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Fall 2008
A View from Our President
2011
What will our world
be like three years
from now—in 2011?
Faced with the energy,
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cial crises, the upcoming
election, security concerns, the
green movement, and about a thousand other factors, we’re
pretty sure there are some major changes afoot.
What will those changes be, and how will they affect aviaaviation? What will it be like when you call and ask that your
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currently going through at Wisconsin Aviation. What will
be the major changes, and how will they affect us? What
will we do to prepare? What do we want the landscape to
look like when we come out “the other side” in 2011?
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fraternity, class of 1949, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tri
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and his frat brothers who had all served in WWII.
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We have some pretty good ideas, but our best ideas usually
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and how it will affect our mutual interests in aviation.
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and we’ll still be here to meet your aviation needs. Our real
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food and souvenir vendors. Following the lunch break, the group
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Marine Corps Iwo Jima Memorial.
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started out with the arrival of Cessna aircraft from all over North
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The plan was to assemble at Dodge County on the morning of
July 25 and provide formation training to those pilots who had
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low ceilings that day and various weather systems around the
country, only a total of 40 aircraft made it into Juneau, and the
formations clinics couldn’t be held that day. Nevertheless, Wisconsin Aviation hosted a cookout for the C2O group that evening
in our main hangar. When departure time came around, there
was nothing like watching 40 aircraft depart from an airport in
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How many have made aviation—in one way or another—their
career? And for those that haven’t followed that path, did their
aviation training have anything to do with the profession they are
now pursuing? Finally, it may be most interesting just to hear
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they are doing now.
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Wisconsin Aviation after taking one of our Discovery Flights (at
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lessons at Madison and ultimately obtained her instrument rating.
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Agent Barbie Moorhouse stopped by to say hello at our EAA booth
during AirVenture 2008.
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at night and through the use of night-vision goggles. Interestingly,
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are crop-duster planes. Why crop dust at night? Agent Moorhouse reports that at night crop pollination bees are in their hives
and the pesticide spray does not harm them. Southern California
currently has a major problem with the depletion of the bee population needed to pollinate local crops.
Agent Moorhouse thanked Wisconsin Aviation for getting her
started in aviation and plans on making aviation her life-long
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Daily, who called the tower to have the aircraft returned to the
ramp. Martin McCauley, one of Wisconsin Aviation’s maintenance technicians, found that the clamp had fallen off the
Arrow’s vacuum pump.
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and complimentary of our employee’s professionalism and
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Article and Photo by: Don Winkler
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to Madison, Wisconsin, on
Saturday, August 23, after
their seven-month tour in
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family at Wisconsin Aviation’s
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procedures than what we are used to. We have to control and
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in the materials used and the curing process. While the composLWHFORWKORRNVDQGKDQGOHVDOPRVWOLNHÀEHUJODVVFORWKLWVFKHPLFDOPDNHXSLVTXLWHGLIIHUHQW/LNHZLVHWKHUHVLQVZKLFKDJDLQ
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the en-masse departure to Oskhosh on Sunday, July 27. The
pilot group included members of the International Comanche
Society from around the world.
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twin Comanche that had the unique reputation of being the
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longest race in history—24 days around the world. Also arriving in the group were 12 1958-model-year Comanche 180s and
250s to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the start of production of that type. Saturday’s events included various seminars
as well as the planning stage for the en-masse departure on
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Flights That Changed History
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the world in 9 days. Their push-pull, twin-engine airplane
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