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could see the Washington Monument in the distance. The wind singing in the biplane’s flying wires confirmed his airspeed: Fast. In a relative way, of course. “There was an airliner in front of us and one behind us, so I came screaming in, in a dive with the power on,” Quy said. The airspeed indicator read 140 mph. “It was about the fastest it’s ever been. “Coming into Dulles I thought, ‘I sure hope this landing is a good one.’ In the back of my mind I thought, ‘If the landing’s not good, do I go around and do it again?’” Although good landings are important to him, Quy’s not the kind of guy to obsess about each one. But this landing was different—it would be his last one in the Stearman he and Tina had bought more than six years earlier; they spent three years rebuilding it, and Quy had flown it for three years as a tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen.
A do-over wasn’t necessary. Several vehicles loaded with photographers met the blue-and-yellow biplane as it cleared the active, but they moved farther away as he taxied onto the ramp at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center. “I said to Tina, ‘Has it hit you that it’s the last moment the airplane will be flying—ever?’ It was kind of surreal,” Quy recalled. “I sat there with the engine idling. I just didn’t want to cut the mixture. I thought, one last time, I want to hear the engine run.” He pushed the throttle forward and ran the engine up to 1,400 rpm before pulling the mixture to idle cutoff. “That moment, as the prop stopped, the whole month-long journey [to the Smithsonian] passed through my mind, and I realized there was nothing else ahead of us. I just sat there in the airplane, and started to tear up a little bit.”
Discovering history They had bought the Stearman on eBay as a wreck. While they were rebuilding it, Quy—a captain in the U.S. Air Force— requested the airframe’s Army Air Corps history. “When I got the call from the historian at Maxwell Air Force Base, I knew we had something special.” The airplane’s first assignment was at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, as a primary trainer in 1944 and 1945. There, it was used to train black pilots in what was then called the Tuskegee Experiment, because military leaders at the time did not believe that blacks could learn to fly and fight. After the war it was released from military service and flew into the 1970s as a crop duster, then sat derelict until the 1990s when it was rebuilt. The Stearman was wrecked in late 2004, and the Quys bought it in 2005.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011
Contents
President’s Position
Hanger Talk
AOPA Media
AOPA Action
Letters
Waypoints
Proficient Pilot
License to Learn
Pilot Counsel
Fly Well
Pilot Briefing
Rally GA: The Green Flight Challenge
Power Scout
The LSA Starfighter
2012 Tougher Than a Tornado Sweepstakes: The Maine Event
A Window to the World
Honoring the Tuskegee Airmen
Safety Pilot Landmark Accident: Owatonna Overshoot
Challenges: River Dance
Lost Universe
Having a Blast
Avionics: Syn Vis for the iPad
Products: An Array of Apps
Dogfight: For the Holidays
Never Again
Fly-Outs
Fly by Wire
Pilots
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Contents
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 3
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - President’s Position
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 5
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Hanger Talk
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 7
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 8
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 9
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - AOPA Media
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 11
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - AOPA Action
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Letters
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Waypoints
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 25
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Proficient Pilot
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 27
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - License to Learn
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 29
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Pilot Counsel
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 31
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Fly Well
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 33
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Pilot Briefing
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 35
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 40a
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 40b
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Rally GA: The Green Flight Challenge
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 42
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 43
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Power Scout
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 45
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 51
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - The LSA Starfighter
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 53
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 55
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 56
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 2012 Tougher Than a Tornado Sweepstakes: The Maine Event
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 63
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 64
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 65
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - A Window to the World
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 67
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Honoring the Tuskegee Airmen
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 69
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 70
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 71
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 72
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 73
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Safety Pilot Landmark Accident: Owatonna Overshoot
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 75
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 76
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 77
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 78
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Challenges: River Dance
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 80
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 81
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 82
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 83
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Lost Universe
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 85
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 86
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 87
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 88
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Having a Blast
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 90
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 91
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 92
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Avionics: Syn Vis for the iPad
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 94
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - I1
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - I2
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Products: An Array of Apps
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 98
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 99
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Dogfight: For the Holidays
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 101
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Never Again
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 103
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 104
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 105
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Fly-Outs
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 107
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Fly by Wire
AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - 109
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2011 - Pilots
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