Hangar Hash: Prop Wash (Kahlua)

Ingredients
9 tsp. instant coffee
2 1/2 cups sugar
4 cups water
3 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups vodka

Simmer uncovered for 3 hours. Add vanilla and vodka.

Recipe by Shanelle Ham

Hangar Hash: Prop Wash (Irish Yum)

Ingredients
1 jigger Irish Cream Liqueur
1/2 cup hot coffee
1/4 cup coffee ice cream

Put a teaspoon in a wine glass and half fill with boiling water. Pour out and add the Liqueur and coffee. Top with some ice cream.

Hangar Hash: Prop Wash (Holiday Punch)

Holiday Punch
Ingredients
1 liter Tahitian Treat
1 liter ginger ale
1 quart pineapple juice
1/2 gallon lime or raspberry sherbert (or ice)

Put sherbet in punch bowl and pour remaining ingredients over.

Recipe by Shanelle Ham

PR: Wicks Aircraft Supplies Hardware Kit for Onex Exciting single-seater now easier to source

Wicks Aircraft Supplies Hardware Kit for Onex: Exciting single-seater now easier to source
Wicks Aircraft Supply, located in the heart of the Lower 48, has reached an
agreement with Oshkosh-based Sonex Aircraft to supply the hardware kits for
their popular new Onex (pronounced "one-x").

The low-cost aerobatic plane is the latest offering from the Wisconsin
company, and since its Oshkosh introduction in 2011, the folding-wing Onex
has shown that the single-place market is more viable than many have
recently thought, bringing low-cost and efficiency back into fun, personal
flying.

"We're happy to provide the convenience of a one-stop hardware source for
Onex builders," said Scott Wick, President of Wicks Aircraft, which also
provides tools, finishes, instruments, and maintenance items to builders on
an á la carte basis. "The Onex is a fun, finishable project, and we're here
to help make sure builders have the proper high-quality parts they need, as
soon as they want them."

Mark Schaible, General Manager of Sonex Aircraft, said, "We are pleased to
have Wicks Aircraft continue their long-standing support of our builders by
adding hardware for our newest kit, the Onex, to their experimental aircraft
hardware kit offerings. Wicks has been a great partner through the years,
offering great customer service to our factory and to our customers around
the world. The Onex is an extremely easy to build aircraft, and purchasing
hardware from a one-stop source such as Wicks makes building it just that
much simpler."

Wicks Aircraft Supply has been serving aircraft builders and maintainers
since 1974 from its headquarters in Highland, Illinois (near St Louis).
Quality product and fast, experienced, excellent customer service have kept
the Wicks base loyal, even as new aviation enthusiasts continue to discover
the Wicks Experience.

info@wicksaircraft.com

PR: Sam LS: Modern Retro LSA Takes Shape

Sam LS: Modern Retro LSA Takes Shape
Concept Unveiled at Sebring; Airplane to Show at Oshkosh

The Sam LS exhibit at the Sebring show gathered a lot of interest: here was a modern LSA design that looked like a WWII trainer, but promised modern economy, comfort, reliability, and repairability to match good air manners. A truly interesting design… but only a design. That is changing fast, as the conforming prototype takes place near Montréal, in Québec, Canada.

The semi-monocoque aluminum design with a 4130 steel protective cockpit cage, is a classic-looking tandem low-wing standard or tricycle gear monoplane that can accommodate two pilots, each 6’6” tall.

Single-pilot operations (from the front seat) take advantage of the glass cockpit with its 10’’ Dynon Skyview and back-up instruments; the ubiquitous 100hp Rotax 912S provides power through its industry-leading composite ground-adjustable Sensenich prop.

One of the versatile features of the design is its ability to carry any of three different outboard wing designs, so that individual owners can choose to optimize cross-country, short field, or high-lift characteristics. With any of the wing configurations, the Sam LS will meet LSA and the Canadian AULA standards.

Thierry Zibi, who served in the French Air Force and is a US-degreed MBA, founded HAIM Aviation to produce “…an airplane that marries the thrill of yesterday’s style to today’s convenience, performance, and reliability. The Sam LS will be economical to fly and maintain; its performance will match the class limits; and its utility is concealed by its striking retro looks.

“It is both practical and unique, appealing to pilots who love to fly and who want to fly something ‘cool,’ an important factor that’s simply left out of common Light Sport Aircraft.”

The HAIM Aviation team worked hard to achieve a good balance between weight and occupant protection, a perennial question in structure design, and “The cage-in-monocoque system of the Sam LS demonstrates an elegant answer,” said Thierry.

