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BJ Teichman, Airport Coordinator - TOB Dave Ruckle, Pilot [email protected] [email protected]

IF you know of someone who would like to receive our monthly newsletter, please have them email me at [email protected]. I will be happy to include them. ______For those of you who may have missed this last month!

2018 Accomplishments: The courtesy car has arrived! – It is a 2002, Toyota Highlander.

It was donated to Bloomsburg Municipal Airport by Bloom Flyers. Additional thanks to: Bloomsburg University and Columbia Montour Visitor’s Bureau for their generous commitment to contribute toward the insurance.

On behalf of the Town of Bloomsburg, and the many pilots who will use this vehicle, I would like to thank all the individuals who helped make this happen by donating, time, talent, funds, or in some other way contributed to obtaining this vital tool for N13. As many pilots know, a courtesy car is essential when landing at small airports; to obtain a nice meal, support the local economy, explore local sites, and, in many cases call on local customers. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who made this addition to our airport a reality! 2 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018

Bloomsburg Flying Club Memberships available www.flybloomsburg.com Contact: [email protected]

Flight Instructors:

▪ Phil Polstra – CFII (Parlor City Flying Club Member / Bloomsburg Flying Club) [email protected] (Independent) 563-552-7670 ▪ Rob Staib – CFII (Independent) [email protected] 570-850-5274 ▪ Hans Lawrence – CFII / MEI / RI (Independent) [email protected] 570-898-8868 ▪ Eric Cipcic, CFI (Independent) 412-496-9954 (KIPT/home base/ willing to travel to other airports) [email protected]

Fuel Prices: Currently $4.50/ Gallon, subject to change. Currently accepting most major credit cards. Hangar News: All hangars are full. – If you wish to be placed on the waiting list, please contact me. [email protected] A Note of Thanks: • Jessica Robinson. – For piloting in in the R44 Helicopter to address the young women who attended the GI-STEM program at Bloomsburg Univ., and to show them the R44. • Mr. Keller – who graciously donated the helicopter and it’s time for Jessica to fly in. • John W. Sibole, Jr. –Presented the Barany chair at the GI-STEM program at Bloom U. • H. Paul Schuch – presenter of the UAS Safety Seminar. • Dave T. & Phil P.– for making the club plane available for Business After Hours. • Ron A. - for making the Gyro-copter available for Business After Hrs. • To our many Guests who visited us during Business After Hours. Thank you for attending! • The many people who worked behind the scenes to make it all happen: Bobbi, Elise, Brenda, Lauren, and many more!!!

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On the Horizon / Save the Date: When: Sat. – 5 May Where: Sunbury Airport on the island! – 71 N Time: 11:00 – 2:00 PM What: Luncheon sponsored by EAA Chapter 769 – Great food – fun and conversation! ***************************************************************************** FAA Seminar for Wings Credit: Presenter by Al Hubler. What: “A” “B” “C’s” of A T C Highly experienced, retired Air Traffic Controller (and ATP) will tell us about how things work on the other end of the comm radio. You won't want to miss this opportunity to learn about the system that is so important to safe flying!

When: 12 May, 2018 Where: Bloomsburg Municipal N13 – Time: 11:00 – 12:00 noon To Register please click on the link below: https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=82794&caller=/SPANS/events/EventList.aspx ?zip=17815&rad=10 Same Day: 12 May, 2018 What: Fly In / Drive In / Walk In Breakfast 8:00 – 11:00 What: Fly In /Drive In / Pig Roast 11:00- 4:00 Fund Raiser Breakfast and Pig Roast sponsored by Bloom Flyers ****************************************************************************** What: Dream Machine Car Show When: 10 June, 2018 Where: Bloomsburg Municipal N13 – Time: 8:30 – 3:30 For More Information please contact: www.thedmmc.org

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Bloomsburg Municipal Airport N13

TRI FECTA: Breakfast / Safety Seminar / Pig Roast Sponsored by: Bloomsburg Municipal Airport and Bloom Flyers

