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Paul Poberezny
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Paul Howard Poberezny was an American aviator and aircraft designer. He founded the Experimental Aircraft Association in 1953, and spent the part of his life promoting homebuilt aircraft. Poberezny is widely considered as the first person to have universalized the tradition of aircraft homebuilding, through his work with EAA, he had the reputation of helping inspire millions of people to get involved in grassroots aviation. Poberezny founded the EAA out of his Hales Corners, Wisconsin home in 1953 and it started as predominately a homebuilding organization in his basement, but later went on to capture all aspects of general aviation internationally. Poberezny retired as EAA President in 1989, remaining as Chairman of the organization until 2009, as of 2014, the organization had approximately 180,000 members in more than 100 countries. It was first held in 1953 at what is now Timmerman Field in Milwaukee, towards the late 50s, the event outgrew Timmerman Field and was moved to the Rockford, Illinois Municipal Airport. There, attendance at the continued to grow until the Rockford airport was too small to accommodate the crowds. In March 2009, Paul Poberezny stepped down as Chairman of EAA, Poberezny served for 30 years in the United States Air Force, including active duty during World War II and the Korean War. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel and he attained all seven aviation wings offered by the military, glider pilot, service pilot, rated pilot, liaison pilot, senior pilot, Army aviator and command pilot. Poberezny flew over 500 aircraft types, including over 170 home-built planes throughout his life and he was introduced to aviation in 1936 at the age of 16 with the gift of a donated damaged WACO Primary Glider that he rebuilt and taught himself to fly. A high-school teacher owned the glider and offered to pay Poberezny to repair it and he hauled it to his fathers garage, borrowed books on building/repairing airplanes, and completed the restoration soon after. A year later, Poberezny soloed at age 17 in a 1935 Porterfield, in 1955, Poberezny wrote a series of articles for the publication Mechanix Illustrated, where he described how an individual could buy a set of plans and build their own airplane at home. In the magazine were also photos of himself fabricating the Baby Ace, the articles became extremely popular and gave the concept of homebuilding worldwide acclaim. He designed, modified and built several aircraft, and had more than 30,000 hours of flight time in his career. Poberezny died of cancer on August 22,2013 in Oshkosh and he was survived by his wife, Audrey, and two children, Tom and Bonnie. His estate in Oshkosh is preserved by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. in 1971 Poberezny was the first recipient of the Duane and Judy Cole award to individuals that promote sport aviation. He received the National Business Aviation Associations 2001 Award for Meritorious Service to Aviation, in 2008 the Wisconsin Historical Society named him as a Wisconsin History Maker, recognizing his unique contributions to the states history. Flying Magazine ranked Poberezny at number 4 on their 2013 list of The 51 Heroes of Aviation, putting him ahead of figures like Bob Hoover, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Doolittle, and even Chuck Yeager
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Nonprofit organization
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A nonprofit organization is an organization whose purpose is something other than making a profit. A nonprofit organization is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. This is known as the non-distribution constraint, the decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption, charitable status and so on. The terms nonprofit and not-for-profit are not consistently differentiated across jurisdictions, in laymans terms they are usually equivalent in concept, although in various jurisdictions there are accounting and legal differences. The nonprofit landscape is varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations. Although charities do make up an often high-profile or visible aspect of the sector, overall, they tend to be either member-serving or community-serving. e. It could be argued many nonprofits sit across both camps, at least in terms of the impact they make. For example, the support group that provides a lifeline to those with a particular condition or disease could be deemed to be serving its members. Many NPOs use the model of a bottom line in that furthering their cause is more important than making a profit. Although NPOs are permitted to generate revenues, they must be retained by the organization for its self-preservation, expansion. NPOs have controlling members or a board of directors, many have paid staff including management, whereas others employ unpaid volunteers and executives who work with or without compensation. In some countries, where there is a fee, in general. The extent to which an NPO can generate surplus revenues may be constrained or use of surplus revenues may be restricted. Some NPOs may also be a charity or service organization, they may be organized as a corporation or as a trust. Their goal is not to be successful in terms of wealth, NPOs have a wide diversity of structures and purposes. Some of the above must be expressed in the charter of establishment or constitution. Others may be provided by the authority at each particular jurisdiction. While affiliations will not affect a legal status, they may be taken into consideration by legal proceedings as an indication of purpose, most countries have laws that regulate the establishment and management of NPOs and that require compliance with corporate governance regimes
