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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1966)
Page 6 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, June 16, 1966 CHECKING BRAVOS BIRD Dr. Richard A. Frederiksen checks out control surfaces on Bravo Club’s Cessna 172 Skyhawk before his most ambi tious cross-country. The Texas A&M plant sciences profes sor and his family went to Minnesota by way of Oklahoma and Kansas. Members Like Speed, Comfort Of Bravo Club A club based at Texas A&M stirs clouds with the turbulence of its activity. The Bravo Club consists of A&M professors, a Forest Service forester and ministers who jointly own an airplane flown for busi ness and pleasui’e. Bravo’s Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a maroon and white tricycle-geared craft based at Easterwood Field, is joint property of six club par ticipants. It’s in the air 40 hours a week. Professors Robert S. Randall, Roger Harrell and Richard A. Frederiksen, James Smedley of the Texas Forest Service and ministers Richard H. Boss and Paul Baumer have 800 hours fly ing time among them. The Cess na owners also log experiences, humorous, unusual and a bit frightening. Safety of air travel is exem plified by the club. No damage has been experienced in a year of flying. Heavy maintenance is performed through purchase agreement and each pilot does light maintenance to compliment field cai’e. “Bravo” came from a previ ous plane owned by Dr. Harrell when he came to A&M from New Mexico. The 170 registration ended in “B”, or “Bravo” in fly ing jargon. The instrument (IFR) naviga tion and radio equipped all-metal Skyhawk has journeyed to Cali fornia, Minnesota, New Mexico and all over Texas without a sci’aped wing, washed nose gear or forced landing - . Bravo’s 400 hours accidentless flying since last September is a result of training - . Jim Ordahl of Texas Airmotive and Davis Flying Serv ice trained most of the pilots, all college graduates. Four of the six have Ph.D.’s and the other two have done graduate work. Their appraisal of tight situa tions and calmness in the face of accident-causing incidents elim inate damage. Randall, assistant professor of education, handles financial de tails and charts usage. Use is limited to 10 straight days. “The multiple-owner arrange ment works out real well,” re marked Baumer, minister of Bry an’s Faith United Church of Christ. “We have diversified in terests and flying is spread over a period of time. We have few conflicts and none that can’t be worked out.” One of the newer pilots, he enjoys the taste of high altitude oxygen. “The only experience where I wished I hadn’t started flying,” the minister said, “is when I go to the bank.” Members are billed monthly for a portion of the aircraft cost and each’s flying time, about $7 an hour. Poss, pastor of the First Bap tist Church in Bryan, is Bravo’s senior flyer with 359 hours. He’s has flown the entire Piper line, Navion, Beechcraft Bonanza and all Cessnas. He owned a Piper Clipper, Tri-Pacer foreimnner, which he flew in California dur ing six and a half years minis terial seiwice at Santa Ana. Bravo’s families are active air travelers. Even wives like the cleanliness, speed, comfort, con venience and unpressured aspects of going the cloud x - oute. Foss’ family saw one of the most inspiring sights of his aero nautics adventures. Enroute to Santa Ana, the pilot, his wife Sue and children Judy and Ricky, spotted an un usual check point on the chart. They located “Cochise Head,” a mile and a half long rock forma tion resembling an Indian lying on his back. “In a car, the rock is screened by mountains,” Poss explained. “A jet plane is too high. At 8, 000 feet, the outline is pei’fect and breath-taking.” Post Oak District forester Smedley caught a startling view. While insect checking on North east Texas, the plane circled low for spotting foliage discoloration. “I saw a big concrete apron,” he said. “Six-foot thick doors opened and there lay an ICBM. It started rising to a vertical position in the pit and raised the hair on my neck.” The pilot leaned on the throttle getting away from the national defense site. Wisconsinite Baumer mixed wings with the armed services. While in Corpus Christi, he was making practice Omnirange runs. The tower informed him one run would terminate near a flight of navel aircraft. “I crossed the zero point of the radio approach, looked up and found myself in the midst of a naval training squadron,” he smiled. “It was touch and go for a moment.” FTederiksen’s toughest assign ment involved a cow-pasture field near Beeville. Once grazed by livestock, runways had to be cleared of bovines in the early morning. Travland Airport now has caliched runways, but is still hemmed by power lines on the north and south by a large gravel pit. The plant sciences profes sor had to make a 90 degree crosswind landing in a 15-knot breeze. A frequent World War II pas senger in the Navy’s old PB4Y2 “flying boat” as a gunner, Ran dall has a great deal of respect for planes. One rainy night at Easterwood, he flew in on ground control with a radio out. “I’ve had difficulty distin guishing runways at Austin from long, brilliantly lit freeways near the airport,” the education prof noted. On returns from the west to Easterwood, he generally relaxes after passing over Cald well. “Once, I lost myself south of Snook,” Randall grinned. The club’s 7904U registered craft prop-claws passengers on many business trips. School Administrators Honor Wilcox For Service George B. Wilcox was honored for his distinguished education career at the final session of the School Administrators and Su pervisors Conferences at A&M Wednesday. Dr. M. T. Harrington, coordi nator of International Programs, presented the “Golden Deeds for Education” award. A Texas teacher 40 years, Wil cox came to A&M with a varied teaching and administrative back ground. He served as principal of schools at Groesbeck, Wharton and Jacksboro and was superin tendent at Plantersville and Cleveland. The Grimes County farmer’s son was an organizer of A&M Consolidated High School in 1920 and principal and superintendent of the College Station school be fore joining A&M as a full-time employe in 1925. He graduated from lola High School and Sam Houston State. Wilcox received a bachelor’s degree at A&M in 1923 and studied summers to get his master’s at Columbia. He completed work for the Ph.D. at the University of Texas. The former A&M Department of Education head was secretary of the annual June conferences at A&M and past vice president and president of the Texas State Teachers Association. The chart er member of College Station’s city commission and worked in many state education agencies. AT MUSIC CAMP Hard at work are three participants in the gas; Larry Wilhyt, College Station, and Highlands University Music camp which Butch Krutzner, Las Vegas. (Photo by Of- was just concluded in Las Vegas, N. M. The fice of Public Information, Highlands Uni boys are, from left, Gary Schwede, Las Ve- versity). STAMPEDE OF VALDES MELLORINE Maryland Club COFFEE Lilly’s Kreamland V2 -Gal. Ctn. With $2.50 Purchase or More Lb. 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