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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:00 pm 
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The Rose was scheduled to depart about 1730 Friday, 8 APR 11, for the show at Burnet, Texas. She should return to the Cobra Den later this afternoon. Next Saturday we'll be doing a fly-over with her at Wimberly, Texas (just a few miles from San Marcos). I hear there may be a WWII veteran riding with us. More on that after the day is done. I'll hop out of the Rose and into the U-11 for a fly-by at Camp Mabry in Austin at 1430. It's their Muster Days celebration with WWII battle gear on the ground.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:45 pm 
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She was lookin' good today!

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awwwwww..., Awesome shot!!!!!

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:57 pm 
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That was a fantastic shot of the Rose at the Burnet Air Show. Thanks Ryan! We has a GREAT time. The folks at Burnet really bent over backwards to make sure everything went as smoothly as possible. They did a terrific job and we really want to thank everyone associated with the air show. We're already looking forward to going back next year!

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of course of all days for my brother from S.A. to stop by your hangar.., would be TODAY.., and of course.. no one was there.

He did notice several small (he called them T-33-ish) aircraft around the field., are those Fouga's? He did not send me photos.., just tried to describe them over the phone.

He now knows to get by there MWF's.

Thanks.., his name is Chris!

He is a great guy! Love warbirds and fishing.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:21 pm 
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Did someone mention Fouga's? :mrgreen: :rolleyes:

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:39 pm 
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Sorry we missed Chris. Sure hope he'll stop by again! We're open Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. I am often there on Tuesdays and Thursdays working on one plane or another, but today was for honeydo projects. Gotta keep the wife happy so she'll let me keep going out to the hangar to play.

The jets are T-33's. Rod Lewis' mechanic, JD, and Steve Hinton are in on them. Recently acquired from Canada, three will be put in flying condition with a fourth kept for parts. Looks like three are painted in light gray and one is dark gray. They've been swapping out engines lately and still need to put control surfaces on a couple of them.

We have one T-33 at the Cobra Den that runs great but has no insurance. It needs an annual and a buyer (yep, its for sale).

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Ray Clausen wrote:
By The Way...

We are trying to figure out how we're going to pay for the new engine on the Yellow Rose and we have several fundraisers in progress or coming up. Couple of my comrades got in touch with artist extraordinaire, Django, and they worked out a t-shirt that we are selling to raise funds to help pay for the new engine.

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This is the back of the shirt. There is nothing on the front and, right now, it only comes in this brown color, though other shirt colors are being discussed.

I have two! For a mere $25.00 (which includes postage and handling), you can have one of these eye catching shirts and help us to keep a beautiful warbird in the air. Please email Bill Fier at yellowroseb25@yahoo.com and he will get your shirts right out to you without delay!

You know you always need another t-shirt but more importantly, we all want to keep as many of these proud old planes flying as we can. Please help us out if you can...

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Ray, I'm still waiting to hear back from Bill about the shirts.... :wink:

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Sorry Lynn, Bill returned Monday from a three week Tora tour. Once he does the practice the end of this month, he'll be a full blown Tora pilot. He also had a baby granddaughter born Tuesday of last week. Still, he promised to stay on top of the shirts... He should be in the Cobra Den today and I'll talk with him about it.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:27 pm 
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Ray Clausen wrote:
Sorry Lynn, Bill returned Monday from a three week Tora tour. Once he does the practice the end of this month, he'll be a full blown Tora pilot. He also had a baby granddaughter born Tuesday of last week. Still, he promised to stay on top of the shirts... He should be in the Cobra Den today and I'll talk with him about it.


Thanks Ray as Bill emailed me today and the check is in the mail......

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Zach,

You might be hearing from Mike on this ... or send me a PM ...


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:31 am 
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We now have a virtual tour of the Yellow Rose flight deck! Go to www.centexwing.com and on the left of the homepage, under "More" at the bottom of the list, you will see "virtual tour". Click on it and you will find the cockpit 360 tour, as well as tours of the Central Texas Wing museum.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:53 am 
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The Yellow Rose isn't home yet, but very close to flying again. More soon!

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Awesome!

Keep us posted! :drink3:

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:31 pm 
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Misterg97, Jerry, has worked very hard on producing caps for the Yellow Rose which feature the nose art. A prototype is pictured above this post. The final version has a tan brim, low crown, wonderful material, and have added "B-25" to it now in the final version.

The Rose can really use all the help we can get right now. Even though she is about to return to the air again, there is a large pile of bills that needs to be paid. If you can, please purchase one (or more) of these beautiful caps. The profits are going directly to the Yellow Rose. Jerry will be posting details on how you can get one of these stunning caps on WIX in the very near future. He has offered to direct ship them to WIXers for us, which is another GREAT BIG help!

Thanks again Jerry! And thanks to my fellow WIXers for your support!

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