EAA AirVenture Today Thursday, July 23, 2015

Thursday, July 23, 2015

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Three-year-old Dylan Cummings rushes into his father John’s arms after John landed in an F-22 Raptor at AirVenture Tuesday afternoon.

Raptor pilot gets special welcome at AirVenture

By Barbara A. Schmitz

The U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor demonstration and Heritage Flights will be held during the air shows on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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t was the ultimate homecoming.

The commander and pilot of the U.S. Air Force Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team taxied up to the ramp during Tuesday’s air show as his father marshaled

the plane in and his family and friends stood at the side waving and smiling.

Maj. John Cummings, an Appleton native who spent many years as a child coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with his father, flew into Oshkosh for the first time in a very cool aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. “I was real happy I didn’t have to follow all the arrival procedures that everybody else did to get

here,” he later joked. “I did a few passes and just landed.”

His 3-year-old son, Dylan, was holding a sign reading “Nice landing dad!”

After the engine noise died and Cummings exited the plane, he scooped up the young boy who ran out to meet him and then held him in his arms. Looking at the sign, he grinned and said, “Yeah, it wasn’t a bad landing.”

Cummings says it has been about 20 years since he last attended the EAA convention and fly-in. He expected to see a lot of airplanes as he flew above. “But wow. There are a lot of airplanes here. I had a little time to hang out just to the west before the show was ready for me, but it was a spectacular sight with the people and the planes.”

He’s flown in about 30 air shows since making the F-22 demonstration team, but this was the first time all of his family and friends—parents Barbara and John Cummings Sr.; wife and children Ang, Dylan and Nathan; and a good friend and his family—were all there. “It was special and pretty amazing,” he says.

It was also special for his family. “It’s pretty spectacular,” said his father, John Sr. “It’s a really proud moment for me; I’m very proud of his accomplishments.”

John Sr. said he would be at AirVenture all the days his son his performing. “We’ve gone to other air shows and watched him, but it is really special for him to fly at EAA,” he says. “It is just hard to describe, like a perfect homecoming.”

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Latest Rutan design looks to make the impossible possible

By Randy Dufault

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fter working at airports most of his life, legendary aviation innovator and designer Burt Rutan wanted an airplane that could go many places, but not be limited by the need for a runway.

The result of his desire is his 46th aircraft design, the SkiGull.

The SkiGull is a trimaran-hulled, amphibious airplane designed to land on water,

snow, ice, and other unimproved surfaces– without having to bring the craft into a shop and physically change its configuration.

Rutan presented the design and reported on the project’s progress at a forum Wednesday afternoon at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015.

According to Rutan the SkiGull seeks to solve all the shortcomings, and optimize the performance, of a light seaplane.

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“So we are trying to develop to an impossible specification,” he said.

Rutan believes there are four significant shortcomings to common seaplanes: shock absorption, the major configuration changes required to operate off various kinds of surfaces, the fact that seaplanes are noisy, slow, short-ranged, and inefficient, and the fact that the corrosive effects of salt water limit where the planes can go.

The SkiGull addresses all four problems with a number of innovative solutions.

First, and foremost, the design includes two skis that retract and extend from the tri-hull’s outboard sponsons. In the water the skis allow the craft to take off with substantially less effort than is required for a traditional seaplane. A pneumatic extension and retraction system also provides shock absorption on the water, a feature Rutan says is missing from all current seaplane designs, and is necessary for safe and smooth operations on calm-wind glassy water, and on very choppy water.

Small wheels on the skis allow for operation on traditional runways.

Range and efficiency are addressed with Rutan’s experience designing craft like the Voyager and the GlobalFlyer, both of which flew around the world unrefueled and nonstop. The SkiGull’s wing bears a strong resemblance to both long-duration designs and Rutan envisions trips from California to Hawaii in the craft.

Noise is addressed with a quiet engine and a properly designed propeller.

A modern, composite airframe, which is assembled without the use of metal fasteners, solves the salt water corrosion problem. All the metal parts of the plane are easily replaced should corrosion become an issue.

The aircraft is substantially complete and Rutan had a goal of bringing it to AirVenture 2015. But addressing some of the typical challenges associated with a new design, and the need for a structured flight test program, just would not allow the trip to happen.

He did commit to bringing it next year.

RutanRC turning Burt’s designs into flying RC models

By James Wynbrandt

Ever dreamed of flying legendary aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, like the LongEZ? SpaceShipOne? Voyager?

Well, soon you’ll be able to stop dreaming and start flying them with the debut of RutanRC, a new radiocontrolled (RC) model manufacturer whose goal is “to make RC models of all of Burt’s designs,” according to company co-founder Jeff Corsiglia.

He and partner Dan Kreigh are longtime associates of Rutan, who attended the company’s rollout presentation here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. That event featured a prototype of one of the first RC models planned for production, SpaceShipOne. Kreigh, a former Scaled Composites engineer, has been working with Rutan for 25 years and performed the

structural analysis on many of Rutan’s designs. Corsiglia is “one of the finest designers of radio-controlled models,” Rutan said, and all three of them are dedicated RC enthusiasts.

Rutan, who will serve as an advisor on design and functionality, noted that as a teen he built RC models and competed in Academy of Model Aeronautics national competitions.

Rutan joked that some might think the new company has a death wish, as “there are only 46 [Rutan] models, and then there’s nothing to do,” before adding, “We do have some new things in the hopper.”

Corsiglia, meanwhile noted, “We see this new company as an incubator for new concepts. We want to be open to the inventor community,” and the company intends to create “a Rutan Prize for

innovation in model aeronautics.”

The first model planned for production is the Long-EZ, perhaps as soon as two to three months from now, followed by the combination of White Knight and

SpaceShipOne. The price of the models will be “competitive with existing RC models of the same size and complexity,” Corsiglia said, with the Long-EZ about $199.

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Stinson 108: A very practical antique

By Randy Dufault

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ive years ago members of the International Stinson Club gathered for a mass arrival into AirVenture.

Unfortunately 2010 was the year of “Sploshkosh.” At the start of the event the grounds were very wet, and the Stinson arrival was canceled.

So they tried again. This attempt was much more successful with 19 airplanes arriving together last Sunday here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015.

The club represents owners of the Stinson 108 series airplanes, a metal-framed, fabric- covered, four-place taildragger of which more than 5,500 were produced between 1946 and 1949.

“I call it an honest four-seater,” said Bob Pustell of Windsock Village, New Hampshire. Pustell is a club member and organized the group arrival.

Another club member, Bernie Gersteimer of Advance, North Carolina, added, “For lack of a better term, it is a sleeper airplane. It is an honest airplane because it is one you can have a full load of fuel and have four normal passengers in it. Where most other airplanes you can’t do that.”

Pustell did say that when it is that loaded you are going to climb with “dignity,” but at least the airplane can do it.

The club estimates that half or more of the airplanes—despite their age—are still flying. The club is a key reason for the type’s ongoing success, but Pustell also credits the companies that specialize in supporting the 108 community.

“Even though at this point it is a 60-to70-year-old airplane, there’s still enough planes to base a good robust support operation on,” Pustell said. “And because there are so many of them out there, it’s not like trying to buy an antique where there’s only eight left in the whole world….

It’s plain, hard economics. When you have two to three thousand of them still flying it’s enough to make someone interested in finding a stash of parts and marketing them—possibly even tooling up and making some parts. Working up an adapter and a [supplemental type certificate] to use a different engine or different brakes; things like that.

“It’s not just having a robust owners group and club, its having enough planes to make it worthwhile.”

