Mon, Jun 21, 2004
Aircraft Will Be Built By High School Aeronautics Students
Over the next two years, students at
Norwalk High School in Corona (CA) will be earning credits toward
graduation by helping build a Stolp Starduster. Aircraft Spruce
& Specialty is contributing plans and all the materials needed
to build a complete airframe for the famous aerobatic biplane. The
project is under the direction of Tim Hanna, a CFII, who heads up
Norwalk’s Aeronautics Academy for high school students.
Hanna had already established ground school courses for private
pilot and instrument ratings. The school will now create courses in
aircraft construction, to include welding, woodworking, fabric and
painting. Separate courses will be established in avionics and
powerplant maintenance.
The goal is to eventually cover all aspects of aviation
including ground support, airport management, flight training,
aircraft construction, as well as refurbishment and maintenance.
Hanna’s desire is to provide opportunities for young people
to become involved in aviation when they are still contemplating a
possible career instead of already pursuing one.
"The aeronautics program at Norwalk
High School is a very exciting, very positive development, said
Aircraft Spruce President Jim Irwin. "Aircraft Spruce is pleased to
support this visionary opportunity for young students. It’s
our sincere hope that by providing an airframe kit to the
aeronautics academy at Norwalk, they will continue to develop a
full-fledged aeronautical program that hopefully, many other high
schools in this country will emulate. The aeronautics program is a
perfect compliment to EAA’s Young Eagles program. We applaud
Tim Hanna for undertaking it and for drawing young people into
aviation."
Noting that it was one of his students who set the aircraft
construction program in motion with a phone call to editor Lyn
Freeman, Tim Hanna said: "I feel like I’ve won the State
Lottery. I had no idea that the student would move so quickly in
response to an article he read and never would have believed that
Aircraft Spruce would come forth so quickly. It provides us with a
tremendous opportunity for expansion and the students,
understandably, are thrilled and eager to get started."
In addition to the Aeronautics Academy embedded in the Norwalk
High School curriculum, there are additional academies dealing with
business and medical science.
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