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IN THIS ISSUE: Stories: 2013 Airshow Calendar Cactus Fly-in

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Airline Regulation ICAO is a Comin Wellingtons to Halifaxes: pt. 4 Gobosh 700 Becomes the Aero AT-4 A Unique Combination: Julie & Phil Dacy Blue Skies Oceana: Getting There Was Half the Fun GA Leadership Dilemma 2013 Photography Contest

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Columns 04 06 08 10 12 14 16 22 30

ANTIQUE ATTIC: GILLES AULIARD BIG SKY: K EN KULA SAL’S LAW: YOUR LEGAL EAGLE: SAL LAGONIA, ESQ AIR TO GROUND: ROSE MARIE K ERN PLANE TALK: HERB HILL HOT AIR, WINGS AND FLYING THINGS: JIM ELLIS BEYOND THE CROWD LINE: WAYNE GAULDIN BYDANJOHNSON.COM COMMON CAUSE: MIKE SULLIVAN

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AIRSHOW CALENDAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS LEARN TO FLY - FLIGHT SCHOOLS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CHECKPOINTS

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KITTYHAWK CELEBRATION FLIGHT: LINDA SUE BOEHMER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST BLUE SKIES: STEVE BILL HANSHEW MYSTERY AIRPLANE CONTEST GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN

Airshows 04 CACTUS FLY-IN 11 SUN N FUN 2013 23 OCEANA AIRSHOW

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Antique Attic

April 2013

by Gilles Auliard

Everybody’s welcome at the Big House (Casa Grande) The Arizona Wing of the CAF, based at not too far Falcon Field, in Mesa, also participated with a ﬂy-by from their B-17 “Sentimental Journey”, as well as their recently leased from the Wings of Flight Foundation DC-3C N53ST, in an Israeli Air Force livery. This airplane was employed at one point as a corporate hack for the Hoover Vacuum Company during its long career.

The end of February marks the time for the great snowbird migration, when for, however so short, few days, it is time to bask in the sun surrounded by swarms of airplanes of all kinds and shape, and more signiﬁcantly, as old as possible. 2013 being no different from prior years, I found myself at the Casa Grande Municipal Airport attending the 55th Cactus Fly-In, taking place on March 1st and 2nd. Organized by the Arizona chapter of the Antique Airplane Association -incorporated in 1964-, the event is pretty low-key. Run by volunteers, it is opened to everybody who has in interest in antique and classic aviation. It draws mostly from the local pilot fauna, but also from the surrounding states for two days of displays and ﬂying in CAVU conditions. The weather patterns during the 2013 extended week-end were pretty typical for the time and place, with plenty of sunshine, temperatures ranging from the high 40s, low 50s at sunrise, warming up throughout the day to the high 70s, low 80s by early to mid-afternoon.

Also from California, a strong contingent of airplanes calling San Diego home migrated for the duration of the fly-in. This included Dave Stillinger’s 1953 CASA built Bucker Jungman N443BD, John Hickman’s 1940 Dornier built Bucker Jungmeister N133JH, one of the most authentic of the type in existence, in his Swiss Air Force markings, and Bob Kemper’s amateur-built Bucker Jungmeister N100BU replica powered by a flat-four Lycoming camouflaged in a radial housing.

This year, unfortunately, the antique contingent was very poor, with Jim Juranich’s 1928 Command Aire 5C-3 N946E toping the Charts. Coming a long way from home, he was accompanied in his trip by his brother Bob in his 1934 Waco YMF-3 N14080. Others noteworthy antiques making the trip to1939 Waco UPF-7 N226E, Dave Roberts’ 1930 Waco RNF N110Y, and Michael Still’s Fairchild 24 N28648

At Casa Grande, the wind can be a problem. However, this year was blessed with a little breeze increasing with time, while staying within everybody’s comfort zone. Those were perfect conditions for walking up and down the lines of airplane offered for scrutiny. Being the ﬁrst event of the season, and with good chances for enjoyable weather, the Cactus Fly-In attracts up to 300 airplanes. This year was no exception, as some 250 airplanes made the trip to Casa Grande, most of them only on Saturday, traditionally the busiest day. The 55th edition could be dubbed the “Gooney Bird Special”, as three examples of this once plentiful type attended. First, the wellknown Flabob Express N103NA made the trip from Riverside, California, as part of a contingent that included Mark Lightsey’s Hatz N1279 and Don Newman ﬂying his old trustee PT-23 N48671.

The same organization delegated its Beech C-45 “Expeditor” N145AZ to Casa Grande, one of the four examples of the type that attended, including Leland Jones’ Beech D18S N5804C, Rick Loomis’ D-18S N1140 and, finally, only on Saturday Oak Holdings’ modified C-45 N9WM advocating fly-in fishing expeditions. This was a stronger showing than usual for the Beech 18 family of airplanes.

Unfortunately Bill Allen chose to come up with his pristine 1941 Boeing Stearman PT-17 (B75N1), once owned by Steve McQueen - still carrying his reform school number 3188 as registration- in lieu of his Stearman 4D, accompanied by a few more examples of the same type based North of the border. The rarest sight at Casa Grande, however, did not land there. After multiple difficulties and mucho deniros, Fifi, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) B-29 is flying again and took the time to greet the fly-in attendees on Saturday. The sight was well worth the ticket price.

One surprise visitor came from the neighboring Eloy Municipal Airport. The 1943 Lockheed model 18 “Lodestar” N631LS had been a ﬁxture there for the last 12 years, progressively getting worse for wear, until a crash restoration program took place in 2012. The plane is now for sale in airworthy condition for $290,000. Also coming from Eloy, Skydive Arizona’s DC-3 N86584 was the last of the type to join in. Even though the antiques showing at the 55th Cactus Fly-In was quite disappointing, this edition was well worth migrating away from the dreary weather of the Northeast to attend.

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Making rational choices Pilots tend to be rational people. The decision making process that governs every ﬂight must be ﬁrmly rooted in reason. And pilots know that poor judgment leads to poor outcomes. Unfortunately as sequestration cuts begin to take form, it’s clear that not all decisions affecting pilots are made with such care.

Closing towers isn’t the only alarming part of the FAA’s sequestration plan. We’re also worried about the integrity of our infrastructure if VORs aren’t repaired, the impact of putting a hold on new aircraft certification, delays in processing medicals and pilot certificates, and more cuts to critical weather and flight services.

The sequestration mandate has compelled the FAA to make across-the-board spending cuts that just aren’t based in reason and aren’t acceptable to AOPA members.

General aviation is a real economic engine in many communities, providing jobs and supporting businesses. GA is also a critical tool for law enforcement, agriculture, and emergency medical services. And towered GA airports can be vital relievers in busy airspace around major metropolitan areas.

With plans to close more than 200 control towers, allow the navigational aid system to deteriorate, and furlough tens of thousands of employees, the proposed cuts will have a disproportionate effect on the safety and integrity of general aviation operations. It seems strange that contract towers have been singled out for widespread closure. They have the same excellent safety record as federally-operated towers, but they are much more cost effective. In fact, contract towers handle approximately 28 percent of all air trafﬁc control operations in the United States, but they account for only 14 percent of the FAA’s total tower operations budget. It seems like the type of program you’d want to keep intact when you’re trying to stretch every dollar.

There are better, less damaging ways to reduce spending and cut costs, and we’re asking Congress and the Administration’s budget officials to give the FAA the flexibility it needs to make more rational choices. We’re also asking the FAA to work with AOPA and other aviation organizations to find savings that do less harm. In recent years, AOPA and others have suggested a variety of cost-saving and cost-cutting measures, and we’re asking the FAA to make those ideas part of the current discussions. But most important, we need the FAA to step back from its rush to action, pause, and take a closer look at what its proposed cuts will really mean to the aviation community and the public at large.

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April 2013

The Big Sky

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My ATC career began just after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Looking back at the scale and impact the Act brought to the U.S. air trafﬁc control industry is much easier to do today than it was to do "in the moment" as things occurred back then. In the 1980s, regulations loosened around which markets were served by which airline, and it was easier to start up a new business. Some of the airlines that began business in the 1980s include Airborne Express, New York Air, Northeastern, America West, Horizon Air, People Express, PSA, Spirit, Sun Country, Tower Air, Business Express, Pan Am Shuttle, Delta Shuttle, and Independence Air. In the years that followed this spectacular growth period, many companies either merged with others, or ceased operations all together. Indeed, out of this list of 14 airlines, only four remain in business today, operating under the same name.

Growth was rapid, and a few times a year an airliner with an unknown identifier on their flight plan, or a radio call sign we'd never heard of would fly through our sectors. We'd have to ask who they were and how'd they pronounce their call sign, then pass this to a supervisor who'd pass the information to a staff office for investigation so a bulletin could be sent out with the proper information for the whole Center. Sometimes we even had to ask which country the airline was based out of if it sounded foreign, because the Iron Curtain was still standing and there were NORAD procedures we had to follow with Communist Block flights. The FAA's 7340.1 handbook (now FAA JO 7340.2) was and still is called the "Contractions" manual, and it contained all two and three letter airline identifiers, call signs, and company names in use. In the early 1980s, mainline air carriers still used two letter IDs, while "commuters" and "air taxi" operators were issued three letter IDs. We had to memorize almost all of them that operated in the northeastern U.S.. Of course the • Monday Closed • Tue. & Wed. 6 am-2 pm Breakfast & Lunch • Thurs. & Fri. 6 am-8 pm Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner • Saturday 6 am-2 pm Breakfast, Lunch • Sunday 6 am-2 pm Breakfast only

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Contractions manual was revised through chart date cycles occurring every 56 days. When the next change would come out, sure enough, there'd be a new entry with the new airline's IDs in it. Conversely, for a short while, I remember that an original PEOPLExpress flight from Newark to London England used their registration (N604PE I think) before their official call sign and identifier was authorized. And Arista International, an American airline, ran a pair of DC-8s between JFK and Europe in the early 1980s using their Swedish registrations of SEDBI and SE-DDU before receiving their call sign and identifier too.

