This month: A historic weather event, Private Pilot Ground School at Frederick Flight Center, Bravo Flight Training expands to Martinsburg, Harry’s barn find motorcycles, the father of the chopper, new pilots, and more.
Danielle recently passed her CFI (Certificated Flight Instructor) checkride with Harry. And she has put together a great Private Pilot Ground School at the Frederick Flight Center. It starts August 24th through September 28th every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night from 6pm to 9pm. It is a part 141 approved ground school, call today to sign up and get more information!
History Trivia: Have you heard of the company AMF? This is the same company know for bowling alleys. Did you know that they owned Harley Davidson for a period? American Machine and Foundry (AMF) bought the nearly bankrupt Harley Davidson Motorcycle Company in 1969 for an undisclosed amount of money. AMF operated the company until 1981. In 1981, AMF sold the company to a group of 13 investors led by Vaughn Beals and Willie G. Davidson for $80 million.
Who invented the “chopper”? It seems as if Paul Jaray is the person. In 1921 he built the J-Rad bicycle. This was an attempt to come up with an aerodynamic riding position. His bicycle used a treadle-cable drive instead of pedals. Only about 2000 of these were built.
If you enjoy history we have a new aviation history fact each day at the bottom of our webpages. Some days there may be more than one, just refresh the page. And if you like Beatles history, checkout our Events Calendar and select the Beatles category. This is a work in progress, we’re building the most comprehensive calendar of important dates in Beatle history.
For those that like to stick with current news, we have an aviation news ticker on our home page. This is updated daily to show the current aviation news.
Achievements & Special Recognition: Bravo Flight Training has achieved a lot this past month. They are now a FAA approved Part 141 Flight School, they have a new Tecnam (multi-engine aircraft) online, and they have a new location in Martinsburg with their own maintenance facility.
May Yorgro passed her Commercial Pilot checkride earlier this month. She’s pictured here with Harry and her CFI Yehonatan Rubin. Look at her leap of happiness. Check out the weather for her checkride. There were storms North and South of her for the entire checkride.
Air show season is always just around the corner. Want to travel to air shows in your own aircraft? Visit our used aircraft page on the Flymall to view our inventory.
Car/Motorcycle Show News: Our Events Calendar has the most current info regarding local and national car shows, air shows, and more. With nearly 30 categories, there is something for everyone. The Day Tripper section of the Flymall has dozens of day trip ideals and interesting places to visit. Check it out here.
Barn Finds/Hangar Finds: Need an appraisal on your barn find? Visit our Appraisal Page for information on our appraisals.
Visit our online store to search for hard to find car parts, aircraft parts, and much more. You can pay online in our secure store, just click on the Store button on our home page.
Visit the Test Drive section of the Flymall for reviews on automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and more. Read about it before you buy it. You can also research price info on a wide variety of vehicles, collectibles, and more in the Market Watch section of the Flymall.
CFI / DPE Notes: Visit Harry’s Practical Test page for information on his checkrides. You will also find useful information there to help you prepare for your checkride. You can also visit Harry’s Lesson Plan section of the Flymall for other flight training information. Visit our Flight Training page for information on our aviation training classes.
Weather in the news: August 4 2020, Hurricane Isaias was the big weather news for this month.
History Trivia: Have you ever heard of Portolan Charts”? Aviators use charts/maps all the time. Nowadays most are electronic. Portolan or Portulan Charts are ancient nautical charts that were made in the 13th century. They were known to be very accurate.
If you enjoy history we have a new aviation history fact each day at the bottom of our webpages. Some days there may be more than one, just refresh the page. And if you like Beatles history, checkout our Events Calendar and select the Beatles category. This is a work in progress, we’re building the most comprehensive calendar of important dates in Beatle history.
For those that like to stick with current news, we have an aviation news ticker on our home page. This is updated daily to show the current aviation news.
July is a busy month for aviators in the news, both past and present. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24 1897. She had many accomplishments due her short life.
Wiley Post completed the first solo around the world flight in July 1933. Wiley Post arrived back at Floyd Bennett Field. Fifty thousand people greeted him on his return on July 22 after 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. The Winnie Mae’s cabin could not be pressurized, so he worked with Russell S. Colley of the B.F. Goodrich Company to develop what became the world’s first practical pressure suit.