All the 108s left the factory with a Franklin engine. The Franklin is no longer produced and, at least in some circles, has a less than stellar reputation.

“That’s because it is distinctly different in many ways from the Lycomings

and Continentals,” Pustell said. “If you use the same torque value on a Franklin [spark plug] that you use on a Lycoming or Continental, you will rip the plug and the threads right out of the head….

It is a very precisely built engine of meticulous design, but you need to know how to work on it or you are going to hurt it.”

By most estimates more than 90 percent of the fleet still fly behind the original 150-hp or 165-hp Franklin.

Even though the production run of the 108 series was relatively short, its impact on the aviation industry was significant.

Piper purchased the Stinson company in 1949. At the time Piper was a manufacturer of fabric-covered airplanes and needed metal-working expertise. While the 108 wings and fuselage were fabric-covered, the vertical tail and control surfaces are all aluminum. Control surfaces on Piper airplanes leaving the factory today bear a very strong family resemblance to the ones the 108s left the factory with.

Pustell and the other owners are obviously happy with the airplane.

“I like to say that it is safe, strong and sensible,” he said. “A nice antique to own.”

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A proud pack of vintage Stinson 108s parades toward the Vintage area after their mass arrival.

Rimowa to build Junkers F13 replicas

By Ric Reynolds

The German luggage maker Rimowa announced it will build a series of

replica Junkers F13s, the world’s first commercial airliner.

“It’s long been my amPHOTO BY RIC REYNOLDS bition to rebuild the ‘mother’ of all commercial aircraft and I’m very happy that this will now become a reality,” said CEO Dieter Morszeck.

“This plane has always fascinated me and I see there’s clearly a market for it.”

Rimowa’s Junkers F13 replica reflects the dawn of airline travel Rimowa created Rialmost a century ago. mowa Flugzeugwerke AG

based in Dübendorf, Switzerland, to produce the airplanes. They will be priced at $2.2 million.

The Rimowa F13 is a single engine, all-metal, low-wing aircraft with an open cockpit and a closed passenger cabin. It has a tail dragger undercarriage with brakes, is 11.5 feet high, 31.5 feet long and has a wingspan of 48.72 feet.

Powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-985 Junior radial engine with 450 hp, it has a top speed of 97 knots, with an 86knot cruise. With a 21 gph fuel burn, its range is 377 statute miles. Maxi-

mum takeoff weight is 4,407 pounds. It will be a daytime VFR plane designed for a maximum altitude of 4,000 feet.

First test flights are expected in the spring of 2016.

The original Ju F13 was commissioned

by German entrepreneur and aviation pioneer Hugo Junkers in 1919 as an allmetal, low-wing cantilever monoplane.

By 1933 more than 330 of these single-engine, duraluminium six-seaters were built at the Junkers factory in Dessau, Germany.

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A chorus of Corsairs

By Frederick A. Johnsen

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ts inverted gull wing makes the Corsair instantly recognizable, even to those who don’t track warbirds. Put five of the elegant fighters in a bunch at the Warbirds area of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015, and you’ve got a party.

The very capable naval fighter of World War II and Korea was discussed in a Monday Warbirds in Review session.

Corsairs earned their greatest fame in the Pacific during the WWII. Displayed beside the session’s panelists was the refurbished Corsair from the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas. This bird stands out for several reasons—it uses a scarce set of wings fitted for 20-mm cannons instead of .50-caliber machine guns, and it has a neatly crafted jump seat behind the pilot.

Cavanaugh museum staffers believe this is the only Corsair currently available for rides, for people needing to check that off their to-do list. The cost is not cheap, but neither is the upkeep of such a magnificent aircraft.

Bill Harrison moderated the discussion with Doug Jeanes, Cavanaugh Flight Museum’s director, and Stuart Milson, the museum’s chief pilot. Harrison described the Corsair’s handling qualities as “Easier

than a T-6,” to which Jeanes added, “Just gotta get over the long nose.” The long snout pointing toward the sky gave rise to the unflattering nickname “Hose Nose,” but all that is forgotten once the F4U gets its tail up and begins to fly.

Early Corsairs had problems with landing gear bounce, due at least in part to the resilient wooden decks of WWII aircraft carriers. The fix included tweaking the oil-dampened oleo struts on the main landing gear, Jeanes said. The Corsair on display showed the characteristic look of a collapsed landing gear leg; no shiny silver strut was visible. The panelists explained that is a deliberate feature of the Corsair, allowing the gear to compress in a controlled way that absorbs shocks and diminishes the tendency to rebound.

The panelists agreed that the earlier model Corsairs with three-bladed propellers are the easiest to fly. In civilian service, many Corsairs have switched to a version of the R-2800 engine that does not use an updraft carburetor. The updraft carb could be involved in quick and attention-grabbing fuel fires on startup.

When asked by an audience member if the Corsair had torque issues when power was applied for a go-around, Milson said.

“This is one of the better airplanes for go-

around” because so much of the vertical tail real estate is taken up by the movable rudder. Warbirds with less rudder-to-fin geometry can be trickier when handling go-around torque as power is added in low-speed flight, he said.

The Corsair excelled not only as an air-to-air fighter, but also in ground attack sorties. Some Corsairs have the capability of extending only the main gear, with flat-fronted gear doors making effective dive brakes.

The panelists described other traits of the F4U for the crowd. Harrison said that unlike a clean P-51 Mustang, when PHOTO BY FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN

Four of five Corsair fighters at AirVenture 2015 congregated at the Warbirds ramp.

WASP of World War II at EAA AirVenture 2015 Twenty-five thousand women applied; 1,830 were accepted. Only 1,102 women officially served as Women Airforce Service Pilots–WASP–in World War II, proudly wearing their silver wings. Thirty-eight died flying for their country.

Kate Landeck, vice president of the non-profit organization Wing Tip to Wing Tip, said she encourages people to come out and meet these women and appreciate the time they have while they still attend events.

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you fly a Corsair “you’re going to get oil on you somewhere.”

And cruising at better than 200 knots, a Corsair pilot can expect to burn 80 gallons of gas an hour on a cross-country trip.

The Warbirds in Review panel made frequent references to veterans who had been affected by Corsairs. At one point, all veterans of all eras were asked to stand up in the bleachers, to a spontaneous round of applause from the rest of the appreciative crowd.

Warbirds in Review sessions continue twice daily in the Warbirds area during AirVenture 2015.

By Nicole Kiefert

The women will host panels on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015.

“These women are treasures,” she said. “I think that whole generation we kind of got spoiled with, I know I did for 20 years just hanging out with them.”

WASP Florence Shutsy-Reynolds said while it was not common for women to fly, she’s happy she followed her heart and became a pilot.

“I learned to fly and it was a dream,” Florence said. “Dreams do come true.

“When I learned to fly I was told girls don’t fly, ladies don’t fly, and boy did we prove them wrong.”

WASP Betty Strohfus said she is excited to see women becoming increasingly more interested in aviation.

“I am so pleased to be here,” Betty said.

“I used to come a long time ago and there were so few girls here. In fact, it was an oddity to have a woman pilot, and so it’s wonderful to see women that are now involved. It pleases me.”

WASP Florence Mascot said the military changed her for the better.

“You get something out of military training that you cannot get at home or in school,” she said.

“They do something, give you confidence in yourself, they teach you to be more courageous.”

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Making friends—all part of women in aviation program.

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Heidi Lee watches other pilots land after a powered paraglider flight on the Ultralight Runway.