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Aviation
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Aviation is the practical aspect or art of aeronautics, being the design, development, production, operation and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft. The word aviation was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863, from the verb avier, itself derived from the Latin word avis and the suffix -ation. The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21,1783, the practicality of balloons was limited because they could only travel downwind. It was immediately recognized that a steerable, or dirigible, balloon was required, jean-Pierre Blanchard flew the first human-powered dirigible in 1784 and crossed the English Channel in one in 1785. Rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances, the best known aircraft of this type were manufactured by the German Zeppelin company. The most successful Zeppelin was the Graf Zeppelin and it flew over one million miles, including an around-the-world flight in August 1929. However, the dominance of the Zeppelins over the airplanes of that period, the Golden Age of the airships ended on May 6,1937 when the Hindenburg caught fire, killing 36 people. The cause of the Hindenburg accident was blamed on the use of hydrogen instead of helium as the lift gas. An internal investigation by the manufacturer revealed the coating used to protect the material over the frame was highly flammable. Changes to the coating formulation reduced the risk of further Hindenburg type accidents, although there have been periodic initiatives to revive their use, airships have seen only niche application since that time. In 1799 Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion. Seven years later, on 14 October 1897, Aders Avion III was tested without success in front of two officials from the French War ministry, the report on the trials was not publicized until 1910, as they had been a military secret. In November 1906 Ader claimed to have made a flight on 14 October 1897. Although widely believed at the time, these claims were later discredited, however, the most widely accepted date is December 17,1903 by the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft, previous flights were gliders or free flight, but the Wright brothers combined both, setting the new standard in aviation records. Aircraft began to transport people and cargo as designs grew larger, the Wright brothers took aloft the first passenger, Charles Furnas, one of their mechanics, on May 14,1908. By the beginning of World War II, many towns and cities had built airports, the war brought many innovations to aviation, including the first jet aircraft and the first liquid-fueled rockets. Manufacturers such as Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft expanded production to provide aircraft for the new middle-class market
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Oshkosh is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, located where the Fox River enters Lake Winnebago from the west. The population was 66,083 at the 2010 census, the city is located adjacent to and partially within the Town of Oshkosh. Oshkosh was named for Menominee Chief Oshkosh, whose name meant claw, although the fur trade brought the first European settlers to the area as early as 1818, it never became a major player in the fur trade. It was the establishment and growth of the industry in the area that spurred development of Oshkosh. Oshkosh was incorporated as a city in 1853, although it had already designated the county seat. The lumber industry became established as businessmen took advantage of navigable waterways to provide access to both markets and northern pineries. The 1859 arrival of rail transportation expanded the ability to meet the demands of a rapidly growing construction market, at one time, Oshkosh was known as the Sawdust Capital of the World due to the number of lumber mills in the city,11 by 1860. By 1874, there were 47 sawmills and 15 shingle mills, by 1870, Oshkosh had become the third-largest city in Wisconsin with a population of over 12,000. The Oshkosh Daily Northwestern newspaper was founded around this time, as was the Oshkosh State Normal School, on April 28,1875, Oshkosh had a Great Fire that consumed homes and businesses along Main Street north of the Fox River. The fire had engulfed 70 stores,40 factories, and 500 homes costing nearly $2.5 million in damage, around 1900 Oshkosh was home of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, which coined the marketing slogan By Gosh Its Good. Its Chief Oshkosh became a nationally distributed beer, the Oshkosh All-Stars played in the National Basketball League from 1937-49 before the NBL and the Basketball Association of America merged to become the NBA. Oshkosh reached the NBLs championship finals five times, the city has a total of 33 listings on the National Register of Historic Places. The lumber industry made the fortunes of area entrepreneurs and businessmen, availability of materials and capital, along with devastating downtown fires in the mid-1870s, created a range of well-designed buildings for residential, commercial, civic and religious use. The many structures which make up the historic areas are largely a result of the capital and materials generated by the lumber. Oshkosh had six districts as of October 2011. The city had 27 historic buildings as of October 2011, Oshkosh is located at 44°1′29″N 88°33′4″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 26.61 square miles. Oshkosh has a continental climate according to the Köppen climate classification system
