Archive for January, 2010

Red Bull Air Race comes to NYC’s Hudson Corridor!

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I just learned that Red Bull has chosen NYC for it’s United States location. The Air Race World Championship course will be laid out in the Hudson River Corridor – or it’s new name – NYC Class B Hudson River exclusion zone.  What it means is that millions of people will get a ring-side seat [...]

Alton Bay Ice Airport is OPEN for 2010!

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

[B18] officially opened a couple of days ago. About a dozen of us from PurpleBoard.net met there today.
It was an exciting flight for me as this was my first ice airport landing in my low wing, retractable gear, new-to-me (about 20 hrs in her to date) Mooney 205. I was slightly apprehensive about getting snow [...]