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On December 17, 1925, exactly22years aer the rst ight ofthe Wrightbrothers, T. Higbee Embryand JohnPaul Riddle signed a contract to forma companyin their names. Embrywaspresident and Riddle was general man-ager and chiefpilot. In early1926, theybecame a distributor ofWACO aircrafor the Advance AircraCompanyandoperated fromthe Lunken Airport inCincinnati, Ohio. e Embry-Riddle

Companywas the rst commercial avia-tion concern to move into Lunken Fieldand Cincinnatis second aviation com-panyto date.

e lifeblood of the Embry-RiddleCompanywas its airmail contract and

passenger service. In November1927,it secured a contract with the U.S. PostOce Department with a bid of $1.47per pound, becoming Cincinn

atis rstregular airmail carrier.Passenger ights began on

December 17, 1927, with one dailyroundtrip from Cincinnati to Chicagovia Indianapolis (534 total ight miles)By July1929, service increased to threedailyights. To boost passenger loads,

the company reduced its airfare to$14.85 in January1930, resulting incarrying a record 3,745 passengersover the next seven months.Historicalfacts continuedonpage nine.

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e most important thing Ivelearned during my 34 years of serviceto Embry-Riddle is that the rich-ness of the universitys history comesfrom the people within it. e storiesand life experiences of our alumniand those who have taught them formore than 80 years are what make ourlegacy come alive.

In this inaugural issue of theWings of Legacynewsletter, we hope

to share that vibrant heritage withyou. By featuring special stories likeour interview with alumnus and for-mer Delta Captain Bill Pitts, and thecolorful 1927 account from our ar-chive collection of one budding pilotsstruggle with the dreaded stall andspin, we want to bring great momentsin Embry-Riddle history to life.

We also hope to reconnect withfriends weve lost touch with over theyears. Check out our Legacy Linkson pages 14 and 15 to see what fellowclassmates and instructors have beenup to. If you like, you can even send

us your information to include infuture issues (see page 15 for details).

included an envelope for your com-ments and suggestions, and we urgeyou to send us your photographsand treasured memories for possiblepublication or inclusion in the ar-chives. Also, dont forget to enter theMystery History contest featuredon page 12. Your active participationhelps us preserve the Embry-Riddlelegacy.

Finally, as you enjoyWings of

Legacy, we encourage you to perusethe archives online and discover foryourself even more of our fascinatinghistory at www.erau.edu/archives.Wehave provided some suggested topicsfor your online archive search on pagethree.

We are very proud to call you analumnus and friend of Embry-Riddle.Whether you were an instructor,received ight or maintenance train-ing from us during the WWII era,or graduated from Daytona Beach,Prescott, or the Worldwide campus,you are our legacy. You are the rea-

son we enjoy the reputation thatmakes Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

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ousands of Embry-Riddle pho-tographs and other visual memorabil-ia are available for free public viewing

online. Go to www.erau.edu/archivesand type in keywords to search thearchive database. You will nd thou-sands of photos of everything relat-ing to Embry-Riddle from 1926 untiltoday, including:

tVintage aircra, including WACO,

Curtiss Jenny, Velie Monocoupe,Flamingoes, seaplanes, Ford,Stearman, and Piper Cub

tOriginal Embry-Riddle Companyheadquarters at Lunken Field inCincinnati, Ohio

tAirmail operations in the 1920s

tSeaplane operations in Miami, Fla.

tFlight training facilities from the1940s in South Florida, includingDorr Field and Carlstrom Field, andUnion City, Tenn.

tBritish Flying Training School No. 5

in Clewiston, Fla.

tMaintenance, Engine Overhaul, andRepair and other facilities at theColiseum in Coral Gables, Fla.

tTechnical Aviation School in SaoPaulo, Brazil (Escola Tecnica deAviacao)

tResidential campuses in DaytonaBeach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz.

tPeople in our history: John Paul

Riddle, T. Higbee Embry, Len Povey,John and Isabel McKay, Jack Hunt,James Blakeley

If you haveany photosyou would liketo submit for

inclusion inthe UniversityArchives, pleasesend them to:

Kevin MontgomeryDirector of the Archives386-226-6296

E-mail:[email protected]

FLY PAPER FUNNIES

is cartoon was featured in the July

1941, edition of Embry-Riddles

newspaper, called the Fly Paper.

e insert at the bottom reads:

OUR NEW PRIMARY TRAINER


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J A FHis personal account of ighttraining in 1927

e following excerpts are taken fromMr. Fields personal daily accounts of

his ight training from August 15 to

September 8, 1927. He most likely

trained in a WACO No. 9 or 10 biplane,

the most common trainer used by the

original Embry-Riddle Flying School at

Lunken Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.Tuesday, August 30, 1927

... Instructor Harris took me upagain today. Practiced more turns andthen banking with power o. Camedown and started practicing take-os. e second time I had trouble

keeping the plane straight while I wastaxiing. When we came down for thelast time, Harris had me try to judgewhen to cut the gun for a landing. So

I circled the eld and started to bringthe ship down. By more luck thanbrains, I cut the gun at just theright time within a few feet of theground when Harris took the stickand set the ship down

Wednesday, August 31, 1927

Practiced more landings thismorning. Some were good, somerotten. I am inclined to forget aboutusing stick and rudder together, thatis coordinately. I feel a little discour-aged. Dont know whether I will everlearn to y or not

ursday, September 1, 1927Made landings, but as usual did

not do so very good. But I am begin-ning to get the idea. I think that I amtrying to learn too fast. But I mustkeep on trying until I can land aplane.

Went up this p.m. for some realwork. Stalls and spins. Vine was in-structing. He took o and then gaveme the stick. Climbed to 3,000 feet. Hecut the gun so that I could hear himtalk, and he told me to follow thru ona spin. He spun it twice and then cameout of it. Now right here is where I

darn near lost my nerve. It made meso panicky, I was ready to throw up the


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quit now as I do not think I can everdo it.

Vine saw my le hand hold-ing onto the side of the fuselage. He

gured that I was scared, so he merelytook my hand o the brace and put iton the throttle where it should be. Ashe did this, he smiled at me.

Now here is where a strange thinghappened. As he placed my hand onthe throttle, I, for some reason un-

known to myself, suddenly regainedmy condence. I said to myself, I willbe damned if I quit cold like that. Iam not yellow, and no one is going tosay that I am if I can help it. I cameout here to learn how to y and tailspins are a part of the game.

I cut the gun, pulled back on

the stick, and as the nose came up, Ishoved the stick over to the le and

as a ash straight ahead on the stickand then right back on the stick. eplane came out of it immediately.

I climbed to 3,000 feet again and

made three more spins. It did not botherme a bit. In fact, I began to like it.

By this time all my condencehad returned, and I knew that I hadconquered my worst fear. It certainlycheered me up to think that I did notdevelop a yellow streak. I would sure

hate to be called a quitter.Wednesday, September 7, 1927

Went up with Harris for more land-ings. Got along good. He said I couldgo solo in the morning. Believe me, Icertainly felt good aer hearing that.

ursday, September 8, 1927

Still doing landings. en Harrisclimbed out of the ship and told me to


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Known as the father of themodern aviation university, Jack R.

Hunt is considered the visionary pio-neer of aviation higher learning. Asfounding President of Embry-RiddleAeronautical University, Hunt trans-formed a small, for-prot corporationinto the only non-prot, fully accred-ited university in the world exclusive-

ly dedicated to aviation and aerospaceeducation. Under his leadership, theuniversity grew from an institutewith under 500 students in 1963 toone with two residential campuses,over 130 teaching centers, and nearly35,000 students worldwide today.Hunt established a unique legacy in

the aviation and aerospace industry,as well as a time-honored place inEmbry-Riddles history.

Hunt was born on May 17, 1918,in Iowa and grew up in California.He joined the U.S. Navy in 1942and received both lighter-than-air

and heavier-than-air naval aviationtraining. During World War II, Huntserved as an airship ight instructorand a free balloon ight instructorat Moett Field in California, as wellas commanding ocer of the air-ship maintenance squadron. From1953 to 1956, he served as a develop-ment ocer for the ZX-11 AirshipAnti-Submarine Warfare Squadron

of airships in adverse weather con-ditions. On March 4, 1957, Hunt,commanding the ZPG-2 airshipSnowbird, took o with a crew of14 in a snowstorm and carried out anon-stop ight of over 9,400 statutemiles. ey ew from Massachusetts

to Europe, Portugal, and Africa, andfrom the Canary Islands to PuertoRico, the Bahamas, and Cuba beforereaching Key West in 264 hours and14 minutes. e Snowbird set twoworld records for staying alo longerand ying farther without refuelingthan any other airship. ese recordsremain unsurpassed. For this accom-plishment Commander Hunt re-

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Bill Pitts has been around air-planes all his life. His father ew in

the Air Force, and his mother wasone of the rst female pilots in thecountry. It was no surprise that aerhigh school Bill found his way tothe Aviation Building at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute (ERAI)in Miami, Fla.

e minute I walked into theChicken Coop [a fond nickname],I knew I had found a home, Pittsrecalled. He received his Aircra andEngine license in 1960.

