EAA AirVenture Today, Friday, July, 27, 2012

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

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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.

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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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Friday, July 27 HIGHLIGHTS 10-11 a.m. P-40 Tribute (Forum), Ron Fagen and Rod Lewis, Warbirds in Review (L06) 10-11:15 a.m. Young Eagles - Thoughts From the Chairmen (Forum), Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff Skiles, Welcome Center (J12) Espionage During Cold War (Forum), Werner Juretzko, Vette Theater (B08) 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Town Hall Meeting (Forum), House Aviation Subcommittee, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Bob Hoover (Forum), Bob Hoover, Forum Pavilion 07 Mainstage Honda Aircraft (J09) 1-2 p.m. Tuskegee Airmen, PT-17, T-6 (Forum), Tuskegee Airmen, Warbirds in Review (L06) 1-2:15 p.m. Air Show Performer (Forum), Sean D. Tucker, Welcome Center (J12) 2-3 p.m. Veterans Parade (Special Event), Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Vintage Workshop (Workshop), Joe Norris, Vintage Hangar (K15) 6-6:30 p.m. Old Glory Honor Flight (Special Event), Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) 2:30 p.m. Recovery, Restoration, and Current Mission of Glacier Girl, Forum Pavilion 5 HAI (J08) 8-10 p.m. Phil Vassar Concert (Concert), Theater in the Woods (K15) 8:30-10:30 p.m. Star Trek (2009, PG-13) (Movie), Fly-In Theater (E13)

ROCKWELL COLLINS AIR SHOW! Beginning at 3:30 p.m. (not in chronological order) Name Aircraft Chuck Aaron Red Bull Helicopter AeroShell Aerobatic Team T-6s Canadian SkyHawks Sky divers Iron Eagles 2 Christen Eagles John Mohr Stearman Melissa Pemberton Edge Michael Rambo Hawker Beechcraft Texan II Gene Soucy Showcat solo Warbirds Extravaganza including Tora! Tora! Tora!

Presentation (Type), Presenter(s), Location (Map Grid #) 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. • Powered Parachutes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. • Women in Aviation (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. • Honorable Heart - Memoirs (Book Signing), Barb Hartwig, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Pilot Fatigue (Forum), Allen Morris, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Passive Activity Limits (Forum), Louis Meiners Jr., Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Terrain Flying (Forum), Capt. John Hook, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Contin. Eng./Stromb. Carb (Forum), Bob Kachergius and Steve Krog, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Safely Shoot HD Vid in AC (Forum), David Tenenbaum, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Paint Scheme Design (Forum), Craig Barnett, Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) Rescue of the Warbirds (Forum), Taras Lyssenko, Forum Pavilion 07 Mainstage Honda Aircraft (J09) Flying Dutchman & His Cub (Forum), Reint Laan, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Master Takeoff & Landings (Forum), David St. George, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Fabric Covering 101 (Forum), SportAir Instructor, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) Get More Flight Students (Forum), Ravi the Raviator, 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) Slick Mags (Forum), Joe Logie, Workshop Classroom I (K10) Gas Welding 101 (Workshop), Gas Welding Workshop (K10) Corvair Flight Engines (Forum), William Wynne, Workshop Classroom II (K10)

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The official daily newspaper of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh • Vol. 13, No. 6 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 2012 by AirVenture Today and EAA. Reproduction by any means is prohibited without written consent.

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Interceptor Operations (Forum), Lt. Col. Ray Bonita, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Model Flying (Forum), Jeff Nance, Welcome Center (J12) Big Bombers (Forum), Milon Hutchinson, Vette Theater (B08) Hints: Tires Split Rim (Demo), Dick Koehler, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce & Specialty (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.

Tribute to “The Few” (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 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. - 12:00 p.m. • Ultralight & Light Planes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

EFS: Breakthrough Tech. (Forum), Lindbergh Foundation’s Green Aviation Alliance, UW Oshkosh’s AeroInnovate, Innovations Hangar North (L09) 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. • Veteran Souvenir Giveaway (Special Event), Scotts Warbird Alley (L07) 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) Chicken Wings Comics (Book Signing), Michael Strasser, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. • Angle of Attack Awareness (Forum), Rich Stowell, Learn to Fly Discovery Center (J13) 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Aeronautical Oddities (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) Cliff Robertson Tribute (Movie), Skyscape Theater (B08) 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. • Seeandavoid.org (Forum), USAF Safety Center, Federal Pavilion (L10) 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Pearl Harbor to Tokyo (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) Hand Prop Your AC (Forum), Vintage Red Barn (L14) Sock Plane (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) Suncatchers (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) G600/G500 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke and Tuskegee Airmen, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Vintage Workshop (Workshop), Joe Norris, Vintage Hangar (K15) Doolittle Raiders (Autograph Session), Ford Tent (K12) 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Save Money on Insurance (Forum), Bob Mackey, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) EMG-5: Elec. Motorglider (Forum), Brian Carpenter, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Advanced Fabric Covering (Forum), Jim Miller, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Planes of Future Past (Forum), Daniel Raymer, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) SA & LSA-What to Know (Forum), Sue Gardner, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) All Things Cessna - Open (Forum), Cessna Pilot’s Association, Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) Yoke and Pedal (Forum), Rod Machado, Forum Pavilion 07 Mainstage Honda Aircraft (J09) Lightning LS-1 SLSA (Forum), Nick Otterback, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Maverick Flying Car (Forum), Troy Townsend, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Easy Tailwheel Flying (Forum), Budd Davisson, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) Structure Load: Comp Bond (Forum), Mike Hoke, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax (K09) Mixture Meter (Forum), Sid Wood, Workshop Classroom I (K10) CNC Foam Cutter (Forum), Scott VanderVeen, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Benefit of Safety Manage. (Forum), Fred Brisbois and James Viola, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Rotorcraft Briefing Sess. (Forum), Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Wright Brothers Engine (Forum), Steve Hay, Wright Flyer - Museum (B08) Human Factors (Forum), Dick Rutan, SpaceShip One / Voyager (B08) ThinkGlobal Flight (Forum), Judy Rice, Hilton Theater (B08) Aerial Movie Production (Movie), Skip Holm, Skyscape Theater (B08) Art & Aerobatics (Forum), Lisa Lemeland, Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ (L12) MakerPlane (Forum), John Nicol, Innovations Hangar South - Tech Stage (L09)

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.

Integrate Prototyping (Forum), Dan Cataldi, Innovations Hangar South - Venture Stage (L09) HBIR: Zenith STOL CH 750 (Homebuilts in Review), Sebastien Heintz, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce (K09) 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

G3X (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) WomenVenture Photo (Special Event), Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Nick Giant Adventure (Book Signing), Jamie Dodson, Authors Corner 1 (J12) Accident Investigation (Forum), NTSB, Federal Pavilion (L10) 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.

Hook Down, Wheels Down (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) Robin Olds, Fighter Pilot (Autograph Session), Christina Olds, Warbird Store (L06) Needle Felted Flyers (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) Ignition Service (Vendor Forum), Billy Beam, Continental Motors (J11) ADS-B: GDL 39 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke and the B-29, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) Chuck Aaron Autographs (Autograph Session), Ford Tent (K12) 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. • Build Blocks (Forum), NAFI, Learn to Fly Discovery Center (J13) 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. • Stewart System Demo (Demo), Stewart System, UL Tech Tent (K18) 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. • Flying to the Bahamas (Forum), Mike idziunas and Leonard Stuart, Federal Pavilion (L10) 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Garmin Pilot on iPad (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) Squawk 7700 (Book Signing), Peter Buffington, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. iPad, Mobile on the Move (Forum), Christopher Dean, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) China’s Opening to GA (Forum), Jane Zhang, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Busting the Repair Myth (Forum), Molly McNamara-Dean, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Test Flying HB Aircraft (Forum), William Posnett III, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) BRS Deploying (Forum), Dick McGlaughlin and John Farese, Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) Secrets from the Tower (Forum), Bob Richards, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Light AC Drag Reduction (Forum), Barnaby Wainfan, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Pitts Special – Lovin’ ’Em (Forum), Budd Davisson, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) Floats for your Homebuilt (Forum), Sebastien Heintz, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax (K09) Convert Suzuki/Honda Eng (Forum), Jeron Smith, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Accident Prone (Forum), Greg Feith, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Transitioning to Trikes (Forum), Mike Hudetz, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) IFR Proficiency Center (Forum), GAMA/IMC Club, Welcome Center (J12) Bunny Hops to Alaska (Forum), Louis and Nancy Fabbri, Vette Theater (B08) Cold War: “Hog Wild” (Forum), Terry Rainey, Hilton Theater (B08) USA Aviation Speed Record (Forum), Dr. Jeremiah Jackson, Skyscape Theater (B08) Shooting Aerobatic Video (Forum), Steve Tupper and David Allen, Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ (L12) Roadable Aircraft Tech. (Forum), Joe Caravella Jr., Innovations Hangar South - Tech Stage (L09) Doing Aviation Business (Forum), WEDC, Innovations Hangar South - Venture Stage (L09) Drag, Speed, & Prop Design (Forum), Howard Handelman, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce & Specialty (K09) 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. • Brown Arch Concert (Special Event), Brown Arch (M10) 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. • Weather Center Forecast (Forum), NWS Aviation Weather Center, Federal Pavilion (L10) 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

GTN 750/650 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Plane Talk- DC-10 ORBIS (Interview), Jerry Burke, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. • Sky King - Volume 13 (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. • Tuskegee Airman Autograph (Autograph Session), Tuskegee Airmen Museum, Warbird Store (L0 ) 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 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) All of Life Is a School (Book Signing), Kermit Weeks, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Disturbing Discovery (Forum), Mark Robidoux and John Krug, Learn to Fly Discovery Ctr (J13) 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Hand Prop our AC (Forum), Vintage Red Barn (L14) ADS-B: GDL 39 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Plane Talk (Interview), Jerry Burke and Jon Huggins, Phillips 66 Plaza (K12) SR-71 Pilots Autographs (Autograph Session), Ford Tent (K12) 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. iPad/Gear for Your Plane (Forum), Ryan Deck, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Cozy Mk. IV Aircraft (Forum), Marc Zeitlin, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) 20 Best Places to Fly (Forum), Michael Combs, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) Analyze Optimize Design (Forum), Daniel Raymer, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) The EGT Myth (Forum), Mike Busch, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Ten Reasons to Be a CFI (Forum), Jack Vandeventer, Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) Longest Flight in World (Forum), Dick Rutan, Forum Pavilion 07 Mainstage Honda Aircraft (J09) X-Plane 10 (Forum), Austin Meyer, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) iPad Proficiency Seminar (Forum), Tyson Weihs, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Fabric Covering 101 (Forum), SportAir Instructor, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) Aeronautical Decisions (Forum), Bill English, 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) Composite 101 (Workshop), Composite Workshop (K10) Loehle Coatings (Forum), Mike Loehle, Workshop Classroom I (K10)

