How NOT to solo...

[Greg Burkhart]

I was reading through the 100 Years of Aviation - Iowa Takes Flight
section on the Des Moines Register site
(http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/flight/index.html) and found this
article:
http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/flight/outthere/soderquist.html. It
talks about a guy that took his first solo flight in a C172 over Des Moines
after threatening his instructor at gunpoint almost 47 years ago...

If you get a chance, look through the site and see a lot of famous names
that lived, grew up, visited, were (or will be)born, etc., in Iowa aviation
including Orville and Wilbur Wright, Amelia Earhart, Clyde Cessna, Glenn
Martin, Donald Luscombe and a lot of others...

[Jay Honeck]

This is a great webpage, and a really good section in today's Sunday Des
Moines Register!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Greg Burkhart" > wrote in message
news:fdTCb.343674$Dw6.1135441@attbi_s02...
> I was reading through the 100 Years of Aviation - Iowa Takes Flight
> section on the Des Moines Register site
> (http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/flight/index.html) and found this
> article:
> http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/flight/outthere/soderquist.html. It
> talks about a guy that took his first solo flight in a C172 over Des
Moines
> after threatening his instructor at gunpoint almost 47 years ago...
>
> If you get a chance, look through the site and see a lot of famous
names
> that lived, grew up, visited, were (or will be)born, etc., in Iowa
aviation
> including Orville and Wilbur Wright, Amelia Earhart, Clyde Cessna, Glenn
> Martin, Donald Luscombe and a lot of others...
>
>

[Robert M. Gary]

"Greg Burkhart" > wrote in message news:<fdTCb.343674$Dw6.1135441@attbi_s02>...
> I was reading through the 100 Years of Aviation - Iowa Takes Flight
> section on the Des Moines Register site
> (http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/flight/index.html) and found this
> article:
> http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/flight/outthere/soderquist.html. It
> talks about a guy that took his first solo flight in a C172 over Des Moines
> after threatening his instructor at gunpoint almost 47 years ago...
>
> If you get a chance, look through the site and see a lot of famous names
> that lived, grew up, visited, were (or will be)born, etc., in Iowa aviation
> including Orville and Wilbur Wright, Amelia Earhart, Clyde Cessna, Glenn
> Martin, Donald Luscombe and a lot of others...


So this is like the , "living in Iowa doesn't suck as bad as you
thought" article. :)

[Jay Honeck]

> So this is like the , "living in Iowa doesn't suck as bad as you
> thought" article. :)

Obviously you haven't visited our part of Iowa! :-)

A world-class university makes all the difference...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"