About Us: "Throttle Forward"
By Ralph McCormick, Publisher

This issue we are mailing 7,000 FAA Certificate holders in Arkansas an issue of  Fly-Low.   We want to invite those of you who do not walk into an airport each month to subscribe to Fly-Low.  We mailed a copy to the same mail list on our first issue in March.  Now that we have been publishing for 5 months, I wanted to provide you with what I believe to be a “New and Improved” version.  We are learning from our mistakes each month.  It is our desire to produce a top-flight aviation magazine.  I think that those of you, who have not seen a copy of Fly-Low since the first issue, will see a difference in this issue.  We have improved.  As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. 

We publish each month and the normal procedure is to furnish the copies to the FBO’s.  The magazine is free to all.  If you desire to receive a copy delivered to your home, just contact us for a subscription.  Now on to bigger and better things.  Many thanks go out to the advertisers you see on these pages.  They are the backbone of our magazine.  I salute them and appreciate their continued support of our effort to provide information about aviation to 15,000 people in eleven States. 

My travel this month has taken me to the southern most part of Arkansas.  I have determined that the “hardest to find” airport (by car) is El Dorado Downtown.  They have been placed at the top of the list as of today.  I will say that after you find Bobby and Sharon Tucker at El Dorado Downtown, you will enjoy the visit.  They have managed the FBO for 26 years.  It was a pleasure to visit with them.  I hope they don’t mind being nominated for the “hardest to find (by car) airport.”  I should have taken my GPS in the car.  It is worth a stop at F43.  They make you feel welcome and the fuel prices are always low. 

There is one thing I have found since I started Fly-Low.  The aviation community in Arkansas is ONE BIG FAMILY.  I didn’t realize to what extent that family was inter-twined until this year.  The fact the family is spread through out the four corners of the State is a bit unusual, but the family is still just that.  As a pilot I have always had a family at the local airport.  I now know that the family extends to the borders of the State and outward.  The aviation family extends into Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, and to every State in the Union.  Perhaps this magazine can provide a vehicle to further connect our family.  I certainly hope so. 

Throttle Forward and Fly-Low!!

Ralph -- ralph@fly-low.com

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