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Gas Welding 101 (Workshop), Gas Welding Workshop (K10) Using NOMEX Cores (Forum), Scott VanderVeen, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Aluminum Forming (Demo), Kent White, Workshop Tent (K10) Airspace, Airmanship (Forum), Wanda Zuege, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Colors Project (Forum), Thierry Barbier, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Crossing English Channel (Forum), Dr. Barbara Ganson, Vette Theater (B08) Air War Pacific (Forum), Charlie Cooper, Hilton Theater (B08) Secret MiG Squadron (Forum), Gaillard Peck, Skyscape Theater (B08) Aerobatics: Get Started (Forum), Taylor Oretga, Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ (L12) Electric Lindbergh Flight (Forum), Chip Yates, Innovations Hangar South - Tech Stage (L09) Basics on IP (Forum), Michael Gratz, Innovations Hangar South - Venture Stage (L09) HBIR-RV-8 (Homebuilts in Review), Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce & Specialty (K09) 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. • Jewelry & Decorating (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • Sock Monkey (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. • Vin Fiz: Grape Drink (Forum), Ryan ualls, Federal Pavilion (L10) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Gen. Aviation Acc. Record (Forum), NTSB, Seaplane Base (O-S) ADS-B Academy: GDL 88 (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 2 (I13) From Here to There (Book Signing), Louis and Nancy Fabbri, Authors Corner 1 (J12) Recruitment & Retention (Forum), Trevor Janz and Brenda Anderson, Theater in the Woods (K15) 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Weather in the Cockpit (Vendor Forum), Garmin, Garmin Hangar Tent 1 (I13) Bud Anderson Autographs (Autograph Session), C.E. Bud Anderson, Ford Tent (K12) 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. • Sky King Volume 14 (Movie), Flying Cinema (L08) 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Showcase Flights (Exhibition), Flightline (M13) The Rogue Aviator (Book Signing), Allen Morris, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Pilot Job Market Recovery (Forum), Kit Darby, Forum Pavilion 01 Pacific Coast Avionics (K09) Sonex Flying Qualities (Forum), Kerry Fores, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Benefits: WAAS LPV and LP (Forum), JoAnn Ford, Forum Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation (K09) All About Oil (Forum), Mike Busch, Forum Pavilion 04 (K09) Story of Glacier Girl (Forum), Bob Cardin, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Sonerai Stories (Forum), Fred Keip, Forum Pavilion 06 JP Instruments (J09) Right Footed (Forum), Jessica Cox, Forum Pavilion 07 Mainstage Honda Aircraft (J09) Flying with the iPad (Forum), Bret Koebbe, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) Self-Fly Vacations (Forum), Clare McEwan, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) Fabric Covering Review (Forum), Jon Goldenbaum, Forum Pavilion 10 Poly-Fiber (K09) Navigate Airport (Forum), Steve Hansen, Forum Pavilion 11 BRP/Rotax (K09) Waterborne Cover & Paint (Forum), Dan Stewart, Workshop Classroom I (K10) VW Fuel Systems (Forum), Steve Bennett, Workshop Classroom II (K10) Make a Living—Instructor (Forum), Doug Stewart, FAA Aviation Safety Center (J11) Leverage your Fun (Forum), Roy Beisswenger, Ultralight Forums Tent (K18) Flying Dutchman & His Cub (Forum), Reint Laan, Welcome Center (J12) Flying w/ Whooping Cranes (Forum), Joe Duff, Hilton Theater (B08) WASP Pilots of WWII (Forum), Jan Goodrum and Bernice “Bee” Haydu, Skyscape Theater (B08) Hints: Compression Testing (Demo), Dick Koehler, Homebuilders Hangar Aircraft Spruce & Specialty (K09) 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Knitted Pins (Art & Crafts), Craft Tent (K8) 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. • Accident Investigation (Forum), NTSB, Federal Pavilion (L10) 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Tuskegee Airman Autograph (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. - 4:30 p.m. • Secret MiG S uadron (Book Signing), Gaillard Peck, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 3:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. • Friday Air Show (M13) 3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. • Canine Demonstration (Forum), US Customs & Border Patrol, Federal Pavilion (L10) 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Women Who Build (Forum), Denise Waters, Forum Pavilion 02 GAMA (K09) Super 18 Kit Family (Forum), Dakota Cub Aircraft, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) Loss of Control (Forum), Dr. Parvez Dara, Forum Pavilion 08 NATCA (J09) 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. • Simplified AC Design (Book Signing), Daniel Raymer, Authors Corner 1 (J12) 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. • Roadable Aircraft (Forum), Ron Borovec, Forum Pavilion 05 HAI (J08) 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. • Ultralight & Light Planes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20) 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. • College Mi er (Special Event), Partner Resource Center (I11) 7:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. • Rotorcraft Awards (Awards), Theater in the Woods (K15) 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. • Ultralight Party (Special Event), Ultralight Barn (K18) 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. • PADA Lecture Presentation (Forum), Brien Seeley, Vette Theater (B08) 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. • Flying Musicians- Peel (Performance), David Peel, Forum Pavilion 09 Honda Generator (K09) 7:15 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. • Mort Crim movie (Movie), Theater in the Woods (K15) 7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. • Powered Parachutes (Performance), Ultralight Runway (K20)

WHERE ON THE GROUNDS IS ROD? 8 a.m. PHP Tent: Salute to Veterans Breakfast 2:15 p.m. Phillips 66 Plaza: Veterans Parade

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‘Son of Tora!’ flies at AirVenture STORY AND PHOTOS BY FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN Hollywood loves a sequel.

So do the pilots of the Commemorative Air Force’s Tora! Tora! Tora! air show flight.

Starting with a half-dozen aircraft from the 1970 movie, Tora! Tora!

Tora!, portraying Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Texas ag pilot Tommy Reedy created the then-Confederate Air Force’s Pearl Harbor battle reenactment in 1972.

Today, Reedy’s son Dan flies one of the movie’s original avatar aircraft in the ongoing Tora! Tora! Tora! show presented by the Commemorative Air Force, as the organization is now known.

Reedy’s fellow Tora! pilots include sons of two more founders: Mike Burke and Patrick Hurchins.

The CAF received a gift of about six of the modified movie planes from donor Gerald Weeks after the movie was finished. Tommy Reedy noticed the Japanese aircraft stand-ins deteriorating on

“The Tora! show is living history, especially for younger viewers.”

the ramp at Harlingen, Texas, so he secured approval from the organization to refurbish them for air show use.

The elder Reedy and other pilots soon had a hit on their hands with their re-enactments of the Oahu sneak attacks—but on Texas air shows.

One early Tora! pilot was Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise, according to Dan Reedy.

As the 1970s bloomed and flying under the leadership of Charles Hutchins, the Tora! crew enlarged the show to include mock attacks on the CAF’s B-17G Texas

Raiders, complete with smoke issuing from the bomber and a simulated one-wheel landing by pilot Van Skiles, who rolled it a full runway length with one main wheel out, the other retracted.

Next a CAF friendly fighter, often a P-40 or Wildcat, would jump the Japanese attackers.

Hutchins’ Zero replica “would have a fur ball fight with one of the American fighters and get shot down,” Dan says.

The lead Zero replica was the only one with smoke back then, descending to the deck streaming a smoke plume signaling the American victory.

Early on, the pilots of the Tora! aircraft paid their own travel expenses.

“You were lucky to get gas,” Dan explains. The Tora! flight’s fame spread, and air shows were flown beyond Texas, as far as Anchorage, Alaska. The team’s business plan now calls for air show fees to pay for maintenance on each aircraft, Dan says.

“Each individual pilot is the sponsor of that airplane,” Dan says. “We have 13 airplanes in the Tora! Tora! Tora! group.”

Most or all of the aircraft fly in the big annual Texas CAF shows; smaller contingents fly other events. As many as 15 pilots share flying duties, often taking vacation from other jobs to make a particular air show date.

Additions to the show team are generally made by invitation, Dan explains.

“We’ve got to feel comfortable flying with him,” he says.

That caution stems from the formation flight en route and especially the mix-emup style of the show. The apparent disarray of battle, compounded by smoke, is convincing to viewers.

But the Tora! pilots carefully mark show sites with reference lines for each aircraft type to use as they stay clear of each other.

The team’s own pyrotechnic crew adds to the drama with explosions sending geysers of flame skyward.

“Hats off to the pyro guys,” Dan says.

Without them, “it’s just a bunch of airplanes flying around in circles.”

Dan says the Tora! show is living history, especially for younger viewers who may not know the history surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack.

Once in awhile, the team gets questions from viewers who wonder why they are portraying former enemies of the United

States. He says it is not to glorify attackers of this country, but to tell the story. To that end, he says the show’s accompanying narration by Ken Crites is evocative and stirring.

They may be movie airplanes and special-effects explosions, but the Tora! Tora!

Tora! show at AirVenture promises to be gripping during the air show this afternoon and Saturday. AVT

ABOVE: Dan Reedy is proud to follow in his father’s footsteps as a pilot for the Commemorative Air Force’s Tora! Tora! Tora! air show group. He flies this modified T-6 Texan that was part of the fleet assembled for the movie of that name. BELOW: What began as an American Vultee BT-13 trainer metamorphosed into a convincing stand-in for one of the Japanese Aichi Type 99 “Val” dive bombers that attached Pearl Harbor. This one brings a living history lesson to AirVenture.

Marvelous movie machines of Tora! Tora! Tora!

When Twentieth Century Fox recast the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1969, it was widely said it spent more than the Japanese had in the original attack.

The most stunning accomplishment was the creation of a force of nearly 30 singleengine aircraft to represent the attacking Japanese Navy.

If movies in the past had conveniently painted red Japanese insignia on T-6 Texans because of their general resemblance to the Mitsubishi Zero fighter, this was not

good enough for Tora! Tora! Tora!

The time-honored Texans were still recruited as Zero fighters, but extensively modified—cowlings, rounded wingtips, landing gear doors, and—especially visible—sloping canopies mated to fighterstyle windscreens.

Zeros were the easy part.

To conjure accurate visions of Nakajima “Kate” torpedo bombers, T-6 Texans were stretched by several feet with plugs ahead of and behind the original cockpit

compartments. The converters attached tail sections from an entirely different aircraft, the Vultee BT-13, to the stretched Texans to make the resulting movie planes amazingly similar in appearance to the Kates portrayed.

More BT-13s were procured in an era when such warbird trainers were plentiful. These were given a small stretch ahead of the cockpit to which a larger R1340 engine was added. Huge fiberglass wheelpants and tail fillets added to the image

of these once-docile trainers as ferocious fixed-gear dive bombers.

The resulting attack footage, shot in Hawaii, is far more believable than a just bunch of cosmetically painted Texans.

With filming finished, the Fox Air Force shipped back to Long Beach, California, where the masquerading Japanese warplanes were sold to new owners.

That’s how the CAF came to be given six of the movie machines—the foundation of its Tora! Tora! Tora! flight.

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Acting FAA administrator talks NextGen, safety

BY JAMES WYNBRANDT

Making his first visit to AirVenture, acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta focused on general aviation safety and NextGen implementation during the annual Meet the Administrator session at the Honda Pavilion yesterday.

After an introduction by EAA President/CEO Rod Hightower, Huerta related how he’d grown up in Riverside, California, near the legendary Flabob Airport, a frequent stop on his newspaper delivery route. “I can’t tell you how many times people who lived there got their newspaper a little late because I was busy watching airplanes,” Huerta said.

As for his impressions of AirVenture, “We see here at Oshkosh the foundations that have made the USA such a great place. It’s all about experimentation, all about innovation, and all about freedom,” Huerta said.

“But with that freedom comes the responsibility to ensure safety.”

Huerta noted that fatal CFIT (controlled flight into terrain), loss of control in flight, and approach and landing accidents have declined in the past five years compared with the previous five years, and urged attendees to set high safety standards for themselves.

On NextGen, the FAA’s program to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS) and transfer to satellite-based navigation and surveillance, Huerta said he has “asked our team in the last few months to focus on what we do to accelerate performancebased navigation.”

One result is the FAA’s Metroplex initia-

tive, aimed at optimizing airspace and procedures around large metropolitan areas.

While the immediate beneficiaries predominantly are airliners, “a secondary benefit is that it frees up airspace for air traffic control to clear general aviation through these areas much more freely,” Huerta said.

“It eliminates a lot of conflicts between those [commercial] airplanes and satellite airports.”

In the Q&A following his remarks attendees raised a number of critical issues, answered by Huerta and senior FAA officials.

On the question of user fees, which the administration has proposed imposing on business aviation flights as well as commercial flights, Huerta said, “There hasn’t been a whole lot of support [for user fees], but the long term questions is something we need to focus on: How can we reduce reliance on the general fund [to pay the FAA’s budget]? We need to work together to figure that out.”

An attendee from Cincinnati, which is poised to close Blue Ash Airport in contravention of FAA regulations, asked what action the agency planned to take against the city if it followed through on the closure.

FAA Associate Administrator of Airports Christa Fornarotto said, “The FAA feels so strongly about this, we call it a third rail issue: We told them if this does not get corrected, we will be going to court” to take legal action against the city.

A flight instructor asked about outmoded test questions on FAA pilot written ex-

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Micheal Huerta and Rod Hightower exchange pleasantries after the Meet the Administrator forum Thursday morning. aminations, and was told the FAA would be releasing new tests “more in tune with today’s testing strategy” by the end of the year.

To a question about the FAA’s policy on the proliferation of UAVs operated by a growing number of agencies, Huerta said in part, “We are not going to compromise on safety of NAS.” A young airline first officer with 750 hours of flight time said he and many others would lose their jobs due to recent

legislation mandating airline pilots have at least 1,500 hours total time, and asked what the FAA could do about it. Huerta said the agency was working to institute rules that would grant credits for various types of flight experience to avoid having the legislation as written take effect. “If we don’t finalize these rules,” Huerta said, “the law passed by Congress would set the (flight time) limit at 1,500 hours.

