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Forward this invitation to your friends, family, co-workers, your regular passengers, and anyone else who’s ever wondered what it takes to fly.

San Carlos Learn to Fly Day activities start at 10:00am with an Open House at San Carlos Flight Center, 655 Skyway Rd, Suite 215, next door to the Hiller Aviation Museum at San Carlos Airport.

Meet our instructors, view our training aircraft on display and maybe take a short flight on our exclusive crosswind landing simulator, the only one like it on the West Coast.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

10am-3pm: San Carlos Flight Center Open House

11am: Learning to Fly Presentation (SCFC Classroom)

12-1pm: BBQ lunch* (RSVP required)
* FREE lunch to the first 100 to register

Win demo flights, t-shirts and more. Bring your friends and family!

Hans passed along the following summary.

San Carlos Aviation & Supply intends to increase the business and the inventory offered at the store. We started to carry now tires (mainly for Cessna and Piper), batteries, spark plugs, TKS anti-icing fluid for the weeping wing and increased the selection of lubricants for aeroplane engines including Aeroshell in four grades and Phillips Aviation Oil in two grades as well as oil and air filters.

We continue to stock most of the FAA aeronautical charts including now Alaska and even Mexico as well as en-route, approach plates and AFD’s.

Apparel will be part of our business including official licensed Cessna and Boeing merchandise and many more. Pilot training books and other material are available for the student pilot and recurrent flight training books are available as well. The whole line of Max Trescott books and CD ROMs are stocked.

Our aim is to offer the best aviation pilot shop open 7 days a week in the greater Bay Area.

Pass-by and say hello.
Hans P. Plesman

The San Carlos Airport runway and taxiways will be temporarily closed to all flight operations, for the emergency repair of South Bayside System Authority’s (SBSA) sewer line that runs under the west side of the airport, during the periods shown below:

PLEASE NOTE – The dates and times of the runway closure period listed above are subject to modification or cancellation due to weather or other scheduling issues. Additional closures are likely to occur as SBSA continues to repair their sewer line. Dates and times of any future closures will be provided as soon as that information becomes available. Please contact the San Carlos Airport Office at (650) 573-3700 if you have any questions. Pilots should verify all airport closure information by obtaining officially disseminated FAA NOTAMs prior to flight.

The Perlan Project http://perlanproject.org is dedicated to building and flying a manned research glider to 90,000 feet in altitude, or “near space”, to study what role the strong stratospheric winds called the “polar vortex,” play in ozone depletion and how they influence global weather patterns. The Perlan Project has a three-part mission of science, engineering, and education. The scientific objective is to fly and record data in the stratospheric mountain lee waves. These wind waves play a dominating role in ozone depletion. These giant mountain waves, as they break and tumble, cause air mixing in the upper stratosphere that impact global weather patterns.

The engineering challenge is to build an aircraft that will fly in a virtual vacuum of only 3% of the sea-level atmospheric pressure; the experience in designing and flying the Perlan aircraft will be useful to scientists designing a future airplane to fly on Mars where conditions are similar. The educational opportunity is to inspire young people to seek careers in math, science, engineering and aviation through educational partnerships with schools across the country.

Einar is a lifelong glider pilot, former jet fighter pilot in the USAF, and exchange officer with the Royal Air Force where he attended the Empire Test Pilot’s School in Farnborough, England. Following graduation, he served as a test pilot on the Hunter, Lightning and Javelin British fighter aircraft from 1966 to 1967. From 1968 until 1986 Einar was a NASA research pilot at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.

Among the many planes he flew for NASA were the YF-12A (Interceptor version of the SR-71), the oblique wing AD-1, Controlled Deep Stall Sailplane and the X-24B Lifting Body. He was twice awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. In 1992 Einar first envisioned the Perlan Project when a LIDAR image of a stratospheric mountain wave, at 75,000 feet above Northern Scandinavia was first shown in Germany. Einar believed that such mountain waves could be used to fly a sailplane to astonishing heights.

Einar and Steve Fossett proved this concept when they set a world record altitude for gliders of 50,671 feet on August 30, 2006 in the Perlan I glider, in stratospheric mountains waves generated by Polar Vortex winds over el Calafate in the Argentine Andes.

The event is open to the public, with an admission charge of $15 for non-HCSF members. Please advertise this event to airport community.

See event details at: http://www.harvardclubsf.org/article.html?aid=430

Note: the Harvard Club is located at 275 Battery Street, 25th Floor, in San Francisco. There is an admission charge of $15 for non-HCSF members.

Please join us at the next SCAPA General Membership Meeting on Wed. April 25, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Hiller Museum. We are very pleased to announce that Ed Rosiak, President of the California Pilots Association will discuss Airports 101, the three-tier model for protecting our airports. Other speakers may be added to the agenda.

The Acting Airports Manager will update us on issues at the airport and we will deal with several business items including the election of Board members.

For any last minute updates about the meeting, visit http://www.sancarlosairport.org

Please join us!

We will use the meeting to plan and prepare for Dream Machines on April 28th and April 29th. Please come and help us get ready for the BIG event. We still need more volunteers to work Dream Machines so tell your friends.

Also note: Take a look at the EAA 639 HMB Pilots website at
http://639.eaachapter.org

As noted on the web site we have programs planned for our May 9th meeting (presentation by Col. Yates re Pillar Point Air Force Antenna) and our June 13th meeting (presentation by re Marine Sanctuary).

Contact Brent Gammon
gammon25 at yahoo.com

In this one hour presentation, engineer Faride Khalaf will share colorful pictures that highlight the Dreamliner’s technical innovations as well as its great looks. Faride will compare this new technology with the machinery of Boeing’s past. Come and join us for a mechanical prospective on the world’s most advanced jetliner that doubles as a beautiful work of art.

Event included with museum addmission.

In the years ahead, most of us who travel on airlines will hitch a ride on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. This sleek new airplane was designed with cutting edge technology in manufacturing and material science. They did it again; with this bold step Boeing is leading the industry in creating fuel-efficient, easy to maintain, and superbly stylish and comfortable airplanes. The future we’ve dreamed of is here. In this one hour presentation, engineer Faride Khalaf will share colorful pictures that highlight the Dreamliner’s technical innovations as well as its great looks. Faride will compare this new technology with the machinery of Boeing’s past. Come and join us for a mechanical prospective on the world’s most advanced jetliner that doubles as a beautiful work of art.

Normal flight operations at the San Carlos Airport may be affected/modified by a Special TFR scheduled to commence at approximately:

Pilots should verify all TFR information by obtaining officially disseminated FAA NOTAMs prior to flight. Contact FSS at (800) 992-7433 or visit tfr.faa.gov for more information.

If you’re interested, give it a try. But be forewarned, our laptop could not display the graphics but our desktop PC worked great.

VOLANS is a web-based application designed to display flight operations in 3D. The application is capable of showing aircraft operations in the bay area from San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and numerous general aviation airports.

View flights in 3D
View flights from a pilot’s perspective or an aerial overview
Playback historical flight data
View aircraft data including origin/destination, altitude, speed, aircraft type and flight number

http://www.flyquietsfo.com/volans.aspx