EAA AirVenture Today, Wednesday, July 25, 2012

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012

The Official Daily Newspaper of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

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inside:

Biplane

Eagle Flights takes off ... p.6

Summed up: Van’s RV-14 ... p.8

Wartime foes turned friends

beauty

... p.10

No-spin twin from Velocity ... p. 47

Passport to the past - P. 26 W/photo

Jeff Bartow’s Waco

Emergency Aircraft Repair AirVenture’s body shop hits 50 P. 41 Better-than-new P-40 makes first appearance P.46 48 states in a J-3 w/photo p.47 One the cover photo: Cub’s arrive for 75th anniversary

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There’s the ADS-B you’re required to have.

Then there’s the ADS-B you’ll want to have.

Garmin’s new GDL® 88 is the ultimate want-to-have solution. Because, not only

Garmin 1 Tent – Seminar Schedule

can it be used to satisfy the FAA’s mandate for 2020 ADS-B “Out” compliance,

10:00 AM – G600/G500: Flying behind a Glass Cockpit

but since it features both ADS-B “In and Out” capability, you can immediately

11:00 AM – ADS-B Academy: Installed Solutions (GDL® 88)

start taking advantage of the U.S. uplink infrastructure that provides free

12:00 PM – GTN 750/650: Flying with touchscreen avionics

weather data as well as TIS-B traffic information – the bridge between today’s

1:00 PM – ADS-B Academy: Portables Solution (GDL 39)

ATC and NextGen. On the weather side, you’ll see NEXRAD imagery, METARs,

2:00 PM – Weather in the cockpit: Your options and practical tips

TAFs, PIREPs, and more. Plus, on the traffic side, the GDL 88 also receives

Garmin 2 Tent – Seminar Schedule

air-to-air data on both 1090 ES and 978 UAT links, enabling you to always see other ADS-B traffic1 in your vicinity, regardless of ground station coverage.

9:30 AM – New: Products from Garmin

Available with or without2 a built-in WAAS GPS navigation receiver, the GDL 88

10:30 AM – G3X: Flight Display for your Homebuilt and LSA

can interface with a variety of Garmin cockpit displays. And spoken audio alerts

11:30 AM – Garmin Pilot on the iPad: Plan, File, Fly

(“Traffic. Two o’clock. High. Two miles.”) combine with Garmin’s new

12:30 PM – aera portables: Flight planning and flying

TargetTrend™ relative motion tracking to offer a faster, more intuitive way

1:30 PM – ADS-B Academy: Installed Solutions (GDL 88)

of judging target trajectories and closing rates in relation to your aircraft’s

Daily seminars are Mon thru Sat – No Sunday Seminars. Presentations are approximately 50 minutes in duration. Seminar schedule subject to change.

position1. Want to know more about your ADS-B options? Visit our online ADS-B Academy at garmin.com/adsb.

Follow the leader.

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See Garmin website or dealer for details on data and display compatibility.

Built-in GPS is not required on GDL 88 when another compliant WAAS position source (such as the Garmin GTN or WAAS GNS series) is installed in the aircraft.

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SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CHECK WWW.AIRVENTURE.ORG/SCHEDULE FOR UPDATES.

Wednesday, July 25 Highlights Spirit of Goodyear blimp scheduled to arrive 10-11 a.m. Stronger Together (Forum), Rod Hightower and Industry Assoc. Presidents, Welcome Center (J12) Corsair (Forum), Thomas Hudner and Conrad Huffstutler, Warbirds in Review (L06) 10-11:15 a.m. Dyke Delta (Homebuilts in Review), Alan White, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce (K09) 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Meet the NTSB Chairman (Forum), Debbie Hersman and Rod Hightower, Forum Pavilion 07 Honda Aircraft (J09) 1-2 p.m. P-51 Old Crow B&D Models (Forum), C.E. Bud Anderson and Jack Roush, Warbirds in Review (L06) 1-2:15 p.m. Longest Flight in World (Forum), Dick Rutan, SpaceShip One/Voyager (B08) WASP Pilots of WWII (Forum), Bernice “Bee” Haydu and Jan Goodrum, Skyscape Theater (B08) 7:30-8 p.m. General Aviation Awards (Awards), Theater in the Woods (K15) 8-9 p.m. Greatest Generation in the Air (Special Event), Theater in the Woods (K15) 8:30-10:30 p.m. Red Tails (2012) (Movie), George Lucas and Tuskegee Airmen, Fly-In Theater (E13) 9-11 p.m. Little Texas (Concert), Theater in the Woods (K15)

ROCKWELL COLLINS AIR SHOW! Beginning at 3:30 p.m. (not in chronological order)

Name Chuck Aaron AeroShell Aerobatic Team Mike Goulian Rob Holland Hoover Tribute; Bob Odegaard Greg Koontz and the Alabama Boys Liberty Parachute Team John Mohr Michael Rambo Gene Soucy Team RV

Aircraft Red Bull Helicopter Four T-6s Extra MX2 Shrike Commander, P-51 Decathalon, J-3 Cub Sky divers Stearman Hawker Beechcraft Texan II Demo Van’s RVs Warbirds

Presentation (Type), Presenter(s), Location (Map Grid #) 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. • Powered Parachutes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. • Homebuilders Donut Day (Special Event), Homebuilders Headquarters (L09) 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. • Build Blocks (Forum), NAFI, Learn to Fly Discovery Center (J13) 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. • Aerobics (Special Event), Michael Toft, Theater in the Woods (K15) 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. • Museum Surplus Sale! (Special Event), Museum Surplus Store (E14) 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

EAA Library Book Sale (Special Event), Library (B08) Metal Shaping Workshop (Workshop), Vintage Hangar (K15) Vintage Type Clubs (Forum), Vintage Hangar (K15) 8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. • Daily Weather Briefing (Forum), Jenny Curtiss, Welcome Center (J12) 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. • Dumb but Lucky (Book Signing), Richard Curtis, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Turbocharged Engines (Forum), Clifford Ives, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Owning a Twin Cessna (Forum), Bob Thomason, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Oxygen & Carbon Monoxide (Forum), Dr. Brent Blue, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser (K09) Low HP Continentals (Forum), Ted Travis and Steve Krog, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Fly to Alaska in LP AC (Forum), Glenda McElwee, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) High Angle of Attack (Forum), Sonja Englert, Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) SR-71 Blackbird Forum (Forum), Richard Graham, Forum Pavilion 07 Honda Aircraft (J09) Fit To Fly (Forum), Dr. Robert Achtel, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Jabiru Engines-News (Forum), Pete Krotje, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Fabric Covering 101 (Forum), SportAir Instructor, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) Tips & Tricks for RV Kits (Forum), Wally Anderson, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax (K09) Sheet Metal 101 (Workshop), Sheet Metal Workshop Aircraft Spruce (J10) TIG Welding 101 (Workshop), TIG Welding Workshop Lincoln Electric (K10) Electrical System Install (Demo), Robert McLaughlin and Volunteers, Aeroplane Factory (K10) Composite 101 (Workshop), Composite Workshop (K10) Erosion Prevention Tape (Forum), Steve Falteisek, Workshop Classroom I (K10) Gas Welding 101 (Workshop), Gas Welding Workshop (K10) Engine Dynamic Balancing (Forum), Archie Frangoudis, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Medxpress System (Forum), Bob Lewis, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) 2 & 4 Cylinder VW Convers (Forum), Scott Casler, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Model Flying (Forum), Jeff Nance, Welcome Center (J12)

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The official daily newspaper of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh • Vol. 13, No. 4 Publisher: Rod Hightower Vice President: J. Mac McClellan Editor: Ric Reynolds • Managing Editor: Dave Higdon Photo Editor: Sonia Zimmerman Editorial Staff: Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside, Randy Dufault, Jack Hodgson, Frederick A. Johnsen, Sienna Kossman, Barbara Schmitz, James Wynbrandt Copy Editors: Colleen Walsh, Meghan Plummer

Photographers: Phil Weston, Mariano Rosales Design: Chris Livieri, Phil Norton Advertising Sue Anderson Jonathan Berger Jeff Kaufman Larry Phillip

AirVenture Today is published by EAA during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012, July 23-29. It is distributed free on the convention grounds as well as other locations in Oshkosh and surrounding communities. Stories and photos are copyrighted 2011 by AirVenture Today and EAA. Reproduction by any means is prohibited without written consent.

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Wheel & Brake Maintenance (Forum), John Bakos, Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ (L12) Hints: Electrical Wire (Demo), Dick Koehler, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce (K09) 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. • Dorset Button & Watercolor (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. • Metal Shaping Workshop (Workshop), Dave Wenglarz, Vintage Hangar (K15) 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Timeless Voices (Interview), Timeless Voices Tent, Warbirds (L06) Aircraft Restoration (Demo), Aeroplane Factory (K10) 8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. • Spirit of Aviation (Movie), EAA, Skyscape Theater (B08) 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Canine Demonstration (Forum), US Customs & Border Patrol, Federal Pavilion (L10) 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Continental Virtual Tour (Vendor Forum), Bill Ross, Continental Motors (J11) Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. • Sport Aviation 41 (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. • Ultralight & Light Planes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. • AeroInnovate (Forum), Scott Case, Innovations Hangar North (L09) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Wood Rib Building (Workshop), EAA Volunteer, Wood Workshop (K10) 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Aeromart (Special Event), Aeromart (H14) Swirl Free Buffer Demo (Vendor Forum), ALL-SHINE Inc., Fly Market (H14) Classic Fords (Activity), Cruisin’ Legends (J09) Great Escape (Activity), Ford Tent (K12) Fusion EcoBoost (Activity), Ford Tent (K12) Rockwall Activities (Activity), Ford Tent (K12) 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. • ORBIS: Through Their Eyes (Movie), Skyscape Theater (B08) 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

New Products (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) Aero Engineer’s View: F4U (Book Signing), Tom Brinkman and Lyle Bradley, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Single Pilot IFR (Forum), Doug Stewart, Learn to Fly Discovery Center (J13) 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. • Cliff Robertson Tribute (Movie), Skyscape Theater (B08) 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Accident Investigation (Forum), NTSB, Federal Pavilion (L10) 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. • ASIMO (Demo), Honda, Honda Tent (L12) 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

G600/G500 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Suncatchers (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) Hand Prop Your AC (Forum), Vintage Red Barn (L14) Vintage Workshop (Workshop), Joe Norris, Vintage Hangar (K15) 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

2008 World Flight (Forum), CarolAnn Garratt, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Mechanics and the Law (Forum), Patrick Phillips and Michael Pangia, Forum Pavilion 02 GA.M.A (K09) Ercoupe Maintenance (Forum), Syd Cohen and John Wright, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser (K09) Pober Aircraft (Forum), Dick Merkel and Jerry Cleaver, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Your Medical Certificate (Forum), Dr. Gregory Pinnell, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Powerplant Management (Forum), Cessna Pilot’s Assoc., Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) Doolittle Raiders (Forum), Dick Cole and Dave Thatcher, Forum Pavilion 07 Honda Aircraft (J09) Cirrus Maintenance & Ops (Forum), Gary Poelma, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Building A Metal Aircraft (Forum), Sebastien Heintz, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Seaplanes 101 (Forum), Steve Robinson, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) SubSonex Jet (Forum), John Monnett, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax (K09) Traditional Homebuilding (Forum), Ed Fisher, Workshop Classroom I (K10) CNC Foam Cutter (Forum), Scott VanderVeen, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Sheet Metal Shaping (Workshop), Mark Lynn, Workshop Tent (K10) VFR Charts (Forum), Abigail Smith and Ronald Haag, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Rotorcraft Briefing Sess. (Forum), Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Plane Talk- Team RV (Interview), Jerry Burke, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Vietnam:Tears of Time (Forum), James Zitzelsberger, Hilton Theater (B08) Air France 447 (Forum), Jeff Wise, Skyscape Theater (B08) LW AC Elec. Syst. Install (Forum), Bill Bainridge, Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ (L12) Bus. Model for Aviation (Forum), Rod Rakic, Innovations Hangar South - Tech Stage (L09) Funding Your Dream (Forum), UW Oshkosh’s AeroInnovate, Inno Hngr South - Venture Stage (L09) 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. • Acrylic Painting & more (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. • Historic Comedy (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. • G3X (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) My Very Dearest Anna (Book Signing), Kara Martinelli, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Flying to the Bahamas (Forum), Mike Zidziunas and Leonard Stuart, Federal Pavilion (L10) 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. • Keep ’Em Flying (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. • Vintage In Review (Forum), Ray Johnson, Vintage Red Barn (L14) 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Corsair (Autograph Session), Thomas Hudner, Warbird Store (L06) Ignition Service (Vendor Forum), Billy Beam, Continental Motors (J11) ADS-B: GDL 39 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13)

2012 AIRVENTURE SECURITY CONTACT INFORMATION In the event of an emergency situation, contact the 24-hour EAA Security service at 920-234-7754. Both the EAA and Camp Scholler Security stations are located just west of the Red Barn Store in Camp Scholler.

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SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CHECK WWW.AIRVENTURE.ORG/SCHEDULE FOR UPDATES.

Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke and Stephen Schnell, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Meet Melissa Pemberton (Autograph Session), Melissa Pemberton, Ford Tent (K12) 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Transition Training Panel (Forum), Hobie Tomlinson and Jeff Edwards, Learn to Fly Discovery Center (J13) 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. • Stewart System Demo (Demo), Stewart System, UL Tech Tent (K18) 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. • AWOS & ASOS (Forum), Stephanie Haynes, Federal Pavilion (L10) 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Garmin Pilot on iPad (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) Red Tail Reborn (Book Signing), Adam White, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Aviation Death Insurance (Forum), Bob Mackey, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Repairing Piper Ribs (Forum), Paul Babcock and Steve Krog, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Aviation Short Stories (Forum), Lauran Paine Jr., Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Cessna 190 195 Forum (Forum), John Barron and Cliff Crabs, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Propellers E plained (Forum), Jack Norris, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Aeroncas (Forum), Bill Pancake, Forum Pavilion 0 JP Instruments (J09) Successful Landings (Forum), Jeff Allsopp, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Synergy in AC Design (Forum), John McGinnis, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Picking Homebuilt Design (Forum), Budd Davisson, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly Fiber (K09) Engine Monitors (Forum), Mike Busch, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP Rota (K09) Vacuum Resin Infusion (Forum), Russell Emanis, Composite Workshop (K10) ROTAX 4 Stroke Upkeep (Forum), Brian Meyerhofer, Workshop Classroom II (K10) IFR Charts (Forum), Ronald Haag and Abigail Smith, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) EMG 5: Elec. Motorglider (Forum), Brian Carpenter, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) IFR Proficiency Center (Forum), GAMA IMC Club, Welcome Center (J12) Forgotten Franklin Engine (Forum), Nicholas Selig, Vette Theater (B08) Glenn Curtiss’ Battle (Forum), Russell Klingaman, Hilton Theater (B08) B 1 Stories From WWII (Forum), Harvin Abraha.m.son and William Meier, Skyscape Theater (B08) Aerobatics Saved My Life (Forum), Jason Flood, Aerobatics Pavilion IAC H (L12) Swift Fuels Update (Forum), PJ Catania, Innovations Hangar South Tech Stage (L09) Investing in Aviation (Forum), Robert Jacobson and Joe Landon, Innovations Hngr South Venture Stage (L09) Build a RV (Forum), Ken Scott and Van’s Aircraft, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce (K09) 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. • Brown Arch Concert (Special Event), Brown Arch (M10) 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. • Weather Center Forecast (Forum), NWS Aviation Weather Center, Federal Pavilion (L10) 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

GTN 50 50 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Doolittle Raiders Signing (Autograph Session), Scotts Warbird Alley (L0 ) Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Kyle Franklin Autograph (Autograph Session), Kyle Franklin, Ford Tent (K12) 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. • Sky King Volume 10 (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • Rotorcraft (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. • Canine Demonstration (Forum), US Customs & Border Patrol, Federal Pavilion (L10) 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

AERA Portables (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) Stealth Fighter (Book Signing), William O’Connor, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Safe, Legal, Smart? (Forum), Michael Phillips, Learn to Fly Discovery Center (J13) 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

ADS B: GDL 39 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Hand Prop Your AC (Forum), Vintage Red Barn (L14) Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) TSA & General Aviation (Forum), TSA, Federal Pavilion (L10) 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Fuel System Basics (Forum), Donald Hall, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Solar Storms: GPS & WAAS (Forum), JoAnn Ford, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Flying to Russia (Forum), Tony Turinsky, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Grass Strips How To (Forum), Eric Nelson and Gary Stevens, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Aluminum Gas Welding (Forum), Kent White, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) iPad Proficiency Seminar (Forum), Tyson Weihs, Forum Pavilion 0 JP Instruments (J09) Tuskegee Airmen (Forum), Col. Charles McGee, Forum Pavilion 0 Honda Aircraft (J09) Audio Panel Review (Forum), Ryan Deck, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Basic Spray Painting (Forum), Ron Ale ander, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Fabric Covering 101 (Forum), SportAir Instructor, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly Fiber (K09) VP 400: AI Runway Seeker (Forum), Austin Meyer, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP Rota (K09) Sheet Metal 101 (Workshop), Sheet Metal Workshop Aircraft Spruce (J10) TIG Welding 101 (Workshop), TIG Welding Workshop Lincoln Electric (K10) Composite 101 (Workshop), Composite Workshop (K10) Sonerai Builder’s Forum (Forum), Fred Keip, Workshop Classroom I (K10) Gas Welding 101 (Workshop), Gas Welding Workshop (K10) Vacuum Bagging and VARTM (Forum), Scott VanderVeen, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Kings on Risk Management (Forum), Martha and John King, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Better Half VW Engine (Forum), Leonard Milholland, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Air Show Performer (Forum), Melissa Pemberton, Welcome Center (J12) Cold War: Hog Wild (Forum), Terry Rainey, Vette Theater (B08) Wilbur & Orville Wright (Forum), Betty Darst, Hilton Theater (B08) Ground Effect (Forum), Christopher Johnson, Innovations Hangar South Tech Stage (L09) Tell Your Business Idea (Forum), Bill Joos, Innovations Hangar South Venture Stage (L09) HBIR: Dyke Delta (Homebuilts in Review), Dave Williams, Homebuilders Hngr Aircraft Spruce (K09) 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. • Jewelry & More (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • Sock Monkey (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

ADS B Academy: GDL 88 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) Cockpit Technology & Risk (Forum), Dr. Philip Tartalone, Seaplane Base (O S) If Airplanes Could Talk (Book Signing), Lauran Paine Jr., Authors Corner 1 (J12)

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Eagle Flights (Forum), Trevor Janz, Theater in the Woods (K15) 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. • ASIMO (Demo), Honda, Honda Tent (L12) 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Weather in the Cockpit (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) To Fly and Fight (Autograph Session), C.E. Bud Anderson, Warbird Store (L0 ) Vintage Workshop (Workshop), Joe Norris, Vintage Hangar (K15) 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. • Know Your America (Forum), Ryan ualls, Federal Pavilion (L10) 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. • Sky King Volume 11 (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Necklace & Ornament (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Showcase Flights (Exhibition), Flightline (M13) All of Life Is a School (Book Signing), Kermit Weeks, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

FAA Approvals for Mods (Forum), Dennis Wolter, Forum Pavilion 01 Pac Coast Av (K09) Fly Fast, Fly CHEAP! (Forum), RJ Siegel, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Cessna 1 0 Association (Forum), Capt. Joe Scoles, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser (K09) Aviation Insurance Myths (Forum), Marci Veronie, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Helicopter Careers (Forum), Stan Rose, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) What’s New at Van’s AC (Forum), Dick VanGrunsven and Ken Scott, Forum Pavilion 0 JP Instruments (J09) U2 Early History (Forum), Ma . Gen. Patrick Halloran, Forum Pavilion 0 Honda Aircraft (J09) Mo ave: Where It Happens (Forum), Elliot Seguin, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Van’s RV 12 with Jabiru (Forum), Pete Krot e, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) DC 3 Stories (Forum), Jon Goldenbaum, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly Fiber (K09) Adv. Composite Repair (Forum), Mike Hoke, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP Rota (K09) E haust The Silent Killer (Forum), Steve Hunter, Workshop Classroom I (K10) Easy Hangar In Floor Heat (Forum), Jack Dueck, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Radio Communications (Forum), Andy Miller, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) eLazair DBMS (Forum), Dale Kramer, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Mountain Flying New eal. (Forum), Matt and Jo McCaughan, Welcome Center (J12) The Wright Bros 100 yrs (Forum), Jane Healy, Hilton Theater (B08) My Enemy, My Friend (Forum), Gen. Dan Cherry, Skyscape Theater (B08) Hints: Wheel Bearings (Demo), Dick Koehler, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce (K09) 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Sock Plane (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Roush & Ford Autographs (Autograph Session), Ford Tent (K12) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. • Aluminum Gas Welding (Workshop), Joe Ma and Kent White, Gas Welding Workshop (K10) 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. • Seeandavoid.org (Forum), USAF Safety Center, Federal Pavilion (L10) 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. • Two Gold Coins & a Prayer (Book Signing), James Keeffe III, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. • Wednesday Air Show (M13) 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. • UL 103 30th Anniversary (Special Event), Ultralight Barn (K18) 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Flying Connected w Aspen (Forum), Scott Smith, Forum Pavilion 01 Pac Coast Av (K09) CAP WWII Anti Sub Patrol (Forum), Roger Thiel, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Precision Fuel In ection (Forum), Peter Nielson, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Transitioning to E p. AC (Forum), Mark Giron, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Aeronca Roundtable (Forum), Robert Szego, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Pilot Controller Comm. (Forum), Steve Hansen, Forum Pavilion 0 JP Instruments (J09) Flight Instructions USA (Forum), Jack Vandeventer, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Opportunities at GAC (Forum), David Brockway, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Midget & Mustang II (Forum), Chris Tieman, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly Fiber (K09) Get Your Wife to Fly (Forum), Michael Combs, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP Rota (K09) Form Aluminum Wing Ribs (Forum), Jim Martin, Workshop Classroom I (K10) Aeronautical Decisions (Forum), Steve Hoogerhyde, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) My Enemy, My Friend (Book Signing), Gen. Dan Cherry, Authors Corner 2 Museum (B08) Gray Eagles (Movie), Chris Woods, Skyscape Theater (B08) 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. • Homebuilder’s Corn Roast (Special Event), Camp Scholler (G15) 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. • Canine Demonstration (Forum), US Customs & Border Patrol, Federal Pavilion (L10) 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. • WASP Letters Home 1944 45 (Book Signing), Bernice Bee Haydu, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. • VAA Cubs 2 Osh Picnic (Special Event), Nature Center (F08) 5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. • The Aviators (Movie), Sennheiser E hibit (J13) 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. • Say... Series (Book Signing), Martin Leeuwis, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. • WWII Fighter Panel (Forum), Lyle Bradley and Sid Siddiqi, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Ultralight & Light Planes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) Honorable Heart Memoirs (Book Signing), Barb Hartwig, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

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EAA launches Eagle Flights Diane Thornton climbed into the cockpit of a T-6 Texan military trainer Tuesday morning and soon was the first adult recipient of an EAA Eagle Flight.

Her pilot, EAA President/CEO Rod Hightower, taxied them off in his warbird for a short flight over the Oshkosh area, and when they taxied back onto Phillips 66 Plaza less than an hour later, Thornton was thrilled.

“It was unbelievable,” she said. “What a great experience!”

Her pilot agreed. “There was a smile on her face the whole time. It was fantastic.”

Similar to EAA’s Young Eagles program, which has allowed more than 1.7 million youths ages 8-17 to get a free airplane ride from EAA members over the past 20 years, Eagle Flights will offer a ride to adults who have always had a love of aviation, but who have not yet acted on that love.

A longtime Texas educator who is now national director of the Learning for Life

program, Thornton said her father was a pilot. But since her mother didn’t like him taking the children for flights, she only flew with him once.

“But after I got that opportunity, it was in my blood,” Thornton said. “I agreed to be the first to take the Eagle Flight because I want others to know it’s never too late to pursue your dreams.”

Hightower said every pilot experiences joy when introducing someone to aviation. But the program “will allow us to introduce them not only to a great flying

“I want others to know it’s never too late to pursue your dreams.” experience, but also to the world’s greatest community of aviators at EAA.” Hightower invited all EAA member pilots to join the Eagle Flights program.

“Join the ranks of those who will rejuvenate aviation for all of us,” he said.

Jeff Skiles, EAA’s vice president of chapters and youth education, will be

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leading the Eagle Flights program and said EAA members and chapters have requested a program that allows them to bring people into the industry. “Eagle Flights is about the opportunity to have a structured program where they can give a friend, a neighbor, or a co-worker who has already expressed an interest in aviation a ride, and then have a program to follow up that experience,” he said.

While the flight may resemble the Young Eagles program, Eagle Flights goes beyond that. “In the next year we are going to build out a structured connection with flight partners,” he said.

“An Eagle will be able to call here and talk to a mentor at EAA headquarters.

But we’re going to use our chapter network as local mentors who can help them find flight-training resources in their local area.”

Skiles said non-pilots 18 years old or older can sign up for an Eagle Flight at the Learn to Fly Center all week at AirVenture. EAA member pilots can also register there. People who take a flight will also receive a six-month EAA membership, as well as have access to mentors.

The Learn to Fly Center is located at show center, across from the EAA Welcome Center. AVT

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All of Van’s experience is bundled up in the new RV-14

BY RANDY DUFAULT

PHOTO COURTESY VANS AIRCRAFT

Van’s all-new RV-14, which burst onto AirVenture’s Phillips 66 Plaza Monday afternoon, is much more than a roomy, twoseat, aerobatic, easy-to-build, attractive kit airplane.

“I think the biggest difference is that this kit is a real advance beyond the kits we’ve done before,” said Ken Scott of Van’s Aircraft.

Scott believes that everything the company learned from years of producing RV7, -8, -9, -10, and -12 kits has now been incorporated into one airframe.

“A lot of the head-scratching over little stuff is going to be gone because we’ve done it in advance,” Scott said. “We do pay attention to the phone calls we get. We know what questions people are asking about and we are trying to anticipate what we can do to make things better.”

One prime example of the engineering advance Scott pointed out is the canopy— often the most difficult part of any RV kit.

“On the RV-14 there is only one canopy; there is no slider option, the tip-up is it… so just right there by narrowing it down to one choice, and really working on making that one choice easier to build, I think there will be a significant number of hours saved for the builder.”

On the RV-7, the canopy had to be tweaked and adjusted to get it to fit right, a process that could take a week, Scott explained. On the -14, the tip-up is built in

sections. They’re fitted to the airplane and then riveted together.

“The bubble will come in two pieces and will be pre-trimmed. Probably 50 hours of work right there just vanished,” Scott said.

According to Scott, the airplane will be attractive to builders with different goals.

“I think of it either as a robust RV-7, with more room, or a two-seat RV-10,” he said. “It can be flown either way and perform both missions. How you use it is kind of up to the guy in the seat. But it’s intend-

“The kit business has changed and expectations are different.” ed to be fully aerobatic, at least within the realm of aerobatics in RVs.” Scott estimated the RV-14 is about 2 to 2-1/2 inches wider than the RV-7. “You sit taller and the canopy rails are lower so you are way up in the bubble so you can really see out of it. All RVs have good visibility, but this one is exceptional.”

Scott added that the design has been tested for up to 6g’s at a weight of 1,900 pounds. Power comes from Lycoming’s

210-hp IO-390 four-cylinder engine, but Scott did not discount a smaller engine.

“I expect a 200-hp IO-360 would work,” Scott said. “But it is designed around the 390,” he said, noting that all flight tests were done with the larger powerplant. “We’ve sold a lot of brand new Lycoming engines with our OEM deal and we’ll be able to offer the IO-390 at very competitive prices.”

Build time is expected to be less than previous Van’s models—which Scott explained in terms of percentages, not hours.

“Build time for an RV-7 might vary 100 percent from one builder to another. In the standard kit version [for the RV-14], we are just estimating it should be around 70 percent of how long an RV-7 would take.”

A quick-build option is planned, but will not be available until complete standard kits are available. A tailwheel version is also coming.

Performance should be similar to the RV-7 with an anticipated maximum cruise speed of 195 mph and a top speed of 205 mph. Empty weight is projected to be 1,240 pounds, with a useful load of 810 pounds. The fuel capacity is 50 gallons.