The " hub and spoke" system of airline operations was expanded, and our Boston Center operations were soon impacted heavily by airports hundreds of miles away. Sleepy Newark NJ soon became the main PEOPLExpress hub. JFK International, which used to wake up for its' afternoon and evening international flights, became busier with domestic American, TWA and Pan Am flight banks throughout the day. Another airport that wasn't particularly busy was Dulles International, but when Independence Air joined United Airlines as a major tenant, airborne gridlock often ensued. Airborne holding for these busy airports required more space further away from them to stack planes if inclement weather reduced the arrival rates. We were holding planes in places we never expected to, and airways that were seldom used were suddenly full of jets, all destined for the same place. Gauging how many flights would travel through your sector was difficult as airlines added flights as they grew. There was a lot of rapid planning and execution of new procedures in the Center to adapt to the growing traffic volume.

Just as a new operator would suddenly spring up, or one would quickly add ﬂight volume to our system, some went away as rapidly and a relative calm would spread to sectors where constant pressure was present the week prior. When PEOPLExpress ceased operations, the sectors feeding Newark airport became uncharacteristically quiet for a few weeks until Continental Airlines began to rebuild the hub at the airport. The same thing happened after Independence Air stopped ﬂying; the sector workload for those that fed Dulles International airport got a bit easier and volume dropped noticeably. Similar changes to the pace of afternoon and evening shifts happened for sectors feeding Kennedy airport in New York City when Pan AM and TWA ceased their international operations.

The airline industry was a big part of why air trafﬁc control came into being. I had a great view of the industry's peaks and valleys through three very turbulent decades. It was always interesting to see how the "new guy on the block" would ﬁt in, and we grieved along with the employees of an airline when it went under or was gobbled up by another. As much as the targets on our radar scopes were just airplanes, the voices we spoke with on our frequencies were real people, and while unseen, we still held common interests and wishes for their success.

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By Linda Sue Boehmer, aka the “Pink Lady” Is it a secret that pilots love any excuse to fly? Celebrating a momentous birthday, anniversary or any other occasion in the sky seems the perfect way for us to embrace a bright future. If you are turning 30, 40, 50, 60, or even 70 or 80, you might want to consider marking the milestone by trying a mode of flight new to you. My pilot brother, a hang gliding enthusiast since his teens, recently treated me to my first hang gliding experience at Jockey’s Ridge in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (1-877-FLY-THIS). We used the adventure to launch (so to speak) a new decade of flying for both of us. We were told during the pre-flight briefing that late aviation legend and inventor Francis Rogallo celebrated his 80th birthday hang gliding at Jockey’s Ridge. What better way to celebrate life than to fly like a bird? Kitty Hawk has a special place in the hearts of pilots because of its historic connection with the Wright brothers. It is still an excellent place to savor the joy of flight. The Kitty Hawk Kites brochure (www.KittyHawk.com) does not exaggerate the excitement of one’s first unpowered flights. I seriously felt a kinship with the Wright brothers the moment my hang glider lifted me off the dune! If you are closer to 80 than to 20, you need to know that hang gliding at Jockey’s Ridge includes more hiking up sand dunes than you may be used to. Fortunately, strong young flight instructors carry the gliders back up the dune after each flight, but you have to get back up there too. The introductory lesson is just the right number of flights for most folks to get a taste of true unpowered flying. My flight instructor, Eric, was able to coach me to

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an upright landing by the third or fourth flight. I am more of an indoor girl, so I was worried about sand in my teeth, but the first belly landings in the soft sand were perfectly comfortable and did not dampen my enthusiasm at all. I was mildly surprised to learn a technique that will be helpful to me in future powered flights. My instructor showed me a gentle yet effective way of grasping the control bar that I will use on the yoke, making an “OK” gesture around the bar with thumb and pointer. As a long time power pilot, I found I had only one habit to unlearn. The physical action associated with flaring for landing employs arm motions opposite to control inputs for flaring a fixed wing plane. I found the required hang gliding motion to be more like sticking a landing after a gymnastics routine than flaring using stick or yoke. My brother and I had a wonderful time sharing my first hang gliding experience. Our spouses seemed to enjoy tagging along for the spectacle, photographing the process. They especially liked the breathtaking panoramic views of ocean and sound from high atop the dunes. It was a terrific way to celebrate our milestones! We highly recommend it to everyone, whether or not they are pilots. Footnote: As the weather improves, do not forget to collect “passport” stamps from airports you visit. The reward programs I know about are in Maryland (www.exploremarylandbyair.com), North Carolina (www.OperationFlyNC.com website and/or email Tom Freeman directly, tom@wingsofun. com) and Virginia (www.doav.Virginia.gov). My most recent stamp is from the fly-in community at Lake Norman Air Park (14A) in North Carolina. A Commercial rating lesson pre-flight briefing was in progress and the pilots were anticipating towing gliders later that day. Let’s all go flying!!

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was any hospitalization involved, be sure to include admission history, physical examination, the hospital discharge summary and any x-ray or lab test results. Some conditions require a mandatory period of “grounding”, so be prepared for that as well. If the FAA suggests a specific test, be sure to comply with their request. Sometimes doctors disagree with the effectiveness of a requested test. If your doctor suggests varying from what the FAA is asking for, be sure to communicate this to the FAA and tell them your concerns with their requests. Cooperation and communication are key in these situations. Above all, get help if you need it from professionals in the field. Your AME can be a great resource if he/she is knowledgeable in the sometimes unclear world of the FAA medical manual. AOPA also has a very good medical / legal panel in their “pilot protection” plan. Do your homework so you can avoid a rejection letter. If rejected, continue to be proactive to keep the length of inactivity to the absolute minimum. While getting better is your first concern, protect your airmen’s certificate as best as possible. Very often, the key to success in these situations is providing the appropriate information in the right package. SK @ MGJ: I recently went through my instrument check ride and happily passed, and was issued a temporary instrument rating. I am awaiting the hard copy from the FAA. Recently I received a letter that the FAA was investigating my qualifications? What does that mean? Did they not accept the flight test? Sal’s Law: SK, there is probably no need to be concerned. The law states that the FAA may not issue a medical, airman certificate or rating until it finds, after an investigation, that the person is qualified and physically able to perform the duties related to the certificate. There investigation is usually limited to checking the application and the forms the examiner submitted to them. In the past, this very same investigation always took place even though these notices were not sent to the pilot. However, under the Pilot’s Bill of Rights, the FAA must inform the applicant that an investigation is in progress. Ergo, they now send this form letter to everyone who applies for a rating. The form that the FAA will send you has a place to sign, verifying that you received the notice and nothing more. Blue Skies all! Sal Lagonia Esq., is an Aviation Attorney, Professor of Aviation Law and expert safety consultant who is a frequent speaker on aviation safety issues. Questions and speaking requests may be sent to Sal@LagoniaLaw.com

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“Air To Ground” by Rose Marie Kern The United States created many of today’s rules for aviation, but as flying became a global industry, it was obvious that uniform regulations and communications would benefit pilots around the globe. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is working to standardize the practices used worldwide. The U.S. is cooperating by changing things to meet these codes by setting up the computer systems to recognize ICAO formats and by requiring any U.S. pilot who plans to fly out of the country to conform. Nonetheless, more than a few pilots were caught by surprise in March when the FAA began requiring that all IFR flight plans out of the country had to be filed using the ICAO flight plan form. Up until then you could file to Mexico or Canada using the domestic IFR flight plan – a much simpler form. For those of you who are planning to exit the country sometime soon you will want to bone up on the new style. The FAA has a website that will allow you to become more familiar with ICAO flight plans: www.faa.gov/go/fpl2012 The site is not intuitive, so I recommend you start by looking at the column on the left and clicking Flight Plan Filing and navigating from there. You may want to print out the tri-fold brochure that is labeled ICAO 2012 Quick Reference Brochure PDF. Information concerning filing an ICAO flight plan, also known as FAA Form 7233-4, Flight Plan, is described in the Airmen’s Information Manual (AIM) – Section 1, paragraph 5-1-9. The biggest changes include the requirement to include estimated times that your aircraft will cross boundary zones between countries and other ATC sectors. It is not enough to file an airway or just GPS direct between points, you have to check a map and see where the boundaries are, and figure how long it will take to get to them after departure. Say you are leaving Albuquerque to Chihuahua Mexico, you have to put in the time it takes to fly from ABQ to the U.S. border in the appropriate block. Normally you use latitude/longitude to identify the crossing point. If you are traveling all the way to Mexico City, there are also a couple ATC boundaries that need to be figured. ICAO flight plans require that you know exactly what kind of equipment you have on board and the designators for it. This is easy if you have your own aircraft, but if you are renting an aircraft you will need to make sure you know the type of navigation and communication equipment, plus

ICAO is a Comin’ what types of survival gear are aboard. Do you have desert, mountain or maritime survival gear? How many and what color dinghys and lifejackets? Do they have lights and transponders? As usual you can call Flight Service to file an ICAO flight plan, but they since the specialists on duty do not know what kind of aircraft or equipment you have, you must be the one to give them the data to fill in. ICAO flight plans must also be filed if you are departing or landing at any U.S. airport that is under the ATC control of another country. For instance, there are several airports in northwest Washington State and some in the far northern reaches of the east coast that fall under the jurisdiction of Canadian Air Traffic. Even if you are flying from somewhere within the continental U.S. to these American airports, you must file an ICAO IFR flight to go into those airports. Of course you also have to file ICAO if you are traveling IFR out of those airports. At this time these rules apply to IFR aircraft only. Those who are traveling VFR to Mexico or Canada can still use the domestic form as long as they remain over land during the trip, though that will change in the future as well. If an aircraft is traveling across the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to Mexico VFR they still have to file ICAO, but if they remain over the land – traveling the arc of the Texas coastline, they can use the domestic flight plan. The FAA is planning on conforming with other ICAO requirements soon. Come August all Notices to Airmen, (NOTAMs) will be published using the ICAO formats and contraction. Those of you who frequently travel to Canada will already be familiar with this style of information. Change is uncomfortable, but inevitable. In a way, knowing ICAO rules is like seeing an American chain restaurant in a foreign country – a comforting familiarity where you know that the same rules will always apply regardless of where you fly. Rose Marie Kern has worked in Air Traffic for over 30 years. If you have a question she can be reached at author@rosemariekern.com.

