<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>My first HEF (<B>H</B>oliday <B>E</B>lectric <B>F</B>ly) was amazing.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Overall it was a lot of fun.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The facility was great!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Musical Chairs with airplanes was a riot.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Watching two huge B 17s or a B 36 fly indoors was hard to believe.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Seeing 20 or maybe 30+ airplanes in the air at the same time was a sight to behold.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Oh! Yes, Santa was there as well.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Deep gratitude goes to Devin M. RJ G. and Dave L!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>They seemed to be the “power” behind the contest.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I apologize if I left any one out because there were a lot of hands making things work.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>AMA President, Bob Brown, was a real fan of the F3P and spent much of his day just watching and doing a little coaching as well. Bob also passed out the beautiful awards made by RJ himself! F3P and NSRCA have a great friend at AMA in Bob Brown along with Dave Mathewson, and several DVPs, like Mark Radcliff and Tim Jesky, just to name a few who were at HEF 2012.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I came with my little E-Flight Extra 300 3D.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It could almost do the Sportsman sequence, but…</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>After my first “flight” I was offered 4 F3P airplanes from other competitors!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>On Sunday I flew Jeff H’s “heavy” F3P airplane. It was about 5 oz.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Then I flew Mike H’s 3+ oz. F3P airplane.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I was amazed!</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Thanks to everyone who made my weekend so inspirational!</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Jim Quinn</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>PS: If you missed HEF 2012, be sure to put it on your calendar for 2013.</P>
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