Prices are not yet set but Scott believes a complete airplane should cost somewhere between $75,000 and $80,000 for most builders. “It could be cheaper. You certainly could make it more expensive if you wanted to,” he added.

A wing kit is expected to be available in late September at an approximate cost of $9,000.

Ultimately the complete RV-14 kit will draw on Van’s experience with its most recent product.

“The RV-12 was a big step up for us because it is utterly complete,” Scott said. “Every wiring harness, every cowl, even the little plastic envelope that holds the airworthiness certificate was designed into the airplane and it comes in the kit. Once you’ve been through that exercise, you have what you need to build this kit up.

“It is all planned out. You know where every cable run goes, where every clamp goes, and you don’t have to puzzle those sorts of things through.

“It comes in the kit, you reach in the box, you pull out the clamp and screw it on where it says to, and you move on.

There are hours and hours of stuff like that with the older airplanes that have just gone away.

“When Van was a one-man gang he put together an airplane that you could build and there were problems builders were expected to solve. The kit business has changed and expectations are different.

We have a capability for manufacturing now that we never dreamed of 15 years ago. We can think about these things and solve the problems up front.” AVT

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Former foes find friendship Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry says it’s hard to describe the details of a dogfight, since it all happens so fast and in three dimensions.

But he gave a good accounting of the April 16, 1972, engagement near Hanoi, in which he maneuvered his big, fast F-4 Phantom II jet into position behind a smaller MiG-21 and loosed an AIM-7 missile that tore the right wing off the enemy fighter.

Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd at the Warbirds in Review showcase on Tuesday, Cherry was accompanied by a newfound and fast friend—the North Vietnamese MiG pilot he downed that day, Nguyen Hong My. Hong My alternated with Cherry as they described the respective flying careers leading up to that fateful day. Hong My’s rolling, melodious Vietnamese was translated into English by a translator from the U.S. Defense Language Institute.

Gen. Cherry described his training first as an Air Force navigator, then as a fighter pilot in F-105s and F-4s after graduating at the top of his flight school class. “The Air Force was very good to me.”

Hong My said he was one of only two university freshmen from a group of 1,700 in North Vietnam selected for flight training in the Soviet Union in the cycle when he was picked. Chores included shoveling snow to enable the aircraft to fly in Russia, Hong My recalled.

He was chosen to fly the fast and nimble MiG-21 over his native North Vietnam. Gen. Cherry said the F-4 and MiG21 were “quite different airplanes.” The F-4 was larger and easier to see, with a wider turning radius—which is not good if you’re an F-4 crew member—while the smaller, maneuverable MiG-21 was “very difficult to see,” Cherry said. A drawback to the MiG-21 was its shorter flight endurance, “especially if he’s in afterburner,” said Cherry. “We treated the MiG-21 with great respect.”

Gen. Cherry said even before his combat with Hong My, he had determined that if an engagement with a MiG-21 started to give the MiG the edge, Cherry would quickly disengage to fight another day.

On the fateful day, April 16, 1972, Cherry was part of a flight of four F-4s sent to provide fighter cover for other Phantoms on a bombing mission. When the bombers were delayed, Cherry and his flightmates in Basco Flight went trolling for MiGs around Hanoi.

Two MiG-21s presented a head-on target first. Two trailers—additional MiGs not yet visible—followed them. As the first pair of North Vietnamese jets passed overhead, the F-4s rolled around to pursue. Hong My came up from a lower altitude and then disappeared into cloud cover.

Dan Cherry pursued into the overcast, ignoring warning tones that said North

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Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry, left, and North Vietnamese MiG-21 pilot Nguyen Hong My flanked a Vietnamese interpreter Tuesday during a Warbirds in Review program. Behind them, a camouflaged F-4 Phantom and a silver MiG-21 represented the two fighters the men flew in combat when Cherry downed Hong My.

Vietnamese surface-to-air (SAM) missile radars were seeking him. “Being in a cloud is a death trap,” Cherry explained, since it robbed the F-4 crew of the opportunity to observe and avoid a SAM launch. The MiG was not found, so Cherry punched through the cloud into the clear again.

Cherry saw Hong My in his MiG-21 and selected afterburner to more quickly carry the fight to him. Two AIM-9 missiles from Cherry’s Phantom failed to find the MiG, as did two AIM-7s fired by an adjacent F-4. But the aggregate firings took a toll on Hong My’s MiG just the same. As the North Vietnamese pilot maneuvered to avoid the missile shots, he was forced to allow his MiG-21 to dissipate some of its energy.

At this point, Cherry and his backseater, Jeff Feinstein, got a solid radar lock on the enemy fighter. Cherry said he watched as an AIM-7 missile from beneath his F-4 sped forward and rolled, curving ahead of the MiG. “It was pulling lead on the MiG,” Cherry explained. The missile intercepted the fighter and blew off its right wing.

Hong My quickly ejected. Arm restraints in his MiG-21 failed, and both the Vietnamese pilot’s arms flailed in the slipstream and broke. Injured, Hong My was unable to use his arms to steer the parachute as he drifted down to the jungle. His

interpreter at AirVenture said Hong My marveled at his own mental processes because the one thing that entered his mind after his harrowing escape was worry: “In case a tiger would jump out to kill me, what would I do?”

The first thing Cherry saw was the ejecting pilot looming large. “What I remember most is that chute right in my face,” he said. The image would remain indelible in Cherry’s mind, resurfacing decades later.

“I wondered for awhile what happened to the MiG pilot because I saw him so close in his parachute,” Cherry said. But, as successful fighter pilots must, Cherry soon focused on the next mission, not the last one.

The two newfound friends exchanged humor as Hong My told the AirVenture crowd that while Dan Cherry was drinking celebratory champagne the night of their combat, Hong My was being placed on the operating table.

The story might have ended there but for a turn of events where Cherry learned of the availability of his MiGkiller F-4 for a display in Kentucky. His interest in the fate of the Vietnamese pilot rekindled, Dan Cherry contacted a Vietnamese television producer to see if the flier could be located.

To Cherry’s surprise, a positive connection was made, and in 2008 Dan Cherry

was winging his way back to Vietnam to meet the man he shot down over Hanoi so many decades earlier.

“I wanted there to be a basis for friendship,” Cherry said. A bit apprehensive about his first encounter with Hong My, Cherry said “he came walking toward me with a pleasant look.” Hong said through an interpreter, “I hope that we can be friends.” From that initial meeting, Cherry was invited to dinner at Hong My’s home in Hanoi—a domestic plane flight away.

Cherry said it was surreal to fly over the same landmarks he previously saw when he was attacking them as targets, only this time he was seated with the man he shot down in the same location.

“We have far more in common than we ever did differences,” Cherry told the crowd. He said their story is about “forgiveness, reconciliation, moving on from the past.”

As a special epilogue to the story of Dan Cherry and Nguyen Hong My, the crowd at AirVenture included two other related participants who came forward. One was John Stiles, the back-seater in a reconnaissance RF-4 Phantom earlier downed by Hong My, accompanied by Bob Noble, part of the helicopter crew who rescued Stiles.

It was a friendly crowd all around as the four combatants from Southeast Asia were applauded and welcomed. AVT

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Aspen unveils first connected panel product

BY JAMES WYNBRANDT Aspen Avionics announced Tuesday the technical standard order approval of Connected Pilot, the first in an anticipated Connected Panel product line designed to provide a wireless link between glass panel avionics and mobile devices.

Connected Panel products will integrate and synchronize aviation application data from personal handheld devices with compatible panel-mounted digital avionics, enabled via Aspen’s Evolution Flight Displays (EFD). Aspen introduced the Connected Panel concept here last year and has since created a Connected Panel Enabled Partners program to promote the development of such compatible products.

“Since Connected Panel’s announcement last year, we have been approached by an increasing number of hardware manufacturers and software developers who want to explore very exciting and groundbreaking cockpit applications,” said Aspen Avionics President/CEO John Uczekaj. “These solutions will make flying safer, easier, more affordable, and more enjoyable. And collaborations with our partners are forming the road map for upcoming iterations of the Connected Panel product line.”

Current partners include ForeFlight, AvConnect, Hilton Software, Digital Sectional, Seattle Avionics, Bendix/King, and

Jeppesen. With this first Connected Panel product, pilots can use the touch screens of mobile devices to create flight plans and upload them to GPS navigators that drive glass panel avionics suites, a simpler and often more convenient method than inputting data via the panel-mounted equipment. Currently, Connected Pilot will only work with EFD-equipped aircraft, but future iterations will not require an EFD installation, Uczekaj told AirVenture Today.

Aspen Avionics sees synchronized, twoway communication between mobile devices and certified panel-mounted avionics as the next evolutionary step in cockpit avionics. But Brad Hayden, Aspen’s vice president of marketing, said the FAA was “skeptical at first, and put the burden on us” to prove importing flight-planning information from a mobile device into certified avionics in the panel was safe.

“We devised a method that allows the pilot to certify data before putting it into the panel,” Hayden said.

Designed for Apple iOS mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones, Connected Pilot can receive data from almost any panelmounted GPS navigator, though the level of functionality will vary based on the make and model of the panel unit. The Bendix/ King KSN 770 nav/comm/GPS, for exam-

Aspen Avionics Connected system incorportes an iPad with the aircraft’s GPS and radio systems. ple, will be fully integrated, allowing functions such as radio tuning from an iPad. Connected Pilot consists of hardware, software, and application components.

The hardware is enclosed in the CG100, a small box mounted behind the instrument panel that contains the operating software, wireless connectivity, and flash memory storage. The unit is configured and maintained via Aspen’s Flight Connect app, which will be available via the Apple iTunes store.

An open platform, Aspen provides open hardware architecture with a simple Ap-

plication Programming Interface, and interested development partners can submit requests for SDK/API documentation from the company.

Supplemental type certificate (STC) approval of Connected Pilot is “imminent,” according to Aspen Avionics, and the company is already producing and shipping the product. Units are priced at $2,499 and are available through authorized Aspen dealers. Connected Pilot and Connected Panel products are on display at the Aspen Avionics booth (2145) and at the company’s North 40 Hospitality Tent. AVT

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Rotax 912iS aircraft engine now ASTM certified STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT BRP’s Rotax announced Tuesday that its new 912iS aircraft engines are now certified according to ASTM standards.

This certification is necessary for the roll-out of the engine in important markets worldwide.

“Some of the aircraft OEMs are now installing the new 912iS engine, which is an evolution of the proven Rotax 912 engine family,” commented François Tremblay, Rotax director. He claimed the engine delivers 38 to 70 percent better fuel efficiency than comparable competitive engines in the LSA, ultralight, and GA industry.

“The new 912iS engine ... is an evolution of the proven Rotax 912 engine family.”

All engines delivered prior ASTM certification will get the ASTM conformity statement and the respective ASTM sticker. Last week, prior a summer plant shut-down, hundreds of letters with certification documents were sent out. Engines must be installed, operated, and maintained in accordance with the provisions, limitations, and instructions of the applicable BRPapproved publications and continuing airworthiness instructions.

With more than 170,000 engines sold in almost 40 years, Rotax aircraft engines dominate the light-sport and ultralight aircraft industry. With 20 authorized distributors and a network of more than 200 sales and repair centers, BRP supports customers worldwide and supplies engines to more than 80 percent of all aircraft manufacturers in its segment.

See the Rotax exhibit at booths 265-267 on Celebration Way or visit www.FlyRotax. com for more information. AVT

BRP-Powertrain introduced the 912iS last March in Gunskirchen, Austria. The “i” stands for electronic fuel injection, added to Rotax’s well-known 100-hp, four-cylinder workhorse, along with an automotive-style digital engine control unit (ECU).

First units of the new Rotax 912iS engine had been shipped for demo installations at end of 2011. Christian Mundigler, Rotax manager, noted that nearly 200 engines have been built so far, with more than 150 shipped to the airplane manufacturers.

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Turbine time for $50/hour

BY RANDY DUFAULT

In the true spirit of experimental aviation, when Scott Ehni saw an ad for a small, used turbine engine, he figured he could power his project for substantially less than the cost of a traditional, piston power option.

Ultimately he proved himself wrong.

“We bought one thinking surely it would be cheaper than buying a Rotax,” he said. “Then we spent about as much as you would pay for a Rotax developing it.”

Regardless of the cost, Ehni, of Trinity, Texas, ended up with what can only be described as a unique engine and airframe combination: a turboprop-powered Zenith CH 701.

The small jet engine came from an A-7 Corsair, where it served as the starter for the military jet’s larger engine. The engine’s new mission required some changes since its prior duty only required it to operate for four minutes at a time.

“The entire oil system was completely revamped for continuous running,” Ehni said, “and we completely redid the exhaust system since the stock engine is designed to nestle up against a bigger engine and was not really designed for efficiency.

We also Teflon-coated the inlet and the impeller…there was a lot of development as we went along.”

The fuel system on the starter is designed to go up to a certain rpm and hold it, he added. “We had to make a throttleable fuel system so we made some modifications to the fuel governor and built a way to control it.”

In the end the little engine produces 120 hp at full throttle. According to Ehni, it could produce more, but output is limited by the gearbox. The gears are rated at 90 hp with a safety margin, so the engine is kept well below its possible maximum.

Up front is a completely controllable propeller capable of being placed into a beta position (essentially flat pitch) and even into reverse.

“We can touch down, throw it into beta, and you have this giant air brake going on.”

“We can actually get in to places shorter than a regular 701,” Ehni said. “You can put a little beta in the prop and get a descent rate that exceeds that of a regular 701, pull the beta out, and flare. Stopping distance is also shorter because, just like a C-130, we can touch down, throw it into beta, and you have this giant air brake going on.”

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The CH 701 turbine flies over head during Tuesday afternoon’s flight showcase.

A key benefit of the turbine is high altitude performance.

“At sea level it performs about like a regular 701,” Ehni said. “But at altitude it has considerably better performance. If you were going to use it around Colorado, if you were taking off from someplace like Leadville, you still have 120 hp whereas a Rotax would have about 60 or 65 hp.”

Even though the engine weighs in at 40 pounds lighter than a Rotax engine, the difference is more than made up in extra fuel weight the somewhat thirsty turbine needs to carry. Ehni increased the plane’s standard 20-gallon fuel capacity to 42 gallons just to feed the 13 gph consumed at normal cruise speeds.

Development of the little jet was substantially complete before Ehni even considered what he might mount it on.

