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Lockheed Martin delivered the first of 36 F-16 Block 52 aircraft to the Iraqi Air Force during a ceremony at its Fort Worth facility June 5.

Lockheed Martin is producing the F-16s under a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense. The F-16s are being built in a configuration tailored to meet the specific requirements of the Iraqi Air Force, and the contract includes mission equipment and a support package provided by Lockheed Martin and other U.S. and international contractors.

“This year we are celebrating the 40th year anniversary of the F-16s first flight,” said Ron McLean, vice president and general manager F-16s/F 22 integrated fighter group programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. “The Fighting Falcon has already been firmly embedded in the history books as one of the great fourth-generation, multi-role fighters. Its evolution continues today as we deliver the first of many brand-new, fully capable, mission ready F-16s.

“Today Iraq joins 27 nations around the world to depend on the Fighting Falcon to maintain peace and security,” he said.

The F-16 will continue to be the backbone of the U.S. Air Force for years to come, assuring proven support and sustainment throughout the life of

In a spirit of camaraderie, Lockheed Martin celebrates the honor of helping the Republic of Iraq build a stronger Air Force. During an official ceremony, Iraq received the first of 36 new F-16s. Ambassador Lukman Faily of the Republic of Iraq; Oraldo Carvalho, Executive Vice President of Aeronautics, Lockheed Martin; and Falih Al-Fayyadh, National Security Advisor of the Republic of Iraq, participate in the June 5 event. / Photo by John Starkey

Iraq accepts first Lockheed Martin F-16 aircraft

Iraq’s F-16 program.“More than 4500 F-16s have been produced, and the airplane’s capabilities

have continued to evolve for more than 40 years,” said Orlando Carvalho, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. “I have no doubt the F-16 fighting falcon is ready for any mission at any time. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the iconic defender of freedom and the defender of democracy..



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From paper airplanes to aeronautical engineering

There are few toys more uni-versal than paper airplanes. With a few folds, any ordinary sheet of paper becomes a flying machine suitable for coloring, racing or bothering your older sister.

Patrons, young and old, of the Frontiers Flight of Museum had the rare opportunity to learn about folding and flying paper airplanes from one of the pas-time’s legends, Ken Blackburn.

Blackburn currently holds the Guinness Book of World Re-cords for “time aloft” for paper airplanes. He first set the record in 1983 (16.89 seconds), resetting it in 1978 (17.2 seconds), 1994 (18.8 seconds), lost the record in 1996, and set the current record of 27.6 seconds on Oct. 8, 1998 in the Georgia Dome.

“I think I was a deceptively normal child,” Blackburn said. “But I loved anything that would fly. I grew up on a small farm, and I didn’t have a tremendous amount of money. So, how do you make something that flies without much money? You make a paper airplane. But I wanted my airplanes to fly better. So, it be-came a personal challenge to see how good I could make a paper airplane fly and eventually that landed me in the Guinness Book of World Records.

“My event is for ‘time aloft’. My longest time is 27.6 seconds

set back in 1998. I’ve had flights of 140 feet indoors. The record is about 230 feet. Outdoor I’ve had planes fly for at least a mile catch-ing air currents soaring like birds soar or gliders.

“I think some of the classic pa-per airplanes that people already know how to make can be made to fly well. What people don’t know are the fine-tuning adjust-ments like the flap settings, using a little bit of up elevator and hav-ing the right amount of weight on the nose. If you get the airplane adjusted properly, almost any pa-per airplane can fly really well,” he said. “The last thing which works for everything in the world is practice, practice, practice. The

more you practice anything, the better you get.

“I wanted to let the kids who visit the museum know that from a little kid on a farm in North Carolina, I was able to end up in the Guinness Book of World Records. The biggest reason is that I was able to practice what I wanted to do.”

Blackburn may have started with paper airplanes, but his pas-sions did not stop there.

“I first set the Guinness record when I was going to college at North Carolina State to become an aeronautical engineer,” he said. “I became an aeronautical engi-neer, and I currently do research for the US Air Force.

“I really credit paper airplanes for sparking my interest in how to make airplanes fly better, and in what makes them fly. I was very fortunate that my best subjects in school were math and science. How do you combine math and science with making airplanes fly? Aeronautical engineering.

“I’ve been able to follow from a very young age what I’ve want-ed to do. I’ve enjoyed everything along the way. It’s always a good thing to follow your dreams. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from if you really want to be good at something, all it takes is practice, the will to do it and you can be great,” Blackburn said.

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DFW Airport receives AA- bond rating from Kroll

Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) In-ternational Airport, the world’s third busiest airport, announced June 6 that the Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has assigned it an AA- rat-ing with a stable outlook. The rating reflects Kroll’s view of the strength of DFW’s financial outlook and its expe-rienced management team.

The Kroll rating will be applied to the Airport’s Series 2014C bond issue, which is expected to be sold on June 24. The Series 2014C bonds will be used for non-terminal capital improve-ment projects, primarily parking facili-ties. The rating also applies to all other DFW Airport outstanding bonds.

DFW Airport is the first airport to receive a bond rating from KBRA. Based upon the rating criteria released in April, DFW Airport believes Kroll brings a new rating perspective to the airport sector.

“DFW Airport has reviewed Kroll Bond Rating Agency reports for other sectors and finds them to be compre-hensive and thorough, and we believe these ratings reports add value,” said Christopher Poinsatte, Chief Finan-cial Officer at DFW Airport.

In addition to the Kroll rating, DFW is rated A+ by Standard & Poor’s and A by Fitch.

