Upcoming Events:

"Day of Sew" June 13th

Sunday June 13th 9am. We are all getting together for a Day of Sew at JonAli Quilt Store, 289 S Lake Havasu Ave. We have 300 bags to embroider for the Ninety Nines International Conference next month, and 300 small bags to assemble to go in the goody bags. Need more info? email Pam at rudolph@citlink.net

Unfortunately, we couldn't gather enough airplanes to have our flyout to Prescott Saturday Jun 12th to visit Dianne Tobin's new place and have our monthly meeting. So....the "Day of Sew" will double as the June meeting. We have more details about being the starting point for the Air Race Classic in 2012, input from the city, the airport manager, grant money that is available for the asking, and a notebook full of ideas and notes from previous races to help us make our decision. Tookie will be presenting the information to us, have your list of questions ready! Also, it's time for elections. The nominations are: Shannon for Chairman, Pam for Vice Chairman, Sherri for Secretary, and Melanie for Treasurer. If you are a card carrying, dues paying member, and can not be at the meeting on the 12th, please email your vote to Sherri by clicking on her name

These are our sewing projects, plus we want to stuff a few of the small items into the bags, to save time once we get to Hawaii:

Congratulations to Roxanne and Melissa-Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to Ricki Halling!

Ricki Halling soloed May 5, 2010! She soloed in her Piper Cherokee 235-way to go, Ricki. What a way to start the Cinco de Mayo celebration!

Recent Events

Lunch with the Tucson 99s

We had a fun afternoon with Christina and Lindsey from the Tucson chapter! They had come to Lake Havasu to spend Saturday evening at Sara Park Raceway for the adventures of Demolition Derby and the Waterless Boat Races. On Sunday we all met for lunch at Waldo's and had a great time. The wind never let up that day, so being grounded, they moved the party on over to the Dwyer's house. Up and at it early the next morning, Christina and Lindsey were back in Tucson in 1.5hr in the RV-6....little rocket ship! We are looking forward to the next visit, and being together at the Reno Air Races in September.

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Membership - Women pilots from areas along the Colorado River are invited to join the Rio Colorado 99s chapter. Membership is open to all licensed women pilots.

Archives February 2010  Pancake breakfast, Kristi solo, Dianne checkride, Frances solo

Archives May 2009 Reno Air Races, Pancake Breakfast, London Bridge Days parade with trophy!

Archives July 2009  Don, Shannon and Pam honored at the International Forest of Friendship, Big Bear Fly-out, Painting the compass rose at HII

Archives August 2009 Palms to Pines Air Race

Archives Dec 2009 London Bridge Days Parade, going to "Amelia" Christmas party, Scholarships to Roxanne and Melissa

Business card Exchange

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Photo Album View pictures of our events, fundraisers, and Fun

Scholarship Winner Melissa!

Melissa passed her written exam for Private Pilot on October 27th. Yeah, Melissa! We are so happy to have these new pilots in our group.

On Dec 11, at the 99s Christmas party, Joe LaPlaca awarded Melissa a $500 scholarship to use towards her Private Pilot rating. Shannon and Sherri accepted the award for Melissa.

Scholarship Winner Roxanne Cedor

In November 2009 we awarded a $1000 Scholarship to Roxanne Cedor to use for her Private Pilot training. Congratulations to Roxanne! We know she will be a wonderful asset to our group!

SAVE THE DATE!

The Tucson 99s are beginning to plan for this year's Treasure Hunt in the Sky. You know how we always want to participate in this event, then something always comes up and interferes. Well, no excuses this year! We have 5 months advance notice, they are planning on Saturday November the 6th, so mark your calendars, put in for the weekend off from work, and lets go down to Tucson and have some FUN!

