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Jet Center Medford On October 29th Jet Center Medford hosted its first “Plane Dollar and Sense” Aviation Seminar with great success. Dozens gathered to see and hear a panel of experts educate them on many aspects of aviation finances. These seven experts came from around the west coast to discuss, Aircraft Financing, 1031 Exchanges, Ta...x Strategies, Buying and Selling Aircraft and much more. With two aviation attorneys and one aviation CPA on hand, pilots and business people asked some difficult questions and got some terrific answers. Most enjoyed the event so much they begged for us to do it again in 2010. So stand by until next year. . .
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Air Tankers play a hugh role in protecting lives, homes and property. We watched these aircraft along with helicopters battle a hugh fire right in front of us...I copied the mail tribune article and pasted it here for all to read.
Firefighters battle blazes off Lone Pine Road as the Deer Ridge fire on Roxy Ann Peak b...urns about 600 acres Monday in east Medford.
Jamie LuschSeptember 22, 2009
By Paris Achen
Mail Tribune
Just as Gov. Ted Kulongoski was ordering state resources to help bring an Ashland fire under control, a fire began sweeping up East Medford's Roxy Ann Peak and causing evacuations, power outages, road closures and snarled traffic.
The wind-swept Deer Ridge fire in Medford had mushroomed to 600 acres by Monday night. Retardant-laden air tankers and helicopters swinging buckets of water managed to spare residential areas in the path of the fire. By 9 p.m. Monday, most of the evacuations of more than 100 households had been lifted. There were no known injuries, and the fire touched no homes, Medford fire officials said.
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Residents watch, worryVideo: Roxy Ann Peak fireRelated Photo Galleries
Roxy Ann Peak FireReader photos: Roxy Ann Peak fireWinds had died down considerably by Monday night, and bulldozers were moving in for an overnight shift to try to establish stronger fire lines to try to contain the blaze, said Brian Ballou, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry.
"The wind has died down, and that's to our advantage," Ballou said.
Residents in Vista Point reported the fire just before 2:30 p.m. Monday in a grassy areanear their houses. Flames whipped by 20-to-30-mph winds leaped to heights of 30 to 40 feetand came as close as 100 feet from half a dozenhomes, said Medford Fire Chief David Bierwiler.
Some of the fire crews, air tankers and helicopters that were dispatched to the 100-acre Ashland fire Monday morning quickly were diverted to the fast-moving Medford fire by the afternoon. A few hours after ordering help for the Ashland fire, the governor dittoed the order for state resources for the large fire on Roxy Ann.
"Ironically, having a four-alarm fire in Ashland helped us enormously," Bierwiler said. Crews already were deployed and could swiftly respond to the Medford fire, he said.
Five fire engines based in Medford, Ashland, Rogue River and Josephine County were among several that rolled north on Interstate 5 from Ashland toward Roxy Ann. As the five vehicles barreled down the Phoenix exit toward North Phoenix Road, the sirens began screaming.
In all, five air tankers, five helicopters, five bulldozers and crews from a variety of Jackson and Josephine county agencies tackled the blaze.
Around Roxy Ann, air tankers rumbled low in the sky, dropping red flame retardant on the hillside in between residences. Helicopters swung buckets of water that had been dipped from ponds in the area.
Residents were evacuated on the east side of North Foothill between East McAndrews Road and Corey Road; Dry Creek Road and North Roxy Drive; Devils Garden Road and Dodson Drive; the Manzanita Heights area, Normil Terrace and Devonshire Place. All of the evacuations except Devonshire Place had been lifted as of 9 p.m., said Jackson County sheriff's Sgt. Marty Clark.
"I had been watching the Ashland fire on the news, and my brother-in-law called and said there was a fire here," said Mary Maudlin, who lives on Cadet Drive off Normil Terrace. "I said, 'No, the fire is in Ashland.' He said, 'No, no, it's right in your backyard.' "
Maudlin, who had prepared some files and medications to take with her in case she had to be evacuated, watched the blaze jump through brush and send billows of dark smoke into the sky.
Adding to the chaos, traffic signals in Phoenix, east Medford, south Medford, west Medford, Ruch, Jacksonville, Shady Cove and Eagle Point went dark just before 3 p.m. Monday after smoke from the fire on Roxy Ann interfered with Pacific Power electrical conductors.
Traffic was snarled passing through intersections. Some drivers pulled over to the side of roads to watch the billowing plume of smoke on what is one of Medford's most prominent landmarks.
