OSH 2007 Parties -- You're all invited!

In article .com,
Jay Honeck wrote:
Jay, could you hoist an RA H.O.P.S flag or banner that would be visible from
the end of the row? It would give people something to look for.

Great idea! Any flag-makers in the group?

Getting a flag high enough to be seen from a good distance might
be tough, but a few helium balloons could easily be raised high
enough to be visible. Probably easier to fit a few mylar balloons
and some rope in Atlas then a bunch of lengths of flag pole.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

Go over to Piggly Wiggly or Target, or whoever is in the shopping mall
across from Tuck's. Get two or three "happy birthday" helium balloons. Tie
them to Atlas' prop with a hundred feet or so of thread or very light
string.

Jim



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...


Don't even TRY to find the party by "taking a stroll through the North
40", as some folks did last year. Unless you are very lucky, indeed,
you will literally walk MILES before you find us -- if you ever do!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"John Clear" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
Jay Honeck wrote:
Jay, could you hoist an RA H.O.P.S flag or banner that would be visible
from
the end of the row? It would give people something to look for.

Great idea! Any flag-makers in the group?

Getting a flag high enough to be seen from a good distance might
be tough, but a few helium balloons could easily be raised high
enough to be visible. Probably easier to fit a few mylar balloons
and some rope in Atlas then a bunch of lengths of flag pole.

It doesn't need to be too high. Only higher than the planes around it. You
only need to see it from the end of the row. You could pull Atlas a little
forward so the prop is out in the taxiway and hang a flag from the prop.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
Go over to Piggly Wiggly or Target, or whoever is in the shopping mall
across from Tuck's. Get two or three "happy birthday" helium balloons.
Tie them to Atlas' prop with a hundred feet or so of thread or very light
string.

Jim

That could get ugly if the wind kicks up.

Tie them to Atlas' prop with a
hundred feet or so of thread or very light
string.

Considering the airshow occuring right nearby, that's probably a Very
Bad Idea.

How about using radios? Agree on a frequency and monitor it.

Jose
--
Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe,
except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no universe.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

So shorten the string. Sheesh, don't y'all ever modify things as conditions
require? Besides, a flag on a pole is a hell of a lot uglier when the pole
snaps and drives itself through the windshield. Balloons bounce, poles
don't.

Jim



"Steve Foley" wrote in message
...
"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
Go over to Piggly Wiggly or Target, or whoever is in the shopping mall
across from Tuck's. Get two or three "happy birthday" helium balloons.
Tie them to Atlas' prop with a hundred feet or so of thread or very light
string.

Jim

That could get ugly if the wind kicks up.

You ever been to Oshkosh, Jose? The airshow aerobatic box is a good half a
mile to a mile east of the north 40. If somebody is coming over the north
40 at a hundred feet or so, something terribly wrong has happened and a
couple of balloons in the way isn't going to make a hell of a lot of
difference.

You could fly them at **50** feet and still be plainly visible. At that
rate, they are going to take out a telephone pole along the side of the
field WAY before they plow through some one mil mylar.

Jim


"Jose" wrote in message
.. .
Tie them to Atlas' prop with a
hundred feet or so of thread or very light string.

Considering the airshow occuring right nearby, that's probably a Very Bad
Idea.

How about using radios? Agree on a frequency and monitor it.

Jose
--
Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe,
except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no
universe.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
So shorten the string. Sheesh, don't y'all ever modify things as
conditions require? Besides, a flag on a pole is a hell of a lot uglier
when the pole snaps and drives itself through the windshield. Balloons
bounce, poles don't.

Jim


From what I've heard, a few hours into the party nobody would be able to
find the string, let alone shorten it

(RST Engineering" wrote)
You could fly them at **50** feet and still be plainly visible. At that
rate, they are going to take out a telephone pole along the side of the
field WAY before they plow through some one mil mylar.


So how about this:

Attach one end of a light-weight flagging banner to a telephone pole,
nearest Jay's row. The free end of the flagging banner could be held up by
dozens of helium balloons? Huh? Huh?

Wait, I've got more...

Jim Weir
Is the hangar space in Waupaca going to work out for you?


Montblack

"RST Engineering" wrote

Forest? How do you set 50,000 acres of corn on fire?

chuckle

You DO have a point there. Although, I do think I remember seeing about 3
trees growing in a clump around a farm house, one time in Iowa! g
--
Jim in NC