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Ins ide Th i s

Is su e

Message From

the President,

Secretary,

Publisher

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UFO Area

Meeting

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For Your

Information

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Come Fly With

Us

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5

The High Flyers 6

The High Flyers 7

New Members /

Area Directors

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U n i t e d F l y i n g

O c t o g e n a r i a n s

S p e c i a l P o i n t s o f

I n t e r e s t :

Update Your Paper

FAA License

UFO Membership

Card

The Left Seat

We now have 625 members, which is the highest number ever.

Most of you have paid your dues. If you have any questions,

do not hesitate to call, write or email. We also have in place

31 Area Directors and our local meetings are gaining strength

in keeping with our increase in membership. Also we now have eight UFO au-

thors who have contributed their books to our lending library. Please let me

know if you want to check out a book. There is no charge.

Bart Bratko • Secretary–Treasurer

M a r c h 2 0 1 0 V o l u m e 1 1 I s s u e 1

I am aware that we are getting a lot of new members.

Congratulations to all of you who have just joined us. That

said, it is wonderful to hear from you with a story of your fly-

ing experiences. I need your story along with a color photo of

you and your airplane. The older members who have had to

quit flying really like to see what the younger active members are doing.

Please keep sending me this information. Bill Webber Vice President, Publisher.

Email: wjwebber@comcast.net

T h e S l i p S t r e a m

The Jump Seat

The UFO is in a climb mode. Many of our new members

are ―young‖ which is so encouraging. Nancy Warren is our

first national Director. She is a lovely lady and has an

amazing international background. Each of us is a UFO

crew member on our wonderful flight through life. Please

recruit one new UFO member. We are seeking suggestions from the member-

ship as to how we can add to your enjoyment as a part of the UFO. Kindly

send your ideas to me (ablair1920@cox.net) or to your Area Director

Alan Blair • President

The Right Seat

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U n i t e d F l y i n g O c t o g e n a r i a n s

COME JOIN US

Area Meetings that are

coming your way

Georgia and South Carolina

Area Director Art Mirkin (90). He is working with Herb

Sloane (95) Area Director for Alabama for a meeting. He re-

ports they are planning a 3 state meeting on May 8, 2010.

Area Director Chuck Downey (85) is planning a meeting on July 23. This will be

at Poplar Grove, IL.

Illinois

Washington State

UFO’s will meet again in July at Friday Harbor. Our neighbors in BC Can-

ada will be there. The members in the eastern part of the state will meet with

the Idaho members at a new restaurant at Spokane International Airport (XN

Air FBO) in April.

New Jersey and Pennsylvania

May 1st, at Queen City Airport in Allentown, PA, with an

FAA Seminar followed by lunch.

Canada

Area Director Don Wyatt (83) is planning a meeting in the first weekend in

May. This will be at the same time the Aviation Expo is being held at the

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton Ontario. This is where

the only flying copy of the Lancaster is based.

Warren Glaze (85) is planning a May meeting. They are looking at

Aurora ,OR.

Oregon

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U n i t e d F l y i n g O c t o g e n a r i a n s

The Board of Directors of the UFO voted to contribute $500 to

the Salvation Army to aid in the relief to Haiti after the devas-

tating earthquake in January

For Your Information!!!!!

Dan Bellware (83), Area Director for New Jersey,

just reported he has lost his medical and he has

an airplane for sale. Pictures and details are here.

This is a 2006 Flight Design ST 115 TT. He has

invested $120,000 in it and is asking $89,000. The plane has a Ballistic

parachute, three axis trim, Rotax engine monitoring system, cabin heat, LED Strobes and position

lights, Neuform 3 blade prop, night lighting package, PS engineering intercom, Dnon glass panel,

panel mounted Garman 396 GPS with weather, Tru Track Pictorial Auto Pilot with Altitude hold

(slaved to GPS). Call Dan at 732-742-2093 if you are interested.

Airplane For Sale

Do you still have a paper pilot’s license? Most of us

do. Well, it is no longer any good. The FAA says as

of March 31, 2010, you need to get a plastic one from

them. It costs $2.00 and there are two ways to do this:

Go online at http://www.faa.gov.licenses_certificates/

airman_certification/airmen/services and fill out the

form. Or sign a letter with this information - Name,

Date and Place of Birth, Social Security Number or

Certificate Number, and the reason you need a replace-

ment. Don’t mail them your original license.

Mail to:

Federal Aviation Administration

Airmen Certification Branch AFS-760

P. O. Box 25082

Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

Update Your Paper FAA Licence

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Come Fly With Us Reports On UFO Members That Had Local Meetings!!

U n i t e d F l y i n g O c t o g e n a r i a n s

UFO

From the left: Bart Bratko (88), visi-

tor from MA Willy Schauer

(85),Wendell Davenport (83), Jack De

Tour (86), Scotty Watkins (83), John

Gleeson (86), and kneeling is Nick

Palumbo (81). We had a great meet-

ing with 6 members there. That is the

best participation we have ever had!!!