About 25,000 customers were without electricity between about 3 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. while power crews activated an alternate transmission line, said Pacific Power spokesman Monte Mendenhall.
Blockades were set up at several intersections, including East McAndrews Road at Springbrook Road and North Foothill Road at every intersection between Hillcrest Drive and Corey Road. Evacuated residents who were returning home and emergency crews could use the roads, but general traffic wasn't allowed through as of 10 p.m. Monday, Clark said.
A red-flag warning for hot temperatures, dry conditions and high winds remains in effect through today, threatening to give the fire more momentum, Ballou said
Jet Center Medford
Air Tankers play a hugh role in protecting lives, homes and property. We watched these aircraft along with helicopters battle a hugh fire right in front of us...I copied the mail tribune article and pasted it here for all to read.
Firefighters battle blazes off Lone Pine Road as the Deer Ridge fire on Roxy Ann Peak b...urns about 600 acres Monday in east Medford.
Jamie LuschSeptember 22, 2009
By Paris Achen
Mail Tribune
Just as Gov. Ted Kulongoski was ordering state resources to help bring an Ashland fire under control, a fire began sweeping up East Medford's Roxy Ann Peak and causing evacuations, power outages, road closures and snarled traffic.
The wind-swept Deer Ridge fire in Medford had mushroomed to 600 acres by Monday night. Retardant-laden air tankers and helicopters swinging buckets of water managed to spare residential areas in the path of the fire. By 9 p.m. Monday, most of the evacuations of more than 100 households had been lifted. There were no known injuries, and the fire touched no homes, Medford fire officials said.
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Residents watch, worryVideo: Roxy Ann Peak fireRelated Photo Galleries
Roxy Ann Peak FireReader photos: Roxy Ann Peak fireWinds had died down considerably by Monday night, and bulldozers were moving in for an overnight shift to try to establish stronger fire lines to try to contain the blaze, said Brian Ballou, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry.
"The wind has died down, and that's to our advantage," Ballou said.
Residents in Vista Point reported the fire just before 2:30 p.m. Monday in a grassy areanear their houses. Flames whipped by 20-to-30-mph winds leaped to heights of 30 to 40 feetand came as close as 100 feet from half a dozenhomes, said Medford Fire Chief David Bierwiler.
Some of the fire crews, air tankers and helicopters that were dispatched to the 100-acre Ashland fire Monday morning quickly were diverted to the fast-moving Medford fire by the afternoon. A few hours after ordering help for the Ashland fire, the governor dittoed the order for state resources for the large fire on Roxy Ann.
"Ironically, having a four-alarm fire in Ashland helped us enormously," Bierwiler said. Crews already were deployed and could swiftly respond to the Medford fire, he said.
Five fire engines based in Medford, Ashland, Rogue River and Josephine County were among several that rolled north on Interstate 5 from Ashland toward Roxy Ann. As the five vehicles barreled down the Phoenix exit toward North Phoenix Road, the sirens began screaming.
In all, five air tankers, five helicopters, five bulldozers and crews from a variety of Jackson and Josephine county agencies tackled the blaze.
Around Roxy Ann, air tankers rumbled low in the sky, dropping red flame retardant on the hillside in between residences. Helicopters swung buckets of water that had been dipped from ponds in the area.
Residents were evacuated on the east side of North Foothill between East McAndrews Road and Corey Road; Dry Creek Road and North Roxy Drive; Devils Garden Road and Dodson Drive; the Manzanita Heights area, Normil Terrace and Devonshire Place. All of the evacuations except Devonshire Place had been lifted as of 9 p.m., said Jackson County sheriff's Sgt. Marty Clark.
"I had been watching the Ashland fire on the news, and my brother-in-law called and said there was a fire here," said Mary Maudlin, who lives on Cadet Drive off Normil Terrace. "I said, 'No, the fire is in Ashland.' He said, 'No, no, it's right in your backyard.' "
Maudlin, who had prepared some files and medications to take with her in case she had to be evacuated, watched the blaze jump through brush and send billows of dark smoke into the sky.
Adding to the chaos, traffic signals in Phoenix, east Medford, south Medford, west Medford, Ruch, Jacksonville, Shady Cove and Eagle Point went dark just before 3 p.m. Monday after smoke from the fire on Roxy Ann interfered with Pacific Power electrical conductors.
Traffic was snarled passing through intersections. Some drivers pulled over to the side of roads to watch the billowing plume of smoke on what is one of Medford's most prominent landmarks.