“Because the engine was so experimental we decided we would pick an airframe that was well tested and had good han-

dling characteristics,” Ehni said. “That’s why we picked the [CH 701].

“We decided to build [the airframe] from scratch. I own a sheet metal facility and in the process of starting to build the plane, we realized that a company like Zenair needed to sell a product that can be built by the average person in their garage. We have a CNC (computer numerical control) machine shop with all the best equipment and a lot of guys who know how to use it.

So we decided we would build the aircraft as though it was being built for the military.

You will see a lot of differences in this plane from a regular 701 just based on that fact.”

In the end Ehni ended up with an airframe that easily accepted turbine power, yet weighs less than typical CH 701 projects.

Word about the project spread fast on the Internet, leading to more work for Ehni. Two UAV projects, one for DARPA and another for the U.S. Army, are now

equipped with engines he has modified.

Ehni is willing to help other experimenters with turbine projects as well, but with caution.

“I’m going to spend an hour to two hours telling you why you shouldn’t [use turbine power] and if you still want to do it, I’ll help you. I won’t build a complete power package, but if you are serious about it, and you want it that bad, I’ll help you do it.”

The airplane now has 75 hours in the air. The engine has accumulated 250 hours with the test and development program.

Flying it does not make economical sense to Ehni, but the reaction the craft receives is well worth the extra cost.

“Our average is about 5.5 miles per gallon,” he said. “You can go in a big motorhome and get the same. But we like to call it ‘smiles per gallon.’ Everywhere you take it people get a big ol’ grin. It gets a lot of attention.” AVT

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Paul Poberezny hosts test pilot all stars at forum

BY RIC REYNOLDS

In an effort to enhance safety for amateur-built aircraft builders, EAA Founder Paul Poberezny hosted a forum Tuesday providing information and recommendations for builders and their test-flight programs. Joining Paul were some of the more well-respected test pilots around: Charlie Precourt and Robert “Hoot” Gibson—both astronauts, test pilots, and homebuilders—along with fellow builder Terry Lutz, Airbus test pilot of the A380.

All are members of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP), including the EAA founder. Lutz noted that with all his experience in hundreds of types, SETP made him an honorary fellow years ago.

The highest incidences of fatal accidents for amateur-builts are in first flights of the aircraft or for pilots flying an unfamiliar aircraft for the first time, according to the NTSB. For that reason it is crucial for builders to build a sound test plan using the “build-up” approach to build risk assessment and mitigate exposure to accidents.

As Precourt explained, it’s also important to collect data so that you can create a POH—pilot’s operating handbook.

Forum attendees listened intently as the three all-star test pilots provided anecdotes from their building and testing

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Paul Poberezny introduces Charlie Precourt, Hoot Gibson, and Terry Lutz, the members of the Flight Testing Your Homebuilt forum. experiences. Precourt, who served in the Air Force and flew F-15s, built a VariEze. Gibson, a naval aviator who flew F-4s and F-14s, rebuilt a Cassutt racer. Both flew in space, including a mission to the Russian Mir space station.

Lutz also flew F-4s in the Air Force, was in the F-16 development program, and built an RV-8.

The steady, deliberate build-up in a

flight-test program allows a builder-pilot to fly well within the heart of the aircraft’s envelope to mitigate exposure to risk. The flight plan should progress slowly but surely.

For example, Lutz stressed, “There’s no reason to stall the airplane. Why fly on the other side of that curve? It’s unneeded risk.”

Other tips stated during the forum:

• Fly another airplane like the one you built before first flight to become familiar with flight characteristics.

• Use the EAA Technical Counselor and Flight Advisor programs.

•Don’t take risks you don’t need to take.

Paul and the three test pilots will hold another “Test-Flying Your Homebuilt” session at the EAA Welcome Center at 10 a.m. Thursday. AVT

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Romanian warbirds: Built to be rare STORY AND PHOTO BY FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN When you only produce 80 or so military aircraft, you have a built-in scarcity factor. Once 50-plus of them fall into the hands of eager American warbird buyers, you have a rare club within a rare club.

That’s the Romanian IAR-823 in a nutshell. Two of them arrived at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 and are parked in the Warbirds area, where they cause more than a little head-scratching. Owner Steve See says the airplane looks like it was designed by a committee. The tail resembles that of a Mooney. The wing shares the same NACA airfoil as a Piper Comanche.

The propeller is an American Hartzell, and the engine is a throaty Textron Lycoming IO-540-G1D5 six.

Put all that together and you have a low-wing, four-place trainer that handles aerobatics as well as cross-country jaunts.

Steve and his wife, Mary, both avid workers in Warbirds during AirVenture, have logged about 800 hours in their IAR-823, signaling a warming up to the Romanian warbirds Steve initially thought “were the ugliest airplanes I had ever seen.”

After meeting another IAR-823 owner, Steve recalls, “One thing led to another.”

He and his wife were in the market for

something like a Cessna 182; the going prices suggested they could either buy a 1960s-vintage Cessna or a 1980s-built IAR-823. “The attraction for me is it is four-place, aerobatic, and has a stick,” Steve says.

He figures he burns 16 gallons an hour at 145 knots.

The quirk of the IAR-823 is its multiple personality: The engine, prop, and wheels are American; original instruments are Eastern European; and the airframe uses metric measurements and fasteners. Steve says some American owners have put American instruments in their Romanian airplanes’ panels. Airframe structural repairs can require metric components; some enterprising owners have adapted SAE or AN standards to make them work, See says.

The tricycle gear retracts without doors, which can be a quirky blessing in the event of a wheels-up landing.

Steve and Mary See went all-in after flying their Romanian warbird, buying two shipping containers of spare parts that they vend to other owner/operators.

First deliveries to the Romanian air force were in 1974; the last aircraft rolled

Mary and Steve See brought their Romanian IAR-823 warbird to AirVenture 2012. out in 1983. Some were transferred from Romania to Angola. The IAR-823 has under-wing hard points and can carry small bombs, missiles, or guns, although it was not originally envisioned as a combat aircraft.

So is it a general-aviation aircraft that

looks like a warbird, or is it a warbird that makes a nice four-place cross-country airplane? “It’s definitely a warbird first,” Steve says.

The IAR-823 is a head-turner and potential bar-bet winner, and it is here at AirVenture. AVT

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Mitch Mahar from Westfield, New Jersey, sets up to get a low-angle photo of Duggy the DC-3 in the low light of an Oshkosh sunset.

The Oshkosh control tower gets ready to retire for the night after a long day of working traffic.

These aviators didn’t get the NOTAM. They’ve landed and they are hungry.

Their nest is outside the AirVenture Today building.

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SMA diesel engine SR305-230E on the wings of success STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT “This is a day of excitement for SMA,” exclaimed Thierry Hurtes, chairman/ CEO of Société de Motorisations Aéronautiques (SMA) during a press conference on Tuesday. That’s understandable, as Cessna announced Monday that it has selected the SMA SR305-230E engine to power its Turbo Skylane NXT aircraft.

The 230-hp SMA engine will give the NXT a cruise speed of 157 knots at 88 percent power at 14,000 feet, and provides an operating ceiling of 20,000 feet. Service entry is planned for 2013.

“We are very honored to have Cessna select our engine for this new airplane,” Hurtes said. “The Turbo Skylane NXT and our SR305-230E engine will result in substantial advantages of longer range and lower operating cost per flight.”

Along with the selection of the SR305230E engine by Cessna, SMA has signed an agreement with Lycoming Engines to

provide support for SMA engines worldwide. So the customers opting for the diesel-powered NXT will get maintenance support through the official Cessna dealership and the Lycoming network.

The SR305-230E compression-ignited diesel engine was designed specifically for GA, with modern technology, top performance, and high reliability. It addresses the issue of increasingly scarce and expensive avgas, especially in “off-path” countries, since it operates on Jet-A, JetA1, TS-1 or No. 3 fuel, available around the world. Furthermore, it consumes 30 percent less fuel than engines using leaded avgas, according to Cessna. SMA claims the 30 percent figure as a conservative estimate.

TBO of the SR305-230E—called the “dash E”—is 2,400 hours. It also can start in very low temperatures; -40°F ambient after preheating the engine to -4°F, which

“This is a day of excitement for SMA,” SMA CEO Thierry Hurtes said at AirVenture.

Cessna claimed is probably easier than the avgas engine start.

Furthermore the SR305-230E can be operated continuously at full power with no time restriction and it will deliver the full power up to 10,000 feet with an operating ceiling of 20,000 feet.

The SR305-230E engine received FAA certification in April 2011. It has logged more than 9,000 hours of testing, which will ensure excellent dispatch reliability for the Turbo Skylane NXT.

SMA officials say there is “certain possibility” to see the bigger version of this powerplant (maybe a six-cylinder?) “if the market will demand it.”

Negotiations are in progress with several other OEMs. Developing and producing engines specifically for GA, SMA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Snecma (Safran group). For more information visit SMA’s exhibit, booths 9-10, or go to www.

SMAengines.com. AVT

SkyCraft launches affordable, short-build SD-1 kit

BY SIENNA KOSSMAN As a part of its goal to make flying easy and affordable, SkyCraft Airplanes, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has created the SD-1 Mini Sport kit plane.

When complete, it weighs approximately 245 pounds and uses only 1.8 gph at 118 mph. Broken down, the operational cost of this kit plane comes to about $10$12 per hour, according to SkyCraft CEO Tyler Ives.

“We think we can transform the industry. ”

“Not only is it an affordable kit, but it’s also affordable to fly,” Ives said.

The Mini Sport kit can be built in a relatively short amount of time, approximately 400-700 work hours, he claims.

Manufactured in the Czech Republic, the kit is available in trike or taildragger configuration. XL models are also available, adding several inches to the cockpit for taller pilots.

The cost for the kit without the engine, which is sold separately for about $7,000, comes to $13,995. Several options are available, but the standard SD-1 Mini

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Tyler Ives explains the flight characteristics of the SD-1 Mini Sport.

Sport engine is the F-23 with fuel injection and duel ignition.

As a result of the weight-to-power ratio, the company is claiming the SD-1 has the fastest climb rate (1,500 fpm) and slowest fuel burn rate on the market.

“We think we can transform the industry for younger people who need something timely and affordable,” said SkyCraft representative Paul Glavin.

There are currently 17 SD-1 Mini Sport kit planes flying worldwide, and by April

2013, SkyCraft hopes to also have a tandem version as well as a ready-to-fly model available for approximately $55,000.

For details, visit Booth 59 in the LSA Mall or log onto www.SkyCraftAirplanes. com. AVT

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OMA SUD doubles the model count, Redbird the new LSA STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT This is the second time that the South Italian manufacturer OMA SUD is at AirVenture. The American public first saw the high-wing, twin pusher Skycar during AirVenture 2010, the new Skycar Surveyor for law enforcement, equipped with the SELEX Galileo EOST-46, is a highperformance, passive electro-optical surveillance system.

Skycar is one of the most unusual aircraft in the last decade that went into serial production after receiving FAA certification. Skycar has been designed to be the actual sole multi-utility and multi-purpose aircraft in the GA piston market with a rear-facing opening door.

Skycar features two huge doors in front of its T-tail, much like an EC145/BK117 medevac helicopter.

The Skycar is powered by two Lycoming IO-360 engines—installed in a pusher configuration—which should result in reduced interior noise compared to conventional tractor twins. High wing and wide glassed surfaces make the occupants’ compartment similar to a helicopter. This airplane is suitable for easy loading/unloading missions and transport of bulky items. The internal layout is flexible and can be adapted to aero taxi, light cargo, and for special military and civil missions.

Price tag of this high-wing five-seater is $900,000. Recently OMA SUD produced

the first medevac version that is priced at $1 million. A fixed-gear version is in the works and will be 70 pounds lighter and approx. $50,000 cheaper.

The Italian manufacturer is transferring the Skycar production facilities to the U.S. in Opa-locka, Florida, where all aircraft for the Americas will be assembled.

For training purposes, the first aircraft has already been built in Florida—monitored by the FAA. OMA SUD is the biggest composite manufacturer in Europe, stated CEO Walter Proietti on Monday. OMA SUD is not only manufacturing parts and chassis for Ferrari, Audi, Lamborghini, but it is manufacturing components even for Formula 1 and other racing series.

The company’s new LSA, the Redbird, is an all-composite, carbon-fiber, lowwing aircraft powered by the Rotax 912S. A Fiat diesel automotive engine conversion is planned as well. First international appearance was during AERO 2012 in Germany.

This tall and unusually roomy twoseater features a cabin width of 53 inches and is classified as a high-end European ultralight. Maiden flight was in early 2012, and the LSA certification is expected by mid-2013. In Europe, Redbird will be offered with retractable and fixed gear, but only in fixed-gear configuration in the United States.

OMA SUD Redbird

OMA SUD Skycar OMA SUD officials say Redbird will be certified first in Europe as a VLA (very light aircraft) by the end of 2012, followed by introduction in the U.S. LSA

market by mid-2013. Price is expected to be around $120,000.

For details visit www.OMASUD.it or visit its exhibit in booths 15-16. AVT

Meet performers and legends at Ford Autograph HQ The Ford Hangar will once again host the Ford Autograph HQ, giving AirVenture attendees a chance to meet air show performers, aviation and automotive legends, entertainers, and many more.

Ford Autograph HQ visitors will have a

rare opportunity to secure an autograph, photo, or conversation with a celebrity, making great memories for years to come.

The free autograph sessions are scheduled each day through Saturday, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. AVT

WEDNESDAY 11 a.m. - Air show performer Melissa Pemberton 12 p.m. - Air show performer Kyle Franklin 1 p.m. - AeroShell Aerobatic Team performers 3 p.m. - Automotive legends Jack Roush and Edsel Ford II THURSDAY 11 a.m. - Air show performer Bob Carlton 12 p.m. - Christina Olds, author, Fighter Pilot 1 p.m. - Tora! Tora! Tora! air show performers 2 p.m. - Automotive legend Jack Roush FRIDAY 10 a.m. - Doolittle Raiders 11 a.m. - Air show performer Chuck Aaron 1 p.m. - SR-71 pilots and crew 2 p.m. - WWII Ace Bud Anderson 3 p.m. - Tuskegee Airmen

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Dates and times are subject to change. For the most up to date information, visit the autograph stage at the Ford Hangar.

