Plane Banner Update: Blizzard of '06 Cuts Weekend Short
       All three planes were out on Friday and Saturday, flying their routes from Beverly and Fitchburg, flying together over Boston, Cambridge, Newton and Waltham. Both days were clear with little to no wind.

       The banner MARSHALL'S PANEL SAYS COURTS "MIRED IN CONFUSION" left from Beverly and flew over Peabody, Lynnfield, Wakefield, Woburn, Burlington, and Waltham before it met up with the two other planes that had launched from Fitchburg and carried the large flying billboards "JUDGE MARSHALL RESIGN" and "MARSHALL'S COURTS ARE A DISASTER".

       The Fitchburg planes covered Leominster, Lancaster, Shirley, Boxboro, Marlboro, Westboro, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley and Waltham earlier in the day.
        The planned flight for Sunday was hampered by a little precipitation. More accurately, precipitation in the form of two feet of snow covering the runway in Fitchburg.
        Not to be bettered by a few fluffy flakes, our "squadron commander" Harry Nikitas looked into the feasibility of giving his pilots shovels and scrapers and having them dig the planes out. In the end, however, the blizzard proved too much for the normally fearless flyers, and they stayed on the ground. We can expect them back up in the air in a couple of days.