EAA AirVenture Today, Thursday, August 1, 2013

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

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New attitude reflected at EAA annual meeting

By J. Mac McClellan

PHOTO BY JASON TONEY

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Members line up to vote at the annual meeting of the membership on Wednesday.

n unusually large number of members attended the annual EAA meeting of the membership at the Theater in the Woods on Wednesday morning. And the attitude among those in attendance, and the reports from the chairman and directors, was overwhelmingly positive.

EAA Chairman of the Board Jack Pelton opened the meeting by reiterating how appreciative the directors and leadership of EAA are for the hard work of the thousands of volunteers that make EAA and AirVenture Oshkosh possible.

Jack thanked the EAA directors for making some very hard decisions over the past nine months to restore the association to its course. He said EAA is again devoted to serving its members and volunteers, and to helping grow participation in all forms of aviation.

He said actions by the directors since the last annual meeting demanded making dif-

ficult choices, but he is confident that EAA is now on a path to remain stable, vital, and relevant in the aviation world.

Jack said the board has made preserving communities within EAA and aviation a major objective, along with continuing strong advocacy to preserve the rights of homebuilders, to simplify medical qualification for recreational flying, and to preserve the freedom to fly for all forms of personal aviation.

Stuart Auerbach, board finance committee chairman, reported that the association’s financial position is sound despite the volatile economic conditions of the past five years. He reported a small increase in overall income, which was $36.3 million for the fiscal year that ended in February. Income from AirVenture Oshkosh was down slightly, but membership showed an increase, and there was a substantial gain in investment income.

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John Monnett honored with Freedom of Flight Award onex President John Monnett joined the elite list of recipients of EAA’s Freedom of Flight Award, presented to him at the annual membership meeting Wednesday.

The award is the organization’s highest honor, bestowed annually to an individual whose contributions to aviation closely mirror the integrity, entrepreneurship, and innovative activities of EAA members.

Past recipients of the 27-yearold award include Steve Wittman, Neil Armstrong, Paul Poberezny, the Rutans, and Harrison Ford, to name a few.

Monnett earned his spot on the totem pole by dedicating his entire life to making “fun flight” affordable and accessible to the general people. CONT. P4

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013

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Hi-flying Jetman a down to earth aviator

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By James Wynbrandt

hortly after Yves “Jetman” Rossy wowed the crowd at EAA Oshkosh on Tuesday in his first public performance in the United States (and first visit to Oshkosh), the Swiss aviation pioneer met the media for a Q and A session and revealed himself to be surprisingly down-to-earth.

“I’m proud to be here at Oshkosh, The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration,” Rossy said after taking the EAA Press Center podium. “It’s a great honor to do my first public flight here. This is the Super Bowl of aviation. It’s a very emotional moment and a privileged one.”

Rossy, who leapt from a helicopter wearing his strap-on jet-powered wing at about 6,500 feet, said the scattered cumulus above Wittman field created an unusual three-dimensional playground that almost distracted him from his performance. “It’s completely unreal to fly like that between the clouds,” he said.

The former Swiss air force and airline pilot noted that birds had inspired the human dream of flight.

But as aviation progressed compromises required to overcome gravity took humans further from that pure experience.

“Now we are in fantastic boxes, supersonic boxes, but still it’s like in a submarine under water, and I wanted to be just a free diver, nothing between me and the air,” Rossy said. Eighteen years ago he began developing his jetwing to realize that lifelong dream.

Rossy’s carbon-Kevlar jetwing, with a span of about 7.9 feet, uses four kerosene fueled Jet-Cat P200 jet engines, each developing about 48.4 pounds of thrust. He flies with no gauges to monitor the engines, altitude, or airspeed, but “we have instruments: the name is ‘senses,’” he said. “You can tell when you put your hand out the window [of a car]. That’s exactly what I have, the pressure on my shoulders and arms.

You feel…”—Rossy made a shaking motion with his body to illustrate the sensation—“I don’t need instruments.”

Similarly, his jetwing has no control surfaces. All maneuvers are performed by changes to his body—or the fuselage, in Rossy’s words.

A lithe and wiry figure, Rossy, 53, said he must keep fit to be able to perform the maneuvers, but he has no physical training regimen beyond engaging in activities he enjoys. “I don’t like to be in the gym and lift tons of things—a minimum of fun with a maximum of effort,” he said.

“I prefer maximum fun with minimum effort.”

He allowed that sky diving is the best exercise for flying the jetwing.

As Jetman, Rossy, sponsored by Swiss watch manufacturer Breitling, reaches speeds of 190 mph, but said that might be as fast as one would be able to fly even with additional thrust, due to aerodynamic forces.

Nonetheless, in three weeks he will get engines that deliver twice the power, which he anticipates will allow him to climb vertically.

Rossy said he had inquiries about the jetwing from the U.S. Special Forces and had invited representatives to visit and discuss his wing. In response he received a 25-page request for more information for evaluation purposes. “So I said, ‘Sorry, I don’t just [give information] like that.” As for any commercial market for the jetwing, “I don’t think it’s for everybody,” Rossy said, noting that his apparatus is likely “too complicated” for most people to master and that the structure costs about $100,000 to construct.

Rossy also faced regulatory challenges in meeting FAA requirements to receive permission to fly the jetwing in the United States (EAA provided assistance), including receiving an aircraft registration number (N15YR). Such rules, Rossy said, strike him as the biggest impediment to advancing aviation.

“We bring innovation in the technical parts,” Rossy said of pioneering aviators. “I expect to have innovation in the legal part, too. I should have five lawyers instead of five sponsors.” AVT

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AIRVENTURE TODAY The official daily newspaper of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh • Vol. 14, No. 5 PUBLISHER: Jack J. Pelton, EAA Chairman of the Board

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ANNUAL MEETING CONT. FROM P1

On the other side of the ledger Auerbach reported that overall expenses were down about 6 percent to $34.3 million. The largest spending decrease was in general operational expenses that include staffing costs, which were down 41 percent compared to the previous year. The only significant spending increase was for investment in facilities for the AirVenture grounds to keep the event experience at the level people demand.

Auerbach reported that at the bottom line EAA ended the fiscal year with approximately a $2 million gain in net assets.

A fundamental function of the annual meeting of the membership is to elect Class 1 directors that serve a three-year

term. There were 174 members present who had not designated their proxy, and 25,865 represented by proxy.

Seven Class 1 director positions were open for election, and a total of 20 EAA members had been nominated. Elected to the board by the members were: Stuart Auerbach, EAA 689374 (incumbent) James “CB” Clark, EAA 500238 Eileen Drake, EAA Lifetime 852455 (incumbent) Alan Klapmeier, EAA Lifetime 141042 Phil Martineau, EAA 593215 (incumbent) Jim Phillips,

AWARD CONT. FROM P1

“To me, it just doesn’t make sense to spend a lot more on the kind of flying most people do,” Monnett said in his biography From Sonerai to Sonex.

“How fast and how high doesn’t really matter when we are just flying locally.”

This mentality led to the creation of his first for-sale airplane, the Sonerai, which cost $1,200 in the ’70s, and 40 years later, his aircraft are still considered some of the best values in aviation.

Monnett’s models have always been

built with a fun-to-fly mentality and he is almost single-handedly responsible for giving countless aviation family members the chance to live their dreams of playing fighter pilot by providing the industry with an affordable means of rolling, diving, and racing.

Every year at AirVenture we marvel at countless concept models and think, “I wish I could afford to do that.”

John Monnett has been making those wishes come true for 40 years. AVT

EAA 149430 (incumbent) Cody Welch, EAA 115674 Charlie Precourt, EAA Lifetime 150237, was an incumbent Class 1 director who remains on the board as a Class 3 director elected by board members.

Jack continues his three-year term as chairman until the fall of 2015 when, under the change in articles of incorporation approved at the meeting, he could be elected for another and final three-year term as chair.

There has been some confusion over Jack’s role at EAA with reports that a search for a new president or CEO will begin after Oshkosh.

In response to that question, Dan Schwinn, chair of the governance and human resources committee, said in an interview in the July issue of Sport Aviation, “The board plans to add a senior person to the leadership team, but we haven’t decided on a title or specific responsibilities. The position may be a CEO or president, but it could be another title and job description.”

Schwinn said after the meeting that nothing has changed and the board will make decisions on the issue sometime in the future.

During the open member comment

and question period a number of people took the microphone. The prevailing theme of the comments was the volunteers again feel appreciated and respected; that EAA was back on track and headed in the right direction; morale is greatly restored among members and volunteers at Oshkosh; volunteers are again optimistic about the future; congratulations were offered to the directors for making very difficult decisions over the past nine months; thanks for a new and expanded safety emphasis in Sport Aviation and other EAA publications; several pleas for Jack Pelton to continue in his role; and comments from a member who is also a traffic controller reminding all that the main mission of ATC is safety.

The few negative comments revolved mostly around the FAA charges for controller services; failure of the FAA administrator to come to Oshkosh; and replacement of the Learn to Fly center with the Innovations Pavilion.

Moving the annual meeting of the membership from Saturday morning to Wednesday was clearly a success in terms of attracting many more members.

And the doughnuts, as promised, were abundant and tasty. AVT

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EPS intros lightweight diesel aircraft engine

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iesel power is one of the hopes of alternatives to gasoline-powered engines, but the heavier construction that diesel engines require makes aviation applications problematic. At the Innovations Pavilion here at EAA Oshkosh, Engineered Propulsion Systems (EPS) of New Richmond, Wisconsin, is showcasing the Vision 350 engine, prototype of a lightweight diesel aircraft powerplant in the 350-hp range that is small enough to fit into the cowls of current production single-engine aircraft.

What sets the Vision 350 apart from other diesels, said Steven Weinzierl, vice president/CTO, is that EPS figured out “how to make it compact, but strong.” Despite its relatively light weight, its crankshaft is cast-iron, not aluminum. “We have a configuration that keeps it small and short and allows us to be weight competitive,” Weinzierl told AirVenture Today.

EPS has already approached several OEMs about using the engine in new aircraft, and is also exploring the potential for retrofit installations. For its certification program, the company recently bought a Cirrus SR22 aircraft and will install a Vision 350 to conduct flight testing, commencing in about 90 days. Record-setting pilot Dick Rutan will fly as test pilot.

“This is truly a 21st century modern engine, and I was adamant it be put in a 21st century composite airplane,” Rutan told AirVenture Today yesterday. “It’s the engine that will save general aviation.”

Rutan based his assertion on the engine’s ability to run on a variety of fuels, removing reliance on 100LL, and its geared design, allowing the prop to deliver full power at lower rpm (2200-2300 rpm) and reducing sound levels in an increasingly noisesensitive world.

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Steven Weiunzierl, Dick Rutan, and Michael Fuchs. Photo by Phil Weston

Rutan came to the program after Weinzierl wrote to his brother, Burt Rutan, about the engine. “A week or two later, Dick Rutan called and said Burt had passed along the letter,” Wienzierl said. He and company president and CEO Michael Fuchs arranged to meet in Dick in California for half an hour, a meeting that stretched into six hours.

