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With rapidly expanding enrollment numbers, the Oklahoma State aviation program is beyond its maximum capacity.

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Oklahoma State’s Flight Center was forced to cap their enrollment at 75 students after an enrollment class of 108 put the program well over its capacity.

This created an array of scheduling problems due to the lack of planes and insufficient facilities. The program currently has 300 students enrolled, double the number the program was at previously.

Aviation junior Alec Martinez reflected on the program’s growth.

“Last year was relatively disorganized, and often instructors were overbooked because of how many people joined the program,” Martinez said.

“The cap has improved the scheduling and made everything a lot easier for both students and instructors.”

Part of the program’s expansion is the addition of five new Cirrus SR20s aircrafts.

Flight center program manager Lance Fortney said they will

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The Oklahoma State University Flight Center at the Stillwater Airport.

also provide a new layer of safety, unique to the Cirrus planes, along with creating

more flight opportunities for students.

“It has what is called a parachute system.

It’s the Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System or CAPS,” Fortney said.

“If the engine were

to stop mid-flight and you couldn’t get it started, you would pull a handle and a big ‘ol parachute pops out and the aircraft comes down. Now it’s not going to be a nice, soft landing but you’re going to walk away from it.”

Along with the addition of new aircraft, the flight center will be moving to a new facility that is set to finish construction in the summer of 2021.

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The interior of one of the planes at the Oklahoma State Flight Center at Stillwater Airport.

This construction was recently approved by the Oklahoma Board of Regents and includes funding from both the university and the federal government.

According to flight center coordinator and an aviation professor Matt Vance, the rise in program popularity is largely due to two things: the lower cost of Oklahoma State’s aviation program in comparison to nearby programs and the mixture of a university and airport experience.

Another factor in the increasing enrollment is the demand from the airline industry.

Airlines are currently losing more pilots than

they are hiring due to the mandatory retirement age for the industry being 65. The people reaching this cut off currently are mostly Vietnam War veterans, which makes up a large population of pilots in the industry.

“There was a pilot for a major airline here the other day with his son and he said they’re losing about 1,000 pilots a year,” Fortney said.

“The point is, they’re losing pilots faster than we can produce them. When I say we, I don’t just mean OSU, I mean all pilot programs across the country.”

This increase in demand for the piloting industry means the job

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market is promising for college graduates looking to enter the workforce immediately after graduating. The OSU Flight Center offers a cadet program centered around employing graduates of the program. Graduates sign contracts with airline companies like Envoy or PSA where they work as instructors for the university until they get the required 1,000 hours of flight time to become a commercial pilot.

“The concept is you get all your licenses, ratings and education with OSU but you’re in the ‘need a job for experience, need experience for a job conun-

drum,” Fortney said.

“Well, you stay here and fly with us as an instructor until you build experience and then you go on to the regional airline. There are these cadet programs where the airline says, ‘we want you, as a matter of fact we are going to hire you now and wait until you get your experience.’”

Despite the incoming facilities and additional aircrafts, the enrollment limit for the program appears to be staying for some time. Lance Fortney said the program is still trying to catch up to accommodate 300 students and the logistics of expanding the program fur-

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ther are far from being accomplished.

“Once we catch-up, once we’re in the new flight center, once we have some more aircraft and things are going well, then we may consider growing,” Fortney said. “But that’s down the road, there’s enough on our plate.

What you’ve got to keep in mind, and it’s not unique aviation but it can be a little bit different: there are so many other logistical things that go on behind the scenes that you may not think of when you think of a traditional math or English class.”

With the addition of five more aircrafts, the program will have

32 planes available to students, putting the student to plane ratio at just over 10:1. Dr. Vance said this ratio makes scheduling much more flexible than it was before.

By limiting the program’s capacity and expanding the facilities and aircraft available, the OSU Flight Center is focusing on creating industry-ready graduates to fill the increasing demands for pilots.

“I think we have determined that 10:1 is manageable,” Vance said. “But 8:1 would give us that buffer, to where the likelihood that the plane would be your impediment goes down dramatically.”

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A small band of reporters restlessly awaited her arrival. Chairs awkwardly shuffled from movement, cell phones habitually remained clutched by all, and were frequently checked to see if time had moved.

It was 11:08 am, eight minutes behind schedule.

Any minute she would walk in: Winston Churchill’s very own granddaughter.

At 11:09, she arrived.

It was a humble entrance.

If you didn’t know better you wouldn’t know she was the key speaker; you would’ve assumed she was just another guest there to be amazed by the real Celia Sandys, internationally praised author of five books, expert, journalist, acclaimed speaker and descendant of one of the most influential men of the free world But no, this was her.

A humble, 76-year-old woman shook the hands of every person in the room.

She introduced herself to each one.

After she had met everyone, she made her way to the table set up for her: a grey, large table—too big for just one person—and a single chair in the center.

Celia requested that someone else sit with her. Then the questions began.

The first one asked how she had started this journey. There had been 28 years between her grandfather’s death and when she published her first book in 1993. Why wait all those

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Celia Sandys, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, recounts her memories of her grandfather on Tuesday in The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts in Stillwater.

years? What caused her to embark on this journey and share her grandfather’s story?

“Quite by chance,” Celia said. “I embarked on it quite by chance.”

She told us about an outing with an elderly cousin of hers who was a nephew of her grandfather. While they were having tea, Celia noticed a small trunk on the table they were sitting at.

Naturally, she asked what it was, and her cousin and her decided to find out.

Inside were letters between Winston Churchill and numerous family members. The two were astonished, all these letters had been saved. Celia suggested to her cousin someone had ought to do something about this. He looked at her and told her she should do it and handed her the box.

“And that’s how it started.”