Fly – In _

Drive-In_

Walk-In_

When: Saturday: 12 May Breakfast: 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Pig Roast: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM FAA Safety Seminar: 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM Presenter: Mr. Al Hubler –

Title: The “A” “B” “C”’s of ATC Highly experienced, retired Air Traffic Controller (and ATP) will tell us about how things work on the other end of the comm radio. You won't want to miss this opportunity to learn about the system that is so important to safe flying! To Register: https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=82794&caller=/SPANS/events/EventList.aspx ?zip=17815&rad=10

Possibly some Craft Vendors too! / Join us for a fun-filled day. 5 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018

2018 – COMING EVENTS: Community

Welcome Safety Community

Seminars National Night Out – Sponsored by Welcome Bloom Police Dept.

Gray background indicates completed events. Presenter/ Month Event Special Event Time Sponsor Poker Run / Fly IN 8:00 - Bloom 3-Mar Col. Stahl's Breakfast Breakfast Noon Flyers

15-Mar FAA Safety Seminar Barany Chair 6:00 PM John Sibole H. Paul 11-Apr FAA Safety Seminar UAS 6:00 PM Shuch Breakfast – Community 7:00 - Bloom 12-May Flea Market Welcome 11:00 Flyers Pig Roast- Community 11:00 - Bloom 12-May Flea Market Welcome 3:00 Flyers 11:00 - 12-May FAA Safety Seminar ATC - Presentation 12:00 Al Hubler

2-Jun FAA Safety Seminar Survival Stayin' Alive 11:00 John Sibole Presentation – Planes and 10:00- 7-Jun 20 STEM Students Pilots 11:30 BJ Presentation – Planes and 29-Jun 30 STEM Students Pilots TBA Diane Car Show- Community Dream 10-Jun Dream Machine Welcome 8:00-3:00 Machine Presentation Planes and 19-Jul 25 STEM Teachers Pilots TBA Diane

14-Jul FAA Safety Seminar ADSB 11:00 John Sibole

7-Aug National Night Out Bloomsburg Police Dept. 6:00 - 8:00 Bloom PD Ice Cream Social Bloom 11-Aug Movie Night Community Welcome 4:00 -8:30 Flyers Scouts Earn Merit Badges- 15-Sept. Community Days Community Welcome 8:00 - 4:00 Boy Scouts

13-Oct FAA Safety Seminar Surviving Winter Flying 11:00 John Sibole

FAA Safety Seminars - Earn Wings Credits / Please Register via faasafety.gov / Seminars are advertised 2 to three weeks prior to the seminar.

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Recently Completed Events: 7 April –Girl Scouts International STEM program Sponsored by: Bloomsburg University and Dr. Kim Bolig

(L) BJ greets Corporate Pilot, Jessica Robinson.

(Above) John W. Sibole, Jr. arrives for seminar.

Purpose: Review the Scientic Method and apply it to:

Is there a relationship between the vestibular system and the visual system? Using the scientific method along with the Barany Chair, and Ms. BJ Teichman as the subject, Mr. John W. Sibole, Jr. Program Manager FSDO office Harrisburg, demonstrated the effects of spatial disorientation.

(L) BJ is spun in the Barany Chair. Once vertigo was induced the mask is lifted and the students could observe the Nystagmus in Bj’s eyes caused by the disruption of the vestibular system. There were many “ahhh’s” in the crowd. 7 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018

(L) Jessica Robinson, accomplished Corporate Pilot, A & P Mechanic, Certificed Flight Instructor, wife, and mother shared her aviation journey with the young women who attended the GI -STEM program sponsored by Bloomsburg University and Dr. Kim Bolig. Her journey is an inspiration to young women who may not have known the many options for women in aviation. Jessica, we thank you for sharing your story. Your enthusasim is contagious 

(L) Jessica with her husband and two young daughters.

Flying the Friendly Skies

A Whole Family of

Aviators!

(L) Jessica flying the Robinson R44 helicopter with her father, Jim.

“My parents always encouraged me” Jessica commented. My father used to always take me to air shows.

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Above (L) jet cockpit to which Jessica fondly refers to as “my office.”

