What’s New and Things to Celebrate
June 14, 2020 Car Club Visit
Wow where did all of these cars come from? A nice group visited N85 with their cars. Vio brought out his gyro-copter and Sal had his C-182 at the pumps so we had a nice 2 hour presentation for the 30 plus cars/drivers.
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Jersey Devil Dusters LLC. “seeded” local farmer fields through the USDA Federal Program. Three planes / pilots and a few phone calls to explain what was going on.
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Professor Ronke Olabisi’s biomedical engineering class experiences negative gravity in a Cessna-172.
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Linda and Fran with Prof. Haim Baruh from Rutgers at the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium meeting held at the College of New Jersey.
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Linda Fritsche Castner Induction into the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame on Nov. 12, 2018. Here with Pat Watts from the FAA.
read moreSeptember, 2018 Downstown Aero
Downstown Aero spent several days at N85 dropping nutrients into the soil for local farmers.
read moreMay 3, 2018 Rutgers Students at N85
Rutgers students from Ronki Olabisi’s Biomedical Engineering for Astrospace Class learn about parabolic flight with CFI Rob Griffin.
read moreApril 27, 2018 NASA Space Grant Consortium Meeting
NASA Space Grant Consortium Meeting – Linda and Fran attended at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ
read moreApril 1, 2018 ChartArt – METARS
The N85 Aerospace Club worked this winter on a project called ChartART. METARS are downloaded from FAA.gov weather and shown in real time at the airport to assist pilots in gathering local flight VFR and IFR conditions. Thank you to Bill Shay for all of his leadership and expertise on this project.
read moreJanuary 2018 Sophia Wins EAA Scholarship
Congratulations to Sophia Shay: N85 flight student, N85 Aerospace Club Student Management Board.
read moreSeptember 21, 2017 Tucker Won the Icarus Race
Tucker makes all of us proud – he is an Alexandria Field private pilot, camper, club member, and now a nationally recognized paramotor champion!
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Chuck Owen, co-owner/operator of Skydive Jersey gets interviewed for WNBC ch. 4, New York.
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The DYNAMITE room had it’s first visitation by a tour of 27 pre-schoolers – lots of fun!
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Rutgers Professor, Ronke Olabisi brought two of her Bio-Medical Engineering students to N85 to experience parabolic flight with RU alumnus Bill Fritsche.
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Our new snowblower has been rebuilt and is just waiting for the snow. Congrats to Bill and John for all the work.
read moreJanuary 28, 2017
Thanks to Orville Williamson for refurbishing some old C-152 seats for our Flight Simulator.
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