October
11, 2003Scioto Valley Chapter paints Compass Rose in home state!
In each of the preceding two years, members of the Scioto Valley chapter of the Ninety Nines painted their Air-Marking signature compass rose on out-of-state airports (New Mexico and Colorado). This year they remained closer to home, favoring the Greene County - Jackson Regional airport at Xenia, Ohio with one of their 70-foot (21-meter) compass roses, used for aligning magnetic compasses in aircraft.
Jane and Woody McIntire flew their Beech 35 from Delaware;
Betty Obara flew her Cessna 172 from Delaware;
Paula Rumbaugh and Hal Noltimier flew their Grumman Traveler from OSU Airport:
Connie and Ray Copeland flew their Cessna 340 from OSU Airport;
Everyone else drove to the Greene County Airport the morning of October 11.
October
11, 2003
We started laying out the compass-rose design at 9:30 on a beautiful Saturday morning, with just a trace of morning mist remaining in the air. The first task is marking three concentric circles about the pre-surveyed center point, using radii of 10 feet (3 meters), 20 feet (6 meters), and 35 feet (10.5 meters).
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By 11:30, the painters are making good progress filling in selected areas of the design with the white traffic paint, but the blue mix hasn't yet been prepared.
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One hour later, good progress is showing with the blue, as Paula touches up a blue/white boundary preparing for a second coat of white. Wendy Yost, crouched at right center, stenciled "Scioto Valley - 2003" at the base of the 99 logo.
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By 1:00 PM, just before our lunch break, the 99 logo detail is well defined. Wendy's stencil work with the chapter name and the year documentation is visible at the extreme lower right.
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These girls are dedicated painters, no questions about that!
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With the paint job complete at 3:40 in the afternoon, and here's a view of the center portion, with most of the painters standing over on the west side admiring their handiwork.
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It's become sort of a tradition for the chapter members to pose for a final shot with each of the 99 participants standing on a point of the newly completed compass rose, taking pride in another service job well done for the aviation community.
October 11, 2003
Hal and Paula snapped this aerial view of our attractive finished product on the Greene County ramp before they flew back to Columbus. We always receive many nice comments about how our Compass Rose dresses up an airport property.