---------------------------------------------------------- Tailwind-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 04/25/03: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 01:47 PM - EAA Enews (Brian Alley) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 01:47:36 PM PST US From: Brian Alley Subject: Tailwind-List: EAA Enews TailwindForum --> Tailwind-List message posted by: Brian Alley Thanks Jim C., Rick C.and Jerry H. for all your efforts to promote the Tailwind! TAILWIND GROUP TO CELEBRATE AIRCRAFT'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY AT EAA AIRVENTURE --- The year was 1953, the Experimental Aircraft Association's first, and founder Paul Poberezny was outside the hangar at Curtiss-Wright Airport, Milwaukee, talking with Steve Wittman. Soon the discussion turned to picking a more suitable name for Wittman's two-year-old airplane design. "He called it the Flying Carpet," Paul recalls. "I said, 'Well, it's fast,' and Steve said, "Maybe like a tail wind?' Now that, I told him, would be the proper name for the airplane." Fifty years later, the Tailwind Group, an Internet-formed group of owners, will celebrate the airplane's 50th birthday at-where else-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. http://www.airventure.org/2003/news/tailwind.html ................................................................. ===== BRIAN ALLEY (N320WT) How are you going to win by a nose if you don't stick out your neck? http://search.yahoo.com