EAA Sport Aviation - September 2010

10TH ANNUAL AVIATION DAY

ON MAY 14, 2010, Kunda’s Private Airstrip in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, held its 10th annual Aviation Day for the students of Arrowhead Elementary School. To celebrate the anniversary, three skydivers jumped from a plane and landed on the strip, to the surprise of the students and their chaperones.

Aviation Day started in 2001 after Ed Hoelker, EAA 128321, flew his granddaughter Rachel to school, creating quite the buzz among her fourth-grade classmates. Ed and Stanley “Chip” Kunda, owner of the airstrip just across the road from the elementary school, decided to create Aviation Day, inviting students to learn about and even sit in airplanes.

On May 18, 2001, teachers led 80 students across Level Road to sit on the grass near the hangar. After an introduction, the students were asked if they had any questions. Many hands shot up, and the questions didn’t stop. Later, the children were assigned in groups to one of four airplanes: a Cessna 172, a Piper PA- 12, a homebuilt Sky Raider, and an Aeronca Champ 7AC. The children each sat in an airplane and learned about the controls as they moved the control stick or wheel. Afterward, one of the pilots took teachers for a short flight around the field.

As the students left the airstrip after two hours of aviation fun, they were given an aviation magazine and a souvenir, such as a small balsa glider, a kite, or a hand-spun propeller. A week later, Chip received a bulging manila envelope, holding thank-you notes decorated with drawings of airplanes. “They were our rewards for holding the first Aviation Day,” Ed said.

FIRST SOLO

SCOT T TAYLOR, EAA 41492, reports his son, Daniel, soloed in a 1946 Taylorcraft BC12D on July 14, 2010. Scott is a certificated flight instructor. Scott’s grandfather, C.G. Taylor, designed the Taylor Chummy, the Taylor/Piper Cub, and the Taylorcraft aircraft. Congrats, Daniel!

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