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Plane Talk by Herb Hill “My first operation as Navigator on a Halifax was on Dec 12 1944 . It was noisy and hostile! I operated with Squadron Leader Alan against Maintz; we had an engine failure on the way to the target, but unanimously agreed to continue. With reduced speed, and altitude, we got to target late, alone, with undivided attention from the flak. Again noisy and bounced around. On return, all the electronic navigation equipment went unserviceable – so back to basic navigation! Two days later we were on Bonn and over the target the bombs would not release: some electric defect. We circled three times, each getting lower, whilst I did the bomb-aiming and bomb-aimer and flight engineer released the bombs manually, a few on each circuit. Again colorful and noisy. On 24 Feb, still with Bill Allen, we were the lead aircraft of a daylight raid by 450 Halifax on Kamen oil refinery (northeast of the Ruhr). Crossing the Northern France coast my pilot called me out of my navigation ‘office’ to look to the rear. I have rarely felt my responsibilities stronger than when I saw 450 other aircraft all packed tight behind and following me. When we got to the target it was cloud covered and I was bombing from my radio and radar aids. But I was later told we’d done well! On 5 March, just after the Dresden raid, we did a long trip to Chemnitz – long and cold! Shortly after leaving the target we were attacked by what the gunners identified as a Heinkel 162 jet; fortunately with a lot of gunfire and evasive maneuvers we were able to fight it off. Later we encountered engine oil starvation problems, probably due to lengthy flight in extreme cold. We were forced to shut down one engine over Holland, we couldn’t maintain altitude and diverted to a southeast England emergency airfield. A second engine failed over the sea and the future was looking damp, but the pilot and the flight engineer coaxed one to start, and we landed on three. That was over 8 hours. I was at that time operating about every third day. My last bomber operation was on 25 March 1945 as the ground forces crossed the Rhine and we were bombing the transport infrastructure at Osnabruck in daylight. Sheer murder, minimal defense, just unload into a mass of fire and smoke around the railway system. Of course there were times when our beloved aircraft was damaged (our ground crew used to tell us we were not taking adequate care of her). She’d get patched up, maybe engine change or wing change. Sometimes in the midst of a flak barrage you’d hear smaller (?) bits of shrapnel rattling against the fuselage, maybe penetration, but overall we were very lucky and avoided some of the horrendous damage that others suffered. I’ve so often seen at night a distant aircraft, maybe off track and stumbled into a hornet’s nest, coned by five, ten, twenty searchlights, looking like a moth near a candle flame. Twin-

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Wellingtons to Halifaxes: RAF navigator Doug Newham, WWII pt. 4 kling flak all around it, as it might try and dive and twist and twist again to get out of the cone of light. All one could say was ‘Poor bastard!’ and then there’d be a tiny line of fire, the aircraft would perhaps turn slowly over onto its back, increase the angle of descent, the fire becoming a plume, and finally just a big explosion. Hopefully quick for those aboard. You might see that kind of event five, ten times a night, or another ten caught be a fighter and streaming fire as it too descends into hell.

Later however, my pilot and I were each to be disciplined for operating more frequently than our leadership roles permitted. We were each approaching the end of our second tours, and possible posting away from operational duties, but Group HQ considered our continued presence and leadership more important. I was sent on an administrative course, and my pilot promoted and moved elsewhere to a non-ﬂying post. But on return from my admin. course I merely found other pilots with whom to ﬂy.

I’ve been on a daylight raid, everybody edging into the proper line for the target, flak and black bursts all around, and a Lanc or Halifax not a hundred yards away take a virtual direct hit, break-up in flight, bits all falling in flames, and you hope, but don’t expect, to see a falling body open a chute.

For our leadership, personal performance and our numerous operational activities I was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. At the same time my pilot (who already held the DFC) was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

At night, with a virtual hell of fires and explosions below, keeping a lookout for fighters or for another bomber just overhead and ready to release his load, with flak and associated smoke bursts all around you, maybe flaming aircraft going down, maybe the gunners calling for evasive action, whilst the bomb-aimer might be pleading for a minor accurate turn, and as navigator you check your instruments, get ready to call for a change of course, sitting in your curtained ‘office’ at the same time as hell truly rages around outside. I think it’s true to say we all knew what ‘fear’ was, but somehow faced it, and overcame it. And you’d get hurt and upset when you’d lose your friends, and more friends tomorrow, and maybe the day after. You might see a crewmember throwing up in a nearby hedge before boarding the aircraft for takeoff – but he’d still fly, and still do his job, and you’d hope he’d come home. And it wasn’t only the aircrew who faced the inevitable. I had the greatest admiration for some of the young women transport drivers. Not long out of school, perhaps from sheltered backgrounds. They’d drive the crews to the aircraft, and quickly learn how to cope with the banter and comments, and always call a ‘Good luck boys’ as they drove away; and in seven or more hours later they’d be there to collect you, quiet as mice this time, often with tears running down their cheeks, knowing you’d been to the edge and back. But why did we go back for more? Why did we experienced crews who had done a tour of 30 operations, and could probably have spent the rest of the war as instructors, why did we have this feeling of inadequacy in such roles, and volunteer for more, and then more? Why did we go back when we knew that our survival chances were already the wrong side of zero? A good question! To my own pilot’s concern I also once chose to operate as supervisory navigator with an inexperienced crew whose navigator was having serious morale problems. “You’ll get yourself killed with such an inexperienced crew,” but I nevertheless operated with them in what proved to be an unsuccessful attempt to bolster the navigator’s courage.

At the termination of hostilities in Europe, 10 Squadron converted to Douglas “Dakota” C-47 aircraft and was posted to the Far East for close support operations in the planned air/ sea invasion of Malaysia. I was told that I was destined for other duties as a staff navigator but volunteered to stay with my squadron for these further operations. We first trained in the UK at Broadwell in Oxfordshire - learning the skills of glider-towing and paratroop and supply dropping, before flying to India via Cairo and around the Arabian peninsula. However, by this time the Japanese had surrendered and the squadron’s role changed. Some weeks were spent in Burma primarily engaged in dropping sacks of rice at treetop height to starving Karen tribes in the high mountains of northern Burma. On one such operation three out of four aircraft crashed into the jungle - I was in the one aircraft that survived. My luck was still with me! Later we returned to India to transport British service personnel returning from Japanese P.O.W. camps. But the end of my wartime service approached, and instead of coming back to UK by troopship, I flew in a group of three small transport Expeditor aircraft to return them to an American unit in Germany, as the sole navigator in the lead aircraft, the others following us. In 1946 I was demobilized from the Royal Air Force and returned to civilian life.” Post-war, Newham joined British airline BOAC, serving in a wide variety of operational posts, both overseas and in the UK. He was chairman of the IATA Technical Panel at the time of introducing the jets; was spokesperson or member on several international aviation conferences; and, in the final years was in control of the airline’s worldwide operational network. Doug said to me, “We had some heroes, but I was never one of them. I was and still am just an ordinary chap, one of thousands.” That may be, but his is so typically, one of thousands of stories that got a chance to be told.

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Hot Air, Wings and Flying Things by Jim Ellis Gobosh G700 Becomes Aero AT-4: Gobosh Stays Home I had never much liked the name “Gobosh”, used by the Midwestern importers of the Polish-built G700 low-wing LSA. A Polish word? No, it was a contraction of “Go Big or Stay Home”. I often felt that was an arrogant and haughty name just asking for a karmic head slap. Despite the G700 being an excellent low wing LSA, Dan Johnson’s market list showed only 24 registered in the U.S. at the end of 2011. Gobosh went out of business in 2009 (although their website still remains up, leggy blonde and all). I had heard that a new support operation was being set up in nearby Northampton, Massachusetts. I located a contact who confirmed that the former G700 was now called the Aero AT-4 (the European designation all along). My host had the practically unpronounceable (to most Americans) Polish last name of Trzaska. He said it should be pronounced “Tshaska”. Greg was an Americanized contraction of his nearly equally unpronounceable Polish first name. Greg Trzaska had been asked by Aero AT to assist them in setting up a sales and support operation in the U.S. after the failure of Gobosh. He had been an aeronautical engineer for PZL in Poland for 10 years before emigrating to the U.S., where he worked in high tech and aeronautical related jobs in New England. He finally got his pilot’s license at Northampton after his daughter had graduated from college. Looking into available airplanes, he found that the Gobosh G700 was built in Poland, and that he knew some of the key company personnel from his days as an aeronautical engineer in Poland. He is now the Aero AT distributor and manufacturer’s representative for the company. N413AT is Trzaska’s personal airplane and demonstrator. It looked familiar from my prior two flights in the G700, although the white paint job with the flowing stripes somehow made it look even better and sleeker. N413AT had the two throttle configuration, a redundancy which I am opposed to but which Trzaska liked. (Most U.S. pilots fly aircraft with a single throttle and other controls in the center. The AT-4 and G700 also have their flaps and pitch trim on the center console, so flying with the right hand on the wheel could be a problem.) Trzaska said that Air Force fighter pilots

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and pilots used to flying tandem taildraggers told him they liked the left hand throttle, and that he liked to fly with his left arm resting on the built-in arm rest with his left hand on the throttle. I also found my left knee bumped up against the left throttle knob in flight, an annoyance. (Curiously, the G700 on the Northampton Airport flight school ramp, owned by Trzaska and leased back to the school, had the left hand throttle removed.)

