Let's support the one town in the US that actively supports hang gliding
Belinda Boulter|Dragonfly|video
We've been going to Big Spring to run the Big Spring Nationals for 16 years. Now the airport is open to hang gliding year round as long as someone wants to operate out of it. Bring your trike or Dragonfly.
The town of Big Spring goes all out to help us put on a competition. They supplied $20,000 worth of services for the 2007 World Championships. They let us use their taxiways for launching. They put up a spectator viewing stand next to the launch for shade. They have Belinda come and speak to both their Rotary club meetings. They give us water. They give us ice cream. The give us the use of their terminal building and board room. They supply all the chairs for out pilot meetings.
We get to use a hangar to set up gliders and tugs. We use their Flat Screen TV for presentations. We can store gliders there in advance of the competition. They received packages for the Brazilian pilots who want to buy US goods.
They rent four golf carts for our use. They chase and retrieve the launch carts. The setup the launch. They let us park inside the airport fence near the launch. They keep the prison authorities from harassing us. They mollify the air ambulance people so that we can get along at the airport. They feed us a welcome dinner. We get a reduced motel room rate (and it's inexpensive). We can have a party at the Plaza Inn.
They provide sponsorship (the only sponsorship that we get outside of hang gliding) from the local oil refinery. They send out the NOTAMs. They keep us in good graces with the Midland-Odessa tower. They get the support of the community behind us. We put us on the radio every morning. The town's people follow the competition and know who the pilots are. They bring in a group to serve us breakfast and lunch. The provide volunteers for launching and help with us getting drivers.
They bring in local politicians and community members to celebrate our welcome dinner with us.
They do all this without asking for anything in return other that we come back and do it again next year.
So we'd like to give back to them to show how much we appreciate their support. We support a local charity, the Rainbow Room, which helps out kids in foster care. We want you to help us out to show how much we, the hang gliding community, appreciates the community support for hang gliding. It's time to give back.
The Cloudbase Foundation asked us to set up a campaign for the Rainbow Room. They CBF board has approved our campaign, and it is now up on their web site. You can find it and help us out with a donation here: https://www.thecloudbasefoundation.org/campaign/assist-big-spring-texas-foster-care-children
Please read what we have written there about this campaign. The please donate here: https://www.thecloudbasefoundation.org/campaign/assist-big-spring-texas-foster-care-children#donations
The web site for the competition is here: https://airtribune.com/2018-big-spring-national-series/info/details__info. Check out the videos, especially: https://youtu.be/_9IapewHfEY
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