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The Official Electronic
Newsletter of EAA
Celebrating 100 Years of
Powered Flight
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003
July 29-August 4
August 3, 2003 Volume
3, Number 38
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
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comments and suggestions to ehotline@eaa.org.
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The Latest News From Oshkosh
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Ed Lu, Flight Engineer and Science Officer on
board the International Space Station, took this
picture Saturday, August 2, as he passed over EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh at about 215NM.
SpaceShipOne Will Offer Affordable Space
Travel
“How many of you are building or flying your own plane?” Burt Rutan
asked several hundred EAA AirVenture Oshkosh attendees gathered in a forum
Saturday as hands popped up throughout the crowd. “How many of you are
building or flying your own spaceship?” he asked, as this time laughter
filled the forum building. (read
more)
Pilots Prepare December
Flight Plans
The pilots have already been selected, but it will be up to a coin toss to
decide who will be the first to fly the only authentic reproduction of the
1903 Wright Flyer. (read
more)
Secretary of Transportation
Norman Mineta: A brief Q&A
Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta came to EAA AirVenture 2003
yesterday, and took a few moments to talk with AirVenture Today about
policy and airplanes. (read
more)
NASA Education Efforts
Reach Out to Future Explorers
NASA’s associate administrator
for education, Dr. Adena Williams Loston, told a full house at EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh 2003 that NASA needs the bright minds of the next
generation of explorers. “We absolutely need you.” (read
more)
Neil Armstrong Packs ’em
in at Theater in the Woods
An overflow crowd came to Theater
in the Woods Friday evening to see the first man on the moon talk about
the first men to fly. Apollo 11 spacecraft commander Neil Armstrong drew a
standing ovation when he walked onto the stage to join Space Shuttle
astronauts Charlie Precourt and Jim Voss. (read
more)
Friends of Meigs Hopeful
Though the outlook looks grim right now, the Friends of Meigs Field (FOM),
an organization established long before the airport’s runway was
recently destroyed, is continuing the fight to save the downtown Chicago
landmark. (read
more)
President’s Awards
EAA President Tom Poberezny presented six volunteers with the annual
President’s Award on Thursday night at Theater in the Woods,
acknowledging members whose participation and contributions represent the
“essence” of EAA. (read
more)
Current Combat Heroes Talk
About Their F-16s Over Iraq
EAA member Ray Fowler, who also
pilots the EAA B-17G, told a crowd at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Saturday,
“You could probably solo an F-16 in a shorter time than you could solo a
Cessna.” The recently returned veteran of missions over Iraq, Fowler
went on to say it is much more difficult when it comes to using the F-16
for combat, however. “Words cannot describe an afterburner takeoff in
this airplane,” he said, while standing on a platform in front of an
Alabama Air National Guard F-16 parked in the Warbirds area. (read
more)
New Aircraft at EAA
AirVenture
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has long been a showcase for new aircraft and
aviation products. In keeping with the spirit of innovation exemplified by
the Wright brothers, several manufacturers are debuting new aircraft at
this year’s EAA AirVenture. AirVenture Today has reported on several in
previous issues. Here’s a rundown of some additional debuts. (read
more)
Simulating the First Flight
If you’re not lucky enough to be Terry Queijo or Kevin Kochersberger,
you won’t get a chance to fly the Wright 1903 Flyer. However, you can
get a feeling of what it would be like in the Countdown to Kitty Hawk
pavilion, where four Microsoft simulators give visitors a realistic
feeling for what it would be like to fly over modern-day Kitty Hawk in
that historic plane. (read
more)
Gauthier Receives Tony Bingelis Award
Joe Gauthier of Cromwell,
Connecticut, received the 2003 Tony Bingelis Award at the annual
Homebuilder’s Dinner on Thursday evening in recognition of his
contributions to the homebuilt aircraft community. (read
more)
Reliving WWII at the Living History
Exhibit
Ever wonder what life was like at an Army Air Force base in World War II?
The volunteers of the Warbirds Living History Exhibit offer a window on
that extraordinary era and those extraordinary men and women. In their
accurate re-enactments you can witness daily briefings, preparation for
bombing missions, and life around the base, including use of the era’s
language. They have carefully studied old movies to get the slang down to
perfection. (read
more)
A True-Blue Corsair FG-1D is Faithful to
the Goodyear Factory Originals
To the long list of aircraft restorations that have arrived at Oshkosh
looking as if they have just rolled off the assembly line, add this: A
1945 Corsair FG-1D that on July 26 flew for the first time since its tear
down began in 1990. (read
more)
EAA Volunteer Up for Disney Teacher
Award
He first volunteered at AirVenture Oshkosh in 1970, EAA’s first year in
Oshkosh. He then left for the Navy, returning as a volunteer in 1993. He
also does a bit of teaching. (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)
The Story Behind the Flag Stands
Emmett Carson knew that the flags of each state, flown to Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, by EAA members for the re-creation of the Wright
brothers’ first flight, had to have a place to stand, and those stands
had to be something special. (read
more)
Almost Everyone Has Questions
Sometimes people who come by the MATS Connie on AeroShell Square want to
know how it got there. And sometimes crew member David Eberhardt can’t
resist. “We took it off a truck and blew it up,” he has told them. (read
more)
Oshkosh and the Other Half
My wife glanced at the calendar in the kitchen. She tilted her head upward
while she tapped her index finger on a date. “So…you work tomorrow,
then you’re back on Saturday?” (read
more)
Kits Getting Bigger and Better
Despite committing significant
monetary and human resources to the light-sport aircraft initiative over
the last few years, many aircraft kit manufacturers still were able to
present new aircraft and new options here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003. (read
more)
Women and Wings - It’s the Height of
Fashion
New aircraft and avionics aren’t the only new products showcased at EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh 2003. Women Fly, the company that promotes awareness of
women’s achievements in aviation, is debuting a fashionable tribute to
five modern pioneers of aviation, a quintet of female Air Force flight
instructors. The company (Exhibit Hangar C, booth 4026) introduced at EAA
AirVenture a photo of the women emblazoned on a T-shirt in their flight
suits, helmets tucked in their arms, taken in 1985. (read
more)
Around the Field
Distant friends who meet at EAA AirVenture,
and residents of the last row. (read
more)
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