Pitts recently discussed how hedecided to support Embry-Riddlesfuture by establishing a testamentarygi to include the university inhis will.

Q:How did your experience at Embry-Riddle inuence your career path?

Pitts: A great degree of my success isbecause of what I learned at Embry-Riddle. United Airlines hired me

before I even graduated, and I ewthe DC-3 and DC-6. I had a 35-year

career as a pilot with Delta, ying theB-727 for 23 years; then I retired in2000 as a senior international captainying the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.

Q:How did you decide to supportEmbry-Riddle philanthropically?

Pitts: It was actually my wifes idea.She knew I had a special fondnessfor Embry-Riddle, and she sug-gested I donate part of my estate tohelp students. I contacted the personwho handles estate planning in theDevelopment Oce. Since I live inMiami and could easily make a trip to

Daytona Beach, we arranged for meto visit the campus. I was very im-pressed to see how far the universityhad come. I remember saying, If Ihad had this campus when I went toEmbry-Riddle, I could have gone tothe moon.

Q:How did you include Embry-Riddlein your will?

Pitts: e university helped me createthe Bill Pitts Endowed Scholarship.ey have specic guidelines thatmake it easy. Aer I approved it, Igave it to my attorney who included it

in my trust and in my will.Q:What are the terms of the scholar-

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committee will award $2,500 to asophomore, junior, or seniornota freshman. I want to see somelevel of dedication. Since ighttraining is near and dear to my

heart, I also want the recipient tobe a student in the AeronauticalScience program.

Q: How does it make you feel thatyou will be supporting Embry-Riddle students aer youre gone?

Pitts: I was a C student in high

school, but I got straight As allthe way through Embry-Riddle,because I enjoyed every single daythere. I want to support studentswho have that kind of commit-ment. Its also important to me tohelp students who really need it. Iknow what its likeI worked 40

hours a week, I went to school 30hours a week. Plus I was buildingight time at Tursair Inc. becauseI couldnt aord Embry-Riddle. Iwould have been grateful to get ascholarship back then, and I recog-nize the need now. I am proud to

be able to support Embry-Riddlestudents of tomorrow.

Q:What would you say to someonewho is considering an estate gi toEmbry-Riddle?

Pitts: I know most alumni havekids and grandkids, and of course

you have to take care of your familyrst. But, if they feel at all the same

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Air Pilots

During the winter of 1928,Embry-Riddle had a ying basketbalteam called the Air Pilots. eywere described as the rst all-pilotteam in the country, and the rstteam which will y to its out of towngames, within a 100-mile radius. Insome cases, the team planned to y information to their game. Find morehistorical photos atwww.erau.edu/archives.

Air MailIn the picture below, a WACO

JTO Taperwing of the Embry-RiddleCompany is being loaded with airmaon a snow-covered eld. To sustainits airmail contract in the 1930s, 50people were employed, including sixpilots.


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In 1978, Embry-RiddleAeronautical University expanded to

the west with the acquisition of theformer Prescott College in Arizona.Ocially declared bankrupt onDecember 8, 1974, Prescott Collegeoered over 500 acres of land andfacilities already in place that couldserve well for the future growth ofEmbry-Riddle.

e objective was to establish asecond campus to complement the

this was an investmentthat would potentiallybecome a future en-dowment for the uni-versity. It would alsoprovide the necessary

land to grow and de-velop Embry-Riddleover time, as studentenrollments on theDaytona Beach cam-pus steadily reachedcapacity.

Transforming

Prescott College toreect the world-classaeronautical universi-ty Embry-Riddle hadcome to be known

as, was, nevertheless, a monumentalchallenge and a time-sensitive one.

With the formal transfer of PrescottCollege to Embry-Riddle in late April1978, faculty, sta, and administra-tion had only months to complete theminimum repairs, renovations, andreorganization required before thestart of the fall semester.

With only an Aeronautical Science

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inadequate facilities and nancialstruggles, the Prescott Campus gradu-ally evolved into a rst-rate aeronauti-cal institution, in large part due to thesteadfast commitment and coopera-tion of the administration, faculty,

and sta.Library Director Sarah omassaid that despite the challengesinvolved in developing the PrescottCampus, faculty and sta had a ercedetermination and an enthusiasmfor success: We loved it. We enjoyedit. We had so much pride and love

in this little out-of-the-way place

in Prescott, Arizona. e studentshad such spirit and vitality that youwanted to do it for them and for theirparents. It was a new endeavor, a newenterprise, and people wanted to bepart of it, said omas.

e Prescott Campus has madeconsistent eorts to keep pace withindustry advances and demands inorder to meet the increasing expecta-tions of its student population and tosustain its enrollment numbers.

rough the generosity of privatedonors, federal funding, and tuition

dollars, Embry-Riddles University ofthe West has evolvedinto a dynamic, thriv-ing institution, com-mitted to deliveringa rst-rate educationbetting Embry-

Riddle AeronauticalUniversitys nationaland internationalreputation.

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Are you an Embry-Riddle history bu? See if you know these history mysteries,then test your knowledge with our Mystery History Contest question below. Findthousands of Embry-Riddle historical photos at www.erau.edu/archives.

Question: Where is John Paul Riddlestanding with a Velie Monocoupein 1928?

Question: Why was this cadet beingthrown in the pool at Embry-RiddlesCarlstrom Field near Arcadia, Fla., inthe 1940s?

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In the 1940s, Embry-Riddle established a technical school near Miami, Fla.,to meet the demand for military technical training. At its peak, there were 385instructors producing 200 army technical trainees each week.Question: What was the name of the facility and where was it located?

TO WIN:Write your answer on the envelope ap inside this newsletter and mailit to us by December 1, or e-mail:[email protected] to enter a drawing for an

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by Matthew Brasmer

Every aviator knows that a suc-cessful ight begins with a thoroughpreight.

A ight instructor once said,Even though you cannot predicteverything about the ight, goodplanning brings the future into thepresent, where you can do somethingabout it now. During the preight,options are examined and plans are

made to address a variety of what ifscenarios. Everyday lifelike yingis unpredictable.

I have the best job at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. As agi planner, I am privileged to helppeople think about and act on theirhopes for our students and the futureof aviation and aerospace.

A donor who recently created a gifor endowed scholarships said in hiswill, By making this gi, I know that ina tangible way I will be helping to trainthe engineers and professionals whowill be directly involved with manned

ights to Mars, the moons of Jupiter,and beyond. at is a very exciting andmeaningful investment for me.

Well-considered planned givingis not always about the far future. Giplans can be craed to benet do-nors, their spouse and family, and ourstudents today. You can create a githat will generate a guaranteed in-

t f th d ti f

Sound complicated? It can seemso. All good gi planning begins withthe straightforward question: Whatwould you like to accomplish withyour assets that would be the mostmeaningful to you and will benetyour family and others?

I encourage you to think aboutthe preight of your legacy at leastonce a year. It provides a healthy

outlook on life while ensuring thatthe details of your own hopes arenot forgotten. is Chinese proverbprovides meaningful guidance: If

you are planning for a year, sow rice;if you are planning for a decade, planttrees; if you are planning for a lifetime,educate people.

Matthew Brasmer is the director of major

and planned gis for Embry-Riddle

Aeronautical University. A former Navy

commander and naval aviator, he hasworked for several major Wall Street


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L L .............Bill Bottle1944, Embry-Riddle Field, Union City, Tenn.

Bill attended primary ight school in class44-H at the Riddle-McKay Aero Institute ofTennessee (see picture below). He said he madegood friends at Union City, and the class-rooms and training were excellent. Bill servedin the Army Air Corps, instructing cadets inthe T-6 in South Carolina. He ew the B-24 inTennessee and the B-29 in Alabama, then wasassigned to the 325th Troop Carrier Squadronin Germany, ying the C-47. He ferried the L-4Piper Cub from Germany to Denmark, thenreturned to the United States in 1947, yingthe T-6, B-25, B-26, and C-45. In 1951, he wasrecalled to the Air Force as a scheduling ocer.As a civilian, he spent 50 years as a manufactur-

er representative in the automotive aer-marketuntil he retired in 1997. At age 85, he still iesthe Cessna 182 as a major in the Civil Air Patrolin South Florida. In 2005, Bill received the FAAMaster Pilot Award for 50 years of violation-free ying. He and his wife Betty live in BocaRaton, and enjoy their four children, 12 grand-children, and 19 great-grandchildren.