“We’re trying to look at bringing flexibility” to the law.

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

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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.

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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This eager fan awaits an autograph from George Lucas at the Fly-In Theater.

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George Lucas shakes Colonel Charles E. McGee’s hand after the informative discussion before the Red Tails movie showing at the Fly-In Theater. Washington D. Ross (background) is another of the Red Tail pilots who attended this Wednesday evening event.

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German V12 monster diesel engine STORY AND PHOTO BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT

German-based RED Aircraft—Raikhlin Aircraft Engine Developments—is making its AirVenture debut this year with its 12-cylinder, 500-hp, diesel/Jet A engine, the RED A03. The company is striving to bring the highest level of German diesel powerplant technology to aviation within the framework

“We wanted to develop the products properly.” of EASA Part 21 design organization requirements.

RED debuted the A03 back home two years ago, but no information has been available to the press or general public since then. And for good reason, stated CEO Vladimir Raikhlin.

“We wanted to develop the products properly,” he said.

The company showed the A03 and a smaller powerplant at April’s AERO Friedrichshafen in Germany. The “smaller” mill is the 300-hp V-6, RED

A05, a prototype that is almost complete and currently undergoing extensive testing. Both engines have an aluminum engine block and cylinder heads, use the newest diesel common-rail fuel-injection technology, and feature a purposebuilt propeller speed reduction unit (PSRU) for low prop rpm.

RED has already successfully flighttested the 500-hp engine on board the company’s YAK-52. Acceleration loads typical for training aircraft provided an opportunity to test engine performance and durability, in critical conditions.

Further flight testing will be conducted with the YAK-52, and plans are being finalized to flight-test the A03 on a twin-engine aircraft.

Certification The A03 is undergoing type certification in compliance with EASA requirements, and the company plans FAA certification thereafter.

The A05 was developed due to customer requests, and an intensive test program is planned for 2013.

See the RED exhibit in Booth 383, located near Phillips 66 Plaza, or visit www.RED-Aircraft.com. AVT

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EAA/AOPA third-class medical certification exemption request comments still being accepted

BY SIENNA KOSSMAN

When the Federal Aviation Administration extended to September 14 the deadline for public comments on the EAA/AOPA third-class medical certification exemption request, EAA seized the opportunity to collect comments right on the convention grounds throughout AirVenture 2012.

And the crowd is responding. Wednesday alone the EAA Welcome Center received between 50 and 75 comments on the exemption request.

The exemption request would allow recreational pilots to operate many popular GA aircraft by completing an online medical awareness course, carrying a valid state driver’s license, and observing specified operating limitations.

“We’ve had people in here filling out comment sheets consistently,” said Tim

Hoversten, EAA Member Services staff member.

“And that’s just what we’ve noticed while we are standing right by them.”

There is not yet an exact total for how many comments have been received since the start of AirVenture, but based on staff observations, things look very positive.

If you have not yet commented on the third-class medical certification exemption request, visit the EAA Welcome Center to make sure your voice gets heard.

“We are here, we are taking your comments, and we are entering everything,” Hoversten said. “Whatever you comment is what will go in. We strongly encourage you to stop by.”

The EAA Welcome Center, located directly west of Phillips 66 Plaza, is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. this week. AVT

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Danny Tuchscherer of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, hands out the show’s daily newspaper to attendees passing through the AirVenture main gate.

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Katie Bell and James Tripp keep a firm grip on Sean D. Tucker’s ribbon pole as he flies in the afternoon air show.

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Craig Young, Karla Young, and Gregg Tschida stay cool in the shade to watch the afternoon air show.

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Dragon Fyre: truckin’ on PW power

BY BARBARA A. SCHMITZ David Modder drives like a little old grandma on the road. But behind the wheel of his new Dragon’s Fyre Jet Truck, he can shame even the best of the lead-foots.

The full-time airline pilot will debut his 1940 Ford truck to the Oshkosh audience at the Saturday Night Air Show, using experience gained driving jet vehicles since 1997.

The Dragon’s Fyre Jet Truck reaches speeds of 220 mph in seven seconds on a quarter-mile track. However, Modder will only be doing a fire show for the AirVenture 2012 crowd, while another jet vehicle, the Funny Jet Car, will race down the taxiway to the Wall of Fire.

The Dragon’s Fyre Jet Truck is new this season with only nine runs on it, Modder said.

Mirroring a flight-test program, they’ve been taking “baby steps” with the truck to determine its capabilities.

Modder said he was 14 when he saw his first jet car and knew immediately he had to have one.

It took 22 years, but he did get his jet dragster. Much of that dragster, however, is now in his new jet truck, including the engine, wheels, brakes, and tires.

Modder said he came up with the idea to build a jet truck about five years ago.

There are only about five jet trucks in operation and no one had ever done an oldstyle truck like the Dragon’s Fyre, he said.

It took about a year and $125,000 to build, and Modder, who is also an A&P mechanic, estimates he did 90 percent of the work himself.

Only the hood, cab, rear fenders, and engine were purchased.

“A lot more thinking went into designing it than building it,” Modder said.

“Thankfully, there was no excitement in the build.”

Modder also built it to be safe. The jet truck has an integral fire-extinguisher system installed. “One of the nozzles is on me, and two are on the engine,” he said.

“It has an escape hatch, plus a door if you need to get out in a hurry. I’m also super fussy with maintenance. I find little things before they become big things.”

To further ensure his safety, Modder wears a five-layer fire suit, five-layer gloves, and a helmet.

While Modder has been to AirVenture many times throughout the years, this is the first he’s been here with Dragon’s Fyre.

“It’s really an honor and privilege to be part of the Oshkosh air show,” he said.

“This is a huge audience and it will be really nice to have so many people appreciate all the work that goes into a vehicle like this.”

The Fyre Jet Truck is located to the south of Ford’s car display near Forums and Workshops Plaza. AVT

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SPECIFICATIONS

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Length: Wheelbase: 135 inches; Overall length: 17 feet Weight (empty): 1,550 pounds Engine: General Electric J-85-17 Thrust: Approximately 6,000 pounds Fuel: Kerosene or Jet-A Fuel burn per run: 30 gallons Fuel consumption rate: 2 gallons per second in afterburner

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Cirrus highlights personal jet at OSH

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BY JAMES WYNBRANDT Cirrus Aircraft opened its AirVenture 2012 display with a performance by country music artist (and Cirrus owner) Dierks Bentley, setting the perfect tone for the new sure-to-be-popular options and aircraft-development news the company is showcasing here.

These include updates on the Vision SJ50 personal jet program, its Perspective Global Connect satellite communications solution, the new Jump Start ownership/ lease-back training program, and its revitalized Cirrus Access ownership program for prospective pilots.

The Vision SJ50 jet first flew in 2008, but development stopped as Cirrus and the general aviation industry were hammered by the economic downturn.

This April the company announced CAIGA, its new owner, has fully funded development and certification of the fiveplace, single-engine personal jet.

Here at AirVenture Cirrus announced fuselage tooling for Vision C-Zero, its first conforming aircraft, will be in place by the end of 2012, with first flight expected in 2014.

“After some uncertainty with the program, we have a specific schedule, we’re hiring engineers and ramping up to get to the finish line,” said Todd Simmons, executive vice president, sales and marketing.

The SJ50 will be assembled in Duluth using composite parts fabricated in Grand Forks.

Here at the show, Cirrus is taking $100,000 deposits on the $1.96 million jet.

Cirrus says more than 525 positions are already reserved.

Cirrus is also touting its new Perspective Global Connection option, available on all models to provide access to the Iridium satellite network for communication and data transfer anywhere in the world.

Integrated into the Cirrus Perspective audio system, Perspective Global Connection allows in-flight phone calls made through headsets, as well as access to high-resolution weather-radar imagery of the United States, Western Europe, Canada, and Australia.

The company’s Jump Start program for SR20 models, introduced earlier this year,

links prospective Cirrus buyers with flight schools in the Cirrus training network.

Buyers of these specially outfitted and priced SR20s can train in their aircraft and place it in the flight school’s training fleet, with the income significantly mitigating the cost of ownership.

Cirrus has also reintroduced its Cirrus Access program, which makes it easy for nonpilots to buy a Cirrus and have the services of a professional pilot who acts as flight instructor, corporate pilot on personal and business flights, and aircraft manager while the owner works to earn a pilot certificate.

This also ensures that the instruction occurs in real-world flight environments, as the owner can train during the course of a business flight or while flying the family to their vacation home.

Conversely, the owner can turn over to their personal pilot all flight responsibilities on a given mission, freeing them to enjoy the comfort and utility of air transportation by Cirrus.

Also new this year, Cirrus has introduced 60/40 FlexSeating to its entire fleet, boosting occupancy to five passengers.

A fold-down split in the rear seat, when stowed upright, provides room for a fifth passenger. The new seating also offers a three-position reclining feature, allowing rear seat passengers to recline to their individually preferred amount. Meanwhile, a 10-pound empty weight reduction in all 2012 models boosts useful load.

CAIGA (China Aircraft Industry General Aviation Co. Ltd.) purchased Cirrus just over a year ago.

“We’re learning about each other,” Simmons said of the new owners.

“The most important point with our new owners is that they share the same ideals.

They want to grow aviation, and grow aviation in China, and there’s a long way to go for that. Every month, week, and day we get more closely aligned.”

Here at Oshkosh, Cirrus has half a dozen examples of its piston-powered models (SR20, SR22, SR22T) and two SJ50 prototypes on display (booths 183-188). AVT

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Eagle Flights proving popular at Learn to Fly Discovery Center

BY SIENNA KOSSMAN The Learn to Fly Discovery Center has been bustling all week, especially after the launch of the new EAA Eagle Flights program on Wednesday.

Similar to Young Eagles, the Eagle Flights program will give adults a chance to experience a hands-on flight in a GA aircraft with an EAA pilot.

“Now that it has been established exactly what the program is, we have been explaining the program in more detail and getting lots of positive reactions,” said Trevor Janz, EAA manager of chapters and Eagle Flights.

“The goal is to help chapters bring in new potential aviators.”

People interested in an Eagle Flight can sign up at the Discovery Center, where they’ll be given contact information for a local EAA chapter that will match the potential future aviator with a current one.

“We are going to the chapters because the goal is to help chapters bring in new potential aviators,” Janz said.

In the event a local chapter contact is

not feasible, EAA will be the general resource to make sure an Eagle Flight candidate gets an opportunity to fly.

“We’ll make sure to keep in touch with them through the chapter network and EAA headquarters, focusing on supporting and mentoring them through the entire process,” Janz said.

In addition to the first-flight portion of Eagle Flights, an online ground school program will be available for participants within the next 90 days.

The Eagle Flights website, www.

EagleFlights.org, will launch about two weeks after AirVenture.

Meanwhile, interest in the EAA Young Eagles program remains steady, Janz said.

“A lot of curious parents are coming in with their kids, asking questions and becoming informed, which shows that the program is alive and well,” Janz said.

The Learn to Fly Discovery Center daily forums have been very well attended, according to Janz.

“By 8 a.m., it’s standing room only,” he said. “The Pilot Proficiency Program has also been very popular this week.”

Informational packets and brochures for both the Young Eagles and Eagle Flights programs, as well as the daily forum schedule, are available at the Learn to Fly Discovery Center, located directly across from the EAA Welcome Center, just west of Phillips 66 Plaza. AVT

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Fifty-eight conventions and counting

BY RANDY DUFAULT EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 is the 60th annual gathering for EAA, and that means No. 58 for Lou Seno; he missed the first two, in 1953 and 1954, but since age 6 he hasn’t missed any of them.

“My father has a three-digit EAA number,” Seno said. “He joined in 1955 and he always wanted to build an open-cockpit airplane.”

In 1955, Paul Poberezny penned the famous airplane construction article for Mechanix Illustrated. Seno’s father (also named Lou) became one of many aviation enthusiasts drawn into the world of homebuilding by Poberezny’s Corben Baby Ace project.

“The magazine came out in May and we attended [the EAA fly-in convention] later that summer,” Seno said.

The Senos moved to a new house with a big basement in suburban Chicago in 1956.

It took about five years to build the Baby Ace, and it flew for the first time in July 1961 at DuPage County airport.

“Dad had measured it out and he knew that the two wing panels—it was a singleplace fuselage so that was not very wide— would all come out. For five years the neighbors would all say, ‘The Senos are building an airplane in their basement; how are they going to get it out?’ But it

came out perfectly, no issues at all.”

