Tuesday, April 24, 2007



We had a good day at the Asheboro airport yesterday....3 business jets - and they all took fuel. Makes up for a few rainy days!!


The "Ninety-nines" are a group of lady pilots that volunteer to paint compass roses at local airports across N.C. This past weekend, they painted the rose at Siler City. The compass rose is used to align the compass in the airplane. (When you install a new compass, it's not calibrated due to magnetic interference. You use the compass rose on the ground to align your plane in all the different directions.) This can be done with a simple "X" marked on the ground, but it's just really cool to have one painted like this!!

1 comment:

affectioknit2 said...

That's very pretty - Volunteers are great!!!