

*Exhibitors receive free parking (let me know the year, make, model and license plate number of your car), breakfast, lunch and a pilot's picnic later;

*Bacil says that Sunday will be a better flying day than Saturday.

*We will share the tarmac with modern and vintage GA aircraft, helicopters, sailplanes, hot air balloons and old warbirds. Way cool!

*PG pilots bring your wing to kite.

*We are lucky to have the nation's premier aerospace museum in our backyard and even luckier that they welcome us to their biggest public event.

*A great family outing. The Airmen of Note, the Air Force's big band jazz ensemble with roots tracing back to Glenn Miller, will be performing.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Blue skies,
Daniel

[MikeB]

Hello Danial,
I'm happy to join you with my PG. Hopefully there'll be a blast door between you and the jets!
Do I need anything to get in as a participant? See you Friday at the meeting.
Michael Brooks

[hang_pilot]

Hello Danial,
I'm happy to join you with my PG. Do I need anything to get in as a participant?

Hi, Mike-

Thanks so much for agreeing to help! I will put you on a list at the front gate for free parking but need your license plate number, make, model and year of your vehicle. Send me an e-mail at dbrox@gwu.edu.

You don't need to bring anything and I'll give you the low down at the meeting on Friday.

Best,
Daniel

[hang_pilot]

Thanks to Bacil and Mike B for volunteering. We need at least one more person! Please do your part to help promote the sport!

~Daniel

[hang_pilot]

Special thanks to Mike Brooks, Kathy Coleman, Bacil Dickert and Carlos Weill for helping promote hang gliding and paragliding at the Air & Space Museum’s Become a Pilot Family Day. When you next seem them, please offer these folks retrieve rides, their drinks of choice or at least warm thanks for helping to maintain the stream of new pilots into our community.

This is our 3rd year participating in Become a Pilot and the organizers again gave us the primo spot: we were the first exhibit guests saw as they came out of the museum onto the tarmac. Unfortunately, t-storms showed up on the radar just as things were getting busy. Many of the GA pilots had to bail because they flew in VFR, and so the museum had to close the event early. We were still able to talk up the sports to an aviation minded audience and made lots of referrals to our local instructors.

~Daniel

This is cool: In the administrative offices of the museum they have pictures on the wall from a women in aviation exhibit. There’s a particularly striking one of Susan Pierce at the Pulpit: she’s in her harness and helmet, looking intense and ready to fly. A glider is soaring over her right shoulder. Would a FIFI please let Susan know, in case she doesn't, that her image is enshrined with the sky goddesses?