Nir Levy passed her Commercial Checkride earlier in July. She’s a very smooth pilot and did an excellent power off 180 on her checkride.
Aviation/Aviators in the news: Tal passed her Instrument Rating checkride. She was fortunate to be able to use her dad’s plane for her training and checkride.
Tal has some weather to deal with on the way back to KGAI. She did a great job with the weather.
Raegan passed her Private Pilot checkride earlier in July. She is a very smooth and natural pilot. Now she is off to Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach for her aviation degree and ROTC. She wants to be a pilot in the military.
July was also the month that the United States put a man on the moon and returned him back to earth. Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20th 1969.
Air show season is always just around the corner. Want to travel to air shows in your own aircraft? Visit our used aircraft page on the Flymall to view our inventory.
Car/Motorcycle Show News: The Laytonsville Cruise In attendance has been picking up since Covid 19 restrictions are slowly being lifted. For August 2020 we plan to have an award night on the third Friday with two judges, Pat & Chrissie (both part of the Flymall team).
Our Events Calendar has the most current info regarding local and national car shows, air shows, and more. With nearly 30 categories, there is something for everyone. The Day Tripper section of the Flymall has dozens of day trip ideals and interesting places to visit. Check it out here.
Barn Finds/Hangar Finds: Need an appraisal on your barn find? Visit our Appraisal Page for information on our appraisals.
Visit our online store to search for hard to find car parts, aircraft parts, and much more. You can pay online in our secure store, just click on the Store button on our home page.
Visit the Test Drive section of the Flymall for reviews on automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and more. Read about it before you buy it. You can also research price info on a wide variety of vehicles, collectibles, and more in the Market Watch section of the Flymall.
CFI / DPE Notes: Visit Harry’s Practical Test page for information on his checkrides. You will also find useful information there to help you prepare for your checkride. You can also visit Harry’s Lesson Plan section of the Flymall for other flight training information. Visit our Flight Training page for information on our aviation training classes.
Weather in the news: July 2020 record days at 90 degrees or above.
We enjoy documenting the major storms throughout the year. Here are 2 for this month. July 6 storm system.
July 22 storm system
Three Wheel Association (TWA): Visit the Three Wheel Association page on the Flymall for more info on the association. This month we’re highlighting a few of the wooden wheel three wheelers in the collection. We have a 3 wheel wheel chair from around the 1850s and a side-by-side sociable bike made in 1896. Click on the picture to open a short slide show.
Want a reproduction vintage 3 wheeler. Walker Aviation can scratch built from pictures or drawings. Visit his page on the Flymall.
Prototypes: For this month we have the 1956 Mercury XM-Turnpike Cruiser. A very futuristic car for 1956 with a lot of high-tech features such as: a 3-speed “Merc-O-Matic” push-button operated automatic transmission, retractable rear window, a windshield curving into the roof, air conditioning, and even power side windows.
Animals In The News: Checkout Jett’s page on the Flymall. Jett will often join the Flymall team at local airports, car shows, and other Wheels & Wings events.
We close this newsletter with these words: We close with these words from John Lennon: When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy‘. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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On June 18 we celebrated Paul McCartney’s birthday. Did you know that Paul’s birthday and the birthday of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson are two days apart? Now you do. Two musical geniuses share a birthday.
If you enjoy history we have a new aviation history fact each day at the bottom of our webpages. Some days there may be more than one, just refresh the page. And if you like Beatles history, checkout our Events Calendar and select the Beatles category. This is a work in progress, we’re building the most comprehensive calendar of important dates in Beatle history.
For those that like to stick with current news, we have an aviation news ticker on our home page. This is updated daily to show the current aviation news.
Achievements & Special Recognition: June 12 2020 marked the 1 year anniversary of Harry being appointed a Designated Pilot Examiner. His first checkride wasn’t until July 1 2019.
Instructors, what to highlight your students first solo or other achievement here? Just send us a short write-up and a picture or two and we’ll post it here for you. Click here for our contact info.