Featured on right and below some of Jessica’s many friends. Women in a variety of aviation careers. No pun intended, the sky is the limit. Let your dreams take flight! Or, teach people to fly, or fix planes, or serve your country. Endless opportunities!

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Above, right, and below Jessica gives the girls’ a tour of the Robinson 44. All enjoyed watching her take off – chauffering Mr. Sibole and her father back to Keller Bros.

Again, Mr. Keller, Jessica, and John, and Jim we thank you!

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Recently Completed Events: 11 April –Professor H. Paul Schuch: For more information: www.drone-training.org

Sincerest thanks to Paul for spending the evening wiith us! Your seminar was very informative and fostered many questions. We had a full house!

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Recently Completed Events: 18 April Business After Hours- The Bloomsburg Municipal Airport hosted its first ever Business After Hours. We thank the Chamber, specifically Fred Gaffney, Chamber President, and Matthew Beltz for giving us this opportunity to invite local Chamber members to the new Airport Terminal Building. It was a lovely evening, of good food, networking, and education.

Above: (L to Rt) Bill Kreisher, Town Council, Lauren Martz, Town Mgr., Dan Knorr, Bloomsburg Univ. Above: Fred Gaffney, Pres. Columbia Montour Chamber///// Dir. Of External and Gov. Relations

12 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018 Be our guest, be our guest……

13 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018 Below Left, the Gyro-Copter was on display, along with the Bloomsburg Flying Club’s 819CF – Skyhawk. Ron, thank you for giving people tours of the gyro copter. Dave T. and Certified Flight Instructor Phil, both flying club members, thank you for giving tours of the Skyhawk!

Above (L) – Linda CMVB – (Rt) - BJ –ready for slides?

(Rt) – Dave T. Bloomsburg Flying Club member.

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Above (L) Spencer, Pine Barn Inn. (Rt) BJ - networking

Left - Bloomsburg Flying Club’s Skyhawk:

And a good time was had by all!

Thanks everyone who spent time with us learning about Bloomsburg Municipal Airport through Business After Hours!

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Above, Ground School Graduate Bob, and his lovely wife Jenn. Jenn’s first ever flight!

Please don’t forget our Conference Room is available for Rent - $100.00 / day or $50.00 for ½ day. 16 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018 "Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description." Barry Goldwater What’s better than Movies about Airplanes?

Submitted by Dave Ruckle

Love stories and musicals are OK for most movie goers, but pilots like action packed thrillers with airplanes. Can you even think of a musical with an airplane featured in it? I can’t! Oh yeah, there are several movies you’d call love stories that have airplanes in them, but I find it hard to follow the storyline while watching the aeronautical scenes. Besides, in real life, all pilots have their own love stories and, as you might have guessed, it’s all about the airplanes they fly.

Over the years there have been countless movies dedicated to the subject of flying, from which we all have our favorites and will watch over and over again. But we’re always looking for movies we’ve never seen before and when we find one it’s like discovering a $20 bill we stashed away for a rainy day and forgot about. You know a pleasant surprise.

So, this month’s newsletter feature is focused on aviation cinema. Maybe some of these films will be new to you, but most should be familiar. But just how familiar are you with the ones you have seen?

So, here’s the test.

Match the movie and the clues to the actors and actresses that starred in the film. Give yourself an extra point if you know what year the movie was made. To make it even more challenging, , “The Duke” played in quite a few aviation movies. You’ll notice several of them are used in this little quiz. Can you tell them apart?

Let’s see just how much you really know about aviation movies!!!

1. Strategic Air Command: A story about a big-league baseball player and his wife who gives up a successful and glamorous sports career to be a B-52 bomber pilot during the cold war.

2. Wings: Two men fall in love with the same woman and their rivalry grows into a wary friendship once they become fighter pilots in

3. Wing and a Prayer: A World War II story about a pilot onboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific in the days following Pearl Harbor and those leading up to the battle of Midway.

4. Air America: Two flyboys transport cargo – everything from food to animals to contraband for a clandestine CIA operation set up to help finance the Vietnam War.