SATURDAY 10 a.m. - Iron Eagles air show performers 11 a.m. - Christian Fry, movie director 2 p.m. - B-29 Enola Gay navigator Dutch Van Kirk

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Extraordinary volunteers honored

by Young Eagles

BY BARBARA SCHMITZ They come from the East Coast, the West Coast, and points in between. But they have one common interest—sharing their love of aviation with youth through EAA’s Young Eagles program.

While thousands give their time to make the Young Eagles program soar, a few have been honored for their extraordinary efforts. This year’s winners will receive their awards tonight at the EAA AirVenture Museum’s Eagle Hangar.

The 2012 award recipients include: Russ Todd, of Cupertino, California, EAA Chapter Coordinator Jean Roberts, of Columbia, South Carolina, EAA Ground Support Volunteer Dave Howard, of Beresford, South Dakota, 2012 Field Representative Award Brian Smith, president of EAA Chapter 1351, of Detroit, Michigan, Humanitarian Award David and Laramie Resler, of Churubusco, Indiana, Phillips 66 Leadership Award “Our program wouldn’t be the success it is today without our volunteers,” said Michelle Kunes, Young Eagles program administrator. “While this year’s award winners are truly outstanding, there are many other thousands of volunteers who give of their time and talents to get young people interested and excited about flying.”

Chapter Coordinator Award Russ Todd started volunteering for the Young Eagles program to make a difference.

But that is also what keeps him coming back.

“When I see the kids coming off the airplanes smiling and saying what a great time they had, I know the program makes a difference,” Todd said. “I enjoy seeing the kids enabled and empowered.”

Todd personally has flown 210 Young Eagles since 2005, and since 2008 has also worked as the Young Eagles chapter coordinator. In that capacity, he promotes Chapter 62’s Young Eagles rallies, which are held monthly April through October.

That means he helps advertise the events, encourages the pilots and ground volunteers to show up and participate, and takes care of many organizational details.

Todd says it takes a lot of e-mails and reminders, but a core group of about 20 pilots come to each Young Eagles rally. “The people that volunteer for me are wonderful,” he said. “Our events tend to be big, especially when there is an accompanying airport day open house held in conjunction.”

Since he became chapter coordinator, Chapter 62 has given 2,988 Young Eagles flights.

Andy Werback, a friend of Todd’s, will accept the award in his absence.

Ground Support Volunteer Award Helpful. Reliable. Committed.

Those words describe Jean Roberts and are part of the reason she was named the top 2012 Ground Support Volunteer.

Roberts has been involved in EAA Chapter 242’s Young Eagles program for fiveplus years. But she got involved through happenstance.

“We happened to be at the airport when they were flying kids,” Roberts said. “It looked like fun, so from that day on, I arranged my schedule so I could be there.”

The chapter holds Young Eagles rallies the second Saturday of each month.

As a ground volunteer, Roberts meets the parents and children as they arrive, makes sure their paperwork is correctly completed, and then creates a list of youngsters waiting for their flight. Sometimes she’ll take parents and children to the waiting plane, and after pictures, escort the parents back to a safe area to wait.

Roberts said she volunteers for Young Eagles because she likes children and helping them and their parents understand the opportunities it presents, such as Sporty’s flight training course.

As a child, she became interested in aviation watching B-52s fly over their farm.

“My mother was also an aircraft mechanic in the Army Air Corps. I’ve just always loved to fly.”

Field Representative Award The Young Eagles program was building momentum in 1995 when Dave Howard decided to volunteer.

“I saw it as a program that I could wholeheartedly believe in,” Howard said.

“I volunteered to be field representative for South Dakota because they didn’t have one, and I thought I could make a little bit of a difference.”

Howard has made much more than a little bit of a difference. He continues to be field representative today, primarily working with EAA Chapter 292. But throughout the years, he has also helped other chapters start their Young Eagles program or do Young Eagles events.

Since South Dakota has a lot of small cities without their own EAA chapters, Howard said they often take the chapter on the road, bringing the Young Eagles program to other cities.

Holding a flight rally on the road takes a little more work, but no matter where you hold it, you need pilots and ground support volunteers. “But there are some extraordinary people out there,” Howard said. “If you challenge them and say this is what you need, it is amazing how many people

CLOCKWISE, FROM LEFT: Tom and Jean Roberts, Brian Smith, David and Laramie Resler, Dave Howard, Russ Todd will pitch in to help.”

Howard personally has given 537 Young Eagles flights. “The chance to share that love and make a positive difference in someone’s life is pretty huge.”

Humanitarian Award When Brian Smith realized there were fewer African-American pilots today than in World War II, he knew he had to do something.

He started by talking to middle school students about aviation careers, but he didn’t just talk. Smith started giving the youths a free airplane ride. However, after learning about EAA’s Young Eagles program, Smith realized that it offered benefits that he alone could not—including other pilots who shared a passion for aviation and who wanted to pass that passion on to children.

Ten years ago, Smith started Chapter 1351 with the sole purpose of giving Young Eagles flights, particularly to AfricanAmerican children in Detroit’s inner city.

Since then, Chapter 1351 members have given in excess of 2,000 Young Eagles flights. In fact, Smith himself has given 600-plus flights.

But Smith’s promotion of aviation doesn’t end with the free flight. Through his Tuskegee Airmen Flight Academy, youth can also learn to fly with the academy providing the planes and flight instructors for free.

Smith said he never saw an AfricanAmerican pilot until he was a grown man.

“That’s why I never thought it was a career I could do. The students that I mentor know that if Mr. Smith can do it, then they can do it, too.”

However, Smith said he couldn’t do it

without the help of all the chapter volunteers. “They are the people who fly the kids and help to make things happen.”

Phillips 66 Leadership Award It’s hard to tell who gets more excited— David and Laramie Resler or the kids they help fly through EAA’s Young Eagles program.

The Reslers have been Young Eagles coordinators for Chapter 2 since 2005, and earlier this year, took on those responsibilities for Chapter 37, too. All together, they plan nine Young Eagles events a year.

Because the chapter flies so many children on any given date, it sets up a static display airplane at each rally. So while the kids are waiting for their flight, someone will teach them how an airplane works externally. That frees up more time for the pilots to fly.

While many of their volunteers have been doing it for years, they also created a booklet for new volunteers. The booklet spells out the duties of each volunteer position and makes sure safety is a priority.

The Reslers also spend a lot of time promoting Young Eagles, handing out thousands of business cards that explain the program, as well as publicizing events in the newspaper or on the radio or TV. Since the Young Eagles program began in 1992, their chapter has flown 6,500 children. Of that number, 3,300 children were flown since the Reslers took over the chapter coordinator duties. David himself has flown 670 Young Eagles since 2005.

“It’s really a well-oiled machine, and a lot of credit goes to our volunteers,” Laramie said. “They just jump in and do it because they love aviation as much as we do.” AVT

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This Pientenpol sits near the Brown Arch on the EAA grounds.

Crew of the C-17 transport plane take time to watch the arriving and departing aircraft while waiting to park their aircraft on Phillips 66 Plaza.

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GA’s best: 2012 National Award winners to be honored at AirVenture

The National General Aviation Awards will be presented this evening by acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta during a special ceremony at Theater in the Woods.

The 2012 winners include Marvin Hornbostel, of Junction City, Kansas, Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) of the Year; Rick Ochs, of Gahanna, Ohio, Avionics Technician of the Year; MCFI Hobart Tomlinson, of Huntington, Vermont, Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) of the Year; and Jeanne Willerth, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, FAA Safety Team Representative of the Year.

Recipients also received an all-expensespaid trip for two to Oshkosh to receive their awards.

AMT of the Year Marvin Hornbostel, EAA 710533/VAA 721312, has been an A&P for more than a half-century and has been an IA for 40 years. He is also an FAA Charles Taylor Master Mechanic.

After his discharge from the Army, where he received basic aviation maintenance training, he worked with a maintenance contractor at Fort Riley, Kansas, performing maintenance on Army aircraft. Thirty-two years later, he retired as the shop supervisor.

Hornbostel and his son, Jon, own and operate Raven Aero Service on Junction City’s Freeman Field (3JC) and specialize in antique and classic aircraft restoration.

Hornbostel also serves on the Junction City Airport Aviation Advisory Board and is president of EAA Chapter 1364, “The Wing Nuts.” He represented the Wichita FSDO area as well as the FAA’s Central Region.

Avionics Technician of the Year Rick Ochs, EAA 782615, owns and manages Spirit Avionics Limited, an FAA-certified Part 145

repair station at Port Columbus Airport (CMH) in Columbus, Ohio. He obtained his formal avionics training in the U.S. Navy and began his career on the flight deck of the carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) as an avionics troubleshooter. After his discharge, he received additional avionics education in the industry via a succession of positions at large and small companies.

In March 2000, he founded Spirit Avionics, which employs 10 people and services military, federal, corporate, and private aircraft. In addition to serving on the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) board of directors, Ochs is chairman of the AEA’s Member Benefits Committee and is the FAA ambassador for the Columbus FSDO. He serves on NBAA’s Maintenance Committee and co-chairs the Advanced Training and Education Subcommittee.

He also serves on the board for the Youth Aviation Adventure program.

CFI of the Year Hobie Tomlinson, EAA 23705/Warbirds 8184/VAA 1341/IAC 15266, works at Heritage Aviation at Burlington International Airport (BTV), Vermont, and is an independent flight instructor. A fivetime Master Instructor, he was presented with the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award in 2010. He is also a Cirrus (CSIP) certified instructor, has served as an FAA DPE since 1977, and has more than 11,000 instructional hours.

Tomlinson has commercial, instrument, multiengine, and airline transport pilot certifications as well as flight instructor ratings and several type ratings. He has amassed more than 35,000 total flight hours.

Tomlinson became a CFI in 1965 and has been an active CFI ever since. In 1967, he

Marvin Hornbostel

Rick Ochs

joined Trans World Airlines and spent 33 years there as a flight engineer, pilot, and simulator instructor. Since 2005, he’s been Heritage Aviation’s director of safety and a Citation CE560XL check airman. He is responsible for creating and teaching safety management systems curricula to all employees. Tomlinson is also an EAA flight advisor.

FAA Safety Team Representative of the Year Jeanne Willerth, EAA 763382, grew up in Omaha and learned to fly from her mother, who was an instructor and Powder Puff Derby air racer. Twice she brought Jeanne along as copilot in two All Women’s International Air Races, and in 1998, Willerth brought her mother and daughter on the 2,400-mile Air Race Classic.

Willerth has her instrument, single-, and multiengine commercial ratings, plus CFI, CFII, AGI, IGI, and MEI. She instructs at Air Associates, a Cessna Pilot Center at Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC) in Kansas City, as well as Lee’s Summit Airport (LXT), where she chairs the airport board.

Willerth presents aviation safety seminars nationwide, is a volunteer FAA aviation safety counselor, and volunteers with Angel Flight Central, Pilots ’n Paws, Challenge Air, and the EAA Young Eagles program. With more than 2,000 hours

Hobie Tomlinson

Jeanne Willerth

instructing, Willerth teaches primary, instrument, multiengine, and Garmin G1000 transition training. She’s also a mentor for late-in-life learners, specializing in getting dormant pilots back in the air successfully.

Support and sponsorship for the GA Awards program is provided by Women in Aviation International (WAI), The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE), the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA), the Ninety-Nines International (The 99s), the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO), the National Air Transportation Association (NATA), the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), the Aircraft Maintenance Technology Society (AMT Society), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), and the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA).

Additional support is being provided by Advocates for Aviation Safety Foundation (AASF), Aeronautical Proficiency Training LLC (AVTrain), Master Instructors LLC (MI LLC), National Aviation Safety Foundation (NASF), and Rich Stowell Consulting. AVT

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LAMA to update on noncompliance reports

BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT

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On Wednesday, Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association (LAMA) President Dan Johnson will address recent reports critical of LSA manufacturers relating to compliance with ASTM consensus standards and other requirements.

In 2008 and 2009, the FAA visited 30 LSA manufacturers and importers/ distributors. Of this group, the FAA reported that some businesses were not able to produce all the documentation requested and some had processes not compliant with ASTM standards that govern FAA acceptance of this newest form of fully built flying machines. According to the FAA, some were subsequently able to come into compliance, and some were not.

The problem is not large, LAMA claims. Some companies have work to do to bring their documentation and processes into compliance, but most companies have subsequently been able to verify their compliance. The safety record of these new aircraft is “acceptable,” to use a word often repeated by FAA officials.

“Out of the many hundreds of documents a manufacturer must produce when asked by the FAA, a single missing document—or even an error on that document—can mean an airplane is technically not in compliance,” Johnson said. “However, many such errors are not difficult to fix, and most companies were willing and able to do so.”

Following Wednesday’s LAMA press conference, Pipistrel and Flight Design are scheduled to make their first offering of reports about their annual internal audit, an action required under ASTM standards. Reporting these internal audits is not mandatory, however, and the two companies are proactively stepping up to submit written reports of their audits.

Pipistrel and Flight Design will turn over to the FAA reports of their findings and corrective actions as a positive and voluntary effort to prove they are taking steps to assure full compliance with the ASTM standards. LAMA has been encouraging the manufacturers to take this action, and more such reports are expected to head to the FAA with LAMA acting as an intermediary.

FAA officials have stated that the submission of these reports is a worthy first step in giving the agency additional reason to support the new aircraft segment. The rules allowing LSA and the new sport pilot certificate were announced at AirVenture 2004 and became effective in September of that year. About 2,750 LSA have received airworthiness certificates since that date.

At its press conference, LAMA also will announce the recipient of the 21st annual LAMA President’s Award to an outstanding individual, and the organization promises a surprise when it announces the speaker confirmed for its 6th Annual LAMA Dinner at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo next January. AVT

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HAI HELI-CENTER brings world of rotorcraft to AirVenture

BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT

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For the second year in a row, the Helicopter Association International (HAI) has a big, front-row presence at the biggest general aviation fly-in in the world. Drawn by a Robinson R22 parked in the middle of the HAI HELI-CENTER, a steady stream of first-day visitors passed through the two-story facility, located just off the flightline at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012.

The second-story observation deck is open to HAI members and offers a great location to watch the afternoon air shows, or to just sit, relax, and take a break from wandering through all the exhibits.

In addition to the R22 helicopter on display inside the HELI-CENTER, Enstrom Helicopter has a 280FX turbinepowered model, outfitted for the law enforcement mission, located in a static area outside of the HELI-CENTER.

