Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Re-painting the compass rose at the Siler City Airport

Several years ago, the nice ladies from the local 99's Women's Pilot Club designed and painted this wonderful compass rose on the ramp at Siler City. It is used by the mechanics to "swing" the compass in the airplane (adjust the accuracy of the compass). The cardinal points (N - S - E -W) were surveyed and marked, then the ladies drew out this complicated design in pavement parking paint.

Over time, it has deteriorated badly - so the Town asked that it be repainted.



What follows is a series of photos over the course of two days. I would like to thank the following "volunteers" - some of whom were "guilted" in to helping out just because they happened to be at the airport!! (Note they're all male this time around!!)

Wayne Andrews
Mike Neher
Bill Houston
Noel Fallwell
Barry Hayes

Also note the beautiful blue sky!! What wonderful weather we had over the past couple of days!

Just page thru the photos to see as the work progressed -




















All done!!! We're all moaning and groaning about tired legs and sore knees - but it sure is pretty!! Now we just have to decide what to put in the very center - probably the identifier for the airport. Glad that's done for a few years!

6 comments:

affectioknit said...

It's BEEEUUUTIIIFULLLL!!!! ...and you're not a man...

Love,

T

Miranda said...

Haha it looks so nice! I'm glad you put those airport regulars to work! =P

And I think you should put a big picture Axle in the middle - he could be the new airport mascot!

Karen said...

hey miranda! yes, we're trying to decide what to put in the middle.....does that mean you're volunteering to paint axle's picture there????

love, k

Karen said...

and t - yeah, last time i checked i was not a man!

love, k

Elizabeth said...

Sure does look nice. maybe we'll see it from the air soon. MOM

Miranda said...

Haha, errrr - just kidding, you can put whatever you want in there! =P

Maybe it could just be a fancy image of SILER CITY AIRPORT or something!