Acknowledging that it is unusual to show a project in progress rather than to simply sell the completed item, he continued, “I want people to know that the Sam LS project is real – it’s not just the dream of ‘some guy with a computer.’ I want enthusiasts to follow our progress, to ask questions, to get involved all along the way – to become part of our team.”

The Sam LS will be unveiled at Oshkosh 2012. Introductory price of the ready to fly version will be US $135,000. There’s to be a bonus for the first 5 orders: more than $4,000 in additional equipment, including leather interior, 600X6 tires, complete dual controls, and a 7'' Dynon screen for the rear-seater.

Contact:
HAIM Aviation Inc.
100 Boulevard Bradford, Building B
Lachute, QC, J8H-3R8

Canada
www.haim-aviation.com

Hangar Hash: Prop Wash (Instant Spiced Tea Mix)

Prop Wash: Instant Spiced Tea Mix
Ingredients
2 c. orange Tang
1 5.5 oz envelope instant lemonade
3/4 c. unsweetened instant tea
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon

Combine all ingredients thoroughly. Will keep indefinitely in a tightly covered container.

Recipe by Leesa Oakes

Marie Colvin: RIP

Marie Colvin was a journalist rather than a pilot, but her life of courage is one to be celebrated. Many journalists have lost their lives covering wars and uprisings and terrorist activity around the world. Marie Colvin joins that august company.

New York Daily News: Marie Colvin, American-born journalist killed in Syria, remembered as fearless
Marie Colvin, an American war reporter killed in a mortar strike in Syria Tuesday, is being remembered by colleagues as one of the bravest foreign correspondents of the current generation.

Raised in the Oyster Bay area of Long Island, Colvin attended Yale University before starting her career as an overnight crime reporter for the United Press Agency in New York City.

She later moved overseas to work as a foreign correspondent for Britain’s Sunday Times, where she reported for the past two decades.

TWO WAR CORRESPONDENTS KILLED IN SYRIA

"Marie was an extraordinary figure in the life of The Sunday Times, driven by a passion to cover wars in the belief that what she did mattered," Sunday Times editor John Witherow said in a statement.

"But she was much more than a war reporter. She was a woman with a tremendous joie de vivre, full of humour and mischief and surrounded by a large circle of friends, all of whom feared the consequences of her bravery."

Colvin, 57, was renowned for her fearless reporting from notorious war zones including Afghanistan, the Balkans, Baghdad, Beirut, Chechnya, East Timor, Libya and Sri Lanka, where she lost an eye after being hit with shrapnel in a 2001 attack.

"So, was I stupid? Stupid I would feel writing a column about the dinner party I went to last night," she wrote in the Sunday Times after the attack in Sri Lanka. "Equally, I'd rather be in that middle ground between a desk job and getting shot, no offense to desk jobs.

"For my part, the next war I cover, I'll be more awed than ever by the quiet bravery of civilians who endure far more than I ever will. They must stay where they are; I can come home to London."

Colvin married and divorced twice. She had no children.

Colleagues said she spent her life defending and reporting on the plight of women and children in insufferable war zones.

"She was among the greatest human beings I have ever met because she was always on the side of truth. She was always on the side of the oppressed. She never once tired. She never once faltered. All that mattered to Marie was the truth," American journalist T.D. Allman wrote in the Daily Beast on Wednesday.

She was believed to be the only British journalist in Homs - and was last seen making the media rounds eerily close to her death. In an appearance on the BBC on Tuesday night, she described seeing a baby die in front of her. And in her last report published in the Sunday Times over the weekend she wrote that people in the besieged Syrian city were, "waiting for a massacre."

The scale of human tragedy in the city is immense," she wrote. "The inhabitants are living in terror. Almost every family seems to have suffered the death or injury of a loved one."

Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director of the Human Rights Watch told Britain's Telegraph newspaper it never occurred to Colvin to evacuate the war zone.

"Just yesterday, after she filed her news story, one of the first things Marie Colvin did was get in touch to tell me just how horrible the situation was in Homs. It was vintage Marie Colvin -- I could just imagine her happily chatting away with me as the shells fell around her building, and being totally in her element," he said. "She was one of the most fearless and dedicated ... reporters I have ever met, and someone I looked up to as a hero and an inspiration."

Colvin shrugged off her many accolades and awards and was known for her quick wit, laughter and for being the life of any party, Sky News defense and security editor Sam Kiley wrote.

"She was, however, never coarse. Always elegant. She did not get around to having children but yearned for them without bitterness," he wrote. "Her maternal warmth was so gentle and magnetic than when she played with my toddlers years ago in Jerusalem, it was all I could do to resist giving her one to take home."

Her death, according to the Telegraph, was something she never saw as too big of a price to pay to report the truth.

"Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice," she said at a ceremony honoring foreign journalists in 2010. "We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

"Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price."