DFW Airport revenue bonds are issued jointly by the Owner Cities of Dallas and Fort Worth by Concurrent Bond Ordinances approved by the City Councils of the Owner Cities, and DFW Airport bonds are secured solely by certain revenues of the Air-port.

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Learning from a champion, a group of children study the optimal way to fold paper airplanes from Ken Blackburn. Blackburn currently holds the Guinness World Record for time aloft for paper airplanes, which he set in 1998. / Photo by John Starkey

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“Our team is honored and proud to have been called upon to support the rebuilding of the Iraq Air Force. How often in one’s ca-reer is such an honor bestowed and such a critical priority is vested on a team of individuals? We are committed to our goal of enabling air superiority to protect those on the ground, but as we all know this is just one aspect of much broader strategy by the Iraqi government to secure its borders filled by de-mocracy and become part of the coalition of democratic nations.

“Our team recognizes the mag-nitude of this important endeavor, and we stand with you in support of your future. There is simply no greater honor than to be on this historic journey with you,” he said.

F-16 aircraft production is ex-pected to continue through 2017, with major upgrades being incor-porated for all F-16 versions.

“Today marks a monumen-tal event in the U.S./Iraq defense partnership,” said Heidi Grant, deputy undersecretary of United States Air Force Internal Affairs. “This historical event demon-strates the strong ties between our two air forces, and it supports our mutual goal of building security and stability in Iraq and in the re-gion.

“Early May marked a milestone for the Iraq F-16 program when the first F-16 Fighting Falcon took off from Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, Texas. We look forward to the next part of the journey in the near future when two F-16s make their first journey across the ocean to Iraq. It’s the beginning of a new chapter for the Iraqi Air Force.”

With more than four decades of technological advancements and 138 different configurations, today’s F-16s have matured far beyond the original variants – they are much more capable, versatile and advanced.

“Iraq has gone through tre-mendous challenges,” said His Excellency Lukman Faily, Amb. of the Republic of Iraq to the United States. “What we see today is one of those good stories, one of the celebrations, one of those strong relationships with a key partner for us. We’ve had our boys fight

together before in the fight against terrorism for the freedom of Iraq. What we see today is a sign, the significant juncture and more importantly a key milestone in strengthening the capabilities of Iraq.

“What we see today is a clear sign to the world that Iraq and the United States have chosen part-nership of choice. We have a stra-tegic partnership in which both countries talk about cooperating in relation to security, military, cul-ture, education, energy and others.

“What we see today is a new message to the world that a strong Iraq, a stable Iraq is a stable back-bone in a turbulent region,” he said. “With our boys fighting with their American colleagues, train-ing, sweating together, they will work together in Iraq and in the region that is what we are after.

“Today signifies a message to the world that our boys in Iraq are willing to defend their country, to defend their borders, to defend their homeland against any threat.

“It is also message to the Unit-ed States that we are your partner of choice. Recently we had our elections in Iraq, more than 60 percent of the population partici-pated in this democratic election. That is another sign to the world that we are getting healthier every day,” Faily said.

Originally conceived as a light-weight fighter, the F-16 Fighting Falcon is a vital component of air combat.

“This aircraft represents the long strategic partnership and commitment of the Iraqis with United States,” said Falih Al-Fayyadh, National Security Ad-visor, Republic of Iraq, through a translator. “In addition, it rep-resents the commitment of the United States and its loyalty to-wards its partnership with Iraq.

“This aircraft will protect the new democracy. It will also con-tribute to protecting the new Constitution in Iraq. It will be a weapon in the hands of all the Iraqi people. It will be used to de-fend all the nation,” he said.

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By Jess PaniszczynEducation and the quality of prospective workers

who have graduated from local universities is always of interest to aerospace companies that have invested in the North Texas region. Mickey Saloma, Director of Recruitment and Retention at the Lyle Engineering School, SMU, was one of the speakers for the eighth annual Aerospace Forum presented at the Frontiers of Flight Museum on May 29.

“I was reading an article about how 90 percent of graduate engineering degrees in this country are con-ferred to foreign born students,” Saloma said during a panel discussion. “We’re seeing an influx of engineer-ing students who are not American.

“Another article I read recently said that less than 10 percent of high school seniors want to study STEM majors. However, 15 to 18 percent want to study things like psychology.

“I think we market engineering horribly in this country. When I visit China, I see in their movies their heroes - like James Bond - are scientists, engineers,” he said. “You see our movies and our heroes are slick busi-ness guys. We need to change the way we think about engineering in this country.

“In first grade, my son’s school has a special pro-gram where the students are learning to code. I believe in the 21st-century, technological literacy is going to be like literacy was in the 20th century. The ability to have those technical skills is going to separate the classes.

“I think collectively we need to start pushing stu-dents in to STEM. The world needs it,” Saloma said.

Fellow speaker Drew Aldridge, Director of Busi-ness Development, Safran USA, expressed his con-cerns with students choosing to opt out of higher education.

“Improving our education system is the bedrock of where our future is going,” Aldridge said. “Our educa-tion system, hands-down, is broken.

“The student loan debt is definitely an issue. Stu-dents now are saying an education is no longer worth it, because I will be so much in debt that I can’t even get a job afterwards,” he said.

A comment from an audience member pointed out that as early as ninth grade, high school students are forced to make hard choices about their education. In some high schools, students cannot be in the music program and the engineering program; students can-not be on the golf team and be mathletes. The struc-tures of high school education programs push many students out of STEM.

