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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).
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