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Help honor the National GA award winners

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he four winners of the 2014 National General Aviation Awards will be honored at 10 a.m. today during a special ceremony at the FAA Safety Center. The nation’s top aviation professionals Mary A. Schu, Tualatin, Oregon, Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) of the Year; Donald D. Streitenberger Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) of the Year; Ricky D. Hestilow, Arlington, Texas, Avionics Technician of the Year; and Christopher J. Hope, Kansas City, Missouri, FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) Representative of the Year.

The honorees will receive individual plaques from the FAA and their names will be added to the large permanent plaque located in the lobby of EAA AirVenture Museum. All four honorees receive all-expenses-paid trips to Oshkosh to attend the awards presentation.

“These awards highlight the important role played by these individuals in promoting aviation education and flight safety,” said GA Awards Board Chairwoman Arlynn McMahon. “The awards program sponsors are pleased that these outstanding aviation professionals will receive the recognition they so richly deserve before their peers in Oshkosh.”

2015 National Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) of the Year Mary Schu, who owns and operates Mary A. Schu Aviation and Mary A. Schu Consulting in the Portland area, provides designated pilot examiner (DPE) services and flight instruction and also conducts several Flight Instructor Refresher Courses (FIRCs) each year. She has more than 20,000 hours of flight time logged, including more than 14,000 hours of instruction given, and holds ATP and CFI certificates for airplane single and multiengine land and instruments.

As FAASTeam Lead Representative for the Portland-Hilsboro FSDO Schu provides numerous presentations and safety seminars and is one of 31 industry leaders assisting the FAA in developing new airman certification standards to replace the current practical test standards by the end of 2015 as a member of the Airman Certification System Working Group.

2015 National Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) of the Year Donald Streitenberger is chief inspector for The Kroger Company at Cincinnati Lunken Airport, where he directs inspections of Kroger’s business jet fleet. He joined the company as a line mechanic nearly 30 years ago and has been chief inspector for more than 11 years. Streitenberger holds FAA certificates as a repairman and a mechanic with airframe and powerplant ratings and inspection authorization.

He has served as president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and on the board of directors of the Ohio Aircraft Technicians Society (OATS), the Cincinnati chapter of the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA). Streitenberger has facilitated and taught numerous IA renewal seminars at Cincinnati State Technical College, and for years has played a key role in the annual Lunken Airport Days Aviation Career Fair.

He is the recipient of seven FAA Maintenance Technician awards, the NBAA 24-Year Maintenance Technician Safety award, and has received certificates of appreciation for his pro-bono work for the aviation maintenance community from PAMA/OATS/FAA every year since 2007.

2015 National Avionics Technician of the Year Rick Hestilow has been in the aviation maintenance field for more than 40 years, and for the past decade has focused on achieving professional recognition and certification of aircraft electronic technicians (AETs). Hestilow serves as program director, director of standards and certification, and director of accreditation for the National Center for Aerospace & Transportation Technologies (NCATT).

In these roles, he helped develop industry standards for avionics technicians, developed an education and training curriculum for avionics and aircraft electronics technicians, and created a testing program for certification of AETs. Most recently, Hestilow has worked on developing certification standards for technicians working on unmanned aircraft systems (drones).

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He has a long association with Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, where he has taught numerous courses in aeronautical technology and served as coordinator of special projects.

Hope holds ATP, CFI, and GI certificates, is a Gold Seal CFI and Master Instructor, and has flown more than 500 youths as a volunteer pilot with the EAA Young Eagles program. Hope also has served as an Angel Flight mission pilot since 2001 and has served as chairman of the Angel Flight Central Safety Committee since 2013.

A 1969 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Hope underwent pilot training at Sheppard AFB and served as a C-141 pilot for the Military Airlift Command at McChord AFB. After serving as a flight instructor at the academy, he earned his MBA at the University of Northern Colorado in 1977 and then worked as a civil engineer while doing free-lance flight instruction.

Since 2008, Hope has written for various flying publications including EAA Sport Aviation, AOPA Flight Training, NAFI Mentor, and Aviation News.

2015 National FAASTeam Representative of the Year Chris Hope first volunteered as an FAA aviation safety counselor more than 10 years ago and when that program morphed into the FAA Safety Team in 2009 he became a FAASTeam representative. During the past 12 months, he has conducted 11 safety seminars and in 2013 founded the Kansas City IMC Club that meets monthly to discuss real-life issues of instrument flying.

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Piper trainers still logging sales successes

By James Wynbrandt

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iper Aircraft Co. continues its market success in the trainer field, with more than two-dozen sales—and possibly a score more—announced at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

FlightSafety International (FSI) has ordered 20 Piper Warriors and six Piper Arrows for its FlightSafety Academy training program in Vero Beach, Florida, with deliveries of the single-engine aircraft commencing later this year. All aircraft will be equipped with Garmin G500 avionics suites with GTN 650 GPS/nav/comm/ MFD with ADS-B and satellite enhanced dual antenna traffic awareness technology.

FSI President and CEO Bruce Whitman said the purchase “demonstrates our commitment to provide FlightSafety Academy students with the highest quality training, using aircraft equipped with the latest technology.” The order is part of a fleet replenishment initiative agreement

between the two companies, under which FlightSafety has an option to order an additional 20 Warriors next year.

Piper also announced the impending delivery of an Arrow to Ohio’s Kent State University for the school’s Aeronautics Division. The aircraft will operate from the University’s Andrew Paton Field, one of the world’s few university-operated airports. “Kent State’s Aeronautics Division continues to look to Piper for quality aircraft to bring up our next generation of pilots,” said Robert Sines Jr., dean of the university’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability, and Technology. Piper President and CEO Simon Caldecott calls the Arrow “the only complex single-engine trainer available today.”

In M-class news, Piper also announced a collaboration with Hartzell Propeller on certifying a five-bladed composite prop for the Piper Meridian and M500 through a

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supplemental type certificate (STC), with approval anticipated by the end of the year. The prop will “help increase climb rate and decrease noise, with the secondary benefit of elevating ramp aesthetics,” said Drew McEwen, Piper VP of Sales and Marketing. The prop will have an initial list price of $52,000, which includes a trade-in allowance through Hartzell Propeller’s Top Prop Program, but Piper dealers and authorized service centers will offer “special price considerations,” according to Piper.

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EAA advocacy working to ease the pain of meeting ADS-B mandate

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ith the January 1, 2020, deadline clearly visible on the horizon, many aircraft owners are faced with the need to install ADS-B “out” equipment over the next four years.

The FAA has such a keen interest in ensuring that the GA community meets the deadline that Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker and Assistant Administrator for NextGen Ed Bolden are coming to AirVenture on Friday to review progress and look at the latest ADS-B solutions available to the market.

Last year at Oshkosh, the pilots strongly voiced their concern that the cost of complying with the ADS-B mandate stood squarely in the way of meeting the deadline. EAA heard often from members that the high cost of compliance was forcing decisions about whether to continue owning an aircraft or even flying at all.

EAA responded by taking these concerns to senior FAA leadership, and ultimately the FAA established the Equip 2020 committee to identify barriers to industrywide adoption of ADS-B and seek solutions to ensure compliance by the 2020 deadline.

Initially there was considerable disagreement over whether the price point of rulecompliant avionics was really an impediment, but EAA and other representatives of

pilots and aircraft owners prevailed in convincing industry and FAA that lower cost solutions needed to be developed.

The result has been some very innovative approaches by manufacturers to minimize technology, leverage mass production, and other means of significantly lowering the price of ADS-B equipment. Over the past year we have seen an almost 50 percent reduction in the base cost of rule-compliant ADS-B “out” solutions.