Marjorie Carpenter1944, Riddle Aeronautical

Institute, Chapman FieldCoral Gables, Fla.

Marjorie received hercommercial and seaplanelicense at Embry-Riddlein 1944. She took ightlessons from Nancy

Graham, who at the timewas one of only ve fe-male ight instructors atChapman Field. Marjoriesays, Life was very goodto me because I got to y.

Bob Anderson1951, Embry-RiddleAeronautical Institute

Opalocka, Fla.

Bob received his Aircraand Powerplant certicatein 1951. Aer doing air-

cra turnaround serviceand weight and balanceat Miami Airport, he didairframe and engine over-haul for Red Aircra. Forover 50 years, Bob hasbeen owner and partnerof Stor-All Systems, his

familys commercial con-struction company near

Bill Bottle, class 44-H,Union City, Tenn., in

front of a StearmanPT-17 in April 1944. Atall Embry-Riddle eldswhere there was primarydual-instruction ight

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Harold Kosola1963, Embry-Riddle

Aeronautical Institute

Miami, Fla.

Harold received a

B.S. in AeronauticalEngineering fromERAI in 1963. He served as president of the rstAlumni Association from 1968 to 1973. Currently,he is president of Kosola & Assoc., an aeronauti-cal engineering rm in Albany, Ga. Harold is vicepresident of the British Flying Training SchoolNo. 5. He is also a member of Embry-Riddles PiChapter of the Sigma Phi Delta professional engi-neering fraternity.

Sandy McKay1963, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute

Miami, Fla.

Sandy earned her private pilot license at ERAI in1961, using the gi of ying lessons she received

for high school graduation. e rst passengerSandy ever took on a ight was her grandmoth-er, Isabel McKay, ERAI president from 1951to 1962. Sandys grandfather, John McKay, waspresident from 1944 to 1951. Sandy was the onlyfemale in the engineering program from 1962to 1963 at the Chicken Coop. She said she liked

that the school was gender blind. She fondlyremembers aerodynamics and uid dynam-i h f it l T d S d li i

e Wings of Legacynewsletter is published bythe Heritage Project andPlanned Giving Ocefor alumni and friendswho have an interest in

preserving Embry-Riddlespast and preparing ourfuture.

Legacy Links areprinted based on spaceavailability. You maysubmit a photo with detailand a brief biography,

including your name,phone number, class orcourse year, locationattended, area of training,military rank, type ofplanes own, and anyspecial memory orexperience. Include ane-mail address if possible.

Send Legacy Links to:e Heritage ProjectEmbry-RiddleAeronautical University600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.

Daytona Beach, FL 32114

[email protected] call 386-226-6026

Pictured above from le to rightSigma Phi Delta

brothers in 1962. Back row: William Preiling, presi-

dent, John Campbell, Jim Williams, Arnold Schulze,

Joe Houck, Joe Insley. Front row: John Musick, Harold

Kosola, Jim Allen, Craig Hawie. Not pictured: Rodger

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In this special edition oWings of Legacy,

we pay tribute to someo the women

who inuenced the development o

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

By1928, a growing number owomen wanted to learn to y. Many

were trained at the Embry-Riddle Flying

School in Cincinnati, Ohio, then in its

third year o operation. John Paul Riddle

believed that women made better pilots

than men. In the book, Te Skyis Home,

Riddle said, Women have more nerve

than men when it comes to ying ...

maybe its because women are (more)

naturally nearer to angels than men.

With more women entering aviation,

one question oen asked o Embry-

Riddle during its Saturdaynight avia-

tionchats on alocal radio station was,

What place is there or women inaviation? Women were expected to

hold jobs in aviation, but mostly oc-

cupations that were outside the actual

operations and maintenance depart-

ments. Nevertheless, one member o

the Embry-Riddle Flying School praised

women ortheir business acumen and

believed that a woman inaviation wouldbe a more valuable and more ecient

President Isabel McKayIn 1939, attorney and aviator John McKay

partnered with John Paul Riddle to create

a seaplane base in Miami, Fla., called the

Embry-Riddle School o Aviation. Operation

expanded into several satellite training acilit

or military pilots and mechanics during

WWII. McKay became president and owner

o Embry-Riddle in 1944.

Aer his death in 1951, McKays wieIsabel tookover as the frst and only emale

president and general manager She served on

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Bringing our rich history to lie

One o our most enjoyable opportuni-ties o the Heritage Project is bringingEmbry-Riddles rich history to lie. Tis

issue o the Wings o Legacyhighlightssome o the unique ways we showcaseour past.

Memorabilia Collections:Pictured hereare actual Embry-Riddle artiacts thathave been donated to the UniversityArchives. Tey are oen on display at

special exhibits.

Internet: You can nd thousands ohistoric Embry-Riddle pictures likethose throughout this newsletter in ourree online archives at www.erau.edu/archives.

Exhibits:In this issue, youll read aboutan original Embry-Riddle 1929 VelieMonocoupe engine that was restored byour Daytona Beach aculty and stu-dents. Te engine was displayed insidethe College o Aviation.

Aviation events:On page 14 is areplica rom an electro-luminescent

collage display that will be eaturedat air shows and aviation tradeshows

Lecture series:

We oenpresent Embry-

Riddles historyin classrooms,during home-comingactivities, andat specialevents aroundthe world.

Oral histories:In select cases, we re-cord eye-witness accounts about pastEmbry-Riddle events. Tis uniquestrategy provides an added dimensionto the Universitys history by relatingthe personal experiences and opinionso our many riends and alumni.

Publications: Te Wings o Legacynewsletter has become our best outletor sharing our history in print. OurLegacy Links section on pages 18 and19 eatures stories about our alumniand riends who add color to our past.

Proessor Stephen Cra, an authorityon our history, has also written exten-i l b t E b Riddl h it

A Message rom the Dean

Robert Rockett, Dean

Heritage Project Director386-226-6026 or

800-727-ERAU (3728)

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On December 17, 1925, the Embry-Riddle Company was ormed as anaircra distributor at the Lunken Airportin Cincinnati, Ohio. Its early successwas attributed to airmail contracts andpassenger service in the late 1920s.

When it reorganized as a seaplanebase on Miamis Biscayne Bay in October1939, the acility consisted o only two

planes, one ight instructor, and onemaintenance man. From these humblebeginnings, the edgling operation setout to meet the challenges o war.

Embry-Riddle at Wartells thestory o the companys astoundingcontributions to aviation training inWWII. In this authoritative history,

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Happenings in History

Original 1929 Embry-Riddle Monocoupe engine

restored by repair station in Daytona BeachTe early Embry-Riddle Company wasa distributor or the Velie Monocoupein Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1920s. Aswell as being or sale, the planes wereused in a eet o airmail aircra. Onesuch plane purchased by the company

in 1929 has recently resuraced and iscurrently undergoing restoration orthe Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome inNew York.

Under a cooperative partnershipbetween Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity and the Aerodrome, theaircra will be restored to its originalEmbry-Riddle Co. livery. In addi-tion, the Universitys Charles aylorDepartment o Aviation MaintenanceScience, under the leadership oProessor Fred Mirgle and RogerSonneneld, has recently completedrestoration o the vintage engine rom

this aircra.Te Velie Monocoupe was one oth t i b ilt i t il t

the single-wing Monocoupes werebuilt with a tubular steel rame andcanvas-covered shell. Te Monocoupewas also the rst ully enclosed, massproduced plane. Only about 350Monocoupes were built, and they wer

advertised as Te ultimate plane orthe private yer.

According to Mirgle, We under-took the restoration because o theunique opportunity this presented. Itsnot oen that you get the chance towork on a rare vintage aviation engineespecially one that has so much signicance to our own history.

Te Velie engine exhibit wasshowcased at the Charles aylorCommemerative Aviation Festival atthe Daytona Beach campus inOctober 2008.

Mirgles crew o aculty and stu-

dents are in the process o restoring asecond Velie engine, which had beend i h b tt diti

by Kevin Montgomery

Director, University ArchivesDo you have photos or memorabilia rom your experi-ence at Embry-Riddle that you would like to include in thUniversity Archives? Contact Kevin Montgomery [email protected] or call 386-226-6296.

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Mirgle said, Te projectbecame much more involvedthan we originally imaginedand took considerably longerthan had been expected, but

it was well worth the efort.Personally, I cant wait to seethe plane in the air.

