Hondo, Texas
17 March 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Amenities Increase at Hondo for The Texas Fly-In this May


A one-day pancake breakfast gathering of home-built airplanes can get by with pot-luck and porta-potties, but a four-day festival of Experimental Aircraft builders and admirers needs more attention to the many needs of its visitors.

So it is at Hondo Airfield in Hondo, Texas, where for a second year
The EAA Texas Fly-In will take place this May 11th through 14th -
Mother's Day.  Work is under way to make all kinds of amenities
available for EAA members, their families and just plain people who find both the process and the product of building one's own airplane intriguing.

Aircraft camping - arriving at the Fly-In in one's airplane carrying
a tent with the aim of pitching it near the plane and spending at
least one night under the stars - is a large part of EAA Airventure
in Oshkosh and a growing thing at EAA Regional Fly-Ins of which the Southwest Regional is one.   Aircraft camping is a lot more fun if the campers have convenient showers.   Work began this first week of March on showers located within walking distance of the area reserved for aircraft camping at Hondo.

The bathing facility will include six stalls for women and six for
men, situated about one hundred yards from the east end of runway 08-26 where aircraft campers can tie down on the ramp and pitch their tents on adjacent turf.  These showers, new this year, will supplement showers in the City of Hondo Recreation Center located about one quarter mile south of aircraft camping.

The City Recreation Center is across the street from the City's
nine-hole golf course, which welcomes any aviation visitors who are able to tear themselves away from inspecting airplanes long enough to knock a few little dimpled white balls around the greens.

Aircraft camping is adjacent to four-wheeled RV camping, also very
popular with members of the Experimental Aircraft Association,
especially those whose family can't all fit in an airplane, or who
prefer to do their camping adventures in higher style than a tent.
This May, additional electric hook-ups for highway RVs will be
provided.

For the benefit of folks who prefer to keep close control over their
pocket cash, an Automatic Teller Machine will be located on the Hondo Airfield this year.  It will be furnished through the cooperation of the world-famous Security Services Federal Credit Union, based in San Antonio.

Amenities for visitors are one area of improvement.  The convenience of commercial exhibitors is also being enhanced.  At The EAA Texas Fly-In of 2006 there will be free Wi-Fi on the Hondo Airfield for exhibitors.  Many of them rely on internet access to conduct business, so the ability to log in to a strong local wi-fi access point is important.  Three different access points for wi-fi will operate to feed signals to a high-speed data link operating through an earth satellite.

Everybody plan to attend May 11th through Mothers' Day, May 14th at The EAA Texas Fly-In on the Hondo Municipal Airfield, Hondo, Texas.

Further information of every kind, including flight approach control,
lodging, camping, advance reservations, admission, schedule of events and pictures of award-winning airplanes can be found on the official Texas Fly-In web site at www.swrfi.org.

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Contact:
E. D. Yoes, Jr.
Secretary, SWRFI
eyoes@stic.net
(210) 492-2504