Need volunteers 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

[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

[Batman]

Wish I could help, but will be celebrating my wifes birthday on Saturday!

C

[carweill]

Daniel,
Are you still looking for people?
If you are what time do you want to start?

Carlos

[hang_pilot]

Are you still looking for people? If you are what time do you want to start?

Currently we have 4 volunteers to staff our display: good karma to Mike, Kathy, Bacil and me. That's the minimum for this event. More would be great and I'd love to have you there, along with anyone else who is interested -- more volunteers would free up Mike and I to draw some attention by kiting. The only issue, at this stage it is too late for me to get you on the free parking list. If anyone is interested, please call my cell: 301-275-6584. I'm not sure how much I'll be on-line between now and tomorrow.

~Daniel

[hang_pilot]

what time do you want to start?

Forgot to answer this part. Public portion of the event starts at 10:00. Set up is under control, so 9:45 until 3:30 pm.

[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?