In addition to breaking down barriers to lower cost options that satisfy the mandate, EAA worked to ensure that the historic basis for avionics approval in experimental aircraft continued to be applied to ADS-B equipment.

EAA fought for the premise that avionics installed on amateur-built aircraft do not have to be approved under a technical standard order (TSO) and ultimately prevailed.

Today, the FAA acknowledges that ADS-B equipment in experimental aircraft must meet the performance requirement set forth in the rules (FARs 91.225 and 91.227), but that the equipment itself need not be certified.

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the air traffic system, not meeting a design specification or production requirement.

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low this logic and philosophy. Challenges lie ahead with regard to the requirements for software validation and certification as it relates to approval of ADS-B and related equipment such as GPS WAAS receivers.

EAA will continue to work to ensure that any additional certification requirements that are not performance-based do not become mandatory for experimental aircraft.

It is our sincere hope that our leadership in this area will spill over into new opportunities in the type-certificated aspects of personal and recreational aviation.

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EAA Founder’s Prize to accelerate safety innovation

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uesday at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 Sean Elliot, EAA Vice President for Advocacy and Safety, along with former NASA Astronaut and EAA Director Charlie Precourt, announced the Founder’s Innovation Prize. Styled after the successful XPRIZE that launched development of the commercial space travel industry, the first goal for the award is to stimulate development of ideas and innovations that will reduce the current rate of loss of control accidents within the experimental-amateur built aircraft fleet.

“The highest causal factor in today’s accident world of fatal accidents, both in general aviation and particularly in experimental-amateur built, is loss of control,” Elliot said.

“Loss of control is on the top 10 hit list for the NTSB and is the theme for the FAA for this year,” Precourt added.

Loss of control is anytime the airplane goes somewhere where the pilot didn’t intend for it to go.

“Then bad things happen.” Precourt said.

Individuals and teams of EAA members (membership is required) can submit ideas through a special web site beginning October 1 of this year.

Experts will choose five finalists from among all the submissions. Those finalists will then defend their concept, “Shark Tank” style, on stage at AirVenture 2016, in front of a celebrity panel chaired by Burt Rutan. The winning individual or team will receive a prize

of $25,000, with $10,000 awarded for second place, and $5,000 for third.

EAA has a goal of reducing loss of control accidents in experimental-amateur built aircraft by 25 percent over the next five years and 50 percent in the next 10.

“We are serious about this.” Elliot said. “This has become the top issue that we need to deal with in the general aviation community.”

“The concept is that if you can demonstrate that you can dramatically affect the possibility of loss of control, that it is applicable to the broadest range of aircraft, and that it is economically viable to put in an aircraft or in an aircraft/pilot system.” Precourt said. “It doesn’t have to be about

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an airplane design. It can be about the way pilots manage an airplane, it can be electronics, it can be software. It can be all kinds of things. It’s totally open.

We want to really stimulate the nature of our community and the innovation that has been so historically prevalent in the EAA membership.”

A website, www.foundersinnovationprize.org, containing more details about the program and how to submit ideas, is expected to be available this August.

Solving the loss of control challenge is only the first goal for the prize. Elliot said that it will become a permanent program within EAA and added, “This prize is based on all of the traits and characteristics that our founder, Paul Poberezny, really inspired.”

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Raptor pilot gets special welcome... make it more realistic as a child. Father and son also built—and crashed—simple remote control airplanes when he was young.

Cummings’ mother, Barbara, remembers hearing her son playing with airplanes in his bedroom. Using the large Lego plates for a runway, he could be overheard yelling, “Clear for takeoff!”

Then one year he applied to be a hawker on the EAA grounds, in part to be at the convention and air show every day, John Sr. said. “Warbirds were always special to him. He always loved the big engines, fast passes, and loud noises.”

Graduating from Appleton East High School in 1996, Cumming went to college at the University of Wisconsin Madison, graduating in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He worked at Boeing as an avionics engineer and joined the company’s flying club, obtaining his pilot certificate. At 26, around the time of 9/11, he joined the Air Force, earning his commission in 2004. He is a

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seasoned fighter pilot with more than 1,300 fighter hours in both the F-15C and F-22.

As the F-22 aerial demonstration commander, he leads the 10-member demonstration team, oversees maintenance actions performed on the Lockheed Martin $140 million demo aircraft, and showcases the Raptor’s maneuverability for more than 10 million spectators around the world each year. His two-year assignment will end in October.

The younger Cummings says everything about the Raptor is cool. “There is no other plane that is capable of doing what the Raptor does,” he says. Because of the size of the aerobatic box in Oshkosh, he won’t be able to fly the full demonstration. “But we can do most of it,” he adds. “The things we do in the Raptor are what we do to teach the pilots how to fly the jet, things that no other aircraft can do.”

However, Cummings says his favorite part of their demonstration is the

Heritage Flight, flying in tight formation next to World War II planes such as P-47 Thunderbolts, P-38 Lightnings, F-86 Sabres, and P-51 Mustangs.

Cummings knows the next few days will be busy, flying at Oshkosh and at the nearby Milwaukee Air and Water Show. “But I’m excited; I’m hoping I will also see a number of people from my childhood years.”

The demonstration team is really a marketing tool to get youth and young adults interested in aviation and perhaps the mili-

tary, he says. Cummings is hopeful that he will inspire a new generation to fly, and fly for the military, just as he was inspired as a young boy attending AirVenture.

“Every time we go to an air show, we’re looking for the one or two young boys or girls we can inspire to do something like this,” he says. “When you see the airplane up close and talk to the people who fly them, hopefully those kids will realize they can do it, too. So come out and see us at the show.”

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First woman to receive Tony Bingelis award

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isa Turner, of Hayesville, North Carolina, will be presented with the 2015 EAA Tony Bingelis Award tonight at the EAA Homebuilders Dinner.

She is the first woman to receive the award since it was created in 2003.

The award honors the late Tony Bingelis, homebuilding authority, author of several homebuilding books, and a well-read

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Lisa Turner is the Tony Bingelis award’s first woman recipient.

Sport Aviation columnist. A permanent display at the EAA AirVenture Museum commemorates award honorees.

The award recognizes her 10 years as an EAA technical counselor, promoter of builder education through EAA chapters, and author of numerous articles on flight building and safety in such publications as EAA’s Sport Aviation, The Experimenter, along with Kitplanes, The Safety Wire, and chapter newsletters. She’s also an EAA SportAir Workshops instructor.

Turner is honored and humbled to be the first female recipient of the award.

“It means so much,” she said. “What I do has traditionally been considered ‘men’s work’ but hopefully I can demonstrate that a woman can do whatever she wants, given the right discipline and planning.”

Turner, EAA 509911, is passionate about spreading awareness of flying and building safety for aircraft builders. She has also been involved with various member projects as a technical counselor and flight advisor.

Like the Wright brothers, she started in bicycles, opening a repair shop in the mid-1970s. In 1995, she built the first of two airplanes, an Aero Designs Pulsar XP. Later she built a Kolb Twinstar Mark III. For the Kolb, she signed up for an EAA fabric workshop at Sun ’n Fun in Lakeland in 1999 and was introduced to EAA. That’s where Turner met her future husband, Jerry Stadtmiller, fabric course instructor.

“I love flying, but I love building a little more,” she confessed.

Turner works for Moog Components Group as an avionics manufacturing engineer.

