Deadline For Nominations Extended To July 31st

First, the bad news. The original deadline for the ICAS Foundation Hall of Fame nominations was June 1st. Yep you missed it! But the good news is that the ICAS Foundation has given you another chance. The new deadline for nominations is July 31st.

All the rules about how to make a nomination are available online, so think about that hero of yours who has helped the airshow industry. Now's your chance to recognize them.

The ICAS Foundation is a non-profit organization manned by volunteers, some of whom pay their own expenses to the annual ICAS convention just to help raise money for worthy causes. Those causes include helping the members of the airshow community who may need unexpected financial assistance due to an illness, accident, or other event. The Foundation also manages scholarships for young (and not-so-young) persons who are attempting to further their education in things aeronautical or aerobatical.

The Foundation also manages its Hall of Fame. If you've been to an ICAS convention, you've seen the Foundation induct airshow personalities into the Hall. Typically, up to three persons (or groups) are inducted, all based on nominations from members of the airshow community. You do not need to be an ICAS member to make a nomination. With the extension of the nomination process to the end of July, there is still time for you to consider nominating a person whom you deem worth of joining the ranks of previous winners.

Hall of Famers include:

• 2009: Charlie Culp, Tom Poberezny, Bobby Younkin
• 2008: Bessie Coleman, Paul Bowen, Bobby Bishop
• 2007: Danny Clisham, Jimmy Driskell, Jimmy Franklin, Sean D. Tucker
• 2006: Paul Mantz, Marion Cole, Eddie "The Grip" Green, Patty Wagstaff
• 2005: Bill Sweet, Bob Herendeen, Wayne Handley
• 2004: Lincoln Beachey, Harold Krier, Jim Holland, Bill Bordeleau, Johnny Kazian
• 2003: Jim Mynning, Betty Skelton Frankman
• 2002: Swede Ralston, Curtis Pitts, The Original Thunderbirds Team
• 2001: Clifford Henderson, Captain Roy M. "Butch" Voris, The Flying Aces Air Circus
• 2000: The French Connection (Daniel Heligoin and Montaine Mallet), The Beardsleys (Big B and Burner)
• 1999: Colonel Owen Bartley "OB" Philp
• 1998: Leo Loudenslager
• 1997: Bill Barber, Charlie Hillard, Paul Poberezny
• 1996: Duane Cole, Art Scholl, Beverly "Bevo" Howard
• 1995: Robert A. "Bob" Hoover

FMI: www.icasfoundations.org