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SPRINGFIELD SCIENTIFIC SUPPLIES Scales Chemicals Lab Equipment 1 9-6 Mon-Fri • 10-5 Sat 726-9176 1124 Main St. axamtimmimanazmxag ducks do iiT ALL DAY TUESDAY 5 ALL ■ YOU CAN EAT EVERY , TUES! 1 includes I Gait»c Bread \ 1 30 am 10 pm pizza VfcT£$ ITALIAN KITCHEN 2673 Willamette • 484-0996 /canoeX rentals an huur wenther permitting • Monday - Friday, 12:30 p.m. - dusk • Sat. & Sun., 10:30 a.m. - dusk , on the mill race \ 1395 Franklin Blvd./ \346-4386/ Record-holding pilot Osterud a favorite By Lia Saiciccta t Of !?'*■ Of&fr *' fX* t l m&.i fi A favorite of military and < ml ians alike in the Kugene airshow was Joann (Kterud Famous (or her limkeit ns ord*. her 5-foot I. 100-pound frame, her amiable manner and her pen i hunt for loops, Osit-rud s a< t in the mi-show last weekend demon slraled what her press release i alls "finesse instead of innsi |i to i oax the airi rail through pre i.ise. demanding maneuvers " "Kverybodv has their own sty le, " she said You’ve got Imsi iJills all of the same mmes You got sour straight level, upside doss ii. rolls, sharp rolls, and sour leaps It's how sou put them togelher Oslerud ■ ompnres her sis ie to (ret Slsle figure skating I like to lls upside doss il a lot. said ( Klerud. svho hohls the world re< ord for inverted lligilt nan miles She's also broken tile Mi se.it old national Outside loop retold held l»s Oregonian Dorothy Hester Men/el III 1‘IH'i, ,ihose a North Hend .mdiem e that ilu lulled Slen/el lletself. (Kterud set mini-goals' (or herself She first surpassed Sten/el's n*t ord of til loops, (hen I laf Mi < lain of Houston s re* ord ol 1HU loops, then finally n-ai h**d tin- number ol 200 loops and de< ided to t all it (puts lust then, one ol her favorite songs i nine on the in-* ot kplt lajte player and she dei ided to stii k it out tor one more song and eight more loops, setting the new national rw.ortl oj ziim inverted loops "I listen to must! in the i <m k pti Didn't you hear it '" Osterud said Hut the musu and the moves are all she Hunks jljout in the air. for fly ing takes all of one's i on i entralion When Osterud is not stunting in nirshmvs she IS flying a Hoe ing 747 jet lor I huted Airlines as a i ummen ml pilot "Flying for United is like dri ving a fug luxury tnr and tins one is like my dirt hike that I ride on the weekends,' said Osterud. proudly surv ey mg her til-foot, fid horsepower engine, hlue and yellow plane nanu“d the t 'Iti mate ions Osterud admits her link m luting a tile to do what she s always wanted to do fly "Do you realize that this Sep temljer is tin 25th anniversary' of my first lesson' When 1 learned to fly. the military wouldn't take women (in their pilot programs) said Osterud who learned through private lessons Now a resident ol ( aliform.i. ( kleriid viid sin- misses the I’ai.il u Northwest w lien- she grew up I like to he here sile said ot I ugeiie I he air is i lean I tie people are friendly (ktertid vud the lineup of a< ts ill the Kugi-ne Airshoyy were "firs! i lass" When asked ahnut family and off-tiilie. Osterud flashed a grin and asked. "Off tune' What’s that' 1 used to have a i at _■ P*OIO Cry AMhon, Fomyy Eugene kids watch Northwest native Joann Osterud perform stunts In her plane Friday at the Eugene Alrshow. AIRSHOW Continued from Page 1 I ONl Tin* nirshow is rt fund-raiser for the avia lion program at lame Community ( allege While the Saturday and Sunday i rowds reached 25,000 [nmple Friday was a sper oil day open only In the military, underprivi leged kids and the media Kuls from groups like llu- Make a Wish Foundation, an organization that mati lies ter minally ill i hildren wilh their dingiest wish es got to meet heroes like the Misty Blues Skydiving team and the famous Nay v stunt pilots, the Blue Angels The military brought to Fugene a show ranging from the biggest plane built in the i ouiitry, the mammoth transport am raft C Mi Cnlaxy, to the sneakiest plane built in the i ountry. the Stealth I ighter I 11'. euphem ized by the announi er as the "hero of Desert Storm." Somewhere m the middle of that wide range were the Blue Angels, the world-famous flying team of tin* l S Navy Producing sounds that seemed apt to rip holes in the sky. tln»tr millme y\as the loudest and longest featuring sm h dazzling maneuvers ns the 4(H) mph diamond roll A favorite was the Stealth F-117 fighter, which sum k up on the < rowd from the left while the aniKHint er lamented alMiut the Pep si he spilled on his shirt While on the ground, it was taped off and guarded Ki< k Dunham, one of only 300 pilots to llv a Stealth lighter, said that yvhut makes it unique is the shape and the radar-flhsorbent material In other words, this hlai k, angular machine yy ith a vulture's beak and a swallow s tail is designed especially to prevent the enemy from delis ting its radar Hut y\ hat's more, the Stealth can place a bomb "in your c an of Hud." said the unnmim er, who also com mented on its menacing look Phe CAH (.alaw is as blatant as the Stealth is subtle for good reason. Completely empty. this airt raft weighs 400,000 pounds and is used to transport everything from smaller planes to y elm les to a group of dolphins list'd in researt h by the Navy Seals The plane seen at the airshow is from Travis Air Fon e Base in Fairfield. Calif. With maximum fuel load and i arrymgrapai ilv it i an weigh up to 800.0(H) pounds and can go from Sari Francisco to Frankfurt, Germanv m 1 i hours, said i rew t hief Frank St itivoni The plane t un lit* reftieletl in the air For the showgoer who wasn't impressed hy a military show of size and strength, they were perhaps wowed by the shosv of skill demonstrated hv civilian flyers They t ould watch Steve Wolf take the red Samson, built hv he and his yvife after a 19-18 stunt plane, through figure eights and an eight-sided loop that formed what annount ers termed a giant stop sign in the sky They i ould marvel at the spunky act. 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