N413AT had two Garmin G300s (the first use of the G300 I had seen in anything other than a Cessna Skycatcher). The G300 screens are both on the left side of the panel. It also had a Garmin SL40 comm and a GTX330 transponder putting TIS traffic on the right hand Garmin G300 MFD moving map display. It also had a small to medium size airspeed indicator and an altimeter on the upper center of the instrument panel. The airspeed indicator was useful in flight; the single needle altimeter was too small and hard to read to be of use. (Of course the G300 PFD had the vertical tape airspeed and altimeter.) Trzaska said he believes an analog gauge 6-pack panel would still be the best configuration for training, a sentiment I agree with. But an analog “steam gauge” “6-pack” panel may no longer be the least expensive option available. By the time one adds a vacuum system to drive an artificial horizon, a Dynon panel may

A basic AT-4 is available for $105,000. Trzaska said a typical flight school configuration, with dual toe brakes and a few other options, would likely run about $110,000. Amazingly enough, Greg said that the very well outfitted N413AT with its two Garmin G300s, even with leather seats and plush leather and carpeted sidewalls, was priced at $135,000. (Compare that to a Cessna Skycatcher with two G300 screens and an unfinished looking interior with a present price of $150,000. Or a Flight Design CTLS, which starts at $139,800 plus avionics options starting at $10,000 and going upward from there.) A BRS parachute is an option. (I have never seen a Gobosh 700 or an AT-4 with a parachute. The Gobosh importers didn’t believe in them. Neither N413AT or the flightline G700 had one.) N413AT did not have an autopilot, but it is an available option. The standard fuselage fuel tank holds 18.7 gallons. Indentations in the fuel tank to allow space behind the panel for the Garmin 300s in N413AT reduced the fuel capacity to 17.2 gallons. The next generation of AT-4s will have fuel tanks in the wings, a significant safety improvement. There is even an option for an extended range belly tank which would result in a total capacity of 32 gallons (although this likely would be only practical for single pilot long range delivery flights). Trzaska and instructor/demo pilot Michael Kuehlmuss reported a long range fuel consumption of 4.7 gph on their flight to the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring early in 2012. N413AT had a copper or bronze tinted canopy, but no sunshade. (The flight school G700 had a sunshade.) The novel towbar doubles as a custom gustlock. There were four adjustable air vents on a plastic strip on the top of the instrument panel. Trzaska said this was an option. The strip also had small holes blowing air like a defroster up at the inside of the canopy. There was also a main air inlet (which in cold months was also the heater outlet) under the panel, and a sliding air vent on each side of

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the cowling alongside the seats. The AT-4 and G700 had two flap position settings, 15 and 40 degrees. Future versions will have a flap with an additional 30 degree setting. Taxiing out, we encountered one thing typical for Rotax-equipped aircraft that would annoy me if I were paying by Hobbs meter time. It took several minutes to for the oil to reach the required 122 degree temperature, even with the oil heat vent door knob closed. You can’t even do mag checks until it reaches temperature. There was a cloud layer over the Connecticut River valley as we flew limiting us to below 2,000 feet, so I was unable to do stalls. (On prior flights I found the G700 to have gentle, easily recoverable stall characteristics.) I did do a couple of 45 degree bank 360 degree turns to the left and right, with the stick forces being just right and it being easy to hold bank and altitude. My first approach to a landing at Turner’s Falls was high, and the plane responded nicely to my putting it into a slip to lose the excess altitude. After a couple of reasonably respectable landings at Turner’s Falls, we headed back down the scenic valley to Northampton. My final landing at Northampton required correction for a strong crosswind from the right, but the AT-4 handled it nicely and I made a nice landing. As I had found on my second flight in a G700, you can fly it and land it pretty much like a Cherokee. Not surprising, given that the wings look like Hershey bar wings with winglets. The AT-4 and its G700 predecessor are built with aluminum aircraft construction techniques familiar to almost all U.S. general aviation mechanics. It is built with numerous access and inspection doors. The seats easily come out to see the control linkages from the fuselage to the wings. The blue G700 on the flight line at Northampton has a fairly high time (by LSA standards) of 1500 hours on it. But except for some worn paint on the flap handle and a knob or two, it is holding up very well in a demanding flight school environment. Trzaska has a lot of work still to do. He has been putting his efforts into developing a parts and technical support base for the AT-4 and the Gobosh G700, which is commendable. But he has to educate people that the AT-4 is an improved replacement for the Gobosh G700, and that Aero AT is supporting the G700s out there and selling new AT-4s. He also has to reinvigorate and expand the old Gobosh dealer network, and he has begun doing that with three other dealers shown on the AT-4 website. The Aero AT-4 is an excellent, sturdy, nice flying low wing LSA. It is priced very competitively. But whether it is a truly good value depends on what kind of sales, parts, and technical support base Trzaska and Aero AT build behind it. He and Aero AT appear to be off to a good start, but the months ahead will tell. Check the AT-4 website at “www.aeroat-usa.com/product/ aerto-4-s-lsa-factory-built”. Or contact Trzaska by phone at 413-949-0828 or email: sales@ aeroat-usa.com.

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Texas Flying Legends Museum and Music Doing Good Present Wings Over Wiscasset A Unique Fundraising Event Includes a Rare Collection of WWII Warbirds All Proceeds Benefit The Wiscasset Parks & Recreation Dept., Maine Aeronautics Assoc., and NotHere.me, “Justice in Action Program” Texas Flying Legends Museum (TFLM) and Music Doing Good present Wings Over Wiscasset: Voices of Freedom on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 9 am to 9 pm. This FREE, family-friendly day combines interactive experiences with aeronautics, history, music and science, while supporting three local nonprofit organizations – The Wiscasset Parks & Recreation Dept., Maine Aeronautics Association and Not-Here.org’s “Justice in Action Program.” Local sponsors include KIWI Wiscasset Airport, Town of Wiscasset and Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce. Wings Over Wiscasset unites aviation enthusiasts, pilots, veterans, nonprofit organizations and the public to raise funds and build community through themes of aviation and aeronautics. Children and adults alike will hear presentations from and interact with the pilots from Texas Flying Legends Museum and Maine Aeronautics Assocation, who served our country in aerial combat. These pilots will fly a variety of World War II aircraft in an elaborate air show. Attendees can tour the airplane hangars and learn about the type and function of each Warbird through the pilots that fly them. 3 of the TFLM warbirds will be on site. Up to 13 other WWII aircraft from throughout the northeast and 15 antique vehicles from the Boothbay Railway Museum will also be on display throughout the day. There will be plane rides available throughout the course of the day as well. Most of the planes on site will take flight early in the evening for an airshow culminating with the TFLM warbirds aerobatic show. The Texas Flying Legends Warbirds: 3 of these planes will attend the event TBA Japanese Zero - One of only a few flying Japanese Zeros in the world, The Last Samurai was designed by Mitsubishi in 1937. The symbol of Japanese air power in WWII, a combination of nimbleness and simplicity gave the Zero fighting qualities that no Allied plane could match at the beginning of the war. The Zero was responsible for the success of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and many battles fought in the Pacific Theater. P-51D Mustang – As the United States decided to enter World War II, the British approached North American aviation to build a new fighter, the P-51D Mustang. Powered by a Packard-Merlin Rolls-Royce V-12 engine, it topped out at 437 miles per hour at 25,000 feet and had a combat range of 1000 miles. Considered the best fighter of its time, the Mustang was the most widely produced US aircraft during WWII and the model was made famous by the daring pilots, The Tuskeegee Airmen. Dakota Kid II and Little Horse saw their fair share of combat during the war. B-25 “Mitchell” Bomber – Betty’s Dream was named in honor of General Billy Mitchell, pioneer of American aviation and saw service in every theater of WWII. The B-25 is an American twin engine medium bomber that was modified during the war by installing a .50 caliber machine gun in the nose of the aircraft. By the end of its production, nearly 10,000 B-25s in numerous models had been built. Betty’s Dream carried 22 mission symbols and two silhouettes representing sunken Japanese ships. P40-K Warhawk – First produced in 1938, the P40-K known as the Aleutian Tiger or The Flying Tiger, was used by the US Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force and other USAAF units throughout the Aleutian Island Chain. 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The story which follows here will intoduce you to a popular couple, married, and residing in northern Illinois. One cannot think of any two other individuals who have accomplished so much toward producing, promoting and presenting ﬁrst class air shows. My association with Julia and Phil Dacy began in 2002 as we worked together to start up Southern Wisconsin Airfest near Janesville Wisconsin.....Their organization, Dave Dacy airshows, is well known in these parts....Their expertise and skill at air show management is simply superb. - Wayne A Unique Combination… Leading a Winning Team An airshow announcer, and the Chief Pilot for a Chicago-based Charter Company… in addition to being an avid enthusiast….aviation has been a part of Phil Dacy’s entire life. Born in Harvard, IL, Phil grew up on a family owned and operated airport (in existence since 1937) that is still in operation today (Dacy Airport). Having ﬂown and owned a multitude of classic & vintage aircraft to include; Wacos, Stearmans, Ryans and the Bucker Jungmeister, Phil has logged many of his 8500+ hours in the pioneering aircraft of yesteryear. Currently type rated in the Hawker 4000, Hawker 125 and Citation, whether airshow season or not, Phil can be found taking to the skies. An incredible knowledge base, and a great enthusiasm, added to a working knowledge of the airshow and aviation industries continue to make Phil the performer and event choice in recanting the excitement of airshows to sponsors, spectators, fans and media throughout the country. Married on June 24, 1988, just prior to the Huron, South Dakota Airshow, Phil and his new wife, Julia began taking Dacy Airshows to new heights… expanding the acts, services, and production capabilities of the organization. Their combined talents continue to oversee the ‘day to day’ operations of the business. Julia quickly recognized the need for providing specialty services within the industry, and began to focus her career on all aspects of event production and military coordination. Having produced and assisted in producing a number of successful events, Julia continues to lend her talents and expertise to events throughout the Midwest. Throughout the last 25 years much of her focus has been placed on successfully assisting airshows and special events in military application and acquisition. Having worked with all major jet teams (Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, Snowbirds)

single ship demo teams, and parachute teams (both US and Canadian Assets) she enjoys the thrill and challenge of bringing these coveted participants to the airshow arena. In addition to their own specializations within the airshow industry, that provide a unique and comprehensive base for Dacy Airshows, both Phil and Julia oversee a mutli-faceted airshow touring group to include; airbosses, sound systems, and performers in aircraft ranging from biplanes to jets. The diversity of Dacy Airshows allows them to provide events with an entire show line-up, or to work with an event looking to ‘round out’ their line-up with headlining performers and/or quality support services. The versatility of the organization may ﬁnd the majority of Dacy Airshows Team Members at one event, or as many as four separate events on any given weekend. A staple in the airshow industry, Dacy Airshows has been an ICAS member since 1987, and the Dacy Airshow Family Team received the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship, presented in Oshkosh in 2007. When not ‘on the road’ with special events, Phil & Julia can be found spending time with their ﬁve children and seven grandchildren.

