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The Official Electronic
Newsletter of EAA
Celebrating 100 Years of
Powered Flight
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003
July 29-August 4
July 30, 2003 Volume
3, Number 34
During EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
2003, e-HOT LINE will be published on a daily basis with current news and
events directly from EAA AirVenture. Visit the EAA
AirVenture website for full coverage of the event. We welcome your
comments and suggestions to ehotline@eaa.org.
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The Latest News From Oshkosh
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Pilots of the Century
With all the ritz and glamour of the Emmy Awards, the “Pilots of the
Century” were announced Tuesday as part of EAA’s Countdown to Kitty
Hawk celebration. (read
more)
Lindbergh - Big as Life
A new 5,000-square-foot
exhibit at the EAA AirVenture Museum is as big as the life of the aviation
pioneer, Charles Lindbergh, it highlights. Created by the Missouri
Historical Society, the temporary exhibit profiles the life and
accomplishments of Lindbergh, the first person to make a solo, nonstop
flight across the Atlantic Ocean. (read
more)
Replica of Famed Hughes Racer on Display
Almost 70 years after Howard Hughes
flew the original into the record books as the fastest aircraft in the
world, the newly completed replica of the Hughes Model 1B (aka the Hughes
H-1) arrived at EAA AirVenture, where it’s on display on AeroShell
Square. (read
more)
‘Vrystaaat!’* - A Dream Realized
In 1994 Chalkie Stobbart purchased a kit airplane; admittedly money was
exchanged, but it was also a purchase fueled by a dream. A dream that the
finished airplane, with him piloting it, would attend EAA AirVenture 2003.
To many such a dream is not too difficult to realize. However, Stobbart is
a South African Airways Training Captain on Boeing 737-200s and was
building his airplane in South Africa. (read
more)
What Does it Take to Fly One Million
Young Eagles?
EAA is on the verge of accomplishing what 10 years ago seemed unthinkable:
providing one million children with their first flight in an airplane
through the EAA Young Eagles program. EAA is now in prime position to
cross that lofty threshold by its self-imposed deadline of December 17,
2003, the centennial of powered flight. (read
more)
One Little Airplane Ride, That’s All
it Takes
One little airplane ride, 20 or so minutes long. That’s all. Yet the
Young Eagles program is already showing big results. (read
more)
Legendary Bentwing Bird, the Corsair,
Reviewed
The inverted gullwing shape of the huge blue F4U-5 Corsair dominated a
circle of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh visitors crowding around the big fighter
yesterday to hear air show pilot Dale Snodgrass and owner Jim Read talk
about the vintage warbird. (read
more)
Pilots! Fly Your Aircraft in the Flyby
Pattern!
This year, plan to fly your aircraft in the flyby pattern located at
runway 36/18. Open every day at AirVenture from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.,
flights will consist of takeoff, one flyby, and recovery. The
“Grass-Roots Flyby” is open to homebuilts, antiques, classics, past
award winners, light aircraft, and chapters or clubs. (read
more)
NASA Supersonic Jet Twists its Wings
like the Wright Flyer
The people and aircraft gathered at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003 to
celebrate a century of powered flight include a special NASA F/A-18 at
AeroShell Square with the ability to twist its wings to cause the airplane
to roll. That’s a new twist on a very old theme—wing
warping—originally exploited by Wilbur and Orville Wright a century ago.
(read
more)
From Maine to Oshkosh, via Meigs
Overcoming an alternator failure, an emergency landing at a closed
airport, and a missing airworthiness certificate, Richard Randall and Dick
Green made it to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Tuesday. (read
more)
Around the World in a Motorglider
They’re still friends. At the two-thirds point of their around-the-world
flight, their platonic relationship remains intact. Now all they have to
do is survive the last few legs back to Buochs, Switzerland. (read
more)
'Giving Spectators the Benefit of the
Doubt’
Jim LeRoy admits it wasn’t easy. He and his wife made a lot of
sacrifices and spent a lot of money, in fact too much, trying to get his
career started. At times he thought about giving up because he was tired
of living in a home filled with furniture bought at garage sales. (read
more)
Teachers Celebrate with Centennial
Activities
Certified educators and school board members attending this year’s EAA
AirVenture Teacher Day Thursday will be treated to a host of aviation
activities and seminars that are certain to start their creative
propellers turning. This year, educators have even more opportunities as
we approach the 100th anniversary of powered flight. (read
more)
ORBIS: Saving Sight Worldwide
Cheng Lang was 12 years old when he had a cataract extraction that failed.
His vision became worse than before, and doctors feared doing surgery on
his other eye, afraid of similar results. (read
more)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Beetles
Gary Doehling is looking for some new bodies so he can reunite the
Beetles. The Volkswagen Beetles, that is. Doehling is the EAA’s manager
of vehicle maintenance, and part of his job is to keep the convention
fleet of familiar cars running. Key staff members and volunteers have used
them as transportation on the grounds ever since EAA first came to Wittman
Field. (read
more)
Chazz Humphrey Lightens His Load
Chazz Humphrey, chairman of the EAA Ultralights area, has decided to step
aside after EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003, having spent 10 years at the
helm. Bart Gaffney, current vice chairman, will assume the chairmanship. (read
more)
Just Another Year
Somewhere in the peaks of the southern Andes or the wilds of upper
Mongolia, there may be a pilot who doesn’t know that this year marks the
100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight. But the rest of
us would have to be both deaf and blind (a highly unlikely combination for
a pilot) not to have heard about the anniversary, the Countdown to Kitty
Hawk, or any of the rest of the hoopla. (read
more)
Young Eagles Climbing High as Milestone
Nears
Charlie Gunderson and Craig Johnston can’t remember a single Young
Eagles flight where a child hasn’t been excited about the ride. But, if
children take their Young Eagles flight at Oshkosh during EAA AirVenture,
children are more than excited. (read
more)
One Little Airplane Ride, That’s All
it Takes, Part II
Take Drew Baird, of Raleigh, North
Carolina, for example. He logged his official Young Eagles flight on
September 7, 1997, then 13 years old. He remembers the date as if it was
yesterday. (read
more)
Paul I Re-created in Tabletop Size
There’s hardly a more recognizable airplane around EAA than Paul I, the
P-51D Mustang flown for 25 years by the association’s founder, Paul H.
Poberezny. (read
more)
Historic Appearances
One paragraph. In a four-page newsletter. That’s how Paul Poberezny
announced plans 50 years ago for the first annual EAA fly-in. The
following month, June 1953, Poberezny put out a plea for airplanes in
EAA’s mimeographed publication, the Experimenter. When the first EAA
fly-in rolled around on September 12-13, 1953, 21 aircraft were on hand at
Milwaukee’s Curtiss-Wright Airport. In later years, EAA would play host
to historic aircraft. Here are a mere fraction of the notable aircraft
that have appeared at AirVenture. (read
more)
Echo Flight Plans E-sat Data Release
The Flight Cheetah MFD will allow pilots to overlay satellite land imagery
on their moving-map display, providing a view of the terrain below. Should
an emergency happen in IFR conditions or at night, the ability to separate
areas of buildings and trees from emergency landing fields could save
lives. (read
more)
Around the Field
One of the great pastimes here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003 is to sit at
the edge of the North 40 camping area, along the fence of the east/west
runway, and watch all the planes arrive. (read
more)
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