Lift - Spring 2013 - (Page 4)
COMMENTS AND OPINIONS
FROM EMBRY-RIDDLE
ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
FEEDBACK
F RO M T H E E D I T O R
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ou spoke and we listened! Thanks to the comments and suggestions from an alumni focus group and a 2012 readership survey
sent to 6,300 subscribers, the Lift magazine you’re reading represents an exciting new direction for our flagship publication. With
eight additional pages and several new departments, the new
Lift is designed to accent your pride in being “Forever an Eagle. It also
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includes an opportunity to share your feedback (this page)—which we
terminal. I have a special place in my heart
for those fields, and the memory is usually
triggered after wolfing down a bowl of chili.
Somehow heartburn stimulates the same
part of my gray matter that recollects fire
ant bites.
Here’s wishing the ERAU Eagles a successful 2013 season. Make us proud, and
beware of the fire ants.
Mark L. Berry (‘85, DB)
B.S. Aeronautical Science
hope you will do often. In fact, why not help kick off the department by
letting us know what you think of the new design?
We hope the new Lift gives you a greater sense of pride in your
alma mater and strengthens your
connection with the university
and the global Eagle Network.
Let us know how we’re doing:
email liftmag@erau.edu.
— SARA WITHROW, EDITOR
Adriano Ponso with
Brazilian President Get
ulio Vargas,
Brazilian Air Minister
J.P Salgado Filho and
.
John Paul Riddle.
It’s a small Embry-Riddle world
I am from Brazil, so “Wings of Legacy: The
Brazil Connection” [fall 2012] caught my
eye. I would be curious to know if Adriano
Ponso came up while you were digging into
the history of the school in Brazil. He was
my great-uncle and was good friends with
John Paul Riddle in the 1940s. My father
had a picture of the two of them with the
president of Brazil, while they were putting
the school together. My dad said he gave
the pictures to Embry-Riddle back in 1998.
It is because of my uncle that I ended up
at ERAU.
Mikhael Ponso (‘03, ‘12, DB)
B.S. Aeronautical Science; M.S. Aeronautics
EDITOR’S NOTE: Several photos of Adriano
Ponso are displayed in Embry-Riddle’s
online archive. The one you refer to is
pictured here. For more:
www.eraualumni.org/archives.
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Ode to Eagle Baseball
Twenty-five years of Embry Riddle
athletics—wow! Back in my day (1983–
1985), prior to ERAU’s inclusion as an NAIA
member, the baseball team was technically
a student club. We bought our uniforms and
provided our own transportation to our few
self-scheduled road games. We enjoyed
such lavish club benefits as 30 free photocopies per month, and we were allowed
to hoist a giant paper banner inside the
University Center any week we had a home
game. Once, we pushed the envelope a bit,
painting a jockstrap on our banner with the
slogan: We Need Supporters. Our humorous attempt to attract a larger audience
earned us a stern verbal warning, and our
meager privileges were put on probation.
Back in the mid-80s, we practiced and
played many of our games on sandlot
ball fields near Runway 16 by the airport
First or second largest drone
I’m not sure that the crash landing of a
727-212 aircraft [“Flight Path: PicturePerfect Crash, fall 2012] can be
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described as the world’s largest successful drone flight. In
December 1984 NASA and the
FAA conducted a controlled crash
of a 720 aircraft (weight at crash
approximately 200,000 pounds).
It was remotely controlled from
take-off through crash, whereas it
appears that the 727-212 was manually flown for much of its flight.
The program is documented in FAA
report DOT/FAA/CT-87/10 9 available
online at ntrs.nasa.gov.
I do not know the weight of the
727-212 aircraft at impact, but I suspect it is probably less than that of the FAA
720 aircraft.
Ian Whalley (‘03, WW)
M.S. Aeronautical Science
TA L K T O U S
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Lift - Spring 2013
Lift - Spring 2013
Contents
Chatter
Feedback
A Soulful Presence
Riddle Field
Higher Learning
Alumni Weekend/ OctoberWest
Navigating Home
Riding on Real Estate
Doctors’ Remedy
Helping Eagles Fly
Alumni News
Class Notes
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