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Blue Skies

“Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see”, I sing loudly as I waltz around the hangar in a spastic imitation of a drunken Fred Astaire. It ain’t “Dancing with the Stars” but it is a springtime ritual in these parts. If the far neighbors were there to stare they would. However, they’re probably watching reality TV so I continue to revel in the moment. The cold, frigid air of a metal Quonset hut magically transformed into a pleasant convection oven by the glowing warm rays of a late March sun. It is only after my fifth sashay that I almost nail my right eye with the Pitot tube. Idiot! Yep, it’s spring at Donner Field and all of the Cardinals are back and so are the fat, furry, interlopers known as ground hogs. No matter, not even these malicious marmots can deflate my spirit this bright sunny day. “Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore. Nothing but blue skies”. The unaccustomed warmth I feel on my now naked arms evaporates the overbearing depression of holing up like John Dillinger in a hideout cabin. Oh, joy. No quilted jacket, no trigger finger mittens, no wool sweater, or rabbit fur hat. I’m free. I love it. It’s time to inventory my hopes for a new flying season while setting the stage for the pending summer. First I must do a head count of the fifteen cats that inhabit the hangar. When the snow flies and sweeps up to the hangar door to the tune of three feet, they have found the old hangar a veritable Hilton full of cozy, private sleeping quarters. After years of cleaning out starling nests and rat habitats from numerous cars, trucks, mowers, trunks, and airplanes I have found the common cat the pest’s worse nightmare and sure fire end to such perils. There isn’t a sane field mouse or corn rat within three miles of my place and if he is, it’s only his decapitated head – How devilish. Gee, I hope PETA doesn’t read this. I have so many cats now that I don’t even bother to name them anymore with cute little monikers like Waldo and Pepper. They’re all numbers now. “Number 8 get off the elevator” or “12 quit using my oil pan as a litter box”. They gaze at me with that glazed cat look that drips feline ambivalence, as if to say “Puullleeeeezzze, I’m busy polishing my nails on your flight jacket.” One of them has been here as long as the field and is a ripe 21 years old, affectionately called “Seniority Number 1”. Because of her seniority she gets fed ahead of the rest but like most senior pilots haunting the upper tier of the list; is deaf and damn near blind. And like a gray-haired Captain she spends most the day

sleeping in the left seat only coming out a coma when it’s time for catering. On the upside, she doesn’t flinch anymore when I run up the old 285-horse oil puker. The next task and a joyful one at that is finally disconnecting the snow blade to be replaced by the 7-foot finish mower deck. I used to jump the gun when weather channel faked me out. Look for sunny skies and higher than normal temperatures as you look outside at a solid sheet of sideways moving snow pellets. Weather babes are fine for the immediate blizzard descending down on you like a tsunami but rank low as meteorological prognosticators. Golden rule here: Trust the Farmer’s Almanac and look for the return of the buzzard. The downside is I must spend the better part of the day sharpening mower blades like Karl Childers on a mission. “Think I’ll have me some mustard with them french-fried taters. All right den’.” Let’s see. Snow shovels on their U-brackets. Tire chains on their hooks. Stove bin cleaned. Electric pre-heater back on the shelf and bullet heater put away. Super Cub blanket off the nose. Batteries of both planes checked for electrolyte and placed on a trickle charge. Inflate tires to proper pressure. Now, where did I put my RayBans? Looks kind of dark to the north. That’s funny. What’s up with the wind? That’s weird, the weather station mounted on the wall is showing a rapid pressure drop. Weather radio ON. WHAT? I hear the dreaded disembodied voice of Digital Donna. “The Ohio Valley is under a Winter Weather Advisory for a rapidly moving storm. Winds expected to be out of the Northwest at 20-40 knots. Snow accumulations 2-4 inches possible”. Gad, it’s the curse of Ohio once more striking down the fool who in his vanity sought warmth and happiness only to be crushed by Tecumseh’s white death revenge. Quickly now, no time to lose. Hangar doors SHUT, Mower OFF – Blade ON, and Stove Flue – OPEN. The cats are unfazed. They knew. They always know. I can see it in their casual yawn accompanied by a baleful look, “What a moron. Think I’ll hack up a hairball on this sparkplug cleaner.” Then I remember the last verse of that old Irving Berlin song: I should care if the wind blows east or west. I should fret if the worst looks like the best. I should mind if they say it can’t be true. I should smile, that’s exactly what I do. Right! Here’s your smile Irving old buddy. Take you blue and shove it where the sun don’t shine and the snow don’t fly. And now for a late winter weather update: The beer in the shop fridge is still cold. By Steve Bill Hanshew

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2013 Airshows Please be sure to check for up to date information about the airshow of your interest by checking their website. Many last minute changes are possible. Shows with lines through them have been cancelled. Dates Name Location Websites 4/5-7 MacDill AFB Airfest MCF MacDill AFB, FL www.macdill-airfest.com/default.aspx 4/6-7 New Smyrna Beach Balloon Skyfest EVB New Smyrna Beach, FL http://seasideballoonfest.com/ 4/6-7 Riverside Airshow 2013 RAL Riverside, CA www.riversideca.gov/airshow/ 4/12-14 Sun ‘n Fun Intern’l Fly-In & Expo LAL Lakeland, FL www.sun-n-fun.org/ 4/13 Bluebonnet Airshow BMQ Burnet, TX www.bluebonnetairshow.com/Welcome.html 4/13 16th Annual Mustangs & Mustangs Polk City, FL www.fantasyofflight.com/mustangs-and-mustangs/ 4/13-14 2013 South Texas Shootout NGP Corpus Christi, TX http://cnic.navy.mil/corpus christi/index.htm 4/20 Valkaria AirFest X59 Grant Valkaria, FL www.valkariaairfest.org 4/20 Thunder over Louisville SDF Louisville, KY http://thunderoverlouisville.org/ 4/20 Ft Lauderdale Air Show OPF Ft Lauderdale, FL http://lauderdaleairshow.com 4/20 2013 Enterprise Aviation Expo EDN Enterprise, AL www.schultzairshows.com 4/20-21 Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show VDI Vidalia, GA www.vidaliaonionfestival.com 4/27-28 Warriors & War birds WWII Weekend EQY Monroe, NC ` www.warriorsandwarbirds.com/ 4/27-28 Maxwell AFB Airshow MXF Maxwell AFB, AL www.maxwell.af.mil 4/27-28 MCAS Beaufort Airshow NBC Beaufort, SC www.beaufortairshow.com/index.asp 4/27-28 Westmoreland County Air Show LBE Latrobe, PA www.palmerairport.com/ 4/27-28 Pacific Coast Dream Machines HAF Half Moon Bay, CA www.miramarevents.com/dreammachines/index.html 5/3-5 AirPower over Hampton Roads LFI Langley AFB, VA www.jble.af.mil/ 5/3-5 Central Texas Airshow TPL Temple, TX www.centraltexasairshow.com/ 5/4 Dyess Big County Airfest ABI Abilene, TX www.bigcountryairfest.org/ 5/4-5 Manassas Open House & Air Show MNZ Manassas, VA airboss@schultzairshows.com 5/4-5 Defenders of Liberty Airshow BAD Barksdale AFB, LA www.barksdaleafbairshow.com/ 5/4-5 Sheppard AFB Airshow SPS Sheppard AFB, TX http://sheppardairshow.com/ 5/4-5 Planes of Fame Airshow CNO Chino, CA http://planesoffame.org/ 5/4-5 Virgina Regional Festival of Flight SFQ Suffolk, VA www.virginiaflyin.org/ 5/11 Auburn Opelika Airshow AUO Auburn, AL www.facebook.com/AuburnOpelikaAirShow 5/11-12 Hawkins Field Air Show JAN Jackson, MS www.jmaa.com/JAN/ 5/11-12 Thunder Over the Blue Ridge MRB Martinsburg, WV www.martinsburgairshow.com/ 5/11-12 Madness Over Minter MIT Shafter, CA http://minterairshow.com/ 5/17-19 Warbirds Over the Beach 42VA Virginia Beach, VA www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/airshows/warbirds-over- the-beach-show-may-2012 5/18-19 Wings Over Wayne GSB Seymour Johnson AFB, NC www.wingsoverwayneairshow.com/ 5/18-19 Fairchild AFBSkyfest 2013 SKA Spokane, WA www.fairchild.af.mil/ 5/18-19 Jacksonville Sea & Sky Spectacular Jacksonville, FL www.jaxseaandsky.net 5/22-27 Quarter Century Celebration COU Columbia, MO www.salute.org/ 5/24-25 Ranger Fly-In & Airshow F23 Ranger, TX http://rangerairfield.org/6/show/ 5/24-26 Hollister Airshow CVH Hollister, CA www.hollisterairshow.com/ 5/25-26 Lynchburg Regional Airshow LYH Lynchburg, VA www.lynchburgairshow.com 5/25-26 New York Air Show at Jones Beach FRG Wantagh, NY www.jonesbeachairshow.com 5/31-6/2 Wings Over Gillespie SEE El Cajon, CA http://ag1caf.org/ 6/1-2 Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival Virginia Beach, VA www.patrioticfestival.com/oceanfront-air-show/ 6/1-2 Rockford AirFest 2013 RFD Rockford, IL www.flyrfd.com/airfest.html 6/1-2 Rochester Int’l Airshow ROC Rochester, NY www.rochesterairshow.com/ 6/1-2 Waterloo Air Show CYFK Waterloo, ON www.waterlooairshow.com 6/7-8 Thunder on the Lakeshore Airshow MTW Manitowoc, WI www.manitowocairshow.com/ 6/7-9 23rd Annual World War II Weekend RDG Reading, PA www.maam.org/maamwwii.html 6/8 Charleston Air Expo CHS JB Charleston, SC www.charlestonairexpo.com/ 6/8-9 Golden West Regional Air Show MYV Marysville, CA www.goldenwestflyin.org/ 6/8-9 OC Air Show Ocean City, MD www.ocairshow.com/ 6/14-16 Indianapolis Air Show MQJ Indianapolis, IN www.charlestonairexpo.com/ 6/14-16 CWH Hamilton Intern’l Airshow CYHM Hamilton, ON http://airshow.warplane.com/ 6/15-16 Thunder Over Michigan YIP Ypsilanti, MI www.yankeeairmuseum.org/airshow/ 6/15-16 Denton Air Show DTO Denton, TX http://denton.schultzairshows.com/ 6/15-16 Wings & Wheels Air Expo TEB Teterboro, NJ www.njahof.org/calendar.htm