The EPS diesel can be configured for low and high altitude fixed-wing and piston helicopter applications, and principals say they are currently in discussions with three potential OEM launch customers, and that the company has a provisional purchase orders for more than 1,000 engines in its second year of production, at a $100,000 price point. AVT

Five Able Flight pilots earn their wings

The 2013 class of Able Flight scholars celebrated their inspiring achievements during ceremonies on Phillips 66 Plaza Tuesday afternoon at EAA Oshkosh 2013. Photo by Chet Wehe.

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ix pilots with a variety of life challenges to deal with achieved their goal of learning to fly and Tuesday were celebrated as the latest successes of Able Flight, a program created to help the physically challenged become able aviators.

Each with a different background, each with specific hurdles to clear, all

six made their way through a program that to date has helped a total of 33 participants learn to fly.

“Not only does this program provide a life-changing experience for our students, but we use funding from our donors and sponsors to support small aviation businesses each year,” explained Charles Stites, founder and

executive director of the organization.

Able Flight selects and provides flight-training scholarships to people selected for their drive and ambition, and their love of flight.

Five of this year’s six Able Flight pilots learned through a joint program between Able Flight and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The sixth learned through the services of instructors Able Flight lined up for her in her home state of Georgia.

This year’s success stories include: Andrew Kinard, who lost both legs after suffering combat injuries just five weeks into his first deployment as a Marine serving in Iraq. Andrew endured 17 months of therapy and trained as the first recipient of the new AOPA/Able Flight scholarship.

Deirdre Dacey, was diagnosed at 16 with multiple sclerosis; over the next decade the disease progressed to the point that she needed a wheelchair to get around. She’s the seventh woman to earn her flying privileges through Able Flight.

Young Choi contracted polio as a child in Korea, a country that lacked much of the infrastructure to support the physically challenger. Now a U.S. citizen, the father of three is Able Flight’s first Asian scholarship recipient.

Warren Cleary had hours and hours of time in aircraft—riding up to altitude to sky dive. After placing seventh in the 2011 world meet in Dubai, Warren was practicing for the 2013 meet when he suffered a spinal cord injury in a jump-training accident.

Dennis Akins was 14 when a trampoline accident rendered him a quadriplegic. But over the next three decades he graduated from Texas A&M and became an engineer and a father.

Stephany Glassing won one of Able Flight’s first two scholarships in 2006, but health challenges repeatedly intervened in her training—until last year. She has been honored with the 2013 Jet Aviation/Able Flight scholarship. AVT

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Classic Catalina lands at Oshkosh

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othing looks like a Catalina.

The shiny example parked on Phillips 66 Plaza at AirVenture 2013 draws onlookers who ponder its structure.

Its fuselage is clearly a hull, V-shaped to knife through the water. But its semicircular upper hemisphere is reminiscent of a huge aluminum travel trailer, capped with a pair of goggle-eyed Plexiglas blisters. Its high wing rests on a sculpted central pylon, and two struts, not parallel with each other when

viewed from the front, angle up to the wing from each side of the fuselage.

Huge tires support the Catalina on the ramp, and tuck neatly into gaping exposed wheel wells in flight.

In the cockpit, the pilot’s throttles are an overhead handful, not floor-mounted on a pedestal. Behind the pilots, nested in that sculpted central pylon, the flight engineer has his own instrument panel and a pair of side windows.

The Catalina’s wingtip floats are a mechanical marvel to watch as they

extend or retract, metal elbows and arms folding into pockets and recesses that cause the floats to become oversized wingtips in flight.

If all of the Catalina’s monkey-motion makes it sound like a Rube Goldberg contraption, you’d better smile when you say that, pardner! In the seven decades since its introduction in 1935, the PBY Catalina has endeared itself to generations of fliers and fans alike.

That big hull let it land in open seas, where those huge blisters made for convenient pick-ups of downed fliers. The expansive 104-foot spread of its wing (only 6 feet shy of the span of a four-engine B-24 Liberator) supported Catalinas on long-endurance patrol and search missions. A poster-child for the theory of form-follows-function, everything on the Catalina is there on purpose.

Cruising at a leisurely 125 mph, Catalinas scored some major coups for the Allies during World War II, including spotting the approaching Japanese fleet when it was still out to sea, but en route to Midway. And the ill-fated German battleship Bismarck was shadowed by a Catalina. Navy and Army Air Forces squadrons used Catalinas for search-and-rescue under the generic

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nickname “Dumbo,” giving many a flier safe haven and a second chance.

The Catalina on display at AirVenture 2013 is shown by James Slattery, a San Diego businessman with a passion for preserving vintage warbirds such as this. Through his efforts, this Cat was rebuilt where he located it in South Africa, culminating in a 12,000-mile delivery flight to San Diego this January.

The PBY nomenclature technically applies to Catalinas made by the design’s creator, Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair). The example at AirVenture was built under license by Vickers in Canada, so great was the wartime demand for these seaplanes.

As they phased out of military service, a number of Catalinas became freighters and regional civil transports.

Perhaps the best-known civilian use of Catalinas was as firefighting air tankers. Some were fitted with belly scoops enabling them to take on a load of water on the fly, as thrillingly captured in the opening sequences of the motion picture Always, a tribute to air tankers.

It may be slow, even awkwardlooking on the ground, but the Catalina is a classic that is a welcome sight at Oshkosh. AVT

Rich’s Incredible Pyro bows out—but not quietly

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ich and Dee Gibson, better known as Rich’s Incredible Pyro, are retiring after this year’s convention—but you can be sure they won’t slip out unnoticed.

If you attended Wednesday’s night air show, you got a sample of their work, and the Rockford, Illinois, natives will be back at it this weekend.

Rich has been blowing things up for EAA’s annual warbird shows here at Oshkosh since 1983, and attendees have been “feeling the heat” of his work for all those years.

He credits much of the success of his career to Dee, who not only helps out with the shows, but also supported his passion over the years with her teaching career. “You can make beer money at this,” he said, “but it’s tough to make

a living in the air show business.”

Rich started doing air show work in 1981, when the Confederate Air Force (now the Commemorative Air Force) came to Rockford. Rich was operating an air charter business at the time, and hosted the warbird group in his hangar. “I got to talking with the pilots about adding pyro to their show, and with my background in the military, we came up with some ideas.”

Rich served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, and had extensive training in explosives. Combined with his knowledge and experience as a pilot, he knew how to put together a simulated air attack that would be explosive, but more important, safe for the pilots and the spectators. The show in Rockford was a huge success

and, “The phone’s been ringing ever since,” Rich said.

In more than three decades of setting up pyro displays, the Gibsons have traveled the world, working shows in Australia, China, the Middle East, Central America, and elsewhere. After hanging up their blasting caps this weekend, the couple will head to the Far East, where they will crew on a tall ship journey, participating in an 18-ship regatta in Sydney Harbour, Australia, celebrating 100 years of the Australian Navy. Next year, they’ll be trekking across Nepal.

Rich said that when he and Dee got married, he promised her their life would never be boring. And in his line of work, that promise has not been hard to keep. AVT

By Mark Phelps

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John Star polishes the tail of his RV8. The airbrush work depicts departed friends Ed Weber and Stan Auferoth flying with an angel.

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The new turbine powered Thrush 510G lays down a blanket of water during a simulated crop dusting demonstration Tuesday before the show crowd at EAA Oshkosh.

Pilot Dan Grim takes Tim McKinney on a demo ride over the EAA grounds Monday evening in an ultralight.

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These AirVenture attendees came well-prepared with their telephoto lenses at the ready.

Save your receipt after eating at one of the many food vendors on the EAA grounds and enter yourself to win a prize. Drop your receipt with your name and phone number into one of the airplane mailboxes located just outside of the restaurant.

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Oshkosh tower chief bids farewell See you at

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Wanda Adelman has been the tower chief for AirVenture Oshkosh since 2003. She retires from wearing the pink shirt, and from her 32-year career with the FAA, later this year.

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fter 10 years serving as the Oshkosh tower chief during AirVenture, this is Wanda Adelman’s last show. The 32-year FAA veteran is retiring later this year, after an agency career born in the aftermath of the 1981 PATCO strike, in which more than 11,000 controllers were fired.

A certificated pilot, Adelman primarily has worked at control tower facilities throughout the FAA’s Great Lakes Region—many attendees probably have talked with her on the frequency without knowing her role in helping make AirVenture happen.

When not herding the pink-shirted controllers—there are 87 of them this year, total—she serves as air traffic manager at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport.

AirVenture Today caught up with her during a quick break this week to chat about her career, what it’s like to run the World’s Busiest Control Tower, and her plans for the future.

How did you get into this line of work?

I was originally in pre-vet school—I wanted to be a veterinarian. The science classes just did me in.

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What was it like at regional?

At regional headquarters, I was a 540 specialist, so I was involved in a lot of staffing and labor relations stuff in the region.

I was there for a year and a half. I learned a lot, and had a lot of fun, but I wanted back out in the field. I loved it—every minute that I was there—but I got all the experience I felt like I needed for a while. Then I got back out in the field where the airplanes were.

This is your 11th year at AirVenture and your 10th as the person in charge. What are some of your fondest memories?

I just love everything about AirVenture—it’s so much fun. I tell all my friends this should be on every single person’s bucket list. It’s like Disneyland with airplanes.

You can see more different type aircraft here than any other place in the world, just looking at all the warbirds, the homebuilts, the antique classics—just the whole gamut of aviation.

There’s such a variety, and getting to see all of them in one place and getting to be a part of making sure that it’s all safe.

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I got hired as a controller in August 1981, when 11,000 controllers got fired.

I was one of the replacement controllers. I was flight instructing right up to that point, and then when the agency started hiring, I got hired right away, in August of 1981.

I started out in Bismarck, North Dakota, then I went to Aurora, Illinois. Then I went to the regional office in Chicago, then down to Springfield, Illinois, out to Toledo, Ohio, then up to Milwaukee.

What about the low points?

There always are. If we get really bad weather, or if we have an accident.

The year we had all the rain and had no place to park airplanes, or the years when we have really hot weather and the controllers are out there for eight hours at a time are probably the worst.

What are your plans for retirement?

There are a few things I want to do as far as volunteering: I like Habitat for Humanity. I like building things; my father was a contractor.

I also want to raise service dogs; I’ve got a really nice German shepherd.

He’s just a doll, and so calm. So bright.

So, I’d like to raise service dogs with my sister, who just got a new shepherd.

I also want to work with an outfit in Milwaukee that takes disabled children on horseback rides. I might not be really good with the children, but I love horses and I love seeing how horses react with people; it’s just amazing, and it can bring out the best in people, so I’d like to volunteer to do that.

Will you come back to AirVenture?

Absolutely. I’ll come back and volunteer, maybe in vintage or flightline ops.

There have been several people who have asked me to volunteer with them. So, I’ll be back, and I’ll be back as a volunteer.

Any regrets?

