Randy Voll, Director of Aviation Technology at Ivy
Tech's HUF campus supervises students Johs Gray,
center, and Mark Collins, right in installing an
aircraft engine.
The Indiana Safety Seminar was held March 11, 2006 for the third year in the Aviation Technology School at Hulman International Airport, Terre Haute, IN. This is also the Terre Haute Ultralight Club’s third year of sponsoring the seminar.
New School Director Randy Voll made us feel welcome again, greeting the work committee Friday night and spending an hour with us during our preparation for the seminar, making sure we had every thing we needed and just joining in the camaraderie. The recent storm damage to the facility did not affect the seminar at all.
Bob Bedwell again chaired the committee organizing the seminar and if you thanked any of the members of committee other than Bob for their work you might well have heard them say, “Thanks, but Bob did most of the work.” Bob, says, “I all I did was appoint good people to do the various assignments.” Makes you wish the world could be run this way.
Thanks to everyone who pitched in, to the other clubs who offered help, and to the over 100 people who attended despite the pouring rain that started off the day.
Committee member Lynn Walton greets Lonny Vieck, the first person to sign in for our seminar at shortly after 8 AM. A CFI at Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN, Lonny teaches in a Skyboy, a Challenger, and a Piper Apache.
Enjoying coffee and hangar flying before the seminar are Dale Barkley of rural Paris, IL, and Terry Brentlinger and Niles Newton of Terre Haute. All three are members of The Terre Haute Ultralight Club.
Brothers Tom and Jim Virostko and Jerry Manley drove down from Rosedale, IN, where the fly PPC’s from their own strips.
John Seifert, right, asked presenter Dan Grunloh to sit for this picture. John said he especially liked the views of the Avon Valley, aka Shakespeare Country, which Dan flew over during microlight competition in England in 2003.
After MC Lester Morrison adjourned the seminar about 4:30, Randy Voll, director of the aviation school invited us to a demonstration of the jet engines the school uses in their training. With the promise of hearing the engines fire up, a good crowd followed Randy to the apron outside the hangar. Voll warned us to protect our ears before he started the engines and a good thing too, given the whine and screech and roar that followed. A small engine not pictured, Voll and an assistant allowed to begin pushing itself across the concrete before he closed the throttle.
This is the larger of
the two engines demonstrated. It is a General Electric T58 which
generates up to 1500 horepower and can continuously run at over 1000
horsepower. This particular engine was one of two that powered a US
Coast Guard HH3 Skiorsky Helicopter named the Pelican.