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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1976
Powell airplane not toy model
By CAROL MEYER
Dr. Charles Powell, Director of
Student Affairs, follows instructions
from a kit while building his
airplane; however, it’s not a toy
model stuck together with glue, but
a plane that will carry two people.
Powell said he has put 500 hours of
work into his KR2 airplane and fig
ures a total cost of $2,300 when
finished.
The plane has a simple form, with
a single engine and two wings. But
the method of construction is a little
unusual. The basic framework is
wood, while the rest is made of foam,
which can be sculptured, Powell
said.
“I can make compound curves and
shape it to a very pretty airplane,
whereas the other types of planes
have a boxy shape,” he said.
“It has been a lot of fun building,
but before you invest money, you
must consider three things,” Powell
said. “You have to be able to afford it,
have the skills to put it together, and
have the determination that you can
do it.
“Most people get part way
through and decide to quit,” he said.
“Five thousand copies of plane draw
ings have been sold and only 100 will
be flying.
“One of the hardest things in
building a plane is finding the parts, ”
he said. “You either order the them
or go to larger cities and buy them.”
For example, Powell ordered his
Fifth physician
to join staff at
Health Center
A new physician will be added to
the staff of the University Health
Center, said Dr. Claude Goswick,
director of the center.
Dr. James Martin is coming to
Texas A&M University from Long
Beach, California where he has been
practicing medicine for the past ten
years.
Dr. Martin attended Southwest
ern Medical School in Dallas and
graduate school at Tulane in New
Orleans.
Dr. Goswick said that there was “a
crying need for general practition
ers” at the center but that there was
no money to pay anyone hired. With
the addition of Dr. Martin, there will
be five doctors on the staff .
Dr. Martin will serve as a general
practitioner.
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WEDNESDAY
Benefit Rodeo to raise money for
Cathy Wagner’s medical expenses
will be at 8 p.m. in the Bryan High
School Rodeo Arena. Tickets are $2
for adults and $1 for children under
12.
Final Exams
Return Refrigerators to Student
Government, 12 p.m.-4 p.m., Spe
cial Services Building.
Book Mart, 137, MSG, 9 a.m.-5
p.m.
THURSDAY
Book Mart, 137, MSG, 9 a.m.- 5
p.m.
Final Exams
Return Refrigerators to Student
Government, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.. Spe
cial Services Building.
Hong Kong Club will present a
film from mainland China. The color
presentation is a revolution opera,
Peking style, that will be shown in
Rudder Tower, 301, at 8 p.m. Ad
mission is free; everybody is wel-
FRIDAY
Book Mart 137, MSG, 9 a.m.- 5
p.m.
Final Exams End
Return Refrigerators to Student
Government, 9a.m.- 1 p.m.. Special
Services Building.
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wood from an Illinois organ com
pany. Most of the material came
from Ken Rend in California, who
drew up the plans for the KR2.
Since the wings will be detacha
ble, he can tow the plane on a trailer
and doesn’t have to pay a $20 rental
fee.
“It has a very small engine which
uses one-third to one-half the
amount of gasoline a commercially
built plane would use, ” Powell said.
When Powell was a sixteen-year-
old, he swept hangars in Denison,
Tx. He earned $8 daily,which paid
for flying lessons. He later flew in the
Air Force.
but entertainment; it’s not for com
mercial use,” Powell said.
Powell didn’t build the plane
completely on his own. His help
came from the ten-member
Bryan/College Station chapter of the
national Experimental Aircraft As
sociation (EAA). The members go to
local “fly-ins” together and the na
tional fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
where there is an enormous field
with row after row of thousands of
home-built planes Powell said.
Some of the members will be going
to an air show and fly-in at Hearne in
a few weeks.
boat because it is made of wood and
fiberglass,” Powell said.
“Mine will run off and leave their
planes and theirs will do a lot of ac
robatic work,” he said. “I want a re
sponsive, quick airplane.”
Powell expects to cruise at 160-
180 miles per hour on a 70 horse
power engine. An equivalent com
mercial plane would reach 110-130
mph with a 150 horsepower engine,
he said.
Powell has two purposes in build
ing his plane. One is play and the
other is to be able to make short trips
within 500 miles.
Powell hopes to finish his plane by
the end of this summer.
There are certain Federal Avia
tion Administration (FAA) rules
governing home built planes. One
must send duplicate plans for the
plane to the FAA first and then build
according to aircraft specifications.
FAA officials come to inspect
every step of production until com
pletion, including a final inspection.
One must fly 100 hours within the
local area before the home-built
plane can be certified to fly cross
country.
“You can’t use it for anything else
Two members of the chapter,
Jerry Shannon and Dr. Gene Buth,
helped Powell a great deal. Shan
non, trained aeronautical mechanic
and glass blower, helped with the
engine and has already built a plane.
Buth, an engineer, did the welding
and is in the process of building a
plane.
Powell’s plane is a fast, light
weight cross-country type, because
its structure is mainly foam. The
other members’ planes are made of
metal and are slower.
“They call my plane the wooden
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