I don’t think so. There probably are times when I could have said something nicer or been a bit more proactive or could have remembered something I forgot. But I just feel really privileged.

On behalf of EAA, its members, and attendees, thanks, Wanda, for your service to AirVenture and to aviation!

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When did you join the FAA?

I do have a responsibility, but everybody has a part—I’m just one little part of this great big machine that works.

It’s not just me in the tower—everyone works hard: the controllers and the supervisors and the operations managers.

We’re all one big team. I’m just here to support them so they can do what they need to do.

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My dad was a contractor and had a Skyhawk, and he let all seven of us kids learn to fly. Only three of us got our licenses, but I’d been flying and heard about air traffic control. I thought if I can’t be a vet, maybe I can be an air traffic controller.

I graduated from the University of North Dakota, one of our top aviation schools in the nation, and then got hired by the FAA. I went from a controller to a staff specialist to a supervisor to a manager and then to a hub manager.

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he 50th annual General Aviation Awards program presents the 2013 honors today at 11:15 a.m. at the FAA Safety Center. The awards will be presented by John Allen, FAA director of flight standards.

Recipients are Bill Fifles of Honolulu, Hawaii, Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) of the Year; Bruce Lundquist of Willis, Michigan, Avionics Technician (AVN Tech) of the Year; Dean Eichholz of Soldotna, Alaska, Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) of the Year; and Mark Madden of Anchorage, Alaska, FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) Representative of the Year.

The program is a cooperative effort between the FAA and more than a dozen industry partners. The national awards winners are chosen by panels of volunteer judges composed of previous national winners in each of the categories.

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Fifles is an A&P/IA mechanic and a Hawaii DOT airport vehicle safety inspector for ramp vehicles and equipment.

He opened Lihue Aviation Center in 1992.

He went to work for the Genavco Corporation in January 1997 and helped maintain a DC-3 and a DC-3S. He also worked at Molokai Air Shuttle maintaining three Piper Aztecs, two Piper Chieftains, and a Cessna 402 under FAR 135.

He relocated to San Francisco to work for United Airlines on their scheduled special routing team troubleshooting maintenance issues. Four years later he returned to Hawaii at Kamaka Air as director of maintenance, where he remains today.

Some of the interesting aircraft Fifles has worked on include a Murray Air DC-8-73 and Billabong’s Grumman G-111 Albatross.

In 2009, he was asked by Hawaiian Airlines to oversee the reassembly and maintenance of its fully restored 1929

Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker NC-251, and has worked on Hollywood productions for TV shows Lost and The Amazing Race, as well as major motion pictures including Pearl Harbor, Outbreak, Along Came Polly, and The Rundown.

Lundquist holds an FAA repairman certificate and an FCC general radiotelephone operator license.

After high school in 1970 he went to work for Ford Motor Company then enlisted in the Air Force and started studying aviation electronics at technical school.

In 1976, Lundquist joined Quality Controlled Electronics at Willow Run Airport near Detroit, then went to Chrysler’s Pentastar Aviation in 1982.

During the three decades Bruce has been there, Pentastar and Chrysler have been through many changes. After several moves and ownership changes, Pentastar Aviation LLC is now owned

by Edsel Ford II and is located at Oakland County International Airport in Pontiac, Michigan.

Eichholz is an independent flight instructor as well as a designated pilot examiner (DPE) and FAA check

airman. He trains and does flight checks in various aircraft suited for the diverse Alaskan environment for Transmountain Aviation, Kenai Aviation Inc., and Talon Air Inc. He also is an insurance broker with Falcon Insurance Agency of Alaska in Soldotna.

Eichholz received his Navy Wings of Gold in 1975 and flew A-6 Intruders out of Whidbey Island, Washington.

Eichholz also spent two years in Pensacola instructing T-2 Buckeye pilots.

After the Navy, Eichholz earned commercial, instrument, multiengine, and flight instructor certificates and ratings, then moved to Soldotna to open Alaska Flying Network, an FAA Part 141 flight school.

He was appointed as a DPE in 1987, and has instructed or tested pilots in all areas of Alaskan aviation. He has logged more than 10,000 hours of instruction time and 18,000-plus hours of flight time.

Eichholz is a FAASTeam representative for the Kenai Peninsula and a longtime board member of the Alaskan Aviation Safety Foundation. For the past three years, he has organized

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Madden is a Master CFI and professor of aviation technology at the University of Alaska. He joined the FAASTeam safety program because he wanted to make a real difference in improving aviation safety in Alaska.

As a member and officer of the board of directors for the Alaska Aviation Safety Foundation (AASF), he promotes safety in all areas of Alaskan aviation. AASF partners with public television and the National Weather Service to produce a weekly TV show in conjunction with the Alaska Weather program.

In the early 1990s Madden was a CFI at P. C. Flyers in Denver, and also was a technical writer for Jeppesen Sanderson.

In 1998, he began his long tenure with the University of Alaska in Anchorage as a professor of aviation technology.

Madden has also been a part-time pilot, instructor, and program developer for Empire Airlines, a FedEx Feeder.

Madden has served on the board of the Lake Hood Pilots Association since 2012. AVT

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AIRVENTURE TODAY company that had become Hawker Beechcraft was in deep trouble.

Hawker Beech had continued to build Bonanzas, Barons, and King Airs, but those airplanes with propellers were called “legacy” aircraft as though they were something ready to be pasted away in the scrapbook. Jets were getting the attention and investment at Hawker Beech. And before the was still trying to figure out what went recession began late in 2008 the jets on here. Beech people knew pilots were selling.

Everything changed when the econgather at Oshkosh in huge numbers and they wanted their airplanes to be omy plunged into the dumper. Demand for business jets, especially the midsize part of the big party.

No matter what you fly or build, and light jets Hawker Beech was buildyou must admit that the Bonanza in ing, disappeared. Despite huge layoffs 1947 is a landmark design and one of and enormous spending cuts the comthe most important airplanes ever. pany ended up in bankruptcy.

As investors looked at the remains And the Staggerwing from the 1930s was and is one of the most gorgeous airplanes ever built. Beech has every reason to be proud of its airplanes, and was first to put them on display for close inspection by the very picky and knowledgeable audience that gathers at Oshkosh every summer.

Over the decades Beech continued to be a major airplane exhibitor at Oshkosh while all of the other major manufacturers joined them. But over the past year it looked like maybe Beech wouldn’t be able to return. The

Beechcraft and Oshkosh—a perfect pair

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eech was the first major airplane manufacturer to establish a large presence at Oshkosh.

Back in the 1970s when the show was a fraction of its present size Beech created an exhibit space marked by flags, low stone walls, and excellent landscaping just north of the Brown Arch.

And the airplanes that filled that space had propellers.

The Beech leadership—founding family members, actually—was among the first to understand that airplanes are wonderfully quick and efficient traveling machines. But Beech people also knew that love of flying and a passion for beautiful airplanes was even more important than the transportation they can deliver.

That’s why Beech brought its Bonanzas, Barons, King Airs, and Musketeers to Oshkosh while most of the established general aviation industry

Control line has tradition older than KidVenture

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hree years before there was a KidVenture, a group of control line (also known as U-control) enthusiasts from the Milwaukee Circle Masters Club began offering free control line flights to children attending EAA Oshkosh. Previously, there were no activities specifically for children at the annual air show and fly-in.

Sean Elliott, now EAA vice president of advocacy and safety, encouraged the group to offer the informal flights on a corner of the museum grounds. Then SIG Manufacturing got involved by providing fuel and prizes for the group’s endeavors.

Word spread among the control line clubs across the country so by the time KidVenture became a reality, the control line volunteers were giving more than 2,000 flights a week, making it the largest all-volunteer control

line activity in the country.

Now, 18 years later, the group continues its tradition and national distinction.

Annually, volunteers from at least 14 states and France travel to Oshkosh to share their love of flying with children and adults of all ages.

In 2012 alone, the group gave 1,344 flights to children from 47 states and 19 foreign countries. The number of flights was lower than usual because inclement weather prevented flying on three days.

Through the years, the airplanes have changed a bit. Originally, the group flew SIG SkyBabys, but found they were losing at least an airplane a day due to the helicopter prop wash or model crashes by children.

In 2010, three volunteers from St. Louis designed a new airplane to withstand the rigors of Oshkosh.

of Hawker Beech, guess which airplanes grabbed the attention? The Bonanza, Baron, and King Airs. There were competitive bidders for the propeller airplanes, but no takers for the jets. The new Beechcraft was created out of those “legacy” airplanes. And a great legacy it is.

When I walk past the Beech exhibit here I rejoice to see the beautiful airplanes on display. It was a close call, but the Beechcraft that was first to come to Oshkosh all of those many years ago is still here.

What in the boom days was almost a slur, calling the propeller airplanes “legacy” turned out to be a prophecy.

It really is the Beech legacy that lives on, along with the airplanes that made the company. AVT CORRECTION: Yesterday’s photo on page 32 should have been this photo of Ryan Campbell, left—currently en route on an around the world flight—and Jack Wiegand, youngest pilot to fly around the world.

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Logan Haag is helped by Mike Danford while Bob Arata holds a control line airplane ready for takeoff at KidVenture.

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Named the ToughBaby, the prototypes were made from old political signs and free hardware store yardsticks.

The design proved so successful that the group is still flying with the original five planes. Now they give away the plans so the fun can continue once AirVenture ends. Last year more than 400 sets of plans were sent to interested families.

If the purpose of KidVenture is to inspire future pilots, this group of dedicated volunteers is doing it one dizzying flight at a time.

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Sully and Skiles make way for next Young Eagles chair

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AA Young Eagles co-chairmen Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeff Skiles, US Airways pilots who became national heroes after safely ditching Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in January 2009, are stepping down after leading the program for the past four years.

Sully looks back on those years fondly.

“It’s been great working with Jeff,” he said. “I could not ask for a better colleague.

It was a real honor to have been asked to lead such an important program.”

Sully credits the success of the program to the breadth of engagement by the many thousands of volunteers, the chapters, and all the EAA members.

“The enthusiasm is incredible,” he said.

Skiles echoes those sentiments. “It’s an ongoing honor to work with our chapters and members, who are the real reason for the program’s success.”

Young Eagles is the most success-

ful youth aviation outreach in history, with nearly 1.8 million kids flown since its inception in 1992. Sully said it’s also an important part of aviation’s future.

“We’re in the business of providing a connection between a desire and opportunity,” he explained. “What’s been fun to see is how the volunteers share their passion and see others get excited about it. Fuel the passion with a flight, not just a virtual adventure.

That spark could result in a career as a pilot, a controller, technician, or a lifelong recreation pilot.

“It’s also important because it fosters a sense of appreciation not only for aviation and what it means to our country and the world, but also the importance of our airport assets.”

As EAA’s vice president of communities and member programs, the Young Eagles program is Skiles’ responsibil-

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ity, one that he takes very seriously.

“I’m still as involved as ever in the program. Young Eagles is critically important to the future of aviation and the aviation industry,” Skiles stressed. “It’s becoming more and more of a problem for companies to find people who are interested in aviation as a career.

