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The ’00 Fly-in By the Numbers
published in the Fall 2000 Newsletter

At last June’s fly-in at San Martin, Calif., we racked up these figures:

Total attendees at the fly-in: 55.

Total airmen and airwomen at the fly-in: 37, including active, inactive and retired pilots, student pilots, glider pilots, ultralight pilots, and skydivers.

Total deaf pilots who flew their own planes: 5.

Total deaf pilots who flew rental aircraft from elsewhere: 2.

Total passengers in these seven airplanes: 16.

Total deaf pilots who rented aircraft from local airports after traveling to California by commercial airliner: 4.

Total additional deaf aviators who took flying lessons at local airports during the fly-in: 4.

Total deaf people who made glider flights on Friday (with a professional pilot): 15.

Total deaf people who went skydiving on Friday: 5, including one who jumped twice.

Total attendees who flew in from outside the United States: 11. Seven were from France, 3 from England, and 1 from Canada.

Total local guests at the banquet: 23.

Total people attending the Saturday picnic: 69.

Total local guests at the picnic: 37. (Some attendees did not come to both banquet and picnic; several stayed only for part of the week.)

Kinds of planes flown in and by those who attended:

    Cessna 150
    Cessna 172 (2)
    Cessna 210
    Cessna 310
    Piper Archer (3)
    Piper Cherokee 235
    Piper Cherokee Six/300 (2)
    Piper Comanche 250
    Piper Tomahawk
    Maule
    Boeing Stearman
    Piper Lance (chartered)
    Piper Seneca (chartered)

Longest flight: 28 hours over 3 1/4 days, by Alec Naiman and Sigmund Loza, in a Piper Archer from Lincoln Park, N.J., to South County Airport at San Martin.

ERRATA: Last month’s acknowledgments of contributions to the fly-in booster fund inadvertently omitted Clyde Smith, who gave $50.

The acknowledgments also omitted thanks to Lisa Steinfeld, who helped Henry Kisor with publicity chores.

MORE FLY-IN PHOTOS:


The European contingent assembles for its formal photograph at the banquet at Guglielmo Winery in Morgan Hill during the 2000 IDPA Fly-in last June at San Martin, Calif. From left: Eric Debieuvre, Henri Corderoy du Tiers, and Brigitte Sazarin, all from France; Mike Tyacke from the United Kingdom; Xavier Hinard, Daniel Abbou, and Philippe Marti, all from France; Joan and Dave Hartley from the United Kingdom; and Philippe Sazarin from France.


Airborne in a rented Piper Cherokee Six: from left, Daniel Abbou (face partly obscured), Philippe Marti, Brigitte Sazarin, Xavier Hinard, Philippe Sazarin, and Henri Corderoy du Tiers, all from France.


High-time veteran pilots: Bernie Gross, Barry Schwartzmann, and (in foreground) Jean Hauser.

Read the next article in the Fall 2000 Newsletter: Pilots.
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