Wings, Wheels and Rotors Expo 2014

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L to R:  Tom Lasser, Ray LeCompte, Vince van den Brink and Rick Santa Maria at our booth at WWRE 2014

L to R: Tom Lasser, Ray LeCompte, Vince van den Brink and Rick Santa Maria at our booth at WWRE 2014

On Sunday, 26 October, Ray LeCompte, Vince van den Brink and Tim Brown met for breakfast at 0630 in preparation for setting up and manning a membership recruiting booth at Wing Wheels & Rotor Expo 2014 that took place at JFTB Los Alamitos. Well, we made it through the day and closed up shop at about 1600 after meeting and greeting thousands of folks. We do not know how many new members we recruited but we sure talked to a bunch of potentials. During the time there, we also met up with members: Tom Lasser who was the MC for the entire show; Sel Ramsey who was out meeting people all day; and Rick Santa Maria who is a member and who also briefed us last year about his personal experiences flying the CH-47 in Afghanistan. We also visited with LTC Bob Friend, USAF (Ret) who was a past speaker and member of the Tuskegee Airman. Steve Trerotola whose dad, Mike is a member of ANA, was also there watching over the display of a F6F that our members helped get over to Los Al by donating money for gas. We had a great time and gave away a few F-35 pins and magazines. Look forward to being there again next year when more of our members show up to enjoy the day looking over the aircraft, cars, displays and rotor craft.

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