“The curriculum that school districts dictate some-times hurts students being able to pursue their pas-sions and to be able to take on more things,” Saloma said. “I don’t know how to counteract that. It is a very personal decision the student will have to make. As far as students being pushed out of STEM, that doesn’t

surprise me one bit.“Sometimes students have to sacrifice the ability to

take something like calculus or physics, because there are not enough students interested in taking those courses. College for STEM majors is a lot more dif-ficult for students who don’t have access to math and science backgrounds.

“We’re seeing schools that are eliminating gifted and talented programs, which is terrible.

“In a lot of districts, students are forced to play the GPA game. ‘I have to take this AP class that I have no interest in, but if I don’t I will fall out of the top 10 percent or the top eight percent. I won’t be able to take yearbook, even though I want to be a journalism major.’

“STEM is definitely suffering. We’re seeing that a lot. When it comes to making admissions and scholar-ship decisions, it’s tough,” he said.

When students are accepted into the Lyle School of Engineering, they often find high school has not adequately prepared them for a university education.

“I don’t think a lot of American students are ready for the rigor of an engineering curriculum, more often than not,” Saloma said. “One of the things I hate as an academic is when a student in my class asks me, ‘is this going to be on the test?’

“I do think that we are watering down our educa-tion quite a bit. We’re having top, top kids who will leave engineering just because it is tough. Because I work with retention I get students who come to my office and say, ‘Oh my gosh, Mickey. I failed my intro to mechanical engineering test. I guess this is God’s sign that I shouldn’t be an engineer.’

“Well maybe it’s God’s sign that you need to get off your (blank) and get after it. I do think that as parents and teachers we need to push our students to be the very best. We live in a world were not everybody gets to play on the team,” he said.

“We have a responsibility as parents, as voters to make sure our education is pushing our students to be the very best and not be complacent,” Saloma said. “I think what is crippling our society, especially our kids, is ‘good enough.’ Good enough is horrible. It is com-placency. They should be great.

“We’re working with a generation that is not used to things being difficult. There’s a great expression in this country, ‘when the going gets tough,’ the end of that expression is, ‘I switched to another major be-cause it’s easier.’”

In his speech about SMU’s Lyle School of Engi-neering, Saloma, who also serves as the faculty advi-sor for the Lyle Ambassadors, Golden Key and SMU Ballroom Dancing Team, discussed some of the attri-butes that differentiate the school.

“We’re not trying to build a one-dimensional en-gineer,” Saloma said. “Over 75 percent of the SMU

The world needs more students studying STEM

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando pilot Bruce Campbell is celebrat-ing the 70th anniversary of his first solo flight, which took place June 12, 1944. Bruce was just 12 years old when he made his first flight, learning to fly from a friend’s father. When he was 15, he took his first pilot job crop dusting for farmers.

Later Bruce was a pilot in the U.S. Navy. He entered military flight school in 1952, and flew primarily sea planes. Bruce left the Navy in 1964, but was recalled in 1966.

While flying for the Navy, Bruce frequently flew to Antarctica assist-ing in the United States Antarc-tic Research Program from 1969 to 1973. In fact he made so many

trips the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, named a moun-tain ridge after him, “The Campbell Ridges.” He retired from the Navy as a Lt. Commander in 1974.

Bruce Campbell is now 82 years young and manages an airplane for a private corporation. He continues to fly.

To celebrate the amazing achievement of 70 years in flight, Trax Air, a local flight school and aircraft maintenance business, host-ed a celebratory cookout on June 6. Trax Air also presented Bruce Campbell with a special award for his accomplishments in the flight industry.

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Empty AK-47 magazines found in bag By Bob Burns

There are stories circulat-ing right now about something that’s not quite as newsworthy as it sounds. Two empty AK-47 magazines were discovered in a checked bag after TSA had screened the bags. That has led many to believe TSA officers and technology missed these items. As far as the TSA is concerned, the officers did not miss anything.

TSA officers are looking for explosives in checked baggage that could cause catastrophic damage to the aircraft, not guns, knives, or empty AK-47 magazines.

Travelers can’t get to their checked baggage while in flight. That is why the TSA allows passengers to travel with many items in checked baggage that are prohibited in carry-on bags.

BURLINGTON, Wash. — On May 29, 2014, at approxi-mately 9:00 a.m., Air Interdiction Agents (AIA) assigned to the Of-fice of Air and Marine (OAM), Bellingham Air and Marine Branch, responded to a Mayday call from a Cessna 172 aircraft just west of Skagit Regional Airport.

The call for the Mayday was made on the airport advisory frequency as OAM agents were preparing to depart the Skagit Regional Airport aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for a routine training mission. The pi-lot aboard the Cessna informed the agents that the aircraft in-cluded an instructor pilot and student and was experiencing en-gine trouble six miles west of the airport over Padilla Bay.

The OAM Black Hawk im-mediately launched to assist the aircraft in distress and located it

approximately a mile and a half from Skagit Regional Airport. After locating the troubled air-craft the OAM UH-60 aircrew escorted the aircraft back to the airport where it landed safely without further incident.

“This is another great example how the men and women of the Office of Air and Marine as-sist pilots in the general aviation community,” said Eric Rembold, Director, Office of Air and Ma-rine, Northern Region. “It is an unwritten rule in the aviation community that when another pilot is in distress you help them out. We were lucky to be there for them when they needed us and I know they would be there for us too if we needed them.”