Sad news however. On Jan 10, Nick

Palumbo and his son died in an acci-

dent in their airplane. Our condo-

lences to his family.

UFO MEETING IN HAWAII ON JAN. 6, 2010

The first UFO local meeting in 2010 happened in Florida on January 22 at Milton Garden Inn in

Lakeland, FL. Area Director Don Newman (86) got this group together. There were 30 mem-

bers and spouses. They came at 11:00 to register, ate lunch and each was allowed 5 minutes to

tell his or her story. There was one who they couldn't stop talking for 20 minutes. Light Sport

Planes was discussed. In 5 years, they have come a long way. Congratulations to all of you for

being first and probably most. Pictured: Allen Alman (81), James Bannerman (81), Edward

Beatty (81), John Bingham (80), Stanley Blumm (91), Gerard Blais (90), Jack Brewer, Ernie

Colbert (82), Doreen Colbert, Albert Colangelo (81), Don Davidson, Peg Davidson (81), Thomas

Davis (82), Ellison Davison (82), Bill Doty, Charles Downey (85), Charles Lopez (82), Luis Lo-

pez, Noel Mouchou (81, Marilyn Mouchou, Don Newman(86), Ed Packard (85), Robert Symth,

Richard Spauldiing (90), Nancy Spaulding, Mel Taylor (92), Bob Wall, Allan Wise (90), and

Savel Wise.

FLORIDA

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Come Fly With Us Reports On UFO Members That Had Local Meetings!!

U n i t e d F l y i n g O c t o g e n a r i a n s

UFO

Colin Griffin (90), our AD there emails: ―Greetings in response to your email

from the land of open spaces and arriving boat people. Personally I am going

gangbusters, made the big nine-0 last September with marbles to spare and an

RV6 to boot. Lovely little bug crusher. About new members – I have one on the books, he is

MELBOURNIAN, Charles Morrison. We have yet to meet, but he and I have exchanged greet-

ings on the blower twice. Despite frequent adverts, at the moment we are a two man band, but I

am an incurable optimist and continue to advertise for new members. Meanwhile, I have joined

some blokes and purchased a YAK 52 for some adventure and joy riding—sideline, won’t make

shekels but sure will have fun. And they are smart, top pilots, two LAMIES all with electrical

expertise.‖ (Question from Editor: How come we don't talk like that?)

Australia

Bill Bredar (85), AD for Colorado and Wyoming put together a meeting at the Perfect Landing

Restaurant overlooking the ramp at the airport. Bill put together the first local program 2 years

ago for the UFO’s. He is planning another one in 3 months. Pat Halloran (81) talked about

Mach 3 and meeting with Jimmy Doolittle. Contributors to the 2 hour program were Ted Wil-

kinson (74) , brother of Lee Wilkinson (82), Anita Hessin(89), and Jim Barrow (83).

DENVER CO. CENTENNIAL AIRPORT ON FEB. 24, 2010

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U n i t e d F l y i n g O c t o g e n a r i a n s

Nancy Warren (81) Columbus, IN

Here you see Nancy Warren (81) with her cousin Mike David (84).

Mike doesn’t fly anymore. They grew up together in Nashville,

IN. Mike started flying in 1945 and was in three wars flying eve-

rything that was made. He flew 100 missions in Korea and 154 in

Vietnam. Nancy started flying in 1985 and seldom saw Mike. In

November, they got together at the airport and

thought it would be great to fly with each other.

What a wonderful feeling it was for Nancy to see

Mike take the controls of her Cardinal. That’s a

wonderful story on how great it is to have cousins

and fly.

Nancy just signed up as our Area Director for Indi-

ana. All of the things about Nancy are too much for

just one page. She is a writer of books and articles

for flying magazines, etc. She is a Women Air force Service Pilot and on March 9, she and 180

others were in Washington D.C. to receive the Congressional Gold Medal ,the highest civilian

honor available.

She wrote about women in aviation for her column this month in her local newspaper that ap-

peared in March 21, 2010. The story is about the WASP during WWII and the similar group of

women who did the same thing in Russia. The Russian women not only flew all airplanes during

the war, they flew combat besides. Her description of the hardship they went through was unbe-

lievable. There just isn’t room to put all of the story into this edition of the newsletter, but it will

be sent out to you in an email for all of those with a computer. Will advise you when this avail-

THE HIGH FLYERS

Ernie Wakehouse (87) Portland, OR

Ernie was stationed in Korea in 1951. Beginning on September 15 until

December 16, he flew 100 missions in those 90 days. All were low level

flights and many of his comrades didn’t make it back.

As a retired foreign car dealer he likes to fly all over Oregon and Wash-

ington for lunch in his ’65 S Model Bonanza. Nice going Ernie !!!!