Fred Mirgle and ellow aculty

member Roger Sonneneld with

the restored Embry-Riddle Velie

Monocoupe engine. It was on

display at the Daytona Beach

campus in the all o 2008, and

then was returned to the Old

Rhinebeck Aerodrome or display

in the museum in Rhinebeck,

New York.

Tis cartoon was featured in the

May 12, 1941, edition of Embry-Riddles newspaper, called the Fly

Paper. Te insert at the bottom

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In support o the war eort, PresidentRoosevelt signed the Lend Lease Act in

March 1941, enabling Embry-Riddle totrain British Royal Air Force pilots. From194145, more than 1,800 British cadetswere trained at the No. 5 British FlyingTraining School (No. 5 BFTS) at Riddle

Field in Clewiston, Fla. Alumnus PeterBrannan shares his accounts oterriying fight training and heart-warming hospitality.

I did my pilot training in the No.5 BFS at Riddle Field in Clewiston. Iarrived in April o 1945 on Course 25.When I look back upon some o our

training exercises, I marvel that wesurvived.

Probably the most unnerving wasnight ying in the Stearman. Our eldwas in the middle o nowhere thenearest town was 10 miles away. Even

ying by day at any distance rom theaireld could cause disorientation. Sowe approached night ying with sometrepidation.

We made three or our circuits witan instructor beore going solo andwere then advised to be bloody sure to

keep the arepath in sight. Flarepathwas a bit o an exaggeration. Tere wasa row o paran-burning smudgepotsdown each side o the grass strip, whicdisappeared rom sight as soon as youwere airborne. It was then I realized,given the absence o any moonlight,how dark it really was.

Te climb out was totally on instruments with dials that, to my anxiouseyes, looked as i they had run out oillumination aeons beore. Te drill wato climb to 500 eet beore making a ratone turn o 90 degrees to the le. Ten

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we continued climb-ing on instruments to1,000 eet while peeringanxiously of to the leto regain sight o the

arepath. (Tere it is,thank God!) I had toresist the temptation toturn in towards thoseaintly glimmering areson the downwind legand nally, with morethan a little eeling o

relie, turn crosswind orthe descent.I then was of in-

struments or the nalturn into the wind anddescent or landing.Tere was very littledri, ortunately, and

not hard to line up withthe arepath, except thatduring the nal are orlanding. Te rather largeradial engine obscuredthe smudgepots and onewas obliged to hang outover the side o the cock-

pit to keep them in sight,being especially careulnot to tilt the aircraalso. Te only way to tellwhen the reunion withterra rma was immi-nent was by watching orthe row o smudgepots

to line up, then pull backhard on the joystick and

I remember the rst time I hitchhiked with a large numbero cadets into West Palm Beach in 1945. I was on a week-end pass. We were seeking out thehome o Mr. and Mrs. NeSmith,our hospitality contact. Te entire

course o 50 cadets assembled inthe NeSmiths garden or a groupphoto. We then sampled the rstbananas and ice cream we hadseen in about ve years!

Mrs. NeSmith had a list o nu-merous amilies that expressed thewish to entertain us. We each madeour way, usually in pairs, to our

hosts home. Once there, we wereroyally received and asked aboutour wishes or the weekend. Somewere taken to the cinema, others tochurch, and many o us were en-tertained to a picnic on the beach.

On one occasion in West Palm Beach, I stayed at thewinter home o the Countess Apponyi, Queen consort oKing Zog I o Albania. She was away at her summer home,

but her butler was there who waited upon us hand and oot.We were even told we could use the car, but it was a V-12powered limousine, and we declined.

We oen met the daughters o our hosts and were takento dances and other social events. Since both Britain andthe United States were in their ourth o more years o war,there were very ew young American lads about.

In act, I suspect there were some pretty strong roman-tic liaisons generated between some cadets and these very

attractive young American girls. When the war ended andwe shipped out, we traveled by train rom Clewiston, norththrough South Florida, to Sebring. Te railway track ranalongside the highway. A number o young ladies droveup alongside the train in their cars and at each station stopthere were reunions and sad partings. Having a girlriendat home, I was entirely aithul to my uture wie, Anne. Inact, I bought her engagement ring in Miami during one oour weekend leaves. It cost $100 and I smuggled it home

in the toe o one o my ying boots. She still has it 63 yearslater, and we now have two sons, ve grandchildren and two

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Tis issue oWings o Legacyeaturesan outline o the early history o theEmbry-Riddle Worldwide campus (seepages 12 and 13). One thing that makesthis campus so unique is the proes-

sional expertise and dedication o itsaculty and staf.One such aculty member who pos-

sesses a love o aviation, teaching, andyoung people, is Dr. James . Gallogly.For over 20 years, Jim has taught hun-dreds o Embry-Riddle graduate andundergraduate students as part o our

talented and caring Worldwide campusaculty.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, Penn.,Jim developed a love o airplanes earlyon. A 24-year career in the United

States Air Force urther deepened hislove or and knowledge o aviation,and the people who make it all work.

A two-time graduate o Embry-Riddle,Jim was deeply moved by the oppor-tunity to meet and talk with John PaulRiddle. He learned much about thehistory and impact o the people whohave always made the University workand grow. Yet it was the opportunityJim had to serve on a University schol-

arship selection committee that reallychanged his own actions.

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on real people that motivated my wieSuellen and I to want to give back toEmbry-Riddle and invest in our verytalented students.

Jim and Suellen took action by

investigating the option o both givingand receiving through a deerred chartable gi annuity. A gi annuity is asimple, contractual agreement betweea donor and Embry-Riddle in whichyou transer assets in exchange or apromise to receive lietime paymentsor one or two lives. Simply put, once

you make a donation to Embry-Riddlein the orm o a gi annuity, you areprovided with a stable and guaranteedincome or lie.

Te annuity is a gi to be

eventually used by the University ina manner thats consistent with yourwishes, as the donor. Immediate annu

ity rates are higher i you are older andlower i you are younger. A deerred giannuity is oen appealing to youngerdonors who can use it to improveuture income, such as at retirement.While rates are lower than or commecial annuities, donors know that theycan still do well by doing good.

Jim and Suellen Gallogly havedesignated support o uture student


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doing good .

both o their lives.Even with a recession and in a low

interest rate environment, gi annuitiescompare avorably with cash equiva-lent investments, such as certicates o

deposit (CDs) and 10-year reasurys.With current gi annuity guaranteedrates o 5.3% to 9.5% or individuals 65and older, many donors are happy tomake a gi and to get something backin tangible ways.

Since each situation is unique, wehave available a gi annuity calcula-

tor on our web site at: www.erau.edu/giplanning. I am always available tocreate a personalized proposal uniqueto your circumstances and desires, orsimply to answer your questions.

Please call or email.And then, like Jim and Suellen Gallogly, you

too may know that you are enabling a positive u-

ture or aviation and aerospace and the people whowill make it happen, well into this century and intothe next.

Matthew Brasmer is the director o major and planned

gis or Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. A ormer

naval aviator and commander, he has worked or several

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Women in EmbryS ESusan H. Embry became the rst emale vice presidento the Embry-Riddle Company in the late 1920s whenshe purchased one o its Waco No. 9 biplanes. She wasthe mother o the Embry-Riddle Companys co-ounder,. Higbee Embry. Susan ew as a passenger with JohnPaul Riddle in the 1926 Ford Air our. She was the onlywoman on the tour. Riddle came in h place ying one

o the companys Waco No. 9 biplanes and won $1,350.

M SWomen played a key role in the echnical School andCarlstrom Fields Overhaul Division. Tey receivedtraining in the use o precision instruments and in thundamentals o engine operation. John Paul Riddle

hired 300 women to reurbish aircra wings in MiamFrom April 1942 to February 1943, the women over-hauled, recovered, and renished over 200 aircra, anrecovered and repaired hundreds o wings, ailerons,stabilizers, elevators, and rudders.

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Te original Embry-Riddle Company merged with theAviation Corporation (AVCO) in 1929 and was laterabsorbed by American Airways in 1931. John PaulRiddle eventually relocated to South Florida and re-established the Embry-Riddle Company as a seaplanebase in Miami in October 1939. It was run almost en-tirely by women, also known as the barnacle pilots. In194243, Ruth Norton served as general manager andight instructor, along with two other emale instruc-t M i B t d P t G t ( th t

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Riddles HistoryU C, .At the Embry-Riddle Field in UnionCity, enn. in 1942, six women wereemployed as dispatchers. Pictured atright: Women being given their dailyduties at Embry-Riddle Field inUnion City.