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With a little help from his friends, Bruce Campbell celebrates his seven decades of piloting aircraft. / Courtesy photo

CBP aircraft assists general aviation aircraft in distress


Crop duster with Texas A&M roots fills niches from from here to the Middle East

By Elaine PaniszczynDisney’s “Planes” movie

featured a character named Dusty Crophopper last sum-mer, so even little kids know about crop dusters, the main aircraft built at Air Trac-tor, Inc. in Olney, Texas. The company has connections to Texas A&M, going all the way back to its original con-ception.

“I got the oddest phone call in February a year ago,” Jim Hirsch, President of Air Tractor, said. “A guy from Hollywood, Calif. said, ‘Dis-ney’s hired me to promote this movie. Do you have one of those (crop dusters) you can loan me this summer to make the airshow circuit?’

Hirsch spoke at the Tex-as Rotorcraft Association meeting at Don Antonio’s Restaurant in Olney, Sat., May 22.

“We were booming a year ago,” Hirsch said. “Every-thing we built was sold and customers were standing at the door waiting for test pi-lots to get done with them so they could take them home and put them to work.”

One of his friends had an old one, so Air Tractor helped him completely refur-bish it and gave it a turbine engine conversion.

“He painted it up to be Dusty and he got a contract with Disney last year and made the airshow circuit,” Hirsch said. “He was at Os-hkosh.”

Last year, Air Tractor celebrated selling 3,000 Air Tractor airplanes by taking their 3,000th tothe 2013 Os-hkosh Airshow. At their peak in 2011, the company built

185 airplanes. They will sell 140–145 this year.

“That’s still a lot of air-planes,” Hirsch said. “One comes out the door about ev-ery two-and-a-quarter days. Last year, it was every day-and-a-half [that] an airplane came popping out.”

Prices range from $900,000 to $1.3 million de-pending on hopper size: 400 gallon, 500 gallon, 600 gallon and 800 gallon. The hopper is what holds whatever ma-terial is to be sprayed. Gross weight of the aircraft ranges from 7,000 pounds to 16,000 pounds.

“The most popular selling 502 we built almost 100 of those last year at $900,000,” Hirsch said. “The 802 fully ready to go firefighter is $1.4 million – roughly. The day of the million dollar crop duster is here.”

“Planes: Fire and Rescue” will be in theaters July 18 and firefighter planes have starred on news programs this summer because of fires in the western United States.

“Firefighting has been a good diversification,” Hirsch said. “In the last couple of years we’ve sold 80 or 90 802’s to the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management. The BLM is responsible for keeping up with all the public lands out west. In places like Idaho, Nevada, and Utah are huge chunks of federally owned and public owned land. It’s dry and brushy and there are always fires. We have 130 802’s on BLM contract. The 802 also comes in a float plane and that has helped with sales.”

Since the 1980’s, U.S. reg-istered airplanes have been spraying opium, poppies and marijuana in Columbia.

“[The U.S. military] came to us in 2000–2001 asking us to make them an airplane,” Hirsch said. “We took the 802, [and] armored it with

defensive armor. When you look at the windows in that thing, they’re real dark green, inch-and-a-quarter-thick layers of tempered safety glass to defeat an AK47 round. The cockpit is ar-mored and the engine com-partment is armored.

“The fuel system has self-sealing fuel hoses and self-sealing panels on the bottom of the wing,” Hirsch said. “We, literally, shot holes in the bottom of a wing panel and proved that the self-sealing material actually [worked].

“We refurbish one of those planes every six month for them,” Hirsch said. “Eventu-ally, through the 2002–2009 timeframe, we sold them

19 airplanes. We are doing an armor upgrade for them right now. The hostility has changed down there in the past year. They’re getting shot at every day. Every day we’re doing something to support those airplanes. The last one we [refurbished] had 150, documented, holes in it.

Although Air Tractor made night vision goggle compatible cockpit light-ing, the aircraft has not yet been used at night in South America.

“All spraying they do dur-ing daylight hours,” Hirsch said. “Risk versus reward in the mountainous regions down there and the jungles – it’s bad enough being down there during the daytime.

That led us into the progres-sion of the next logical step. We’ve got this platform that’s got well defensed armor on it, why not take the next step and put some offense on it.

“We were approached by a security bunch that was working on the other side of the ocean in the Middle East and they said that would be a really good machine with maybe some rockets or something like that. So we built a prototype of the AO2U which is a utility air-plane.”

That aircraft has a pair of 50-caliber Gatling guns, a rocket launcher and places for bombs.

“We have sold 24 of these things to our oil rich friends in the Middle East,” Hirsch said. “They are flying up and down the Persian Gulf watching the bad guys on the other side of the Gulf.”

Still in development is a single engine air tanker fo-cused mostly on firefighting. It weighs 20,000 pounds and has a 1,000-gallon hop-per. The aircraft is flying, but the company is still making changes per the FAA certi-fication process. It will be a nearly $2 million airplane,

according to Hirsch.History of Air Tractor“There is a big Aggie con-

nection thing going on in Air Tractor and always has been,” said Hirsch, a graduate of Texas A&M with a degree in aerospace engineering. Hirsch is the son of a Texas A&M professor and grew up in College Station. “I’ve always found the history of this company to be absolute-ly fascinating.”

He said company founder Leland Snow always knew from the time he was a little kid he was going to design and build airplanes.

“There’s a picture of him in his [autobiography pub-lished by Midwestern Uni-versity Press] with a rubber band powered model when he was about 9- or 12-years-old,” Hirsch said. “He wasn’t a large man; the wingspan was greater than he was tall at that time.

Snow went to A&M in 1948 to learn how to build airplanes.

“He actually started his first airplane design while he was a student at A&M,” Hirsch said. “How he found time to start working on an

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airplane design, I don’t know, but it was the Snow Model One, the S-1.”

