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8 Wednesday, October 11, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon AVIATION: Class took field trip to Madras museum Continued from page 3 any aircraft — with flight instructor Lansburgh in the right seat coaching. As they were lined up for the Madras runway for land- ing, Lansburgh told Beatty to keep his hands on the con- trol wheel and feel the way things work on landing. “All you gotta do is keep it lined up on the runway and let it down slowly once the power is off,” Lansburgh said. Five years ago, Benny and Julie Benson’s daugh- ter Cammi took a Young Eagles flight at Madras Airport. Later, she got the online ground school access sponsored through EAA’s Sporty’s Flight Shop. While Julie was looking over her shoulder, it occurred to her that this program could be used as a curriculum for a class at Sisters High School, at no cost to the school. Benson didn’t know how to start a class at the high school, but met with fellow pilot and high school teacher Jon Renner. He liked the idea, and added the class to the SHS schedule with him as the teacher. There were seven students who signed up for the first flight sci- ence class. Renner taught the class for two years before he retired. To put the flight time into the SHS Flight Science class, the Bensons purchased a Cessna 172 airplane that could be used for training, and that was really the start of Outlaw Aviation. Brian Lansburgh, CFI, began teaching SHS students in the Outlaw 172, and stepped in to teach the class at SHS for a year when Renner retired. The students’ flight museum experience was all that anyone could expect, and more. Every aircraft in the museum is airworthy and can be rolled out the hanger door, started up and with a qualified pilot at the controls, go off into the wild blue yon- der. This was impressive to the students who read the information boards beside the nine-ton Republic P-47 Thunderbolt of World War II fame. One big hit was the stu- dents’ discovery of a World War II U.S. Army Air Force fire truck named “Outlaw.” Everyone climbed aboard, with aviation science teacher Yeager in the cab and Monte posing by the front fender. And of course, the lusty art- work on the noses of several World War II aircraft caught the attention of many of the students. It was a full day of fly- ing and “hanger talk” for the SHS Outlaw Aviation class, with discussions of the roles of the aircraft in the Erickson Aircraft Museum had in the long saga of the history of aviation in the USA and the exciting and heart-breaking times of World War II. As plane-pool pilot John Dunlop pulled up on the ramp, one of the students who left his hefty Cessna 180 was Ryan Ilmberger, a young man who already has over 10 hours of flight time — thanks to his dad who is certified in just everything that can fly, from fixed wing to rotary wing. Ryan’s mom, Lonnie, was waiting for him, and as she watched him walk up to her she shared this thought: “Aviation classes in the high school? Wow! That was our reaction when we were looking for a high school for our son, Ryan. We’re from the San Francisco Bay Area PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON SHS sophomore Delsie McCrystal at the controls of Julie Benson’s Cessna Skymaster with FAA certified flight instructor Brian Lansburgh looking on. and the high schools there were not the right place for our son. “We visited the school in May and turned in the papers for Sisters High School and also Sisters Middle School for our daughter, Alli, in WE’RE NOT JUST TIRES! We do... Alignments, Brakes, Shocks, Struts, CV Joints, U Joints, Axle Shafts, Drivelines, & Tire Siping ...not only cars, but trailers, too! DAVIS TIRE 549-9388 188 W. 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