[Land-speed] Fw: ECTA news flash

[Dale Krumheuer]

Google Airborne Airpark :

Direction:          Feet              Meters
4L/22R
10,701
3,262
Concrete


4R/22L
9,000
2,743
Concrete
I don't recall if the list can post websites but here is a link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Airpark


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--- On Fri, 9/23/11, Neil Albaugh <neill at dbelltech.com> wrote:

From: Neil Albaugh <neill at dbelltech.com>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fw: ECTA news flash
To: "Jerry Foster" <fosterap at flash.net>, "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 23, 2011, 11:24 AM

Does anyone know how long this runway is?

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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From: "Jerry Foster" <fosterap at flash.net>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 5:10 AM
To: "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Land-speed] Fw: ECTA news flash

> Speaking of Keith......looks like he and Joe Timney have found a new venue
for
> the ECTA.  This site is between Cincinatti(sic) and Columbus.  Should draw
> huge crowds.  This is a forward of an email from Jim Price.  Jerry in
Dallas
>
>
> Subject: ECTA news flash
>
>
> ECTA Will Be Speeding Again
> On the strength of a 5 to 0 vote, Ohiobs Clinton County Port Authority has
> approved a proposal by the East Coast Timing Associationbs (ECTA) to hold
> four or five land speed-racing events at Wilmington Air Park, owned by the
> Port Authority.
>
> Joe Timney and Keith Turk, who own ECTA, spearheaded the pitch for moving
the
> event, which will be held on one of the Air Parkbs unused runways. For
> fifteen years, ECTA formerly held one-mile land speed racing events at an
> airfield near Maxton, N.C. and needed to find a new location.
>
> The casual atmosphere of their events finds spectators sitting in their own
> lawn chairs in a safely designated area watching as racers near top speeds
> around the 250 MPH mark. The local Convention & Visitors Bureau estimated a
$2
> million economic impact on the local economy in the first year, for the
five
> events, especially effecting hotels and restaurants. The first ECTA event
is
> expected in early 2012 and it should be a bargain with an expected $10 buck
> ticket. [09/22/11]
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