Unfortunately the Baby Ace was a single-seat airplane, meaning the younger Seno could not fly with his dad. “The Ace Aircraft Company came out with a set of plans for a two-place side-by-side called the Junior Ace,” he said. “So we built one of those. It used the same wings and tail as the Baby Ace. We got it done for [the EAA convention in Rockford] in 1966.”

Seno’s father flew the Junior Ace continuously up until five years ago when it found a new home in the Vintage Wings and Wheels Museum in Poplar Grove, Illinois.

EAA conventions over the years saw a number of other Seno homebuilt projects. They won the Outstanding Workmanship Award at the 1988 convention in Oshkosh for their Wag-Aero Sport Trainer (the Cub replica).

Seno is CEO and chairman of Jet Support Services Inc., an independent supplier of hourly cost maintenance programs for turbine-powered business aircraft.

He first soloed an airplane when he was 16 years old, and received his private ticket a year later. Seno currently flies an F33 Bonanza.

After working in the family clothing business for a few years, Seno followed his

PHOTO BY RANDY DUFAULT

Lou Seno attended his first EAA convention in 1955 and has not missed one since. ABOVE: Lou Seno Senior Supervises Lou Junior’s work on their Corben Baby Ace wing.

passion for aviation and took a job selling GA airplanes. That was followed by a long career in aircraft financing and his current position at JSSI. When asked to describe the changes over his long tenure, Seno was quick to reply that technology drove much of that change.

“In 1955 we were doing tube and fabric airplanes,” he said. “Then there were all-metal homebuilts, then came the composite age.

“I was telling [a JSSI staffer] that a lot of the technology we see today in business

aviation started here. Clearly, composites lived here in Oshkosh long before the business guys started using them.”

Seno is not sure what he might be flying to future AirVentures.

“I think my building days are over,” he said. “My father and I were a great team but at this point I’m flying the Bonanza, which is fine.”

There might be one other project or airplane on the horizon, he said, “but I’m not sure at this point in my life that I’m ready to go back in the basement and start grinding one out.” AVT

Treasures await at EAA surplus sale

BY BARBARA SCHMITZ

Need a B-17 blade, an F-4 McDonnell ejection seat, or an 8-1/2-foot model aircraft complete with shipping crate? How about aircraft manuals, a MiG-21 drag chute, or a generator for a P-51 or Corsair?

Then you’re in the right place. The EAA AirVenture Museum Surplus Shop has an estimated 8,000-10,000 aviationrelated items on sale, said Chuck Parnall, surplus sale chairman. Some things are more common, such as cylinders, generators, airframe parts, or aviation magazines. Others are a little rarer, like an OQ-19D radio plane drone, completely undamaged and built in about 1950 to be used for gunnery practice.

Parnall said the EAA museum is selling duplicate artifacts or artifacts that are not needed for their collection. “The money made from the sale goes into a special artifact fund,” he said. “It allows us to do things like create another Blériot, digitalize our collection, or make improvements to the B-17 that otherwise we wouldn’t be able to do.”

A committee, including Jeff Skiles, vice president of chapters and youth education; Ron Twellman, museum curator; and

others decided what items should be sold.

Some items have been donated to the museum, but EAA staff or volunteers made other items, such as a new propeller for the OX-5 engine. “We made it for the Swallow when we were restoring it, but then decided to put a 220 Continental engine in it instead,” Parnall said.

Some items are priced, but others are name-your-price. Still other artifacts are being sold as a silent auction, like a World War II bombardier’s nose glass or an original panel of a Ford Tri-Motor.

Parnall said the goal is to get the parts to be used again—at least those that are airworthy—rather than hanging on a wall in someone’s house. But people have been creative in what they’re doing with the various parts. For example, one person is taking the motor mount of a DC-3 and converting it into a base for a glass table.

Parnall stressed that they are not selling anything that is needed for the museum’s collection. “Why let it sit here unused when we can sell it and use the money to buy something we need?” he said.

Charlie Wixom, a private pilot from Janesville, Wisconsin, was looking

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around to see if there were any finds at the surplus shop. “I just came over to see what’s here,” he said.

George Olsen, of Barrington, Illinois, was searching for a much more specific item. “I’m looking for Hughes OH6/500C parts,” he said. “I didn’t even know about this until yesterday and I had to check it out.” AVT

ABOUT THE SALE The EAA AirVenture Museum Surplus Shop is located on Doolittle Road next to the Fly-In Theater in Camp Scholler.

Open daily from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

New items are added daily.

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SpaceX determined to create affordable space travel options

BY SIENNA KOSSMAN

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), a private company that creates and launches advanced spacecraft, is currently working on a project that it hopes will make space travel more like GA flying: simple, safe, and cost-effective.

“If every time we flew a 747 to Tokyo from Los Angeles we threw it away when we got there, built a new one, and then came home, flying would become rather expensive,” said Garrett Reisman, former astronaut who presented a forum about the company’s efforts on Thursday at AirVenture.

Reisman is a senior engineer at SpaceX. “Reusability is hard, but we have been doing a lot of things to make rockets more airplane-like.”

In its 550,000 square-foot, state-of-theart headquarters in Hawthorne, California, SpaceX is working on CCDev2-DragonRider, a project that symbolizes why SpaceX was founded in the first place.

“It is about carrying people to space solely to further the cause of spaceflight,” Reisman said.

In 2005, Dragon, a free-flying spacecraft developed by SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

(COTS) program, was created to transport pressurized and unpressurized cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).

This past May, SpaceX’s Dragon made history when it recorded a whole slew of firsts, topped by becoming the first commercial vehicle to successfully attach to the ISS. “It gives us great pride to be the first company to produce and successfully send a vehicle to the ISS,” Reisman said.

Now, the CCDev2-DragonRider project is focused on transforming the commercial cargo spacecraft Dragon into a general transportation vehicle for people.

DragonRider can carry seven people: the pilot, the commander, and five passengers.

Working under a $75 million contract with NASA this past year, SpaceX was able to complete all of the initial phase work on DragonRider, including design, development and testing, crew systems and training, and examination of safety measures.

A lot of development work was also put into DragonRider’s engine, SuperDraco, which weighs in at about 16,700 pounds, to make sure it is as safe and cost-effective as possible. SuperDraco is an eight-cyclone

capsule that will act as a “pusher system” during flight.

SpaceX is currently waiting for admission into NASA’s post-CCDev2 phase, which will include completing the design, further hardware and crew safety testing, and preparation for certification.

Because SpaceX is a commercial organization and contractor, it can make the decisions about project designs, testing, and planning while NASA oversees them. If it was not a commercial organization, NASA would have complete control of all program aspects.

“In my opinion, it’s a pretty good balance of NASA control and the private sector’s abilities,” Reisman said. “This method also allows private investment to help get stuff done.”

According to SpaceX, the majority of the cost of space travel is in how you build the rocket. For example, the current cost of operating the Falcon Heavy, which helped launch Dragon, is $10,000 per pound. Falcon Heavy weighs 52,000 kg to low-earth orbit.

“An operating cost of $1,000 per pound would be great, but $10 per pound would be even better,” Reisman said. “We’re trying to

Garrett Reisman SpaceX senior engineer.

get there.”

When NASA wound down the space shuttle program last year and turned to foreign governments for expensive space travel opportunities, SpaceX knew it was time to make space travel affordable again.

“It’s an unfortunate situation, but we are going to put an end to it by mid-2015 with SpaceX and Dragon,” Reisman predicted.

“Life is happening right now in space. It’s a really exciting and innovative time.”

For more information on SpaceX and the DragonRider project, visit www.SpaceX. com. AVT

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Rotax relies on TL elektronic for 912iS EMS STORY AND PHOTO BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT Austria’s BRP-Powertrain GmbH & Co. KG is a traditional manufacturer of Rotax aviation engines, and Thursday it announced the conclusion of a longterm contract with TL elektronic Inc./ Czech Republic for its glass cockpit solution engine monitoring system for the new Rotax 912iS engine.

Both companies signed a long-term contract after the TL press conference.

This instrument will be distributed via the Rotax Aircraft Engine distributor network under the brand name Rotax Integra. This is the next stage of a longterm agreement between the two companies, which started 10 years ago.

The initial project was the innovation of the Rotax engine instrument called Flydat, which entered serial production in 2004 and is still in production. Flydat, well known to many Rotax engines users, was updated in 2008 with the addition of the USB interface for PC data evaluation.

Meanwhile TL elektronic has become one of the most successful instrument system manufacturers in the world, with 15 years of experience in the field of light sport and experimental aviation, said Martin Balda, commercial director of TL elektronic.

Integra EFIS and EMS manufactured by TL elektronic is a multifunctional system that monitors both flight and engine parameters. It integrates all AirVenture.org/run

primary flight instruments—altimeter, vertical speed indicator, airspeed indicator, compass, accelerometer, chronometer, turn indicator with inclinometer, angle of attack indicator, internal air temperature, external air temperature, and more.

The EFIS Integra also includes navigation systems (HSI, CDI with connection to the popular Garmin SL30) and worldwide 3-D terrain maps. It also displays engine information like rpm, fuel flow pressure indicator, and exhaust temperature indicator.

In addition the EMS Integra includes propeller control for constant speed and engine choke control.

The EMS Integra is designed for use with various engine makes and models to which now the green Rotax 912iS has been added. The EFIS and EMS instrument features a 7-inch screen now with a backup battery. A history of measured engine values can be downloaded onto a flash drive or directly to a PC through the USB port.

Christian Mundigler, manager of the BRP-Rotax Aircraft Engines and Kart Business, added that thanks to this cooperation, its customers will benefit from a state-of-the-art avionics solution for their aircraft.

For details and more information visit www.TL-elektronic.cz or www.

FlyRotax.com. AVT

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A Charity Run/Walk To Benefit Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh — YMCA Strong Kids Fund Cerebral Palsy of Mideast Wisconsin and ARC

Saturday, July 28 7 a.m. race start—AirVenture Grounds “North 40” $25 entry fee - AirVenture attendee with daily wristband $35 entry fee - General public - registration includes wristband (everyone must have a wristband to be on AirVenture grounds).

Registration available online at AirVenture.org/run until July 26. Registration on the AirVenture grounds available at the EAA Welcome Center until July 27.

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Christian Mundigler, manager of the BRP-Rotax Aircraft Engines and Kart Business, signs the contract together with Martin Balda, commercial director, TL elektronic Inc.

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City-owned warbird visits AirVenture STORY AND PHOTOS BY FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN There’s something right with the world when a city buys and flies its own warbird.

Monroe, North Carolina, sent its Curtiss Commando to AirVenture 2012.

The Commando sits tall in the saddle, looming over its corner of Phillips 66 Plaza.

Its scalloped camouflage gives way to the nickname The Tinker Belle applied to its figure-eight nose.

The funding comes not from taxes on local residents but is considered part of the benefits from hotel-occupancy taxes.

Pete Hovanec, Monroe’s tourism director, says Monroe is the state’s aerospace hub.

Companies including Goodrich Corp., ATI Allvac, Turbomeca Manufacturing, Cyril Bath Co., and Caledonian Alloys have added 3,000 jobs to the local economy during this decade.

With that environment, Monroe generates an annual Warbirds Over Monroe air show in November that further highlights vintage military aircraft. The city’s tourism group partnered with the nonprofit Warriors and Warbirds organization to obtain and fly the The Tinker Belle from the Commemorative Air Force in Midland, Texas.

Pete says the CAF was pleased to see the

C-46F go to an organization interested in preserving its history; the city was happy to be up and running a genuine warbird.

“The stars aligned, and the timing was right for all of us,” he explains.

Although the Curtiss C-46 originally lacked a specific historical tie to Monroe, Pete says the warbird’s crew soon discovered the airplane’s seats were made by a company up north—that has since relocated as part of Monroe’s aerospacebusiness development.

Monroe’s Commando has represented the city at air shows for about two years.

Pete figures the C-46 will attend eight to 10 events a year, mostly on the eastern seaboard.

Parked outside for now, the C-46 could be housed in a hangar in the next few years, possibly forming the nucleus of a small museum.

Pete’s aware there is much more to creating a museum than painting the word on the side of a building; his background gives him the tools to devise a business plan for any such effort.

There’s a learning curve any time an organism like a municipality goes into the warbird business. Some city promoters

This lumbering, big Curtiss C-46 at AirVenture is a municipally owned warbird from Monroe, North Carolina. want to see the C-46 polished and shiny inside and out; Pete and the aircraft’s keepers must remind them it is authentic to be a bit rough around the edges and Spartan in furnishings.

