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AKRON FLYER
April 2022

Notes from the 9G3 Coffee Table

Where the world’s problems are solved, but nothing else!                       


PLEASE NOTE THE HOURS OF OPERATION

April Hours:
Sunday: Closed
Monday - Friday: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday: 8:30am - 4:30pm, *Weather Dependant

Students will need their instructor to sign the aircraft out and bring the aircraft in and out of the hangar after hours.

*WEATHER DEPENDANT: As a reminder, the airport office may close early on Saturdays with Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC)/Marginal Visual Flight Rules (MVFR) or high wind conditions. Generally, the airport office is always open until at least 12:30 pm on Saturdays. We suggest calling our desk at (716) 542-4607, before making plans on marginal weather days.

NOTE: We will do our best to keep the runway and taxiways clear. If you are planning to fly and need the taxiway to your hangar cleared, please give us at least a 24-hours notice.
 
Last Year's Akron Jesson Field Memorial Day Fly-In Breakfast (2021)
600 Breakasts Served by Akron Newstead Rotary
28 Visiting Aircraft
AKRON JESSON FIELD MEMORIAL DAY FLY-IN BREAKFAST
Monday, May 30, 2022,  8 am to Noon
Breakfast is courtesy of the Akron-Newstead Rotary Club. and will feature all-you-can-eat Pancakes, Eggs, Sausage, Coffee and Juice. The event is Fly-In, Drive-In, or Walk-In, rain or shine, and the public is welcome. Akron Jesson Field (9G3) is located at the East end of John Street in Akron.

Proceeds will go to the Rotary with a donation to the Christian Airmen Education Foundation (CAEF), which provides scholarships to young people pursuing post-secondary education in pilot training, aviation technician programs, air traffic control or airport management. CAEF is looking for scholarship applicants.

Akron Jesson Field has been hosting the Memorial Day Fly-In Breakfast for the community since 1977, 45 YEARS! 
 
 

NOISE ABATEMENT
& No-Fly Zones
for Akron Jesson Field


We have received numerous complaints of pilots turning crosswind too early!

When departing Runway 25, fly STRAIGHT OUT. Do not veer off Heading 250 until you are past the village and have reached Pixley's Plaza (.74 NM).

Night GPS Approaches at 9G3
Night IFR approaches are NOT AUTHORIZED for the Akron Jesson Field GPS 7 and GPS 25 approaches due to the trees that penetrate our approach path for Runway 7/25.

Touch and go landings are not allowed on Runway 25.

NO-FLY ZONES

  • Akron Central School

  • Rattles to Reading Child Care
Discovery Flights in March included Perrin Huff and Andy Parkes who flew with instructor Allen Kidder, as well as George Albert who flew with Art Hansen.

April 13, 2022 EAA Chapter 46 Meeting Notice

The National Honor Flight Network is a volunteer organization that recognizes United States Veterans for their sacrifices and achievements by flying them to Washington DC, where they can visit memorials to their accomplishments and service - free of charge. This includes Veterans of World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War and terminally ill Veterans from all wars. 

The Buffalo Niagara Honor Flight Network is our local chapter of this outstanding organization, and Tom Petrie is President.  We’re honored to have Tom tell us about his organization, and how it does so much for the wonderful men and women who have done so much for the rest of us.  He will also show us how Veterans can apply to be included on any of these free trips.

Tom will tell us all about these flights at the EAA Chapter 46 meeting at Lancaster Airport, 4343 Walden Ave, Lancaster NY 14086 on Wednesday, April 13th at 7:00 PM.

The meeting is free and open to anyone with an interest in the subject.  Attendees are encouraged to bring Veterans they know who might like to be included on one of these Honor Flights, and to consider if they’d like to volunteer to help this most worthwhile organization.
Interesting Aircraft That Visited Akron Airport in March
March visitors included a Piper PA-12,  a Daimond DA-40, a PA-28-161 Warrior, a Bell JetRanger, and a US Army UH-60 "Blackhawk" helicopter.
US Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter on the parallel taxiway at Akron (Photo Credit Allison Frey)
Buffalo's Rich Aviation Heritage - Light Planes
Of the four major Aircraft manufacturers in Buffalo, Curtiss, Consolidated/Fleet, and Bell Aircraft, only Curtiss and Consolidated produced significant numbers of light aircraft and trainers. Curtiss moved from Hammondsport to Buffalo at the start of WW1 to take advantage of Buffalo's skilled workforce from its auto production. Curtiss started out building the WW1 JN-4D "Jenny" trainer in Buffalo, as well as twin engine flying boats for the British Navy. After the war they built the Curtiss Fledgeling, Oriole, Thrush, the Curtiss CW-1 Junior, the Curtiss Robin, and many others.
Consolicated Aircraft was best known for its large passenger flying boats and military flying boats for maritime patrol. But they also built a large number of rugged, small, two-seat training biplanes for the US and Canda including the Fleet Finch. They also built the Consolidated Fleetster high performance monoplane, which had an all metal fuselage and resembled the Lockeed Vega. Later, in their Fort Erie Canada plant, the Fairchild PT-26B "Cornell" WW2 Primary Trainier was built under license for the RCAF.

