Flymall / Kraemer Aviation December 2016 Newsletter
Welcome to our December 2016 newsletter.
Our own Pat Kraemer celebrated a birthday last month (Nov 7). Happy birthday Pat. Here’s a picture of Pat at Julliano’s Brick Oven Pizza with one of her many birthday cakes she received.
Flymall.org is a one stop shop for all things wheels and wings.
Here is a very short landing by a stol aircraft. There is 0 ground roll. Click here for the video.
Harry is working with one of his clients to donate their 1969 Hawker Siddeley HS.125 400 A (similar to the aircraft pictured here) to the Cambridge-Dorchester Regional Airport. It will be on permanent display as part of a new picnic area built just for the aircraft. It will be very cool to go there and see it knowing we had a part of it.
We have some interesting news on the “wheels” side. A 1938 Packard, immediately after winning its class at the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance, rolled into a golf course pond and sank. Several bystanders tried to stop the car when they noticed it rolling down the hill toward the pond, but the combination of dress shoes and 5,000+ lbs of concours-grade Packard proved too much, and the big, elegant, mist-gray car slid elegantly into the pond, submerging almost completely with quiet dignity. Scuba divers had to be sent in the pond to attach tow cables to the vehicle to pull it out of the pond.
More interesting automotive news… Here is a picture of the first car designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The Egger-Lohner vehicle (also referred to as the C.2 Phaeton). First unveiled in Vienna, Austria, on 26 June 1898, Porsche had engraved the code “P1” (standing for Porsche, number one, signifying Ferdinand Porsche’s first design) onto all the key components.
For more info on Ferdinand Porsche and this vehicle click here.
Here is something spotted on Facebook (posted here just for laughs): How would I go about turning my 4 stroke 125 into a 2 stroke? I heard 2 strokes are faster. Does anyone know how to take strokes out of my engine? Is a stroke some sort of restrictor?
We have a very nice EAA biplane for sale. Click here for details on the biplane. Our biplane would look good in your hangar next to your jet.
Last month we received some good news about one of the employees at the Washington International Flight Academy. Francesca was accepted to Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University. Here she is pictured next to a DC3. Francesca plans to join the Air Force and be a career military pilot.
More good news about a WIFA employee – Ido (an instructor just since October 2015) has an amazing record with 25 signoffs (for checkrides) and all 25 have passed on the first test. Congratulations to Ido for 25 out of 25 in just over a year.
And yet another significant accomplishment by a WIFA employee: Ariel passed the FOI (Fundamentals of Instructing) knowledge test. Ariel is on her way to becoming a ground instructor at WIFA. She will also be working on her private pilot certificate soon.
Something interesting I found online regarding an SR71 pilot:
I’ll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (my back-seater) and I were screaming across Southern
California 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace.
Though they didn’t really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope. I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its ground
speed.
“90 knots” Center replied.
Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same.
“120 knots,” Center answered.
We weren’t the only ones proud of our ground speed that day…as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, “Ah, Center, Dusty 52
requests ground speed readout.”
There was a slight pause, then the response, “525 knots on the ground, Dusty.”
Another silent pause. As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my back-seater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison.
“Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?”
There was a longer than normal pause … “Aspen, I show 1,742 knots.”
“No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.”
Brian Shul, “Sled Driver”
On December 17 we will celebrate the anniversary of the Wright Brothers first powered flight. Click here for more information on that historic flight.
GI Bill VA Benefits Transferring a student
To transfer a student from one school to another:
Your student will need to complete a change of training/station form called a 22-1905.
This form is to update the VA that your training establishment is his home school/training establishment.This form is not something that you have to provide and the student should be able to take care of by contacting the VA.
Once the VA processes the 22-1905, they will send the student an updated Certificate of Eligibility with your institution listed as the home school and the student’s remaining benefits.
The student should provide you this updated copy of their certificate of eligibility once they receive it. Please keep this document in your file for the student.
You should also have the student submit any prior training in order to make sure the student is not duplicating any training with your training establishment. The VA will not pay for duplicate training already earned.
