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Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day:
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Pricing and Special Group Tours (Minimum of 10 or more): Full Information Here
4251 Dry Creek Road
Paso Robles, CA 93446
Dylan Krassensky
Air Traffic Manager
San Luis Obispo ATCT
October Dinner
No Host Bar 5:30 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m.
Dinner is catered and open to the public,
reservations are required prior to 6 p.m.,
Monday prior to dinner, either
On-line HERE or call 805 296-1935
Dinner price: $25/pp.
If there is one thing that nearly all pilots at KSBP (San Luis Obispo Airport) have in common, they talk to the Air Traffic Control (ATC). They rely on the expertise of the controller in the tower to give them the advice and directions they need whether they are taking off, landing, or, in that awkward position of not sure what to do. The ATC is there to help the pilots, not intimidate you. If there is something you need assistance with either in the air or on the ground, don’t ever be afraid to ask the tower. (If your question isn't pressing, though, consider waiting to ask it until the controllers don’t have sixteen other people in the pattern!)
Our guest speaker for our October dinner is Dylan Krassensky, the current Air Traffic Manager for the Control Tower at the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. He has worked at multiple locations in California, Nevada, Texas, and Alaska. He started his career in Air Traffic Control in 2006 and is also a pilot. Dylan is also know for his "Tips From The Tower" and an online training guide, Air Traffic Control (ATC) for Simulator Pilots.
Join us on October 2d for an insider's view from the tower and your chance to ask the questions you always wanted to ask the tower but never got the chance. We guarantee it will be an great learning experience for all involved.
The Monthly Dinners are catered and reservations are required not later than 6 p.m. the Monday evening prior to the dinner so as to allow the caterer sufficient notice of how many are attending. Dinner cost $25/pp and reservations should be made at this link.
Recent Restoration Completions
Shown above are pictures of Restortion's newest project, the M561 Gama Goat../vehicles/1971gammagoat.shtml. This was completed to be drivable and is currently on display on the southside of Hangar One. A big shout out to all the Restoration guys who helped with this project and a special kudos to Greg Heydenreich who helped fund this restoration. Awesome Job!
Wine and Dine Pour Fest
Join us for "Wine & Dine Pour Fest" Pouring for our Heros, which will be hosted at Estrella Warbirds Museum by Honor Flight Central Coast California, on November 2d. All proceeds benefit Honor Flight Central Coast California. Tickets must be purchased in advance via this link if you are unable to scan the barcode. Purchase your tickets by October 1st and automatically be entered into a drawing for a once-in-a-lifetime flight on the C-47 aircraft, “Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber,” a WWII veteran of the skies. The flight will take place at 11 AM on the day of the event, right before the festival begins.
New At The Woodland Auto Display
Sometimes, the most comprehensive and labor intensive items at the museum are what goes on "behind the scenes." With that being said, the following is a list of what you can expect to see in the distant and not so distant future. Dick and Claudia Woodland have been hard at work putting in as many hours as they could fit in on various WAD projects. One of the projects is in regards to the 60 to 85 year old "personal" family scrap books of Indy racecar drivers Johnny Boyd and Bill Vukovich. These do no good if they are not available to be seen by the visitors but, at the same time, they are very fragile and irreplaceable. Claudia and I have been making page protectors for everything to help preserve them and this has been very time consuming.
As an example, the Johnny Boyd scrap books are newspaper size and cover his early days of racing midgets out of the Fresno area to his climbing the ladder to race at Indianapolis numerous years from the mid 1950's through the mid 1960's. Another thing that is unique in that there are approximately 100 telegrams sent to him prior to the Indy 500s from well wishers. (How many young visitors have ever seen a telegram or no what one is?)
The Vukovich family scrap books, from Bill Vukovich's brother Mike, are more standard size but they consist of about a dozen separate scrapbooks covering his early midget days and his climb to Indianapolis 500 champion.
The other project which has taken a tremendous amount of time has been adding the display of the Jim Naylor donated die cast cars and Halmark collection to the Ken Clapp Annex of the WAD building. That part of the project has been completed. Some of the Halmark surplus collector cars etc., have been donated to the EWM gift shop so they can be sold to help raise some additional funds for WAD.
While we gathered automotive books for our library, many of the book donors also had a significant amount of aviation books. For those we set up a table at WAD and asked for donations to EWM for the books. So far, I believe we have moved approximately 10 "cases" of books.
We finally found time to move some cars around a bit plus the Erin Crocker Evernham sprint car was shipped back to Charlotte where Erin will be among the "Women in Racing" to be honored at the NASCAR Stock Car Hall of Fame.
Oh yes, we finally got started on the restoration of my newest addition, my 1953 Hudson Hornet "Twin Power". The completion date is anybody's guess.
As you can see, a lot goes on and a lot of hours are spent that really don't reflect changes on the floor of the WAD building, at least not up front but we hope to have most projects in place in time for the Warbirds Wings & Wheels car show.