When Snow got to A&M, the Agriculture De-partment and the Aeronauti-cal Engineering Department were working cooperatively on a purpose built agricul-tural plane called the Ag1.

“It was a research project, and in the late 40’s and early ‘50’s, a lot of World War II airplanes were being convert-ed for ag,” Hirsch said. “The Boeing Stearman was one of the most popular ones. Lots of them [were] done. [Snow] saw right then and there while he was still a student at Texas A&M that there was a commercial opportunity here to build airplanes specialized for ag because nobody else was doing it.

“When he graduated in 1952, most of the graduates were going to Korea within six to eight months,” Hirsch said. “Leland got a defer-ment and enrolled in gradu-ate school at the University of Texas at Austin. There was a guy over there [named] Ragsdale who had a dusting service, a hanger, and a me-chanic that offered to help him finish that airplane.

“For you guys that are familiar with the FAA and all that, here we are in 1953 now, and he’s in Austin, and he’s got this thing built and flying,” Hirsch said. “He calls the FAA and says, ‘I’ve got this airplane design, and I’ve got a prototype built. Why don’t you come out and look at it?’

“He said they came out and asked, ‘Have you flown it yet?’ And he had – with no flight certificate, no air worthiness certificate, no nothing,” Hirsch said. “The FAA said he probably should not have done that, but they wrote him an experimental airworthiness certificate on the spot after looking at it for an hour.

“All the drawings for that airplane fit in a shoebox,” Hirsch said. “We’d have over 27,000 drawings if (we built it) now.

“[The FAA] told him to fly it 25 hours locally around Austin and then they would give him an airwor-thiness certificate,” Hirsch said. “Well, he got a phone call from a buddy out south of Lubbock, and they were dusting cotton and were be-hind, so [Snow] got in it and flew to Lubbock and made a little money dusting and flew it back to Austin, washed it, called [the FAA] up and they gave him an airworthi-ness certificate and a type certificate on a shoebox full of drawings.

“Then he starts flying this thing in winter to gener-ate money back and forth to Nicaragua,” Hirsch said. “He dusted down there during the wintertime.”

Hirsch said Snow realized his little airplane had a lot of shortcomings, so he started

on the S-2 Series of planes with a 120 gallon hopper.

“Not very big, but big for that day with 44 gallons of fuel,” Hirsch said.

“It would fly one and a half or two hours. Ag is all about how much chemical you can get on the crop in the most efficient, expedi-tious manner. One of the secrets of Air Tractor is [to make them] bigger, bigger, bigger.”

Snow was flying his pro-totype of the S2, and he had told the FAA about this project. They reviewed his drawings.

“At that time, you could prove structure in flight tests,” Hirsch said. “He stacked bags of dust in the hopper unopened and he’s got his little G-meter in there, and his little leather helmet and goggles on, and he’s got that old Continental 220 wound up and pointed straight at the ground trying to pull 3.8 G’s and broke a wing off. He jumped.”

He was wearing a para-chute.

“And that’s the story of the missed decimal point,” Hirsch said. “He missed a decimal point calculating the structural strength of the rear spar. He realized what he’d done and what the problem was.

“He lost his prototype; (but) he’s lucky he’s still got his skin,” Hirsch said. “He’s in trouble: he’s taken money from all his buddies down in Nicaragua and hocked his mother’s car for a load of tubing. He’s in debt…and nobody in south Texas

would consider banking him. I’m not sure I would either, but the people in Olney were used to risky ventures.

“[Snow] found out about Olney’s Industrial Develop-ment Board, made a contact, and got a meeting,” Hirsch said.

“Something like 30 differ-ent businessmen co-signed an $18,000 loan to get him here. Years ago he brought me a spiral notebook which was his ledger, accounting for all that $18,000 in 18 months.

“He decided in 18 months, he could fix the

problem, build a prototype again, get all the flight test-ing done, and get FAA cer-tification. He did it. By the time the 18 months were over, he was building S2A’s.”

In 1965, Snow sold his original company to Rock-well Standard. The sale in-cluded a five-year, no-com-pete clause. Several years later, he started Air Tractor which continues to get big-ger, bigger and bigger, just like the hoppers on their crop dusters.

Snow, 80, died while jog-ging near his Wichita Falls home in February, 2011.

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One tag line for the new Tom Cruise Sci-Fi action flick Edge of Tomorrow is “Live. Die. Repeat;” and that certainly sums up most of the film. Still this one offers a lot more than

just a Groundhog Day expe-rience and serves up some pretty solid action and acting from the principle stars. As with any movie of this type, you certainly can’t think about it too deeply or the holes become overtly apparent. But if you want a “grab some popcorn and enjoy the ride” sum-mer film, this one is the ticket.

When an Army Officer named Cage (Tom Cruise) is tossed into battle to help save Earth from an enemy alien, he soon finds himself caught in a time loop. This is where the “Live Die Repeat” element takes over. Cage is able to reset each day simply by dying or being killed. After doing this several hundred times, he is soon able to learn pat-terns, predict what is coming, and hopefully come up with a battle plan. When he finds a Special Forces warrior (Emily Blunt) familiar with his condition, they join together to help destroy the alien attackers.

The thought of re-watching a story line over and over again may seem tedious to most average film goers. This style of film I like to call Groundhogging (in reference to the popular Bill Murray film Groundhog Day) can get a bit monotonous. Luckily, the writ-ers and filmmakers knew this as well for just when you think you have had enough of the Live Die Repeat, the movie starts offering other key components, and assumes you get the point and can move on.

