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Chris Polhemus
Many of you may know Chris Polhemus either directly or indirectly. If you have attended some of our past Aviation Days events, perhaps you have taken a ride in his historic red and white Stearman bi-plane. Deservingly so, Chris was recently honored with the prestigious Wright Bros. Master Pilot Award. To read all about it, Click On This Link. Heart felt congratulations Chris! See a few pictures from the event below.
Original Pilot Register
We were fortunate to find and copy this Pilots Register from the 1940’s and 50’s. It contains many names of folks who flew into the Greene County Airport (KWAY) back in the days of Cubs and Taylorcrafts. For those of you who have been around for a while, with more sand in the bottom of your life’s hourglass than in the top, you may recognize the name of a very famous woman aviator who once made a visit to our airport. To see the entire register, click on the picture to the right. For the local crowd, you may find the name of an uncle or grandparent, or other aviator you may have known.
Is Neil Armstrong checking to see if he has his wallet?
On July 24, 1969, the first humans to land on the moon, the Apollo 11 crew, had to fill out a customs form (at the Honolulu Airport in Hawaii) before reentering the United States. One wonders if they had to pay any duty on those moon rocks? Be mindful of your altitude when seeing how high you can coax that Cessna 172 into reaching, you may find United States Customs and Border Protection waiting for you when you return!
Click on the picture to read the actual form. It’s a real piece of history, and yes, astronauts today must do the same thing, though it may be some time before anyone will be declaring moon rocks.
Another interesting bit of Apollo 11 info. The first ever navigation computer, the Apollo Guidance Computer weighed 70 pounds and had 72kb of memory, which means it could not even store a single average cell phone picture today.