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New England | Open House
Come out to the New England March Open House on March 22, 2014. Shoot a basket for a chance to win a free t-shirt and a pair of Boston Celtics Tickets. Admissions' Reps will be available for guided tours and to answer any questions.
Tampa Bay | Open House
The Tampa Bay Open House on March 29, 2014 will be a great chance to check out the campus and have a great time. If you shoot and hit a basket, you will win free prizes from bracelets to t-shirts. All of our Admissions' Reps will be available for guided tours and to answer any questions.
Women in Aviation Conference
Attendees of the Women in Aviation Conference proudly hold up their Wingmen Wanted shirts. (Photo: Charlie Beauchamp)
Last week NAA participated in the 25th annual Women in Aviation Conference in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The event drew a record crowd of more than 4,500 over the 3 days. The Wingmen Wanted t-shirts were a big hit and drew quite a crowd to the booth. The Career Services departments from both Florida and New England had a great opportunity to network with hiring managers from many companies including airlines, corporate flight departments, aviation staffing agencies, manufacturers, USDA Forest Service, helicopter operators, etc.
Two students traveled to the event to accept scholarships presented at the AWAM breakfast. In total nearly $500,000 in scholarships were awarded to 86 WAI members.
New England | Scholarship
Student Council Vice President Matt Armstrong awards Theodore Mbetoh the Student Council scholarship, while President Josh Abbot shows his approval. (Photo: Jim McNeil)
Congratulations to Theodore Mbetoh, NAA New England Student Council’s most recent scholarship recipient. There are numerous scholarship opportunities to take advantage of at both NAA campuses. Remember to research and apply! NAA New England students are encouraged to apply for the Casey Fennyery Scholarship. Two students will be awarded scholarships in the amount of $500. See your student services representative for more details; the deadline to apply is March 31, 2014.
More Than 4,500 Attend Women In Aviation Conference
Attendees at the Women in Aviation Conference availed themselves of the opportunity to interview for jobs with airlines, corporate flight departments, government and UN flight departments, among others. (Photo: Amy Laboda)
The 25th International Women in Aviation Conference, held last weekend in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., had a little something for everyone. History buffs came to honor the four new WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame inductees: Sally Ride, first female NASA astronaut in space; Nancy Currie, NASA International Space Station commander; Beryl Markham, author and aviatrix; and Sheila Scott, record-setting British pilot.
Girls came for Daughter Day, where they learned to read aviation charts, fly PC simulators and build model airports, after hearing from Nagin Cox, an engineer on the Mars Rover Curiosity.
College students and aviators of all ages came looking for career advice in 45 education sessions, while thousands of job-seekers attended one-on-one and group hiring sessions with airlines, corporate flight departments and government agencies.
All told there were more than 4,500 people in attendance–men, women and children–and 133 companies, many hiring. Eighty-six WAI members went home with scholarships for training and career advancement worth nearly $500,000. Next year’s conference will be in Dallas, from March 5 to 7.
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AviationPros LIVE
Kenosha, Wis., March 11, 2014 – Technicians from around the world will once again be competing for the William O’Brien Award for Excellence in Aircraft Maintenance, presented by Snap-on, at the AviationPros LIVE Conference, March 25-26, at the Sands Exposition Convention Center in Las Vegas.
The trophy will be awarded to the aviation maintenance team that wins the Aerospace Maintenance Competition, an event that gives licensed AMTs, AMEs, international military personnel and qualified aviation maintenance students the chance to test their aviation maintenance skills against their peers. The two-day Aerospace Maintenance Competition runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. The awards presentation is from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 27.
Sponsoring the William O’Brien Award for Excellence in Aircraft Maintenance is part of Snap-on’s continued partnership with AviationPros LIVE. That commitment positions Snap-on as a sponsor of the Aerospace Maintenance Competition, an event hosted by the Aerospace Maintenance Council. As a sponsor, the nearly 30 teams participating will be using Snap-on tools and equipment during the competition.
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Jendrassik Cs-1 Engine
Hungarian engineer György Jendrassik designed the Jendrassik Cs-1, the first functional turboprop engine, in the 1930s. The engine was intended for the Hungarian twin-engine Varga RMI-1 reconnaissance bomber.
Jendrassik’s goal of producing a 1,000 hp engine was cut short by issues with combustion stability that limited the first version to 400 horsepower. The Hungarian Air Force ultimately gave up on Jendrassik’s efforts, and the RMI-1 was instead outfitted with Daimler-Benz DB 605 engines.