“I still have at least two more aircraft projects in mind,” she figures. “The building bug will bite again and I’ll be in the garage all weekend again.”

The Homebuilders Dinner is held in the Nature Center, and tickets are still available at Homebuilders Headquarters on the flightline, but are in limited supply.

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Chairman’s co-award a well-kept surprise

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hen John Miller, EAA 212603, and his wife, Audrie, arrived at EAA’s annual membership meeting Wednesday morning, she knew he was to receive the prestigious EAA Chairman’s Award from Jack J. Pelton.

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John and Audrie Miller

Little did she know that she would also be honored.

“She’s my right hand,” said John, a retired Air Force major general who’s been coming to Oshkosh since 1983. Since the 1990s he has played a key role in procuring current military aircraft, like the B-52, F-22, and F-35 appearing on the ramp this week.

“I’m involved in coordinating all the military aircraft that attend Oshkosh, including all branches,” he said. He credits the professionalism and reputation of EAA and the Oshkosh air show with making this job easier.

Audrie’s role is hosting VIPs to assure they get an idea of what EAA is all about.

“My wife reaches out to all the military visitors, like Gen. Brady, Medal of Honor recipient, Bud Anderson and others, making sure they come out year after year. And it has an impact. Audrie has the ability to make people feel so special and wanted.”

For Audrie, it was a total surprise; her husband kept the secret for more than a month since learning of the award.

“Oh yeah, I was surprised,” she said. “I was very surprised.”

John also deflects credit from himself, typical for EAA volunteers. “I really don’t know why we were selected for this award,” he said.

“There are literally thousands of deserving volunteers that make sure AirVenture is such a great success. I am so honored and humbled. And I surely could not do this without Audrie.”

John has 18,000 flight hours holding FAA ratings in airplanes, rotorcraft, and gliders. He is a Gold Seal Flight Instructor in airplanes, instrument, and gliders, and is also an A&P with an IA rating. John also owns a Cessna 172 and a Grumman Cougar, with plans to get a seaplane rating at some point.

He currently serves on the board of directors for Omega Air Refueling, a busi-

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ness that operates aerial refueling 707s and DC-10s for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. It’s the only company in the world conducting commercial fee-forservice, in-flight refueling services.

Five re-elected to EAA board Five members of the EAA board of directors were re-elected to three-year terms, and one new director was elected at the EAA annual membership meeting Wednesday morning at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

Re-elected to three-year terms are: Joe Brown, Piqua, Ohio; Barry Davis, Carrollton, Georgia; Darren Pleasance, Palo Alto, California; Dan Schwinn, Melbourne, Florida; and Alan Shackleton, Sugar Grove, Illinois. Newly elected is Louis Seno, Harbor Springs, Michigan.

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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Timeless Voices Tent, Warbirds, Timeless Voices

Workshop Classroom 1, 3M Fuel-Metal Sealing, Steve Falteisek

Ford Hangar, Daily Activities at the Ford Hangar, Ford Motor Company

Workshop Classroom 2, Honda Engine Conversion, Jeron Smith

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Aviation Gateway Forums Stage, Know Before! Drone Safety and Laws,

Workshop Classroom 3, Slick Mag Maintenace, Joe Logie

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Vicki Cruse Pavilion, Various Models of the Pitts Breed, Budd Davisson

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Federal Pavilion, 3 Steps to Avoid Being Intercepted, Kevin Roethe

Wright Flyer - Museum, Wright Flyer Engine, Steve Hay

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Aviation Gateway Park, Cool Heli UAV Demo

Hilton Theater, Turret Tails, Doug Ward

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Garmin Hangar Tent 1, Real World Flying with GTN and G500, Garmin

Skyscape Theater, Tuskegee Airmen, Col Charles McGee

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Vintage Red Barn, Vintage Workshop

SpaceShipOne / Voyager, Aviations Last Great First-Voyager, Dick Rutan, Burt Rutan

Vintage Red Barn, How We Judge Your Vintage Airplanes

FAA Aviation Safety Center, General Aviation Awards, Federal Aviation Administration

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Homebuilders Hangar, Zenith - Homebuilt in Review, Sebastien Heintz

Sky Shoppe, Two Fathers One War, Marcia L. Pollock Wysocky

Ultralight Forums Tent, Rotorcraft Flight Briefing, Geoff Downey

EAA Wearhouse, T-41 Mescalero: The Military Cessna, Michael Little

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Warbird Alley, Warbirds in Review - UH-1 Huey, General Patrick Brady

EAA Pilot Proficiency Center, How to Navigate Unfamiliar Airspace, Tom Letts

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Forum Stage 08 ForeFlight, ForeFlight 101 - Beginner, Ryan McBride

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM Aviation Gateway Forums Stage, ATC in Controlled Airspace, Dale Wright

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Ford Hangar, Ford Autograph Thursday Session

Replica Fighters Tent, Composites Release and Trim Demo, Russell Emanis

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Aeroplane Workshop, Scratch and Plans Built Airplanes, Plans Scratch

Forum Stage 01, Electric Motor Glider, Carol & Brian Carpenter

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Aviation Gateway Park, Shenzehn Jiuxing Tianli Demo

Forum Stage 02, GAMA, WACO Aircraft History & Restoration, Thomas Hogan

Federal Pavilion, Radar and Satellite Interpretation, Sean Miller

Forum Stage 04, Exploring Deep Space, NASA

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Garmin Hangar Tent 2, G3X Touch for Experimental Aircraft, Garmin

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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EAA Wearhouse, Meet Kermit Weeks, Kermit Weeks

Forum Stage 06, JP Instruments, What To Look For Buying A Cessna, Cessna Pilot’s Association

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Vintage Red Barn, Vintage Interview Circle

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EAA Pilot Proficiency Center, IMC Club Open Chapter Meeting, Radek Wyrzykowski

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Homebuilders Hangar, First Flight Prep - Flight Advisor, Gary Baker

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Replica Fighters Tent, Composites Release and Trim Demo, Russell Emanis

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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Sky Shoppe, Bush & Mountain Flying, CC Milne Pocock

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Vicki Cruse Pavilion, RVs and Aerobatics, Steve Johnson

Sky Shoppe, Operation Overflight, Gary Powers Jr.

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University honors EAA Chairman Pelton

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mbry-Riddle Aeronautical University dedicated a Cessna 172 in Jack J. Pelton’s name Tuesday morning at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 as part of its Name a Plane program.

“I’m speaking from the heart as an EAA member,” said ERAU Vice President for Corporate Relations and EAA Lifetime member 31489 Louis C. Seno. “Three years ago, EAA kind of lost its way.

There were some tough, dark days in there. The board made some changes. Jack put his life on hold, came to Oshkosh, and really, really has returned the organization, in my opinion.”

For $2,500, donors can name a Cessna 172 for either themselves, a loved one, or a company or organization. For $5,000, donors can do the same for a Diamond DA42 Twinstar.

The money raised from these donations goes directly toward ERAU’s scholarship and financial aid programs.

Louis said ERAU chose to honor Jack because they feel he recaptured the vision of EAA’s founder, Paul Poberezny.

“I think that was quite evident yesterday,” he said. “I think we had the best opening day; the vendors could not be happier.

The convention, the membership really likes the changes he’s made,

and just based on what’s happened we could just not not have chosen Jack as one of the recipients of this.”

Chris Lambert, senior executive director of development for ERAU, said out of the school’s fleet of 85 Cessna and DAs, 15 planes have been named so far.

Chris acknowledged the expenses it takes to become a pilot and said that is why the Name a Plane program is so important.