Although AirVenture visitors are almost exclusively from the fixedwing community, many visiting the HELI-CENTER have expressed keen interest in learning to fly helicopters.

To help explain what’s involved in getting a rotorcraft rating, two of the largest helicopter flight schools— Hillsboro Aviation and Bristow Academy, both HAI members—have flight instructors and exhibits inside the HELI-CENTER, answering visitors’ questions. Also joining HAI inside the HELI-CENTER are the newly reconstituted Midwest Helicopter Association and Airwolf Industries, a provider of numerous helicopter-related maintenance items.

The HELI-CENTER, located in spots 427-434, is open all week, including for the Night Air Show on Saturday. AVT

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Chris Erickson (HAI chairman of the board) and Matthew S. Zuccaro (HAI CEO/president) opening the HAI International media reception.

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Ceremony set for RAF Legacy Rock dedication at Brown Arch Another “Legacy Rock” will be dedicated under AirVenture’s old oak tree at the Brown Arch Wednesday morning, paying tribute to the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF).

This year’s rock memorializes Ben and Butchie Ryan’s donation of Ryan Field to

the RAF. Three of the available 2-footsquare rock tiles have now been inscribed and permanently placed.

The Ryans will meet RAF at 10 a.m. under the historic Brown Arch, and all AirVenture visitors are invited to attend. AVT

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Eclipse adds Brazilian TC

Eclipse Aerospace told AirVenture 2012 attendees its new Eclipse 550 jet is under production, with deliveries set for mid-2013.

Eclipse Aerospace Inc. (EAI) this week announced it has obtained a Brazilian type certificate validation for its Total Eclipse twin-engine jet. The company said the milestone comes after working in partnership with the Brazilian Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) to certify the EA500 and the Eclipse Avio integrated flight management system over a 15-month period.

“We are extremely proud of the speed with which our engineering team and international certification group moved through the validation process,” Ken Ross, president of global services, commented.

“We have received tremendous interest and excitement from the corporate and private aviation community and look forward to the introduction of the EA500 to Brazil,” he added.

Eclipse Aerospace currently offers the Total Eclipse twin-engine jet with the allnew Avio integrated flight management system and certification for flight into known icing. The Total Eclipse jet also comes complete with a “tip-to-tail” factory warranty, new paint, and a new interior.

The very light jet is capable of high-speed cruise in excess of 375 KTAS at up to FL410

but can be flown to consume only 59 gallons of fuel an hour in cruise. That, according to the company, makes it the most fuelefficient twin-engine jet on the planet.

Eclipse Aerospace also offers the Eclipse 550, a new production version of the Total Eclipse. The Eclipse 550 is scheduled for first deliveries in mid-2013 and will come with state-of-the-art avionics. It will retain the same fuel-efficient airframe and engines as the Total Eclipse, and remain the most economical twin-engine jet in the world. The Eclipse jet is on display at the Eclipse/Sikorsky booth, No. 381, all week during AirVenture.

Eclipse Aerospace Inc. provides engineering, maintenance, service, and support for the fleet of 260 Eclipse twinengine jet aircraft. Adhering to the motto “Customer First,” Eclipse Aerospace is focused on providing a superior customer experience for existing and future owners, operators, and pilots of the revolutionary Eclipse jet aircraft. Eclipse Aerospace corporate offices are based in Charleston, South Carolina. Principle operations are located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Chicago, Illinois. For more information, go to www.Eclipse.aero. AVT

Worship service during AirVenture 2012 Jewish Shabbat Service Fergus Chapel (near the EAA Museum), Friday, July 27, at 6 p.m.

Catholic Mass Saturday, July 28, at 6 p.m. in Forum

Pavilion 7, and Sunday, July 31, at 10:15 a.m. in the Theater in the Woods Nondenominational Service Fergus Chapel (near Museum), Sunday, July 22, and Sunday, July 29, from 8:30 to 9 a.m.

Protestant Service Theater in the Woods, Sunday, July 29, at 9:15 a.m. EAA Chaplain Ed Riddick officiating.

Fellowship of the Wing Prayer Breakfasts Fergus Chapel (near the EAA Museum), daily, from 7:15 to 7:45 a.m., Monday, July 23, through Friday, July 27. Guest speakers.

Area Churches More information is available from the Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau at www.VisitOshkosh.com or visit CVB on the convention site. AVT

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This jet-powered monster truck can be found on display in the Innovation Hangar South.

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Steve Pankonin fills a water bottle from the canvas thermos under the wing of his Cub.

Nick Brucks of Basler Aviation and Jimmy Fordham with the AeroShell team add smoke fuel to a T-6 on the flightline.

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The Federal Pavilion hosts numerous presentations each day with subjects like aviation weather, accident investigation, airport security, and more.

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Lightspeed Aviation releases first in-flight cockpit recording app for Apple devices

BY SIENNA KOSSMAN Pilots can now turn their iPads or iPhones into cockpit voice recorders with FlightLink, Lightspeed Aviation’s new, free app for the company’s Zulu.2 headset.

FlightLink can retain two minutes of instant playback of ATC transmissions, as well as record and save entire flights for future use.

“FlightLink is great, easy to use, and very intuitive,” Teresa De Mers, corporate vice president of sales and marketing, said.

“Very simply, it allows you to record, play back, and store.”

The iPad app also incorporates a scratchpad, giving pilots the ability to jot down quick notes and diagrams with their fingertips.

While using the app, pilots can easily toggle back and forth from other apps to access recordings and notes, making it an excellent learning tool.

“It’s great for anyone in a student environment as well, being able to have the flight recorded and play it back afterwards,” De Mers said.

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By cabling your device to your headset, this app also leaves your BlueTooth capability free for connecting a cellphone or music player.

Newer Lightspeed Zulu.2 headsets are already enabled to work with FlightLink, but older Zulu.2 headsets can be factory retrofitted to work with the app for $69.

Lightspeed Aviation is a leading manufacturer of premium aviation headsets, and has established a reputation of “first to market” that this app helps to carry on, De Mers said.

“It is a continuation of our innovation story,” De Mers added. “Lightspeed has been the first to present many new headset technologies, and this app is the next step to being the first in this area of technology.”

For those interested in seeing exactly how the new FlightLink app works, visit the Lightspeed exhibit, Booth 259, directly adjacent to the Bendix/King

by Honeywell Exhibit Hangar B, for an iPad demonstration. AVT

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Flight Simulators

Flight simulators. Are they toys? Or are they tools? They can be either, or both. The sophisticated graphics and processing power of video games have made flight sims into real 21st century aviation technology.

Fly This Sim produces software to render ultra-realistic simulations of the advanced technology panels of Cirrus and other aircraft.

These FAA-approved trainers are primarily used for mission rehearsal and must be combined with other simulation systems to render scenery and flight simulation.

Fly This Sim is the only approved trainer using touch screens and providing cockpitspecific layouts, plus the ability to change instantly between different aircraft.

It has FAA approval pending on sims for Cessna’s 172, 182, and 206 plus the Diamond DA40 aircraft.

Garmin Exhibit Hangar D, Booth 4155. www.FlyThisSim.com

Elite produces software and hardware systems used as advanced aviation training devices. For more than 20 years Elite has been producing everything from software that you can load onto your home computer

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and fly with a joystick, to turnkey systems for helicopter and fixed-wing training.

The latest version of its RC-1 product offers enhanced visual rendering with more scenic detail, more realism, 3-D modeling, and full WAAS approaches.

Time flown on Elite’s RC-1 can be logged toward a variety of flight certificates: 20 hours for instrument, 50 for commercial, 25 for ATP, and 2.5 for the private.

Elite also produces helicopter training systems and a G1000 panel simulator.

Garmin Exhibit Hangar D, Booths 4020-4021 www.FlyElite.com In only its sixth year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Redbird Flight Simulations has become one of the most popular motion simulator products in the world. It has more than 700 of its full motion simulators running, on almost every continent.

Redbird sims are ruggedly built and affordable, according to the company. Redbird likes to say that, because its equipment is well within the reach of medium and small flight schools, it is “democratizing” the flight-training market in a way that no other company has done before.

Redbird’s “artificial intelligence” allows the sim to listen and talk back like

ATC would. And when you climb into the simulator with your iPad, it will immediately connect itself and believe it’s located wherever the simulation is, so you can use apps like ForeFlight, Jepp, and others.

Main Display Area, Tent 208 www.RedbirdFlightSimulations.com X-Plane 10 is the latest version of this popular flight-simulation system.

Released in fall 2011, Version 10 allows you to fly any type of airplane to any airport on the planet. There are about 3,000 airplane definitions that have been built for the software and can be added

to the basic product, which comes with about 45 defined aircraft. The software is available for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux computers.

X-Plane 10 includes all new scenery for the entire planet, new aircraft definition files, improvements to the flight model, new air traffic control system, and improved weather rendering.

Bendix/King by Honeywell Exhibit Hangar B, booths 2028-2029 www.X-Plane.com/desktop/landing Exhibitors! Send info about your AvTech products to avtech.airventure@gmail.com. AVT

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1,500 free Women Soar shirts available To promote as much participation in the EAA Women Soar group picture as possible this year, 1,500 free Women Soar shirts are available for female pilots and student pilots at the EAA Welcome Center.

Pilots can pick up their free shirt by signing the logbook with their name, first solo information, where they are from, and the planes they have flown.

On Friday, July 27, female pilots should

wear their vibrant orange shirt proudly for this year’s group photo, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Phillips 66 Plaza.

Women from anywhere in the world are encouraged to take part in this group movement.

“Last year we had people from Germany, Scotland, and even a young girl from China,” Carri Hoagland, EAA Welcome Center representative, said. AVT

Updated TBM 850 debuts

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Daher-Socata introduced the TBM 850 Elite yesterday, the latest iteration of its singleengine high-performance turboprop aircraft.

The world’s fastest certified single-engine turboprop, the TBM 850 has a maximum cruise speed of 320 knots at 26,000 feet.

The Elite features a reconfigurable cabin that switches from corporate club seating to an interior with an expanded cargo area in about 30 minutes.

“We wanted to provide flexibility,” said Nicholas Chabbert, senior vice president of Daher-Socata’s Airplane Division. “This allows the aircraft, which can accommodate six people, to go to four people if they need [room for] more cargo inside the aircraft.”

EASA and FAA certified, deliveries of the 850 Elite will begin immediately, and the cabin enhancements will be applied to all previously delivered Model Year 2012 TBM 850s.

The French airframer also introduced options including carbon fiber interior

edging and a Garmin GSR 56 Iridium satellite transceiver integrated with the aircraft’s Garmin G1000 flight deck, providing worldwide voice calling, SMS, e-mail, and global data link. In partnership with Pratt & Whitney Canada, a seven-year extended warranty and the TBM Exclusive Maintenance Program will be provided for all TBM 850 Elites purchased before this November. A standard equipped aircraft is priced at $3,205,087. The company is featuring two TBM 850 Elites at its display area (booths 387-392.)

Daher-Socata President and CEO Stéphane Mayer said the company continues to consider creating a twin-engine turboprop. “We are actively doing development and engineering studies and speaking with many partners,” Mayer said. “My personal guess is that we need at least 18 months to be able to announce something based on where we are now with this project.” AVT

Mon. July 23 - Sat., July 28 • 8am to 2pm Hundreds of aviation museum artifacts including engines, props, models, parts, magazines, etc., ... even a real drone!

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The TBM 850 Elite features a reconfigurable interior that can switch from corporate six-place to a cargo-hauling four-place in 30 minutes.

Fly-In Theater Sunday, July 22 - Saturday, July 28 Bring your blankets & lawn chairs and join us for an evening of classic aviation films under the stars.

Presented by Ford Motor Company

Sunday, July 22nd

Supported by Hamilton Watches

633 Squadron Special tribute to Cliff Robertson

Monday, July 23rd

30 Seconds over Tokyo

Tuesday, July 24th

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Presented by Producer David Ellison

Wednesday, July 25th

Red Tails Special guests: George Lucas, Edsel Ford & Tuskegee Airman

Thursday, July 26th

The Rocketeer Inaugural Disney Family Night

Friday, July 27th

Star Trek (2009) Trailer and discussion of Air Racer 3D with Director Christian Frey

Saturday, July 28th

The Great Waldo Pepper Featured Presenters will include noted celebrities. Check at the Ford Hangar and AirVenture Today for nightly presenters.

Movies and dates subject to change due to scheduling conflicts.

Free shows begin at 8:30 p.m. daily. Located at the north end of Doolittle Drive behind the Camp Store.

Come and enjoy an aviation classic & free popcorn!

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Alaskan couple ‘plays the tourist game’

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They’ll have traveled 10,000 miles by the time they return to their home near Fairbanks, Alaska, in early August.

But the highlight of their two-month trip happened under the Brown Arch on the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh grounds earlier this week.

That’s where Stuart Sibitzky surprised his wife, Cynthia, with a brick declaring his love. The inscription on their wedding rings is an old Johnny Mathis song, and it is now there for all to see: I needed someone all the time. And all the time it was you.

“I had the brick put in three or four months back,” Stuart said, “and she didn’t know anything about it.”

The trip is their fifth cross-country trip from Alaska to anywhere. But this one started a few weeks earlier than they expected when a granddaughter was born in May. Cynthia flew to Texas commercially, and three weeks later, Stuart flew in with their Cessna 182 to join her.

After that, they flew to Tulsa to see other grandchildren, and then to Kitty Hawk and the Baltimore area where Cynthia had a conference.

“Then we had three weeks to go between the conference and Oshkosh, so we went to Concord, New Hampshire, parked for almost two weeks, and drove around New England,” Cynthia said.

“We really played the tourist game,” Stuart said.

This Johnny Mathis song, from the movie Captain My Captain, is inscribed on the couple’s wedding rings.

Next, they went to Scranton to see the Steamtown National Historic Site, and then stopped in Lake in the Hills, Illinois.

“There are no lakes or hills,” Stuart said.

They were ready to leave on July 18 to come to Oshkosh when they discovered if they drove to Oshkosh it would save them $670 instead of flying here and renting a car, Stuart said. So they left their plane in Illinois.

The Sibitzkys plan to stay here until Monday, and then fly directly back home to Alaska. Both are pilots. Since Stuart is a CFI with 6,500 hours logged, Cynthia took lessons from him.

“In the middle of the night, I would wake him up and say, ‘Tell me about power-on stalls again,’” she said. “Then, I was getting my hair cut one time, and the hairdresser asked me if it was expensive to take flying lessons. I gave a flip answer and said, ‘No, I just sleep with my instructor!’”

