Wine Tasting: Bottles and Cork on Market Street

Allen and the 'Chevy Traverse.

Pretty nice vehicle from Enterprise!

Tasting Finger Lakes Wines.

Very good!

Bill Appel, Al Ruschman, Tom O'Neill and  Bob Lacey

Tour of Corning Museum of Glass

Awesome museum!  Could have spend the whole day here!

Corning Museum of Glass Workshop

The first day of the convention program we visited the Corning Museum of Glass.

Allen Corrigan with the Dale Chihuly "Fern Green Tower"

at the entrance of the Corning Museum of Glass

Jack Paisley, John Wolesky and George Remm

appreciating the Chihuly "Fern Green Tower"

"Fern Green Tower"

Lining up the members for the tour.

Also known as "Herding Cats"

Bill Appel and Michael Murray in the Hands-On Glass Art Studio

Marcos Orellana and Nick Rossello preparing their masterpieces

 Bob Lacey, Marcos Orellana, Nick Rossello and Allen Corrigan

Preparing glasses for sandblasting

Allen's glass prepared for sandblasting.

Sandblasting in process.

Ready for service!

Artists at Work!

High Flight

 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
 And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
 Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
 of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
 You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
 High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
 I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
 My eager craft through footless halls of air....

 Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
 I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
 Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
 And, while with silent lifting mind I have trod
 The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
 - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.


John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Safe Arrivals, One and All!

Bill Appel and Bob Lacey

Al Werth, Dan Baier, Jack Boyle, Mel Hemann, Gene Murray and John Wolesky

Bill Appel, Al Werth and Jerry Scanlon

John Hemann, Bill Appel, Al Werth and Jerry Scanlon

Dan Baier, George Remm, Mel Hemann, Al Werth, and half of Gene Murray

John Hemann, Bob Lacey and John Wolesky

George Remm and Owen Stanley

Jack Boyle and Mel Hemann

Dan Baier

Here's the whole group gathered together.

Just a simple pizza dinner on Fly-In Day!

John Wolesky (front), Phil Gibbs (back), John Hemann, Tom McDermott, Bob Lacey

Owen Stanley (front left), Bill Martin (behind), Marcos Orellana and Michael Murray in back;

George Remm and John Wolesky (foreground);

Gene Murray, Phil Gibbs and Miles Barret.

More of the usual suspects plus:

Miles Barret (back left), Nick Rossello (back middle);

Convention co-host George Gratton, right.

More of the usual suspect plus Jack FitzGerald (extreme left),

Joe McCaffrey (foreground), Bill Boyle (center), 

Bill Martin (right back) and Owen Stanley (right foreground).

Dan Baier and Bob Lacey

Marco Orellana and Michael Murray

Fly-In Day

Today members gathered for the convention.  Thirty one guys from all over the U.S.  Twelve aircraft landed at Corning/Painted Post and one Mooney landed at Elmira, 11 miles to the east.  

An absolutely beautiful morning in Corning!

John Hemann and I were leaving to ferry guys from the airport and to and from the car rental place.

John and I walked along Market Street in Corning. 

The large building is the Rockwell Museum of Art.

The little green facade in the lower left is "Donna's Restaurant" where we had lunch.

Al Ruschman, John Wolesky, John Hemann and George Remm checking www.flightaware.com for approaching pilots.  John, George Gratton and I picked up the new arrivals and brought them to the hotel.

Gene Murray tying down his RV at Painted Post/Corning.