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The
official daily newspaper of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
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Volume 7, Number 7
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July 28, 2007
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- Two of a kind beat
odds
The odds are astronomical. Lockheed manufactured more than 10,000 P-38
Lightnings during World War II, yet only four are still flying. And
for the first time in many years, two are at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
2007. Read more
- The ‘Mother of EAA’ honored by City of Oshkosh
More than anyone else, Audrey Poberezny is the person responsible for
the success of her husband, Paul, and the organization he founded in
1953, the Experimental Aircraft Association. A grateful Mayor’s
Breakfast audience formally recognized Audrey for her steadfast
dedication to EAA Friday morning when she was presented with the
annual Key to the City award. Read
more
- Aviation community shows its
support for EAA’s youth initiatives
Over the years, EAA’s annual Gathering of Eagles has become a
festive gala event that brings together major supporters of EAA’s
youth initiatives. Thursday night’s event in the AirVenture Museum’s
Eagle Hangar exceeded expectations with more than 1,000 people—corporations
and individuals—attending with one common goal: to energize the
foundation of aviation—our youth. Read
more
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Raptor’s maneuvers please
crowd, have tactical applications
When you see F-22 Raptors fly above the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh grounds
and do mind-boggling maneuvers today, they’re not just maneuvers
meant to impress. Read more
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Young aviators encourage
kids to achieve aviation dreams
Barrington Irving feels that too many young people are intimidated by
aviation. "They think it’s too much science and math, and they
think they’re not smart enough or good enough," Irving told FAA
Administrator Marion Blakey on Friday morning during a meeting at
AirVenture. Read more
- Epic helps sponsor new EAA
Student Membership
As part of its continuing support for youth aviation education
projects, Epic Aircraft announced this week at EAA AirVenture it will
sponsor the first 2,000 members of EAA’s new Student Membership
program. The new initiative to provide kids younger than 17 with their
own membership to EAA officially begins in October, but a pre-launch
by Epic will provide complimentary charter memberships at this year’s
convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Read
more
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Great air show begins at
daily pilots’ briefing
"Okay, it’s 12 o’clock—do you know where you are?" Jim
Mynning asked from the podium before answering his own question.
"At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the world’s greatest air
show!" Read more
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LSA changes Ercoupe value
equation
Two and a half years ago, John Roach from Northern Illinois bought an
Ercoupe 415C for the express purpose of flying it as a sport pilot.
Certain models of the "Coupe," as its owners affectionately
know it, are the only tricycle-gear, all-metal, standard category
airplane meeting the light-sport aircraft (LSA) definition. Read
more
- EAA expresses condolences to
Scaled Composites
An explosion at a rocket test pad at the Mojave Air and Space Port in
Mojave, California, killed three people and critically injured three
others Thursday. The explosion is said to have resulted from a test
involving nitrous oxide flowing through fuel injectors during a check
of a new rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo, a spacecraft being built for
Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company. Read
more
- ‘Last Flight Home’
The film six years and seven expeditions in the making, Last Flight
Home (www.LastFlightHome.org),
is the story of searching for and finding WWII MIAs in the South
Pacific island nation of Palau. Read
more
- ‘Take the Ford Challenge’
test-drive!
Ford invites EAA AirVenture Oshkosh visitors to "Take the Ford
Challenge" and test-drive cars, SUVs, crossovers, and trucks from
Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury. The event will be located just north of
the EAA grounds at the Aviation Mall parking lot (formerly Wal-Mart)
and will take place July 26-28 (Thursday-Saturday) from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. Read more
- Homebuilder U.S. Rep. Graves
joins FAA user fees forum today
Congressman Sam Graves calls himself an "aviation nut." A
pilot since 1992, he grew up with an airport across the road from his
family farm. "When I was a kid, my brother and I used to wash
planes to get rides from the pilots at the airport," he said.
"I’ve been hooked on aviation for as long as I can
remember." Read more
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Closer to certification,
Adam Aircraft gears up for production
A key word this year at the Adam Aircraft exhibit is "productionizing;"
working hard to ensure the company and its two products—the A500
push me/pull you piston twin and the A700 very light jet (VLJ)—are
the very best they can be once delivered to their customers. Chairman
and Founder Rick Adam is convinced his company’s efforts to
modernize, streamline and perfect its manufacturing process will pay
huge dividends as it gears up to fill the nearly 400 orders it has in
hand for both types. Read more
- Sen. Inhofe seeks EAA member
input on GA issues
Sen. Jim Inhofe’s family can be found parked among the Warbirds this
weekend. The Oklahoma senator has been attending AirVenture for 29
years, and has passed the love of the event on to his family. No
matter how busy they are, Inhofe’s children and grandchildren meet
him at EAA AirVenture to celebrate the impact aviation has had on
their lives. Read more
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FAA administrator surprised
with award at NAFI breakfast
More than 150 people gathered Thursday at the EAA Nature Center for
the ninth annual National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI)
Meet the Masters Breakfast. FAA Administrator Marion Blakey attended
the breakfast, ostensibly to acknowledge the importance to aviation of
dedicated flight instructors. Read
more
- Aviation trading cards
available
New aircraft trading
cards are a fun way to introduce kids to the world of aviation. Produced
by Alpha Tango Charlie Inc., the cards contain photos and interesting
facts about aircraft that children are likely to see at a local airport,
museum, or air show. Read more
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Taking the long way around
You could say Mike Buser and Fernando Tavares like to sightsee. How
else could you explain their 16,500-mile, three-month trip to arrive
at Oshkosh 2007? Read more
- Ford’s new ‘SYNC’
makes driving more enjoyable
Sync, a new technology developed by Ford Motor Company and Microsoft,
allows drivers to communicate with their friends and family and enjoy
music more easily and safely. Read more
- Embraer’s Phenom 100 makes
maiden flight
The high-stakes race to bring a very light jet (VLJ) to market saw
another entrant Thursday when Brazilian manufacturer Embraer took its
Phenom 100 entry for its first flight. Test pilots Capt. Antonio
Bragança Silva and Capt. Eduardo Alves Menini, along with flight-test
engineer Marcelo Toledo Basile, crewed the flight from the company’s
manufacturing facility in São José dos Campos. Read
more
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Annual WAI breakfast
attracts 120 members
More than 120 Women in Aviation International (WAI) members attended
WAI’s Celebrity Breakfast Friday morning at the Hilton Garden Inn.
