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Vol. 2, No.
8 AUGUST 2009
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 Welcome
to Bits and Pieces,
EAA's e-newsletter and monthly information digest for
builders and fliers in Canada. We encourage you to
forward your copy to your aviation friends and invite
them to subscribe.
As you might expect, Bits
and Pieces this month features several items from the
recently concluded EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. EAA did its
Canadian members very proud, with a focus on the
Canadian flight centennial and aircraft on display from
our country. - Jack Dueck, Editor
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Here are just some of the more than 700 fellow
Canadian EAA members who attended AirVenture Oshkosh
2009.
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| EAA
AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2009: WHAT A WEEK! |
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Hundreds
of thousands of people from 75 countries enjoyed the
greatest aviation event in the world July 27-August 2 at
Oshkosh. Being there to experience it from start to
finish, all I can say is, "What an incredible event
it was!"
Total attendance was
578,000, a 12 percent increase over last year. Aircraft
parking and camping in the 'north 40' was filled up for
a period of time on Monday and Tuesday and aircraft were
routed elsewhere until space once again became
available. Camp Scholler was filled early in the week
and had to be extended twice to accommodate drive-in
campers! All told, 41,000 overnight campers in aircraft
and drive-in camping areas attended.
Read
more
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| CONGRATULATIONS
TO OUR OSHKOSH WINNERS! |
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Canadian aircraft were judged among the very best and
received awards in the aircraft judging competition at
AirVenture this year: Joseph Leslie, Abbotsford, BC; Al
Behuncik, Red Deer, AB; Michael Potter/Tim Leslie of the
Vintage Wings of Canada museum, Ottawa, ON; and Canadian
Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, ON. Read
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| EDMONTON
WOMAN WINS YOUNG EAGLES RAFFLE |
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was the final day of her first visit to AirVenture
Oshkosh when Marjorie Gjesdal, of Edmonton, AB, learned
she had won the 2009 Young Eagles Raffle - a brand new
2010 Ford Mustang GT convertible. "O my God! I've
won a car," she said after hearing her name
announced. There was no mistake - Marjorie was sitting
below the announcer's stand at the time, along with EAA
President and Chairman Tom Poberezny who said to her,
"I'm the first one who witnessed the look on your
face when you won."
Eldon, Marjorie's husband
is active in EAA Chapter 30, Edmonton, and a four-year
volunteer with the 'Green Gang' who provide flight-line
communications. Read
more
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE ABOUT FLIGHT SAFETY |
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The following are excerpts
from Transport Canada's Aviation Safety Letter article,
written by John Quarterman, manager of member assistance
and programs for the Canadian Owners and Pilots
Association (COPA). It is a timely and vital message
that is often overlooked or ignored.
Transport Canada
recognized the trend in personal mass (weights), in
response to the Transportation Safety Board (TSB)
recommendations following the crash of Georgian Express
Flight 126 on January 17, 2004, and other crashes
preceding it. And so on January 20, 2005, Transport
Canada updated section RAC 3.5 of the Transport Canada
Aeronautical Information Manual (TC AIM) with new male
and female standard weights, including both summer and
winter weights. Read
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NIGHT SCRAMBLE, BY
WILLIAM MCRAE
Courtesy of Vintage Wings of Canada
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"The entry in my logbook
reads simply: 'Scramble - 32,000' - 45 minutes - night',
but it was an experience I have never forgotten. Today's
all-weather pilots would consider this little adventure a
joke, and even I would not have thought much about it a
year later, but prior to this flight I had logged less
than 300 hours total solo, of which only 10 hours were
night in the Spitfire, (I had two hours solo night in my
log book when I first flew the Spit) and less than 16
hours total actual instrument time." Read
more
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Spirit of Bathurst
It's amazing what gems you can discover by simply perusing
the Sport Aviation archives at the EAA
members only website. We found a story by Harold
Hussey, of Bathurst, New Brunswick, who devoted 3,000
hours over the course of two and a half years (1958-1961)
designing and building his own airplane, the Hussey
Skyhawk, nicknamed the Spirit of Bathurst. "As
far as I can find out it is the first homebuilt plane
completely designed and built in Canada since the Silver
Dart," he wrote in the March 1962 edition. Read
the whole story here.
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About the same as in past years