Pete Hovanec is absorbing warbird and air-show culture in his job with the city.

“Up until four years ago I wasn’t an air show guy.” Now, as he attends events, he is impressed with the stories he hears from veterans and their families who remember the Commando.

The Curtiss C-46 is the “other” major twin-engine transport the Army Air Forces used during World War II alongside the smaller Douglas C-47.

Curtiss engineers originally conceived the C-46 as a pressurized airliner, but the C-46 went to war unpressurized, hauling troops, vehicles, and cargo in combat worldwide.

Pete Hovanec says the Monroe Commando will be at AirVenture 2012 until early Sunday morning. AVT

155-hp Centurion for Piper PA-28 STORY AND PHOTO BY MARINO BORIC, EAA EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT New engine adaptations for older airframes remain a staple at EAA AirVenture, and 2012 is no exception with Centurion Aircraft Engines AG & Co. KG’s new 155-hp Diesel Centurion 2.0s retrofit for the Piper PA-28 on display here for the first time.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) authorized the retrofit in midApril, and production launch of the new Centurion retrofit kit has already begun with the first European customers. The company expects FAA supplemental type certification (STC) soon.

Piper PA-28 operators retrofitting their avgas engine or exchanging their old Centurion powerplants can now choose between two engine options: the first, the 135-hp Centurion 2.0, and the more powerful Centurion 2.0s.

Both engines offer excellent performance, efficiency, and reliability, we were told in Oshkosh.

And like all Centurion-powered aircraft, the PA-28 also employs a singlelever control that manages a fully electronic engine and propeller control system.

The Piper PA-28 is the fourth aircraft model—after the Cessna 172, Diamond

The Centurion 2.0s is now STC’d for retrofit into Piper’s widely available PA-28 line.

DA40, and Robin DR400—eligible to be fitted with the Centurion 2.0s.

The series PA-28-151 and -161 have been certified and can reach—at 100 percent power—a top cruising speed of 133 KTAS up to an altitude of 8,000 feet. At 70 percent power and 6,000 MSL the combination delivers 110 knots true using an average of 5.8 gph (22.1 per hour)

of fuel–either Jet A or diesel.

The takeoff roll drops to 840 feet (255 m) with a climb rate that averages 658 feet/minute up to 6,000 MSL. Range with standard tanks is up to 850 nautical miles at the maximum takeoff weight of 2,435 pounds (1,107 kg).

The time between replacement, or TBR, for the Centurion 2.0s is

currently still 1,200 flight hours, but the company aims to extend that period to 1,500 hours—the current limit for the Centurion 2.0 according to the company representative, Sebastian Wentzler.

For more information visit Centurion at Booth 98 on AirVenture grounds or go to www.Centurion.aero. AVT

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Quicksilver gets new owners and direction One of ultralight aviation’s pioneering names passes to new owners this week when Quicksilver Aeronautics takes up the banner in place of Quicksilver Manufacturing, for the past 13 years the purveyor of this venerable design.

“We are very pleased to present Quicksilver Aeronautics LLC as the new owner and operator of a company Americans and many other nationals have loyally supported for several decades,” said Will Escutia, president of Quicksilver Aeronautics.

“We have some exciting plans underway and will be detailing these for the aviation media and potential customers as we continue reviewing and refining the operation of the company.”

In its evolution from a 1970s-era footlaunched hang glider, the Quicksilver design gained huge popularity, with more than 15,000 delivered—most as assembleyourself kits.

Quicksilver products include the MX series with the Sprint, Sprint II, Sport,

Sport II, Sport 2S, and the GT series including the single-seat GT400 and the two-place GT500, the first aircraft approved by the FAA under the primary category (1993).

U.S. and worldwide sales will be conducted under the guidance of Todd Ellefson, based in Rochester, Minnesota.

Ellefson has very long experience with Quicksilver products and brings continuity during the ownership transition.

Among the new owners’ plans are:

• Progress toward gaining FAA approval for several Quicksilver models as light-sport aircraft; • New pricing structures to continue and broaden the appeal of these affordable aircraft; • Enhanced production and processes for all models; • Fresh review of engineering documentation and procedures; and • Redesigned company literature, website, and company communications. AVT

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Lockwood Aviation launches new website

Michael Coates to receive August Raspet Award

Launched in time for AirVenture, Lockwood Aviation’s new website uses a large number of innovations to make for easier shopping for Rotax parts and more.

“More than 3,500 of the parts and supplies that Lockwood carries are now online,” said John Hurst, director of sales and technology. With more than 2,000 photos, including engine and airframe parts, tools, and supplies, customers can completely configure and purchase Rotax Aircraft engines online, including the new 912iS.” The new site houses more than 100 adjustable Rotax Aircraft engine subassembly drawings, allowing visitors

Michael Coates, EAA 738376, will receive the 2012 recipient of EAA’s August Raspet Memorial Award this evening during a special presentation at Theater in the Woods. Coates is the master distributor for Pipistrel USA and the president/CEO of XCOM Avionics.

The Raspet award is presented to an individual or small company that has made outstanding contributions to the advancement of light aircraft design and innovation.

Originally based in Yugoslavia, LSA and ultralight aircraft producer Pipistrel has won numerous high-honor aircraft awards, including three NASA Green Flight Challenges, two won by the Virus, which were flown by Coates, and

to order directly from the drawing page.

Lockwood.aero also has real-time online inventory. A substitute database automatically suggests alternatives for discontinued or out-of-stock parts.

Other new resources include a support page, the Eastern U.S. Repair Center Directory, manuals, and FAQs. “[There are] many more improvements to come including more delivery options, additional product details, and additional product categories,” Hurst said.

Check out the new Lockwood Aviation website at www.Lockwood.aero, or visit Booth 2008 in Bendix/King by Honeywell Exhibit Hangar B. AVT

last year by the Taurus G4—the first four-seat electric aircraft.

See Pipistrel this week at Booth 292A. Since its creation in the late 1990s, Australia-based XCOM Avionics has successfully distributed thousands of radios to LSA aviators and others all over the world. XCOM Avionics is here at AirVenture in Booth 2037 in Bendix/King Exhibit Hangar B. The Raspet award is to be presented at 6:45 p.m. AVT

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AirVenture Super Saturday filled with thrills Activities from sunrise until well after sunset will fill tomorrow’s AirVenture Super Saturday with must-see features, attractions, and activities. The Warbirds Extravaganza air show, the incredible Rockwell Collins Night Air Show with the Wall of Fire, tribute bands Da BLOOZE Bros presented by Ford Motor Company and The Boogie Knights courtesy of Southwest Airlines, and much more will make this a memorable day at The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration.

But the action-packed day starts at dawn with a mass hot-air balloon launch at 6 a.m. in the Ultralights area closely followed by the EAA Runway 5K at 7 a.m.

The start-finish line is near Runway 9/27 on the perimeter road in the North 40, and participants of all ages can run or walk a 3.1-mile route around the AirVenture grounds to benefit the Boys & Girls Club, YMCA Strong Kids Fund, the ARC, and Cerebral Palsy of Mideast Wisconsin.

The afternoon air show presented by Rockwell Collins features the Warbirds

Extravaganza, headlined by the Tora!

Tora! Tora! re-enactment of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Commemorative Air Force has worked closely with both U.S. and Japanese veterans to ensure that this award-winning show, debuting at Oshkosh this year, is an accurate and realistic presentation of the events occurring on December 7, 1941.

Also appearing is the Canadian SkyHawks, the official sky-diving team of the Canadian Forces. The SkyHawks will dazzle attendees with amazing aerial maneuvers in their distinctive maple leaf parachutes.

Saturday’s energy continues with the Blues Brothers tribute band Da BLOOZE Bros, performing in the Ford Hangar courtesy of Ford Motor Company at 6:30 p.m. Across the way in Theater in the Woods, attendees can dance to the 1970s sounds of The Boogie Knights in an all-ages show, also starting at 6:30 p.m., courtesy of Southwest Airlines.

The Rockwell Collins Night Air Show gets underway at 8:30 p.m., followed by a captivating fireworks display culminating

with the Wall of Fire at 9:30 p.m., a suitable exclamation point for another amazing Super Saturday! AVT

AirVenture Super Saturday is capped by the Rockwell Collins Night Air Show and fireworks.

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Veterans, active military get your free hat/pin Veterans and active military attending the fly-in today will receive a free commemorative hat, courtesy of Oshkosh Corp.

Throughout the week, Scotts MiracleGro, presenting sponsor of the popular Scotts Warbird Alley, will offer a free commemorative lapel pin to all veterans and active military personnel.

The pins will be distributed from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. near Scotts Warbirds Alley while supplies last. Hats will be available today only, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Veterans and military personnel must be present to receive their hat and pin.

If you see an AirVenture guest with one of these hats or pins, be sure to thank them for their courageous service to our country. AVT

Sign up for AirVenture text alerts features and attractions (maximum of eight daily).

Text “STOP” to 69050 at any time to unsubscribe. Alerts will not be delivered past Sunday, July 29.

Standard messaging rates apply per your mobile device provider.

Note: 69050 can only message telephone numbers based in the United States and its territories, and only to phones with plans that enable short code messaging. Please verify with your provider. AVT

Stay up-to-date on daily AirVenture 2012 highlights, aircraft arrivals, air show lineups, and weather alerts by subscribing to receive EAA text messaging alerts on your mobile device.

EAA staff will provide timely updates in case of severe weather, as well as necessary procedures to follow.

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The publication—in its 18th year— contains 292 color pages and is priced at $16.99, $14.99 for EAA members. AVT

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The 2012-2013 edition of World Directory of Leisure Aviation (WDLA), the world’s most complete guide to leisure aviation aircraft and organizations, is now on sale.

Because of the great worldwide demand, the directory is not only published in English but also in French and German, and this year in Chinese.

The WDLA features sections on fixedwing microlights and ultralights, flexwing fliers, LSA, homebuilts, certified light planes, ultralight sailplanes, certified gliders/motorgliders, gyrocopters, and helicopters. It also includes information on engines, glass cockpits, accessories, propellers, avionics, training, flying events, plus the addresses of national and international sporting groups.

The U.S. version—hot off the press—is available in all merchandise outlets, plus you can order it through the EAA website. WDLA is also available at newsstands and bookstores in the United States as well as other countries including Australia, India,

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Angels constantly watch over this RV

BY RANDY DUFAULT

When Richard Dreyfus’ pilot character Pete perishes in the 1989 movie Always, he returns to the cockpit as an angel guiding his successor through a number of difficult situations. The familiar plot originated in the 1943 World War II movie A Guy Named Joe with Spencer Tracy playing the mentoring spirit.

When it came time for John Stahr to design a paint scheme for his new RV-8, memories of that classic aviation film, along with a lifelong enthusiasm for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team, there was no question that the central theme would involve angels.

Stahr’s RV-8 American Angel, which flew for the first time in April of this year, is adorned with small and large angels, many of which honor family members and others who played a significant part in Stahr’s, or in his wife Patti’s, life.

“It was a way to do pretty girls on the airplane,” Stahr said, “but reverently clad so they don’t become offensive to people.

“As an airplane painter nerd who loves to do artwork, doing pinup art is always a lot of fun to do.”

Stahr is an artist and illustrator and has a business painting airplanes. He developed his skill for creating art on large mobile canvases—like airplanes—over years spent custom painting trucks, buses, and motor homes.

Starting a tour around the plane at the right wing, the motif on the top honors Patti’s father Wilfried “Charlie” Charlton.

Charlton was a P-38 pilot in WWII and the scene depicts his twin-tailed fighter hurrying to guide and escort a damaged B-17 home.

The left side of the vertical stabilizer displays what Stahr calls the “experimental” Angel. Instead of a typical set of feather wings, this figure is equipped with wings of aluminum, carbon fiber, and titanium. A Mylar flight suit rounds out the streamlining.

Pictured with the angel are two experimental airplanes: a Giles 202 and a RV-8. The Giles honors a pilot friend of Stahr’s and the RV-8 depicts how Stahr believes the original owner of his RV-8 project might have finished the plane.

On top of the left wing is a “blue” angel honoring the Navy flight team. According to Stahr, the swept-wing spirit is flying off into the western sunset.

Over the years three pilots have perished in the F/A-18 jet while serving with the Blue Angels. Stahr included their faces and names on the left wing as well.