Chuck Downey (85) of

Poplar Grove, IL is

someone we have writ-

ten about before. He keeps coming up with something new

all of the time. First of all, he is Area Director for IL. He is

planning a meeting on July 23. The place is Poplar Grove

(C77) at the Wings and Wheels Museum. He now spends his

winters in Florida and is a big part of the CAF in Deland,

FL. Pictured here, he is working on the wing of a TBM

Avenger ad WWII Torpedo Bomber. Chuck’s flying began

when he was 18 and joined the Navy. He is the youngest pilot

the Navy ever had. He was just a few week younger than our Former US President, George H. Bush. In

Poplar Grove, he designed his house at the airport to live in and hanger his airplane—A 1941 Meyers OTW

Vintage biplane, which he flew across the country last year.

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U n i t e d F l y i n g O c t o g e n a r i a n s

Chuck Downey (85)

THE HIGH FLYERS

Neil Deye of Gilbert South Carolina. He started flying in1949 and received a Master Pilot Award

in 2007. He flew Aerobatics in airshows

during the 50’s. I live in a dream home at

an airpark—Gilbert International (SC45)

and have a Piper Colt and a Culver Cadet.

He is a Commercial Pilot and instructor as

well as an A/P.

Neil Deye (80)

The Member’s UFO card shown below was included with your 2010 Directory that was mailed out

the first part of January. We have reports that some might not have noticed this card in the enve-

lope and threw it away. If you do not have your card, Bart Bratko will be happy to make you a new

one. Call or email him.

Bart Bratko

Phone: 508-651-8287

E-mail: bart_bratko@hotmail.com

Did You Receive Your New UFO Card?

UFO Secretary/Treasurer

Bart Bratko

19 Bay State Road

Natick, MA 01760 Phone: 508-651-8287

E-mail: bart_bratko@hotmail.com

Newsletter/Publisher

Bill Webber

11910 Country Club Dr.

Spokane, WA 99218 509-466-2026

wjwebber@comcast.net

United Flying

Octogenarians

U FO

UFO

Bill Webber

11910 N. Country Club Dr.

Spokane, WA 99218

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New UFO Members

Visit the Web Site—www.unitedflyingoctogenarians.org

UFO Area Directors

Name State Phone

K.R. Hale AL (334)358-2461

Marvin Becker CA (530)272-5774

Alexis Kozloff CA (949)786-7742

Richard Double CA (562)431-5232

Ralph Goulds CO (970)731-5679

Frederick Herbert CT (860)889-5870

Willis Ocain CT (860)672-6419

Sheldon Holson CT (203)847-8832

James Miles FL (904)372-0757

Paul Rosen FL (561)492-8802

Robert Wall FL (352)245-5518

Name State Phone

Gene Littlefield IL (815)476-6176

James Harvey IL (618)654-1096

Anne Osmer NC (828)697-2893

Salvatore Tripoli NC (919)210-4833

Victor Plumbo NJ (609)743-0851

Harold Joseph Levy NY (631)329-0425

William King NY (845)268-7077

Dale Kline OH (419)862-3352

Henry Jinings OR (503)982-4148

Neil Deye SC (803)657-6798

Richard Grant TX (817)988-9410

Albert Powers WA (206)283-9996

William Stoeckmann WI (608)963-2499

AREA Name

AL, MS, LA Herb Sloane (334)832-2413

Argentina Hugo Casadella (5411)4815-8779

Australia Colin Griffin

California North Harald Wolfe (530)272-1788

California South Alan Blair (805)969-3667

Canada Central Garth Greenaway (780)458-5263

Canada East Don Wyatt (709)754-2571

Canada West Liz Lane (250)370-2161

CO, WY Bill Bredar (303)399-0047

FL Don Newman (727)461-0237

GA, SC Arthur Mirkin (404)754-4883

HI Jack DeTour (808)487-2842

IA, NE Ike Leighty (319)232-9955

IL Charles Downey (815)218-2161

IN Nancy Warren (812)372-2769

KS OK MO AR Jim Meacheam (417)881-2611

MA Bart Bratko (508)651-8287

MD, DE Brian Power-Waters (410)758-2622

Nevada City, CA Marvin Becker (530)272-5774

NJ, East PA Dan Bellware (609)720-0404

NM Leroy McLaren (505)298-7759

NV, AZ Lowell Kongable (480)946-3878

NY William King (845)268-7077

OH Robert Skoog (937)393-4792

OR Warren Glaze (541)469-0952

PA, VA Steve Dolak (814)943-6071

RI,CT,NY,MA,ME,NH Baron George (508)564-6191

TN, KY, NC Patrick Byrne (865)463-8675

TX Jack Ashmore (903)737-9939

TX, Houston James Ashmore (281)353-0389

WA, ID, MT, UT William Webber (509)466-2026

WI, ND, SD, MN Doc Mosher (920)727-1534