C FBy 1943, women played a greater role in keeping Embry-Riddle in operationduring WWII when ewer men were available on the home ront. Tey per-ormed duties such as chie dispatcher, radio, Link and draing instructors,librarian, mimeographer, and postmistress. Female personnel are pictured in

ront o the administration

building at Carlstrom Fieldin Arcadia, Fla. From leto right: Jackie Livingston,Roberta Dudley, LorettaWeaver, Lydia Sammon,Wilda Smithson, LoreanBond, Betty Vickers,Margaret Kent, Maude

Dykes, Kay Bramlitt, Normaucker, and Edna Poston.

S P, BzIn 1943, Embry-Riddle established therst aviation school in So Paulo, Brazil,the Escola cnica de Aviao. Parachute

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73: Te program was renamed the College o Continuing Education (CCE). Te Bachelo Science degree in Proessional Aeronautics (Pro Aero) was developed, which became th

Universitys largest undergraduate degree program.

73: CCE gained approval or the Master o Aviation Management (MAM). Embry-RiddleDaytona Beach campus did not eld a graduate program o its own until the Master o Science

Aeronautical Engineering began in 1987.

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M 7: Dr. Wilbur A. Middleton, a U.S. Army ocer at Fort Rucker, Ala., was hired bEmbry-Riddle to establish his concept or a program that awarded college credit to Army avitors or their military technical training.

J 6, 7: Te rst Residence Center was established at the U.S. Army Aviation Centin Fort Rucker, Ala., ofering ve aviation-oriented college courses. Other centers opened

Hunter Army Air Field, Ga., Fort Wolters, ex., and Fort Eustis, Va.

F 7: Fort Ruckers rst-term enrollments exceeded all expectations, and D

Middleton was able to repay the University the entire $25,000 budget he was initialallocated within the centers rst 90 days.

S 7: A joint degree program was ormed with Barry College in Miami, Flcalled the Miami Education Consortium (MEC). Students ullled general educatiorequirements at a traditional school, then completed their college degree througEmbry-Riddle. Te MEC had over 1,200 annual enrollments by 1974.

Embry-Riddle WorldwideA look back at the early years

72 7: Resident Centers opened in Fort Campbell, Ky., and Homestead A

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: Embry-Riddle AeronauticaUniversityWorldwide is a netwoo more than 135 campuses andteaching sites in the United States,Europe, Canada, and the MiddleEast, with a global virtual presence

via online learning. Embry-Riddle

Worldwide has more than 49,000alumni more than either residen

O 2, 73: Te rst European Residence Center opened at the U.S. Army instal-lation in Mannheim, Germany, at Coleman Barracks. Additional Army sites opened inGermany at Banau, Schwabish Hall, Illesheim, Kitzingen, Budingen, and Finthen.

A 7: Te United States Air Force European Center was established at LindseyAir Station in Wiesbaden, Germany. Classes were ofered at seven European Air Force

installations in the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, and Spain.

8: Te External Studies Program was established, which wasthe early name or the Independent Studies, or Distance Learningprogram.

82: Te IC served approximately 4,500 part-timestudents though 85 Resident Centers and distance

learning. Over 20 Independent Studies courses wereavailable.

Historicalresearch orthe timelinewas conductedby Alan R.Bender, Ph.D.,associateproessor-aeronautics,Embry-RiddleWorldwide.

77: wenty Residence Centers opened in the U.S.

7: Fieen European Residence Centers opened. Te Master o AeronauticalScience (MAS) was added, which became the Universitys largest graduate degreeprogram.

77: Te CCE Daytona Beach Center and the Oce o Graduate Studies wereestablished.

7: Both the MAS and the MAM were ofered at one-third o the 40 CCElocations in the U.S. and European Residence Centers, and at the civilian

Graduate Center in Miami.

7: University President Jack Hunt created the new single university,multiple campus concept. Te CCE, no longer part o the Daytona Beachcampus, was a college within a new entity called the International Campus

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Embry-Riddle in South Floridain the 1940s and 1950s

1. Military cadets standing at attentionin ront o the Embry-Riddle School o

Aviation in Miami, Fla., 1942.

2. British Royal Air Force (RAF) cadets othe No. 5 British Flying raining School(5BFS) in ront o a hangar at Riddle Fieldin Clewiston, Fla., 1941.

3. Inspection o ight instructors and cadetswith a squadron o B-13 Vultees, 1943.

4. Seaplanes at the Embry-Riddle SeaplaneBase on the MacArthur Causeway inMiami, Fla., in the late 1940s.

5. Te Aviation Building (the ormer FritzHotel) in Miami, home o the Embry-Riddle School o Aviation.

6. Te No. 5 British Flying raining School

(5BFS) operated by the Riddle McKayAero College at Riddle Field in Clewiston,Fla., 1944.

7. Piper J-3 Cubs o the Embry-Riddle eet onthe ightline in the 1950s.

8. Piper J-3 Cubs o the Embry-Riddle Schoolo Aviation eet at Opa Locka Airport in

the 1950s.9. wo students in ront o a Stearman P-17

(also known as the Boeing model 75) in the1950s.

0. Class o maintenance students in ront o aDouglas B-18 Bolo (military bomber ver-sion o the DC-3) on December 4, 1950.

1. Part o the Embry-Riddle eet at theamiami Airport in the late 1950s.

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Mystery History: est Your Knowledge Are you an Embry-Riddle history buf? See i you can solve these history mysteries,then test your knowledge with our Mystery History Contest question below. Findthousands o Embry-Riddle historical photos at www.erau.edu/archives.

1. Pictured here is a amous actress witEmelio Salgado, son o the BrazilianAir Minister Dr. J. P. Salgado Filho.Tey were set up on a date by herriend John Paul Riddle in 1944,shortly aer she made the movieNational Velvet at age 14.

Question: Who is the movie star?

2. Te man in this picture, Len Povey,was a member o a ying circus,reorganized Cubas air orce, wasan acrobatic champion in Miami,

and worked or the Civil AviationAuthority. He became vice presidento ight training at Embry-Riddle inMiami in 1940.

Question: What amous ight maneu

ver did Len Povey invent by accident?

3. Tis engine cut-away was on dis-play at the Aviation Maintenanceechnology Department at theDaytona Beach campus or over 20years. It is currently under restora-tion by aculty and students.

Question: What aircraf was thisengine rom?

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Q: What is the name o this acility

and where was it located?A: Te Colliseum in Coral Gables, Fla.

Mystery History

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I you would like to hearthis comedians ull-lengthspeech, go to the HeritageProject website at:www.erau.edu/heritage

to listen to the audio le.

O WIN:Write your answeron the envelope ap inside thisnewsletter and mail it to us byJune 1, or e-mail:[email protected] enter a drawing or anEmbry-Riddle pictorial historypostcard book, a collectiblekeepsake valued at $20.

QUESION: Can you identify this celebrity in Embry-Riddle

regalia who gave a commencement address at the Daytona

Beach graduation ceremony on April 26, 1986?


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Legacy Links .............Iv S1944, Embry-Riddle Field, Union City,

enn.Irv entered the Army Air Corps in1942 or pilot training and completedEmbry-Riddles 60-hour ight coursesegments in the P-17 Stearman. Hismost unusual experience at Embry-Riddle was during his rst solo landingwhen he touched down on the eld

and immediately went into a 90-degreeturn. His instructor said he did sucha good job o correcting the problem,he wanted Irv to get up there and tryanother landing. Irv never repeated themistake. His instructors were so thor-ough in teaching him the undamen-tals o emergency landings and windand weather, it served him well in themilitary.

Irv conducted 65 combat ightswhere his missions included bombing,strang, intercepting enemy attacksand escorting bombers. He was shotdown twice in China - he once landeda P-40 without gear aer being hit, andhe once had to bail out o a P-51A at700 eet. Te plane exploded just ashe touched the ground, but luckily heound shelter in a armhouse where a62nd Army Chinese soldier rescuedhim. Irv lives in Vero Beach, Fla., andenjoys time with his two sons in Florida

and Pennsylvania.

S P1954, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

Institute, Miami, Fla.In 1940, Samstarted ighttraining at age16 at the origi-nal DaytonaBeach Airport

site, ying theStentson 10-A.Aer graduat-ing high schooland passing thecadet exam, he became the youngestB-17 aircra commander in the 8thAir Force at age 19. He ew 35 mis-

sions and earned the DistinguishedFlying Cross and our Air Medals. Heproud to have never lost a man. Samattended the Embry-Riddle Institutein Miami in 1954 and earned hisAirrame and Powerplant Certicate,and a degree in Aviation ManagemenWhile he was a student, he taught

ying at the amiami Airport. Samsays, Te quality o the training I gotrom Embry-Riddle got me ar in theindustry. Every major aviation acilityin the world is touched by people whograduated rom Embry-Riddle. Teycontribute greatly to the saety o aircommerce.