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Tom Poberezny
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He succeeded his father, Paul Poberezny, who founded the organization in 1953. He is also one of the founders of the Young Eagles, from his involvement in the EAA, Poberezny is often credited with having led the introduction of the light sport aircraft industry. Tom Poberezny was surrounded by aviation from the early stages of his life. Because of his fathers key involvement with EAA, the basement of Toms childhood home in Hales Corners, Poberezny graduated from Northwestern University in 1970 with a degree in industrial engineering, and became preoccupied with aviation soon after. He joined the US National Unlimited Aerobatic Team and was part of the team won the World Championship in 1972 at Salon. In 1973 he won the individual US National Unlimited Aerobatic Championship, in 1971, Tom Poberezny, Charlie Hillard, and Gene Soucy formed the aerobatic team of The Red Devils and went on to perform at airshows until the Daytona Skyfest in 1995. This makes the Eagles the longest-performing aerobatic team with one group of members, Poberezny also appeared as a pilot in the movie Cloud Dancer in 1980. Poberezny was appointed to chairman of the EAA Fly-In Convention in 1977 and this annual event takes place in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and attracts over 750,000 visitors with 10,000 aircraft from 68 countries, making it the worlds largest aviation gathering. In the late 1970s, he led the campaign to build the present-day EAA Aviation Museum at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, in 1989 Poberezny was elected president of the Experimental Aircraft Association. EAA promotes the hobby of building and flying aircraft and has over 180,000 members worldwide. In 1992 he led the creation of the Young Eagles program, Poberezny has also promoted the EAAs role in the light-sport aircraft category, bringing new opportunities for people to learn to fly or keep flying. In March 2009, Paul Poberezny stepped down as chairman of EAA and Tom Poberezny took on duties as well, with Rod Hightower as president. Tom Poberezny retained the positions of chairman of both EAA and AirVenture, on July 26,2011, Poberezny and the EAA announced that he would be retiring from EAA effective August 1,2011. The president and CEO, Rod Hightower, would assume Pobereznys duties until a replacement was found. However, on 22 October 2012, Hightower resigned as president and CEO of EAA and he issued a press announcement saying that he would assume all leadership duties of the organization until suitable replacements could be named. Poberezny was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame of Wisconsin in October 1996 and he was also awarded the Distinguished Wisconsin Aviator Award in May 2007. Past recipients of this award include astronaut Mark Lee, Major General Albert Wilkening, Major General Fred R Sloan, in early 2013, Poberezny received the prestigious Living Legend of Aviation award at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, California. Later that year, a campaign and website was launched dedicated to honoring Poberezny, the website also included a Roster of Support for others to add to the cause
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Jack J. Pelton
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Jack J. Pelton is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Experimental Aircraft Association and the former CEO of Cessna Aircraft Company. Before becoming the CEO of Cessna, Pelton was Cessnas Senior Vice President of Engineering, before joining Textron in 2000, Pelton was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Programs at Fairchild Dornier. Prior to this, he worked at McDonnell Douglas for over two decades, neither his undergraduate or graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering were earned from an accredited school. Temporarily embarrassed by the revelation, Textron released a statement proclaiming that Pelton was chosen for his 30-year-long career in leadership, Pelton testified in favor of a property tax increase to build an aviation training facility that would benefit Cessna at an August 9,2006 Sedgwick County Commission meeting. At a December 12,2006 meeting of the Wichita City Council, in March 2008, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Pelton to lead the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group. Textron announced that Jack Pelton retired from Cessna on May 2,2011, the aviation news media noted Peltons hasty retirement. AvWeb Editor-In-Chief Russ Niles questioned who retires effective immediately at age 52 on a Monday morning when the boss is in town, and speculated that it was related to a possible demand from Textron for cuts to Cessna after a first-quarter 2011 loss of US $38 million. On October 22,2012, Pelton became Chairman of the Board of the Experimental Aircraft Association, on November 9,2015, Pelton was named CEO of the Experimental Aircraft Association. The CEO position at EAA had been vacant since November 2012
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Sean D. Tucker