“Each plane is roughly about 10 percent of their cost of attending,” he said. “So if you can have a $2,500 or a $5,000 scholarship that goes toward that cost, it’s a significant benefit on a student basis.”

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he lead aircraft of the first major “Pee Wee” Martin promised to jump from airborne assault during the Nor- this C-47 when the CAF gets it ready for mandy invasion is in Oshkosh. Normandy again. Last year, Martin made And has been, for awhile. This signifi- headlines when he performed a tandem cant World War II artifact slumbered parachute jump over Normandy on the in the storage yard of Basler Turbo 70th anniversary of D-Day. Conversions on the perimeter of Witt- CAF Executive Vice President Adam man field, waiting its turn to be rejuve- Smith, former EAA museum director, nated for a new owner. said That’s All, Brother is credited with When D-Day historians and the Com- leading the first of two formations of the memorative Air Force (CAF) approached initial main force over Normandy.

Basler with the history of this veteran He said the refurbishing of this C-47 C-47, the company agreed to set it aside will need to address corrosion inside the and let the museum raise funds to buy it. fuselage, apparently aggravated by the inAn anonymous CAF member paid for it. stallation of moisture-trapping fabric lin The CAF talked about their plans for ing some time in its civilian life. the battle-tested C-47, nicknamed That’s Brown told the crowd that the ComAll, Brother, with the aircraft standing memorative Air Force is the largest orgaproud, if a bit ragged, behind the podium nization operating historic World War II on Boeing Plaza. aircraft, with 162 planes involved.

Stephan Brown, CAF president, said Kickstarter campaigns have PHOTO BY FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN raised about $350,000 toward the anticipated million-dollar-plus renovation and restoration of That’s All, Brother.

The venerable C-47 will be evaluated at Basler and made ready to ferry to a restoration location. It could fly in the next year or two.

High on the CAF’s list of priorities is completion of the restoration in time to participate in the 75th anniversary of D-Day over Normandy in 2019.

Brown said the history of this C-47’s manifest includes flights given to a mascot dog and the 101st Airborne Division’s paratrooper chaplain, known affectionately as “Jumping Jesus.”

Vietnam veteran and actor Dale Dye told planeside visitors at AirVenture 2015 that “What this represents is the spirit of America.”

He urged crowd support for the restoration to preserve That’s All, Normandy veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin, right, Brother as a traveling classroom.

The crowd responded enthu- and Stephan C. Brown, Commemorative Air Force siastically when 94-year-old Nor- president, expressed hope that the historic C-47 mandy paratrooper veteran Jim That’s All, Brother will fly again over Normandy.

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s a child, Nicolas Ivanoff never thought about flying aerobatics.

“I wanted to be a race car driver,” he recalls.

“But I also built small model planes that hung on the ceiling in my room. I thought it would be nice to fly one of them someday.”

Since he was better in mathematics, however, he first tried engineering. But then someone told him he could go to the national school to be an airline pilot.

“I tried this national school, but I didn’t succeed. So I knew the other way to become an airline pilot was to become a private pilot, a flight instructor, and then a commercial pilot.”

He was already a private pilot when someone asked him to take an aerobatic flight. His answer: No. “I told him I didn’t want to be sick,” Ivanoff recalls. “I told him aerobatics was not for me.”

But the next day, and the day after that, the man asked him to take an aerobatic flight.

“The fourth time he asked, I said, ‘Sure,’” Ivanoff says. “It was getting boring, and I knew he wasn’t going to give up.”

To his surprise, Ivanoff didn’t get sick. “When I was in the plane, I said, ‘Wow.’ It was crazy. I was so happy inside. When he stopped the flight, I said, ‘No, I want more.’ That flight changed my life.”

By the early 1990s, Ivanoff started flying competitions and flight instructing. He later joined the French aerobatic team and was a member of the French team that won the World Aerobatic Championships in Toulouse in 2000. He continued to rack up national and world titles in the years that followed until he retired from competitions in 2013.

Today, Ivanoff concentrates on flying in the Red Bull Air Race or air shows. He took fourth in the Red Bull competition in 2014, and with four races left in the 2015 season, he currently is in ninth place. “I hope the second part of this year will be better than the second part of last year,” he says.

Last year, he took two podium finishes in the last three races.

Ivanoff says it can be difficult to switch gears from air racing to air shows. He spent five days training before he came to Oshkosh, which is one of his favorite shows.

“To be in Oshkosh is always a dream,” says Ivanoff. “When I arrived, I was like a child. I know how huge it is, but it is always amazing. There are more planes at AirVenture than total in France. It’s kind of like an air show party. Pilots are here to enjoy the fans; it’s not a contest between the pilots to be the best. It’s just a big family reunion.”

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Mooney’s on the move on many fronts

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ne year after delivering its first aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh following resumption of production, Mooney International is back showcasing its current aircraft lineup, along with a mockup of its in-development M10T/J models at its display area (Booth 247-252). Also on display: a 3-D AR (augmented reality) app that lets visitors see the M10 inside and out, and configure the aircraft with different paint schemes and interior styles. Mooney also is showing its M20R Ovation 3 and an M20TN Acclaim Type S. Since the last fly-in Mooney has built some one-dozen aircraft and continued investment in its facilities, said CEO Dr. Jerry Chen. Facility upgrades at Mooney’s Kerrville, Texas, factory include a digital heat-treat oven, multiaxis CNC machine, 3-D laser scanner, and CNC water-jet cutter, which together helped increase production rate and improve quality.

Meanwhile at its Chino, California, headquarters, the company is ramping up engineering work on the M10 models, announced late last year. With wind tunnel testing at Wichita State University complete, the M10 proof-of-concept aircraft is currently being assembled in Chino, with first flight expected this year.

Some M10s will be built in Kerrville, and the company “has received a lot of support from the local officials to make this happen,” Chen said. Additionally, a “higher production rate” is anticipated from the company’s second production facility planned in Zhengzhou, China.

A Beijing sales and marketing office that Chen announced here last year is now open, and the Mooney History Museum, also announced then, is moving forward, with groundbreaking planned for later this year.

Chen also announced new partnerships with companies including Redbird Flight

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Mooney’s new app allows visitors see the M10 inside and out.

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Cessna displaying two Skyhawks from Top Hawk Program

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essna is showcasing two Cessna Skyhawk aircraft from Kansas State University and the University of North Dakota this week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015.

Through Cessna’s Top Hawk Program UND, Kansas State, Liberty University, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University were all provided with a Cessna 172 for flight training, recruiting, and promotional activities.

Two Skyhawks were also dedicated to a flight-training initiative that offers an internship to the top student from each partner school.

“Training the next generation of pilots remains critical to the success of business and general aviation, and Textron Aviation is committed to providing the resources to support that effort,” said Piston Aircraft Vice President Doug May. The Top Hawk Skyhawks have been employed by the schools for a number of events, from air shows to job fairs to

Young Eagles events, and are on track to surpass 1,300 flight hours.

There have been more than 48,000 Skyhawks built since 1955.

The Garmin G1000 avionics and dependability are just some of the helpful features of this plane, which some call the world standard for pilot training.

“Between the universities’ impressive Skyhawk utilization efforts and the solid performance of the Textron Aviation interns, Top Hawk is proving to be a successful tool in training the next generation of pilots and promoting general aviation across the country,” May said.

PHOTO BY MARIANO ROSALES

One of two Top Hawk Skyhawks at the Cessna exhibit.