About 25,000 customers were without electricity between about 3 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. while power crews activated an alternate transmission line, said Pacific Power spokesman Monte Mendenhall.
Blockades were set up at several intersections, including East McAndrews Road at Springbrook Road and North Foothill Road at every intersection between Hillcrest Drive and Corey Road. Evacuated residents who were returning home and emergency crews could use the roads, but general traffic wasn't allowed through as of 10 p.m. Monday, Clark said.
A red-flag warning for hot temperatures, dry conditions and high winds remains in effect through today, threatening to give the fire more momentum, Ballou said
Jet Center Medford Article about Field Morey’s Father, an True Aviation Pioneer(Field Morey specializes in IFR Training from Jet Center Medford) By Michael GocHoward Morey was the small town boy from Birchwood, in northwestern Wisconsin, who became one of the founding fathers of commercial aviation in Madison. After completing at least f...our hours of training at the Heath Flying School in Chicago, he became an instructor himself. In less than a year, he saved $400 to buy a half-interest in a war surplus Curtiss JN-4. On his way home to Birchwood in late 1925, he landed in Madison, and there he stayed. He was 22 years old. Morey opened an airport in Madison on the shore of Lake Monona in 1926 and soon became known as the number one aviator in town. In addition to the usual barnstorming feats, he gained fame as the pilot who could drop a baseball right on the pitchers mound for opening day of the Madison team at Breese Field. When the Goodyear Tire Company needed some positive publicity, it hired Morey and a daredevil stuntman to demonstrate the durability of Goodyear inner tubes. They took off with a Goodyear tube mounted in the landing gear. When they reached the Capitol downtown, the stuntman climbed out of the cockpit, walked the wings for a spell, and then climbed down to the landing gear. He suspended the tube below the gear and climbed in like a kid on a swing. He stayed there for about 15 minutes while Morey circled the center of town. Goodyear got its money’s worth of attention. All went well until the stuntman tried to climb out of the tube and back onto the landing gear. The tube was coated with a slick layer of talcum powder and every time the stuntman tried to grab it, his hands slipped off. Morey had an idea what was going on. Guessing that the stuntman could not climb back onto the wing, he headed for Lake Monona and dropped to the wave tops to give him a chance to drop off safely. After a few circles around, Morey didn’t see a splash and feared for the worse. With fuel running low, he made for the airport. As he was making his final approach, Morey saw the desperate stuntman clamber onto the wing of the Jenny. That exploit was a warm up for Morey’s aerial refueling , demonstrations. He had a student, a medical doctor, named Frank Dean. They had heard about in-air refueling and decided to give it try. Morey had become an owner and dealer of Travel Air cabin planes and he had a pair available for the test. They were ideal because they had space for a pilot and an assistant to handle the fuel and, although the cabin was closed, it had a hatch on top. Morey went aloft with a 5-gallon can of fuel, a funnel, and what looks like about 100 feet of hose. Dean followed in his plane. As the photo indicates, they flew in precise formation and, at the right moment, Morey’s assistant lowered the hose to Dean’s assistant, who was standing in the open hatch of his plane. Out of the can, into the funnel, and down the hose went the gas. It isn’t clear if it went directly into the fuel tank of the plane or merely into another can first. Either way, it was the first in-air refueling of an airplane in Wisconsin that we know of Agents for the Wisconsin State Fair heard about the exploit of Morey and Dean and booked them for the fair. They performed their refueling stunt in the front of the grandstand every day. After the fair Dean decided to concentrate on medicine, Morey established Royal Airways, and both soon hunkered down to weather the Great Depression, But they did leave us the photo and the memory of their feat.Forward Flight Magazine – Fall 2009 – Quarterly Magazine of the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame
Jet Center Medford Another day begins as the time machines of general aviation play their respective roles benefiting the lives of all of us.
Jet Center Medford This is an album of aircraft that we currently have listed for sale.
Jet Center Medford Sometimes we get really nice and or unique aircraft parking on our ramp when visiting our FBO. We felt that others might like to see these machines
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Jet Center Medford Another day begins as the time machines of general aviation play their respective roles benefiting the lives of all of us.
7 new photos
Jet Center Medford Another day begins as the time machines of general aviation play their respective roles benefiting the lives of all of us.
5 new photos
Jet Center Medford Sometimes we get really nice and or unique aircraft parking on our ramp when visiting our FBO. We felt that others might like to see these machines
9 new photos