Recent Events:

May meeting

Meeting topics included discussion of being the starting point for the Air Race Classic in 2012, the upcoming International Conference in Kona Hawaii in July, election of officers in June, and flying pre teen girls on their first flight next spring, plus dinner and scholarship awards

"Rivers to Ridges, Desert 'n' Bridges"

Rio Colorado Air Derby March 27, 2010

Legendary air racers, along with air race rookies, braced against the March blustery, gusty, winds to complete the 239 mile Rio Colorado Air Derby this Saturday. What a great time we had! The CAP cadets with George Molitor marshalled us out to the run-up after Bill gave us the okay for engine start. Sherri motioned us onto the runway, where Charlie Cassens waved the green flag, here we go! The racers blasted off at 10am from Lake Havasu (HII) with the first high speed, low altitude, fly-by at Needles airport (EED) Race 1 was happy to be in the lead for a short time, before quickly being passed by Race 4's Fran Bera, the winningest woman pilot ever; and our nemesis, Race 2, before we even arrived at the first fly-by....On to private airport Cadiz (CA90) where John broke away from his palm tree oasis and air-conditioned trailer with big screen TV long enough to log the fly bys...From Cadiz to Blythe (BLH) ahhh, a turn to the downwind, out of the turbulence with the wind at our backs, ground speed picking up, wait a minute...airplane passing us? AAggghh, crank it on around Dianne! A quick fly by at Blythe and setting up for our most important fly-by at Quartzsite. We know we have an audience there and we want to please. Dragging our wing through the palm fronds and seeing the whites of their eyes and the smiles on their faces, we know we did a good job. Then its on up Hwy 95 and over the river, to intercept the extended centerline of 32 at Havasu. Lots of activity there, the regular traffic, racers coming in for fly-by, the crowds whooping it up on the sidelines. We taxied in and shut down, then followed our noses to the smell of the hamburgers and brats being cooked up by Gary and Bill. Frances, Roxanne, and Jeannie had quite a spread for racers and supporter, potato salad & macaroni salad, bake beans, cabbage salad, fruit, yogurt, cake-Yum!

After lunch the trophies were presented, and the results follow here. Each team also got a cool medallion, just for participating made by John at Aircraft Spruce. We also got to take home our commemorative chocks:) And probably the coolest trophy of all was the "Tail End Charley" award!

RACE RESULTS:

1st place: Race 3: Randy and Tookie: handicap 120 mph: raced at +22.144 mph: Decathalon

2nd place: Race 7: CJ and Nora: handicap 120moh: raced at +11.902 mph: Cessna 172

3rd place: Race 5: Todd and Don: handicap 120mph: raced +11.579 mph: Cessna 172

4th place: Race 2: Jon and Shannon: handicap 145mph: raced +11.294 mph: Commanche

5th place: Race 1: Dianne and Pam: handicap 132mph: raced +10.912 mph: Cessna 172XP

6th place: Race 4: Fran Bera: handicap 174 mph: raced +6.194: Commanche

7th place: Race 10: Mike and Devon: handicap 142 mph: raced +2.313: Cessna 182

8th place: Race 8:  Steve and Bob: handicap 144mph: raced +0.193 Beech Sierra

9th place: Race 6: Peter and Ashley: handicap 142 mph: raced -3.938mph Cessna 182

10th place: Race 9: Bobby with 3 passengers! handicap 144 mph: raced -7.925: Cessna 182

For more pictures check out: http://schumann-advertising.smugmug.com/ Album is in the far right column, all the way to the bottom, named Colorado River 99s March 2010

6th Annual Flying Poker Run

Saturday Jan 30th Desert Skies Executive

Our biggest, most successful Poker Run fundraiser yet! Thanks to everyone who participated, and especially to Desert Skies for hosting the event. The day dawned bright and beautiful, we had 30+ airplanes participate, and served over 100 people for lunch. Winners of the poker hands, first place-Bev Coons, second place-Glenn from Needles, and third place-Kay from Tucson. Thanks to all of you for participating. We had an outstanding raffle, with great prizes from our supporters, raising money for our scholarship fund. George Molitor along with the FAA presented an outstanding Safety Seminar. All in all, a day of FUN!

Scholarships:

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