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B-52H ‘homebuilt’ to receive special award

By Barbara A. Schmitz

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t more than 159-feet long and 40-feet high, it has to be the largest “homebuilt” on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

The B-52H Stratofortress on Boeing Plaza is getting second looks from people with its signs noting that the “Classic Homebuilt” plane has been flown for more than 14,000 hours in more than 50 years and that it is to be judged in the homebuilt competition.

And it’s been getting a few questions from people, too, about if it is really a homebuilt, says Lt. Ed Rowe of the 343rd Bomb Squadron.

(No, it isn’t.)

Mike Dooley, homebuilt cochairman, said the whole thing started as a joke.

“The crew came to us and asked for a prop card,” he said. “So the boss decided to register it in the database as a homebuilt… and honor the experimental nature of the first B-52.”

The homebuilt judges looked at the plane on Tuesday morning, posing for photos with the Air Force Reserve crew. Chief Judge Bob Reese said the plane would be receiving a special award from them on Saturday.

“This is a special airplane, and we felt they deserved something special,” he said. “It’s been in continuous service for more than 40 years and served well in Vietnam and other war efforts. Plus, it’s still going.”

Rowe said the plane actually has 19,000 flying hours on it, but they couldn’t find a sign printed with more than 4,000 hours. So someone simply added a “1” before the “4” to make it close, at 14,000 hours.

Homebuilt judge Eric Hansen may be biased in his evaluation of the plane since both he and his father actually flew it while in the military. In fact, father and son also flew the plane with a Chicago Sun-Times reporter in 1979,

PHOTO BY BARBARA A. SCHMITZ

Air Force Reserve crew members of the B-52H on display on Boeing Plaza pose with the EAA homebuilt judges as the Stratofortress was “judged” as a homebuilt plane on Tuesday.

who took photos and wrote a story about the need to replace the B-52 because of its age.

“But this thing is good for another 20 or 30 years,” Hansen says. “It really is a great plane.”

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Couple returns to EAA AirVenture from England

By Nicole Kiefert and Megan Esau

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n Vintage aircraft camping the Union Jack flag hangs proudly from the front of Karl and Gillian Booker’s

single-engine Piper Tri-Pacer, N3700A. The couple hails from Kingston, England, but they flew in from

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Compass Hill Become part of the timeless tribute to The Spirit of Aviation and those who support it by purchasing a brick at the summit or entry plaza of this monument.

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Memorial Wall Celebrate and honor the lives of those who have loved and supported aviation and now “gone west.”

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Autumn Blaze Maple Trees Beautify the AirVenture grounds while providing much needed shade by planting one of these colorful trees in your name.

Clarinda, Iowa, where they belong to EAA Chapter 1533. They came with six other fellow chapter members.

Karl said this is his first year volunteering to be a tram driver, and while he hopes he could come every year, this is only their third year coming to Oshkosh.

This year Karl also got involved in giving flights to young aviation enthusiasts through EAA’s Young Eagles program.

“I think it’s very interesting,” Karl said. “You try to teach some people about aircraft and how things work and hope that you’ll inspire them to take an interest in aviation.”

Karl said he has had an interest in aviation since he was a young boy.

“I’ve always been interested in aircraft, and I ran my own business for a few years, and then I had the time to learn to fly,” he said. “That was back in 1999, and I’ve been flying ever since.”

They keep their plane in Clarinda during the year. Karl said when he is in England he either rents a plane or hires someone to fly for him.

Th is year he is excited to see many of the forums and all the different planes around the grounds.

“The forums are very good,” Karl said. “I would like to see the new aircraft this year. I’m interested in vintage aircraft as well. I like to see the way people have restored those—lots of hours and effort and time.”

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PHOTO BY MEGAN ESAU

Karl and Gillian Booker stand proudly beside their Piper Tri-Pacer.

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EAA Fly-In Theater

Couple weds below Fisk arrival route

By Barbara A. Schmitz

Proudly Presented

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The fabulous Fly-In Theater offers an evening of film viewing like never before. Relax from the comfort of your lawn chair or blanket, while enjoying epic blockbuster movies and classic aviation films, illuminating from a five-storyhigh projection screen.

What a great way to extend your exciting day at AirVenture!

Sunday, July 19th Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project and Living in the Age of Airplanes Monday, July 20th Interstellar Tuesday, July 21st Unbroken Wednesday, July 22nd Edge of Tomorrow Thursday, July 23rd Planes: Fire & Rescue Friday, July 24th Apollo 13 Saturday, July 25th Battle of Britain

Free shows begin at 8:30 p.m. daily, except Saturday which begins at 9:30 p.m. Located at the north end of Doolittle Drive behind the Camp Store. Don’t miss out on the free popcorn!

Movies and dates subject to change due to scheduling conflicts.

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ilots flying the Fisk arrival must have done a double take on Saturday as they looked down to see a bride and groom walk out of the church by the Munsil Williams airstrip and climb into a plane.

The newly married couple, Ben and Katie Bosman Krotje, next flew to Wittman Regional Airport where they landed, still in wedding attire, and then helped push the Jabiru J230D through Boeing Plaza to its exhibit location.

Katie is a CFII and technical writer and Ben is a service manager for Jabiru USA, based in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

Both are Wisconsin natives and longtime EAA AirVenture attendees and members.

Besides working together, the husband and wife pilots are also building and restoring a Panther and RV-3, respectively.

They dated for 6-1/2 years, and once engaged in February, started planning their wedding.

“We wanted an aviation element because it’s our life,” Katie says. Once they decided to get married in Wisconsin, they started making calls. Wendt’s on the Lake said it could accommodate a wedding reception on July 18. They rented two houses so visiting family would have a place to stay.

But finding a location for their

PHOTO BY AARON HOFFMANN

Ben Krotje and Katie Bosman were married by a grass airstrip near the Fisk arrival route, and then flew to Wittman Regional Airport for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015.

wedding had them stumped. Then they remembered the Munsil Williams airstrip.

“I remembered it from my flying days there,” Katie says. They also remembered a church was by the field. They called the church, the field, and air traffic control, and got the okay from all.

Katie flew the Jabiru J230D up to Oshkosh the week before, where Ben later met her. On their wedding day, Ben flew the plane with his best man to the field, while Katie drove with her sister and brother-in-law.

Aircraft accident injures five At approximately 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, a six-seat Piper Malibu aircraft (N4BP) was landing on the east end of Runway 9/27 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. There were five people aboard the aircraft.

At the time of landing, the airplane crashed on the runway; the reason for the crash is still under investigation. Four of the airplane’s occupants were able to depart the aircraft on their own following the accident. The fifth person on board was extracted by responding units of the Oshkosh Fire Department, which has a fulltime facility on the airport grounds.

That person was transported via medevac helicopter to an area hospital.

The aircraft was piloted by 46-yearold Kenneth J. Kaminski of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Also aboard the airplane were three other Michigan residents: Gerald T. Kaminski, 71; Margaret C. Laing, 30; Nathan P. Gargano, 26; and Neil F. Dill, 56.

Hometowns of the passengers were not immediately available.

The NTSB is leading the investigation into the accident.

The accident closed Wittman Regional Airport for approximately 2-1/2 hours. The north/south Runway 18/36 reopened shortly after 10:30 a.m., while the east/west Runway 9/27 reopened approximately 45 minutes later.

After the brief ceremony, they walked outdoors to the buzz of planes f lying overhead. After taking photos and visiting with family, they got in the plane and took off for Oshkosh, later meeting family and friends for the reception.