Since then, Celia spent her time sharing with the world the story of her grandfather, telling it from

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a perspective no historian ever could. Only she knew what it was like to grow up with the most famous man in the world.

In the final years of Churchill’s life, Celia traveled with him throughout the world. She walked with him side by side and witnessed how carefully and thoughtfully he studied the world.

“He loved painting,” Celia said. “He looked at everything with a painter’s eye.”

Churchill and Celia traveled most often to South France and Morocco.

Her grandfather said that wherever they traveled the country had to be both paintable and have a place to bathe.

On these trips the duo would take drives touring the foreign countryside, picnic together amongst the gorgeous scenery, and Churchill would paint.

Painting was his passion, his “stress buster,” as Celia put it.

Churchill painted 550 painting before he passed in 1965. Celia likes to picture him upon a cloud in heaven

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painting to his heart’s content. That’s what he always wanted.

When he knew his time was close, he would say, “I’m ready to meet my maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

When Celia spoke about her grandfather, she characterized a man who believed in himself, was always light-hearted, always quick with a joke, loved his family more than anything else, and a man who would rather be dead than be without a cigar and good champagne or brandy.

Celia never knew him as the “British bulldog,” the hero fighting for the lives

of the free world in World War II. Instead what she knew was a cozy and loving grandfather whom she would used to go feed the fish with. Traveling with him was an escape for her.

“The best thing of all was, frankly, that I had to myself, just for a few days, the grandfather the whole world thought they owned.”

Celia said her favorite quote of Churchill’s is “Never, never, never give in.” This, among lessons, is what Celia wants all her audiences to walk away with after they hear her speak or read one of her several books. “[I want to] actually bring him alive for people.

That’s my purpose.”

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Oklahoma State’s LD Brown scores a breakaway touchdown during the Oklahoma State vs. Baylor football game on Saturday in Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.

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Through the course of the season, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy has voiced his desire for backup running back LD Brown to become more involved in the Cowboy offense.

When the Cowboys needed a spark of momentum in a back-and-forth second-half shootout against Baylor on Saturday, Brown took a handoff from quarterback Spencer Sanders in the shotgun.

He broke and spun his way through two Baylor tacklers at the line of scrimmage, and then sped off down the OSU sideline for an explosive 68-yard touchdown run.

Brown’s breakaway score was a tremendous momentum swing at the time. It momentarily put the Pokes back out in front of the

Bears at the start of the fourth quarter and injected life and energy into a sellout homecoming crowd at Boone Pickens Stadium.

“We brought him here because he was fast, but we had never known if he was fast because he never got in the open field,” Gundy said. “Well, he’s in the open field now ... and he did what we brought him here to do when he got in the open field, which is run away from people.”

Brown, a redshirt junior from DeSoto, Texas, had four carries for 79 yards and tallied a pair of receptions for 17 yards in Saturday’s 45-27 loss to Baylor.

The story of the season so far for OSU has been the emergence of starting Cowboy running back Chuba Hubbard as a potential Heisman Trophy candidate.

Hubbard leads the nation in nearly every statistical rushing category, some of them by a landslide.

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But Hubbard’s impressive numbers go hand-in-hand with a heavy workload and potentially an increased number of hits he’s taking compared to previous Cowboy running backs who were a part of OSU offenses that leaned a little more pass-heavy.

Hubbard had 32 rushes against Baylor, seven higher than Gundy’s target workload of 25 carries per game for the sophomore running back. “(Brown’s success) gives Chuba a break,” Gundy said. “LD has done exactly what we asked him to do.

I said last week, ‘quit stuttering your feet and run,’ and he’s gotten better each week. He did a nice job in the game, broke a couple of tackles and made a big play for us. I think that one put us ahead.

“He’s doing what we’ve asked him to do and he’s gotten better, and so that’s encouraging for us.”

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Oklahoma State Athletics released the football schedule for the 2020 season on Tuesday.

The Cowboys will play their nonconference games in Boone Pickens Stadium with their first game against Oregon State on a Thursday.

Having a Thursday game is obviously not ideal, but it’s not the worst. If it’s the only Thursday night game in college football, that means the man, the myth, the legend Pat McAfee will be on the call with Matt Hasselback.

If you haven’t watched an ESPN Thursday night NCAA game, it’s electric with those two on the mic.

The Cowboys will have its bye week after nonconference play which isn’t favorable. Playing ninestraight weeks of football

is not something the Cowboys want. It’s definitely not favorable compared to this season as the Cowboys have two bye weeks.

OSU will begin its Big 12 campaign on Oct. 3 at TCU. The Horned Frogs have had their Cowboys’ number the past two season and who knows what will happen next week when TCU heads to Stillwater.

Next year’s Bedlam game will happen on Oct. 24. Yes, you read that right, Bedlam will be in October.

OSU and Oklahoma haven’t met in October since 2004. November has been primetime Bedlam season for both teams for more than a decade.

But having Bedlam in October can be good for the Cowboys. If OSU is fighting for a spot in the Big 12 championship late in the season, you don’t want OU to be the team

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you face that decides it.

Getting Bedlam out of the way earlier in the season makes sense.

The SEC and Big 10 released its schedules and there are really no big name games. Depending on what the Pac 12 and ACC has in store for Oct. 24, College Gameday could possibly head to Norman.

OSU will face Texas on Senior day, which is actually favorable for the Cowboys. Think about it, if OSU’s team is good enough to fight for a spot in the Big 12 championship would you rather face OU or Texas?

Texas, obviously.

Senior Day could potentially have some highstakes ramifications.

Did I forget to mention that Homecoming happens to fall on Halloween?

Let’s just say that game, as well as the whole season, will be interesting.

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