Fly Over the Boston Marathon - Get a BEECH BUM Tshirt

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Steve Cote, Airboss of Massachusetts Announces:

Fly The Boston Marathon
Location: Hopkinton, MA... Free

Here is a way to get a Beech Bum T-shirt:

Public Event with 25,000+ participants
Monday, April 15, 2013
Major race steps off at 10am and then ongoing for several hours.
See other start times below.

No FAA flight restriction.
Flight info below is recommended per participating pilot's prior agreement with FAA.

Squawk 1200. (Too many planes for discrete code).
Get the altimeter setting on the KBED ATIS - 124.6.
Arrive at one thousand four hundred feet MSL over Hopkinton, Massachusetts
which is 26+ miles west of Boston. 1400 feet MSL is the altitude agreed upon for fixed wing aircraft.
Announce that you are joining the "round" on 122.85. Then safely slip in behind a banner tow.
Make left turns and look down at 25,000+ runners waiting to start.

You will see helicopters below you at 900 feet making right turns. More TV helicopters will be
at 2500 feet to bounce microwave signals. Helicopters frequently use 123.025 air-to-air in flight.

If you intend to go all the way to the finish line you will need to get this info (and good luck).
1) Flight is restricted within 3 miles of Fenway Park due to a Red Sox game which ends ???.
2) You will be entering the Logan Airport KBOS Class Bravo at 8 dme. (BOS VOR 112.7)
3) Get clearance from Boston Skyways on 124.725

East bound fly south of the race course. West bound fly north of the course.

Watch out for potential low level jet fly-over just prior to 10am start.

Start times:
Mobility impaired at 9:00
Wheelchair 9:17
Handcycles 9:22
Elite women 9:32
First of three 9000 runner waves 10am

Report your attendance for a BEECH BUM Tshirt and PT points to Tom Corcoran [email protected]
 
Yes. BAC was flying yesterday April 15, 2013.

For the first 4 hours of the Boston Marathon everything was perfect.

I flew from 1B9 Mansfield, Massachusetts to the start of the Marathon as has been my custom. After the 10am start I went back to land-mode. I landed at OWD Norwood which is the nearest airport to the race course. I had a car with chairs and lunch stashed there. Drove about eight miles to my usual vantage point in Wellesley which is about halfway in the race to watch the leaders and 26,000 more people run by. Then, fly again and put everything away. About 3pm I was entering my driveway when the news of the bombs was on the radio.


The closest person I know near the blast was my neice about 100' away she says. Now at this time (Tuesday morning) 3 people are dead and 130 injured. It was ironic that there were so many medical people so close to the blast as the marathon is geared to help thousands of runners.


Patriots' Day (Battles of Lexington and Concord) is/was always a great day for Bostonians. Our own holiday, historic pride, the most famous road race in the world. It won't be the same.


One of the dead is being reported this morning as an eight year old boy. His mother who was with him has a brain injury. His three year old sister lost a leg. They were waiting for the father to cross the finish line.


We've got one or more SOB's to catch and fry.


Tom Corcoran - Braintree, Massachusetts, eleven miles from the Marathon finish line.
 
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Tom, our thoughts and prayers are with you guys up there. Especially those like the young family you mentioned. The G'vmt opens the doors to these people and wonders why this sort of stuff happens, while the FAA assumes that you and me can't be trusted to tell them the truth and are just waiting for the opportunity to try and prove it.
 
Yesterday I had a gut feeling this was home grown. This AM BPD inferred that is very well could be domestic.
So no Gitmo. But Massachusetts has some pretty scuzzy prisons...life in hell?
 
Tom, You live very close to this tragedy and the reactions of those in your area are understandable. I practiced this morning and almost all my patients commented on the tragedy of it. Believe me, people across this country are sad and disbelieving that someone could do such a dastardly thing. Everyone here sends all who were affected in any way their heart felt sympathy. We knnow that we have to do all we can to see that this never happens again, but know that with the evil in this world it will. May God help us all.
 
Tom

Becky and I are keeping you and everyone in the Boston area in our prayers today. Like you, I hope we can bring these Terrorists (whether foreign or domestic) to swift justice. May God bless America once again!
 
I was at the finish line Sat 4/13 taking pictures with my friend and his family from Michigan. He finished the race at 1:50pm and left 20 minutes before the bomb went off. He was so bummed out that he went home the next day. Too think he and his family could of been injured really freaked me out. Like the President said, they picked the wrong city to mess with. God Bless America...the best country in the world.
 
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