So far, their married life has been spent working the Jabiru booth. But they hope to take an official honeymoon later. “We’re talking about going to the Reno Air Races,” Katie said, “or maybe just saving the money and spending it on our airplanes instead.”

Volunteer drawing winners Each day, drawings are held to award $25 gift certificates to five EAA volunteers. Certificates can be redeemed for EAA merchandise, valid for one year. Winners can pick up their gift certificates at Convention Headquarters.

July 21 Winners: Joan Fobes-Communications Center Dean Pierce-Trams Pat Frost-Activities Center Crafts Jason Bell-Flightline Operations John Cacciapaglio-Trams

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Young Pilots Association takes off

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YPA’s table at the Pathways Pavilion is run by co-founders and siblings McKinley and Cormac Siegfried, age 24 and 19.

McKinley said the organization fills a gap between Young Eagles and social groups for older aviation enthusiasts.

Short term YPA wants to create chapters similar to EAA and return to AirVenture 2016 with a larger membership.

“There’s not that big of an incentive— it’s expensive to learn, there’s a lot of barriers to entry, so those people who do kind of find their way through the cracks,” McKinley said.

“I think we need to do everything we can to keep them interested.”

They also hope to reduce the cost of flying for members by encouraging older pilots to donate planes and

offering a tax write-off as an incentive.

Those who join YPA here are entered into daily drawings for the opportunity to ride right-seat in the Ford Tri-Motor, or for private tours of the EAA Seaplane Base and the Weeks Hangar.

The group plans a social for anyone interested Thursday night at the S.O.S. Bros tent on Waukau Avenue west of the tower.

YPA cofounder McKinley Siegfried

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Trig & Pergrine expanding ADS-B STCs

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rig Avionics and STC partner Peregrine unveiled an expanded line of STCs for installing the TSO’d TT31 transponder with GPS input for an approved ADS-B “out” solution covering a broad spectrum of Part 23 aircraft. The announcement at EAA AirVenture 2015 provides an upgrade path for aircraft equipped with Garmin’s WAAS GNS and GTN navigators.

“I’m pleased to share that our FAA ADS-B STC program now includes all Garmin GTN navigators,” said Trig CEO Andy Davis.

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squitter—output, and is compatible with the installation trays and antenna hardware used by BendixKing KT76A and KT78A Mode C transponders.

That makes the Trig TT31 a simpler— and lower-cost—installation than most alternatives.

“We understand that pilots want a low cost and simple upgrade path to ADS-B, and the TT31 fully meets this brief,” he said.

Peregrine has already earned STC coverage for Trig transponders with various GPS devices, including Trig’s TN70 and the Free Flight 1201 GPS sources.

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Decision Making in Crisis with CDR Kirk Lippold

Based on real-life experience as commander of the USS Cole, learn how to get the most from your flight preparation and abilities as a pilot.

11:00 – 11:45 am

Aviation Safety: A Legal and Practical Perspective with Kathy Yodice/Panel

Join us for a discussion on the Aviation Safety Reporting Service (the “NASA Report”) that pilots can participate in to effect change and increase safety.

11:00 – 11:45 am

Patty Wagstaff Autograph Signing

Get an autograph and take a photo with the most well-known female pilot in the world! Located outside the AOPA main tent.

12:00 – 12:45 pm

Splash! Enter the World of Seaplane Flying with Woody Minar

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1:00 – 1:45 pm

Air Safety Institute: Real World Weather with Andy Miller

Weather is the single biggest variable in flying. We’ll take a no-nonsense look at how you can get better, more complete weather information—and make better, more informed decisions.

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Cirrus: Whole Airframe Ballistic Parachutes— Myths, Facts, and Strategies for Use with Travis Klumb

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Free! Coffee and Donuts with Mark Baker

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11:00 – 11:45 am

ADS-B: What Do I Need for 2020? with Mike Collins / Panel

Join us for a panel discussion with avionics manufacturers which will explore the ins and outs of complying with the FAA’s January 1, 2020 mandate for ADS-B Out.

11:00 – 11:45 am

Patty Wagstaff Autograph Signing

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12:00 – 12:45 pm

Air Safety Institute: Mind Over Matter with George Perry

Being a safe pilot requires more than good stick and rudder skills. Learn simple techniques from a leading expert to increase pilot performance and reduce pilot error.

1:00 – 1:45 pm

Top 10 iPad Tips for Pilots with Bret Koebbe (Sportys)

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NORAD: TFRs and Intercept Procedures

Learn practical steps to avoid Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs). Join NORAD fighter pilots in an informative session that will keep you out of trouble, and off the evening news.

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iPad in the Cockpit 101 with Kay Sundaram

Learn the basics of buying, setting up, preflighting, and using an iPad in the cockpit.

Take in all these seminars and more at the AOPA campus (booth 463), located across from the Brown Arch!

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Ford’s performance lineup at AirVenture

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ee Ford Motor Company’s performance lineup and Lincoln’s luxury vehicle lineup at the Ford Hangar and Lincoln Pavilion during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015.

On display will be the all-new Ford GT Concept, the F-150 Raptor Concept, a Shelby GT350 Mustang, Focus RS, Focus ST, Fiesta ST, EcoBoost engine lineup, and the stunning Lincoln Continental Concept.

And if you like what you see during AirVenture, Ford will be providing an exclusive $750 AirVenture discount toward the purchase or lease of a new vehicle. That’s in addition to the exclusive pricing EAA members enjoy through the EAA-Ford Partnership Recognition Program. Visit the Ford Hangar to register for this exclusive EAA member benefit offer.

Lace up your running shoes and get your day started on the right (or left) foot for a good cause at EAA’s annual Runway 5K! Registration includes Saturday admission to AirVenture. Proceeds benefit Clarity Care Inc. of Oshkosh. Interested runners and walkers can sign up online at EAA.org/Runway5K. Supporting Sponsor

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Air Force pilot’s son re-creates dog tags

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“The original ones were sunken in, and estled in the Fly Market about half switched (to raised letters) in I believe it’s the way down one of the aisles, visitors early ’80s or ’90s,” he said. can find a military style truck in When he has a moment to get away from between the white tents. It is here that Lance the trailer, Lance said he is excited to check Nelson punches letters into metal, turning out the rest of the AirVenture grounds with out custom military-style dog tags. his dad, a veteran Air Force pilot who used Lance has been attending EAA to fl y an F-4.

AirVenture Oshkosh for five years, and said “My dad’s coming up on Thursday, so he has lost count of the number of dog tags hopefully he’ll relieve me a bit,” Lance said. he has created for attendees over the years.

“I defi nitely want to see the F-22.”

He said he got started making dog tags Lance’s dog tags cost $6 apiece. through his father’s influence.

“My dad and I are big into military surplus things,” Lance said. “He saw someone with a machine at a military show and just pointed it out, so we thought it would be fun to create a trailer if you will.”

Since then, Lance and his dad have made three additional trailers.

Lance offers the military-style dog tags in two different styles, with PHOTO BY MEGAN ESAU raised or sunken letters.

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Take them for a 30-day, risk-free Test Flight. ©2015 Bose Corporation. *When compared to conventional headsets. Offers not to be combined with other offers or applied to previous purchases, and subject to change without notice. If headset is returned, gift must be returned for a full refund. If initial headset is returned, subsequent headsets must be returned for a full refund. Risk-free refers to 30-day trial only, requires product purchase and does not include return shipping. Delivery is subject to product availability. Purchases must be made from a Bose authorized dealer to qualify for offers. Offers valid in the U.S. and Canada only, and a U.S. or Canada shipping address is required. CC016654

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