The underside of John Stahr’s RV-8 is decorated with an airbrushed “American Angel.”

By far the grandest angel on the plane is a likeness of Patti, decked out in red, white, and blue, that nearly covers the bottom of the plane from nose to tail, and from wingtip to wingtip. The image is obviously difficult to see when the airplane is on the ground, though Stahr has a strategically placed mirror here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 to show off portions of the painting.

Stahr used a number of techniques to paint the large belly graphic.

“Mostly it was done with a lot of planning,” he said. “A complete paper pattern was made, full size, of the belly of the airplane, including the wings and where all the panels come together. That was all taped together and hung up on the wall.”

Once the pattern was up Stahr created the drawing and used sign painting techniques to transfer it to the airplane.

He painted the wings while they were off the plane and painted the fuselage while its bottom was rotated to be vertical.

To complete the work the wings and fairings were attached and the entire plane, minus the engine, was hoisted up by the nose, into a vertical position.

A bit of work remained after the airplane returned to its normal ground attitude, work that might remind one of a certain Italian painter’s works on the Sistine Chapel.

“About 10 to 15 percent of the work was done over my head, but most of it was done by carefully planning,” Stahr said.

“It would be a lot more difficult to do on, say, a Mustang that you couldn’t take the wings off.

“It was fun to figure out a way to do it.”

Stahr’s plane is parked just west of Knapp Road in the Homebuilts area. AVT

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Ta k e F l i g h t w i t h F o r d a t A i r Ve n t u r e • Da Blooze Bros. Live Concert: Saturday 6:30PM @ Ford Hangar • Mustang Stampede: see the best Mustangs in the Midwest and vote for your favorite • Great Escape : Ride the 5-story ferris wheel adjacent to the Ford Hangar • Fusion EcoBoost Launch: the extreme bungee launch

• Cruisin’ Legends: See classic Fords and happy owners on Knapp Street • Dyno Challenge: ¼ mile runs to win prizes @ Cruisin’ Legends • Model T Experience: Tour in a Model T @ Cruisin’ Legends • Free Stuff : Hats @ the Hangar; Canteens @ Cruisin' Legends!

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To learn more on this exclusive opportunity for EAA members to save on a new Ford vehicle, please visit www.eaa.org/ford.

• Fly In Theater: Nightly Sunday – Saturday 8:30PM @ Camp Scholler • Red Tails Ford Mustang: One of a kind build for the Young Eagles benefit • Ford Autograph HQ: Autographs from living legends • Free Ice Cream: Nightly deliveries; watch for the Transit Connect

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Mobile GPS devices Dual’s XGPS150 wirelessly adds highly accurate location data to devices, allowing them to be used with applications that require GPS, and is compatible with Bluetooth-enabled smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Apple certified the XGPS150 to work with all models of the iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone. It also works with Bluetooth-enabled Android, Blackberry, Windows, and OS X devices (Bluetooth SPP required). Its high-sensitivity GPS receiver works with most applications requiring GPS. Includes a rechargeable battery power that powers for up to 8.5 hours.

Rockwell Collins Exhibit Hangar C, Booth 3042 www.XGPS150.DualAv.com

Although, as the saying goes, even a blind squirrel may find a nut from time to time, modern aviating requires more insight and, most of all, precision.

The devices we profile today provide such precision reference, both to tell us where we are but how to get there from here. Some are stand-alone devices while others serve as data sources for other electronics.

The Bad Elf GPS Pro is a next-generation GPS receiver and datalogger for the iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad devices.

The GPS Pro design was based on feedback collected since they launched the original Bad Elf GPS in 2010. Its goal is to pack next-generation features into a small, rugged, and affordable package. Among its highlights are: Simultaneously connects to as many as five devices via Bluetooth; large, backlit LCD screen; long battery life; 10Hz reporting rate; stand-alone GPS datalogger (100-plus hours); rugged and splash-proof to IPX4 standards; and works with all location-based applications.

Bendix/King by Honeywell Exhibit Hangar B, Booth 2125-2126 www.Bad-Elf.com

Bendix/King is showing its AV8OR line of mobile GPS devices here at AirVenture 2012.

Not only do the AV8OR ACE, AV8OR Handheld, and AV8OR Horizon 3D provide moving map GPS navigation information, but they also serve as full-function electronic flight bags while offering builtin music-, picture-, and movie-playing capabilities. AV8ORs can also interface with Bluetooth cellphones.

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touch-screen capability, and access to external data sources.

For more detail on the Garmin family of products visit the company in Garmin Exhibit Hangar D. www.Garmin.com/us

Among the top-of-the-line EFB functions, the AV8OR Horizon 3D delivers integral 3-D synthetic vision and IFR approach plates, with optional satellite weather and 3-D traffic.

And for enhanced situational displays you can connect all the AV8ORs to external devices such as Bendix/King’s KDR 610 satellite weather receiver as well as WxWorx’s XM satellite receiver and Zaon’s portable collision avoidance system.

Hangar B, Booth 2162, and Main Display Area 313-314 www.BendixKing.com Garmin offers a wide range of mobile GPS products, culminating with its aera family of handheld GPS/ moving map devices, and its GPSMAP line of tablet-style MFD units.

In addition to geo-location services, the various models of these Garmin products offer features such as weather-radar overlay, 3D Vision technology, varying screen sizes and orientations,

Exhibitors, send info about your AvTech products to avtech.airventure@gmail.com. AVT

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Synergy: The beginning of the future?

“We’re building an airplane in a garage, but it’s not just another tired old airplane.

This is Synergy, the beginning of the future.”

With these words, John McGinnis, CEO of Synergy Aircraft, greeted us during AirVenture 2012, adding, “We’re building the proof that an airplane can be awesome, comfortable, and incredibly efficient all at the same time.”

McGinnis believes that in this second century of flight, families should have options to travel where they want, when they want, in quiet safety, with better economy than with a car—and without the exhausting airport hassle.

That’s not today’s status quo.

Existing “direct travel” airplanes are extremely expensive, incredibly cramped, noisy gas guzzlers, and most of them are three decades old—or older.

Conversely, they’re powerful time machines essential to modern business and a lot of fun to fly.

That is the situation today, said McGinnis.

What is his alternative?

Synergy’s team thinks they have a new way to tackle the whole problem.

If airplanes are to reconnect with their potential customers—or to their potential for society—aircraft need an update.

Almost everything else in modern life has developed well beyond the elite-yetobsolete standard of personal air travel.

Consequently, Synergy doesn’t just look different, it is different.

According to the company, the systematic use of proven breakthroughs for major drag reduction has been put together for the first time.

Synergy is designed to show triple fuel economy compared to that of an average plane with the same engine power installed.

So, what is Synergy doing differently?

In a Synergy way of thinking the new technology and the airplane needed should provide, at a minimum: • Far more room • A uiet, smooth ride with a view • Greatly improved fuel economy, using better fuels • Easier operation • Greatly reduced travel time • rue passenger safety • Far lower price • uiet, friendly neighborhood manners • And adaptability to hybrid, electric, and advanced engine technologies.

According to McGinnis, Synergy can deliver all of the above—and much more—through innovative solutions that work in greater harmony with the invisible physics of flight.

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They claim to build the real thing, using the expert craftsmanship of three generations of the McGinnis family, CNC machines, carbon fiber composites, volunteers from all over the world, and powerful engineering software.

This roomy five-seat prototype will join the amazing 25-percent scale electric prototype already flying.

How does it work?

Synergy’s stable-flying double box tail shape is key to using super-advanced drag reduction principles in a lighter, simpler, and more economical way.

Synergy CEO McGinnis gave us the main ingredients of the Synergy project.

They include: • aminar ow fuselage • aminar ow wing and tail • ptimal volume displacement subsonic area ruling • ooling system heat capture for thrust • Powered drag reduction engine air is suc ed in designated spaces • A multiple-blade propeller behind a laminar body • ouble bo tail creates stability and control by induced drag reduction • onstructive biplane interaction between wing and tail surfaces.

McGinnis added: “All true progress strains against convention. Besides creating ‘stability and control through induced drag reduction,’ Synergy uses its power not only to make thrust, but also to actually reduce drag.

“It goes faster while carrying more payload in a speed range that has eluded true efficiency so far.”

Obviously, getting from “a project in our garage” to a finished airplane in a hangar involves serious business development and millions of dollars investment, so the path ahead of Synergy is a long one.

How long? Only time will tell.

For more information, attend the presentation in Innovation Hangar South, Friday at p m and Saturday at a m , or go to www.SynergyAircraft.com. AVT

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EAA announced it has expanded the Homebuilt Aircraft Council (HAC) to seven members. The council will be focusing on safety issues—especially issues raised by the recent NTSB study regarding experimental amateur-built aircraft—as well as ongoing concerns with the major portion (51 percent) rule for the E-AB category.

In addition, the council will actively seek to strengthen its role as the voice of the amateur airplane builder community.

Committee members Rick Weiss, Joe Gauthier, and Fred Keip are being joined

by Gary Baker, Randy Hooper, Keith Phillips, and Dave Prizio.

HAC Chairman Rick Weiss, who is an EAA board of directors member, flies a Kitfox V and is building an RV-7A. He has flown many GA aircraft, is type-rated in a variety of jets, and is an airplane, seaplane, and helicopter instructor as well as an A&P. Weiss also serves as EAA technical counselor and flight advisor for Chapter 288 in Daytona Beach, where he resides with his wife, Brenda.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in aero engineering from Parks College and an

MSM from Rollins College. Weiss joined NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as a propulsion engineer on the Saturn V & 1B rocket programs and was also KSC’s lead main propulsion systems engineer on the space shuttle.

He later joined the FAA as director of GA and vertical flight research and development and technical assistant to the administrator. He later was EAA’s Washington, D.C., representative, then flew for Delta/Atlantic Southeast Airlines, also serving on the ALPA Safety Committee and as chief accident investigator until retiring in 2006.

Builder of four airplanes, Joe Gauthier is now working on a fifth—a Glastar. He is an active technical counselor and a flight advisor in the Connecticut area, an A&P, and CFII specializing in homebuilt transition, instrument, and spin training.

Gauthier has made 60 first flights in homebuilt airplanes, is a member and officer of Chapter 166 in Hartford, Connecticut, and volunteers at AirVenture in the builders’ workshop. He’s a past recipient of EAA’s Major Achievement

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A private pilot since 1974, Fred Keip has been an EAA and Chapter 18 member since 1975. He served 10 years as chapter president, has been in several other positions, and is currently vice president.

Keip has been an EAA technical counselor since 1987 specializing in tube and fabric and aluminum construction. He scratch-built a Sonerai IIL and has been flying it since 1986. Keip also built a set of wings for an Acrosport, a set of wings for a Sonerai IILS, and is currently scratchbuilding a Wag-Aero Wag-A-Bond.

Keip received the EAA Major Achievement Award in 1995 and was editor/publisher of the Sonerai newsletter from 1997 to 2010, presenting the Sonerai Builders Forum and others here since 1997.

Keip earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, and he has worked in mechanical engineering and technical service support in the mining and construction equipment industries most of his career. He currently works as a technical support specialist for CNH America LLC in Racine, Wisconsin, and resides with his wife, Marian, in Franksville.

Gary Baker, who started flying at age 19, is a 737 captain for United Airlines. He lives in Medina, Ohio, serving as president

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of Chapter 846 in nearby Wadsworth.

Baker is a CFII and serves as flight advisor for his chapter. He is also an active Young Eagles pilot.

Baker continues to work on his RV-6 project, balancing work, flying, and building in a juggling act known well by many EAAers. He’s an EAA Lifetime member, and is especially interested in preserving and strengthening the Flight Advisor program.

Randy Hooper, of Nashville, Tennessee, is a longtime pilot and EAA Lifetime member.

Along with his own RV-8, he’s helped others build numerous airplanes over the last 20 years—and has started a second RV-8.

Hooper is a past president and vice president of Chapter 863 in Lebanon, Tennessee, an A&P/IA, and technical counselor. Randy is especially interested in policies directly related to E-AB aircraft building.

Keith Phillips lives in Spruce Creek, Florida—one of the most well-known air parks in the U.S. He grew up in Napoleon, Michigan, soloed at age 16, and is a lifelong aviator.

Phillips worked for B.D. Maule in Napoleon before joining the Air Force and served 20 years as a fighter pilot.