However, since a student’s parent was two chairs down, she quickly explained what she meant.

Cynthia now has her private pilot certificate and has logged 600 hours in the air. In fact, her certificate arrived on the very day she turned 50.

It’s a little different to fly in Alaska than other states.

“One of the things they always teach you is look for a place to put down,” Cynthia said.

“There are thousands of miles of nothing, so you have to be careful,” Stuart added. “If we were here with the airplane, we’d probably be the only people on the ramp with a full set of survival gear—a full-sized axe, a bow saw, a 24-by-30 foot blue tarp, water, and more.”

In their third trip to AirVenture, the Sibitzkys said they are looking forward to being immersed in aviation for the remainder of the fly-in convention.

“He is so into airplanes,” Cynthia said, “so it’s fun to Cynthia Sibitzky kisses Stuart, her husband of 15 years. watch him talk shop.” AVT

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EAA remembers Sally Ride

Aviation has always celebrated its firsts. From the Wright brothers to Charles Lindbergh to SpaceShipOne to electric aircraft, crossing new frontiers is something aviation enthusiasts who gather at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh have always rewarded. So in some small way,

it’s appropriate that news of Sally Kristen Ride’s passing at the too-young age of 61 came during this year’s fly-in.

Sally Ride, of course, is and always will be the first American woman in space.

She also was the youngest American to be in space, a still-valid distinction. Ride

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died Monday, peacefully, at her home in La Jolla, California, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Most will remember her solely for being first, and it’s safe to say her 1983 mission aboard the space shuttle Challenger inspired millions of women, young and old. But even before achieving that first, she was contributing to NASA’s space program by serving as capsule communicator for the second and third shuttle flights. Ride also was part of the team tasked with developing the spacecraft’s manipulator arm, a device she used aboard Challenger to retrieve a satellite, another first.

Her second mission to space, in 1984, also was aboard Challenger. By that time, the idea of America sending one of its women into that void—and space travel itself—had become commonplace, so short is our collective attention span.

All that changed, of course, on January 28, 1986, when Challenger broke up during its launch. In part thanks to her time aboard the shuttle, she was named to the panel tasked by President Reagan to investigate its loss, heading an operational group. Afterward, she was assigned to NASA headquarters in

Washington, D.C., where she engaged in the agency’s strategic planning and founded NASA’s Office of Exploration.

Later, she was named to the formal panel investigating 2003’s loss of the shuttle Columbia, becoming the only person to serve on the commissions investigating both disasters.

Ride left NASA in 1987, entering academia. She became a professor of physics at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego and director of the California Space Institute in 1989 and in 2001 founded Sally Ride Science, a company designed to “create quality programs and products that educate, entertain, engage, and inspire” and dedicated to supporting girls’ and boys’ interests in science, math, and technology.”

And it is in that arena—encouraging and inspiring young women and men— that her legacy squarely resides.

If nothing else, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is all about encouragement and inspiration. Look around the site this week—the young woman standing next to you, watching the air show, might be the first person to walk on Mars. Thanks in part to Sally Ride, that young woman is confident in knowing she can. AVT

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Dynon introduces D1 Pocket Panel portable EFIS

Dynon surprised AirVenture visitors Tuesday by introducing a portable true attitude indicator called D1.

The D1 uses the same MEMS-based AHRS technology that has made Dynon the leading supplier of EFIS (electronic flight instrument systems) in experimental and light-sport aircraft. This new D1 Pocket Panel can be used by all GA pilots, and it’s priced at $1,425.

BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPE CORRESPONDENT

The D1 is a true artificial horizon with accurate pitch and roll, and can find the horizon even if turned on in flight. This is, according to Dynon, a feature that other mobile devices—especially those based on smartphones—usually can’t deliver. D1 maintains the horizon during extended duration turns.

The AHRS sensors also drive a turn rate indicator and slip/skid ball. D1 is based on an internal GPS receiver and is not connected to a pitot or static port, a feature emphasized several times by Robert Hamilton, marketing manager, during the Tuesday press conference. D1 displays GPS groundspeed, altitude, vertical speed, and ground track.

At only 3-1/2 inches wide, 3-1/4 inches high, and 1 inch thick, the D1 is truly portable. It features a built-in lithiumion battery that will last at least four hours on a charge, and comes with three portable mounting options. The first is a RAM suction cup mount, and the second is 3-1/8 inch portable “pinch” mount, and third is a Velcro solution.

Dynon UAT band traffic and weather receiver for SkyView Dynon’s new SV-ADSB-470 remotely mounted receiver module integrates with the SkyView system to provide easy access to weather and traffic information, on top of the detailed navigational information SkyView already provides.

At an MSRP of $995, Dynon claims the SV-ADSB-470 is the most affordable permanently mounted ADS-B solution on the market, designed specifically for experimental and LSA. It is powered directly from aircraft power and uses an externally mounted antenna for superior performance.

All information displayed is free with no monthly subscriptions, based on the FAA’s ADS-B broadcast in the United States. Weather is displayed graphically and textually on SkyView and includes NEXRAD, METARs, and TAFs. Airport weather data can be chosen based on nearest or by airport identifier.

By combining the SV-ADSB-470 with Dynon’s SV-XPNDR-261 Mode-S transponder module with ADS-B “out,” reliable, accurate traffic will be provided to the SkyView system, even without a certified GPS on board.

The ADS-B system requires the aircraft to be ADS-B “out” equipped before traffic information is provided, and Dynon’s transponder is fully DO-260B/ADS-B “out” certified, so SkyView owners will receive a complete traffic picture any time ADS-B services are available. Nearby traffic that is a threat will generate an audio alert so that the pilot does not need to keep looking at the screen to be alerted to nearby aircraft.

“The number one question we receive at air shows is, ‘Can I put Dynon avionics in my airplane?’” Hamilton said. “If they flew a type certificated plane, our answer was always no. But now for the first time we can say yes.”

Accessories included with the D1 are an AC power adapter, a DC vehicle

power adapter, assorted mounts, battery, and external GPS antenna.

D1 Pocket Panels are now available at AirVenture directly from Dynon and through Dynon authorized dealers.

For more information see Dynon in Garmin Exhibit Hangar D booths 40534055, or at www.DynonAvionics.com. AVT

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Volunteer drawing winners Each night at Theater in the Woods drawings are held to award $25 gift certificates to six EAA volunteers.

Certificates can be redeemed for EAA merchandise, valid for one year.

Winners can pick up their certificate at Convention Headquarters.

July 23 winners: Michal Lach - KidVenture Mark Jacob - Flightline Ops Colleen Lambrecht - Press Registration Nick Goodwin - KidVenture Morgan Ringeisen - North 40 Connie Campbell - EMS AVT

“The Aviators” season three premieres Wednesday at Sennheiser exhibit FourPoints Television Productions is hosting a season three premiere of “The Aviators” on Wednesday, July 25, at 5:30 p.m. at the Sennheiser tent, on the side of Hangar B. Attendees can enjoy on-site refresh-

ments and will receive a complimentary aviator’s hat.

For more information on this special showing, contact Jennifer Jensen at Jennifer@TheAviators.TV or call 1-877-77-FLY-TV. AVT

Authors’ Corner Come to the EAA Wearhouse to meet the authors of these great titles and more. For schedules and listings of these and other great authors, please go to Airventure.org/schedule.

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Join EAA’s Vintage Aircraft Association.

Be part of the association that keeps vintage aircraft flying for future generations to enjoy.

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Visit us at the VAA Red Barn, just south of Phillips 66 Plaza.

To join VAA call 800.564.6322 or visitVintageAircraft.org

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker visited AirVenture on Tuesday and spoke to the crowd from the air show announcers stand. “It’s a great joy to be at EAA,” said Walker, a longtime AirVenture visitor.

“We’re really thrilled that this event is part of Wisconsin.” He presented a proclamation to EAA’s Sean Elliott, vice president of advocacy and safety, designating July 23-29, 2012, as “EAA AirVenture Fly-In Week” throughout the state and stressing that the annual gathering creates more than $110 million of economic benefit to the area each year.

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Visit the NEW EAA Insurance tent located just south of Member Square and get a free hat with quote.

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BY MARK PHELPS

“When we announced the IFD540 last year—the plug-and-play replacement for the Garmin GNS530—people immediately asked whether we would do the same for the smaller 430,” said Dan Schwinn, CEO of Avidyne, “and we kept getting the same question—about once every minute.”

On July 5, Avidyne responded by announcing the IFD440 to plug the gap in its marketing plan. And the new entry in Avidyne’s lineup does more than answer that question for a whole new group of customers. At his press conference here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012, Schwinn pointed out that Avidyne’s newest plug-and-play unit is essentially the same Release 9-derived “Byteflight” architecture as its larger-screen IFD540.

And when both units are mounted in a panel, the overall performance exceeds the sum of the two parts.

For example, pilots can select the FMS keyboard screen for the smaller 440 for en route data entry and not lose the situational awareness of the main screen while doing so.

Schwinn said the market for the IFD440 includes owners of Avidyne Entegra-equipped Cirrus models with dual Garmin GNS 430s. The upgrade will be simple, though the aircraft will still need a short visit with an avionics shop to check the configuration of the Garmin installation to match it with the Avidyne’s

setup. The changeover will result in a substantial operational benefit, he said.

Certification testing of all the new slide-in Avidyne products is ongoing, with availability now scheduled for the middle part or end of next year, depending on the product.

Schwinn said the plug-and-play element is a huge market advantage, since aircraft operators can “try out” the new product with assurance they can return it if not satisfied. Reinstalling the old unit would not require a costly trip to the avionics shop. Schwinn pointed out that his wife uses a similar strategy in shopping for clothes.

Schwinn added that Avidyne’s Hybrid Touch system—users can choose touchscreen or traditional knobs to input data— is attractive to many potential customers.

He said it’s likely pilots will develop their own personal combination, using the touch screen for some functions and the knobs for others. He also said that, in the testing program, he and others at Avidyne have grown so accustomed to using the touch screens that they find themselves unconsciously reaching out for the screens of the earlier Entegra systems, trying to manipulate them with their fingers.

Avidyne’s website is www.Avidyne.com.

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Remember the Wasp Wing?

See it in Ultralights

BY MARY JONES

You can take a trip back to the early days of ultralights down on the farm this week as several early-day ultralights have returned, and one of the most unique is a Wasp Wing powered hang glider with a modified Rogallo wing.

The Rogallo wing, you may recall, was designed by Francis and Gertrude Rogallo as a recovery chute for early space

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This Wasp Wing is owned and flown

by Keith Sharon, of Sturgeon, Missouri, and it’s always been in his family. Keith’s

father, Charles Sharon, built the airframe in 1976 and over the years modified the Rogallo wing several times. Sharon remembers spending weekends with his father, who often glided in Oregon’s Cape Kiwanda and Seaside areas, as well as Dog Mountain, Washington.

After the family moved to Missouri, he and his brother, Roy, started experimenting with putting engines on the glider, starting with a Zenoah G62 model airplane engine. The machine that Sharon is flying today—and he will be flying it from the ultralight runway this week—is powered by twin 160-cc ZDZ model airplane engines that develop 16 hp. He’s been flying it with these engines since 2000, and with 2.5 gallons of fuel on board he can fly for up to 90 minutes and cover 35 to 40 miles. The glider stalls at 18 mph and has a top speed of 35 mph.

The machine weighs 115 pounds empty (less fuel).

Sharon said to his knowledge this is one of three Wasp Wings still in existence.

Roy owns the second one, and together they have a baby Wasp Wing trainer that they learned to fly on when they were 9 and 10 years old.

Keith Sharon and his Wasp Wing powered hang glider.

In its day, the Wasp Wing was considered a high-performance glider because the wing had a double-surface with battens, and it was recoverable in a dive. It also sported an 8-to-1 glide ratio. Folks familiar with the old Ground Skimmer hang gliding magazine will likely remember the classic Wasp Wing ads.

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If you’re an ultralight enthusiast, you’ll definitely enjoy seeing some of the older vehicles on display. AVT

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Keith is flying this Wasp Wing glider from the ultralight runway this week. It’s powered by two model airplane engines. The Wasp Wing was introduced in the early 1970s, and this glider has been in Keith’s family since his father built it in 1976. He has no idea how many hours it has been flown, but he flies it regularly for relaxation after work.

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Velocity V-Twin can’t spin

BY JAMES WYNBRANDT

No, the small twin-engine pusher with canards and delta wings is not a baby Avanti Piaggio. It’s the prototype of the V-Twin, a new offering from kit company Velocity Aircraft of Sebastian, Florida.

“I’ve been wanting to build a twinengine version of our airplane for many, many years,” said Duane Swing, chairman and owner of Velocity Aircraft. But with their propensity to enter a stall spin in the event of an engine loss in high-power, low-airspeed operations, such as during takeoff, “Twin engines have lost favor because of the high rate of death with engine failure,” Swing noted. “The idea was to build a Velocity twin with no VMC (minimum controllable airspeed), where you couldn’t slow to the point where you could stall, and therefore there’s no way to spin.”

In theory, a canard aircraft such as the Velocity can’t spin because the canard stalls before the wing, lowering the nose, and keeping sufficient airflow over the wing to keep it flying. Engineers Swing consulted agreed the same principal would apply to a twin-engine canard aircraft, convincing him to pursue his longstanding goal.

“Last year at Oshkosh I said, ‘I’m going to do this,’” Swing said. “In October I told our guys the company can’t afford to fund this, so the whole cost is coming out of my pocket, and you guys know what you’re doing, so let’s build a twin. Six months later we had it flying.”

The completed aircraft was intended to be a proof-of-concept aircraft, to be

followed by a prototype from which parts for the kit version would be made. But the airplane flew so well that “right after the first flight it became apparent this was not just a concept airplane, it was going to be the prototype.”

After its debut at Sun ’n Fun, Swing and company pilot John Abraham subjected the aircraft to more rigorous flight tests, “doing things most twins would not, like full stalls with one engine shut down, to prove we can’t get it to stall, eliminating the major problem of other twins,” Swing said.

The prototype at the Velocity display (exhibit No. 11) is powered by two 160-hp Lycoming IO 320 engines. Fuel burn of about 6 gph per engine in economy cruise yields 170-plus knots and about 1,400 nm range. Single-engine climb is about 400 fpm up to 8,000 feet, and from 8,000 to 12,000 feet the V-Twin will hold altitude on one engine.

