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Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:49 pm
by Mayonnaise
I was watching last night's Extreme Makeover Home Edition, and saw the Special Parade and Flag Retreat that ya'll did at WDW for the woman in charge of NC's Jubilee house, and then found this video with more footage of what actually went on (they only showed like 3 minutes of it in clips on the show.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAE8l2N_1Xw
Were any of ya'll involved with this? It's awesome what work and number of people went into this thing.
8^)
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:48 pm
by DisneyMom
Thanks for Posting :)
IIRC the Flag Retreat in FL. is based on their Director's Experience with DL's Ernie....
Always love it!
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:54 pm
by ktulu
If this was at Disneyland, the crowd would have been bigger, just to see Ernie...
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:59 pm
by darph nader
ktulu wrote:If this was at Disneyland, the crowd would have been bigger, just to see Ernie...
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:04 am
by hhsrat
Mayonnaise wrote:
Were any of ya'll involved with this?
Well ... I checked the pilots into their hotel room the night before. Does that count?
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:19 pm
by DonutGoddess
hhsrat wrote:Well ... I checked the pilots into their hotel room the night before. Does that count?
Of course it does! :D
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:36 pm
by Mayonnaise
The Flyby Pilots stay on property? That's cool!!! So does that mean there's an airfield nearby that they stored the planes at and took off from? I always figured flybys took place out of the nearest Airforce Base, but they wouldn't need a hotel if they were taking off from a base.
8^)
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:04 pm
by hobie16
You mean they don't pitch a tent under the wing?!?!
I worked with a guy who was a crew chief on B-52's during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He said they lived under the aircraft for three months on a taxi way because of the high level alert.
The same crew made a phony bomb run on a Russian trawler off of Guam.
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:20 am
by Main Streeter
ktulu wrote:If this was at Disneyland, the crowd would have been bigger, just to see Ernie...
He said; "Thank You Kman, & THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!" :usflag: I meant to record this but K Lot shuttle doors had other ideas. :mad: Thanks Mayo for posting this. I do appreciate it. WDW Flag Retreat at least honors veterans with our U S Flag. I give WDW great credit. Wish Left Coast could do the same.
Re: Special Flag Retreat, Extreme Makover Home Ed.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:40 am
by hhsrat
Mayonnaise wrote:The Flyby Pilots stay on property? That's cool!!! So does that mean there's an airfield nearby that they stored the planes at and took off from? I always figured flybys took place out of the nearest Airforce Base, but they wouldn't need a hotel if they were taking off from a base.
8^)
For this particular fly-by at least, yes. They parked their planes at Orlando International and stayed on property. (as cool as it would be if they used the airport on property, it just isn't quite feasible)