Al and Tim Adelman, father and son owners of Chesapeake Sport Pilot, decided to give up careers as attorneys to work in a field fueled by their passion for aviation. Their Stevensville, MD flight school opened its doors in February of 2007 with one light sport aircraft. Al and Tim shared their experiences in building the flight school this week at AirVenture.
Tim Adelman first flew at the age of 16, and while completing his college degree and MBA, he offered his CFI services on the side. He realized the potential for an LSA flight school while working on a program for the Department of Justice which uses LSA aircraft for law enforcement. The Sky Arrow was the first aircraft Tim and his father purchased, and its tandem seating and great visibility generated a lot of interest at the local field.
Performing a market analysis was an important part of Chesapeake Sport Pilot's startup, and Tim says he went to many airports to simply talk to pilots and potential students about their interest in the sport aircraft segment. The Adelmans also studied the aircraft and products available in the LSA marketplace, and spent a lot of time working on a financial structure that would make the school viable. When the flight school opened, Chesapeake Sport Pilot actually had ten students lined up without paying a dollar for advertising.
As attorneys and experienced businessmen, the Adelmans saw the school's business plan as the most important foundation to build from. "It's hard to insure new LSA schools." Tim says. Having a detailed business plan allowed them to legitimize their operation to the insurance company as well as sell their operation to the airport. Despite having two fixed wing schools already on the premises, Chesapeake Sport Pilot's mission filled a niche that would differentiate them from the other schools.
Tim and Al Adelman decided to become a Part 61 school, because as Tim says the process to form a 141 school "is fairly cumbersome." Chesapeake Sport Pilot chose not to go the lease-back route for their aircraft, as LSA aircraft owners are tough to find. Becoming appointed as an aircraft dealer for LSA manufacturers was another rocky process, as the Adelmans found that some European manufacturers expected the flight school to share some of the aircraft warranty expenses. After much thought and research, the company decided to start with a Sky Arrow, mostly because of Tim's experience with the aircraft.
A black man that’s falls in love with planes and would never give on his dream to become a pilots from everyone and everything that got in his way didn’t stop him that’s what I really love about him and glad to tell the story of the furthermost man ever to change history for black people who has a dream to fly and this is the story of Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Was born in Washington D.C on December 18, 1921 and he was the second of three children. The parents of Benjamin O. Davis were Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Elnora Dickerson Davis, but if you didn’t know about his father was a U.S. Army Davis was in the army for 41 years before he got promoted to a brigadier general in the fall of October 1940. At the age of 13 of Benjamin O Davis Jr life on the summer of 1926, Davis went for a flight with a barnstorming pilot, however if you don’t know what a barnstorming pilot was they were a group of pilots that did tricks in the USA in the 1920, that stunt pilots would execute trick with airplane for entertainment. The experience led to his willpower to turn out to be a pilot himself. He was the prime officer to get his wings since the Tuskegee Army Air Field on March 7, 1942. (http://www.aldine.k12.tx.us)
Nancy Harkness Love was one of the most influential women in aviation history. Born in 1914, the Houghton, Michigan native was the daughter of Dr. Robert and Alice Harkness. She studied at Milton Academy and Vassar, and had had her pilot’s license since the age of sixteen, while in high school. When at Milton Academy, a school that was strict about driving policies but did not have any rules against flying, she flew through a boy’s school’s campus as a prank, and got into trouble for it. When she left college, she took jobs in Beechcraft and Waco selling aircrafts before working for Inter-City Air Lines, owned and run by a young Princeton and MIT alumnus named Robert Love, whom she later married.
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Before the war, African-American pilots weren't able to fly in battle due to segregation, even though blacks have been flying for a while beforehand, including pilots such as Bessie Coleman, Charles Alfred Anderson, and more, who'd fought oppression to become pilots (George 5). Army officials thought blacks couldn't fight, aren't as smart as whites, and weren't worthy enough of operating machines as complicated as airplanes. There was hope for African Americans who wanted to fly in the 1930s, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began to build up the U.S. armed forces, thinking of military-related ideas such as teaching civilians to fly, passing the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) in April 1939, which would provide training for 20,000 college students yearly as private pilots, and soon allowed the Secretary of War to lend equipment to schools for African-American pilot training (George 6). While this program was being developed, Edgar G. Brown, an African-American spokesman for government employees, arranged an unusual flight. Two black pilots from the National Airmen's Association, Dale White and Chauncey Spencer, would fly from Chicago, IL to Washington, D.C. in a run-down biplane. They met with Missouri senator and future president Harry S. Truman on May 9, 1939. Aviation was fairly new and a feat like this was impressive, and thus, it had impressed the president. Harry S. Truman was going to help them, and with the ...
Colin Powell once observed that “a dream doesn’t become reality through magic, it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” This principle is mirrored dramatically in the story of African Americans in aerospace history. The invention of the airplane in the first decade of the twentieth century sparked a revolution in modern technology. This new realm of powered flight rapidly altered modes of travel and recast the conduct of warfare. Aviation in the popular mind became associated with adventure and heroism. For African Americans, however, this exciting new realm of flying remained off-limits from the consequence of racial discrimination. Many African Americans displayed a keen interest in the new air age, but found themselves routinely barred from getting training as pilots or mechanics. This pattern of racial bias became enshrined in the elite Army Air Corps with blacks being denied on racial grounds. Beginning in the 1920s, a small and widely scattered group of black air enthusiasts challenged this prevailing pattern of racial discrimination. With no small amount of effort and against formidable odds, they gained their pilots licenses and acquired the technical skills to become aircraft mechanics. Their dreams became a concrete reality through Powell’s formula of “sweat, determination, and hard work.” However, there is an astronomical agreement that the U.S. military is still facing deficiency in the cockpits for black pilots. It’s not just creating the diversity of pilots in the military, but also seeing the contribution black pilots have made and still can make to their nation.
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While the brothers were discovering and how to make a plane glide and ultimately how to make it fly, they kept returning to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to test their ideas once the constructed them in the back of their bicycle shop. Over the course of four years the encountered “violent storms, accidents, disappointment, public indifference, and clouds of mosquitoes” and many other setbacks that would have shoken other inquiring pioneers (McCullough 106). Nevertheless, the challenges both nature and man-made never stood a chance to the Wright Brother’s endurant nature. Their determination and ability to discover the problem and attend to it quickly were some of the reasons they got farther than other
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Wiley Post was young when he decided that he wanted to be a pilot. A job that he acquired during his life was a skydiver and he did many solo jumps but he knew it was not for him. Later he become a pilot for the same company but was injured on a job. That injury cost him his right eye. The horrible incident may have cost him his eye, but he used the money from the accident to buy an airplane.
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