“The Young Eagles program aims to expose kids to aviation early then provide them with that next step after their first flight through our Flight Plan program with Sporty’s online flight training course, a free flight lesson, and mentoring relationships.”

Although they are stepping down, both Sully and Skiles plan to continue

Otto: Just clowning around in the sky

Roger Buis has been flying Otto for 14 years.

His wife, Pauline, narrates his performances.

Roger Buis says he likes to clown around. So it seems appropriate that he flies a helicopter named Otto that looks the part.

Otto is a Schweizer 300C helicopter that was originally designed by Howard Hughes. But Otto doesn’t look—or act—like your ordinary helicopter on the ground or in the air.

With its big blue eyes and red nose, Otto is based on Bozo the clown, part of the U.S. Army Silver Eagles, a helicopter display team formed to stimulate public interest in the Army and demonstrate its aerial abilities. Until the group was disbanded in 1976, Bozo wore the face of a clown and performed antics to entertain the audience while the other aircraft positioning for the next maneuver.

Pauline and Roger owned an FBO, but they were looking for a new opportunity when they decided to join the air show business. The clown helicopter, then named Oscar, had been created

by Craig Hosking, but when Hosking started flying, filming or coordinating stunts for Hollywood, Oscar was put to the side, so the Buises purchased it.

“It allowed us to get into the air show business easier,” Roger says.

They have refined the act throughout the years and upgraded the aircraft. “The only thing that is now original is the clown face,” Roger says.

Their act is different, and tends to break up the routine at most air shows, Pauline says. “Airplanes have different paint schemes, but most of them are

flying Young Eagles.

“Yes, certainly, I will continue to fly kids,” Sully said. “I have not flown enough of them, but then again I don’t fly as often as I would like. I look forward to flying again with Jeff. ” Skiles gave Sully credit for his dedication to the program.

“It’s been an honor to serve with Sully, who has been very generous with his time and resources for the program and EAA. He’s a volunteer, and a generous one.”

A new chairman is slated to be named at tonight’s Gathering of Eagles event.

Look for more information in the Friday issue of AirVenture Today. AVT

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doing the same maneuvers,” she says.

“Otto touches the soul of future aviators,” Roger adds. “Kids can relate to it, and then think of air shows as exciting…”

Roger and Otto perform at both day and night shows. Their day shows include three parts: comedy, to appeal to children ages 2-92; aerobatic movements, to showcase the helicopter’s agility; and patriotism, to pay tribute to U.S. veterans and hometown heroes like police officers and firefighters.

Roger says he can do a variety of maneuvers in the helicopter, including some that airplanes can’t do. He flies 90 mph traveling backward, or will do hammerheads, reverse lazy-eights, eight-point rolls, snap rolls, tail slides, and more.

And if the weather cooperates, Otto may even do a new maneuver at Oshkosh: the hurricane, which is a tailspin pivot, he says.

“I say we do helibatics,” Pauline says, “instead of aerobatics.”

Their night show uses lots of pyrotechnics and fireworks and is “totally patriotic,” Roger says.

“We start off tame and build slow,” he explains. They start with smoke and lights, and then add pyrotechnics and

color, and more pyrotechnics, and more color, until the grand finale, which includes him pulling an American flag up in the air as fireworks go off.

“It’s nothing but color, and the bombs bursting in air, all set to music,” he says.

How does he keep from being disoriented with all the lights at night? “I just try to keep my eyes closed,” Roger says, laughing.

At some shows, they also give media flights or offer rides. The most memorable ride occurred at a Hickory, North Carolina, show. Roger took a 3-yearold girl up whose father had recently died in a trucking accident.

“She said she wanted to ride in Otto so she could go up to heaven and say goodbye to her dad,” Pauline recalls.

“While we were up, we said a prayer for her daddy,” Roger adds.

Flying since 1980, Roger has logged more than 18,500 hours in the air. Besides flying for air shows, he is also the chief pilot for Heliworks, where he flies mainly the King Air 250, or Bell’s 206 or 207. The helicopter operation does movie filming and photography, news and media, sightseeing, fire control and firefighting, air charter, and more. AVT

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Speedmail is much more than a billboard

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fter flying with the American Barnstormers Tour in a Stearman Model 4, Sarah Wilson knew she just had to have one of the classic airplanes for herself.

“I was teary-eyed because it was so beautiful,” she said. “I decided this was the plane I wanted.”

Through her aviation connections, Wilson located what remained of a Model 4E not far from her Lakeland, Florida, home. A bit of dealing with the owner ensued, and after not too much time, Wilson owned at least the beginnings of her desired ride.

“We had a very lovely conversation,” Wilson said about the negotiation with the owner. “And he said, ‘I like you. I’ll sell it to you. Are you going to build it?’

I said yep…so I went down and signed the paperwork and that’s how I got it.

Seven years ago.

“I’d originally wanted to do the Texaco plane and had contacted Walt House at the Kansas Aviation Museum—they are restoring theirs for static display. I didn’t know about the Jimmie Allen. But then Walt said he had paperwork for this plane. After an afternoon of researching I decided that was the plane I was going to build. I had the N number and all the stuff so I could do this and not just make it up.”

N667K is a 1929 Stearman Junior Speedmail. It was originally purchased by the Richfield Oil Company as a business airplane and to promote sales of its gasoline to the aviation market.

In the early 1930s Richfield began sponsoring a radio program called the Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen. Kids of the time could receive a weekly newsletter, flight lesson worksheets, trading cards, pilot wings, emblems, and patches from the club.

Not long after Richfield decided to add a face to Jimmie Allen and an actor, Murray McLean, was hired to play the part. Richfield Chief Pilot Dudley Steele flew McLean, a young pop star of the time, and the Speedmail to club events around the country.

Steele was also chairman of the American Legion Aeronautics Committee. In that role he and the airplane were ambassadors for the Legion and its separate aviation division.

In addition to all its other history, a check of Charles Lindbergh’s logbooks turned up a 1930 flight at the controls of the plane.

“That’s why I look like a giant billboard,” Wilson said. “I’m Richfield Oil’s eagle, the official club ship of the Jimmie Allen Flying Club, and I’m the official ship of the American Legion.

It’s got quite a history.”

With a restoration plan in place Wilson turned the airplane over to Jim Kimball Enterprises of Zellwood, Florida, for restoration.

“Kimballs have done three of the seven Model 4s flying so they had most of the kinks worked out,” Wilson said.

“But everything on the airplane had to be machined and done by hand. I had

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Sarah Wilson sits on the just-restored Stearman Speedmail she longed to own.

the tail feathers and some bones, but I didn’t have tons of parts.

“The biggest challenge was finding the instruments. I was real finicky about finding instruments that were exact so I was happy to get those. It’s just a slow process.”

A common challenge with restorations from the early days of aviation is color. Color photography was rare or nonexistent and rarely did the manufacturers record exact color formulations.

“Since these were used by the oil companies I believed they would have used their livery,” Wilson said. “So I used the Automobilia book that shows all the gas pumps and signs.

“The navy was very easy as it is pretty uniform across the board.”

On the other hand Wilson said the lighter colors ranged from a cream white to duck yellow. Ultimately a

cream was chosen on the belief that yellow would have appeared darker in the black and white photos.

Wilson added, “That’s kind’ve how we picked it. It’s not very scientific, but it was effective.”

Computer aided design had to be employed to get the complex graphics correct. By merging historic photos with a current plan of the plane, the locations and sizes of each logo and graphic were drawn in the computer. And although the graphics were hand painted by an artist, large printouts made sure they were historically accurate.

First flight for the restored plane was in August of 2012, and Wilson is happy the project is complete.

“I guess finding the patience was the hardest thing to find,” she said.

“You want it to be done in a year, and it just goes on.” AVT

Phillips 66 celebrates 20 years of Young Eagles fuel rebates

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Young Eagles Megan Shewmake and Sarah McKee talk about the fuel rebate program with Rosemary Leone of Phillips 66. This year marks the company’s 20th year of Young Eagles involvement.

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ince 1994, Phillips 66 has been contributing to the EAA Young Eagles program by providing fuel rebates to pilots who provide youngsters with flights.

“Phillips 66 Aviation is committed to spreading awareness and excitement about the wonders of aviation to the youth of America,” said P66’s director of programs development and general aviation, Rosemary Leone. “Programs like the Young Eagles are essential to the future of aviation.”

The rebate program has been used by more than 50,000 pilots across the country, and all of them are appreciative.

Robert “Butch” Bejna has taken 1,843 Young Eagles flying, and said bluntly, “The rebate definitely helps.”

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“We definitely use the rebate,” said David Resler, who has flown 941 Young Eagles. “It helps encourage even more Young Eagle flights.”

Phillips 66 provides a $1 per gallon rebate to Young Eagles pilots every time they introduce a child to the wonder of flight.

“EAA is on its way to taking 2 million kids flying with the Young Eagles program,” Leone said. “We hope the fuel rebate will encourage more pilots to take more Young Eagles flights and help guide general aviation to a strong future.”

For more information on the Phillips 66 Aviation Young Eagles Rebate, visit www.

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Two Aces High help lift Dusty’s spirits No matter the situation, no matter the hardship or challenges, fans and supporters can be a racer’s best ally when hostile opponents abound and friendly faces are most in-need. For Dusty, the little ag plane with high hopes for racing glory, the world of high speed and high stakes proves a bit less than ideal.

The champion’s devious allies conspire to discourage Dusty’s hopes and, when he shows signs of having the right stuff, thwart outright his ambitions. Coming to his support: the fighters Bravo and Echo, voiced by Top Gun actors Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards. These two savvy aces hail from the Jolly Wrenches—the squadron from which Dusty (Dane Cook) adopts his logo. They help him endure the immense pressures of the world’s most rigorous rally.

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PHOTO BY PHIL WESTON

Teen solos in plane he helped build

Austin Malcomb soloed on his 16th birthday in this RV-12 that he helped build through Eagle’s Nest, a program where students complete aircraft-building projects at school.

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s a preschooler, Austin Malcomb recalls sitting on a pillow in the copilot seat of his grandfather’s 172, just so he could reach the controls and see over the dashboard.

Even then, he says he knew he wanted to be a pilot. So it isn’t a surprise that Malcomb soloed the first

moment he could—on January 4, 2013, his 16th birthday. But what is a little surprising is the airplane he soloed in.

He—and 15 other students—built the RV-12, called Eagle’s Nest One, in the engineering classroom of Jennings County High School, of North Vernon, Indiana.

Bob Kelly founded Eagle’s Nest in fall

2010. The program has now expanded to six states and has students building light-sport aircraft from plans and parts within schools, and then using those aircraft to teach flight training.

“About 115 kids have been involved since the beginning of the program, but since the project is in the school it has touched thousands of students,” Kelly says.

Malcomb says he heard about Eagle’s Nest while at an EAA Chapter 1328 activity. He immediately knew it was something he wanted to participate in.