The company expects the airframe to support engines up to 250 hp. Velocity is also designing a six-place version with a 2-foot cabin extension and is talking to Delta Hawk about offering a diesel engine option.

“We’re now just waiting to build one more in our shop so we can complete the construction phase” to document the building instructions for kit buyers, Swing said. V-Twin kits start at $110,000, and Velocity estimates cost of the completed aircraft with engines and glass panel will be about $250,000. Estimated construction time is about 800 hours. AVT

PHOTO BY MARIANO ROSALES

The canard-configured Velocity’s new V-Twin is designed to be a twin-engine aircraft incapable of spinning, eliminating the cause of many accidents in twins following an engine failure.

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Can larger aircraft be certified like LSA?

BY JOSEPH E. (JEB) BURNSIDE

That the light-sport aircraft category has been successful shouldn’t be open for discussion. Perhaps that question remained open for a few years but now, after almost eight years, the results are in: Light-sport aircraft (LSA) and the accompanying sport pilot certification rules have achieved what industry hoped: opening up the aviation world to an untapped group of enthusiasts flying innovative new aircraft.

So, if the LSA rules are working so well and resulting in so many new aircraft types, why can’t the best parts of that concept be applied to aircraft certificated under FAR Part 23? What would it take to come up with a set of rules focused on certifying safe and reliable personal airplanes but without the complexity of rules designed for far heavier types? Funny you should ask, because that’s exactly the questions an FAA-chartered industry panel has been tasked to answer.

The FAA last year created a Part 23 Reorganization Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) charged with creating a progressive, tier-based system so small airplanes won’t have to be designed and certificated under the same regulatory

requirements as heavier, more complex, and higher performance aircraft. The end-result should allow manufacturers to bring small planes to market faster and at less cost, EAA said at the time.

Using industry consensus standards for designing and manufacturing LSA has been successful, many in the industry believe, and the LSA success story demonstrates the value of tierbased certification regulations, matching requirements to aircraft’s mission. As an example, an airplane used for recreation should not face the same certification hurdles imposed on a light jet.

The FAA, while not necessarily embracing the concept, chartered the Part 23 ARC on August 15, 2011, in part to develop just such a framework.

The ARC is comprised of FAA staff from its Small Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification Branch, and Flight Standards Service, plus some 20 industry representatives, including EAA. It has its roots in the Part 23 Certification Process Study the agency began in 2008 with the objective of assessing a small airplane’s airworthiness throughout its service life while anticipating future requirements.

The ARC’s charter envisions a threetiered certification scheme, with “lowcomplexity, low-performance airplanes” forming the basic starting point for the other categories. Medium-complexity and -performance airplanes would be next, with those offering the highest performance and certification challenges occupying the top tier.

Of course, any time the FAA begins to “tinker” with long-standing and wellunderstood aircraft certification rules, opportunities for mischief can arise. That’s certainly true regarding the Part 23 ARC and is one principal reason EAA and other aviation

organizations are closely participating. Not convinced? Think about which tier your relatively “simple” retractable single should occupy, or whether the simple fact of folding the landing gear on an identical airframe adds enough complexity to place it in a more stringent one.

That’s just one of the many decisions the ARC must make by its scheduled termination date in August 2013. This week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012, members of the ARC are meeting to discuss their progress and update others.

The results can easily impact the next store-bought aircraft you fly. AVT

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The HondaJet is on display at AirVenture Oshkosh again this year, and its unique configuration draws lots and lots of attention. When most people see the light business jet they ask themselves, “Why did Honda do that?”

Building an airplane was a long-held dream of company founder Soichiro Honda, and Honda found a bright young aerodynamicist, Michimasas Fujino, to bring the aviation dream to life.

So it was Fujino who asked himself the questions. And he has spent at least two decades researching jet aerodynamics in wind tunnels and using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computer programs to prove his ideas work.

Fujino had the relatively rare opportunity of creating a new jet from scratch. Most airplanes are evolutions of an original successful design, and choices made by the people who created the original live on for decades as the airplane morphs into new versions.

Honda set its sights on the light end of the business jet market for its first airplane. Honda is really an engine company at its core, so it designed a brand new small turbofan, the HF120, rated in the 2,000-pound thrust class to power its first airplane. Honda has teamed with GE to certify and produce the engine.

The design goals of any business jet are pretty obvious: Everyone wants the most comfortable cabin with the most space that will fly fastest and farthest for the least cost. Of course, those objectives are actually in opposition. A big cabin adds drag so you slow down and need more fuel and thus more weight and can’t go as far and so on and so on. Airplane design is a series of trade-offs.

But Fujino’s testing showed that he could create a larger cabin than others in the light jet field without sacrificing speed and efficiency if he used some radically different technology. The most obvious is locating the engines atop pylons mounted on the wings. Another way Honda controls drag over a large cabin is with a shape that maintains laminar flow over much of the length of the fuselage.

Other business jets mount the engines on the aft fuselage. It’s a compromise like all other choices but has some advantages.

The aft fuselage structure must be strong to carry loads from the vertical and horizontal tail, so the structural strength

is located there to accommodate the engines. But the engines cause drag by interfering with airflow over the wing root and around the fuselage. On more recently designed jets you can see how designers have moved the engine further up on the tail cone to get more distance away from the wing root and thus interfere less.

Fujino found that he could move the engines off the fuselage and mount them atop pylons located on the wing upper surface exactly at a point where a pressure wave—early formation of a shock wave—would interact with the pylon.

By carefully shaping the pylon his wind tunnel and CFD testing demonstrated the pylon could actually reduce drag by managing the formation and growth of the pressure wave.

Moving the engines to the wings allowed Fujino to carry maximum cabin cross section far aft, providing more room than a traditional design. Enough room to have a comfortable lavatory in the rear, something very much in demand in light jets.

The reason the HondaJet aft cabin is so big is that there is no need to “area rule” the fuselage. To help reduce the drag caused by the interference of the engine, engine pylon, fuselage, and wing, the fuselage on other jets has to be narrowed near the engines. Often the “area rule” shape is a pronounced concave section ahead of the engines, and that takes space away from the cabin. With the engines on the wing, the interference drag is gone so the HondaJet has no need for the fuselage narrowing “area rule” shape.

The unusual shape of the forward fuselage on the HondaJet is another drag-controlling technology created by Fujino. The drooping nose of the airplane is a natural laminar flow (NLF) shape, and so is the slope of the windshield. The forward section of any jet—particularly the windshield area that engineers call the canopy—is a potentially high drag area. Air must accelerate very rapidly to pass over the nose and flow back over the canopy and under body fairing. When air accelerates over a short distance it becomes turbulent instead of maintaining a smooth laminar flow.

The unusual droop of the HondaJet nose, and its rounded shape, plus the slope and shape of the canopy help to naturally maintain laminar flow. With this NLF

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When you’re here at AirVenture, stop by the big Honda tent and take a close look at the jet. Walk around and notice the subtle shapes of the fuselage and its

shape Fujino found that his larger fuselage could have the same, or perhaps even less, drag than a smaller fuselage and cabin of conventional design.

For NLF to work the shape of the manufactured airframe must be maintained within extremely close tolerances. To maintain the design’s precise shape Honda uses a carbon fiber honeycomb construction technology for the fuselage. The carbon fiber materials may save some weight, but the primary

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The HondaJet is not yet certified and in production, and there are, as with any airplane development program, challenges ahead. But when you go by and look at the airplane, and inevitably ask yourself “why did they do that,” you can see that every design choice has a very good reason behind it, and represents the vision of a young aerodynamicist who is not afraid to break with convention. I’d call that innovation. AVT

fairings. Also examine the shape of the engine pylons. They’re not symmetrical, but are really airfoils that Fujino designed to minimize drag as the highspeed air flowing over the wing goes around the pylons.

HondaJets that conform to the final shape and structure have been flying, and actual in-flight testing shows the airplane can meet its goals of top cruise speed of 420 knots and an IFR range with four occupants of 1,180 nm.

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One of Honda’s four HondaJets on display at the company’s exhibit near Phillips 66 Plaza. The aircraft design is still undergoing flight tests and the company is hoping to start production soon.

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New Zealand’s aviation industry well-represented at AirVenture

BY JOSEPH E. (JEB) BURNSIDE

When it comes to looking for the most innovative products available to homebuilders and aircraft owners, few EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 attendees would pay much attention to their national origin.

Even fewer would actively seek out products or aircraft from New Zealand. If that nation’s contingent present at this year’s fly-in have their way, that will change. And soon.

New Zealand companies are active in many markets around the world of interest to AirVenture attendees and homebuilders alike. This includes complete fixed-wing aircraft (the Pacific Aerospace P-750 XSTOL), helicopters (the Aurora twoseat, turbine-powered utility copter), and components (from Classic Aero Machining Service, for example) as well as kit aircraft (the Falcomposite Furio or the Composite Helicopters International KC518). These companies and more made the trek to AirVenture, with a story to tell.

To help, Maurice Williamson, a minister of the New Zealand government, accompanied by representatives of all New Zealand companies present at this year’s exhibition, briefed AirVenture attendees

yesterday on the breadth and strength of New Zealand’s aviation industry. Later, AirVenture Today sat down with Minister Williamson to learn more.

Because to the nation’s location, size, and relatively small population— 4 million—it’s had “to become quite flexible as a nation,” Williamson told us.

“That’s shown by the number of do-ityourselfers who build their own homes, cars, and so on,” he added. As a result, he emphasized, “we can be the most innovative in certain new technologies: carbon fiber, masts and booms, Kevlar sails,” and more. Plus, the nation has a history closely aligned with aviation, again owing to its location.

“This show has been famous amongst obviously the aviation community in New Zealand,” Williamson said. “There’s a culture here, of that whole general aviation community, that shows in the people here.

They clearly look like they live, breathe, and love airplanes and aviation. So we thought this is a vitally good chance for us to get New Zealand’s feet on the first rung of this aviation ladder because we are

“The P-750 XSTOL satisfied all of making and selling and producing some our requirements for a commercially outstanding products,” he added.

“We have 23,500 people employed focused general aviation aircraft,” said across the aviation industry. Now, that’s Jin Qiansheng, CAIB chairman. “With its not much in America, but for 4 million safety record, exceptional performance, and multifunctional roles, the P-750 people, it’s big.”

Recognizing the growing impact aviation XSTOL is ideal for the burgeoning GA is having on the New Zealand economy, market in China.”

That’s the kind of thing New Zealand’s 2012 marks the first time a governmentsponsored mission has attended AirVenture. Williamson wants to hear. And with his They’re here to try creating a presence commitment to ensure his nation’s aviation and “demonstrate we are an innovative, industry continues to be well-represented high-quality, value-added” resource for all at AirVenture, he’s likely to hear it a lot in the future. AVT segments of the aviation industry.

Emphasizing the nation’s growing success in worldwide aviation markets, Williamson accompanied Damian Camp, CEO of Pacific Aerospace Limited, to a ceremony held Tuesday on the AirVenture grounds where the New Zealand airframer appointed Xi’an Yanliang National Aviation Hi-tech Industrial Base (CAIB) as its partner New Zealand Minister Maurice Williamson took a and exclusive sales representative for its moment to pose for photographers in the cockpit of P-750 XSTOL aircraft in China. As part a Pacific Aerospace Limited P-750 after the company of its agreement with PAL, CAIB has inked an agreement at AirVenture to market the ordered five P-750 XSTOLs. utility aircraft in China.

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Some of the most vibrant neighborhoods at AirVenture are the many volunteer groups that take care of all the infrastructure and services needed to make the fly-in work. One of these is vintage aircraft parking and safety.

Michael “Denver” Kosta and Kathy McGurran are two of the eight chairmen that manage the more than 200 volunteers it takes to keep this part of the fly-in moving efficiently and safely.

All these volunteers are spread out among shifts throughout the week.

“On a shift we might have upwards of 30 to 45 people,” Michael said.

Vintage Camping and Parking takes up a significant portion of the AirVenture flightline—almost 90 rows from the Red Barn all the way down to Ultralights.

Preparations are ongoing throughout the year.

“We have a chairman who’s responsible for all the grounds in this part of the field,” Kathy said. “He takes care of preparations throughout the year. He’s from Minnesota, so he comes over several times a year.”

They need to stay on top of the preparations because EAA members start arriving long before the official start of the fly-in.

“Some come as early as June,” Kathy said. “They tie down their airplane, and then drive back home, and then come back for convention.”

Many of the volunteers return year after year. To keep them coming back the group leaders work hard to maintain a family atmosphere, so that the long, hot days are paid off by being part of a fun, friendly group.

“We reel them in, and keep ’em,” Kathy chuckled. “But we want to make it fun for them. We try and have a good time down here.”

They use an area of picnic tables in front of their operations building as a gathering place. Group meals and other socializing helps keep this neighborhood strong. Most every night during the fly-in they gather for a group meal.

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“We’re all family,” Michael said, “and that’s what makes it work so well. We all like each other, we know each other. We know how we work together. And we work together very well. This is a very welloiled machine here. And it’s the envy of other places on the field because we do things so well.”

And they not only work and eat together; many of them live together. A lot of the volunteers pitch their tents together in a grove of trees at the west edge of the Vintage Camping area.

The week is capped with a volunteer appreciation party at the end of the fly-in.

“We give out little ignominious awards for silly things that happen during the week,” Kathy said.

Both Michael and Kathy are long-time, dedicated AirVenture volunteers. Both started helping out at the fly-in 26 years ago. Each began on the very first day they came to the convention.

And they’re not even the volunteers who have been with this group the longest.

“Some have been volunteering since Rockford,” Michael said.

One special task this group got this year was the arrival of all the Piper Cubs.

Did they have to do any special preparations for the Cubs’ arrivals?

“Yeah, we had to get up at 5:30 in the morning to be out here at 6:30 in the morning,” Michael joked. “Really it was nothing special, because it was just more of what we do. And it worked very well.”

Preparing for the Cubs, he said, was “part of what we did when we were here in March, we were laying out where the Cubs were going to go, how we were going to park them, what went where. And that’s what we do before we come here, so we’re not scrambling to make plans.”

Michael and Kathy obviously are very proud of their corner of Wittman Field.

“This is the best place on the field,” he said. “We have all the cool airplanes. And now we have over 125 J-3 Cubs.” AVT

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