Please check out the following event and support them as they have us over  the years!   WHAT: WINGS WHEELS & ROTORS ( WWRE 2015 ) …. and Helicopter Awareness Day WHEN: SUNDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2015 9 AM TO 4 PM (0900-1600hrs) WHERE: LOS … [Read more...]

For a good time come to Reno for the AAF annual meeting. And while you’re there- You can learn why 52 pilots and 80 mechanics working for Cal Fire are smiling. You can have free cocktails. Be with people willing to listen to you and tell … [Read more...]

It’s been a busy summer. I’m flying an OV-10 Air Attack and staying marginally proficient with occasional flights in the S-2T. It’s been thirty-four years since I flew Air Attack and it has changed a bit. I went to work in April but it was July … [Read more...]

Our meeting and hospitality room in Reno this year was a great time.  We are already planning next years meeting based on important issues that could dramatically alter the way wild land fires are fought throughout our Nation.   Ron Raley … [Read more...]

Hospitality room opens late afternoon on Saturday the 10th and stays open until the last member leaves.  The meeting will commence at 9:30 AM on Sunday the 11th.  Coffee, Pastries, Fruit Juice and Fruit will be served in the meeting room. Upon … [Read more...]

His name was Craig Hunt.  Many of us called him the professor because he was also a chemistry professor at UC.   His wife sometimes called him professor nerd teasing him because of his higher than average intellect.  He actually had many titles … [Read more...]

“Where do we get such men”.  A famous quote from a famous story called “The Bridges of Toko Ri by James Michener.  After losing his favorite fighter pilot and SAR helicopter crew to enemy action, Admiral Tarrant, on the bridge of his carrier watches … [Read more...]