Air show season is always just around the corner. Want to travel to air shows in your own aircraft? Visit our used aircraft page on the Flymall to view our inventory.
Car/Motorcycle Show News: On this date – 6/17/1946: The first mobile telephone call is placed from a car in St. Louis, Missouri.
Our Events Calendar has the most current info regarding local and national car shows, air shows, and more. With nearly 30 categories, there is something for everyone. The Day Tripper section of the Flymall has dozens of day trip ideals and interesting places to visit. Check it out here.
The Ford Bronco of the 1970s was was of the best looking SUVs. They’re selling for big bucks if you can find a nice one. Well here is a 1977 Bronco with only 6,000 miles. How much would you pay for this one?
We also have an “Island Find” this month.
The following is an actual advertisement in an Irish newspaper:
Automobile for Sale: 1985 Blue Volkswagen Only 50 miles.
Kraemer Aviation hosted it’s annual Memorial Day cookout, much smaller this year due to the Coronavirus. Click here for pictures from the event. Once the guest arrive, Harry gets very busy. So not too many pictures of the guest.
While on the topic of living at an airport, what does a Piper Cub, a T-6, Taylorcraft L-2, KR-34, Beechcraft Staggerwing, a Monocoupe, Model A Fords, and more have in common? They can all be found at a unique little airport in the Northwest of the United States at 7S5 Independence Airpark. Click here to read about this very cool little airport where you live with your plane.
Who are the Night Witches or the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment. This was remarkable group of Soviet women pilots that were only in their teens to early twenties. They flew over 23,000 sorties dropping bombs on the Germans during WWII.
If you enjoy history we have a new aviation history fact each day at the bottom of our webpages. Some days there may be more than one, just refresh the page. And if you like Beatles history, checkout our Events Calendar and select the Beatles category. This is a work in progress, we’re building the most comprehensive calendar of important dates in Beatle history.
For those that like to stick with current news, we have an aviation news ticker on our home page. This is updated daily to show the current aviation news.
Achievements & Special Recognition: What do we have here? Two doctors going flying? Nope! Just the new normal for checkrides with Harry. Yaniv passed his commercial checkride on April 17 2020.
With the Coronavirus, the $100 hamburger is a little different. You have to bring your own chairs and sit plane-side. Here is Pat, Pat, and Linda out for a $100 hamburger.
Between December 1958 to February 1959, a Cessna 172 stayed aloft for 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes. Yes, that is correct! 64 days! The two pilots refueled from a truck and took turns sleeping on a mattress in the plane.
Air show season is always just around the corner. Want to travel to air shows in your own aircraft? Visit our used aircraft page on the Flymall to view our inventory.
Here can be contacted via Facebook. He does illustrations on request. Contact him for pricing and more information.
From Mark: “In my early career as a tour guide, I met some interesting veterans of WW II, and picked up some good stories from them. One, a fellow motorcyclist, had been a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, flying Swordfish torpedo bombers. He was once stationed on a land base in remotest Scotland. To relieve the boredom, he told me, he and a fellow flier would strap his Norton to the torpedo rack under his aircraft, take off on a “practice flight”, land at another airfield near a town with a pub, unhook the bike, ride into town, have a few pints, ride back to the aerodrome and fly home. I presume one would stick to ginger beer as designated driver. He may have been shooting a line, but it’s too good a story not to illustrate it.”
We may include a “guest speaker” on a monthly basis.
Car/Motorcycle Show News: Ever wondered why some of the Ford GT40 race cars have a “bubble” on the driver’s side. It is all because of one person, a driver named Dan Gurney. He drove a GT40 to victory in the 1967 Le Mans race. He was 6′ 4″ and too tall to fit in the standard GT40, so his team made the bubble in the roof. The first picture is without the bubble and the second shows the bubble.
Ever wondered about the evolution of steering on vehicles? Checkout this short video Harry made on this topic.
Our Events Calendar has the most current info regarding local and national car shows, air shows, and more. With nearly 30 categories, there is something for everyone. The Day Tripper section of the Flymall has dozens of day trip ideals and interesting places to visit. Check it out here.
