Welcome to the home of Classic 47 sponsored by WINGS OF HOPE

Meet Bev Cleair and Teresa Camp - Wings of Hope's 2010 pilot team. Classic 47 is a 2000 Cessna 182 S which will dutifully carry Wings of Hope's vision of peace and self-sustaining humanitarian programs for a better world.

Bev and Teresa are poised to race the Air Race Classic June 22 - June 25, 2010 from Fort Meyers, Florida to Frederick, Maryland, a 2157 nautical mile jaunt. This is the oldest air race in the country exclusively for women pilots. Its origins date back to the 1930's when the likes of Amelia Earhart and company were competing and dominating the Powder Puff Derby


Thursday, June 24, 2010

Called Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Jimmy but it was so late we couldn't meet up. We were so tired after dinner we went directly to bed.

Got up before sunrise. Ate our leftover fruit and granola bars. Got to the airport and the clouds were too low to launch. The airport manager was working like a mad dog since early morning and had refueled all the planes and pulled them out of the hangars ready to go. Amazing. He said he got 2 hrs sleep. The last plane #58(46) got in at 8:20pm last night. We were worried.

It's so much cooler today. We wiped the bugs off and polished the wings. The battery charger charged up over night, but the TCAS still won't turn on. I decided to rewire it. The manufacturer had spliced it, so maybe they reversed polarity. However that didn't work either. I checked the fuse visually and it appears intact. I'll need a volt meter to trouble shoot it. - TAC

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