Bio:
Aileen Duc has several degrees in geology from SUNY at Buffalo, Indiana University and University of South Carolina, respectively. Aileen was introduced to the joy of flying at USC in the late 70's. As a student of coastal geomorphology, Aileen often flew the coast of South Carolina to make observations of coastal features such a barrier islands, tidal inlets and tidal creeks. Her first 2 flying lessons were through the USC flying club with a fellow geology grad student as instructor. Between those first two lessons and now, Aileen has raised three kids, worked as a geologist for ARCO, lived in England for 5 years, taught middle school science in Plano, and is now back in the oil industry as a consulting geology tech. It's taken 27 years for her to get back in the left seat, but she's enjoyed riding right seat beside her husband during all that time. With the kids grown and her husband Chaz a part-owner of a Mooney 231, Aileen is enjoying flying now more than ever.

Dave Honaker, owner of Four Winds Aviation will describe what is involved in learning how to recover from unusual attitudes in your airplane. His company, Four Winds Aviation, located at Aero Country, McKinney, Texas, uses an aerobatic Super Decathlon and a Pitts S2B to provide a wide range of training to pilots wishing to learn more about upset recovery, as well as tailwheel instruction and aerobatics. Check out their website at: Tail-wheel.com. Dave is also a simulator instructor at CAE SimuFlite, DFW airport.

You will learn about the work and coordination that goes into creating a successful EAA fly-in, much of which you can use for your local chapter fly-in. Also, you may discover opportunities to participate in an important EAA event attended by pilots and aviation enthusiasts from all over the United States. SWRFI is like Oshkosh in our own backyard - don't miss an opportunity to learn more about it and possibly get in on the action.

Herb has been a Pilot for 37 years, Commercial Instrument SEL and SES, CFI and CFII since 2006. 2000+ hours total time, 400+ on Floats.

Corkey has agreed to make a presentation on the LoPresti Fury at our September meeting, which should be fascinating. As you may know, Corkey is famous in his own right. He has more than 15,000 hours in over 287 different types of aircraft. He has been around the world in major airshows and as a test pilot and corporate pilot. More interestingly, Corkey has been involved flying as the stunt pilot in numerous Hollywood movies, which he talked about at our May 2005 meeting. Corkey has filmed all over the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Costa Rica, Argentina and Thailand.

The Frontiers of Flight Museum was founded in November 1988, by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jan Collmer, and William E. Cooper. Their initial intent was to exhibit at Dallas Love Field the priceless artifacts, documents and photographs of the History of Aviation Collection donated to The University of Texas at Dallas by the legendary aviation historian George E. Haddaway. Since then, the Museum has added extensive artifacts dealing with the history of aviation from earliest days through today's modern military, commercial, and aerospace vehicles.

PCAS, which stands for Portable Collision Avoidance System, is a trademark of Zaon Flight Systems for technology similar in function to TCAS (Traffic and Collision Avoidance System). TCAS is the industry standard for commercial collision avoidance systems. The original PCAS technology was developed in 1999. Now, the MRX/XRX line of collision avoidance systems incorporates the fourth generation of PCAS technology. Through this technology, transponder-equipped aircraft are detected and ranged, and the altitude is decoded. PCAS G4 technology has advanced to the point that highly accurate range, relative altitude, and quadrant direction can be accurately detected in a portable, all-in-one cockpit device.

Rick Amber, the founder, established Challenge Air with the belief that, "every disabled person should see the world from a different view… out of their wheelchairs and crutches and from the sky." This belief of Amber's came from his life experiences. As a fighter pilot and training officer in the US Navy from 1967 to 1971, Amber lost the use of his legs when his jet crashed during a landing attempt on the aircraft carrier USS Hancock. He was returning from his 109th combat mission over Vietnam, in high seas, when the ship's landing system failed. He was twenty-six years old.

The DARS supports several kinds of activities associated with rockets and rocketry. They hold a regular schedule of launches for both model and high-power rockets. DARS is also very active with outreach to the schools, scouts and youth groups in our area. You can learn more by visiting the DARS website at: www.DARS.org

You can view the Sport Aviation Specialties website at: SportAviationSpecialties.com.

The program for our March 8 Chapter meeting is presented Mr. Paul Bailey, the airspace manager for the 301st Fighter Wing at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. He will explain what you need to know before entering and while flying through a MOA or crossing a Military Training Route ("MTR"). After attending this presentation, you should be more capable of avoiding a mid-air collision with military aircraft that may be maneuvering along your intended flight path, day or night. Since, in many situations, you have to share airspace with these extraordinarily fast military aircraft, you should know as much as possible about how to fly safely in such situations. You are invited to an informative presentation that can make you a smarter pilot.

Some members want to start their own project, or compare notes, and this will be an opportunity for them to see what is involved, before they take the next step. Several of us have already committed to bringing information about their labor of love, and even if you were not at the January meeting, you are invited (no, requested) to do the same.