Mon, May 10, 2004
MacReady, Kings, X-Prize Founders Visit HQ
John and Martha King from the King
Schools; Paul MacCready, the father of human-powered flight; and X
Prize Foundation representatives Erik Lindbergh and David Knight
visited EAA's Oshkosh headquarters on Wednesday, May 5. The group
of aviation notables had been attending a meeting of the Lindbergh
Foundation Board this past weekend where John and Martha were
installed as newly appointed members.
The Kings met with EAA Executive Vice President Bob Warner to
discuss progress of their recently announced King/EAA sport pilot
training program. The two organizations are working together to
produce four new, comprehensive training courses for flight
students and instructors that will be released shortly after the
final sport pilot rule is published.
MacCready is one of aviation history's most highly regarded
figures. He designed the first successful human-powered aircraft,
the Gossamer Condor, which is housed in the Smithsonian National
Air and Space Museum, as well as the Gossamer Albatross, the first
human-powered vehicle to fly across the English Channel. MacCready
toured the EAA AirVenture Museum with Director Adam Smith, focusing
on the new KidVenture Gallery set to open on May 15. The new
Gallery features an interactive exhibit on human-powered flight,
and MacCready tried out the pedal-powered thrust display.
X Prize Foundation Vice President and Trustee Erik Lindbergh and
Vice President David Knight also accompanied the Kings. The X Prize
Foundation, which offers the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the
first private organization to produce an aircraft that can achieve
feasible, repeatable suborbital space flight by January 1, 2005,
will be a major participant at the upcoming EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
An evening presentation about the program is scheduled for
Saturday, July 31, at Theater in the Woods.
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