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LSA Market Share ... the Rest of the Story It would appear the LSA segment is hardly in “critical condition” despite what some may think. Today, the LAMA board of directors had its monthly teleconference and some interesting thoughts were expressed. Here we present a summary of how those discussions relate to LSA market share. First, since 2009 we observed the number of newly registered Special LSA Airplanes have been 20-25% of all single engine piston (SEP) GA airplanes deliveries. For 2012, SLSA Airplane deliveries were 259 to 790 GA’s SEP airplanes, meaning Light-Sport represents 32.8% of GA deliveries or 24.7% of all airplanes. However, that is only part of the story. In addition, you ought to consider the impact of Experimental, that is, kit-built LSA (ELSA) plus “alternative” aircraft such as weight shift, powered parachute, and gliders/motorgliders. Historically over the eight year life of Light-Sport Aircraft, these latter non-Airplane LSA account for a significant share approaching one-sixth to one-fifth, which based on the 2012 numbers, would add 40-50 more new aircraft registered. Our familiar chart does not include them as they are notoriously difficult to identify in FAA’s database for a variety of reasons. Despite those challenges, these aircraft are ASTM-compliant, are finding customers, and most importantly, are getting pilots up in the air. Ignoring them is to leave out a deserving segment of aviation. Indeed, they account for 28 of 131 SLSA models on our SLSA List. Another category we have not listed is ELSA, for example, RV-12s, which board director Phil Lockwood believes are primarily built as ELSA rather than Experimental Amateur-Built (EAB). An advantage, beyond no need for an aviation medical, is the opportunity to have someone else partly or fully build their ELSA kit ... legally. Perhaps more important is the fine Van’s reputation for handling and performance and the joy flying them brings to their owners. The first and only RV-12 SLSA was registered in July 2009. In the three and a half years since, 203 RV-12 kits have been registered for an average of 58 per year.

More ELSA — following development of an ASTM-compliant SLSA — are registered under the company names Zenith Aircraft, Aircraft Manufacturing & Development, M-Squared, Rans, CGS Aviation, and Skykits. Other Experimentals appear under the brand Pipistrel, which now owns several models with SLSA approval. Adding these to Van’s accounts for 572 additional LSA Airplanes. Averaging over seven and three quarters years since the first LSA were approved, this amounts to 74 aircraft a year. If we take the previously announced 259 SLSA Airplanes in 2012 and add the ELSA average of 74 and then the 40-50 non-Airplane SLSA, we arrive at 373-383. Presuming this analysis to be correct, this means all LSA represent 47-48% of the 790 GA SEPs or 32-33% of all single engine piston aircraft registered or delivered in 2012. Note that we are not including Experimental Amateur Built (EAB) kits such as those from Sonex or other companies which can be flown by someone possessing a Sport Pilot certificate. To be “Sport Pilot eligible”*, they must meet the weight, speed, and other parameters of the LSA rule but they are not technically Light-Sport Aircraft according to their Airworthiness Certificates. Unlike EABs, ELSA are required to be bolt-for-bolt, identical copies of the originally-accepted SLSA so they fully comply to ASTM standards at the time of winning their Airworthiness Certificate. Once certificated, ELSA owners may do their own maintenance and can make modifications, though most probably see little change. LAMA’s board of directors feel it is important to portray the total size of the LSA market and the above facts attempt to do so. Yet in truth, the LSA numbers we report above might still be low noted board director Tom Peghiny. When safety data is presented FAA commonly refers to more than 8,000 LSA, a far larger number than the 2,500 or so SLSA Airplanes we often list ... which number grows to more than 3,500 when including the non-Airplane SLSA and ELSA discussed above. When you add all these segments you arrive a number that is more accurate regarding Sport Pilot eligible aircraft and LAMA’s board believes this to be a further refutation of those who opine that the Light-Sport segment is not performing well. Remember, all this occurred in less than eight years! LSA deliver fun to their owners, jobs to those in the industry, profits to their producers and commercial users, and worldwide potential. LSA also use less fuel, make less noise, offer the latest in technology, are roomy, attractive, cross-country capable aircraft that are sleek, shiny, and smell new. They also have a safety record FAA regularly calls “acceptble.” What’s not to like? * Sport Pilot eligible is a phrase coined by EAA’s Ron Wagner to describe aircraft not certificated as Light-Sport Aircraft which can be flown by someone holding a Sport Pilot certificate.

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THE OCEANA AIR SHOW – GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN The Oceana Air Show, at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has had a long standing reputation of being one of the best air shows in the Eastern United States and this past year’s 2012 air show was no exception. However, there is something aviation lovers from the East may not know and that is that the road trip down and back can be almost as exhilarating as the air show itself, if you know where to look. I present to you an “Aviation Road Trip to Oceana”… plus a little something on the air show later. I left Westchester County, just north of New York City, before dawn on Thursday and crossed the George Washington Bridge to the start of a sunny morning. The New Jersey Turnpike parallels runway 4R/22L at Newark Airport (EWR) near exit 14. It’s home base for a lot of United traffic with the old Continental tails and, if you plan your speed right, you could have B-767 on approach right on top of you on the perpendicular runway 11/29. Terminal “C” to the west has a lot of international tails and FedEx is a major player to the south with its own terminal. McGuire AFB was next. It is about 9 miles to the east off of Exit 7 over to route ¬¬206 / 68. You can’t get too close anymore but you can still see occasional C-17, KC-10 and KC-135R traffic in the pattern. After crossing the Delaware Memorial Bridge, I made my usual stop at the New Castle Airport, just south of the bridge. New Castle had an aviation history of being a USAAF Base after WW2 with P-47, P-51 and KC-97 aircraft. It is now home to the Delaware ANG and the 166th Airlift Wing and their C-130J Hercs, which at times you can see taxiing. Across the field a private owner has a Mig-21 and a Mig-23’s and someone is refurbishing eight L-39 Czech Albatros aircraft, now in a low-viz grey. Airport rumor has it that this may be a new demo team setting up shop; we shall see. Also, during the 2012 Presidential Election, New Castle was base for the “Obama Squadron” for President Obama’s Presidential Campaign. Last summer the Air Force announced that two new squadrons were formed to support the President’s campaign travel needs. The 305th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron was operating out of New Castle with five C-130H’s as a sub-unit of the DANG 142nd Airlift Squadron. If you hit it right, New Castle could be a busy place. I again continued my journey south down US-13 and next stopped off at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB. It is always great to stop there because the museum is located right near the two cross runways and sometimes you can get a “mini-air show”, if you are there at a good time. On my visit I saw a C-17, a C-5A, a new Navy P-8A Poseidon, a KC-10, an E-6B Mercury, an E-8 JSTARS and commercial freighter traffic on takeoff or landing. The museum hangar, which dates back to WW2, has a C-47 Skytrain, a B-17G “Sleepy Time Girl” plus five additional aircraft. The museum ramp is the big show with 23 fully restored aircraft. My favorite is still their F-106A “Delta Dart”. This aircraft is in the original colors of the 95th FIS that was stationed here at Dover until 1973 during the Cold War. The eight Alert Hangars that the 6’s bedded down in are still up and near the museum. I’m sure they witnessed a few “Zulu Alerts” in their day to get in the air in 5 minutes in full burner with their Genie nuclear tipped missiles to escort a Soviet TU-95 Bear Bomber heading south to Havana off the Maryland coast in the ADIZ sector and getting just a little to close to the CONUS. The Cold War really happened here in the 1970’s and these birds saw it all. Later Dover’s Delta Darts went north to Atlantic City’s NJANG 177th FIS and stayed at AC until they were retired in 1988 as the last F-106 squadron and replaced by the new F-16C’s. A recent colorful arrival to the ramp in 2011 is the VC-9C of the 89th MAW out of Andrews. This aircraft served as “Air Force Two” for VP’s and recently was Michelle Obama’s personal aircraft. It is painted up in that distinctive blue, silver and white color scheme originally designed by Jacqueline Kennedy working with the designer Raymond Lowery in 1962. It’s wonderful that the USAF has retained that distinctive color scheme all these years. The KC-135E is also a recent arrival from the NJANG 108th ARS at McGuire AFB. The C-133, C-124 and KC-97 are big silver planes that you don’t get to see much of anymore. These aircraft were also based here at Dover. I got a pleasant surprise when near the fence taxied two transient visitors here for the UN General Assembly meetings in New York; an Ecuadorian AF VIP B-737 and a Peruvian AF VIP B-737. Heading south on US-13 again, I found a “hidden” aircraft that you might have to search out to find. The American Legion Post 93 at Worcester, MD, where US-113 meets US-13 has a neat USAF T-33 (29650) Gate Guard in Bangor Air Defense Sector / Air Defense Command colors. Further down 13 at the Accomack County Airport in Melfa, VA, is a Navy A-4F Skyhawk (155036) from the west coast Aggressor Squadron VFC-13. Barbara Haxter, the Airport Manager, showed me the new terminal building, which is an outstanding piece of airport architecture that duplicates the design of the old USCG Life Saving Stations that were along the Delmarva coastline in the 1930’s. I also got to see Bill McCarter’s new 100 hp powered Ultra-Light and Jim Runney’s new Hang Glider. They were all going up for a “Test-Hop” to 2,000 feet. My trip continued down 13 to Route 175, just south of the VA line, that led east to the NASA Goddard Space Continued on pg 24

