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Welcome to NYAviator
NYAviator's Mission:
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Promote interest in aviation and
flight instruction
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Provide a central source of
information on NY aviation organizations, museums and resources
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Increase awareness through
education about the aviation heritage and history of NY state.
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My F-86H Days
by Jim "Skinny" McLennan
After pilot training and prior to my Sabre experience, I flew
straight-winged Hogs (F-84Gs) at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, and
then checked out in F-94As upon my return to the Syracuse, New York
Air National Guard in 1956.
We
transitioned to the F-86H Sabre sometime in `58. A RAFSOB, on loan
from the regular establishment, checked us out. He immediately
impressed us by landing gear-up while demonstrating a tight "tiger"
pattern!...full story
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Inspiring Future Aviators
EAA's Young Eagles Program at RochesterWings
2009
While attending the RochesterWings 2009 event held on June 5-6, at
KROC, I was afforded a unique opportunity to view from an entirely
new perspective, one of the event’s main features - the flying of
Young Eagles.
The Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young
Eagles program was launched in 1992 to give interested young
people, ages 8 - 17, an opportunity to go flying in a
general aviation airplane. These flights are offered free of
charge and are made possible through the generosity of EAA member volunteers...full
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Glenn
Curtiss and the 1909 Rheims Air Race
Courtesy of the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company
August 28, 2009,
will mark the 100th anniversary of the first James Gordon
Bennett Trophy air race held at Rheims, France. The sole American
entrant, Glenn H. Curtiss, from Hammondsport, NY, would compete
against Europe’s best pioneer aviators. Among these was Louis
Bleriot, who only a month earlier had successfully flown across the
English Channel in his nimble monoplane design...full story
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