Special guests included John and Martha King, who announced that every
member attending WAI’s 2008 Conference in San Diego will receive
complimentary access to the Kings’ online Jet Transition course, a
donation valued at more than $1 million. Read
more
- EAA’s Forums Plaza is
Aviation ‘U’
EAA has always been about
the enthusiastic exchange of information for the benefit of all who love
flight. EAA AirVenture’s Forums Plaza, supported by Honda Aircraft
Company, features more than 500 innovators, authors, experts, and
legends who come to Oshkosh and share their accumulated knowledge with
anyone who seeks it. Read more
- Piper says jet program on
track
The upbeat news on the personal jet revolution emanating from EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 continued as Piper Aircraft delivered an
assessment of its PiperJet program at a press conference on
Wednesday. Read more
- PCAvionics offers
ready-to-fly moving-map packages, glass panel options
Aviation software publisher PCAvionics announced its new, ready-to-fly
moving map packages this week at Oshkosh, along with a new product
line of panel-mounted instrumentation for experimental aircraft,
dubbed "yourGlassPanel." Read
more
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First Aid Center offers care
and comfort
The staff at the First Aid Center at EAA AirVenture sees "pretty
much everything that a normal emergency room would see," said
Mary Jeanne Trosky, who manages the center. A registered nurse from
McHenry, Illinois, Trosky has been coming to Oshkosh and working in
the First Aid Center for 25 years. The First Aid Center is located
just north of the control tower. Read
more
- Greg Toman to receive 2007
Raspet Memorial Award
Greg Toman of Grand Rapids Technology Inc. will receive the August
Raspet Memorial Award today for his contributions to the advancement
of electronic instrumentation in the ultralight and experimental
aircraft areas. The presentation will be made at tonight’s Homebuilt
Aircraft Awards ceremony, held at the Remos Aircraft Forum Pavilion
11, which starts at 6 p.m. Read more
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The final roundup: A
gathering of Mustangs and legends
A total of 105 P-51
Mustang aircraft from around the world have been confirmed to attend the
Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, hosted at the Rickenbacker
International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, from September 27-30, 2007.
Along with these beautifully restored fighters there will also be the
men and women that flew them in combat and training. Read
more
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NASA 747 SOFIA observatory
takes astronomy to new heights
Put a 45,000-pound observatory with an infrared telescope the size of
Hubble in the back of a sport model 747SP and on a clear day, you can
see forever. The best part is, at 41,000 feet, it’s always a clear
day. That’s the beauty of NASA’s new Stratospheric Observatory for
Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). It can fly above 99 percent of the Earth’s
atmospheric water vapor, the enemy of infrared observation. Still in
its test and integration program, SOFIA promises to take heat-based
infrared astronomy to new heights, above ground-based
observatories. Read more
- EAA radio broadcasts
worldwide
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 marks EAA Radio’s 11th year of
operations. Over that time, the station has become incredibly popular
with convention attendees and non-attendees alike. Broadcast 24 hours
a day on AM 1210, convention-goers can listen to live coverage of the
daily air show, the latest news and announcements, and what’s going
on in Theater in the Woods. Read more
- Around the Field
Sarah meets Dick…Kyle builds
an unusual airplane…and mountain fliers in the South 40
Earlier in the week we met Barney Rahal and his daughter, Sarah.
Sarah, now a college senior, has some vivid memories from her earliest
visits to the fly-in, when she was less than 10 years old. Read
more
- Pilot Briefings
Share your story with Timeless
Voices
Under the banner "Let No Story Go Untold," EAA’s
Timeless Voices of Aviation program records and preserves aviation
history by capturing the memories of people who represent the entire
spectrum of aviation. The idea is to preserve their history, thereby
preserving aviation history from those who lived it. Read
more
- Ask Tom
Tom
Richards will answer your questions in EAA AirVenture
Today throughout the week. Please drop your questions
regarding aviation, AirVenture, or EAA off at the EAA
AirVenture Today office just north
of the control tower, or via e-mail to asktom_airventure@hotmail.com
and he will do his darndest to answer them. Please also be sure
to include your name and where you are from. Read
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