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Continued from pg 23 Photos on this page by Bill Sarama Flight Center – Wallops Flight Facility Airport, where NASA aircraft that support the orbital and sub-orbital Rocket and Balloon Launch Facility at near-by Wallops Island, are based. When I was there I saw a USN MH-60S Seahawk, a UC-12 Huron, three C-23 Sherpa’s, two MDANG C-27 Spartans and a grounded P-3C Orion. The airport has about 20 high radar dishes used for rocket communications and telemetry. In WW2 this field was called “NAS Chicamongo”. The NASA Visitor Center had various Sounding Rocket Launch Vehicles on display as well as other space-type exhibits. Near by are the Navy Surface Combat Systems Center and the AGEIS Systems Development Center. Leaving NASA and not too far away are some fun things to see. Parksley, VA, at Route 176 off 13 has the Eastern Shore Railway Museum. Further down 13 at Route 184, is Cape Charles, VA, a historic railroad terminus for RR freight barges that transported numerous freight cars going south to Norfolk from the Delmarva Peninsula since 1900. The current “Eastern Shore Rail Road” still uses barges to ship occasional rail cars across Chesapeake Bay from Little Creek, VA, at the Navy Amphibious Base there near Norfolk north to the Eastern Shore main line connection at Cape Charles. The city has been recently revitalized with a large upscale luxury housing community. Leaving town there is the old 200’ historic Lighthouse with a 5’ diameter structural stair tube for access to the light enclosure at the top – a very unusual design. Nearby at Kiptopeke State Park is the location of the original Kiptopeke to Little Creek car ferry. In the 1950’s before they built the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the 2-hour ferry ride was the only way to get south to Norfolk and Florida from US-13. The ferry

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is long gone but you can still see hulls of 10 concrete, yes, concrete US Navy Cargo Ships from WW2 that were later used here to form a storm protection breakwater. The Navy in WW2 built about 15 concrete “Liberty Ships” and experimented with re-

inforced thin-skinned concrete hulls that were later discovered to be ineffective and cancelled. As I left Cape Charles on to US-13 again, I saw a red Robertson R-44 helicopter landing near the highway. Plane chaser that I am, I went to investigate and met Mike Steelman, the owner and pilot. He runs “Air Duce”, a crop dusting service and was hosing down his helo. Mike told me “Andy Gibb” (the real Andy Gibb?) taught him how to fly at the Hampton Roads Airport and that he was late for his “church choir practice” and had to run: Good Man! I next got on to the 15-mile long Bay Bridge, where, if you are lucky at the south Rest Stop, you can park and watch an Aircraft Carrier or Amphibious LHD Helicopter Carrier head out to open sea from Norfolk. So ended my Day-1 of my “Oceana Road Trip”! On Friday morning at 9 AM I was able to gain early access to the Oceana Air Show as a guest of Ms. Kelly Sterling, Public Affairs Officer at NAS Oceana. I extend my thanks to Kelly for her kind invitation. Friday was a day restricted to VIP’s and Media and was a Practice Day so there was a limited amount of people on the ramp. All aircraft were on deck by 9 AM Friday. Due to military operational commitments, there was a reduced amount of military aircraft on display on the Static Ramp but 17 Warbirds made it in. The restricted “Hot Ramp” was reserved for the flying aircraft and had 40 aircraft including the “Blue Angels (7) with the Blues C-130 “Fat Albert”, the “Black Diamonds” Demo Team (8), the F/A18’s for the Fleet Fly-By and the Air Power Demo (12) and assorted flying stunt and Warbird planes. The public

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was invited in at 5:30 on Friday for the “Night Show”, always spectacular, beginning first with the “Twilight” acrobatic stunt planes and later in the nighttime darkness show, with fireworks spewing from T-6’s, “Otto” the Helicopter, a powered Ultra-Light, the British Red Devils Parachute Jump Team, the “Smoke and Thunder” jet hot rod with loud explosions and smoke and finally the F/A-18E Super Hornet in full burner blowing up the runway compliments of “Rich’s Incredible Pyro”; with the grand finale being the Fireworks Show that ended at 10 PM. The Base CO afterwards invited the public to go to the Oceana “O-Club” which was open to the public this one night only. The scene was right out of “Top Gun” with all the pilot talk and the “flightsuits” and their “dates”. Saturday had a great flying show that started at 10 AM with the “Red Devils” and the “National Anthem” and ended at 4:15 with the Final Blue Angel F/A-18 touchdown. In total, about 300,000 persons attended the 3-Day Super Show at Oceana. Now back to the “Road Trip”. Saturday night was dinner at “Rudee’s” at Rudees Inlet at the Beach and more “Aviation Talk”. Sometimes Rudee’s is like the Bar in “Top Gun” – You never know who you are sitting next to. My neighbor at the bar this night turned out to be an active Air Combat Controller with some interesting airplane stories to tell about Afghanistan. My barkeep, Ms. “Morgan” also had some interesting “pilot-talk” stories that she heard while waiting bar. But nothing beats those stories at the “O-Club” the night before. As you leave Rudee’s and turn on 4th Street, there is a white building with a 6-story high mural of the carrier USS Forestall with a pair of F-14D Tomcats catapulting off the flightdeck – only in Virginia Beach do you see this stuff! On Sunday I headed for a smaller air show at the near-by Virginia Beach Airport on Princess Anne Road about 5 miles south of Oceana. Formerly known as “The Fighter Factory”, this is now a grass runway strip with a new triplehangar red brick building that houses most of the flying warbird collection of 60+ aircraft all owned by one person – Mr. Jerry Yagen. Now known as the “Military Aviation Museum”, the facility displays, restores, maintains and flies a vast collection of vintage aircraft from WW1, WW2 and the Korean War period, and they all actually fly! David Hunt, the MAM Director, told me that Jerry has his eyes on 13 more classic aircraft that he intends to possibly purchase. I was impressed with the B-17G outside with the bright yellow tail. Jerry purchased it in 2009 “from a little old lady in Texas” who also collects warbirds (so I was told by a docent). There were about 40 WW2 warbirds in the brick hangar. Unfortunately, the MAM classic Consolidated PBY-5A “Catalina” was being refurbished. I joined up with an escorted tour group walking to visit the other MAM buildings to the west. The first was a new green wooden building consisting of three A-frame large wood truss components made to look like a British WW1 Hangar. It housed about 20 WW1 flying bi-plane aircraft. Nearby was the “Fighter Fac-

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tory”, a new brick building where aircraft are restored and maintained on site. They were working on about five fighter aircraft inside. Outside was a WW2 German Ju-52 tri-motor transport. Nearby was a green camouflaged Quonset Hut storage hangar and three additional buildings. One of these was under construction and was a rare WW2 Luftwaffe Hangar relocated from Cottbus, East Germany. Once reassembled, it will house the museum’s German aircraft collection. Soon there will be an actual WW2 British Control Tower imported from an old RAF airfield in Manchester, England and a restored USAF base Water Tower. Later I drove up to the Sussex Executive Airport to see where it all started for Jerry Yagen at his original “Fighter Factory” hangar. Current restorations at Sussex included an ME-262 fighter jet, an ME-208 Liaison plane, a Mig-3, an A-26C medium Bomber, a PO-2 Russian bi-plane trainer, an RCAF Hawker Sea Fury, a German FW-190, and a soon-to-arrive ME-109 German fighter. The PO-2 was from the Russian “Night Witches” Squadron, so named because it was used to train the Russian female pilots in WW2. When you leave the actual Museum, there are two nearby abandoned WW2 Navy OLF’s: “Pungo” and “Creeds” Fields, homes to Grumman FM-2 Wildcats. Airbase “archeologists” will note that some runway sections still exist at both sites. If you need an active OLF, Fentress OLF is nearby where F/A-18’s practice simulated carrier touch-and-go’s. The Navy has been planning a new Outlying Landing Field (OLF) to the south in NC to take some of the pressure off of Fentress for the new Super Hornet practices but federal budget restraints have held up that project for a long time now. OK, its Monday, show’s over (except for departures) and it’s time to pack up and head north. What to do to ease the agony of the long drive?? Plenty: Drive to the Norfolk Waterside and board the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB72); drive through the I-64 North Tunnel and see the “Virginia Air and Space Center” with about 15 airplanes in Hampton; visit the “Air Power Park” up the street with 25 outdoor aircraft; turn on to Armistead Avenue and see the F-22’s on approach to Langley AFB (but no stopping here); near-by is the NASA Research Center (restricted access); get back on I-64 north to the “US Army Transportation Museum” with its aircraft and trucks on exhibit; go further north on I-64 to the “Virginia Air Museum” at the Richmond Airport with planes inside and outside with a Lockheed SR-71A “Habu” and a Grumman F-14C Tomcat from VFA-31 “Tomcatters” and a A-7A Corsair II; next pick up I-95 north and head to the new award-winning “National Museum of the Marine Corps” at Quantico and finally in DC go up on I-495 and get to the “Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum” near Dullas Airport before 6 PM. I actually did all this! It was a long day. I am sure some have done better and more, but for me it was FUN, for me it was the ultimate “Oceana Aviation Road Trip”! Story by Bill Sarama

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Submit your group’s events. Email Sandy@aflyer.com New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) Apr 21: Skylark Airpark, East Windsor, CT French Toast Breakfast 8:30 - 11:00 Enjoy our hot French Toast, sausages and scrambled eggs. Fruit cup, milk, juice too. All you can eat for a $6.00 donation. http://www.eaa1310.org Contact: Lindsey Pell Phone: 860-281-1310 May 5: Fitchburg Airport, Fitchburg, MA FPA Pancake Breakfast Family Flyin 8:00am 11:00am. Come down and have fun at the fourth annual FPA Pancake Breakfast Fly in.This is a great day where people bring their families down, the kids play in the grassy area, and share flying stories over pancakes! Breakfast served from 8am - 11am Pancake Breakfast Cost: $6 http://www.fitchburgpilots.org Contact: Matt Scales Phone: 9783450373 May 11: Southern Maine Aviation, Sanford, ME. Young Eagle Flight Rally, pancake breakfast and barbeque lunch. 9:00am - 3:00pm Contact: Steven A Richard Phone: 207 432 6464 May 17-19: Danielson Airport, Danielson, CT Comanche Pilot Training Flight Clinic 8:00AM - 5:00PM If you’re a Comanche pilot, get Comanche Specific Training. Full day of Comanche systems, operational do’s & don’ts, find out how they operate normal and abnormal situations. Hands on systems clinic, feel, touch & see the Comanche systems while A/C is on jacks. Expert Dual Flight training from a experienced Comanche ATP, CFII, MEI. Flight Review & IPC available. Be a better more knowledgeable, safer and more confident Comanche Pilot. Singles & Twins. Make your reservations now. Contact: Dennis R. Carew Phone: (920) 749-9558 June 20-23: No.Andover, MA – FLY in a 1929 Ford Tri-Motor !! EAA’s immaculate 1929 Ford Tri-Motor will be making it’s eastern New England tour stop at the Lawrence Municipal Airport (492 Sutton St, N.Andover, MA). Take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the magic of flight in the world’s first mass-produced airliner! Advanced ticket discount at: www. FlyTheFord.org Hosted by EAA Chapter 106 www.106.EAAchapter.org Contact: EAA106. TriMotor@gmail.com Aug 6: Wiscasset Municipal Airport, Wiscasset, ME Wings Over Wiscassett: Voices of Freesom 9 am - all day. All day FREE event. Food, music, static displays, antique cars, kids and family activities and entertainment. AIRSHOW with the Texas Flying Legends Museum and