Cruise is a good choice for this role in-stead of some simple minded slab of meat with muscles. He is a seasoned actor who un-derstands the need to advance and adapt with his character. You watch him grow mentally and see his countenance change as he be-comes more familiar and confident with his mission. It is subtle but believable. Also Tom has a witty delivery, and delicate charm about him that adds some humor and personality to the role. This charm and warmth is needed for his relationship with Blunt’s character. She is a trained killing machine who can’t see past the mission.

Edge of Tomorrow is rated PG-13 for in-tense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, language and brief suggestive material. I give it 4 out of 5 wake-up calls.

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competitive ballroom dancing team is engi-neering students.

“Forty percent of our engineering students double major, and 90 percent of our students will pick up a minor. The most popular minor is business. Just like most engineering pro-grams, you can double major in things like math and physics. To give you an idea of the diversity of our student population, we have five students currently at SMU who are dou-ble majoring in engineering and dance. If you can double major in engineering and dance, you can double major in anything at SMU.

“Our engineering students don’t sacrifice the collegiate experience just because they have the hardest major on campus,” he said. “Over half the band is made up of engineers. About a third of SMU’s cheerleaders are en-gineers. We may have the smartest cheerlead-ers per capita in the NCAA.

“We also have a lot of female engineers in the Lyle School of Engineering. The average engineering undergraduate female popula-tion in this country is about 17 percent. This year’s incoming class is almost 40 percent fe-

male. It’s not just that our female population is bigger than your average school’s, but it’s just the quality of females that we have.”

Many programs have a weed-out class or year through which the number of engineer-ing students is greatly reduced.

“We’re revolutionary at SMU. Our weed out process for our engineering students is something called admissions,” Saloma said. “What does it tell you about a University that has a weed-out class, weed-out year? It should tell you they have enrollment man-agement problem. It should also tell you that their faculty are not good enough to teach everybody.

“The class that just graduated started out as 217 engineering students. After four years, 189 of those graduated with an engineering degree. Another 12 graduate next May, be-cause they participated in our co-op program. For the last three years, we’ve been blessed to say that 85 percent of our graduating class had a job 30 days after graduation. The na-tional average is just a shade under 47 [per-cent] for engineering students,” he said.

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Record Number of Firearms Discovered in One DayOn June 4, 18 firearms were discovered around the

country in carry-on bags. Firearms Discovered This Week

Of the 47 firearms, 36 were loaded and 10 had rounds chambered.

Artfully Concealed Prohibited Items45 credit card knives were discovered this week at

checkpoints. Twelve were discovered at Minneapolis (MSP), eight at Nashville (BNA), six at Kansas City (MCI), six at San Francisco (SFO), six at Tampa (TPA), three at St. Louis (STL), and the remainder were discovered at Branson (BBG), Long Beach (LGB), Shreveport (SHV), and St. Petersburg (PIE).

A knife was detected inside the lining of a bag behind the support column at Cleveland (CLE).

What Not to Say at an AirportStatements like these not only delay the people

who said them but can also inconvenience many other

passengers if the checkpoint or terminal has to be evacuated:

After alarming the explosives trace detection machine at Midway (MDW), a traveler stated that she “wouldn’t mind blowing this whole place up.”

A traveler at Reno (RNO) waiting at the gate to board his plane began telling passengers that he had a bomb in his carry-on bag. There was no bomb in his bag.

Stun Guns14 stun guns were discovered this week in carry-on

bags around the nation: Four were discovered at Dallas Love (DAL), three at Las Vegas (LAS), two at Phoenix (PHX), and the remainder were discovered at Atlanta (ATL), Buffalo (BUF), Redmond (RDM), Norfolk (ORF), and St. Croix (STX).

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WASHINGTON—Fokker Services B.V., a Dutch aerospace services provider, has agreed to forfeit $10.5 million to the United States for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by engaging in illegal transac-tions involving the export of aircraft parts, technologies, and services to customers in Iran, Sudan, and Burma. The company has also entered into a parallel settlement agree-ment with the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Treasury Department’s Office of For-eign Assets Control (OFAC).

The June 5 announcement concludes a multi-year investigation led by BIS, OFAC, FBI-WFO, ICE’s Homeland Security In-vestigations, the Defense Criminal Investi-gative Service, and the U.S. Attorney’s Of-fice for the District of Columbia.

A criminal Information was filed in fed-eral court in the District of Columbia charg-ing Fokker Services B.V. with one count of knowingly and willfully conspiring to violate the IEEPA, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. Fokker Services waived the requirement of being charged by way of federal indictment, agreed to the filing of the information, and has accepted responsibility for its criminal conduct and that of its employees. In ad-dition, as part of the deferred prosecution agreement reached with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Fok-ker Services agreed to forfeit $10.5 million within five days of the approval of the agree-ment by the court.

According to court documents, starting on or about late 2005 and ending on or about late 2010, Fokker Services violated U.S. laws by engaging in illegal transactions involving the export and re-export of aircraft parts, technology, and services to customers locat-ed in U.S.-sanctioned countries, specifically, Iran, Sudan, and Burma. Throughout this pe-riod, Fokker Services knowingly and willfully engaged in this criminal conduct, fully aware of the application of U.S. export laws, an is-sue that was repeatedly raised internally with the company’s management. In June 2010, Fokker Services made a disclosure of poten-tial violations to BIS and OFAC in which the company acknowledged and accepted re-sponsibility for its unlawful conduct.