At age 84, Sam operates PooleIndustries, a certied FAA repair sta-


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M S1958, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

Institute, Miami, Fla.

Watching a WWII airplane dogghtabove her homeland o China, MarionShin knew at age 12 that she wantedto be involved with aviation. However,since Hong Kong didnt ofer aerospaceengineering, she studied civil engineer-ing. One day she read an Americanmagazine article about Embry-Riddleand decided thats where she wanted tobe. She couldnt get a student visa romthe U.S. consulate in Hong Kong, so

Marions mother sent her to England ora year, where she could take air servicetraining and maintenance courses. Shewent through a lot o struggle, saying,I you have a goal and the will, you canmeet someone along the way who willhelp you. Te consulate in England be-lieved in me, which is how she obtained

the visa and came to Embry-Riddlein Miami. With the help o PresidentIsabel McKay, Marion became the rst

woman to nish the engineering pro-gram. I consider Mrs. McKay to be mybeneactor, she said. She gave me ascholarship to the AM school becauseI was the only woman, and I was in thetop 10 o my class. She worked as an

A & P mechanic at the Embry-Riddleightline aer school in 1956, making $1per hour. In her proessional career, shewas the only woman to work as a seniorstructural engineer or Piper Aircra,Inc. in Vero Beach, Fla., or 14 years. Shehas been a designated FAA engineeringrepresentative in aircra structures since1980, and since 1995, she has servedas a project consultant DER with IsraelAircra Industries or aircra modica-tion and repair.

Bill began his proessional ying careerserving in the Army in Vietnam asa UH-1 Huey helicopter pilot rom1967-68. While in an Air Cavalry unit,he initially ew li ships, then laterew medivac and search and rescuemissions.

Bill received an early release romthe army to attend Embry-Riddle in1970. Aer doing part-time ightinstruction as a student, he became aull-time instructor aer graduation He

degree in Aeronautical Science, andeventually was promoted to dean, serv-ing in that capacity until 1992. He wasreerred to as the Stealth Dean be-cause he liked to stay on the quiet sideo things, and had really great depart-ment chairs who got the jobs done.Bill is a tenured, ull proessor o SaetySciences, teaching undergraduate andgraduate courses. Now in his 39th yearo working at the University, Bill says,I cant imagine working anywhere else

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Embry-Riddle had irstaviation school in Brazil

Special feature: A pictorial history of Embry-Riddles ground-

breaking presence in So Paulo in the 1940s.

In 1941, Embry-Riddle contracted with the Civil Aeronautics

Administration (CAA) and the U.S. State Department to cre-

ate a new section in its Technical School in Miami called th

Latin American Department. It would provide a dual ed

cation program for students from South America and

U.S. citizens planning to seek jobs in South America

OnDecember31,1941,therstclassof526Lat

American cadets arrived at Embry-Riddle to receive

instructor-mechanic and service-mechanic training.

Studentsweretocomplete2,300hoursoftrainingov

16months.TheycamefromHonduras,ElSalvador,

Paraguay, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay, Bolivi

Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, and Brazil.

The most important Latin American connection

for Embry-Riddle was Brazil. Brazils Air Minister,

Joaquim Pedro Selgado Filho, toured Embry-Riddle

inMiamiandwasimpressedwiththeoperations.He

asked John Paul Riddle to establish a site in So PauloBrazil. In October 1943, plans were announced to esta

lish Escola Tcnica de Aviaco, an aviation technical

school that would enable that country to emulate the

standardizationofairelds.

After the approval of the Brazilian and U.S.

governments, classes started in November 1943 with

theexpectationoftraining500studentsbyChristmas

The school was to remain in operation in Brazilpermanently.

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Why preserve your legacy?

Sometimes we are so busy creating his-tory, we orget to record it.

In previous issues oWings o Legacy,we have talked about the importance opreserving Embry-Riddles past. Id liketo share with you why its so valuableor you and your loved ones that yourown personal legacy live on or uture

generations.

Your own oral historyTe most important reason to recordyour personal stories is or your amily.

Nobody else will know the best detailso your lie like you do, unless you sharethem. Passing down rom one generationto another your memories, accomplish-ments, and genealogy can be one o themost cherished gis you can ever give.

Its my experience, both personallyand through my work at Embry-Riddle,

that a person gets to be in his or her 60sor 70s and looks back on lie thinking, Ireally do want this story to be told to mychildren and my grandchildren.

You dont have to be an oral histo-rian, nor do you need any complicatedtraining to record your personal history.A simple, inexpensive way to have un

recording your memories is to set up avideo camera with your amily present.

can be captured on video as i you werehaving a conversation or telling a story toyour loved ones.

I you want to do something a littlemore structured, there are ree resourcesavailable to guide you. Multiple websitesare available that give prompted ques-tions to conduct a more detailed am-ily history interview. One resource Iveused is at www.about.com. Searchunder oral history questions, and youllnd 50 Questions or Family History

Interviews.

Personal memorabiliaAnother part o passing on your legacy isthrough preserving your personal memo-rabilia. Photo albums, military uniorms,awards, and amily heirlooms are tan-gible evidence o your lie. We certainlyunderstand i you have Embry-Riddle

artiacts that youd like to leave or youramily rst. But, wed like you to considerleaving some kind o direction i you andyour loved ones would rather have theseitems preserved by Embry-Riddle in aperpetual way. (An example is the CadetsHandbook, which was donated by analumnus on the next page.)

We oer permanent preservation andoen public display o photographs andti t th h th U i it A hi

A Message rom the Dean

R Rck, Dean

Heritage Project Director

E-:[email protected]

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Tank you to Mr. Lloyd E. Wessel, Class44-F, or his recent contribution to theUniversity Archives. He donated hisCadets Handbook (copyright 1943 bythe Embry-Riddle Co.) rom his trainingat Riddle Aeronautical Institute (RAI) atCarlstrom Field in Arcadia, Florida. Tehandbook was distributed to all cadets atthe beginning o their 10-week trainingin the P-17 Stearman biplane.

In the orward, under Reason orthe RAI handbook, it states, We haveendeavored to keep it rom being a mo-notonous, dry presentation inserting

enough humor tokeep it interest-ing but the actspresented are true,and we advise youto heed the ideaspresented as beingaccurate. Belowis an excerptrom pages 2627 o

the manual that wethought you wouldenjoy.

Alumnus contributionto the archives

Te ailerons, which are the suraces used

or lateral control o the airplane (wingdown or up), are situated on the outer,trailing edge o the wing and are used orrolling the airplane on its longitudinalaxis. When pressure is applied movingthe stick to the le, the right aileron islowered and the le aileron is raised.When pressure is applied moving the stick

to the right, the opposite action occurs.

When the ailerons are displacedrom a neutral position, the aileron thatis lowered has the eect o increasing theli on that side; the aileron that is raisedhas the eect o decreasing the li on itsside, thereby creating a dierential in libetween the two wings and consequentlya rolling movement.

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Do you have a specialarchival collection?

1928 airmail pilots legacy lives on

Do you have photographsor other memorabilia

that you would like todonate to the archives?Im oen asked whatkinds o things are col-

lected or the ar-chives. Simply put,the Embry-Riddle

Aeronautical

UniversityArchives collect originaldocuments, photographs,and artiacts pertain-ing to the history oEmbry-Riddle. Tis caninclude everything roma single photograph o a studenttaken while at Embry-Riddle, to the

impressive collection eatured in thisarticle. All o these things serve to eshout our history and add color anda human element to our rich heritage.

Many people are understandablyreluctant to donate their originalmemorabilia and, instead, would like

to submit photocopiesor scanned digital

images. Digitalimages and docu-ments are ne orthe Internet, but are notwhat an archival reposi-tory is looking or. Tinko us as a museum. We have the resources

and expertise to ensure that irreplace-

able historical material is preserved,protected, and accessible whenappropriate.

Tere really is no betterpermanent home or memo-rabilia rom your time with

Embry-Riddle than our proes-sional archival repository. ake, or

example, one o our most signicant

early collections rom James HowellDouglas, eatured here.

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Director, University Archives386-226-6296 E: [email protected]

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His memorabilia featured in the University archives

Memorabilia in the James Howell Douglasarchival collection includes letters, certi-

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ThecollectionofJamesHowellDouglas

wasdonatedtothearchivesin2003byhis

daughter. Douglas was an airmail pilot and

instructor for the Embry-Riddle Companyin1928.Somehowthefamilymanagedto

keep and preserve nearly every letter, cer-

ticate,andightlogrelatedtoDouglas

lengthy aviation career. The collection also

includestheoriginalleatheryinghelmet,

goggles, and scarf worn by Douglas while

yingtheearlyWACObiplanes.