The certification process is the same as a student originally starting out with you, once you are updated as the student’s home school/training establishment.
Flymall November 2016 Newsletter
Welcome to the Flymall November 2016 Newsletter.
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The aviation world lost a legend last month (Oct 25 2016). Bob Hoover flew west. One of the best stick and rudder pilots ever. He will be missed.
Here is something Bob was well known for. His famous pouring a glass of ice tea while doing a roll.
In October Harry was interviewed by and flew with Vanessa Bao, an International Broadcaster for Voice of America. They were doing a program about flight training in the states for their audience back in China. Here are a few pictures from the photo session. Click here for their site. In our December newsletter we will post a link to the segment.
On October 26, 2016 Vincentius, an international student at WIFA from Indonesia did his first solo. This is a video of the post flight celebration, an Israeli tradition of pouring water over the newly soloed pilot.
Harry has taken a special interest in Vincentius. When Harry first met him he could not speak or understand English. This was very challenging for his instructor. Vincentius was taking English classes in the morning and flight training in the afternoon. He came to the states to get all of his pilot certificates and ratings and then go back to Indonesia to get a job. Many times his WIFA instructor had concerns that he would never be able to solo since he did not understand English. He still has issues with communication. He has only soloed in the pattern and has not had to talk with ATC in the air. We’ll see how he does when it comes time for his cross countries. For now, congratulations to him and his instructor.
The Washington International Flight Academy hosted the Ninety-Nines for their fall section meeting. We opened up the flight school for them and had instructors available for sim instruction in our Red Bird simulator. Click here for more pictures of the event at KGAI.
The Flymall team recently attended AOPA’s Wings N Wheels event at the Frederick Municipal Airport. We had our 1912 AC Delivery in the show. Click here for pictures from the event.
Harry’s 1912 AC Delivery won best motorcycle at the show.
And while on the topic of Wings N Wheels, here is an interesting post I did about the 1991 Mazda Suitcase Car Concept pictured below. Click here for more pictures. Click here for the full story.
You can visit our events calendar to find local events such as the two above. And you can visit Harry’s appearance calendar to see where the Flymall team will be next.
One of Harry’s favorite John Lennon quotes: “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.”
With that happy note we are excited that a friend (Brenda Tibbs) of Harry’s has opened a new flight school at the Frederick Municipal Airport. We wish her success with her new business. Click here for her site.
The Flymall team attended the benefit dinner at the Laytonsville Volunteer Fire Department held on October 15 2016. Great food, good company, and very cool fire trucks. Click here for pictures of the event. We got to see “Minnie”, a fully restored 1930 Brockway fire truck. Stay tuned for some news regarding some joint ventures with the Laytonsville Volunteer Fire Department and Harry’s Friday night Laytonsville Cruise In.
With this post fall is in full swing and that means colder temperatures. This means that it is time to start brining in most of the turtles in Harry’s turtle rescue. Harry has 5 large outdoor turtle habitats that house his turtles that he has rescued from various turtle rescue groups. His largest (about 70 pounds) turtle is an African Sulcata tortoise (pictured below). Most of the turtles cannot stay outside over the winter so they move indoors.
Merkel Motor Wheel
Joseph Merkel founded the Merkel Motor Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1902, its first product being a bicycle powered by a ‘clip on’ engine attached to the front down tube. In 1908 Merkel merged with the Light Manufacturing and Foundry Company of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, which had been making motorcycles since 1901. Merkel production shifted to Pottstown and the range – marketed as ‘Merkel-Light’ – expanded to include chain-driven types and v-twins. The move to Pottstown signaled a serious commitment to racing and the hiring of factory supported riders, while the slogan ‘Flying Merkel’ began to appear in the company’s advertising. And fly they did, winning countless races over the next few seasons before new owners the Miami Cycle and Manufacturing Company of Middletown, Ohio pulled the plug on the factory’s racing program in 1911. Limited support continued for employees that wanted to go racing, and the 1915 catalog contained a list of 1914-season race wins extending to a page-and-a-half. When Miami ceased production of Merkel motorcycles in 1915, Joseph Merkel designed and patented the ‘Merkel Motor Wheel’. A self-contained power unit for attachment to the rear of a bicycle, the Merkel Motor Wheel was launched at the Cycle Trades Association Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey on December 4th 1916. It was claimed that there was ‘no skill or special tools required to install’ the MMW, which consisted of an overhead-vale engine driving the wheel by gears, a hub incorporating a coaster brake with freewheel, and a fuel tank mounted on top of the steel frame that carried the driving wheel. Speed was regulated by means of a valve lifter while the provision of a clutch by Hendee made the MMW a practical proposition for town use.