Working mainly summers and two nights a week after school, the students built the plane, piece by piece. But the most challenging part of the project was staying with it, says Malcomb, who will be a high school junior in the fall.

“After a while, you just get tired of it because it gets boring,” he says. “But you have to keep going.”

There is an incentive to stay with the project, however. Those students that do complete the project and at-

By Barbara A. Schmitz

tend EAA AirVenture Oshkosh get 20 hours of flight instruction for free.

“The only thing you have to pay for is your logbook,” Malcomb says.

“There is no reason to not want to be part of the project.”

Two other students have since soloed in the RV-12.

Malcomb says flying the RV-12 is “like driving a sports car.” That’s because the only other small plane he’s flown in has been the 172, he explains.

Malcomb says his father, a commercial pilot, and grandfather suspected he would be nervous when he realized his flight instructor wasn’t in the other seat for his solo. “But I was calm throughout.”

He now has about 35 hours logged in the plane, and he’s already planning to pass his checkride on his 17th birthday and become a certificated private pilot.

Malcomb hopes to build his own plane and become a commercial pilot someday. “But I’ll do anything, as long as I can be in a cockpit,” he says. AVT

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Longtime EAAer to receive 2013 EAA Tony Bingelis Award

Lowell Farrand will receive the Tony Bingelis Award tonight at the Homebuilders Dinner.

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owell Farrand, EAA 35370, of Ligonier, Indiana, will receive the 2013 EAA Tony Bingelis Award tonight at the annual Homebuilders Dinner in the Nature Center. Farrand was nominated in recognition of his dedication and involvement in the

homebuilt aviation community.

Farrand was a part of the original EAA designee program in the 1960s working alongside of EAA Founder Paul Poberezny and award namesake Tony Bingelis. He specializes in homebuilt aircraft and is a safety ad-

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In addition to helping others ensure safety in building and flying their aircraft, Farrand has achieved several major accomplishments including co-designing and piloting the first powered parachute in the United States; building and demonstrating some of the nation’s first gyroplanes; and serving as an FAA designated airworthiness representative since 2004.

Farrand is a member of EAA Chapter 132 in Elkhart, Indiana, and serves as the Young Eagles coordinator. He is also a technical counselor and flight advisor for the chapter.

He’s made more than 400 test flights in newly built or restored airplanes and has made literally thousands of personal tech counselor visits to provide guidance and direction for numerous projects.

As for his own projects, Farrand has constructed or restored more than 25 aircraft, ranging from ultralights to AT-6 Texans.

He previously received the “Man and Machine” prize from EAA in 1972 for his efforts at Oshkosh. He has been an EAA member since 1967.

Some comments from Farrand’s nomination include: “He is aviation personified.” … “(Lowell) lives and breathes aviation and he has passed that passion on to us.” … “He is one of experimental aviation’s most remarkable builders, safety advocates, and innovators.”

The annual Homebuilders Dinner will be held in the Nature Center Pavilion. Tickets for the dinner must be purchased in advance at Homebuilders Headquarters, located on the flightline just south of Warbird Alley.

The Tony Bingelis Award was created in 2002 to recognize a member from the aviation community who has contributed to homebuilt projects and safety promotion, while maintaining EAA values.

The award honors the late Tony Bingelis, who was a legendary homebuilding authority and a columnist for Sport Aviation magazine. AVT

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PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Powered Parachutes (Performance), Ultralight Runway 7:15 AM - 7:45 AM Fellowship of the Wing (Special Event), Fergus Chapel 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Aerobics (Activity), Michael Toft, Theater in the Woods 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Craft Activity (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Vintage Type Clubs (Forum), Vintage Hangar 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Daily Weather Briefing (Forum), EAA Welcome Center 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Air Academy (Forum), Bob Campbell, Scott Cameron, Chapters & Young Eagles 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM How Old is Too Old? (Forum), Hobie Tomlinson, College Park Hitting the Road on Mars (Forum), Z. Nagin Cox, Innovations Pavilion Polar Pumpkin - SUCCESS! (Forum), Art Mortvedt, Pavilion 1

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Are You Fit To Fly? (Forum), Dr. Robert Achtel, Pavilion 2 GAMA Engine Tuning (Forum), Klaus Savier, Pavilion 4 Pass Your Checkride (Forum), Larry Bothe, Pavilion 5 HAI Piston Engine Cooling For (Forum), Sonja Englert, Pavilion 6 JP Instruments Aircraft Interior Plastic (Forum), JD Casteel, Pavilion 7 Honda Aircraft Preventing LOC Accidents (Forum), GA Joint Steering Committee, Pavilion 8 NATCA Airparks - Selection Proc (Forum), Ronald Heidebrink, Pavilion 9 Honda Gen Fabric Covering 101 (Workshop), Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber Cessna 140-Learn It All (Forum), Jack Cronin, Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax Sheet Metal 101 (Workshop), Sheet Met-Aircraft Spruce TIG Welding 101 (Workshop), TIG Weld Lincoln Elec Electrical System Install (Demo), Robert McLaughlin, Aeroplane Factory Composite 101 (Workshop), Composite Workshop Auto Engines Conversions (Forum), Patrick Panzera, Workshop Class 1 Gas Welding 101 (Workshop), Gas Welding Workshop Navigation w GPS Outage (Forum), Rick Massimini, FAA Aviation Safety Ctr Team Minimax Aircraft (Forum), David Cooper, Ultralight Forums Tent Warbirds 101-Get Involved (Forum), Bill Fisher, EAA Welcome Center Spirit of Aviation (Movie), Skyscape Theater 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Antenna for Composites (Hints for HB), Scott VanderVeen, HB Hangar Aircraft Spruce 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Wood Construction 101 (Workshop), Wood Workshop 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Metal Shaping (Workshop), Dave Wenglarz, Vintage Hangar 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM Timeless Voices (Interview), Timeless Voices Theater 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Aircraft Restoration (Demo), Aeroplane Factory 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Pearl Harbor to Tokyo (Movie), Flying Cinema 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM To Fly and Fight (Author’s Corner), C.E. Bud Anderson, EAA Wearhouse 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Ultralight & Light Planes (Performance), Ultralight Runway 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Replica Fighters Forums (Forum), Replica Fighters HQ 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Avoid Being Intercepted (Forum), Kevin Roethe, Federal Pavilion 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Flight Gear (Showcase), Warbirds in Review 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Singer Theresa Eaman (Special Event), Warbirds in Review 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Sky King Volume 3 (Movie), Flying Cinema 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Warbird Recovery (Forum), Gordon Page, Bendix King Pavilion ADS-B Academy: iPad (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Careers in Aviation (Forum), Jeff Skiles, Chapters & Young Eagles Hand Prop Your AC (Forum), Vintage Red Barn PV-2 Harpoon (Forum), Taigh Ramey, Warbirds in Review Return of Champions (Activity), Phillips 66 Plaza Vintage (Workshop), Vintage Hangar 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM Life Support / Propulsion (Forum), Tom Crabb, Innovations Pavilion Canada - In Floor Heat (Forum), Jack Dueck, EAA Canada Stall/Spin Awareness (Forum), Rich Stowell, College Park Flying Into Yesterday, Jean Vi-Lenthe, Hilton Theater Eagle’s Nest Project (Forum), Robert Kelly, Pavilion 1 First Flights (Forum), Ted Sanders, Pavilion 2 GAMA Propellers Explained (Forum), Jack Norris, Pavilion 3 Sennheiser Aviation Medicine Update (Forum), Dr. Gregory Pinnell, Pavilion 5 HAI Oxygen-Do You Need It? (Forum), Dr. Brent Blue, Pavilion 6 JP Instruments Secrets From the Tower (Forum), Bob Richards, Pavilion 7 Honda Aircraft Suborbital Spaceflight, Mark “Forger” Stucky, Pavilion 8 NATCA American WACO Club Inc. (Forum), Steve Curry, Pavilion 9 Honda Gen Maintaining a Luscombe (Forum), Paul Osmanski, Dana Osmanski, Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber Basic Spray Painting (Forum), Ron Alexander, Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax

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Acro Sport I & II (Forum), Dave Karlson, Bob Davis, et al., Workshop Class 1

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM AWOS & ASOS (Forum), Rich Mamrosh, Federal Pavilion

Mixture Meter (Forum), Sid Wood, Workshop Class 2

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fast Track ADS-B Academy (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2

NextGen Outreach and Perf (Forum), Gisele Mohler, FAA Aviation Safety Ctr

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Museum/Library Overview (Forum), Sue Lurvey, Ron Twellman, Chap-

My Personal Harrier (Autograph), Art Nalls, Maj. Gen. J. Anderson, EAA Welcome Center

ters & Young Eagles

Duxford’s WWII History (Forum), David Lee, Vette Theater

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM Pilot Professionalism (Forum), Jason Blair, College Park

Human Factors (Forum), Dick Rutan, SpaceShipOne / Voyager

Space Odyssey 2013 (Forum), Charlie Precourt, Innovations Pavilion

Two Wings, Many Prayers (Movie), Mike Blyth, James Pitman, Skyscape Theater

Start a Chapter in Canada (Forum), EAA Canadian Council, EAA Canada

Art & Aerobatics (Forum), Lisa Lemeland, Aerobatics Pav-IAC HQ

Virginia Avn Initiatives (Forum), Randy Burdette, Pavilion 1

Homebuilts in Review-Sonerai II, Fred Keip, HB Hangar Aircraft Spruce

Zenith 750 Cruzer / STOL (Forum), Sebastien Heintz, Pavilion 2 GAMA

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Zenith “Engine Day” (Forum), Sebastien Heintz, North Aircraft Display Area

Radial Familiarization (Forum), Ron Hollis, Pavilion 3 Sennheiser

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Accident Investigation (Forum), NTSB, Federal Pavilion

SMOOTH Engine Mounts (Forum), Thomas Law, Pavilion 4

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Embry-Riddle Univ/Kiddie Hawk Air Academy, Danny ClishAM KidVen-

Come up and Get Me, Col. Joe Kittinger, Pavilion 5

ture Legends & Guests

Production A/C Interiors (Forum), Dennis Wolter, Pavilion 6 JP Instruments

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Weather in the Cockpit (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2

To Fly & Fight (Forum), C.E. Bud Anderson, Pavilion 7 Honda Aircraft

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Vintage in Review (Forum), Ray Johnson, Vintage Red Barn

Mechanics -Managing Risks (Forum), NTSB Staff, Pavilion 8 NATCA

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM ADS-B: An Overview (Forum), Sean D’Arcy, Bendix/King Pavilion,

What’s New at Van’s A/C? (Forum), Dick VanGrunsven, Gus Funnell, Pavilion 9 Honda Gen

Aera Portables (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1

Luscombe Repair & Maint. (Forum), Doug Combs, Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Wood Construction 101 (Workshop), Wood Workshop

Save $$ on Airplane Ins. (Forum), Bob Mackey, Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax

Call to the International Space Station, Frank Bauer, Rosalie White, Innovations Pavilion

