AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2013 - 44

BRIEFING

EVENTS

Free flights for women and girls
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week 2013 to focus on aerospace
B Y J I L L W. TA L L M A N TEST PILOT ANSWERS
TEST PILOT from page 42

MARCH 4 THROUGH 10, 2013, is the date of the upcoming Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, and organizers say this year’s event will focus on opportunities for women in the aerospace industry. The theme ties in with the fiftieth anniversary of the first female flight in space, conducted by Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova on June 16, 1963. Free flights for women and girls, static displays at airports, and special guests are planned at numerous locations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. “No country harbors as many female astronauts as the United States does,” the nonprofit Institute for Women of Aviation Worldwide said on its website. “The goal is to welcome a female astronaut at each major U.S. event because… most astronauts are first, pilots. What could be a more exciting inspiration for a young woman to earn a pilot license?” Victoria Neuville, team leader for U.S. events, said her goal is to have at least one event—called Fly It Forward—in each of the 50 states. Neuville organized Fly It Forward events at Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Maryland—AOPA’s home airport—in 2011 and 2012. Frederick Municipal earned the title of Most Female-Friendly Airport in 2011, when 185 girls and women took rides in general aviation aircraft. She’ll also helm the 2013 Fly It Forward at Frederick Municipal, and said it will be a weeklong event rather than one day.

PILOTS IN THE United States,

Canada, and Europe will once again introduce girls and women to aviation during Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, March 4 through 10.

Fourteen states thus far have scheduled Fly It Forward events for 2013. Once again, there will be worldwide competitions for airports that introduce the greatest number of women and girls to aviation. The flight school that introduces the greatest number of women during that week will be named “most female-pilot-friendly training center worldwide,” and a prize also be awarded to the “most supportive male pilot worldwide”—the one who takes the greatest number of girls and women flying during that week. Neuville urged interested pilots or aviation groups that would like to sponsor an event to register at the website. “If each event introduces just 100 girls and women to aviation, and just 2 percent of those women are motivated to become private pilots that could equate to a 10-percent increase in the annual number of new women private pilots,” Neuville said.
EMAIL jill.tallman@aopa.org

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WEB

See additional information and eligibility requirements on the website (www.womenofaviationweek.org).

1. L o g a n a i r ’ s t w o - m i n ute, 1.5-nm flight between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray, two of the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland. View the entire flight online (www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OqBQRsv9ePM). 2. (a) Controllers observing the transponder code will not know or care that the pilot is operating IFR in uncontrolled airspace. 3. Will Rogers, an American cowboy, humorist, social commentator, and motion-picture actor, was one of the world’s most famous celebrities of the 1920s and 1930s. Also an aviation advocate, he was killed in the crash of an airplane piloted by famed pilot Wiley Post. 4. Spoilers are deployable surfaces designed primarily to spoil or kill lift (although they usually create some drag in the process). Speed brakes are surfaces designed primarily to produce drag. 5. True. Using its own crews, Braniff International Airways operated the Concorde subsonically between Dallas/Fort Worth and Washington, D.C., in 1979 and 1980, but it was a financial disaster. Air France and British Airways operated the remainder of the flights to Paris and London at more than Mach 2.0. 6. Jogging tends to lower blood pressure, which can reduce high-G tolerance. 7. Scott needed the carrier turned to improve backlighting, but the captain advised that such maneuvering would cost the Navy $25,000. The rest is history, and the resultant footage was used during the film’s stunning opening scene. 8. (a) Also, low-pressure (or cyclonic) areas typically travel across the United States at about 500 or more statute miles per day.

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