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1. 02:38 AM - Test (Bill Settle)
2. 07:01 AM - Gray Eagles (Ken Harrill)
3. 07:58 AM - Re: Test (Ed Anderson)
4. 09:02 AM - Re: Test (Robbie Walker)
5. 05:54 PM - FW: Horace Williams Update - Your Help Needed! (Bill Repucci)
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http://www.grayeagles.org/video.htm
Ken Harrill
803 238-2199
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Bill, None of your text is coming through. Can only see the text by using
"Properties" and looking under message source - something needs fixing.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Settle" <billsettle@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:36 AM
Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Test
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DO NOT ARCHIVE
Specifically, the MIME separators are not correct... looks like a
potential bug in the webmail client to me...
Details-
This is the MIME Header line that sets the boundary separator...
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_23170_1205314563_0"
Then it jumps directly to the text part of the MIME multipart without
the initial boundary...
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Test.
Do Not Archive
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_23170_1205314563_1"
And then jumps to the HTML without the original boundary...
Definite bug...
Robbie Walker
On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Ed Anderson wrote:
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> using "Properties" and looking under message source - something
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> Ed
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> To: "rvsoutheast-list" <rvsoutheast-list@matronics.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:36 AM
> Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Test
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| Subject: | FW: Horace Williams Update - Your Help Needed! |
Hey Gang...
Please take action on the following request from AOPA's Chris Hudson.
Below his email is the text of a press release regarding this subject.
Regards,
Bill Repucci
President, EAA 309
& RV-9 Builder and flier
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hudson [mailto: ]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:18 AM
Subject: Horace Williams Update - Your Help Needed!
Importance: High
Hi again EAAers:
Please find following our current data update and appeal to NC pilots to
contact NC state legislators to ask that lawmakers prevent closure of
UNC- Chapel Hill's Horace Williams Airport. Included is the link to
easily enable members to identify and reach their representatives in the
state House and Senate. We need legislation and sponsors thereof in
this session of the General Assembly if we are to preserve this rare
"urban" airport remaining in our state airport system.
Please advise if you'd prefer not to receive this material going
forward. Our members appreciate the current and past efforts of EAA
chapters and members throughout this airport protection effort.
For those of you who'd just like to cut and paste an appeal for emailing
to members, here it is:
NC Friends of Horace Williams Airport
PO Box 33877, Charlotte, NC 28233
HORACE WILLIAMS AIRPORT (IGX) UPDATE for EAA Chapters Statewide 3/12/08
The UNC- Chapel Hill (IGX) airport matter is now at a point where we
will need to muster opposition in the legislature at least one more time
to maintain the good chance we have to keep this historic airport open.
Active pilots and EAA members tend to be well-established and respected
in their communities and regions. Your members are no exception. We
ask today for your help knowing how powerful it can be when we get a
group of our members in touch with decisionmakers on a given issue.
Yes, this sounds like one of the Presidential candidates while they hit
us up for our vote. At least in this case, you are liable to see
significant results from any efforts you make.
UNC-CH has submitted an application for a Special Use Permit to the Town
of Chapel Hill to construct the first building in its new Carolina North
campus. That building, if constructed as planned, would be within the
obstruction-free areas mandated by FAR Part 77 and TERPS standards at
IGX so as to require airport closure when it is occupied. NCFHWA (our
bunch) spoke against the proposal at the Town's meeting at which the
project was first presented by UNC and we continue to engage against
airport closure at the Town, regional and state level on the matter.
Because our aviation community has pushed this issue for 5 years,
aviators and the medical community have a LOT of latent support in the
General Assembly which will have a say on the matter IF we again bring
contact with state House and Senate members to a high level this
legislative session. As usual, time is of the essence, but if we make
contact in the next several weeks, we can save this jewel in the state
aviation system's crown.