RV Aircraft - Fiberglass (Forum), Sam James, Composite Workshop

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Stewart System (Demo), UL Tech Tent

Rules of Homebuilding (Forum), Charlie Becker, Workshop Class 2

Featured Aircraft Display (Activity), Phillips 66 Plaza

Challenger Owners (Forum), Greg Klemp, Ultralight Forums Tent

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Life Is a School/Lindy (Author’s Corner), Kermit Weeks,

Disney’s Planes Q&A (Forum), Klay Hall, EAA Welcome Center

EAA Wearhouse

The Story of Lady Be Good (Speaker), Dick Campbell, Vette Theater

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Legends and Guests at KidVenture, Randy Gaston, KidVenture

Espionage During Cold War (Forum), Werner Juretzko, Hilton Theater

Legends & Guests

Whirly-Girls Intl. (Forum), Dianna Stanger, Skyscape Theater

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Cultivating Aerobatics (Forum), Michael Lents, Aerobatics Pav-IAC HQ

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Vintage (Workshop), Vintage Hangar

AeroVee Engine Tour (Forum), Jeremy Monnett, HB Hangar Aircraft Spruce

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Int’l Space Station Call (Forum), Frank Baugher, Rosalie White,

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Story of the Helicopter (Movie), Flying Cinema

Innovations Pavilion

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Know the Rules: FAR 61/91 (Forum), Donna Wilt, Federal Pavilion

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM ADDS (Forum), Liam Lynam, Federal Pavilion

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Legends and Guests at KidVenture, Dick Rutan, Pilot, Voyager, KidVen-

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM MedXPress (Forum), Dr. Gregory Pinnell, Pavilion 1

ture Legends & Guests

Gweduck Aircraft, Walter Fellows, Forum Pavilion

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM PFD/MFD Failure (Forum), Ted Spitzmiller, Bendix/King Pavilion,

Aviation Writing Open Mic (Forum), Roger Thiel, Pavilion 2 GAMA

Flying Upgrade Avionics (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1

Propeller Design Workshop (Forum), David Gall, Pavilion 3 Sennheiser

12:00 PM - 2:30 PM Rotorcraft (Performance), Ultralight Runway

How to Reduce Vibration (Forum), Matthew Dock, Pavilion 4

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM Flight Gear (Showcase), Warbirds in Review

A/C Lighting Solutions (Forum), Dean Wilkinson, Pavilion 6 JP Instruments

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Sport Flying Vol. 3 (Movie), Flying Cinema

Mojave: Where It Happens (Forum), Elliot Seguin, Pavilion 7 Honda Aircraft

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Garmin Pilot with an iPad (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2

Franklin Map to Recovery (Forum), Kelly Bartlett, Pavilion 8 NATCA

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM Singer Theresa Eaman (Special Event), Warbirds in Review

Amazing Airborne Video (Forum), David Tenenbaum, Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM NTSB GA Safety Alert (Forum), NTSB, Federal Pavilion

Bellanca High-Wings (Forum), Robert Szego, Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Myths of Field Approvals (Forum), Jeff Simon, Bendix/King Pavilion,

Cylinder Safety (Forum), Jimmy Tubbs, Workshop Class 1

G3X System (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1

Chart Challenge Live: IFR (Forum), Andy Miller, FAA Aviation Safety Ctr

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Space Odyssey 2013 (Forum), James Voss, Innovations Pavilion

iPads in the LSA cockpit (Forum), Jim Sweeney, Ultralight Forums Tent

EAA Museum Programs (Forum), Zack Baughman, Chapters & Young Eagles

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Stretch & Dome Aluminum (Hints for HB), Mark Lynn, HB Hangar Aircraft Spruce

Hand Prop Your AC (Forum), Vintage Red Barn

2:30 PM - 6:30 PM Thursday Air Show, Air Show

Canadian AC Insurance (Forum), Sandy Odebunmi, EAA Canada

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Aluminum Gas Welding (Workshop), Joe Maj, Gas Welding Workshop

Legal Tips Buying/Selling (Forum), EAA Legal Advisory Council, EAA Welcome Center

Papua Pilot (Author’s Corner), Dane Skelton, EAA Wearhouse

Bob Hoover & F-86 (Forum), Paul Wood, Warbirds in Review

100-Year Anniversary of World War I, Rebecca Matzke, Ripon College, Hilton Theater

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Homebuilts in Review-Questair, Jerry Mercer, HB Hangar Aircraft Spruce

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Hot Aeromedical Issues (Forum), Dr. Fred Tilton, FAA Aviation Safety Ctr

Stop Killing Multi Pilots (Forum), Nick Frisch, College Park

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Lockheed Flight Services (Forum), Mike Glasgow, Pavilion 1

Making Aviation Sexy (Forum), Ravi the Raviator, Pavilion 1

Building Your Switchblade (Forum), Sam Bousfield, Pavilion 3 Sennheiser

Keep Your Beech Flying (Forum), American Bonzanza Society, Pavilion 2 GAMA

iPad in the Cockpit (Forum), Jason Miller, Pavilion 4

Motorcycle On Board (Forum), David Shelton, Pavilion 3 Sennheiser

Creating Flying Artwork (Forum), John Stahr, Pavilion 6 JP Instruments

Fuel System Basics (Forum), Donald Hall, Pavilion 4

The SSC Flying Motorcycle (Forum), Larry Neal, Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber

Strong Composite Repairs (Forum), Mike Hoke, Pavilion 5 HAI

Bellanca Low-Wings (Forum), Robert Szego, Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax

7 Sins of Airplane Design (Forum), Barnaby Wainfan, Pavilion 6 JP Instruments

Engine Blueprinting (Forum), Archie Frangoudis, Workshop Class 1

Flying After Maintenance (Forum), Mike Busch, Pavilion 7 Honda Aircraft

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Cessna 120/140 Banquet (Activity), Pavilion 6 JP Instruments

Care of Franklin Engines (Forum), Robert Still, Pavilion 8 NATCA

5:30 PM - 11:00 PM Gathering of Eagles (Banquet), Eagle Hangar Mainstage

Fabric Covering 101 (Workshop), Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Homebuilders Dinner (Special Event), Nature Center

The Cold War Museum (Forum), Christopher Sturdevant, Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Ultralight & Light Planes (Performance), Ultralight Runway

Sheet Metal 101 (Workshop), Sheet Met-Aircraft Spruce

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Dueling Pianos (Concert), Phillips 66 Plaza

TIG Welding 101 (Workshop), TIG Weld Lincoln Elec

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Powered Parachutes (Performance), Ultralight Runway

Composite 101 (Workshop), Composite Workshop

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Open Mic and Music Jam (Activity), John Vining, Ultralight Forums Tent

Electric Motorglider (Forum), Brian Carpenter, Workshop Class 1

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Yves “Jetman” Rossy (Evening Program), Theater in the Woods

Gas Welding 101 (Workshop), Gas Welding Workshop

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM The Avengers (2012, PG-13) (Movie)

Fairchild Airplanes (Forum), Mike Kelly, Workshop Class 2 Crash in Convenient Place (Forum), Greg Feith, FAA Aviation Safety Ctr Legal Eagle (Forum), Leonard Milholland, Ultralight Forums Tent Nat Aviation Hall of Fame (Forum), Ron Kaplan, Vette Theater Stearman Aerobatics (Forum), David Burroughs, Aerobatics Pav - IAC HQ 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM GTN: Flying Hands On (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Navigation w/ GPS Outage (Forum), Rick Massimini, Seaplane Base 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Composite Talks (Forum), Sam James, Aeroplane Factory 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Sky King Volume 11 (Movie), Flying Cinema Wood Construction 101 (Workshop), Wood Workshop 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Top 10 Aviation Legal ?s (Forum), EAA Legal Advisory Council, EAA Welcome Center 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ADS-B: An Overview (Forum), Sean D’Arcy, Bendix/King Pavilion, ADS-B Academy: GDL 88/GTX (Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1

DAILY AIR SHOW LINEUP Performers listed in tentative order of appearance (subject to change)

Thursday, August 1 - 2:30 p.m.

Suzanne Oliver (skywriting), Misty Blues Parachute Team circled by Patty Wagstaff, Patty Wagstaff (RV-8), Gene Soucy & Teresa Stokes (Showcat wing walking), Julie Clark (T-34), Women Warbirds, David Martin (CAP 232), Yves “Jetman” Rossy, Yuneec eSpyder, Greg Koontz & The Alabama Boys (Piper J-3 Cub), Sean Tucker (Oracle Challenger III), Terry Humphrey (Thrush 510G), Bob Carlton (Super Salto), Larry Neal (SkyCycle), The 4ce, Justin Lewis (BD-5J Microjet), Team AeroDynamix (RVs), Chuck Aaron (Red Bull Helicopter), Kirby Chambliss (Edge 540), Art Nalls (Sea Harrier), Warbirds

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A lighter, faster way to cover

By Randy Dufault

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ne distinct advantage for this year’s winning Super Cub at the infamous Valdez, Alaska, STOL contest was an airplane at least 30 pounds lighter than other similar craft. A recent re-covering with BetterAircraftFabric’s Oratex prepainted fabrics resulted in the lighter weight, and possibly, the victory.

In addition to being lighter, the Oratex system can be applied without the usual precautions and equipment necessary when covering with a traditional lifetime fabric system.

“We want to enable people to build fabric-covered airplanes, that look like they are covered with normal lifetime fabrics, in their living rooms,” said Lars Gleitsmann at the company’s booth in Hangar A. “This product will enable someone to restore a Fairchild 24 or any kind of fabric-covered airplane in the living room, or in a typical American attached garage.

“The normal processes are not just toxic and extremely dangerous while you

spray the stuff. They continue to outgas toxins while curing. That basically denies any possibility of doing any kind of traditional aircraft fabric work in a house with an attached garage.

“With our fabric all of that is history.

All the painting happens at the factory.

Our fabric can be painted like normal fabric, but it does not have to be for any technical reason.”

Adhesives used with the fabric are heat activated and solvent free. Cleanup, as long as the adhesive has not cured, simply requires water.

A key design characteristic of the Oratex fabric is a built-in limit to the amount of tension the fabric will attain.

“If you tighten the fabric too much [with typical systems] the airframe structure underneath will be crushed,” Gleitsmann said. “It is a very common to see trailing edges that are buckled inward and lower longerons sucked in because the fabric is shrinking and pulling so hard.

“Our fabric is designed in a way that it cannot exceed, and will not exceed, a certain tightness. It is tight enough for good flight characteristics, but it can’t tighten more than needed. It is impossible to destroy the airframe by overtightening.”

Time required to cover an airplane should be shorter as well. Gleitsmann estimates that an expert will require approximately 250 hours to cover an aircraft the size of a Super Cub with a traditional system.

Amateur builders could easily consume 500 hours doing the same job. With the Oratex system he estimates the same job should require not much more than 100 hours.

Installation techniques are similar to other systems. Stitching is required if the aircraft design calls for it, though the pinked-edge tape used to cover the stitching already has glue applied to the back.