This month's featured aircraft is the unique, very rare, Anderson-Greenwood AG-14. It was not built in Buffalo (5 examples were built in Houston,Texas from 1947 to 1953), but one example was based at the Buffalo Airpark (now Buffalo Airfileld in Gardenville, NY for several years). The AG-14 was an all-metal, shoulder-wing monplane of pod and boom confiuration, had two seats (side-by-side) with a tricycle landing gear and a pusher engine. Like the Ercoupe, there were no rudder petals and the control wheel provided nose wheel steering. Two tail booms ran from the wing roots to support the horizontal tail and twin rudders. It was built as a "safety aircraft", and was very spin resistant, It was powered by a 90 HP Continental C90-12FP engine with a pusher prop. It had a 110 MPH cruise speed.
One example was purchased and evaluated by Cessna as a posslible repalcement of the Cessna 150. Cessna built and flew a prototype designated the Cessna XMC. There were no performance advantages over the C-150.  (Source;Wkipedia)
The editor saw an AG-14 fly several times in the 1950's at Buffalo Airpark.
Prototype Anderson Greenwood AG-14
First Flew in October 1947
Production Anderson-Greenwood AG-14 in Flight.
(Note yarn tufts attached to upper wing section to study airflow above the fuselage and wind center section) This aurcraft was evaluated by Mississippi State University and modified as the XAZ-1 Marvelettte test bed aircraft.
Final Production Anderson Greenwood AG-14 at Oshkosh Airshow. Restored in May 2007, it won many awards at EAA Airshow in Oshkosh. Now Owned by the Lone Star Flight Musuem in Houston Texas
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory's Variable Stability Lockheed Jetstar Modified for NASA
In the mid 1960's, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory modified a Lockheed C-140 Jetstar as a Variable Stability "General Purpose Airborne Simulator" or GPAS, for NASA.  The JetStar was equipped with an electronic variable-stability flight control system. The aircraft could duplicate the flight characteristics of a wide variety of advanced aircraft. It was used for supersonic transport and general aviation research and as a training and support system for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests at Dryden in 1977.
 Lockheed C-140 JetStar modified for NASA as the General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS) by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL). JetStar was photographed  at the CAL Flight Research Laboratory hangar ramp on Cayuga Road at Buffalo International Airport. Standing at the far left is CAL Project Engineer Robert C. Kidder. (CAL Photo)
 
From 1976 through 1982, the JetStar was used to test and certify the Space Shuttle's Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System (MSBLS), a navigation system that provided the precise position of the Shuttle orbiter to the Shuttle pilots in relation to the runway during landing approaches. Dryden pilots logged 671 flight hours during 346 missions to check out MSBLS equipment at the three primary shuttle landing sites at Edwards, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.
NASA's General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS),
a Lockheed C-140 Jetstar modified by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory for NASA around 1964
NASA's GPAS Jetstar has been restored and is now on display in a park near Plant 41 in Palmdale California. There are over two dozen Jetstars on display throughout the world out of the 201 built. The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton has a VC-140B that was one of 6 JetStars assinged to Andrews Air Force Base that carried 7 U.S. Presidents and other high ranking dignitaries. It entered service in 1961 and was retired aftr 26 years. One VC-140B JetStar is displayed at the President Lyndon B. Johnson Historical Park. Another JetStar, N777EP, "Hound Dog II", was owned by Elvis Presly and is displayed at "Graceland" in Memphis TN, along with his Convair 880 "Lisa Marie" (a converted 4-engined jetliner purchased from Delta Airlines). Source: Wikapedia and the Air Force Museum.

Former Airport Manager John Jesson, with his wife Nancy managed the airport for 35 years and Jesson Field was re-named in their honor.

Johnn's son-in-law Paul Burke writes: "John has his 93rd birthday in sight now. We watched him face cancer through his wife's death as well as fight it himself for the past 11 years. While he has not given up, we have now reached a point where medication is not effective. And John say's that he is tired.

He would like to hear from his Akron Airport friends. He has lived in Cleveland, TN with his daughter, Juanita for 5 years now. In January or February of this year 8 of his 9 children have traveled to Tennessee and enjoyed time together.   His comment after a recent phone call was "It's nice when those you knew and worked with have those good memories... " Call him or write him and make his day!"  His phone number is (716) 310-3612. His mailing address is:

John Jesson
1060 Freewill Road NW
Cleveland, TN 37312

Paul and Juanita Burke (where John is living) have a request. Please take a moment to send a note with a short story of a specific memory that you have, something you are thankful for or a way that they influenced you. We know he will be remembered, but please take a moment to remind him that he is remembered and thought of now. The stories collected will also be shared with his 9 children and 105 +/- grands, great and great great grands. You can send the note to John Jesson's postal address or send electronically to Paul Burke at chanttanoogacellist@yahoo.com

AVGAS 100ll Available 24/7
$.15 per gallon cash discount or tenant discount

Several pilots have damaged our grounding wire!
DO NOT LET GO OF THE CLIP. After fueling at our pump, disconnect the ground wire clip from your aircraft and WALK it back to the cable reel. Letting go of the clip causes the cable to jam in the reel.

Rental Aircraft Procedures:
  • No one is to move rental planes in and out of the hangar without the assistance of desk crew or an instructor.
  • When using the tow bar, do not force the nose gear beyond its normal limits. Damage to the nose gear steering linkage and shimmy damper will result. 
  • No one is to clean the windshields of rental aircraft except the desk crew or instructors because there is a special technique that they will use that prevents the fine scratching of the windows.
Packing materials wanted: Al Zollitsch asks that donation of peanut packing materials and small bubble wrap be left in the airport office with his name attached. Al donates these packing materials to a small business that makes and sells parts for early Piper Cubs.
 
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FLY SAFE!
Allen Kidder, Editor
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