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Compass-Rose Painting

The Scioto Valley Chapter of the Ninety-Nines uses the basic design of the compass rose prepared by the Air Marking Chairman of the North-Central Section of the 99s, revised March, 1988, from a design made earlier by the Three Rivers Chapter.

The Scioto Valley Chapter modified the procedure of the layout, but kept the design itself nearly unchanged.  We made some minor adjustments in the logo of the interlocking nines for a more accurate rendition of the official logo, and re-depicted the logo within a rectangular grid centered on the origin of the compass rose.  Also, we request the surveyor to mark magnetic directions every 30 degrees around the circle, eliminating some difficult geometrical constructions which were required when only the North line was surveyed.

The Scioto Valley Chapter has used these procedures since 1990, and has been quite successful in producing very striking compass roses at numerous airports in central Ohio, New Mexico, and Colorado. 

Here is a list of the Scioto Valley Compass Rose projects to date:

Date

Location

IDENT

September 15, 1990 Fayette County, OH I23
September 7, 1991 Coshocton County, OH I40
June 20, 1992 Union County, OH KMRT
July 15, 1995 Coshocton County, OH I40
June 29, 1996 Holmes County, OH 10G
September 27, 1997 Madison County, OH KUYF
June 5, 1999 Delaware Municipal, OH KDLZ
October 19, 2001 Raton Municipal, NM KRTN
September 25, 2002 Caņon City, CO KCNE
October 11, 2003 Greene County, OH I19
June 5, 2004 Delaware Municipal, OH KDLZ
August 13, 2005 Darby Dan (Columbus), OH 6I6
May 19, 2007 Delaware Municipal, OH KDLZ
October 28, 2007 Union County, OH KMRT
July 19, 2008 Delaware Municipal, OH KDLZ
     

Pictures and stories from several of these projects are in the Photo Gallery pages.

Compass-Rose Instructions

The following documents are in PDF (Portable Document Format), and you may print copies of them if you wish. The margin settings in the  documents should be satisfactory for most printers using letter-size paper when the page-scaling option is set to "None" on your printer setup page. If your printer cuts off some of the text, you may need to temporarily change the page-scaling option to: "Fit to Printable Area" (or similar option) on your printer setup page before sending the document to your printer.

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Click here for a printable set of Compass-Rose instructions, complete with diagrams.

Click here for a printable copy of the stencils. The Scioto and Valley stencils should be printed on separate sheets of paper and cut carefully with an X-Acto style of knife. You may need to print a current "year" stencil. The year page was created in Microsoft Word, using a landscape layout and minimum-allowable margins, with the type-font of "Stencil" at 325-point size.

 

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Updated 21 February, 2010