IGX is 80 years old this year and, of course, remains one of the only
places we can fly into a town in NC and be "right there" near the action
when we land. It's a wonderful thing that we still have pioneer
aviators alive who were walking around when Isaac Tull and Charlie
Martindale first flew off the pasture which is now IGX in 1928. This
was before Prof. Horace Williams bought the property and later donated
it to the UNC Philosophy Dept.
Your contact with your own state legislators will be tremendous in
securing victory on this longer-term issue. It is now a great time to
set up a meeting with legislators in their districts. Or just call him
or her and say how important airports and IGX are to you and the
transportation system. If members would like ANY help in contacting or
meeting with legislators, please give
us a call and we will help set up meetings, call or meet them with you.
Reps and Senators do not converge on Raleigh until May given the "short
session" legislative schedule this year, so now is when we need contact
in order to get a bill filed to keep the airport open.
If you need an update as to your legislator's contacts, here's the link
(if you'll blind copy NCFHWA on email traffic with legislators, we can
both give you feedback we have and better monitor where our support is
stronger and weaker):
<http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/GIS/Representation/Who_Represents_Me/Who_Re
presents_Me.html>
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/GIS/Representation/Who_Represents_Me/Who_Rep
resents_Me.html
We continue to share anti-airport closure news releases with media
outlets and aviation groups around the state (let us know if you'd like
to be on our NCFHWA email list). We attach a copy of our latest news
release.
Any ideas and push y'all are able to give this issue could be the
difference in gaining that one extra vote in the General Assembly.
When you call pilot friends who are also NC voters, it makes a huge
difference when your buddies then email or call in to their lawmaker.
Please ask flying club members and others who share an interest in this
issue to:
1) make contact with their legislators (1 House member and 1 Senator);
2) ask that the lawmaker prevent this needless airport closure by
sponsoring legislation requiring a new airport in operation in Orange
County BEFORE UNC is allowed to close this one; and
3) report what your legislator says to NCFHWA or EAA Chapter leaders who
can report to us.
Let's push for a future with a viable, vibrant Horace Williams we can
continue to enjoy when flying to or from Chapel Hill!
For more information , contact Chris Hudson at (704)338-9161 or
cahudson@concentric.net
NC Friends of Horace Williams Airport Steering Committee
Larry Ford Hayesville Mike Hierholzer Durham Chris Hudson Charlotte
Todd Huvard Clayton Ed McKinnon Southport John Shearer Chapel Hill
NCFHWA contacts:
Larry Ford
Hayesville
lford@usa.net
Mike Hierholzer
Durham
mhierholzer@rustonpaving.com
Chris Hudson
Charlotte
cahudson@concentric.net
Todd Huvard
Clayton
todd@huvard.com <mailto:todd@huvard.com>
Ed McKinnon
Southport
pilotsut@hotmail.com
John Shearer
Chapel Hill
John_Shearer@bellsouth.net
Press Release:
NC Friends of Horace Williams Airport
PO Box 33877, Charlotte, NC 28233
PRESS RELEASE/CIRCULAR
February 28, 2008
Innovation Center Proposed for Carolina North Would Close Airport and
Damage AHEC Program, Counter to NC House Committee Direction
UNC- Chapel Hill's plan to construct a new University business
incubation center adjacent to the site of the University's Horace
Williams Airport would violate FAA airport obstruction guidelines,
compromising the viability of the airport, which UNC wishes to close.
In fact, the NC House Appropriations Committee on Education has told the
University to maintain the airport until another Orange County airport
can be sited and constructed, but the University has not acknowledged
that fact to the Chapel Hill Town Council, which received a formal
presentation from UNC on the proposed "Innovation Center" January 23.
The proposal would be built closer to the northern edge of Horace
Williams' east-west runway than previous uses of the land parcel. The
proposed location would place the building in the obstruction-free area
required for instrument approach procedures. The effect of this would
be to reduce the utility of the airport and thus require its closure as
soon as the building is occupied (sometime in late 2008 or early 2009).