5. Firefox: The Russians have developed a superior military aircraft equipped with thought- controlled weaponry and we want it. An American veteran fighter pilot that flew in Vietnam is assigned the mission to steal it. 17 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018 6. Bat 21: An Air Force general who knows his way around numerous famous golf courses but has no combat experience is the sole survivor of a plane crash behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War and used that knowledge to escape capture.

7. Flight of the Phoenix (the original): In the original movie a plane crash strands its crew and passengers in the Sahara Desert. Their only hope of survival is to reconstruct another plane from the wreckage and fly it out.

Flight of the Phoenix (the remake): The remake basically has the same storyline except the action is depicted in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.

8. : A cocky bush pilot loves stealing both jobs and women from his fellow flyers. His reckless ways come back to haunt him after joining the Canadian Air Force when World War II breaks out.

9. Island in the Sky: A story of survival after a former army pilot and his crew, flying a transport mission, is forced to crash land his fuel starved plane on a frozen lake in sub-arctic Canada and the heroic efforts of his fellow pilot friends trying to find them.

10. Flying Leathernecks: Fighting the Japanese in the skies over the South Pacific, a Marine Corp. fighter pilot commander believes the best way to motivate and lead his squadron is if the men hate him.

11. Jet Pilot: During the height of the cold war, a U.S. Air Force aviator is assigned the duty of escorting a Soviet pilot claiming she wants to defect.

12. Flying Tigers: A band of American aviator mercenaries who fought the Japanese in defense of China’s freedom.

13. Pancho Barnes: A true story about a renowned lady stunt pilot that forms the Stunt Pilots Association and competes in women’s cross-country derbies alongside other famous female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markum.

14. The Dawn Patrol: A thrilling aerial action film about World War I flyboys with a devil-may-care gallantry who soon learn the realities of war.

15. The Blue Max: The story of a World War I Germany pilot’s obsession to win the coveted air medal the Blue Max.

16. The Great Waldo Pepper: A nostalgic tale about in the 1920’s.

17. Flyboys: The legendary Lafayette Escadrille comes to life in this aerial action-packed movie, making you feel like you are strapped in the open cockpits too.

18. Always: A heartwarming story about a pilot with two loves; daredevil firefighting with an airplane and a woman who knows he can’t keep taking the risk he graves.

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19. The High and the Mighty: Nominated for six Academy Awards, this movie is filled with thrilling airborne adventure. Once past the “point of no return” the leaves viewers clinging to the arm of their chairs like a panicked pilot grasping the yoke of his plane.

20. Memphis Belle: Who hasn’t heard of the Memphis Belle, one of the most famous bombers and crews of World War II. From the pilot’s seat to the tail gunner, you feel the emotions and action every crew member experienced in battle. A documentary by the same title was also released in 2002.

A John Wayne and Robert Ryan

B George Peppard and Ursula Andress

C and Robert Downey Jr.

D Richard Dreyfus and Holly Hunter

E Clara Bow and Charles “Buddy” Rogers

F Valerie Bertinelli and Sam Robards

G and June Allison

H and Martin Henderson

I John Wayne and Claire Trevor

J and Danny Glover

K and Susan Sarandon

L James Stewart and Richard Attenborough

M James Cagney and

N John Wayne and John Carroll

O and Freddie Jones

P Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz

Q John Wayne and Janet Leigh

R and Basil Rathbone

S John Wayne and Lloyd Nolan

T Dennis Quaid and Tyrese Gibson

U and

The answers are on page 19.

19 Bloomsburg Municipal Airport NEWSLETTER May 2018 The answers to Aviation Movies are:

1- G (1955) 2 -E (1927) 3- U (1944) 4- C (1990) 5- O (1982) 6- J (1988) 7- L (1965) 7- T (2004) 8- M (1942) 9- S (1953) 10-A (1951) 11-Q (1957) 12-N (1942) 13-F (1988) 14-R (1938) 15-B (1966) 16-K (1975) 17-H (2006) 18-D (1989) 19-I (1954) 20-P (1990)

Did any of these titles spark your interest? Hope you found some $20 bills!!!