EAA Sport Aviation - August 2009

modified Percival Mew Gull from London to Cape Town and back— was four days, 10 hours, 16 minutes. The record will become official when verified by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, which sanctions world aviation records. (Stobbart flew from Johannesburg to the Oshkosh convention in 1992 in a Fairchild F- 24 Argus. Eleven years later, he flew his RV- 6 homebuilt to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003 to celebrate the centennial of powered flight.)

• A severe thunderstorm undid the hard work put in by volunteers for this year’s Virginia Regional Festival of Flight, knocking down tents and tossing around tables and chairs the night before the event opened. The group worked quickly the next morning to get everything back together in time to welcome more than 320 aircraft to Suffolk Executive Airport (SFQ) May 30-31. The airport’s new infrastructure worked well for event traffic flow and a record number of RV and plane campers were in attendance. Many photos as well as judging and drawing results are now available at www.VirginiaFlyIn.org. You can also view a photo gallery from the event on www.EAA.org/photo and click on Virginia Regional Festival of Flight.

• EAA Chapter 1240, Avon Park/Sebring, Florida, presented two $1,000 scholarships to outstanding high school graduates. Jonathan Guerrero from Avon Park High School and Lissette Vega from Lake Placid High School were chosen based on their scholastic achievements and career goals. Jonathan is enrolled in South Florida Community College and plans to attend the University of Central Florida after earning his associate degree. Lissette will study nursing at Florida Atlantic University where she will be part of the Air Force ROTC program with the goal of

becoming a flight nurse. Chapter 1240 holds monthly pancake breakfasts at Avon Park Jet Center during the winter months to raise funds for scholarships and other youth programs. www. EAA1240.org

• Katie Domeyer, 14, soloed a glider on May 17 at Ken Jernstedt Airfield in Hood River, Oregon. Her dad, David Domeyer, EAA 550671, says she has been taking lessons from Gary Boggs of Northwest Sky Sports and is a third-generation pilot. She has also flown right seat in her grandfather’s Stits Playboy and her family’s Stinson.

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