UNC represents that it is pursuing a search for an alternative site for
a new airport in Orange County and working with County Commissioners to
locate such a site. The University is, at the same time, budgeting for
and planning a new AHEC air operations hangar at RDU Airport to which
its aircraft would be moved upon completion. That hangar has received
local zoning approval but construction has not yet begun.
While the new-airport concept is a laudable goal, NCFHWA does not
believe that UNC truly intends to site a new airport in Orange County
because of the cost and time to build of such a project. NCFHWA
believes that UNC intends only to soften long-term opposition to airport
closure by talking "new airport afterward". In fact, a new Orange
County airport would cost $25-60 million and is impractical. UNC's
Trustees formally decided the same in 2005. The end result, if UNC's
renowned AHEC program is moved to RDU and the airport is closed, would
be no airport for the County, a tragedy given the need and the
superlative history of Horace Williams. It is the second-most
historically-significant airport in NC (after First Flight Airport at
Kill Devil Hill). Southern Orange County and the western Triangle
badly need more air transport access, not less.
UNC doctors provide medical care to citizens around the State through
outreach clinics and hospitals as part of the AHEC (Area Health
Education Centers) program. Transportation of the doctors operates
from Chapel Hill's Horace Williams Airport. This important facility is
on the endangered species list because UNC-Chapel Hill administrators
want to close the airport and use the 85-acre airport property to begin
construction of their new 250-acre research campus known as Carolina
North. UNC has studied options which would preserve the airport on the
Carolina North tract, a significant benefit within and enhancement of
the planned campus. Indeed, its initial Carolina North consulting firm
recommended airport preservation just this way.
Several UNC AHEC doctors who fly from the airport facility testified
last June before the NC House subcommittee. Each said the number of
patients they see would be substantially reduced should they be unable
to get to a home-base airport as quickly as they do today. Doctors
further said they could not be as many places as they are now able and
each cited patient care deficiencies which would result.
Beyond the direct loss of health care services, the dollar loss to UNC
Hospitals would be enormous. Calculations of UNC Hospitals annual
billings to patients referred from AHEC clinics served by the air
operations group in 2005 were well beyond $90 million. Physicians who
testified before the House committee are among the most frequent air
service users. They cited probable reduction in the 25% range in the
services they could provide if they were required to drive to RDU for
air transport. The dollar impact from such attrition ought to be all
that's needed for the Chancellor and UNC Trustees to fully evaluate such
impact prior to any airport closure consideration. Instead, the
University administration decided, without public discussion nor
analysis of the potential UNC Health Care System losses, to site the
first phase of Carolina North on the land parcel where the existing
airport stands.
The University has further lobbied the General Assembly to allow airport
closure without such evaluation of AHEC impact. It is inconsistent at
best and genuinely poor stewardship of University resources at worst for
UNC to spend State dollar resources to destroy an asset as central to
UNC and UNC Hospitals' mission as Horace Williams Airport with no
transparent evaluation of resulting likely damage to its own renowned
healthcare outreach programs. NCFHWA asks that UNC-CH Trustees and
their Citizens of for Higher Education PAC more carefully consider the
losses which we know will result should the airport close.
It is noteworthy that many General Assembly members have continued to
reject this proposal despite UNC administration efforts to secure
approval for airport closure. The University is expected to ask the
General Assembly during its short session for $30 million in planning
and infrastructure money for Carolina North, intended for construction
of the Innovation Center. We urge legislators to exercise the same
wisdom they have shown to date with respect to the airport and decline
to fund any such project which would tend to diminish the benefits of
such a crucial State asset.
For more information , contact NCFHWA steering committee member Chris
Hudson at (704)338-9161 or cahudson@concentric.net
NC Friends of Horace Williams Airport Steering Committee
Larry Ford Hayesville Mike Hierholzer Durham Chris Hudson Charlotte
Todd Huvard Clayton Ed McKinnon Southport John Shearer Chapel Hill
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