Nieuport (21, 81, 83)
This is a depot of the Army Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.), probably for a flying school (training), as indicated by the uniforms of the men visible and the big numbers on the fuselage side which define the machine on a training field. Given the inventory of wings the depot was expecting many repairs owing to training mishaps.
The machine with the big number '72' on the fuselage side bears extra information in small numbers and letters: '15 M 80 HP'. The '15 M' indicates the metric wing surface, 15 sq.m (161.46 sq.ft), while the '80 HP' indicates gives the engine and its horse power, the 80 hp Le Rhône engine. With this extra information the machine can be exactly identified as a Nieuport 21 (factory designation) which was designated Nieuport XXI by the SFA (Service des Fabrications Aéronautiques, department of aircraft production). The US purchased a total of 197 Nieuport 21's to serve as fighter trainers, during 1917-1918.
The two Nieuport machines which come second and third (behind the Nieuport 21 at right) are Nieuport two-seat trainers which are developments of the much earlier Nieuport X (Nieuport used the Roman number system in the factory identification of that time). These two-seater trainers were in the Nieuport 80-series; the Nieuport 81, of which the A.E.F. in France bought 173 machines, while 244 machines were acquired of the Nieuport 83.
Although there is outwardly very little difference between the Nieuport 81 and 83, a decisive distinction is that the Nieuport 83 had struts for the wing connection that were mounted vertically in contrast to the other Nieuport trainers which had an outward cant. As the machine behind the Nieuport 21 has vertical wing to fuselage struts, this is a Nieuport 83, and the other is a Nieuport 81.
Home Improvement Enthusiast Unveils Guest House Made Out of a Plane
An Arizona engineer has finally finished his four-year pet project to build a guesthouse in his backyard.
It's not just any guesthouse, and it's not just any backyard, either. Toshikazu Tsukii lives at La Cholla Airpark and his two bedroom guesthouse looks like it could take off along the private runway residents of the park enjoy. The two-storey guesthouse is made almost entirely of aircraft parts.
Tsukii used three aircraft bodies to create the quirky dwelling: the nosecone of a 737, the fuselage of two 707s and the tail end of a 727, reports the Arizona Star.
The pool is covered with the fuselage of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.Tsukii, an engineer for Raytheon, accomplished several goals with the completion of his guesthouse. The ambitious Japanese-born airplane enthusiast had always wanted to be an engineer, an aviator and an architect. With the completion of his guesthouse, he's crossed that last one off the list.
The 76-year-old designed and built the climate-controlled pad after seeing the nose cone of the 737 in a scrap metal yard which sparked his imagination. At La Cholla Airpark, each of the 91 homes are arranged around a landing strip for the exclusive use of residents. All the homes are on seven acre lots, leaving plenty of space for Tsukii to build his dream house.
He made the floor wider by cutting one 707 fuselage in half and spreading it apart. He also used first-class airline seats and improvised other furniture with parts, such as glass-topped tables from the engine cowling of a DC-9 and the wheel of a B-57.
Tsukii has always been inventive and a jack-of-all-trades. The Arizona Star reports that a 1962 article from the Fort Scott (Kansas) Tribune described how Tsukii, then 24 and a Wichita State student, was putting himself through college working as a TV repairman, electronics technician, sign painter, judo instructor, photographer, folk singer, guitar player and Samurai swordsman.
He is still working full-time as Principal Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Missile Systems and flies his two Cessnas as one of only 3,000 monocular pilots in the U.S., having lost one eye to glaucoma. Tsukii's wife of 50 years, Doris, says she's 'very proud' of her husband.
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Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of an NF-104. (U.S. Air Force photo)
A retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and notable test pilot, General Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first pilot to travel faster than sound.
On October 14, 2012, Yeager completed a celebratory flight to mark the 65th anniversary of his historic first supersonic flight. For the Bell X-1's historic supersonic flight, the National Aeronautics Association awarded its 1948 Collier Trophy to the three main participants of the program — Captain Yeager for piloting the flights, Larry Bell for Bell Aircraft and John Stack for the contributions of the NACA.
Interesting Facts:
Flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1, becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
He named his Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis after his wife.
Yeager's P-51D-20NA, Glamorous Glen III, is the aircraft in which he achieved most of his aerial victories during World War II.
He became the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1962.
Yeager rose in popularity after being featured in Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book The Right Stuff and the movie, which he made a cameo appearance in, that followed. He retired as a brigadier general.
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