Pietenpol-List: Please welcome new TACO member. Also, election results.

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Original Posted By: Isablcorky(at)aol.com
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Please welcome new TACO member. Also, election results.Javier Cruz of Mexico has just joined our most prestigious organization. This is very good news since Javier actually lives in the country where Corona comes from! At this juncture, I only know that Javier is contemplating a Piet project, but that is almost insignificant to the fact that he may be in positionto donate massive quantities of Corona, as well as making really important contributions to our club culture. Let's all give him a big "Viva Javier... bienvenidos hombre." MUY IMPORTANTE NEWS...Dateline knot-2-shabby airport The results of TACO OFFICERs electionsBy unanimous vote, Terry Bowden has been elected to serve a one year (or longer) term as our Big Burrito (which loosely translated from Spanish means ElPresedente or something like that.)Mike King (King of Combate) has been elected to the post of Grande Chalupa. (Which in border Spanish means Sergeant at Arms.)Sterling Brooks has been elected to the position of Salsa Loco. (In Spanish meaning the crazy guy who spices up our newsletter and lies/exagerates or embellishes everything the TACOs do ... (Hey, this is Texas, we tend to brag andfib about stuff down here.)Doyle Combs has been elected "Chief Padre" (in Spanish meaning Chaplain) and our spiritual leader and is in charge of saying the blessing, if we ever meet again and have a formal meal. (Note, beer drinking members must refrain and restrain themselves when in the presence of Chief Padre... Go drink behind a tree for goodness sake or pour your beer into an empty Dr. Pepper can so ChiefPadre doesn't catch you in the act.) Doyle is also in charge of speaking to theMan upstairs making sure that each maiden, first-time-flight of an air camper goes well. Doyle will also offer prayer for any TACO who overhauls their own airplane engine.Hank Styne and partner Chuck Jackson have been elected Transportation Czars. We have no idea what this position is, it just sounds really cool.Tom Travis has been elected Wake Turbulence Director and Indian Guide. We suspect that the Indian guide honor is because he flies an airplane with a forkedtail. The wake turbulence honor is because his Bonanza could probably make a Pietenpol bounce around if he passed over and in front of an air camper.Morris Norwood is now our Director of Taxiways and Official Public Affairs Officer.Chuck Gantzer is our official Generalisimo Adventurer and Yell Leader and Chief Air Polluter.Jim Markle was voted in as our Vapor Trail Coordinator, TFR Advisor and Newsletter Proof Reader. (If something is mispelled, balme it on Markel!)Roy Brooks (my dad) has been elected to the post of Chief Taildragger Instuctor Pilot and 3 Point Advisor. I suspect my soon-to-be 85 year old dad wasflying long before most of us knew what a propeller was. Roy has also probablyhad more vomit land in his face from teaching Army Air Corp Cadets acrobatics when the student was sitting in the front seat of a Stearman, than most of us care to think about during lunch or dinner.Lon Carr now serves as Chief Engineer of Turf Runways. (Man, you should see the grass runway that Lon built.)Chris Hoke is Chief Meteorologist because Terry said he had something to do with Chuck's tailwind down here. It's very unusual that we get a wind out of the north down here in July!Tabulation of votes for our other positions will be announced at a later date because I have to leave now for a long drive from Central Texas to Broadhead.________________________________________________________________________________

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Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Hey, is it possible to be an expatriot member of the HOT TACO? Since I(nearly) have a Piet flying, and used to live in Texas (I flew my J-3 Cubout of Oak Grove airport near Fort Worth, and Alvin Intergalactic Airport,south of Houston), I was wondering if there are any out-of-state chaptersbeing formed? At least I'm not a yankee like Mike Cuy (I was born andraised in Tennessee, where most of the original Texans came from anyway.Davy Crockett was congressman from my home district, before arriving inTexas just in time to get hisself killed at the Alamo).Jack PhillipsNearly finished painting NX899JP and glad of it-----Original Message-----

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Original Posted By: KTS5TA6(at)wmconnect.com
results.Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Please welcome new TACO member. Also, election results.TACOS unite! I'm sorry it has taken me so long to respond to this post. I drove a solid 23 hours from Central Texas to Brodhead and was brain-dead for thefirst 20 hours after I arrived. I'm in a motel near O$KO$H ($100 buck$ a night) and I just now have internet service.Anyone (Yankees included) needing a " TACO membership/ID Card" can e-mail a picture to me (a mug shot of you preferable in a leather or cloth flying helmet) to my broadband address through my website at www.sterlingbrooks.tv. As soon as I get back, your free "TACO membership/ID Card" (suitable for maybe, JUST MAYBE sneaking you into aviation events because it looks so darned official)will be mailed to you in mid August. We will worry about your membership dues later (bottle of Corona or a box of Velveeta in case you are a member of the clergy).After you receive your TACO card (might get you a discount at Taco Bell!) please take it to KINKOS and have it laminated with a clip on device. I'll be off list for about a week.Sterling BrooksTACO LOCO and SHAMELESS PROMOTER OF ALL THINGS PIETENPOL________________________________________________________________________________