Scioto Valley Chapter repaints Delaware Compass Rose.
Our chapter originally painted a compass rose at the Delaware, Ohio Municipal airport in the spring of 1999. However, weather combined with crack-sealing of the pavement surface caused enough deterioration that by 2004 it needed some renewal. The airport administration felt that the magnetic variation had not changed sufficiently since 1999 to warrant a complete new alignment and layout, so the effort amounted only to a single morning's work of repainting the existing compass rose.
June 5, 2004
Here's a "before" picture, taken shortly prior to 9:00 AM, with Janie McIntire inspecting the condition of the old compass rose. We needed to snap only a very few new chalk lines on the pavement as painting guides. For the most part, we could follow the lines of the old layout.
June 5, 2004
By 10:00 AM, we were making good progress on the surface repainting, and some of our optimistic members were already looking forward to finishing earlier than usual.
June 5, 2004
Amy and Emily Yersavich smiled for the camera as they were finishing the 300˚ compass point at 10:00 AM. In the upper right corner, Glenn Sproat is contributing a little extra good-will effort by touching up the helipad adjacent to the compass rose.
June
5, 2004
Emily Yersavich helped to spread the second coat of white in the center circle, while Caroline Holmes was carefully stenciling the Scioto Valley 1999 information at the bottom of the Interlocking Nines logo. Yes, we knew the current year was 2004, but this particular compass rose was surveyed in 1999, and that's the date which will be important in the future for calculating any adjustments needed for compass calibrations as the magnetic variation increases with time.
June 5, 2004
By 11:00 AM, the repainting has gone so well that some of the group began to look over the carry-out food menu from a nearby restaurant, anticipating finishing a nice morning's work over some Italian subs, hamburgers, and the like.
June 5, 2004
Myra Jamison headed back for some more paint, while Glenn Sproat and Mary Biller worked on the blue and white segments of the 270˚ point.
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5, 2004
An unidentified spectator watches Kama Denney painting the tip of the 060˚ point, while Hal Noltimier, Mary Biller, Jim Prater, Woody McIntire, and Paula Rumbaugh work on and around the East point.
June
5, 2004
Lunch break at 12:30 PM, and the project is essentially complete for the day. The only remaining tasks are a few minor touchups of some very small spills, and a quick cleanup of our tools and paint trays. Everybody is pleased with the quick turnaround on this compass-rose repainting project.