Gil Williamson

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  • Houston then Home

    We depart Sedona on Saturday, October 9 for Houston, with a stop in Roswell, NM. It’s an excellent flight with a tail wind, a hour lunch/refuel stop in Roswell, then arriving in Houston at 5:00PM local time. Clark and Julie Blackman pick us up, and we are off to their house for a quick shower.

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  • 50th Anniversary Prelude

    The weekend celebration started Thursday with the arrival of Heidi, Gary, Caitlin, Kinsey, and Brenn otherwise known as “the circus”. Gil’s brother Mike and Sister Patty arrived in the afternoon from the west coast. Jennifer, Mike and Alexandra arrived Thursday evening. It was Caitlins and Kinseys first time in Dayton. Friday was a busy day

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  • 50th Anniversary Party August 28th

    The day of our anniversary started with some playing golf at Moraine Country Club including Peter John, Gordon Faulkner, Larry Hayes, Rich Miller, Elton White, Joe Stephan, Dan Ennecking and Gil. Mike, Gary, Rex Fleet and Bruce Edwards visited the Air Force Museum. The ladies did some sight seeing. The family got together before the

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  • 50th Anniversary after the party

    Sunday morning August 29th. we served Sunday brunch for the out of town guests with later flights and a few NCR Alumni in town. Joining us were the Fleets, Stephans, Whites, Ennekings, James, Pools, John Frazer and Sharon from California, the Bishs from Cleveland, Joyces brother Ray and his girl friend Sue, Gil’s brother Mike

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  • Alexandra starts Kindergarden

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  • Alaska Trip across the U.S. to Bellingham,WA

    June 27, 28 and 29 Bill McNabb, a pilot friend of mine, and I have been planning a flying trip across the United States. We would then go up the west coast of Alaska, visit Ketchikan, Seward and Denali, then through the Yukon Territory, across British Columbia, then back from Montana to Dayton, Ohio our

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  • Alaska Trip Ketchican and then North

    June 30, July 1 We get up early and discover that the weather has changed again and our original plan looks feasible, so we scrap plan “B” and head for Ketchikan. We climb out over beautiful Vancouver Island and the waters of British Columbia, but soon are above the clouds. Not much flight seeing, but

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  • Alaska Trip Ancorage, Seward, and Talkeetna

    July 2,3 and 4 We get up Friday and guess what, it’s raining in Alaska. We make reservations on boats, Bill a fishing boat and I on a tour boat. I drop Bill off for his early charter, and then after breakfast do some sight seeing in Seward. I visit the Alaska Sea Life Center,

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  • Alaska Trip Anchorage to Whitehorse

    July 5 and 6 We get up early, and drive to Anchorage from Talkeetna, getting a weather update and file our flight plan as we drive. The weather looks O.K., and we are hopeful that we will get to see the Alaskan Range on our way to Whitehorse in the Yukon. We are not disappointed

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  • Alaska Trip Trip Winds Down

    July 7 and 8, 2010 Our last sight seeing stop is Golden in British Columbia. We Fly from Whitehorse in the Yukon with a stop in Smithers for lunch and fuel then on to our destination. Leaving Whitehorse, we are soon in “uncontrolled airspace” basically out of radar contact, and it is desolate but beautiful

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