Roger Halstead's Home Page @ From Midland Michigan Devoted to Aviation, the EAA & Midland's own EAA Chapter Amateur Radio, Photography, Astronomy, And...A whole bunch of other "Stuff" Click Here To go to Midland Michigan's EAA Chapter's new home page.   Please note: This is a personal page. I do not sell anything, but I do try to provide some useful links and information    as well as sharing some of my interests. These links, should in no way be considered an endorsement for any site, service, or product.

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All pages and photos Copyright Roger Halstead 1996... 2009  K8RI (Unique international radio call sign identifier, March  1978 to 2009)
Page(s) Last Updated 9:54 PM  EDT 28, April 2009, ( 01:54 Z 29 April 2009) 

Photos of the EAA's Ford Tri-motor's visit to Midland's Barstow Airport are up. See link in Table of Contents.

More Assorted Links

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Assorted Weather Links

Aviation Weather Charts
WeatherTap	UNISYS US VFR MVFR	UNISIS Surface Data Chart	Great Lakes Latest Satellite	Super Cooled Water & Possible Icing Conditions
The National Weather Service Home Page	UCAR/NCAR Real Time Weather Data	ADDS Aviation Digital Data Service
Current Conditions and Links for the Weather Underground Note the links are located under the weather icons as some browsers see them as pop-ups which disables the image alt tag.
Midland MI	Houghton Lake	Traverse City, MI	Oshkosh WI	Boulder CO
Limited Current Conditions & 5 Day International Forecasts
Aukland, New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand	Wellington, New Zealand	Queenstown, New Zealand	Orford Tasmania
Hobart Tasmania	Scottsdale Tasmania	Launceson Tasmania	Sheffield Tasmania	Strahan Tasmania
Current Conditions & 5 Day Forecasts by The Weather Channel
Columbia SC	Flagstaff Az.	Greensboro NC.	Knoxville TN.	Myrtle Beach SC.
Pueblo CO.	Midland Mi.	Traverse City Mi.	Houghton Lake Mi	Green Bay Wi
NEXTRAD RADAR
Detroit	Grand Rapids	Pelston/Alpena	Green Bay	Dayton
Indianapolis	Chicago O'Hare
RADAR SUMMARIES
US Forecast (Intellicast) Forecast Chart	US Radar Summary With Watches and Warnings	Great Lakes Latest Satellite

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Current interests & Hobbies: :

• Flying The oldest Beech Debonair. It was built in September 1959. (It's the oldest of its type listed by the FAA with a S# of CD-2 )
(Instrument rated Private Pilot)
• I'm currently building an airplane. The Glasair III which is a two seat,  335 MPH aerobatic hotrod powered by a 300 HP K1A5 IO-540 Lycoming Engine. I currently have over 1300 hours in the construction and it's finally beginning to look like an airplane and there's a long way to go.
• I'm also into Photography (Juried shows and one National Cover) ,
• Amateur Astronomy (past treasurer of the Sunset Astronomical Society),
• Amateur Radio (call is K8RI--Extra Class) -- Past President and Vice President of the Midland Amateur Radio Club, past repeater trustee on 147.00 MHz, and Life Member of the American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ) The national association for Amateur Radio.
• play Guitar-- Well... play at it
• Writing (published -- never could spell though)
• Ice Skating -- Doing pretty well for one my age. (Only broke my nose once... so far...add my right leg!)
• quite a bit of reading (mostly sci-fi), and...
• Computers. I build my own and they have gone through many incarnations over the years.
• I'm was also an active volunteer and past Computer Chairman working for the EAA Homebuilders Center and the AirVenture fly-in at Oshkosh

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What is the EAA?
The Experimental Aircraft Association, simply known as the EAA, is a world recognized organization of aircraft designers, builders, test pilots, people who love to fly, and those who are just plain interested in aviation.

For one week every year The EAA holds the World's largest fly-in at Oshkosh Wisconsin. Although officially renamed AirVenture, to those of us who regularly make the trip it will always be referred to as Oshkosh! For that one week Whitman Field at Oshkosh becomes the busiest airport in the world. For the week of AirVenture, Whitman Field has more movements per day than Chicago's O'Hare Airport and they do it with just two active runways and during daylight hours only.  It's not unusual to see as many as 25 airplanes in the pattern at one time.

 There may be as many as 12,000 aircraft attending the fly-in with both civilian and military aircraft represented from around the world.

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Personal Information
Who am I?

What do I do for Work?

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Motto:! If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Lack of ambition (or money), not necessity, is the mother of invention! The American Dream exists ONLY in the heart and mind and can be achieved only with Ambition and Imagination!

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Questions and Observations! How many people do you know that will spend fifteen dollars, to drive twenty miles, to save two dollars on a five dollar item?

People will spend thousands to save hundreds? Governments will spend Billions to save Millions! Don't blame them -- They're us!

Of course you could get out and vote ?

All these mottoes and observations and I don't even have a bumper sticker!

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A Listing of My Pages
Our Christmas Cat (Rhyme)
First Flights (Story)
My Glasair III Diary (Story/Builders Diary)
Science Links
Pictures of and From 833R (Pictures of the oldest production Beech Debonair -- Built in 1959)
Who Am I ( Short Autobiography)
What Do I Do? ( Very short description )

If you have comments or suggestions on Content or spelling, (Proof readers welcome!) email me at Roger Halstead

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