Thanks to the Sponsors of the 2014 Big Spring Nationals
http://ozreport.com/2014BigSpringNationals.php
First, the City of Big Spring:
This includes the Big Spring Convention and Visitors Bureau which provided the
welcome dinner for all the pilots, drivers, and quests as well as the welcome
baskets. The city is our major sponsor and makes all the local support possible.
The city owned McMahon-Wrinkle Airport and Jim Little, the airport manager, who provided
the hangars, taxi ways, headquarters, pilots' meeting area, lounge, coffee, free
ice cream dispensary, internet access for weather and task calling, golf cart
parking and porta potty locations: http://www.mybigspring.com/pages/airport
The local committee that organizes all the support provided by the city, airport
and local sponsors (see below), Especially Terry Wolford an Pascal Odom who
drove cart retrieval.
The Comanche Trail Municipal Golf Course that provides the golf carts that are
used to help pilots to the launch and to retrieve all the carts: http://www.mybigspring.com/pages/golf_course
Essentially all the local support makes it so we just show up with the tugs
(provided by Quest Air, Russell Brown and Lori Brown, Mick Howard, and Gregg
Ludwig) and run the show.
Blue Bell Ice Cream for their free ice cream during the competition:
Culligan bottled water (provided ice cold to all the pilots and helpers):
The local Alon oil refinery that provided $500 in prize money:
Steve Kroop provided the tee-shirts and $700 in Flytec prizes for the pilots:
Wills Wing provided ten hats and shirts:
Moyes provided three tee-shirts:
The USHPA provided three tee-shirts, two vests and a USHPA logoed bag:
Larry Bunner provided three Covert tee-shirts.
The volunteers who also made it possible to keep the pilot fees reasonable:
Mike Atkinson, Kim Braswell, Chris Cheney, Will, Kim Story, and Kim Wachenheimer.
Without these freely provided resources the competition would have been much
more expensive.
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