In the Loop - March 2022 Featured Photo

Looking back with the IAC

By Moises "Cuso" Ortiz, IAC 9127 EAA 202174
 
My name is Moises Cuso Ortiz, but in the aviation community everyone knows me as Cuso. I have been a member of EAA and the IAC since 1982. I had liked aerobatics since I saw Jim Holland flying an airshow in Puerto Rico in 1969 using a Champion Citabria 7KCAB. When he took off and half rolled it in front of us and flew inverted I said "I want to do that someday".  That airshow took place on August 30, 1969.
 
 
The first time I met Tom Poberezney and his family was in 1986.
 
When I went to the 1986 IAC Competition in Fund Du Lac I had the chance to meet Harold Neumann, the famous air racing and aerobatic pilot. He flew in a Monocoupe that you can see in this picture. Very nice guy.
 
In 1987 I competed in Fond Du Lac in the Sportsman category using a 1966 Champion Citabria and won the Highest Scoring First Time Sportsman award. I was so happy.
 
I appeared with my Citabria on the front page of Sport Aerobatics magazine in the November 1994 issue.