Here is a short history of the grill badge. In 1895 the first automobile club was founded in Paris France. The U.S. saw their first car club in 1902 and Great Britain it was 1905. Grill Badges soon emerged and were displayed by members to recognize fellow associates and announce their allegiance. In the past few decades, there has been a resurgence in their popularity.
Have you ever seen a Mother-In-Law seat? All of the latest safety features!
Barn Finds/Hangar Finds: Jay Leno’s 1832 Steam Engine. Made in 1832 and still runs!
An auction find! A few years ago Harry was at a bicycle auction and spotted is wheel that was made in the 1600s. Very cool piece of history. Send us your cool finds so we can post it here.
Need an appraisal on your barn find? Visit our Appraisal Page for information on our appraisals.
Visit our online store to search for hard to find car parts, aircraft parts, and much more. You can pay online in our secure store, just click on the Store button on our home page.
Visit the Test Drive section of the Flymall for reviews on automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and more. Read about it before you buy it. You can also research price info on a wide variety of vehicles, collectibles, and more in the Market Watch section of the Flymall. You can also search our Market Watch by famous collections that have sold, such as E.J. Cole Collection. American Pickers, Jay Leno’s Garage, etc. Beatles, Paul McCartney, etc.
Visit Harry’s Practical Test page for information on his checkrides. You will also find useful information there to help you prepare for your checkride. You can also visit Harry’s Lesson Plan section of the Flymall for other flight training information. Visit our Flight Training page for information on our aviation training classes.
Harry is now doing CFI and CFII checkrides. His first instructor checkride was an instrument instructor ride.
Weather in the news: We had a few large storm systems in April. We’ve highlighted a few here.
April 29 storm system. This system went down in to the Gulf of Mexico and even in to Mexico and then all the way up in to Canada.
Three Wheel Association (TWA): Lamborghini 1C roadable crawler. Rare by everyone’s standards.
Want a reproduction vintage 3 wheeler. Walker Aviation can scratch built from pictures or drawings. Visit his page on the Flymall.
Prototypes: Here is aCatomobile”, amphibious car designed in the Soviet Union by the Demidov brothers in 1966, powered by a Ural engine. Suitable both in the street and in the water. On the road it could reach a speed of 120 mph and on water up to 50 mph. All exterior parts were made of glass fiber. Ural motorcycle engine was used, integrated by a forced cooling system (which used a ZAZ-966 car fan). As transmission components (clutch, gearbox), frame (suspension, wheels), controls ( steering, brakes) and electrical equipment, parts of ZAZ cars, (Zaporiz ‘ kyi avtomobilebudivnyi zavod).
Did you know that the French car manufacturer Citroen made a multi-enigne car? The Citroen Sahara – multi engine car. Made specifically for use in Africa. It had one engine in the front and one engine in the rear.
A.41 Fundamentals of instructing knowledge test: § 61.183(d). I certify that [First name, MI, Last name] has received the required fundamentals of instruction training of § 61.185(a)(1). I have determined that [he or she] is prepared for the Fundamentals of Instructing knowledge test.
A.42 Flight instructor aeronautical knowledge test: § 61.183(f). I certify that [First name, MI, Last name] has received the required training of § 61.185(a)[(2) or (3) (as appropriate to the flight instructor rating sought)]. I have determined that [he or she] is prepared for the [name of] knowledge test.
A.43 Flight instructor ground and flight proficiency/practical test: § 61.183(g). I certify that [First name, MI, Last name] has received the required training of § 61.187(b). I have determined that [he or she] is prepared for the CFI – [aircraft category and class] practical test. Note: The endorsement for a practical test is required in addition to the § 61.39 endorsements provided in endorsements 1 and 2 (see paragraphs A.1 and A.2).
A.1 Prerequisites for practical test: Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 61, § 61.39(a)(6)(i) and (ii). I certify that [First name, MI, Last name] has received and logged training time within 2 calendar-months preceding the month of application in preparation for the practical test and [he or she] is prepared for the required practical test for the issuance of [applicable] certificate.