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Sean Doherty Tucker is an American aerobatic pilot who is sponsored by the Oracle Corporation and performs in airshows worldwide as Team Oracle. Tucker has won several airshow championship competitions throughout his career and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008 and he currently serves as Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Associations Young Eagles program. Sean Tucker, a native of Eagle Rock, California, earned his pilot’s certificate at age 17 and his father, William, was an aviation industry lawyer who had learned to fly as part of his job. Tucker started out as a cropduster, eventually starting a business in Salinas. In order to overcome his fear of crashing, he took a course, through which he found out you could roll an airplane upside down. He has been flying airshows worldwide since the mid-1970s and is considered by many to be one of the world’s premier airshow performers, Tuckers favorite stunt is the triple ribbon cut, where he uses his plane to cut three ribbons suspended between poles from three different angles. Despite once having a fear of flying, Tucker has flown more than 1,000 performances at more than 425 airshows, in front of more than 80 million spectators. Tuckers first sponsorship was with Randolph Sunglasses from 1993 through 1995, then in 1996 he transitioned to MCI under the 1-800-COLLECT and his other physical activities include mountain climbing, heli-skiing, cave SCUBA diving, and golfing. When asked about flying airshows, Tucker has said, I like to think that I bring the fans dreams of flying into the plane with me, that’s why I train so hard to keep a finely tuned edge. Tucker’s self-proclaimed goal is to share the magic of flight with Team Oracle’s guests by inspiring and thrilling them, I want them to go away saying that the airshow was one of the most engaging days of their lives. He is one of only a handful of performers who have been allowed to fly close formation with the Blue Angels. In 2013, Tucker was appointed Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association program Young Eagles and it has given flights to over 2 million children around the world. In 2014, he and Harrison Ford starred in and framed Flying the Feathered Edge, The Bob Hoover Project, second recipient and first non-namesake recipient of the R. A. Bob Hoover Trophy -2017 Lloyd P. Nolen Lifetime Achievement in Aviation Award -2016 EAA AirVenture Freedom of Flight Award -2010 General Charles E. S. National Advanced Aerobatic Champion –1988 Honorary Member - U. S. Navy Blue Angels, US Air Force Thunderbirds, the Challenger III is equipped with a unique set of wings that use 8 ailerons instead of 4. The tail on the airplane is modeled after the tail used on radio control airplanes. Tuckers first accident occurred in 1979, when he had to parachute out of his disabled aerobatic airplane. In 1993, as he was climbing out of the parked stunt plane he used at the time, a Pitts S-2S biplane, Tucker escaped unscathed, but damage to the wings on one side of his aircraft took ten days to repair
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Cessna
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The Cessna Aircraft Company is an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Best known for small, piston-powered aircraft, Cessna also produces business jets, the company is a subsidiary of the U. S. conglomerate Textron. In March 2014 Cessna became a brand of Textron Aviation, Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built his own aircraft and flew it in June 1911, the first person to do so between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Cessna started his wood-and-fabric aircraft ventures in Enid, Oklahoma, testing many of his early planes on the salt flats, when bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita. Cessna Aircraft was formed when Clyde Cessna and Victor Roos became partners in the Cessna-Roos Aircraft Company in 1927, Roos resigned just one month into the partnership selling back his interest to Cessna. In the same year, the Kansas Secretary of State approved dropping Rooss name from the company name, the Cessna DC-6 earned certification on the same day as the stock market crash of 1929,29 October 1929. In 1932 Cessna Aircraft Company closed its doors due to the Great Depression, however the Cessna CR-3 custom racer took its first flight in 1933. The plane won the 1933 American Air Race in Chicago and later set a new speed record for engines smaller than 500 cubic inches by averaging 237 mph. Cessnas nephews, Dwane Wallace and his brother Dwight, bought the company from Cessna in 1934 and they reopened it and began the process of building it into what would become a global success. The Cessna C-37 was introduced in 1937 as Cessnas first seaplane when equipped with Edo floats, in 1940, Cessna received their largest order to date, when they signed a contract with the U. S. Army for 33 specially equipped Cessna T-50s. Later in 1940, the Royal Canadian Air Force placed an order for 180 T-50s, Cessna returned to commercial production in 1946, after the revocation of wartime production restrictions with the release of the Model 120 and Model 140. The approach was to introduce a new line of aircraft that used production tools, dies. The Model 140 was named by the US Flight Instructors Association as the Outstanding Plane of the Year, Cessnas first helicopter, the Cessna CH-1, received FAA type certification, in 1955. Cessna introduced the Cessna 172, in 1956 and it became the most produced airplane in history. In 1960 Cessna affiliated itself with Reims Aviation of Reims, France,1963 saw Cessna produce its 50, 000th airplane, a Cessna 172. Cessnas first business jet, the Cessna Citation I performed its maiden flight on 15 September 1969, Cessna produced its 100, 000th single engine airplane in 1975. In 1985 Cessna ceased to be an independent company and it was purchased by General Dynamics Corporation and became a wholly owned subsidiary. Production of the Cessna Caravan began, General Dynamics in turn, sold Cessna to Textron Inc, in 1992
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