Over the years he has built a modified Tailwind, a Swearingen SX300, and a Pitts Model 12. A past president of Chapter 288 in Daytona Beach, Phillips is also an A&P/IA and serves as a technical counselor and flight advisor.

He received both the FAA Charles Taylor Master Mechanic and Wright Brothers Master Pilot awards.

Dave Prizio lives in Tustin, California, and has been a pilot for nearly 40 years.

He is a member of Chapter 92 in Orange County, California, and serves as a Young Eagles pilot, aviation merit badge counselor, and a technical counselor.

Prizio has built three airplanes including a Glastar, a Glasair Sportsman, and a Texas Sport (Legend) Cub. In addition, he has helped many others— especially Glastar builders—complete their airplanes. Prizio also served as president of the Glastar & Sportsman Association for eight years.

He hopes to do what he can to promote amateur-built safety and increase participation in aviation. AVT

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Tuskegee Airmen share patriotism, passions with AirVenture crowd

BY FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN

Authors’ Corner

They were America’s first black airmen.

And there are fewer every year.

Several Tuskegee Airmen shared stories with AirVenture visitors Thursday at the EAA Welcome Center. The men were illuminating and patriotic as they related tales of combat, racism, and success.

These Tuskegee Airmen and others were warmly received by the AirVenture crowd who showed appreciation for their service.

Retired Lt. Col. Harold Brown, selfdescribed as “a little 20-year-old punk not old enough to vote” when he returned from the war, talked about his combat in the P-51 Mustang fighter.

On his 30th mission, a strafing attack over enemy-held Austria, Brown had to abruptly pull up to an altitude of 1,000 feet and bail out of his beloved Mustang when ground fire targeted him.

Once on the ground, he was quickly confronted by angry residents of the place he had strafed. “I thought I was going to die that day,” Brown said. The mob moved him toward a large tree—a hanging tree, he surmised.

Before harm could befall the black aviator, a local constable stepped in front of the crowd and chambered a round in a rifle, holding his fellow townspeople at bay.

Brown and the constable made an armed retreat to a secure pub until the American could be handed over to German authorities.

“He saved my life,” Brown said of his anonymous guard.

Brown dispelled a story often told in recent years claiming the Tuskegee Airmen, flying in the 332nd Fighter Group, never lost a bomber under escort. “We did lose bombers.”

But that is no discredit to the 332nd or any other escort unit; fighter escort never ensures complete protection for all bombers.

Among Brown’s compatriots at AirVenture was retired Col. James Harvey, who recalled a bittersweet event in the 1949 postwar Air Force when integration was the rule, if not always the practice of airmen of the day.

He, along with several other 332nd pilots, flew in the first USAF gunnery meet after the war in 1949. The 332nd flew P-47 Thunderbolts against other units

in P-51 Mustangs and even F-82 Twin Mustangs. Day after day, event after event, the black fliers of the 332nd were in first place, ultimately winning the conventional (propeller-driven) category at the meet.

The awards banquet was at a thensegregated hotel in Las Vegas, Col. Harvey recalled.

The men of the 332nd were invited to accept the trophy, have their photo taken, and then leave the hotel.

But after their departure, documentation of the 332nd’s victory, along with the trophy, went missing for many years, he told the AirVenture crowd.

It took decades, but the trophy and the documentation were tracked down and now reside at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, Harvey said.

Retired Air Force Maj. (and Civil Air Patrol Col.) George M. Boyd warmed up the crowd with the reason he likes wearing the uniform with “U.S.” collar tabs on it: “I like being ‘U.S.’ because it stands for United States citizen.”

Colonel Boyd was enthusiastic about what flight training accomplished: “You learn how to fly an airplane, and it will change your life.

“You learn how to think clearly.”

His postwar Air Force career included a stint as a radar intercept officer in jet fighters, followed by civilian service as the Kansas director of aviation.

“I couldn’t have done any of the things I’ve done in any other country but this one,” Boyd said to enthusiastic applause. AVT

Tuskegee Airman and Civil Air Patrol commander Col. George M. Boyd was among the World War II veterans honored at a Tuskegee event Thursday.

Col. James Harvey survived the war as a Tuskegee Airman. He later earned top gunnery honors at a postwar Air Force fighter meet.

Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Harold Brown discussed being shot down over enemy territory.

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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Runway 5K run/walk to benefit local organizations Runners and walkers can still register for the most unique road race anywhere— the sixth annual EAA Runway 5K, which will be held on Saturday. The 3.1-mile race on an aircraft-lined path loops around the AirVenture grounds beginning at 7 a.m.

Proceeds from the race benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh, the YMCA Strong Kids Campaign, and Cerebral Palsy and ARC of Mideast Wisconsin.

In addition to an event T-shirt provided

by Jaeger Sports and complimentary post-

race snacks and beverages from Festival Foods, participants receive admission to EAA AirVenture Super Saturday activities.

The day’s events are capped by the Rockwell Collins Night Air Show, followed by spectacular fireworks and the Wall of Fire.

Register by visiting the Welcome Center or EAA AirVenture Museum. Registration is $35 for the general public and includes admission to Super Saturday, and $25 for those who already possess a Saturday AirVenture admission. AVT

Women in Aviation partners with Learning for Life Women in Aviation (WAI) President Dr. Peggy Chabrian and National Learning for Life Executive Director Dr. Diane Thornton signed a Memorandum of Understanding Thursday morning to complement each other’s resources to promote aviation careers among youth.

Sporty’s Founder and Chairman Hal Shevers, chair of the Aviation Exploring Committee

within the National Learning for Life program, was on hand to witness the signing as well.

“Forming strategic alliances among groups will benefit all of us in aviation,” Dr. Chabrian said. “We look forward to creating dynamic and productive programs with Dr. Thornton and Learning for Life in the years ahead.”

Dr. Chabrian also announced WAI would repeat “Take Your Daughter to the Conference Day” at its annual International Women in Aviation Conference scheduled March 14-16, 2013, in Nashville. The oneday program gave daughters, nieces, granddaughters, and friends of conference attendees, as well as local Girl Scouts, an

introduction to the aviation community through speakers, PC simulators, a scavenger hunt, and other activities.

This year’s “Daughter Day” will take place on Saturday, March 16, and is open to girls 10 to 17.

For more information visit Women in Aviation in Hangar B, booth 2042, 2041. AVT

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NTSB: Training, documentation key to reducing homebuilt accidents

BY JOSEPH E. (JEB) BURNSIDE

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman yesterday presented results of her agency’s yearlong study into the causes of accidents involving experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012.

The NTSB study’s results were the main focus of a detailed discussion including Hersman, EAA President/CEO

Rod Hightower, and staff members of both organizations.

The study, conducted with EAA’s participation, made several conclusions regarding ways to improve this segment’s safety and focused on enhancing aircraft performance and testing documentation as well as pilot training.

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expanding documentation requirements for initial aircraft airworthiness certification, verifying completion of Phase 1 f light testing, improving and facilitating pilots’ access to transition training, f light-test data recording, and ensuring used E-AB buyers receive performance documentation as ways in which the segment’s safety record can be improved.

Published last May, the study is the result of several methodologies, including analysis of 10 years of E-AB accidents, highly detailed examinations of E-AB accidents during 2011, in-depth discussions with kit manufacturers and type clubs, plus a survey of EAA members building or operating E-AB aircraft.

The NTSB’s study came about as a result of some sobering statistics.

Among them: Although E-AB aircraft compose some 10 percent of the active GA fleet and about 4 percent of GA flight hours flown in the United States, they are involved in more than 20 percent of fatal accidents. When the NTSB dived down into 2011 accident data as part of its study, it discovered approximately 10 percent of accidents last year involving new E-ABs occurred on the aircraft’s first flight.

And, when considering in-service E-ABs, a large proportion of accidents occur during the first flight by a new owner of a used E-AB aircraft.

There is good news, however, in the NTSB’s study.

For example, structural problems leading to an accident are rare, according to the NTSB’s study. “Accidents involving equipment failures or build problems are instead frequently associated with unique decisions made by an individual owner or builder,” the NTSB noted.

“The majority of new E-AB aircraft are now built from commercial kits, a fact that has likely contributed to an

overall improvement in the design and construction of E-AB aircraft.”

Further, the safety board believes risks could be reduced if a proper flight test plan is followed during the new aircraft’s initial flights.

Both kit manufacturers and the EAA have available detailed information on conducting Phase 1 testing of new E-ABs. As the NTSB study notes, “Kit manufacturers also represent a potential source of valuable construction, flight testing, operation, and maintenance information.”

Additionally, proper transition training is critical for both builders of new E-ABs and for buyers of used, existing examples.

That’s because, according to the NTSB, “pilots of E-AB aircraft, on average, had significantly less f light experience in the type of aircraft they were f lying” than “pilots of non-EAB aircraft engaged in similar general aviation operations.”

This problem is compounded by the fact, according to the NTSB, that used E-ABs often lack proper flight manuals and documentation.

Again, this is an area in which kit manufacturers and the EAA—as well as the builder—can help.

As a result of its study, the NTSB made 12 recommendations to the FAA. Most of them involved revising or emphasizing existing agency guidance—like advisory circulars—and non-regulatory actions, and the creation of a coalition of kit manufacturers, type clubs, and pilot and owner groups rather than creating restrictive new rules.

Similarly, the NTSB made four recommendations to EAA, including standardized f light-test data collection and ensuring kit builders and pilots have ready access to the association’s Test Flying and Developing Pilot Operating Handbook. AVT

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Ultralight Hummingbird re-creates 1983 flight

BY MARY JONES

Ed Sweeney wasn’t planning on attending EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012.

It would be one of those rare years he’d skip.

Then he learned his two sons, Sean and Eric, and three grandsons, Austin, Colton, and Sean Jr., who live in Florida and California, were planning to meet up at AirVenture.

That changed his plans; he had to make his way from Black Forest, Colorado, to join the rest of the Sweeney boys!

Soon after, he learned EAA was celebrating the 30th anniversary of ultralights.

As an ultralight pioneer, he didn’t want to miss that celebration either, but his ultralights would have to come, too. So he and his Sean, of central Florida, each trailered a Hummingbird to Oshkosh.

(Their machines are parked just in front of the Ultralight Red Barn.)

You may recognize Ed’s name as the owner of one of Molt Taylor’s Aerocars, but what he’s not as well known for, at least outside of the ultralight community, is his involvement in the production of the Hummingbird ultralight.

Ed provided the engine for Hummingbird designer Klaus Hill.

Following Klaus’s untimely death in a Hummingbird accident, Ed took over producing parts and the complete airframe, providing royalties to the Hill family for each machine sold.

But, as a result of Klaus’ death, Ed decided to change the machine to a twin-engine configuration, using the

Gemini twin thrust engine that Ed’s company produced.

Some 215 Hummingbirds were sold before the infamous November 1983 20/20 television episode in which a reporter lost his life flying an ultralight caused the collapse of the ultralight industry.

Just weeks before, Ed had concluded the sale of the Hummingbird design and manufacturing rights to Raven Industries, but the new owner hadn’t yet picked up the inventory.

The day after that television program, with the semis en route to pick up the inventory only about 5 miles away, Raven Industries called the deal off.

No more Hummingbirds were ever produced, but Ed estimates that about 30 are still flying today.

Ed also was actively involved in the development of FAR Part 103. He gives credit to FAA staffer Bernie Geier who suggested that ultralights be called vehicles instead of aircraft.

“That was the idea that freed ultralights from having to comply with all the FARs; if we weren’t airplanes, we didn’t have to meet pilot or aircraft certification requirements.”

Ed recalls that it was the first year of Ronald Reagan’s administration. “His platform of less government definitely helped encourage the FAA to legitimize the sport without over regulating it.”

Earlier this week, Ed once more flew the same Hummingbird ultralight he flew here in 1983 around the ultralight pattern.

“It sure felt good to be up in the air in a Hummingbird,” he said. The Sweeney boys are having fun in Oshkosh! AVT

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L-R Austin, Sean, Sean Jr., and Ed Sweeney with Sean’s Hummingbird. Austin, 17, recently soloed in his grandfather’s Aerocar and then earned his driver’s license in the vehicle on the same day.

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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 27 winners: Morgan Dausman - Print & Mail Center Ron Farleman - Warbirds Sandy Siporin - Trams Joseph Denest - Warbirds Kristin Selwa - Ford Tri-Motor Jonathan Ganster - Tiedowns AVT

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The VAC is made up of pilots and aircraft owners who donate their planes and their time to transport not only our wounded troops but also their families to facilities throughout the country.

