Who is GraceFlight.org

This is taking from the GraceFlight.org website itself, www.graceflight.org.

The mission of Grace Flight of America is to help people in need of free air transportation for medical and humanitarian purposes. It is our goal to remove the transportation burden from patients so they can get to specialized medical treatment not available to them locally and focus on getting well. Many of our patients do not have access to conventional transportation or are too ill to drive or fly commercially. Grace Flight is here to help! Completely free of charge! Grace Flight of America relies completely on volunteer pilots and donations from individuals, foundations, clubs and corporations.

Two weeks

It's the two week countdown. By this time in exactly two weeks, we will have flown some of our legs. I know I am getting excted. Squeege and I are preparing by flight planning, trying to get last minute sponsors, I'm getting my high performance rating,and will have that done by the time I leave next Friday that way I will be checked out for the 182. I will be leaving for Denver Friday night. Squeege is leaving in the middle of the week for Denver,since she has the plane,and has to fly the plane itself to Denver,and we all want to make sure it's ready for inspection and ready to go.
Let's go Snow Eagles, there are a lot of preschoolers checking in on us. They have first dibbs on our whereabouts,since they are the ones who named our team.

excited to say

I was interviewed for the newspaper,and our article has spread, not only from my local paper but it went to Lexington, Nebraska, to AOPA daily brief that gets sent to everyone listed with AOPA to Graceflight.org, website itself. Despite having my last name spelled wrong, and the airplane wrong, we are flying a 182 it was an overall pretty good article. I have also sent a press release out to the other big newspaper in my area, the Omaha World Herald. Here is the link to the article. http://southwestiowanews.com/articles/2009/05/27/council_bluffs/doc4a1d5caa8f95d805958024.txt
I am excited to say that we are counting down,getting the plane prep, becoming familiar with the flight planner, and getting the hotel preparations made.

Tucked comfy in hangar

41M was tucked away in the hangar last night after her pre-race check-up was completed. Efinger Aviation of Ft Worth has her READY for us.
Maximizing her performance & planning the best conditions are up to Nikki & me.

One month to inspection. Bring it on!

Sq

Cowl is off today

41M has her cowl off today; compression checks, oil and filter change, spark plugs cleaned, examined & replaced those that needed to be. Found the alternator belt coming apart, so thankfully, that is being changed also.
Scheduled her pre-race wash & wax for June.

Thanks again to all our sponsors! We will race to make y'all proud.

Sq

36 days and counting down

I know the excitement is building. It's only alittle over a month away. I am looking into getting some 182 time at the end of this month, maybe sooner. Preparations are beginning, flight planning, weight balances, and such. We are still looking for sponsors, since we are trying to raise money for Grace Flight. I would like to take this time, to thank the sponsors who have already helped contribute to our success.
I will be visiting the town where we end this coming weekend, since I am doing the parade in the town over,Elk Horn, which has offered to do some tours of the Danish Windmill.

We have many ways, you can help with the donations.

1. I am selling the Omaha Coupon Sidekick Book, which has $1,000's of savings on gas,entertainment, sports,etc. The book is $20 in which we receive $10.

2, I am also selling Cookie Lee Jewelry, in which we receive 25% of the sales.

3, Magazine subscriptions you can buy online at www.magfundraising.com/airrace in which we get a percentage of the sales amount.

4, Donate right here,on this website, the donate button on the right top of this page.

5,Any litte bit helps, so just ask us how you can help,and we will be happy to answer.