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PILOT BRIEFING
2018 SWIFT FLY-IN HIGHLIGHTS 50 YEARS
A DIAMOND FORMATION of Globe and
Temco Swifts-the two-place speedster
that even looks fast sitting still-dropped
low for a smoke-filled formation flight
to help celebrate the aircraft's heritage during the 2018 Swift National
fly-in at McMinn County Airport in
Athens, Tennessee.
AOPA President Mark Baker was along
for the ride in Paul Mercandetti's polished
GC-1B, a shining example of the retractable gear taildraggers manufactured from
the 1940s to '50s and supported by the
Swift Museum Foundation. Baker dropped
in to help highlight 50 years of the foundation, the debt-free nonprofit that supports
Swift aircraft owners with parts and technical help, formation flying clinics, a retail
store, a museum of rare Swifts, and more.
Foundation president Jim "Frog"
Jones, a Swift aircraft owner for more
than 40 years, said taking Baker up in
the aircraft was a highlight for many of
the 43 Swift aircraft pilots who flew in
to celebrate the model's heritage during

a four-day extravaganza at the museum's
home airport. Jones said that formation
flights, completion of the third and final
phase of the museum, a raffle drawing with
the winner in attendance, "and of course
the fellowship with other Swift owners"
resonated with fellow "Swifters" during
the type club's 2018 Swift National fly-in.
Pilots of the classic 70-year-old airframes are supported by the foundation
that owns the type certificate, engineering data, tooling, and an inventory of
parts to keep them airborne. Swift pilots
established the main hangar and display museum, and the latest addition
includes a classroom to facilitate formation ground schools and other clinics.
They created a formation instruction regimen in 1999 based on the Formation and
Safety Training warbird training program.
Groups of Swifts can be spotted performing precision air work at airshows around
the United States and overseas.
"It's truly a magic carpet," said
Jones.
-David Tulis

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1. True. A German steward, Heinrich
Kubis, worked aboard the LZ 10 Zeppelin Schwaben in 1912. He also was
aboard the Hindenburg and survived
by jumping out of a window. Cabin
boys were used aboard some airlines
in the 1920s. Ellen Church was the
first female flight attendant, a "skygirl," in May 1930, and the pilot of her
first flight is said to have been Elrey
Jeppesen.

5. Mature thunderstorms routinely
reach 40,000 to 60,000 feet, but it
is not unheard of for them to grow as
high as 75,000 feet in the tropics.

2. A. There are orographic, frontal, and
air mass thunderstorms, but there is
no such thing as an adiabatic thunderstorm.

7. True. Some turbofan engines
produce more than 100,000 pounds
of thrust. The Mercury-Redstone 3
rocket that propelled America's first
manned space flight produced only
78,000 pounds of thrust. (One large
turbofan engine produces more thrust
than all eight engines of a B-52B, C,
D, or E.)

3. A revision to the Boeing 707's minimum equipment list stated that: "The
Boeing 707 may be dispatched with no
more than 25 feet missing from either
wing."
4. Such interference does occur but is
insignificant when the vertical distance
between the two wings (gap) is greater
than the longest chord of either wing.

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6. The airplane climbing within the low
has the best climb performance. This
is because air within a low rises and air
within a high subsides. An airplane obviously climbs better in rising air than it
does in subsiding (or sinking) air.

8. During the airline's infancy, it operated mostly in the northern United
States. The tails were painted red to
enhance locating a downed aircraft in
the snow.
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