Profiles

AVweb spoke with EAA president Tom Poberezny a week before AirVentureOshkosh 1998: AVweb: So, AirVenture Oshkosh is nigh upon us. Poberezny: Yes, actually we feel that is has started already withthe people already arriving AVweb: How crowded is it this early out? Poberezny: Usually the 4th of July is kind of the kick off. Earlyarrivals […]

Jon Jordan has overseen major changes in medical certification which went into effectin September, 1996. He also appointed the first new Director of the Civil Aviation MedicalInstitute (CAMI) in over two decades, Dr. Warren Silberman. I had the opportunity tointerview Dr. Jordan at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Dr. Jordan, EAA’s Aeromedical Council holds a forum at […]

It’s like the tattooed biker my Mom always warnedme to avoid. “It’s for your own good,” she would say. “Something like that will only bring you grief.” MaybeDelmar Benjamin’s mother never told him to stay away from thingsthat would hurt him. Or, maybe she did and he just wasn’t listening. Benjamin is a lanky blond […]

One of the exciting things about the EAAAirVenture Oshkosh is meeting some of the old timers of experimental aviation such as KenFlaglor. Flaglor, now 72, holds “court” at the communications building atWittman Regional Airport during the flying and has done so at all the EAA conventionsexcept two, the very first and the convention in Milwaukee […]

As much as we might like to carp about the occasional circuitousrouting or ground delay, this much is certain: The U.S. air trafficsystem is arguably the best in the world. What’s less certainis how it got that way. How did we advance from the tenuous airmailroutes of the early 1930s to the sophisticated IFR system […]

Anthony J. Broderick was named Associate Administrator forRegulation and Certification of the Federal Aviation Administration in July1988, after 17 years of government service. As head of the agency’s Regulation and Certification complex, he is principally responsible for: certification, production approval, and continued airworthiness of aircraft; certification of pilots, mechanics, and others in safety-related positions; certification […]