A.2 Review of deficiencies identified on airman knowledge test: § 61.39(a)(6)(iii), as required. I certify that [First name, MI, Last name] has demonstrated satisfactory knowledge of the subject areas in which [he or she] was deficient on the [applicable] airman knowledge test.
A.45 Spin training: § 61.183(i)(1). The spin training endorsement is only required of flight instructor airplane and flight instructor glider applicants. I certify that [First name, MI, Last name] has received the required training of § 61.183(i) in [an airplane, a glider]. I have determined that [he or she] is competent and possesses instructional proficiency in stall awareness, spin entry, spins, and spin recovery procedures.
Laytonsville Cruise In virtual car show Friday June 19 2020.
The categories are below. Here is how it will work. Starting Friday morning June 19 2020, post a picture of your car on the Laytonsville Cruise In Facebook page. The entries have to be on the Laytonsville Cruise In Facebook page. VERY IMPORTANT. You must select one of the categories below and include that in your post. The vehicle with the most “Likes” for their category wins the plaque for that category. Get your friends and family members to “Like” your entry. The vehicle with the most overall “Likes” will also win a gift certificate from Rock Auto.
On Saturday evening June 20 after 4 PM, Harry will tally up the “Likes”. The plaques will be mailed out or you can make arrangements with Harry to pick them up. Winners will be contacted via Facebook if we do not have your contact info.
Antique
Classic
Custom
Muscle & Hot Rod
Rat Rod
Modern American
Custom Truck
Antique Truck
Modern Import
Modified Import
Classic Import
Vintage Motorcycle
Modern Motorcycle
Custom Motorcycle
Vintage Bicycle
Modern Bicycle
Custom Bicycle
Does anyone know why they have the little eye or loop on one side? It is so that it can be secured to a lanyard around your neck. Early aircraft did not have a floor as we know it today and if you dropped your E6B, you would have a hard time getting it since it would fall between the spars and/or ribs of the aircraft. You would have to reach down and try to find it.
The flight computer was very popular during WWII. Along with the US, the British, Germans, and Japanese had their own version.
Here is a rare Sanderson SC-6 Flight Computer. Here is a little history on the Sanderson name in aviation. The well know Jeppesen was once Jeppesen Sanderson. That company actually started as Jeppesen. It was founded in 1934, by Elrey Borge Jeppesen, a pilot working for an airline. He is credited with making the first aeronautical charts. At first he gathered information for his own use. Soon other pilots started giving him information to use on his charts. It wasn’t long before Jeppesen was too busy making charts, that he had to quit his job as an airline captain. In 1974 his company merged with Sanderson Films to form Jeppesen Sanderson. Sanderson Films was founded by Paul Sanderson in 1956. Here is another Sanderson SC-4 Flight Computer from Harry’s collection.
Defining Risk
Risk is the future impact of a hazard that is not controlled or
eliminated. It can be viewed as future uncertainty created by
the hazard. If it involves skill sets, the same situation may
yield different risk. 1. If the nick is not properly evaluated, the potential for
propeller failure is unknown. 2. If the aircraft is not properly bonded and grounded,
there is a build-up of static electricity that can and
will seek the path of least resistance to ground. If the
static discharge ignites the fuel vapor, an explosion
may be imminent. 3. A fatigued pilot is not able to perform at a level
commensurate with the mission requirements. 4. The owner of a homebuilt aircraft decides to use
bolts from a local hardware store that cost less than
the recommended hardware, but look the same and
appear to be a perfect match, to attach and secure the
aircraft wings. The potential for the wings to detach
during flight is unknown.
Recognizing the Hazard
Recognizing hazards is critical to beginning the risk
management process. Sometimes, one should look past
the immediate condition and project the progression of the
condition. This ability to project the condition into the future
comes from experience, training, and observation. 1. A nick in the propeller blade is a hazard because it
can lead to a fatigue crack, resulting in the loss of the
propeller outboard of that point. With enough loss, the
vibration could be great enough to break the engine
mounts and allow the engine to separate from the
aircraft. 2. Improper refueling of an aircraft is a hazard because
improperly bonding and/or grounding the aircraft
creates static electricity that can spark a fire in the
refueling vapors. Improper refueling could also mean
fueling a gasoline fuel system with turbine fuel. Both
of these examples show how a simple process can
become expensive at best and deadly at worst. 3. Pilot fatigue is a hazard because the pilot may not
realize he or she is too tired to fly until serious errors
are made. Humans are very poor monitors of their own
mental condition and level of fatigue. Fatigue can be as
debilitating as drug usage, according to some studies. 4. Use of unapproved hardware on aircraft poses
problems because aviation hardware is tested prior
to its use on an aircraft for such general properties as
hardness, brittleness, malleability, ductility, elasticity,
toughness, density, fusibility, conductivity, and
contraction and expansion.
