RAF SIGNS NEW MEXICO AIRSTRIP NETWORK RENEWAL
The RAF was invited to be the first of 13 parties to sign the New Mexico Airstrip Network (NMAN) Memorandum of Understanding renewal. “I’m proud to have been at the signing of the original MOU, and this renewal is proof that our combined efforts are worthwhile. The RAF will gladly shoulder our responsibilities going forward,” RAF…
Read MorePARALLEL AIRSTRIP IMPROVED IN CENTRAL MAINE
RAF Maine Liaison Steve Mason has reported on a successful improvement project at Norridgewock, Maine, KOWK. The municipal airport has multiple asphalt runways and a parallel turf airstrip. Mason learned that the town would not maintain the turf airfield, so he obtained an RAF grant to reclaim and enhance safety at the strip. “The grass…
Read MoreAIR SAFETY INSTITUTE BACKCOUNTRY WEBINAR AVAILABLE
RAF President Bill McGlynn was a panelist on the AOPA Air Safety Institute’s “Back to the Back Country: 2021 in review” live webinar November 18. This presentation was a segment of the Air Safety Institute’s Backcountry Safety Initiative that the RAF participated in last May. The free webinar was a reflection on recent backcountry flight accidents in…
Read MoreRAF PODCAST ADDED: SAVING GOODSPEED WITH BILL BRINE
The RAF is adding podcasts of stories about flying, airplanes and how and why people bond with this organization. In our latest installment, Bill McGlynn talks to Director Bill Brine and discusses the steps involved in saving a recreational airstrip. Now you can enjoy The RAF and Backcountry Flying 30-minute podcasts on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, and Apple podcasts on your smartphone or laptop, or…
Read MoreDr. Jim Stevenson
Jim was one of those kids who was fascinated with flight from the start. Living in Wisconsin, he went to Oshkosh regularly. He worked at the FBO as line kid, and set his goal to become an aeronautical engineer. At Purdue University he discovered the subject required a painful level of math, so he switched…
Read MoreRAF Podcast #11: Sarah Tamar and Filip Wolak
Listen to Sarah and Filip discuss all the fun and adventure of “flamping” across America as a relief from pandemic isolation. Go to Flamp Across America for the photo journal of their trip.
Read MoreRAF Podcast #10: Saving Goodspeed
Bill talks to RAF Director Bill Brine, discussing the steps involved in saving a recreational airstrip.
Read MoreRAF GRANT FUNDS BLACKWATER, FLORIDA MAINTENANCE
RAF Florida Liaison Bobby Capozzi has been awarded an RAF grant for continued maintenance at Blackwater airfield (8FD3) near Munson, Florida, 33 nm northeast of Pensacola. “This grant will benefit the aviation community and continue our current relationship that the RAF enjoys with the Florida State Forestry who owns the airfield,” Capozzi says. This grant will…
Read MoreCAMPAIGN TO SAVE TONGASS CABINS CONTINUES
RAF Southeast Alaska Liaison Jeff DeFreest has motivated volunteers to help preserve some of the 140 US Forest Service cabins in the vast Tongass National Forest. Some are in jeopardy of closure due to perceived lack of use. “RAF volunteers delivered our USFS approved RAF informational letters throughout August, September and October to seventeen of these…
Read MoreDISTRICT RANGER AND OVERSEER OF NEW AIRSTRIP ON USFS LAND RETIRES
Forest Service District Ranger Ron Wiseman served the Judith-Musselshell Ranger District of the Lewis and Clark National Forest throughout the permitting and creation of Montana’s Russian Flat airstrip. He has announced his retirement from the Forest Service. From the very inception, the RAF and the Montana Pilots Association joined efforts to gain approval on the…
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