2013 North Carolina Sonex Spring Fling (May 11, 2012)

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We have settled on a date for the Fourth Annual NC Sonex Spring Fly-in. On Saturday May 11, 2013 we are planning to meet at , Siler City Municipal Airport (5W8) this year. We thought that a change in Venue would be a good idea and give people an opportunity to see another great airport in North Carolina.

So without further adieu, we would like to extend an invitation to you all to come and join us for a great day at Siler city on Saturday May 11, 2013. Please mark your calendars and go to the registration page to register so that we can get an indication for food, drinks and parking.

Register on the ASA events page at

http://www.americansonexassociation.org/events/index.html

If any of you out there would like to add to the content of the day please send me a note to "shaypete at gmail.com" and I will be glad to add you to the agenda. After all these events are intended to share ideas and information.


Thanks from
Pete Van Schalkwyk (Smith) Michael Crowder and "Winding" Wayne Andrews

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OK Now that I have your attention we have only got 21 days to go before the Fourth Annual NC Sonex Spring Fly-in on Saturday May 11, 2013 at Siler City Municipal Airport (5W8).

If you don't have anything to do we would love to have you at our fly in. Fly your Sonex/Waiex/Xenos or Onex and please bring a friend so we can share the Sonex experience with them.

As of right now we have 15 Sonex's planning to fly into the meeting with many of the pilots willing to give introductory rides to prospective builder and people interested in the Sonex line of products.

We have at least one Onex planning to attend the event. I know I am looking forward to seeing a Onex up close and personal. In addition to seeing all the Sonex products we have Terry Gardner doing a presentation on "Painting your aircraft with automotive products". Charlie Steffey will be doing a forum on "Plans Discussion"

This year we have door prizes, ranging from T-Shirts, hats, pitot covers the list goes on and on.

Door Prizes and support come from:
Sonex
Wicks
Aircraft Spruce
Prince Aircraft Company (Huge Discount on a Composite propeller)
Sportys
Trade-A-Plane
MGL Aviation ( A $240 G meter )
Great Plains Aircraft

Free registration is available at http://www.americansonexassociation.org ... index.html
and we ask you to please register so that we can adequately cater for the event.

Please consider coming down to see us for a full day of fun.

Pete Smith (shaypete@gmail.com)
Waiex #38

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We have less than a week before the NC Sonex Spring Fly-in. On Saturday May 11, 2013 at Siler City Municipal Airport.
So far we have:- 16 Sonex type aircraft and 61 folks registered for the event. If you can make it I would encourage you to register ASAP as we need to give the Pizza people a heads up. The weather looks like we are going to have a nice day with the Highs projected to be 77 deg. To register please go to the ASA Events page.

http://www.americansonexassociation.org ... index.html

It cost nothing to register and the event is free. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Pete & Shayne "Smith"
MIchael Crowder
Wayne Andrews
Charlie Steffey

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Fourth Annual NC Sonex Spring Fly-in Wrap-up

The fourth annual NC Sonex Spring Fly-in was held on the 11th of May 2013. Registered we had 15 Sonex's and 90 people. Unfortunately due to weather many people were not able to attend. We ended the day with 5 Sonex's and 55 people attending the event. The day started out nice with registration and demo rides. We manage to give 11 people a ride, Unfortunately time ran out and four people missed out on rides, they were Donald Lewis, Frank Cordrey, Binh Nguyen, David Aker. We apologize to those folks. We had two Sonex aircraft and a vintage Ercoupe giving rides. Wayne Andrews and Peter van Schalkwyk gave Sonex rides and Claude Burkhead gave rides in his Ercoupe. Attendee’s receiving Sonex rides were Bill Rushing, Anne Bernoux, Jeremian Lewis, Larry Ayers, Chris Arnold, Alan Waters, Ryan Drouin, Eric Arnold, and Jeff Claridge. Getting rides in the Ercoupe were Jeshuah Lewis and Jesich Lewis.

At noon, we broke for lunch with Pizza from a local pizza establishment. Once everyone had their fill, we welcomed everyone to the fly-in. We then had a presentation on Aircraft Painting with Automotive Paint by a local EAA Technical Counselor Terry Gardner. The presentation seemed well received by attendees. With weather starting to move in we moved into the door prize awards. Bill Rushing was the lucky winner of the MGL "G"Meter worth $200.00 and Doug Raby bought the Prince "E"series propeller that was offered to ASA- SE at a special price by Lonnie Prince. Door prizes from Wicks Aircraft, Sonex, MGL, Aircraft Spruce, Trade-a-Plane went quickly. We would like to thank all the sponsors for their generosity and helping to make this event a success.

Everyone again returned to the Ramp to talk more about the attending Sonex aircraft. Charley Steffey gave those that were interested a chance to see a set of Sonex plans and he gave a brief overview to them. Peter and Wayne continued to give demo flights, but weather was quickly moving in at this point. Attendees departed to their homes and we concluded the day. We’d like to thank all the pilots and attendees for making this another great fly-in.

Pictures of the event can be seen here:

http://tinyurl.com/2013SonexFly-in

Now onto planning the next event, the Tenth Annual American Sonex Association Fly-in will be held on Friday and Saturday October the 11th and 12th 2013 at Crossville, TN (KCSV) for two days of fun and flying.