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CP Aviation is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Emergency Maneuver Training Scholarship given each year in memory of Vicki Cruse.  Congratulations go to Jason Navarro of Waukesha, WI.  Jason is a fairly new pilot and wants to continue to challenging his skills and become a safer pilot.  He also said in his essay that his reasons are selfish and that he would be remiss if he didn’t mention the element of wanting to experience aerobatics.  We look forward to meeting Jason and introducing him to unusual attitudes and basic aerobatics.

The Kathy Jaffe Challenge has run since 1999 at various places in IAC Chapter 52 territory-- first at Monticello, New York in the Catskill Mountains,  then for many years at the Flying-W in Lumberton, New Jersey; one year at Hammonton in southern New Jersey; lately at South Jersey Regional, also in Lumberton, New Jersey.

Read something about the 2014, fifteenth annual Kathy Jaffe Challenge

For those of you who missed Beaver State this year, we missed you. As usual, the contest was lots of fun with a wide and diverse group of competitors. Our normal cast of characters and some new faces from the local area as well as some old and new faces who traveled to come all combined to make it a great contest.

Starting out in the Sportsman Category, Sean Van Hatten came with his A game in Jim Bourke’s Extreme Decathlon. Beth Stanton came up from Chapter 38 in Northern California. Beth is the President of Chapter 38 and was flying Dave Watson’s Super D. Steven Bennett placed 3rd…

Kokomo, Indiana is between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne; between Chicago, Illinois and Columbus, Ohio; South of Lake Michigan and the Michigan Mitten.  Mid-America IAC Chapter 124 held their contest, the Hoosier Hoedown in Kokomo earlier this month.

To read all about it, see the Hoosier Hoedown Report

You may now propose a rule change online! The deadline is Sept. 1.

If you were at IAC Aerobatics Canada Chapter 3's Upper Canada Open at Tillsonburg, Ontario earlier this month, you saw a Harvard fly Primary, a Bucker win Sportsman, a Javelin fly Intermediate, and a One Design in Advanced. You also saw lots of Pitts Specials, an Extra, a Staudacher, and Citabria.

Read Larry Ernewein's article about the Upper Canada Open