Fokker Services’ criminal conduct in-cluded knowingly initiating, either directly or indirectly, 1,153 shipments of aircraft spare, repaired, or exchanged parts with a

U.S. nexus to Fokker Services’ customers in Iran, Sudan, or Burma. Among those illegal transactions were 99 transactions involving Fokker Services’ customer, Iran Air, which was the subject of a special order from the U.S. Department of Commerce prohibiting Fokker or any third party from exporting U.S.-origin commodities to Iran Air or pro-viding services to Iran Air. Fokker Services’ gross revenue for the shipments in violation of U.S. export control laws amounted to ap-proximately $21 million.

“For years, Fokker Services treated U.S. export laws as inconveniences to be ‘worked around’ through deceit and trickery,” U.S. Attorney Machen said. “Today’s prosecu-tion sends a clear message that there will be consequences for those who seek to profit from violating and circumventing U.S. trade laws.”

“Fokker Services violated the IEEPA by knowingly ignoring U.S. sanctions and en-gaging in illegal transactions which under-mined the integrity of our national security. Today, the company has taken responsibility for their unlawful actions,” Assistant Direc-tor in Charge Parlave said. “Together with our partners at the Departments of Com-merce, Treasury and Justice, the FBI will continue our efforts to safeguard U.S. inter-ests and ensure that goods do not end up in the wrong hands.”

“The scope of today’s global settlement with Fokker Services highlights the egre-gious nature of the violations and points to the commitment of OEE to pursue and prosecute those responsible no matter where they are located,” Under Secretary of Commerce Hirschhorn said. “OEE and our partner law enforcement colleagues will continue to use all means available to ensure that U.S. technology does not fall into the wrong hands.”

The SchemeAccording to court documents, Fokker

Services used a number of schemes to evade U.S. sanctions and export laws while con-tinuing its business with customers located in U.S.-sanctioned countries and specifically designed to continue the company’s profit earnings in the sanctioned countries’ mar-kets. Internally, Fokker Services described these as “work-arounds.”

Some examples of the work-arounds used by Fokker Services and its employees include the following: deliberately with-holding aircraft tail numbers to U.S.-based

Fokker Services B.V. agrees to forfeit $10.5 million for illegal transactions

repair shops, providing false tail numbers to U.S. and U.K. companies and repair shops, and stating that the parts submitted for re-pair by U.S.-repair shops were to be used as “stock” parts. Fokker Services engaged in this conduct as an intentional effort to conceal the company’s affiliation with customers located in U.S. sanctioned countries. On one occa-sion, Fokker Services provided a U.S. aero-space company with a work order that falsely represented that the aircraft part belonged to an airplane owned by a Portuguese airline when, in reality, the part actually belonged to an Iran Air aircraft. The U.S. aerospace com-pany fixed the part and returned it to Fokker Services, who then shipped the part to Iran.

Other work-arounds were designed by Fokker Services to further the company’s ef-forts of continuing to engage in transactions in violation of U.S. export laws while also avoiding detection of U.S. authorities; for example, the company constructed and con-stantly updated a chart it called “the black list” that tracked which U.S. companies were more vigilant about export controls and directed its

business to those U.S. companies that were not on “the black list.” The company also de-leted references to Iran in materials sent to its U.S. subsidiaries and U.S. repair shops. It changed an internal database that tracked parts to delete fields related to ultimate end-user information and directed employees to hide activities and documents related to Ira-nian transactions when inspectors from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration audited Fokker Services’ Dutch warehouse.

According to court documents, this con-duct occurred in various business units with-in Fokker Services and certain policies and practices in furtherance of Fokker Services’ criminal conduct were carried out with the knowledge and approval of the company’s se-nior corporate managers, as well as with the knowledge of the company’s Legal and Ex-port Compliance departments.

The InveSTIgATIonThe Justice Department’s investigation of

Fokker Services arose out of the company’s disclosure of potential violations to BIS and

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OFAC in June 2010. In its initial disclosure, Fokker Services acknowledged and

accepted responsibility for its unlawful conduct. Over the next two-and-a-half years, Fokker Services conducted a vast internal investigation through outside counsel and disclosed additional viola-

tions of U.S. export laws.Since the submission of

its 2010 disclosure to U.S. authorities, Fokker Services has taken steps to enhance and optimize its sanctions compliance programs, in-

cluding stopping all new business with customers located in U.S.-sanctioned countries; launching an em-ployee disciplinary review to investigate and address the conduct of all employees, in-

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Man convicted of exporting F-16 parts to the Venezuelan Air Force

United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that following a three-day jury trial, Ronald A. Do-bek (age 39), formerly of Milwaukee, Wis., was convicted June 5 of conspir-ing to export and exporting F-16 mili-tary parts to the Venezuelan Air Force (VAF) without a license or authority from the U.S. Department of State. The jury returned guilty verdicts on all three counts of the indictment that charged Dobek with conspiring to violate U.S. export laws and unlawfully exporting F-16 parts to Venezuela on Dec. 29, 2007 and Dec. 6, 2008. Dobek faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 25 years. Sentencing for Dobek has been scheduled for Sept. 10.

In furtherance of its security and foreign policy interests, the United States, through the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), regulates and restricts the ex-port of arms, munitions, implements of war, and defense articles, pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. § 2778. The regulations promulgated by the State Department that govern such exports are known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. §§ 120-130. The ITAR contain a list of defense articles and defense services subject to control by these regulations known as the United States Munitions List (USML) and is found at 22 C.F.R. § 121.1. Defense articles are items and technical data “specifi-cally designed, developed, configured, adapted, or modified for a military ap-plication.” 22 C.F.R. § 120.3. No de-fense articles or defense services may be exported or otherwise transferred from the United States to a foreign national or foreign country without a license from the DDTC.