In December 1918 the Hendee Manufacturing Company – makers of Indian motorcycles – purchased the rights to the MMW and recommenced production at Springfield around 1920. A complete powered bicycle cost $85 and it was claimed that operating costs were as low as ‘400 miles for one dollar’! It is estimated that around 2,000 Merkel Motor Wheels made, of which only a few are known to still exist.
1991 Mazda Suitcase Concept Car
1991 Mazda Suitcase concept car
The Mazda Suitcase Car was originally designed and built in 1991 as part of a design contest held at Mazda’s Engineering department. One of the engineers had an idea. What if you could get off a plane, get your luggage, and instead of waiting in line for a taxi or shuttle just pop open your suitcase and drive off?
Assembly takes about 15-20 seconds. The Mazda Suitcase car is powered by a 40cc two stroke motor. Fuel capacity is enough for approximately 2 hours of driving. The exhaust exits through a silencer and out through a small hole in the rear of the suitcase. It comes with functional headlights, brake lights, and turn signals. The rear brake is a small caliper and rotor. Top speed is 27mph. Click here for more pictures.
Flymall October 2016 Newsletter
Welcome to our October 2016 Newsletter.
The team at the Flymall recently attended a steam engine show at the Maryland Steam Historical Society in Arcadia, Maryland. If you like to see steam engines at work this is the show to attend. Click here to see a few pictures from the show.
Here is Harry’s YouTube video that highlights the show.
The week after the steam engine show we were part of the Montgomery County Airpark Open House. Harry organized a car show with awards for the event. We had a few of our vintage 3 wheelers on display – Our 1969 Ural with sidecar, our 1975 Lomax Roadster, and our 1920’s Briggs & Stratton Midget Mobile. The Ural won 2 awards, Lomax 2 awards, and the Midget Mobile won an award. Click here for some pictures from the event.
Bookmark our events calendar so you don’t miss events such as these. You can have our calendar email you a reminder about an event. With over 25 categories these is something for everyone. To see where we will be next visit our appearance calendar by clicking here.
We are sad to report some bad news in this post.
Bill Hughes (pictured above), a friend of Pat & Harry Kraemer died in a plane crash on Sept 27 2016. Bill was one of the friendliest folks you would ever meet. He was always willing to help you, and would stop whatever he was doing to do so. He will be missed. Here is a link with information regarding the crash.
Details on Bill’s services are as follows:
Visitation, Friday October 7th, 7pm to 9pm Barber Funeral Home Laytonsville Maryland 301 948 3500
Funeral Service, Saturday October 8th, 11am Wesley Grove United Methodist Church Gaithersburg Maryland Lunch to immediately follow
The family is suggesting instead of flowers, gifts go to charities Bill might have favored. One would be the Traum’s Fund administered by the Congressional Flying Club. This helps young pilots get into solo school and also helps some get started in their formal training as a pilot. A check to CFC with note to go to Traum’s fund will work. This is just one suggestion. It is also suggested to just do something niice in Bill’s name. Good things happen when we honor our friends.
In addition to the service there will be a group of mostly Cessnas flying in trail leading the missing man formation of RVs. As of this post the plan is to fly over the church at end of service on Saturday at approximately 12 noon. Logistics and details yet to be finalized.
On October 2 2016 we celebrated the Israeli New Year with our friends at the Washington International Flight Academy in true aviator style – in an aircraft maintenance hangar. See picture below. Click here for more pictures from the event.