Bgp d cvThe University Archives online database

is a free resource that enables anyone

to search for and view photographs and

memorabilia. Your contribution to the

archival collection would be featured in the

online database for all of your friends and

loved ones to see forever. The following

is an excerpt of Douglas biography.

JamesHowellDouglasbeganhis

career in aviation as an airplane rigger for

the Alexandria Aircraft Corporation in Vir-

ginia.AfterWorldWarI,heenlistedinthe

TennesseeNationalGuards105thObser-

vation Squadron as an airplane and engine

mechanic.By1924,hehadacceptedanof-

cerscommissionintheNationalGuard,

qualifying as a military pilot through the

U.S. Army Air Corps training programs

at Brooks Field in Texas and Maxwell

Field in Alabama. Rejoining his National

Guard unit as a 1st Lieutenant, Douglas

supervised the engineering, maintenance,

andoperationsofthe105thObservation

Squadron.

In1928,DouglasjoinedtheEmbry-Riddle

Company in Cincinnati, as an airmail pilot

andightinstructor.In1930hebecame

Chief Pilot and Operations Manager for the

CurtissWrightFlyingServiceinLouis -

ville, and, in 1931, he joined American

Airlines as a Captain and check pilot in

their air mail operation.

InJuly1935,Douglasacceptedan

appointment as aeronautical inspector with

the U.S. Department of Commerces newly

formed Bureau of Air Commerce. From

thenuntilthemiddleof1942,heheld

various positions within the Department of

Commerce, including Air Carrier Inspector

and Assistant Chief in the Civil Aeronau-

tics Boards Accident Investigation Divi-

sion,movingfromWichitatoKansasCity,

and,eventually,toWashington.

The remainder of Douglas biogra-

phyincludeshisserviceinWWIIandhis

impressive aviation career with the Civil

AeronauticsAdministration.Weinvite

you to visit the archives online database atwww.embryriddle.edu/archives toread his entire story. (Search under key-

word: James Douglas.)

James Howell Douglas Collectiondonated by amily

Douglas wearing the helmet that is now in

Embry-Riddles archive collection.


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Many o our older alumni have harrow-ing stories about their experiences duringWWII. Wed like to pay tribute to a gentle-man who despite surviving a death-de-ying crash, and enduring grueling physicalrecovery as a Prisoner o War went onto receive aircra maintenance trainingrom Embry-Riddle, enjoy a career with

the FAA, and earn his associates degreeat age 85.

BeingCapturedingermany

Matthew Berk entered the U.S. Army AirCorps in 1942. He served as a gunner onthe B-17 Flying Fortress in the Eighth AirForce in England and was shot down in

October o 1943. He recalls how he cameto be captured by the Germans.

We were shot down during a bomb-ing raid over Germany. Te airplanebroke in two. My tail gunner said weoated down like a lea inside the backhal o the airplane wreckage or 22,000eet until we crashed. I was already un-

conscious rom multiple gunshot woundsto my arms, legs, jaw all over. I wasa mess. We hit the ground and the tailgunner walked away. German soldierstold the navigator about me, Hes dead,leave him, but somehow I was taken to aGerman hospital where I woke up threedays later.

Berks injuries were too severe orhim to be moved initially. Eventually he

d h i l h

later, a Swiss doctor with the Red Crosscame to the camp to help Allied prisonerwho needed more medical attention thanthe Germans were able to provide. Tedoctor worked out a POW exchange, anBerk was allowed to be included. He wasinitially transported to Sweden, then toLiverpool, England, where they dropped

o ex-POWs rom England, Australia,Poland, and France. From there, about300400 Canadians and Americans traveled to New York, arriving in Septembero 1944.

Berk ended up in a new Army hospital in West Virginia, where he continuedhis recovery or a year. Ten he went to a

hospital in Valley Forge, Pa., where he6

Matthew Berk 58Ex-POW awarded degree at age 85

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underwent physical therapy oranother year. He was discharged in1946.

Berk comments about his mili-tary career, I spent a total o ouryears and three months in the mili-

tary one year o that was as a POW,and over two more years were inhospitals.

attending riddle

Prior to being in the military, Berkworked or the government as aprivate mechanic working on air-plane engines. His injuries preventedhim rom returning to work rightaer the war, so aer hearing aboutEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute(ERAI), in Miami, Fla., Berk decidedto enroll.

I was already in my 30s by thetime I got to Embry-Riddle. Most

everyone else was a lot younger thanme. I had more experience rom themilitary, working on airplanes beorethe war, and I already had my pilotslicense so I think that made train-ing a little easier. Te acilities at theChicken Coop were quite old nothing like what you have now, but

we learned about airplanes that werestill made out o abric and wood.

Aer receiving his Airrame &Powerplant Certicate in 1958, Berkbecame an inspector or the FederalAviation Administration (FAA) at theGeneral Aviation Ofce in Cincinna-ti, Ohio. In act, his ofce was at the

same location at Lunken Field whereEmbry-Riddle started back in 1925.

In 2005, Berk contacted Embry-Riddleabout requirements needed to complete anassociates degree. He told his story to theDean o the Heritage Project, Bob Rockett.Berk explained that at the time he attended

ERAI, he elt he was too old to go back toschool to get an ofcial degree, so he onlypursued earning the A&P. Even though itwas over 50 years later, he was curious aboutwhat it would take to get his degree.

Berk took numerous courses andtraining or his work with the FAA, andhad decades o practical experience inboth his military and aviation careers. Te

University president at the time, Dr. GeorgeEbbs, decided to award Matthew Berk anAssociates Degree in Aviation Maintenanceechnology during Homecoming Weekendon October 30, 2005. Berk was 85 years old.He is arguably the oldest recipient o an as-sociates degree at Embry-Riddle.

It was a shock to me, Berk said. All

my lie I had to ght to get an education.I only had one year o high school when Itried to get into Embry Riddle back in the

Receiving an associatedegree at age 85

From the left: Former President Dr. George

Ebbs, Matthew Berk, Former Chancellor Dr.Irwin Price awarding Berks degree at Home-

coming 2005.


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Few personal items are as precious to apilot as his ight logbook.

Te week o September 11, 2001,our house burned down. I will never

orget the colorul sculpture o theremains o my now melted Navy ighthelmet and oxygen mask (which hadbeen stored in a box in the basement),along with most o my other Navymemorabilia gis given rom ellowaviators rom the Royal Air Force andFrances Marine Nationale, my ight

jacket, ight suits, paperwork, certi-cates, medals, and other items, nowdestroyed by re and water.

Miraculously, and most grateully,my two-volume Navy ight logbookand single-volume civilian logbookwere saved in the re. My wie and bestriend, Mary Claire, and I lost almost

everything in the re we had managedto accumulate in 25 years o marriageand worldwide Navy travel. For me, thereturn o my pilot logbooks providedsome measure o comort in the totalloss o the stu o ones lie.

Ask a pilot to describe any month,any year rom his logbook and, aer

some perusal o the entries, even aermany years, memories will come ying

rough that all o the ight instrumentswere seen only in a blur. So you justtried to set a reasonable attitude andpower setting

Or, this guy was a great ight in-structor when we ew Pages later in my logbook, there

is an entry or an unscheduled stopin Manus in Northern Brazil. Flyingacross the length o Brazil romArgentina, the headwinds had beenstronger than orecast and a ew turns

on my old E6B pilots calculator recommended a stop or uel now or a laterswim in the ocean due to possible uelstarvation. Several short entries in alogbook brought orth strong memorio an unorgettable ying adventurethroughout South America.

Te stu o our lives is like that.

It can reveal the best o our memo-ries, our lingering dreams, and hopesor the uture, or ourselves and oth-ers. One additional item that survivedour amilys re was a shoulder boardinsignia rom an Imperial Japanesenaval ofcer, an item my ather hadbeen given as a Navy corpsman when,

with a squad o Marines, even beorethe ofcial surrender was signed, he

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I E-R , .

When I speak with do-nors o Embry-Riddle, romthe World War II era until ourrecent graduates, I requently

am told, I may not have a lot,but I want to give back, I wantto make a dierence because thescholarship (or ellowship, orwork experience, or memories) Ireceived really made a dierenceor me. Embry-Riddle changedmy lie.

Such statements are likea logbook o the heart. Forlike an old pilots logbook, suchstatements reveal and recalllessons learned, unorgettableriends and colleagues, andmemories o li-o in the ad-

venture o ones lie.

