Upcoming Events

SEPTEMBER

Fish for Friday, September 28, at the Windmill Inn in Nehawka NE. We start around 7:00 p.m.

Flatwater Car Show is the 30th, from 10:30 a.m. to about 3:00 p.m. As always, there is no entry fee. Drive on out and have a ball.

OCTOBER

Breakfast at about 9:30 a.m. at Mahoney State Park the 13th. Keep an eye on this location. We may be moving after October.

Ice Cream with the Patrol the 11th at Baskin Robbins, 70th and Pioneers at about 7:30 p.m.

Fish for will be Friday the 26th. Come in costume if you like. (Rumor has it that Ben is dressing as a retired barrister.)

Air Force Museum
Car Display

by Jerry Needham

Our Flatwater and HMRNP clubs have an incredible opportunity to display some of our vehicles at the Air Force Strategic Air & Space Museum (formerly SAC Museum). As noted in a short statement in the last newsletter, we received a special invitation by museum management to exhibit sports cars of "display quality", adjacent to each of the military airplanes throughout the museum.

The purpose is to attract visitors during a low attendance time of the year to see an exhibit of truly unique sports cars similar to what General Curtis LeMay, famed Air Force leader and founder of the Strategic Air Command, used while organizing races on Offutt AFB runways in the 1950s.

Period: 13 Oct - 9 Dec, but we can exchange vehicles at any time during the exhibit if the owners desire a shorter period. The cars will be cordoned off with ropes, chains or similar barriers (bring your own, if desired) and under continual museum staff monitoring to protect them. The museum will also provide insurance on them during the exhibition period. In case of inclement weather, the museum will store the cars for a reasonable period, until conditions allow their safe removal and transport home.

They require at least 17 and as many as 27 vehicles for display in a secure, safe environment. They did a similar show last winter with Ferraris, from the local area and as far away as Chicago, that went very well. I emphasize that both of our clubs have many vehicles suitable for exhibition that are not necessarily show or concourse quality, but are presentable for this type of exhibit. If you think your vehicle qualifies and you are interested, please contact me via phone or email. We have six members who have already signed up. We'll make initial selections on a first-come basis, with emphasis on a variety of different marques. The museum reserved the right to final vehicle selections and with which aircraft, so recent photos of your cars are highly desireable. The museum also plans to place signage near cars for owner recognition and will probably allow us to set up our club display that we use each year at the Lincoln Swap Meet to attract new members.

Since our cars are probably put up for the winter anyway, this is an excellent opportunity for your car to be displayed in a very public setting, where

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