Pat Kraemer was involved in a bird strike incident at KGAI. She and a student (Uma Vishnubhotla) hit a goose shortly after takeoff at about 300 feet AGL. Both her and the student were unhurt. Not the same for the goose. Pat did a great job staying in control of both the aircraft and the student. She had to continue with her climb out and fly a complete pattern with a big hole in the windscreen. It was very noisy and windy! Click here for more pictures.
For our automotive enthusiast click on our Classic Car Cruise In icon below for information on local cruise nights, car shows, and more.
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ADS-B Update
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta announced today that the FAA is delivering on its commitment to incentivize general aviation aircraft owners to equip their aircraft with required NextGen avionics technology before the January 1, 2020 deadline.
On September 19, 2016, the FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) rebate website will go live, and general aviation aircraft owners will have the opportunity to apply for a $500 rebate to help offset the cost to equip eligible aircraft in a timely manner, rather than waiting to meet the mandatory equipage date.
Click here for the full story.
Flymall Newsletter September 2016
Welcome to the Flymall.org September 2016 newsletter. As we near the end of summer there are still a lot of great outdoor activities to do. Visit our events calendar for thousands of events with over 25 different categories. You can also visit our day tripper section of the Flymall for ideas.
Aircraft sales are still on the increase. We have also seen an increase in classic/vintage motorcycle sales. We have brought and sold numerous rare vintage bikes over the last several years and the market has been good. Checkout our market watch section to research sale prices, appraised values, etc. This is a searchable database for aircraft, classic/collector cars, vintage motorcycles, parts, GPS, and more. It’s free, no long on info required.
We need inventory to sell. We are cash buyers for single engine aircraft as well as vintage motorcycles and other collectable vehicles/cars. We can also broker your aircraft or collector vehicle for you.
The Montgomery County Airport is having an open house on September 24 2016. The Washington International Flight Academy will have a display there. New for this year will be a car show with trophies. The team at Flymall.org will have several of their vintage three wheelers on display at the car show. Click here for details on the car show.
Click here for an ADS-B update from the FAA that includes a $500 rebate.
Here is something to think about until next month. It should be plane to sea that this is true.
Flymall August 2016 Newsletter
Welcome to the Flymall/Kraemer Aviation August 2016 Newsletter.
Harry has good news for international flight students that want to come to the U.S. for flight training. Hopefully by September 2016 the Washington International Flight Academy will be able to issue M1 visas to flight students enrolled in the school. And later this year we’ll be able to issue F1 visas via Catonsville Community College for our students enrolled in programs at the college. WIFA is offering degree programs via the college. For more information on the degree programs click here.
There will be an open house at the Montgomery County Airpark on September 24 2016. Harry has organized a car show for this event. There will be awards for the show cars. For details on the awards click here.
The team at Flymall.org recently attend the Simple Transport show 2016 with our 1975 Lomax and earned a Top 5 Motorcycle Award. Click here for pictures from the show. Here is Harry and Jett at the show.
Our automotive enthusiast can click on our Classic Car Cruise In page for local cruise nights, car shows, etc. You can visit our appearance schedule to see where we will be at next. We will often be offering appraisals at car shows for a discounted rate. Click here for more information on our appraisals.
If you are buying or selling an aircraft, car, motorcycle, bicycle, or other vehicle and want to know the value of it, visit our market watch page. This is a searchable database provided by Flymall.org. For our clients purchasing an aircraft to leaseback to a flight school visit Harry’s leaseback calculator page (developed by Harry). This is a useful tool for aircraft owners that plan to leaseback an aircraft.
If you know of someone that wants to sell their aircraft, classic car, or motorcycle please refer them to us. We pay referral fees. We can often be a cash buyer for aircraft, classic cars, motorcycles, etc.
GAI Open House Car Show Sept 2016
Cars need to be in place by 9am.
Voting is 10am to 12:30pm
Awards at 1:30pm
Categories:
Antique
Classic
Custom
Muscle & Hot Rod
Modern American
Modern Import
Best Exotic
Most Unique
Best Pre-War
Kids Choice
People’s Choice
Vintage Motorcycle
Modern Motorcycle
Custom Motorcycle
