AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 27)

that day the President became "AOPA 169957" "It is my most pleasant privilege to enclose your credentials and inahnia afflnmQg your registration as a fully qualified member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association," Hartranft's letter accompanying the credentials said. 'y soloing an aircraft on May B 19, 1987, at Zablan Field, Philippines, and by your subsequent flight activities, you have earned the right, along with 70,000 member pilots, to wear the AOPA wings," the letter added. "After extensive research we find that you are the first President of the United States to meet AOPA'a requirementa for membership. "May I extend on behalf of the AOPA staff and our pilot membership the warmest personal greetings and congratulations and our best w s e for many happy hours of flyihs ing in the future," Hartranft ooni his we of lightplanea. The Aero Cm~tia¥nde maintained at Wasbinffton National Airport for his use has become one of his favorite modes of transportation for short trips. HeUcopters also have attracted his attention Last summer, M . Elsenhower r flew from the White House to an unannounced destination during an "Operation Alert" maneuver in a helicopter. AOPA became acquainted with hia flying ability last August when he took over the controls of the Aero Cornme.* duringa flight to w e burg, Pa. "When the plane landed at Gettysburg, Col. William G. Draper, the President's pilot and Ar Force aide, i told newsmen that Mr. Elsenhower "does a real flying job." The President's name was entered on the AOPA membership rolls after his eligibility had been confirmed. Mr. Eisenhower went to Manila in the Philippines in September, 1986. eluded. One of his biographers, Kenneth S. AOPA's decision to invite Mr. Davis, wrote in "Soldier of DeraocEisenhower into the organization racy" i 1952 that M . Eisenhower n r was baaed not only on the fact that had always wanted to learn to fly and he was a bona Me pilot, bat also be- that once initiated, he flew almost cause of the encouragement he has daily at Zablac Field, near Manila, Two young Army Air Force Ueagiven general civil aviation through tenants, William L Lee and Eugh Ai . Parker, were his instructors. (Lee la now a brigadier general in the U 8. Air force and com. mander of the AmariUo Air Force Base, Amarillo, Tex. Parker is a major general and is stationed a t Hamilton Air Force Baae, Calif. H e i commander of the Western Des fenae Force and of the Western Continental Air Defense Region, Can¥(.menta Defense Force.) Air As with most fledgling pilots, Mr. Eisenhower's golo flight came unexpededly. On that day in May of 1887 he and Lieutenant Lee walked out to {he Steal-man PT-15 they hod been flying duaL Lee pointed a thumb at the plane. "Get going," he told hia Mr.Eisenhower is reported to have taben the biplane with a sandbag strapped in the back seat for ballast. The sandbag came loose during the flight and jammed down against the stick. Prying back the stick with all of his might, the student was barely able to keep control. H e inanaged to get the plane down, however. The landing was steep and rough but neither the pilot nor the plane were worse for it. Mr. Elsenhower went (Continued OH pupil. page i f ) Presidential Assistant Quesada receives u a tas d ni l far Mr. Eisinhowtr from AOPA President Hartranff A*# photo Lift. ..the Presldaiit writes a letter

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958
Contents
Calendar
Legally Speaking
Editorial
What About Airspace Use, Mr. Pyle?
10,000 Seconds Under the Hood
Flying Weather One Month Ahead
AOPA Weathercast
AOPA 185579
Air-Age Teenagers Give City a Lift
Your Radio and You
Operation Cost Cut
Put Your Fabric to the Test
Are You "Compasss Punchy?
Yankee Duster in Latin America
South American Challenge
I Lived Through a Graveyard Spiral
Safety Corner and Accident Report
On the Airways
Travel
What's New?
Classified Department

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

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