This month: Bruce Jenner motorcycle cop? Bicycle lost for over 30 years and was found! A 200 hour ATP pilot. First Englishman that built a petrol vehicle. Shooting down an enemy aircraft with your pistol while parachuting from your own plane! And more!!!
Next month: A Cessna Helicopter. A Lamborghini tractor. A Ural powered amphibious car.
The Kraemer Aviation Easter 2020 celebration was much smaller this year due to the Conoravirus outbreak. The team spent Easter 2020 with a fellow bicycle/motorcycle collector. Click here for pictures.
History Trivia: Owen J. Baggett was the first and only person to have shot down an enemy plane using a pistol. In fact he did it while parachuting to the ground after his bomber was hit. For more reading click here.
If you enjoy history we have a new aviation history fact each day at the bottom of our webpages. Some days there may be more than one, just refresh the page. And if you like Beatles history, checkout our Events Calendar and select the Beatles category. This is a work in progress, we’re building the most comprehensive calendar of important dates in Beatle history.
For those that like to stick with current news, we have an aviation news ticker on our home page. This is updated daily to show the current aviation news.
Here is a different piece of history trivia for this month. It about a ghost town in Pennsylvania called Centralia. A town that was built over an abandoned coal mine. The coal mine caught fire in 1962 and has been burning ever since. All the residents were force to leave their homes and businesses, all but 7 left. In 2002 the USPS discontinued the zip code for the town.
Aviation/Aviators in the news: About a year ago Harry returned from DPE school. Here is a picture that was taken at the FAA Training Center in Oklahoma.
When Harry returned from Oklahoma, a friend had a cake made from that picture.
A sign of the times. Airliners parked, not flying! All due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Air show season is always just around the corner. Want to travel to air shows in your own aircraft? Visit our used aircraft page on the Flymall to view our inventory.
Car/Motorcycle Show News: Most local shows have been canceled through May due to the virus. We’re trying to keep our calendar updated. In the meantime, enjoy some of Harry’s pictures from past car shows, from past motorcycle shows, and from British car & motorcycle shows.
Sad news this month in the auto racing world. Sir Stirling Moss passed away.
Did you know that Bruce Jenner was a motorcycle cop? Yes he was, on the TV series CHiPs. In 1981 Eric Estrada asked for more money. His request was denied so he walked out. His character was replace by Bruce Jenner as Steve McLeish. This lasted just a half dozen episodes and then Estrada returned.
Want to go to car shows in your own classic? We have a Jaguar for sale and a MG Midget for sale on the Flymall.
Our Events Calendar has the most current info regarding local and national car shows, air shows, and more. With nearly 30 categories, there is something for everyone. The Day Tripper section of the Flymall has dozens of day trip ideals and interesting places to visit. Check it out here.
Barn Finds/Hangar Finds: This month we have a barn find of Harry’s that was purchased by him in the 1960s and became lost until about 2010.
Here is Harry on this month’s barn find “Growing up, our family was not very wealthy. Whenever I received a new bicycle for Christmas, my father would give me a lecture about when he was young, he never had a new bike. He would go on to say that every bike he had, he had to steal. After a few years of hearing this story, I decided to do something about it. For Christmas, sometime in the mid to late 1960s, I saved up my allowance and purchased my dad his first new bike. I was about 10 years old at the time. I surprised him for Christmas with it. Needless to say, it was very emotional. He passed away when I was 23 and over the years I lost track of the bicycle. Around the year 2010 the bike made it’s way back to me. The bicycle was in poor condition, however all of the parts were there. I recently had a local bicycle shop do a mechanical restoration on it. Here she is, purchased by me in the 1960s for my dad. Now she is ready to ride again. Now, as a serious collector of vintage bicycles and motorcycles, it sits proudly in my collection.”
