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tangent4ronpaul
11-27-2007, 11:08 PM
A couple of you have written in asking what the status, etc. is.

I have spoken to the pilot, he has received payment, last I knew he was programming in messages to be displayed and barring bad weather or an emergency everything is confirmed and a GO!

In the unlikely event it is canceled, I'll contact everyone about a refund and eat the PayPal fees to get your money back to you.

30 people contributed. Two donated $100, most donated $20 and we had some odd amounts - $5, $7, etc.

One person asked what messages were included. OK, first we had the ones he had programmed into the system already - these I'm pretty sure of, but I'm certain there were a few more:

I just saved a bunch of money by switching to Ron Paul 4 President
Ron Paul: Revive the Constitution
Not for Sale . Ron Paul for President
Low Tax, Small Gov’t. More Freedom. Vote Ron Paul
Like Money? Love Freedom? Google Ron Paul!
Vote for Ron Paul and Get A Free Country, Taxes not included!
Ron Paul's Special Interests: Freedom, Privacy, Prosperity, Peace
Vote NO to greed, lies, and corruption. Vote YES to Ron Paul!

Paul, one of the organizers in FL requested a blerb about tuning into the debates on YouTube or CNN and I asked him to play that one often!

Here are the ones people submitted that we used:

Vote Ron Paul for President and get a free country!
Get Big business out of our govt and big govt out of our business.
“Dr. Ron Paul cured my apathy”

Dr. Paul DOESN'T want to
run your lives
single handedly run the country
police the world!

Finally, we added some from slogans found on an OR RP Meetup site:

Downsize Big Brother
Remember America?

Got rights?
Got Freedom?
Got sound money?
GET Paulitics!

Ron Paul: 100% Constitutional
Ron Paul can’t be bought
Dr. Ron Paul today keeps the IRS away
Our economy is ailing. Dr. Paul can heal it
Stop Indebiting Future Generations - US Debt + Liabilities = $60 trillion
Washington needs a doctor, NOT another lawyer.
Get off your seat, on your feet, & in the street. Ron Paul 2008
BEE part of the solution. Paulinate!
Tired of politics? Try Paulitics!
We (heart) Ron Paul
RP Straight talk NOT double talk
Principled positions, not partisan politics

The whole message queue should display 6-8 times during the 2 hour flight - maybe more. The pilot was going to time it and get back to me with the number of repetitions, but I have not heard back yet. The graphics and fancy stuff take a bit of time to program into the system.

Again, someone PLEASE YouTube this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks all for your support!

Nathan

ps: my contribution has been the time and effort to pull this together and covering the $25 in PayPal fees for the transfers.

tangent4ronpaul
11-29-2007, 07:23 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywq7fm6AVio

this was taken early in the flight - most of the fly time was when it was darker.

-n

TechnoGuyRob
11-29-2007, 07:32 PM
In the unlikely event it is canceled, I'll contact everyone about a refund and eat the PayPal fees to get your money back to you.

You know Paypal lets you refund ANY TRANSACTION within 60 days for free, right...?

Bodhi
11-29-2007, 07:54 PM
I missed the original thread. How much did this cost?

GorGor
11-29-2007, 08:04 PM
It was something like $600-$800 if I remember right.

Bodhi
11-29-2007, 08:08 PM
Cool, thanks!

tangent4ronpaul
11-29-2007, 11:45 PM
re: paypal - no I didn't know that. - thanks!

it cost $850 for 2 hours sign time.

-n