Gleitsmann says applying the tape is no more difficult than applying duct tape.

The fabric is currently available in eight different colors and more are planned.

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Johnsen and Johnsen share love for a Mustang

By Frederick A. Johnsen

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hen I heard that a genuine combat-proven P-51 would be at AirVenture 2013, I was intrigued. When I learned its wartime pilot spelled his name the same uncommon way I do—JohnsEn instead of JohnsOn, my imagination ran overtime.

Could I be related to a fighter pilot of that fantastic generation? He was Hjalmar Johnsen; did I have a long-lost Uncle Hjalmar on the ambitious branch of the family tree? Or might we at least be related through some ancient viking ancestor like Ivar the Boneless, Cnut the Great, or Harald Bluetooth?

Ivar was said to be nimble in battle; Cnut was a great king of both Denmark and Norway, and Harald, well I wonder if he walked around talking to himself a lot.

Alas, Hjalmar Johnsen’s family emigrated to the United States from Norway, my father’s predecessors from Denmark.

Still, seeing our uncommon name JohnsEn on the side of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum’s P-51 at AirVenture gives me a vicarious pride, even if we hail from different parts of the gene pool.

Hjalmar Johnsen was born in Brooklyn in 1919 to Olaf and Martine Johnsen.

Originally assigned to National Guard horse cavalry, Hjalmar transferred to the AAF after Pearl Harbor. The Ninth Air Force’s 370th Fighter Group received Hjalmar in 1943, where he first flew twin-engine P-38s.

Surviving a groundfire shootdown and bailout from his P-38 over Belgium in October 1944, Hjalmar convalesced while his group traded its P-38s for P51s. That’s where he met the Mustang that came to Oshkosh this year.

Jim Cavanaugh, founder of Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas, said Hjalmar’s logs indicate he flew nine combat missions in this Mustang. Hjal-

mar Johnsen went on to a long postwar career with United Parcel Service. He died in 1999.

When Cavanaugh bought P-51 serial number 44-72339, it was generally known the fighter had served postwar Sweden and later the Dominican Republic before returning to the States in civilian hands. Cavanaugh’s refurbishing of the Mustang included replacing some fuselage skin panels in which it appeared that math problems—possibly aircraft weight and balance calculations—had been gouged into the surface some time in one of its past lives.

But its combat history remained obscured. This Mustang carried other markings, along with its actual tail number, and that triggered Hjalmar’s son, who verified his father’s logbooks noted this same aircraft in the Ninth Air Force.

Some snapshots survived, and during an extensive rebuild a few years ago, 44-

72339 emerged once more as Hjalmar Johnsen’s The Brat III. Close inspection of The Brat III at AirVenture reveals some nice touches in its paint and markings, like the use of the last four digits of its serial number—2339—on the removable cowl panels. That aided mechanics back in the day when more than one P-51 could have cowlings off for maintenance, and not all pieces fit all airplanes as smoothly as the ones that came with the aircraft from the assembly line.

Cavanaugh decided to fly The Brat III with a jump seat, to give people the opportunity to fly in a Mustang “that actually saw combat in Europe,” he explains.

Whether Hjalmar Johnsen and I are related through some distant Viking is still in doubt. But there’s no doubt that his name appears on the same P-51 he flew in combat more than six decades ago, and Johnsens everywhere can stand tall around this Mustang.

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Sennheiser launches S1 NoiseGard headsets, commits to EAA Eagle Flights

By Marino Boric, European Correspondent

With roaring engines and loud wind noise, a pilot’s hearing is constantly exposed to high decibels—not only true in the aircraft plane but even during the Sennheiser press conference held here on Tuesday where the company introduced its new S1 NoiseGard headset.

Along with its usual level of speech intelligibility, the new active noise-canceling headset offers superior comfort and a stylish design. Together with the S1 Passive and the top-of-the-line S1 Digital, this headset completes the family of S1 headsets specifically designed for general aviation.

The S1 NoiseGard has passive attenuation and features analogue Sennheiser NoiseGard active noise-canceling technology. Tiny microphones inside the ear cups pick up the remaining background sounds—primarily low-frequency like engine noise—which the passive attenuation does not sufficiently address.

The NoiseGard electronic circuitry then generates “anti-noise” that virtually cancels it out.

“A noise-canceling pilot’s headset is an important health and safety factor,” stressed Jörg Buchberger, Sennheiser’s aviation business segment manager.

“In addition, we have equipped the headset with peak level protection, a feature that protects the pilot’s hearing against extreme volume peaks during radio communication.”

The S1 NoiseGard offers excellent music performance with a frequency response of 20 to 18,000 Hz. The audio source is simply connected to the headset via the control unit, and a mobile phone can also be connected. The S1 NoiseGard automatically mutes both music and mobile phone calls as soon as any radio signal is received.

Design, developed in cooperation with BMW Group DesignworksUSA, includes three-stage individually adjustable contact pressure and ear cushions with a soft, flexible zone to accommodate the temple arms of (sun) glasses.

The entire family of S1 general aviation headsets is made in Germany and come with a five-year guarantee. The S1 NoiseGard is available at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013

for $795. Visit Sennheiser at Exhibit 288 or at www.Sennheiser-Aviation.com.

Tuesday also included a sneak peak at iFlightPlanner.com for iPad 2.0, developed with Sennheiser. Featuring cloud-based synchronization with iFlightPlanner.com and mobile.iFlightPlanner.com, it features: • In-app route planning • Certified weather briefs • Integrated weight and balance calculator • VFR, IFR, and IFR ICAO flight plan filing • Intelligent cockpit voice recorder • Electronic pilot logbook Premium memberships retail for $9.95 per month, $24.95 per quarter, and $89.95 per year at iFlightPlanner.com/join.

OpenAirplane also announced a new offer with Sennheiser that offers use of S1 Digital and S1 NoiseGuard headsets with rental airplanes.

“We’re excited to be working with Sennheiser to offer pilots a great perk when they rent with OpenAirplane,” said Rod Rakic, co-founder.

With headsets available, pilots will be able to skip packing their own headset when they travel. For more information visit www.OpenAirplane.com.

In addition, Sennheiser committed major support to the year-old EAA Eagle Flights program, and Jeff Skiles, EAA’s vice president of communities and member programs, appeared.

Eagle Flights introduces flight to adults who have always been interested in learning to fly, but don’t how or where to take that first step. It’s also a mentoring program for would-be pilots.

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One of the next steps in this longterm effort is to revise the ways in which pilots are tested and earn their certificates. In response, an industryled effort is currently underway to overhaul the way the FAA tests a pilot’s knowledge and skills. The goal is to make testing and training more relevant and meaningful to general aviation’s “real world,” and to move beyond the FAA’s sometimes obsolete, technologically dated education and training environment.

That effort is embodied in the FAA’s Airman Testing Standards and Training Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC), which was established on September 21, 2011. In addition to various FAA managers, the ARC’s membership includes representatives from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, plus training providers like Sporty’s, Jeppesen, King Schools, Gleim Publications, and the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI).

The ARC’s objective is to provide the FAA with industry’s experience and expertise in the flight training arena. Put simply, industry believes airman standards, handbooks, and testing materials are not keeping pace with aviation training methods and technology. The aviation community also has faulted the FAA for its piecemeal and often unilateral efforts to revise standards, training materials, and testing methodologies.

The ARC recently completed its work, producing recommendations on revising the training and testing pro-

cess and content. A key recommendation called for the FAA to integrate knowledge, skills, and risk management for each major task included in the current Practical Test Standards (PTS) into a single Airman Certification Standard (ACS).

According to the ARC’s final report, “airman certification standards for each certificate will become the main guide for applicants to determine the required knowledge, skills, and risk management, as well as the degree of mastery applicants must achieve during their training to pass the test for certification. Questions will fully leverage rote learning where appropriate, while challenging the applicant to understand the needed knowledge without being concerned with trick questions or inconsequential direct excerpts from specific documents.”

The Airman Testing Standards and Training working group has drafted standards for the private pilot certificate, instrument rating, and flight instructor certificate. The standards will improve both testing and training by placing all the necessary

knowledge and skill requirements into one document.

In addition to the knowledge needed to fly safely and the skills needed to fly effectively, the tools to manage the known risks of aviation are incorporated throughout the new standards.

“To build safety awareness and improve the success rate for those who start flight training, using these new standards throughout flight training will clearly make meaningful connections between the first flight, the knowledge exam, and eventually practical tests,” said EAA Chairman Jack Pelton.

Earlier this year, the working group published for comment draft standards for the private pilot certificate and instrument rating and received more than 300 comments. Late last month, the group published revised standards, taking into account many of the comments and suggestions, and also published a new standard for flight instructors. The flying public can now review the new and revised standards on www.Regulations.gov and searching for “FAA-2013-0649.”

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Around the Field Two Cardinals and the tiedown guys

By Jack Hodgson

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Gene Van Boxtel and Dave Haase are members of EAA Chapter 444 in Appleton, Wisconsin. Here at AirVenture, Chapter 444 serves the mission of providing tie-down stakes to visiting aircraft owners who have arrived unprepared.

Gene and Dave are two of the volunteers who drive up and down the rows selling the stakes. They sell them for $25.

They can be returned at the end of the week for a $10 refund.

Gene’s been coming to the fly-in for 10 years and Dave for eight.

The money that Chapter 444 raises through the tie-down sales are used to provide scholarships to local kids to attend the EAA Air Academy. This past season they provided a 50 percent scholarship to three Air Academy students.

Mark and Beth Pullen are from Kansas City. They’ve been coming to the fly-in since 2007.

Why do they return each year? “I mainly come to Oshkosh to do exactly what I’m doing now,” Mark says. “Sitting in the grass and stare at airplanes.

I think most of my friends think Oshkosh is weird, because they’re not pilots, and the idea of coming, spending a week in a field in Wisconsin, and that you really love this and wait for it every year, is strange.

“But I just love being around airplanes.”

Beth isn’t an active pilot, but she soloed some years ago and now attends the fly-in to be with Mark, and to enjoy the vacation time.

They arrived at the fly-in this year on Monday. Although the trip here is only three hours flying, they overnighted in Iowa City.

They pick Iowa City because, a long time ago, there was a hotel that had an aviation theme and offered special service to planes on their way to Oshkosh.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013 That hotel has now changed owners and philosophies, but Mark and Beth still stay there through habit. And “so we have an easy flight in the morning.”

Their airplane is a 1977 Cardinal RG. They’ve had it for “a year and a month.”

They fly out of Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (MKC) in Kansas City, “where the gas is $1.75 a gallon less than the other places nearby.”

The RG is the first plane they’ve owned. “I’ve been a renter and flying club member for years and years,” Mark says. “I’ve always wanted to buy something, and I finally did.

“One of the reasons I wanted to own an airplane is so I could just go out and punch holes in the sky for fun, and not worry that much about it.”

One of the more notable things Mark’s seen this year at AirVenture is the flight of Yves “Jetman” Rossy.