It is rumored that after Harry’s father passed away, the bike was given/loaned to numerous different people. It’s amazing that the bike survived intact and undamaged over the years. She still has the original paint, wheels, decals, saddle, etc.
Whenever Harry gets together with other bicycle/motorcycle collectors, they exchange stories. This Easter we heard a story about a motorcycle collector that answered an ad for a Whizzer motorbike for sale. This was sometime in the 1970s. The ad simply said “Whizzer motorbike for sale, $50”. So the guy researched the address (back before the days of the internet) and found out that is was in a not so good part of town. He decided to go anyway. When he looked at the bike, he knew it was not a Whizzer. The guy still only wanted $50 so he purchased it. It turned out to be a rare 1901 Orient Motorcycle with a V-twin engine. He held on to the bike until he was ready to retire and downsize his collection. He ended up selling the bike for $60,000 and he did nothing to it.
Need an appraisal on your barn find? Visit our Appraisal Page for information on our appraisals.
Visit our online store to search for hard to find car parts, aircraft parts, and much more. You can pay online in our secure store, just click on the Store button on our home page.
Visit the Test Drive section of the Flymall for reviews on automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and more. Read about it before you buy it. You can also research price info on a wide variety of vehicles, collectibles, and more in the Market Watch section of the Flymall.
CFI / DPE Notes: Over Harry’s many years of teaching and professional flying, Harry has used his real life experiences in his lesson plans for his students. Many of these “real life experiences” have been published in dozens of different aviation publications. Click here to view/read some of Harry’s published material.
Earlier this month Harry completed his 100th checkride as a DPE. And he did it in a plane that he sold new when he was a Cessna dealer. Allison, with only 200 hours, flew to ATP standards on her instrument checkride.
And the 100th checkride was at an airport (Frederick Municipal Airport) that he would go to with his dad in the 1960s. Pictured below is Harry at the Frederick Municipal Airport in the 1960s with his dad.
Visit Harry’s Practical Test page for information on his checkrides. You will also find useful information there to help you prepare for your checkride. You can also visit Harry’s Lesson Plan section of the Flymall for other flight training information. Visit our Flight Training page for information on our aviation training classes.
Weather in the news: On April 2nd & 3rd we had some strong winds in the Mid-Atlantic region. Checkout the METAR for KIAD. Click on the image for a larger view.
April 8th and 9th we had back to back storm systems roll through the northeast. As you can see, both systems had some intense thunderstorms associated with them.
April 8th
April 9th
Spring is the time for storms and Easter did not disappoint us. Easter Sunday and in to Monday, a storm system moved across the country. In this slide presentation, notice how the storm system went from one large system and then spun off in to two separate lines. Click here for the slide show. The TAF in the presentation was identical for both KBWI and KIAD. Checkout those winds!
Three Wheel Association (TWA): Meet Edward Butler – He is credited as the first Englishman who built a petrol vehicle.
Want a reproduction vintage 3 wheeler. Walker Aviation can scratch build from pictures or drawings. Visit his page on the Flymall.
Prototypes: During WWII, while under German occupation, the French were not allowed to have petrol. So the French started improvising and coming up with many designs of pedal powered vehicles. Here’s one that probably needed some refining.
Animals in the headlines: Have you heard the story of Frank Hayes the jockey? It is quite remarkable. He actually won a horse race (he was the jockey) while dead. It was at Belmont Park in 1923. Sometime during the race, he suffered a fatal heart attack and died. The horse kept running and Hayes stayed in the saddle. His death was not discovered until race officials came to congratulate him.
We close this newsletter with these words: “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.“—Christopher Reeve
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Danielle recently passed her CFI (Certificated Flight Instructor) checkride with Harry. And she has put together a great Private Pilot Ground School at the Frederick Flight Center. It starts August 24th through September 28th every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night from 6pm to 9pm. It is a part 141 approved ground school, call today to sign up and get more information!
