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FEATURED AIRSTRIP: SPIRAL JETTY, UTAH
Each month we highlight an airstrip with hopes that you will get out and enjoy these special places. This month’s Featured Airstrip is Spiral Jetty in Utah, where you can experience 70s land art. Utah Back County Pilots volunteers kicked off their springtime airstrip clean-up efforts with the 2,000-ft long dirt Spiral Jetty airstrip. “The…
Read MoreUT: SPIRAL JETTY AND BLACK MOUNTAIN WORK PARTY
Fly in or possible drive in to Black Mountain to help get these airstrips put into their best and safest flying shape. To be held Saturday, March 9, weather permitting. Please email Utah State Liaison Wendy Lessig for details and head count for food, wlessig@theraf.org.
Read MoreGETTIN’ IT DONE IN UTAH
RAF Utah Liaison and Utah Back Country Pilots board member Wendy Lessig reports that this spring, UBCP volunteers completed work to preserve several airstrip treasures. Recently Locomotive Springs was dragged. “Both runways are smooth enough for most planes to land, for now,” Lessig said. Here you’ll stand on the transcontinental airmail route and one of the concrete directional arrows, a sort of early…
Read More…IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS
The 2020 RAF Photo Contest concluded, again with striking results. We added a new category this year, “RAF Mission” that produced some very appealing images of what we do and why. There were more than 200 submissions this year, topping the response from last year. Your response illustrates that the RAF is fulfilling its mission…
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