In conjunction with the donation Eclipse Aerospace announced its commitment to contribute more than $500,000 toward converting this aircraft into one of the finest Total Eclipse aircraft ever produced by EAI. The transition complete, Americans attending AirVenture 2012 got to witness the handoff of the Hero’s Total Eclipse to the VAC’s Veterans Honorary Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Board Airlift Command, retired Gen. Richard B. Myers. Gen. Myers retired as the 15th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2005.

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A year ago this airplane was the dream of a compassionate American, a way to honor and assist wounded warriors travel to their homes or rehabilitation sites with the convenience, comfort, and privacy available only on a general aviation aircraft.

Yesterday at EAA AirVenture 2012 that dream turned into reality when Eclipse Aerospace Inc. (EAI) donated the completed Eclipse 500 very light jet to the private Veterans Airlift Command, ready to serve the American combat veterans as they served us.

The Hero’s Total Eclipse, as the aircraft is designated, began its transition last year at the AOPA Convention in Hartford, Connecticut, when EAI announced the donation of an Eclipse jet to the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC).

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Coffee with a cause

BY DAVE HIGDON

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Think about the minimum equipment list of the average FBO. Items on the MEL include aviation fuel, of course; a tug; a f light-planning space; space for maintenance.

And a coffee pot.

After all, pilots need more organic energy supplies.

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If pilots chipped in a nickel a cup, the company estimates, the coinage would total more than $20 million

available for aviation causes.

As it is, Flying High Coffee, selling here at AirVenture 2012, sends 30 percent of its profits to aviation causes compounding the support of other groups, such as the Cessna and Piper Flyers associations.

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Around the Field

At show center, near the legendary EAA Brown Arch, sits a small building serving as headquarters to homebuilt parking.

In and around is another small community of EAA members and volunteers who annually help hundreds of transiting homebuilt aircraft park safely and in the right area.

Ken Whyte, from Conover, Wisconsin, has been chairman of the group for more than three decades, leading more than a hundred member-volunteers and a contingent of Explorer Scouts.

Homebuilt parking consists of three areas: the south for “vintage” homebuilts, a north “Kitplane Alley” (also where AirVenture Cup racers park), and “RV Land” to the west along Taxiway Papa.

Homebuilt camping is also expanding.

Ken’s group consists of 18 chairmen and 35 to 40 key volunteers and another 100 volunteers plus the Explorer Scouts; most return annually.

“On the front line here,” said Whyte, “because of safety, we shut the airplanes down at the flightline, and then push them in by hand.” He said smiling, “the young ones help a lot with that.

“They’ve got the muscle and endurance.”

Ken’s company welcome and train new volunteers.

“At each [taxiway] intersection we have at least one flagman, and there’s usually a second person there that’s in training. They train for two seasons here at AirVenture before being allowed to flag planes on their own.

“Two years sounds like a lot,” he said, “but it’s really just two weeks, to get the experience in identification of all the aircraft, where they’re going, and so forth.”

Homebuilt Parking South Area Chairman Dennis Mohr.

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Homebuilt parking chairman Ken Whyte is retiring this year after 36 years.

Dennis Mohr, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, chairman of the homebuilt parking south area, likens it to an extended family.

“Most of us have been together for anywhere from 20 to 28 years,” said Dennis. “Some of them, like the chairman of the north parking, Jeannie, she started coming here probably 25 years ago when her kids were in Explorer Scouts. Now those kids have kids of their own, and they’re all here.

“Jeannie’s daughter was an Explorer Scout here. I also volunteer at Sun ’n Fun, and we met a young man down there about 15 years ago when he was in high school.

We talked his parents into letting him come up here for AirVenture. He came up and stayed with a friend of mine, and he’s

been volunteering ever since…and he met Jeannie’s daughter here at AirVenture.

“Now they’ve got two kids.”

For Jeannie volunteering at AirVenture has become very much a family affair.

“Homebuilt parking is made up of a lot of my family,” she says. “My husband and I are chair and co-chair of the north parking. We’ve got five kids, and four of them are up here every year working in homebuilt parking.”

“I’ve got people in their late 30s who have over 20 years of service,” said Ken. “They were with the Air Explorer groups.

They volunteered with the Air Explorers for four to five years and liked it so much that they come on full-time with homebuilt parking.”

Jeannie is originally from Racine, Wisconsin, and now lives in Lakeland, Florida.

Chairman Ken himself has been at it for 36 years, but this will be his last.

After AirVenture 2012 he’ll be passing the baton to one of his lieutenants. He says he’ll continue to attend the fly-in as just a member, though.

Many of the volunteers camp together over in the Paul’s Woods area of Camp Scholler.

“It’s always a big ritual every year,” said Whyte. “Somebody goes and gets all the camp passes, and the minute the campground opens up they’re staking the area out for them.”

In the evenings the volunteers will pass the time around a campfire. But this year the campground fire ban has put a damper on some of that.

Beyond fly-in week, there’s a lot of preparation that has to happen each year.

“Some of the prep is year-round,” said Ken. “There’s a March deadline for vehicle and radio requests. Also campsite passes, and wristbands for volunteers.

“I’ve got a couple of good key volunteers that are here a good week before the convention.”

Most of the time the work of homebuilt parking is routine and unstressful, but other times, not so much.

“Sometimes I look at working out here like IFR flying,” said Ken. “Hours and hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer panic. We get backups on the taxiway, like we had the P-51s shut down; they blocked off everything.

Couldn’t get any of the airplanes around.

Stuff like that happened.”

Enjoy “Around the Field” all year long at www.AroundTheField.net. AVT

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Jeppesen saving ever more trees

A few years ago I weighed my Jepp chart bag. I had a subscription for all IFR procedures for the entire 48 states. The en route and approach charts filled six of the big leather binders. Texas IFR approach charts used almost an entire binder. The procedures for California also took up most of a binder. The bag full of paper topped 50 pounds on the scale.

Now I have one Jepp binder in my airplane and it contains en route IFR charts. I don’t look at the charts often because if I get a clearance I’m unfamiliar with I ask the controller how to spell the fix and enter it into the navigators—much easier than searching for it on a chart.

And the computerized flight plan I made before getting in the airplane has all the routing I filed for, so only a revised route calls for a chart.

But I like having the paper en route charts. Yes, there are en route charts on my iPad, and I can pinch zoom and scroll to find what I’m looking for, but there is a satisfaction to holding and folding that last bit of our paper past.

We pilots have been talking about “paperless” cockpits for years.

And now many of us fly without paper.

But the route from paper to electronics took twists and turns and Jepp was a leader all the way. And the most important part of Jepp leadership is that there is no single silver bullet that banishes paper from the cockpit.

It takes a layered solution.

Step by step The first step along the way to paperless came when navigation systems—FMS for the jets and Loran C and then GPS for everyone—were able to store nav data. At first a nav system would forget the lat-long of every waypoint you had entered when you shut it down.

Each flight was a new day.

But when electronic memory improved to the point that it was non-volatile and could retain data when power was removed, Jepp was ready with a nav database.

Without even glancing at a chart I can

fly almost any flight simply by entering the clearance into my Garmin navigation systems or the FMS on a larger airplane.

And most of the time the electronic lines that appear on the moving maps are drawn using data from Jeppesen.

Several years ago Jepp invested heavily in the software and computer power to create vector-based charts.

A vector image relies on a grid of points and draws lines and numbers between those points to create a visual image. That compares to a scanned image, which is an electronic picture of a chart.

With vector-based charts the files are small, and the resolution is terrific because the chart is “redrawn” at each scale.

When you zoom in or out on a Jepp chart the resolution remains excellent. That’s not usually true for a scanned chart that has optimum resolution at only one scale.

The technology allowed Jepp to create approach-charts files that were easily readable on cockpit displays. The same technology was enhanced and improved a couple of years ago to allow Jepp to show en route charts electronically without resolution issues when you change scale.

And Jepp worked with the FAA to change the amount of data displayed at various scales so the chart de-clutters as you zoom out.

So to be fully paperless in the cockpit we need several layers of data starting with the navigation database all the way to workable en route charts and directories.

Nobody at Jepp says they have reached the end of the drive toward the true paperless cockpit, but for most of us, the goal has been reached.

Jepp has new electronic chart and information systems on display here at AirVenture Oshkosh, including software for Android systems.

But the best news is that Jepp is implementing a substantial price cut for its U.S. chart coverage. After all, electrons are cheaper than trees and Jepp is passing the savings along.

Not to mention that 50 pounds of paper that cut into my payload not long ago. AVT

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Jet Vest creators go for ‘wow’ factor

BY BARBARA A. SCHMITZ

Move over Kolonel Keds and RocketMan; Jet Vest Man is about to take your place.

Dieter Sturm and Jeff Seymour, cofounders of Jet Machines Extreme, say they’ve created the world’s smallest jet turbine flying belt. Called Jet Vest, it will incorporate four micro jet turbine

engines designed and built by Seymour that will provide the jetpack with 400 pounds of thrust.

It will allow someone to fly for up to four minutes using Jet A fuel, Sturm said.

“That’s an 800 percent increase in flight time over rocket belts.”

The Jet Vest is on display in the

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Innovation Hangar South on the AirVenture flightline.

The two got interested in jet belts after Bell Aerosystems created its jet belt in the mid-1960s. But it was heavy and dangerous to operate, and by 1969, work on the turbojet ended.

Their project, however, has been on the fast track since EAA invited them six months ago to showcase their idea here.

“The idea for the Jet Vest went from our heads, to paper, to blueprints, to CAD, to actually production,” Seymour said. They researched the human body to create the vest, and found that most men’s spinal structure is almost identical.

The vest is made to preserve the spine and protect the neck.

Testing on the vest will start this fall once their mobile tether system is complete. The mobile system will also allow people to safely train on the vest’s use before moving to free flight.

“Flying belts have a cult following around the world,” said Seymour, who has designed and built miniature jet turbine engine projects for the U.S. military and NASA. “So many adult men have seen this here and say, ‘I want one of those.’”

What’s stopping them now is a lack of capital, said Sturm, who also is an Academy Award winning special effects

coordinator for the motion picture and TV industries. They are looking for a group or an enthusiast who can help fund the next level of their project.

They said the Jet Vest would be used mainly for promotional appearances and marketing and branding for corporate sponsors. “It would be used at things like the Super Bowl, the Olympics, or other large-scale audience events and venues,” Sturm said. “It just gives you that ‘wow’ factor when you see a person f lying….”

“When the Harrier jet is f lying and stops to hover, there is a thrill that passes through everyone here,” Seymour said. The vest should provide a similar thrill to audience, in part due to the noise it will make from its four engines, he said.

The two don’t intend to sell the vests, but rather earn their return on investment from major corporate sponsors.

If funding is found soon, Seymour said they hope to fly the Jet Vest at the 2013 AirVenture fly-in and convention.

At this point, however, they’re not sure if someone would need a pilot certificate to fly the turbine-powered flying belt. “We’ve begun discussions with EAA to help us determine what category (of aircraft) this falls into,” Sturm said. AVT

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Redbird’s Cub sim has you seeing yellow

BY MARK PHELPS

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Redbird Flight Simulations Chairman Jerry Gregoire gets his Piper J-3 Cub simulator started the oldfashioned way. The company built the sim in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Cub, and it’s one of the most popular attractions here at AirVenture.

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In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Piper Cub, Redbird created a oneoff full-motion simulator that enables visitors to sample the iconic airplane.

And the sim is painted Cub yellow and sits on balloon tires.

It even has a “tail wheel.”

The instruments are pure Cub, with most of the reference view coming from looking out the three-sided “windows” made up of computer screens.

And as with a real Cub, there is no ignition key. You start the Cub sim the way you start the real thing—pulling through the “propeller” out in front. One welcome difference: A pilot waiting his turn in line at the Redbird tent said, “It’s a lot easier for me to get into this than a real Cub. And that’s a bit of realism I can live without.”

It’s true. Climbing up into the Cub sim and sitting astride the control stick, the view out the side windows is typical Redbird—realistic scenery and the edges of the runway environment.

The view out the front window will have to wait until you accelerate enough to get the tail airborne.

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There was a young boy patiently awaiting his try at the Cub sim, so this had to be a short approach, slipped the last few feet to the runway with a rudder kick to straighten the tail to line up on the centerline.

The sim made me look good. We were all having fun. You can also have a go at Redbird’s crosswind trainer that does a great job of simulating challenging landing conditions, complete with gusts and wind shear.

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