Matthew Brasmer is the director o major and planned

gis or Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, serv-

ing the Daytona Beach, Fla., Prescott, Ariz., and

Worldwide Campuses. A ormer naval aviator, he has

owned his own businesses and worked on Wall Street.

For almost 10 years he has been involved in educa-

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Embry-Riddles Escoin So Pau

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1. In 1941, Cuban mechanics earned

practical training at Embry-Riddles

Latin American Division of the Technical

School in Miami. Standing left to right:

Sgt. Antonio Azcuy, Lt. Jose Cagigal,Adriano Ponso, Vice President of Flight

Training Len Povey, Lt. Manuel Canam-

ero,JoeR.Horton,Pvt.ManuelAlvarez,

andSgt.JohnP.Valdes.Kneelingleftto

right:Sgt.DelnBuria,Sgt.ArturoFaja-

rdo and Mr. Vasquez.

2. The president of Brazil and guests areinspecting a student-made engine at the

E l T i d A i i S P l

3. Students in formation in front of the

Escola Tcnica de Aviaco in So Paulo,

Brazil, February 1944.

Embry-Riddle understood that its

newschoolmadeasignicantcontribu-tion to the war effort. Brazil was an ally

that played an important role in tracking

German submarines and supplying raw

materials to the U.S. war machine.

Embry-Riddle personnel described

their task in Brazil as two-fold: (1) to

educate the youth of Brazil in techni-

calelds,byteachingBrazilianswhatAmericans had learned from their Indus-

t i l d b t ll d A i ti

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a cnica de Aviacoo, Brazil

4. Pictured are a student and instructor Mr.

J. Bordas in a sheet metal class in Febru-

ary 1944. The blackboard shows projects

made by the students described in both

English and Portuguese.Brazil sought to build its own aircraft

and engines in the future, and the training

of cadets by Embry-Riddle contributed

to that goal. By March 1944, the Escola

TcnicadeAviacohad23departments

including aircraft electricity, engine

mechanics, instruments, maintenance, pro-

pellers,welding,woodworking,airtrafccontrol,avionics,basics,ightengineer -

i h d li Li k t i t l

5. Embry-Riddle personnel and instruc-

tors traveled to So Paulo, Brazil, begin-

ning in November 1943 after receiving

instruction in Portuguese and Brazilian

history and customs. John Paul RiddlesawBrazilasagreatcareerofservice

for Embry-Riddle because they would

enable the country to see tremendous

stridesforwardinaviationinBrazil.

Picturedareightinstructorsfromthe

Riddle Aeronautical Institute departing

Miami for So Paulo. John Paul Riddle is

on the far right, atop the airstairs standingin the aircraft doorway.

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80yearsago

E-R $10,000 x By April 1929, the Embry-RiddleAirline, operating rom Lunken Fieldin Cincinnati, Ohio, had eight aircraand was poised to increase the size othe eet. In July 1929, the company

obtained permission to establish a ast passenger and mail service using light air-cra. Te company spent $150,000 or three new all-metal Flamingos (pictured), oneFairchild, and our new Whirlwind Wacos that were all equipped to y at night. TeFlamingos were manuactured by the All Metal Aircra Corp. at Lunken Field. EmbryRiddle purchased three o the 21 ever made. Flight students oen went on eld trips twitness assembly. As a result o the eet expansion, the company added its third pas-senger and air mail service route between Cincinnati and Chicago in July 1929.

70yearsago

T WWII E-RIn 1939, President Franklin DelanoRoosevelt signed into law an act thatcreated the Civilian Pilot raining

Program (CPP). Te Civil AeronauticsAdministration proposed to train 20,000college-educated civilian pilots each year.Initially, 13 universities in the UnitedStates were chosen to provide ighttraining, one o which was the University o Miami. John Paul Riddle and Dr. BowmanF. Ashe, the university president, were close riends. Te two made an arrangement thaenabled Embry-Riddle to provide ight training or the University o Miami. Under th

CPP, Embry-Riddle trained thousands o Americans to y using ederal scholarshipsDuring World War II, Embry-Riddle experienced tremendous growth, becoming one


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60yearsago

O O- AEmbry-Riddle moved much o its op-erations to the ormer naval aireldat Opa-locka outside Miami in 1949.Te eld aorded miles o concreterunways and a large Navy-builthangar as well as other acilities. Te

company also leased living quartersrom the county port authority, al-lowing it to oer students low-costhousing. President John McKaydescribed Embry-Riddle as the larg-

est civil aviation ight school in the country, and the only school in the world to oerlow-priced housing acilities or GI students and their wives.

Pictured: An Embry-Riddle Navion trainer at Opa-locka Airport, circa 1949.

50yearsago E AIn 1959, the Aeronautical Engineering echnology (AE) program was accreditedby the Engineers Council or Proessional Development (ECPD). Embry-Riddle wasone o our technical institutes in the country that oered AE courses accredited bythe ECPD. Te Engineering School also oered an associates degree with majors in

Aeronautical Engineering Design and Aeronautical Electronics Engineering Design. In1959, the Engineering School became the Engineering echnology Division. Embry-Riddle claimed a 100% placement or its AE graduates who took jobs as design engi-neers, senior detailers, drasman, and technical writers or such companies as Argonne

National Laboratory, Cessna Aircra, G.E.Missiles, Hamilton Standard Propellers,L.B. Smith, Martin, and Pratt & Whitney atsalaries ranging rom $465$520 a month.

Pictured: Students with a model aircra,which was likely an engineering project at


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30yearsago P At the Prescott Campus, enrollmentin 1979 was 547, which had more thandoubled rom the year beore when thecampus opened. Students were disap-

pointed to have no student lie. Tecampus lacked a bookstore and a mail-room, and the dorm windows and doorslacked screens, allowing bugs and insectto enter the rooms. Te only academicmajor available was aeronautical scienceand the ight training occurred at Ernes

A. Love Aireld, which lacked a tower. What beneted the campus was the enthusiasm

and lan o the aculty and sta who relished the challenge o building a new campus.People loved the community and the area. Students and aculty alike shared a commospirit to see ERAU Prescott succeed

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In 1969, Volusia County askedEmbry-Riddle to simulate apost-aircra incident scene todetermine its response to suchan emergency. Te VeteransAssociation coordinated the event, using a 50-ootgrassy area or staging the scene, located where the

Volusia Mall is today. Te maintenance departmentprovided a twin-engine tail dragger. Engine cowl-ings were wrapped around smoking smudgepotbarrels. A local theater company applied bloodymakeup or more than 30 accident victims whowere taken to several area hospitals. Over 200 people rom the university and countyrescue personnel were involved with the drill including EMs, reghters, police o-cers, and emergency room sta. Pictured: Daytona Beach students participated in a 1969

aircra accident simulation to assist the county with emergency response.


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W F In 1989, Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beachexperienced a great deal o construction. Te

University Center, Jack R. Hunt Library, andine Davis Swimming Center were all expand-ed. Te previous year, two students, ShannonMurphy and Phil Delange, suggested building areplica o the Wright Flyer on campus becauseo the association between the historic occasionand the universitys dedication to the aviationindustry. Contributions totaling $62,000 were

raised to pay or the project during the next year.Te 4,000-pound, 40-oot stainless steelreplica, along with a statue o Orville Wrightat the controls and Wilbur Wright behind theaircra, was placed in ront o the Hunt Library,and depicted the exact moment on Dec. 17,1903, that the Wright Flyer lied o the ground.President Ken allman expected it to become a

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Mystery History: est Your Knowledge

AreyouanEmbry-Riddlehistorybuff?Seeifyouknowthesehistorymysteries

(seeanswersbelow),thentestyourknowledgewithourMysteryHistoryContest

question on the next page. Find thousands of Embry-Riddle historical photos at the

online archives atwww.embryriddle.edu/archives.

1.Pictured is Embry-Riddles rst tennisinstructor at Riddle Field in South Floridcirca 1941. He was a World No. 1 playeror ve years, rst as an amateur and thenas a proessional. He was the rst man towin the our tournaments that composethe Grand Slam o tennis. At the time, he

was considered to have the best backhanin the history o tennis.

Question: Who is he?

2. Tis project was completed in March1972 and was entirely designed and built

by engineering students at the DaytonaBeach Campus. Pictured in the suit is DrDonald Ritchie, chairman o the aeronautical engineering program.

Question: What was the name o this

unique ying machine?

3. Mr. John Kalusa handcraed theworlds largest to-scale miniatureaircra collection. It was inducted intothe Guinness Book o World Records in2003. Since 1986, he has donated over

5,800 models to the university.

Question: Where is the John W. KalusaMiniature Aircraf Collection locateddi l ?

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