“I think I want one. That kind of thing is what I picture in my head when I’m flying my Cardinal. That somehow I’m doing that. I wouldn’t want to travel from here to the West Coast in it. But in terms of just shooting holes in the sky you can’t get any better.”

As far as this reporter is concerned, Gene Cosklo is living the life.

He owns a Legend Cub, an RV-8, a Cherokee 180, and the Cardinal that he flew into AirVenture this year. He variously bases this flock at a hangar he keeps in Sarasota, Florida, or on the grass strip he maintains in his backyard in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Oh, and he’s shopping for another plane, ’cause the answer to “How

The Tiedown Guys, Gene Van Boxtel and Dave Haase from EAA Chapter 444.

many planes should a guy own?” is, “One more.”

Gene flew into Oshkosh this year from Pennsylvania. He made a couple stops along the way, including one at Chicago Executive, where he looked a possible next plane. “A Beechcraft Debonair. I was thinking of buying it, but I decided to pass.”

He also stopped at Porter County in Illinois, just east of Chicago, a favorite of his.

“They have two old bombers and a P-51 there. The EAA chapter has discounted hot dogs and brats.”

His Cardinal is the 1975 model, with fixed gear. “I bought it in Indiana last December, and the paint was terrible and the interior was terrible. I took it to a paint shop and we did some interior work, and

you can see the way it looks now.”

If all his planes were on the ramp side by side, which one would he fly first?

“Oh, it’s just like kids. It depends on the time of the day. They’re all nice.”

This is only Gene’s fourth time to the fly-in. He used to fly Hueys for the Army National Guard. And summertime deployments would keep him from coming.

“It just seemed so hard to come out here and sleep in a tent, after sleeping in a tent in the military. But now I wish I came here a long time before.

“I tell people all the time, you don’t realize what you’re missing here.”

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Transponder tech: Getting to 2020

By Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside

On January 1, 2020, aircraft operators wanting to access certain airspace in the United States must be equipped with ADS-B Out technology—basically the same airspace where a Mode C transponder is required today.

The question of when, how, and with what to update an in-service aircraft’s avionics to meet the ADS-B Out mandate remains unanswered for many owners; new transponders from the “usual suspects” in avionics is a good place to start.

The transponder is a key component to update existing avionics to the ADS-B because most in-service aircraft sport a Mode C-compliant installation; Mode S does the same position and altitude data, adding ADS-B Out information, including more accurate position, aircraft registration number, and/or call sign.

Compliant ADS-B Out navigationsystem-enabled position data. So, merely installing a Mode S transponder doesn’t equate to full ADS-B Out compliance; that requires equipment that meets performance requirements of FAR 91.227; TSO’d WAAS GPS does that.

The good news? Today’s Mode S transponders offer lots of capability and numerous features. Plus, many available models are a slide-in replacement for the venerable and ubiquitous Bendix/King KT-76A Mode A/C transponder. Here’s a rundown on four Mode S transponders on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 to get operators started.

Avidyne AXP340 Avidyne’s AXP340 transponder is a panel-mounted Class 1 Mode S Level 2 device supporting the 1090 MHz extended squitter (ES) standard for aircraft cruising at/above FL180 after 2019. It’s a slidein replacement for existing KT-76A/ KT-78A transponders, and adds capabilities like a direct-entry keypad, pressure altitude, and GPS-derived latitude/ longitude readout, flight ID entry, a onebutton VFR code, stopwatch/timer, flight timer, and altitude alerter. The AXP340 retails for $5,995.

Bendix/King KT-74 Like Avidyne’s offering, the newly announced Bendix/King KT-74 transponder provides Class 1 Mode S Level 2 functionality and certification under TSO C112D, C166B and ETSO C112C, and C166B, meaning it complies with applicable U.S. and European standards and requirements. It also is a slide-in replacement for existing KT-76/78 installations. An eight-digit keypad, a VFR squawk button, pressure altitude display, and high power output round out the product’s features. The KT-74 has a retail price of $2,999.

Garmin GTX 330/33/23 Series Garmin International offers three different Mode S transponders, each of which delivers 250 watts of transmission power. The GTX 330 is panelmounted; the GTX 33 is the remote product, for use with the company’s GTN 650/750 and G1000 products; and the GTX 23 also is a remote-mounted design for experimental aircraft using a G3X primary flight display. Retail pricing for the GTX 330, GTX 33, and GTX 23 ES is $4,995, $4,195, and $2,450, respectively.

Trig TT31 Trig, based in Scotland, is a relatively young company specializing in helping European aircraft operators meet that region’s avionics requirements. The TT31 is an efficient Mode S transponder that also can use the same mounting tray as the KT-76A. It meets U.S and European requirements. Rather than the push-buttons becoming popular on offerings from other companies, Trig’s TT31 uses rotary knobs and also includes a timer/stopwatch function plus an altitude monitor. Trig’s TT31 retails for $3,580.

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Rud Aero debuted aerobatic side-by-side RA-3 on Oshkosh

By Marino Boric, European Correspondent

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new option for performing aerobatics is among the new products on display at EAA Oshkosh, Rud Aero’s two-place RA-3.

An all-carbon aerobatic machine, the RA-3 is the logical follow-on to the RA-2 that Rud unveiled here last year.

The RA-3 also differs from most aerobatic machines with side-by-side instead of tandem seating.

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Founded in 2011, Rud Aero’s goal is to build a new generation of lighter, stronger, lessexpensive aircraft made entirely of carbon fiber.

The company is named for its owner, Taras Rud of the Ukraine.

Rud’s first effort at Taras Rud is debuting the aerobatic RA-3 that can be used building world-class with two sets of wings. aerobatic aircraft resulted in the RA-2, an Unlimited class pipeline—will be certified as an LSA aerobatic airplane, specifically designed and will have a useful load of more than for world-class aerobatic pilot Sergei 500 pounds.

Boriak. The two-seat tandem RA-2, ac- Rud Aero’s facilities include full comcording to Rud Aero, exceeds the capa- posite capabilities and five-axis CNC bilities of all existing aerobatic aircraft. router capabilities, allowing the company Its lightweight carbon fiber airframe to fabricate most of the composite and is the strongest in its class, able to sus- metal parts in-house. Final assembly is tain ±13g’s with a two-times safety factor. done in a 17,000-square-foot hangar on The RA-2 is a built-to-order airplane for the Sebastian Municipal Airport. world-class aerobatic pilots.

The core of the prototyping and pro The RA-3—like the RA-2 before it— duction team is composed of engineers offers interchangeable wing options: one drawn from the talent pool at nearby for beginner/intermediate aerobatics, the Kennedy Space Center. other for advanced aerobatics.

The company has a 35,000-square-foot In this way it is possible to first train production facility and a 25,000-squareon a cambered training wing, then con- foot assembly building in Sebastian. Provert to a constant chord symmetrical duction tooling will be fabricated using wing for advanced aerobatics. a state-of-the-art Par 5-axis milling ma The RA-3’s rugged, lightweight carbon chine, and composite parts will be made fiber airframe is rated for ±8g with a two- in climate-controlled rooms. The process times safety factor. allows parts to be built much more pre The RA-3 is intended to be certified cisely and quickly. in the primary category under FAR Part For more information visit Booth 21.24. A similar, but lighter, airplane 316 at EAA AirVenture 2013 or go to designated the RA-3 LSA—now in the www.Rud.aero.

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Lycoming Engines update on GA outreach, unleaded fuel, and TEO-540 iE2 engine

By Marino Boric, European Correspondent

The Build A Plane/GAMA Aviation Design Challenge, unleaded fuels for aviation, and the innovative iE2 Integrated Electronic Engine family.

These are the top topics Lycoming Engines continues to pursue, according to Michael Kraft, the company’s senior vice president and general manager.

The Build-A-Plane/GAMA Aviation Design Challenge Lycoming continues to support the national aviation design competition intended to encourage science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education by donating one of the two Glasair Sportsman 2+2 aircraft kits built by competing high school teams.

The student finalists spent two weeks at the Glasair factory assembling the aircraft and finishing before July 4. Both Lycomingpowered Sportsman aircraft are on display at AirVenture and some of those students are at Oshkosh to share their experiences.

Unleaded fuels for aviation Lycoming continues to work at the forefront of activities related to the transition to an aviation-grade unleaded alternative to today’s 100LL—one that provides comparable performance.

Lycoming continues to advocate the UL 100 solution to meet the needs of the installed base, ensure ongoing airworthiness, and preserve the investment made by current general aviation owners.

Lycoming has already approved multiple fuel options, and with the release of Service Instruction SI-1070S added 23 engines to the list of models approved for use with UL 91 unleaded avgas, raising the total to 63.

In the last year Lycoming spent a considerable amount of time testing and approving fuels before they reach the production stage. “In the last four years we revised this (approved fuels) document four times; that’s more revisions than in last 20 years,” Kraft said.

engines against diesels,” but about where engines will be used, with which fuel, how they will be serviced, and how the existing

engine pool will be maintained.

For more information visit Booth 277-282 at AirVenture or go to www.Lycoming.com.

Integrated Electronic Engine iE2 family Building on the TEO-540 flying on the Lancair Evolution and more recently the Northrop Grumman Firebird, Lycoming announced the TEO-540-A1A or “J-type” derivative of the company’s flagship gas engine.

This turbocharged, multi-grade fuel engine is designed to provide an economical solution for short-distance, low-altitude, and high-cycle flights common to FAR Part 135 operations. According to Kraft the technology used on IE2 engines is more complex than those used in turbines and the automotive field. “The service and maintenance people will have to go to school again,” he said.

A pair of these engines will power the Tecnam P2012 Traveler commuter aircraft unveiled at AERO 2011.

Future power Given the wealth of news this week about diesel engines, Kraft noted that the answer isn’t “one technology versus other—not gas

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What’s happening in Vintage When Wittman field closed on Tuesday evening, there were 740 registered vintage aircraft on the ground.

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Tips for restorers in hands-on workshop 9 a.m. and 11 a.m - Don Bartlett Making your engine run more efficiently,

focusing on spark plugs from A to Z. 10 a.m. Bob Kachergius - Proper care and adjusting the Stromberg carb.

1 p.m. Clyde Smith - Restoring fabriccovered aircraft.

VAA metal workshop Roger James, D&D Classic, Cov-

ington, Ohio, making compound curves for cowling, wing root fairing strips, and instrument panels. Southwest corner of the Vintage Hangar, 9 to 5 daily.

Hand-propping demonstration Each day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., see a

EA A welcomed Wisconsin Gov. Scott K. Walker to AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 Wednesday. Walker addressed attendees from the air show announcing stand prior to yesterday’s air show, noting the weeklong event brings at least $110 million in economic benefits to the Oshkosh area. He also used his appearance as an opportunity to thank the hundreds of volunteers who help make AirVenture happen each year. In recognition of AirVenture’s value to the state and to aviation, Walker earlier issued a proclamation declaring July 29 through August 4 as “Wisconsin Aviation Week.”

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