On Aug. 17, 2006, the United States Department of State announced that it would no longer authorize the export of defense articles and services to Venezu-ela. Additionally, the State Department revoked all existing licenses and autho-rizations to export defense articles and services to Venezuela. Thus, as of that

date, it became illegal to export defense articles or services to Venezuela.

The evidence presented at trial showed that despite knowing about the U.S. embargo of Venezuela, Dobek conspired with a member of the VAF to supply the VAF with F-16 canopy seals for Venezuelan’s fleet of F-16 military jets. The evidence showed that Dobek exchanged numerous e-mails with a member of the VAF in which they dis-cussed obtaining the F-16 canopy seals and the need to keep their operation se-cret. Dobek took other steps to conceal his illegal activity, including misidenti-fying the shipments as “t-molding” on shipping documents. As a result, Dobek sent shipments of F-16 canopy seals to a member of the VAF in Venezuela on or about Dec. 29, 2007 and Dec. 6, 2008.

In announcing this verdict, United States Attorney James L. Santelle said, “Anyone who, like Ronald Dobek, elects to violate the Arms Export Control Act and the clear regulations implementing it will be investigated exhaustively—both domestically and internation-ally—and be convicted for crimes that jeopardize the safety and the security of our nation.”

FBI launches national campaign to address laser threat to aircraft

The FBI announced a national cam-paign June 3 to deter people from point-ing lasers at aircraft, a federal violation that presents danger to pilots, passen-gers, and those on the ground. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of any individual who aims a laser at air-craft. The reward is available for 90 days in all 56 FBI field offices.

Since the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) be-gan tracking laser strikes in 2005, data shows a more than 1,100 percent in-crease in the deliberate targeting of air-craft by people with handheld lasers.

The FBI in New York continues to see a disturbing number of laser inci-dents. Many have injured pilots and their crews. The latest incident was reported May 23, 2014, by a Shuttle America pilot on approach to La Guar-

dia Airport. The Shuttle America’s cockpit was illuminated four times by a powerful green laser at 5,000 feet. The beam originated from a residential area approximately eight miles south of La Guardia.

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 212-384-1000. A reward is available for information that leads to the arrest of anyone involved in these incidents. Tipsters may remain anony-mous. The investigation is being led by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, composed of more than 50 local, state, and federal agencies.

Laser strike on a law enforcement helicopter leads to arrest

Within 36 hours of the FBI Tam-pa Field Office’s Laser Threat Public Awareness press conference, a local man was arrested for lasing a Tampa Police Department helicopter. The suspect was located and arrested on local charges shortly after the incident by TPD Of-ficers.

The incident occurred in the early morning hours of Thursday, June 5.

Tampa Police officers arrested Brad-ley Steffes, of Brandon, Fla., for shining a laser device at a Tampa Police Depart-ment helicopter.

While Officers Brian Gentry and Mark McCann were flying over the area of 50th Street and Adamo Drive, their helicopter was hit with a green laser. The pilots used the helicopter’s night vision and the FLIR detection system to guide patrol units on the ground to an indi-vidual who was entering a Dodge Ram truck parked at 5205 Adamo Drive in Tampa.

The suspect was the only individ-ual in the parking lot. The patrol units made contact with Bradley Steffes, and he consented to having his vehicle searched. During the search, officers located a laser pointer, marijuana and a glass marijuana pipe inside of Steffes’ truck. Steffes was arrested for misus-ing a laser lighting device and narcot-ics possession. He was transported to the Hillsborough County jail without incident.

SOURCE Federal Bureau of Investigation

cluding senior management, who were involved in the ap-parent violations; adopting a new Export Compliance Program; and terminating relationships with sanc-tioned banks and closing its Iranian representative office and branch.

Fokker Services’ forfeiture of $10.5 million to the Unit-ed States will settle forfeiture claims by the Department of Justice. In light of the com-pany’s remedial actions to date and its willingness to acknowledge responsibility for its actions, the U.S. Attor-ney’s Office will recommend

the dismissal of the Informa-tion in 18 months, provided Fokker Services fully cooper-ates with, and abides by, the terms of the deferred pros-ecution agreement.

In a related settlement an-nounced today by the Com-merce Department and the Treasury Department, Fok-ker Services has agreed to pay a $10.5 million civil penalty to settle charges by BIS and OFAC. The BIS settlement is subject to final review and approval by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement.

SOURCE: FBI


Connectingwith God,

Part II

Are you finding it hard to connect with the Almighty? I men-

tioned some ideals or sugges-tions in last week’s ar-ticle. I con-tinue today with some more sug-gestions. I trust these suggestions will be a blessing to you:

1. Re-spect each

human being because each human being is created in the Almighty’s image.

2. When you do an act of kindness, you are emulat-ing the Almighty. Do so fre-quently.

3. Every prayer you say, whether formal or in your own words, is an expression of con-necting with the Creator.

4. Make a blessing to thank the Creator before and after eating. This adds a spiritual dimension to the food you eat.

5. Thank your Father, Your King, for each and ev-ery breath. Since you are constantly breathing you are always connecting with the Creator.

6. Let your awareness of the Almighty’s love for you give you an inner sense of serene. Trust.

7. Developing your char-acter traits is considered “Walking in the ways of the Almighty.” Each positive step takes you far.

More on next week. Again, this information was given to me by our Jewish Chaplain, Rabbi Murray Berger, (from the newsletter entitled, “Aish HaTorah)

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