OCTOBER

11 - 12 - Sat., Sun.    Natchez, Miss. British Car Show
18 - Sat.     Navarre Beach Car Show - all cars - Two British Classes
20 - Mon.   Regular PBCA dinner - meeting  
26 - Sun.    PBCA Progressive Dinner

NOVEMBER
8 - Sat.      South Alabama British Car Club - British Car Day, Fairhope, AL
8 - Sat.       Chattanooga, TN British Car Show
16 - Sun.    PBCA Poker Rally - 2nd Annual - You don't want to miss it! - The drive begins at and ends with dinner at Cracker Barrel next to the I-10 Pensacola exit.  (info:  Bill, 850 456-9040)  Go to www.PBCA1.com , Upcoming Events, to see  last year's photos.
      
DECEMBER
6 - Sat.     PBCA Christmas Party  
    

PBCA's July event, on the 24th, saw many PBCA members drive their British cars to the U.S. Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB.  The museum is located  about 60 miles east of Pensacola, near Ft. Walton Beach, FL.  Members spent a couple of hours in and around the museum and enjoyed the huge outside birds which, among many others, included a B-52, a beautiful WW II Superfortess, and the same super fast "Blackbird" that holds the world speed record .  Inside there were dozens of beautifully displayed aircraft and weapons displays of all types and eras.  The event was nicely organized by PBCA's Steve Sanders, who lives in Mary Esther, near Eglin AFB.

USAF Lt. Col. Chris Monahan, a new PBCA member, led off the museum tour and provided us with some fascinating non-classified details of his cutting edge experience in the USAF 28th Test Squadron of the Test and Management Group,  53rd Air Wing, located at Tyndall AFB..  He is second in command, what we Navy officers refer to as Executive Officer, with about 270 people in the unit.  His enviable job includes testing  F-15 updates and evaluating the USAF's new F-22 fighter.  He describes the F-22 as a revolutionary, different concept -  eons ahead of the F-15 with power, speed and stealth in a different class.  Chris explained how F-22 instrumentation is vastly simplified, one handling the work of several, and able to do much more than anything before.  Even Bill Gates couldn't buy himself such a great job.  Chris also pilots his Jaguar XKE coupe.

 Following the museum visit, we enjoyed Chris and Ann Monahan's hospitality in their nearby home.  Ann is from Tasmania and showed us her Tasmanian Devil and other marsupials in their back yard.  They were, of course, realistic statues that were cleverly placed near the bushes.  Ann's mother still lives in Tasmania.  A photo shows her Mom  sitting in a huge field of poppies on the Tasmanian farm.  Ann explained that the poppies are commercially grown and used in morphine production.  Ann explained how extremely well secured the poppy fields are.  You would probably find it easier to walk onto Tyndall AFB, stroll up to a F-22, and kick the tires!

(Photos from museum trip-- Bill Moseley)

PBCA arriving at Air Force Museum


L-R  Lt.Col Chris and Ann Monahan and organizer, Steve Sanders


USAF aircraft with its weapon display.


Steve Sanders leads off  TR-8's