Apr 6 thru June 2nd: Ocean City Municipal Airport, MD (OXB), from 9 a.m. till noon. pancake breakfast fundraiser each Sat & SunDonations accepted for pancakes, eggs, and the works, to defray cost for restoring and maintaining the Huey Memorial display located adjacent the terminal building. Information? Ops 410213-2471, Coleman Bunting,410-726-7207. Apr 27: W48 Essex Skypark Airport Baltimore, MD Essex Skypark Fly In-Drive In Pancake Breakfast 9:00 AM - 11:30 PM Menu: Pancakes, Sausage, Danish, Coffee, Juice,tea Cost- Donations Contact: Brian Dolan essexskyparkassociation@hotmail.com 443-8317609. http://Essexskyparkassociation.org May 19th: Williamson-Sodus Airport (SDC) near Rochester, NY 49th Annual “Apple Blossom Fly-In Breakfast”. All you can eat Pancakes, Eggs, Sausage, Hot Coffee, Apple Juice and Applesauce. Adults $7.00, Children $4.00, Airplane Rides $30.00. Fly-In over beautiful blossoming apple orchards, Lake Ontario, and Sodus Bay as you line up on final for a Great Breakfast, Antique and Classic Car Display, Airplanes of all sizes, experimentals and ultralights, Flying Toy display and Sale, and lots more. 3800’ x 60’ Runway & Taxiway. Plenty of Ramp Aircraft parking. For more info www. williamsonflyingclub.com or contact Eric Mehserle at (585) 671-1234 or mehserle@rochester. rr.com June 1: Kline Kill Airport, Ghent, NY FlyIn Pancake Breakfast, 8am - 12noon pancakes, eggs, sausage, OJ & coffee, all for only $6. Plenty of parking for both aircraft and cars at one of the most picturesque grass airfields in the Northeast. Prizes! For more info visit www. eaa146.org Please note: fuel is NOT AVAILABLE at Kline Kill Airport (NY1), fuel is available at Columbia County Airport (1B1), 5 NM SW. http://www.eaa146.org/ Contact: Eric Beebe Phone: 518-598-3832 June 2: Sidney,NY (23) Fly-In, Drive-In,or Walk-In Breakfast, 8am-1pm, Sponsored by the Fagan Flyers. Orange juice, pancakes, eggs, real maple syrup, and beverages. Featuring live music, crafts, displays, 50/50 raffle, and airplane rides. For more information please call (607) 561-2346, or contact www.faganflyers.com June 2: D52 Geneseo Airport Geneseo, NY Geneseo Fly-In Pancake Breakfast 7:00 AM 12:00 PM Fly-In Breakfast including pancakes, eggs, ham, sausage, juice and beverages $8 adults $5 kids 5-10 and under 4 FREE Contact: Austin Wadsworth office@1941hag.org 585243-2100 http://1941hag.org June 28th: William T. Piper Memorial Airport, Hanger 1 ( LHV ) in Lock Haven, PA. 28th annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven. Contact Kim Garlick 570-893-4200 or j3cub@ kcnet.org

June 28th: William T. Piper Memorial Airport, Hanger 1 ( LHV ) in Lock Haven, PA. 28th annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven. Contact Kim Garlick 570-893-4200 or j3cub@ kcnet.org Southern (AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TN) Apr 6: KRBW Lowcountry Regional Airport Walterboro, SC Walterboro Wings and Wheels 10:00 AM - 4:00 AM Fun activity for kids, plenty of food vendors on site, several airshow participants, lots of cars. Pilots fly in for free, $5/carload driving in.Contact: Roger Medlin acpilot.roger@gmail.com. 843-549-2549 www. wings-n-wheels.org Apr 13: EVB New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport New Smyrna Beach, FL. Timeless Wings and Wheels Fly-in Breakfast. 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Timeless Wings and Wheels Fly-in Breakfast held at Airgate Aviation the 2nd Saturday of every month from 8:00 am until 11:00 am. Drive-in/Fly-in/Walk-in, all are welcome. Rain or shine. $5.00. Contact: Carole Norville sapp.carole@knights.ucf.edu 386-314-4499 www.timelesswingsandwheels.com Apr. 20: VNC Venice Municipal Airport Venice, FL Suncoast BBQ and Bluegrass Bash 11:00 AM - 7:30 PM. A Family, Fun Filled Getaway. Fly-in to KVNC-Venice, FL for a finger licking and hot picking good time at the Fourth Annual Suncoast BBQ & Bluegrass Bash. Benefiting: Suncoast Foundation for Handicapped Children, Inc. since 1985. Contact: Don Fisher donaldpeepaw@gmail.com. http://suncoastbbqbash.com Apr 27-28: Monroe, NC. Warriors Warbirds WWII Weekend - Charlotte Monroe Ex Airport (EQY) It will be a great weekend celebrating the greatest generation with special WWII guest speaker, re-enactors, encampments, vehicles, static display aircraft and daily musical performances the Victory Stage. Saturday night April 27th will feature a WWII hangar dance and dinner. 7 per person 12 and under free Dance/ dinner tickets are 30 or 50 per couple. Contact: Robert Yanacsek, Email: ryanacsek@warriorsandwarbirds.com May 31 - Jun 2: Savannah, TN. Ladies Love Taildraggers Fly-in - Savannah-Hardin County Airport (KSNH) Join us for a fun, long-weekend at the 4th Annual Lady Taildraggers Flyin! Friday lunch fly-out or lunch at KSNH. Friday night BBQ dinner at KSNH. Poker Run and Flyout Lunch Saturday. Hangar Party and Dinner Saturday evening. Camp with your taildragger or group hotel rate. Raffle, door prizes and guest speakers. Registration required. Contact: Judy Birchler 317-506-2737, Email: judy.birchler@ gmail.com Jun 22: Beaufort, NC. Fly - In and Pig Pickin’. Michael J Smith Field (MRH) Join us for a Fly-In and Pig Pickin’. More information to follow. Contact: Jerald Gartman 2522472575, Email: jgartman7@embarqmail.com There are more listings on the website www.AFlyer.com

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Will we see you at Sun-n-Fun this year, the annual kick-off flying event of the season? Gather up your charts, do a thorough pre-flight, and take a friend. I will be close, over at KGIF in Winter Haven some 15 miles East of Lakeland, where the Cessna Cardinal community gathers each year the weekend just before Sun-N-Fun. Come stop by and chat with us, and see the nicest planes in general aviation. The Cardinal Flyers Organization (CFO) works hard at helping its members maintain their aircraft and provides resource tips and leadership to those making an effort to fly more affordably and efficiently. One effort we all can make is to fly safer. It takes work; it doesn’t just happen, or is just ‘luck’. Good pilots make a conscious effort to improve their performance and to reduce their risks. Many of the sad situations we read about happening to other pilots are so preventable. Just one example: read the FAA website tally of daily incidents and accidents, and marvel at the number of planes that experience wheel or brake or steering problems upon takeoff. Why did the wheel fall off when the plane rotated? What a surprise!! Better yet is when the gear collapses on the takeoff roll. What a great job the pilot did performing the pre-flight inspection! Happens every

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day; I wonder why? As pilot in command, we alone are responsible for the maintenance condition and airworthiness of the aircraft we are about to fly. You may hire an A&P to fix your plane and sign it off as airworthy, but you are solely responsible. This may be clearer when you are the aircraft owner, but we need to be reminded that it applies to rental aircraft as well. Your life, and those of your passengers, depends completely on the quality of your preflight inspection. It is the final link in the checks and balances maintenance chain. Many folks try to assist in a plane’s annual inspection in order to learn more and see what is correct and what is askew; many folks were not taught well regarding what to look for and how to recognize a mechanical problem in the making. The aircraft POH may be insufficient; you may have to augment the preflight inspection section with your own knowledge and experience. Being in a hurry certainly doesn’t help matters either. Sometimes we can look at something, and not see the obvious fault, because we were expecting to see the normal situation. Same thing happens with radio calls and ATC clearances: we hear what we expected, not what was actually said. Happens with kids too. Best to assume everything is not right, and confirm correctness. You won’t sleep better at night, but you will start a flight with less risk. And it’s this risk perception that is turning away a large number of potential future pilots. The marginal decrease in the GA accident rate over the past ten years, despite all the efforts of EAA and AOPA safety programs, is impacting our growth as a community. The accident rate directly generates this perceived risk of GA flying in the eyes of the public. Pilot error must be addressed as the prime suspect, and a more effective method employed to decrease it, perhaps by a more periodic demonstration of actual pilot proficiency. If we shy away from this, then the current accident rate must be acceptable. Actions speak louder than words, videos, classes, webinars, and denials. Safe flights don’t just happen; we make them happen. So lower the risk at the beginning of the day by not making any assumptions about the condition of the aircraft. Trust (your mechanic), but verify. At least give yourself a chance early on. Performing a thorough runup and doing a complete systems check before taking the active runway is another risk mitigation move: there are few old, bold pilots for many good reasons. This is one of them. Common Cause - Each of us has a stake in the outcome of every flight, not only our own, but those of our fellow pilots. If we fly poorly, it reflects on all of us as a community; just watch the way the media reports aviation mishaps. This doesn’t even include the physical and emotional costs to those involved. Leadership sometimes requires difficult choices: the new leaders of EAA, and now AOPA, must demand better pilot proficiency of their members; sometimes we must swallow the bitter medicine to be cured. Best to avoid this disease if at all possible. Safe flying doesn’t just happen; we make it happen, or not. Let’s see if the new GA leadership is up to the task. The mantle of leadership can be heavy at times. Got a better idea? Let’s hear it; time is short. Mike Sullivan CSMEL, CFI C177pilot@live.com KHEF

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