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Tuesday, September 20, 19R8/The Battalion/Page 9
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ODESSA (AP) — As a youngster
still in elementary school, Odessan
Wayne “Hank” Henry already was
flying his own planes, using the stars
as his guide.
But his planes were the miniature,
hand-held variety whittled from
wooden banana and apple crates. At
night, a candle in a fruit jar served as
a beacon guiding the wooden con
traptions to a make-believe airfield
— Henry’s back yard.
Today, the 68-year-old World
War II veteran has been flying the
real thing for nearly half a century.
In the ’40s, Henry used his nav
igational expertise to teach bomber
crews how to use stars to direct their
planes during night missions to se
cretive bombing targets.
Nowadays, Henry uses his smarts
to teach West Texans how to fly
small aircraft.
Henry and his wife, Bea, 67, esti
mate as many as 1,500 people have
learned how to fly from their Mid
land International Airport head
quarters, home of Hank’s Elite Cen
ter, a flight instruction school
housed in a modest brick office
nearly undetectable at the end of a
row of hangars.
A small patch of grass separates
the building from a paved runway,
only steps away from the front door.
Those unfamiliar with the airpark
are directed to the center by two sim
ple wooden blue arrows placed
where the Highway 80 airpark en
trance road curves. “Hank’s” —
printed in bright yellow paint —
adorns the signs.
The Henrys, who have lived in
Odessa since 1957, started the flight
school in 1965.
It’s here that Mrs. Henry said her
husband tries to instill good habits in
new pilots. Students learn how to
pull out of a spin, a maneuver no
longer required to pass a flight test.
The maneuver is part of Henry’s
stress on safety — lessons that in
clude advising pilots to turn back if
facing severe weather.
Midlander Ken Hifiker, 32,
learned to fly from Henry’s exper
tise about two years ago and praised
the man’s flight knowledge.
Some instructors tell students how
to do things but not the reason for
the maneuvers, Hifiker said. But
Henry knows the practical side of
flying. “He’s extremely safety con
scious and just a wealth of informa
tion and experience,” Hifiker said.
Last month, the Federal Aviation
Administration acknowledged that
expertise.
The FAA, in conjunction with five
other aviation associations, sponsors
a yearly Flight Instructor of the Year
award, Don Muzeroll, a Fort Worth-
based FAA aviation safety inspector,
said.
The board selected Henry as the
1988 Flight Instructor of the Year in
the Southwest Region.
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GREENVILLE (AP) — The pilot
of ill-fated Delta Air Lines Flight
1141, thankful that so many sur
vived the jet’s crash, said he still
grieves over its victims.
Capt. Larry Davis, who was pilot
ing the craft when it crashed on
takeoff, told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram in Monday’s editions
there was no time to pray before im
pact.
“At times, I experienced great
grief over the people that died in the
accident,” he said. “I still have a lot
of grief over that, and I have to ad
mit that to the world.”
Fourteen people died in the wake
of the Aug. 31 crash.
Davis, whose jaw was wired shut
from facial injuries he sustained,
said he was glad to be one of the 94
survivors.
“I’m so thankful for all those peo
ple who were able to get out,” he said
quite clearly, considering the circum
stances. “I felt like when impact be
gan, that we were all dead.”
“I think God saved us from
death,” the 48-year-old Davis said.
Davis is a Christian who believes
strongly in the power of prayer.
But there was no time before the
Boeing 727 went down at Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport.
“Everything happened in 11 sec
onds and I was totally occupied with
the airplane during that time,” Davis
said at his home south of Greenville,
about 40 miles northeast of Dallas.
“At times, I experienced
great grief over the peo
ple that died in the acci
dent. ”
— Capt. Larry Davis
Davis also suffered back injuries
in the crash.
He cannot eat solid food because
of the jaw wires, but he said the
bands should come off soon.
“Anything I can strain through
my teeth, I can eat,” he said.
Davis said although he already has
been served papers for a lawsuit
filed in connection with the crash, he
is confident God will see him
through.
“I feel like the Lord is definitely in
control of everything that is taking
place and that is going to take place,”
he said. “1 pray that the truth will be
known.”
Whether or not Davis knows the
cause of the crash, he’s not saying.
He told the Associated Press Mon
day he wouldn’t comment on it.
Some, including the Greenville
City Council, have praised Davis be
cause so many people survived. But.
he takes no credit.
“I think every Delta pilot would
do the same thing,” he said. “You do
everything you can.”
Working oil, gas rigs
lowest since August
HOUSTON (AP) — The number
of working oil and gas rigs showed
the biggest single-week decline since'
mid-July, dropping by 17 to total
921 as production was partially in
terrupted by preparations for Hur
ricane Gilbert, Baker Hughes Inc.
reports.
It was the lowest level reported
since the count reached 894 on Aug.
1, Baker Hughes economist Ike Ker-
ridge said Monday.
The dip in the number of working
Texas rigs centered in the state’s
Gulf Coast region, signaling that
weather played a factor in the lower
numbers, Kerridge said.
The count probably would have
plunged still lower if a more accu
rate method were available for re
cording offshore rig evacuations, he
said.
“The offshore count really does
not reflect the shortened rig count in
the gulf due to Hurricane Gilbert,”
Kerridge said.
“Our feeling, from what we have
heard, is that most of the rigs in the
gulf were shut down at least a few
days,” he said.
The count had increased by five
in last week’s tally to total 938, halt
ing a month-long trend of small de
clines.
Baker Hughes’ rig count, the
widely watched industry index of
drilling activity, reflects the number
of rigs actively exploring for oil as of
last Friday, not the number of rigs
producing oil.
Houston-based Hughes Tool Co.,
an oil toolmaker company that
merged with Baker International
Corp. of Orange, Calif., has kept
track of the number of working rigs
since 1940.
The rig count reached a peak of
4,500 active rigs in December 1981,
which was the height of the oil
boom. But oil prices plunged to less
than $10 per 42-gallon barrel in the
summer of 1986 and the rig count
went with it, dropping to 663 — the
lowest since Hughes began compil
ing figures.
The lowest level this year was\the
reported 880 rigs on May 2.
Among major oil producing
states, Louisiana had 1 1 fewer work
ing rigs, followed by Texas, 10;
Wyoming, four; Oklahoma, three;’
and Kansas, which declined by one.
North Dakota and Pennsylvania
both increased by four working figs,
while Ohio gained three and Colo
rado, California and New Mexico
added two each. Michigan gained
one.
Although Texas declines primar
ily were reported along the coast,
Kerridge said Louisiana’s were scat
tered throughout the state.
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