Women's Wing Debuts At AOPA Summit

Women in Aviation International has teamed up with AOPA to create "Women's Wing" for the Aviation Summit in Tampa, Florida. The group hosted a breakfast for the women pilots.

Avidyne Debuts EX600 MFD

Avidyne debuts new EX600 Multi-Function Display for General Aviation airplanes and helicopters. The EX600 is an easy-to-use multi-function display system.

For more information: http://www.avidyne.com/products/ex600/functionality.asp

Dynon Avionics Debuts SkyView

Dynon Avionics has debuted the SkyView, a new generation glass cockpit for experimental and Light Sport Aircraft. SkyView offers a PFD, Synthetic Vision, and terrain maps as standard features.

Pricing:

MODEL NUMBER	DESCRIPTION	PRICE
SV-D700	SkyView 7” Display (includes main wiring harness)	$2,700
SV-D1000	SkyView 10” Display (includes main wiring harness)	$3,600
SV-ADAHRS-200	SkyView ADAHRS - First	$1,200
SV-ADAHRS-201	SkyView ADAHRS - Additional	$800
SV-EMS-220	SkyView Engine Monitoring Module	$600
SV-MAP-270	SkyView Navigation Mapping Software (*not yet available)	$500*
SV-GPS-250	SkyView GPS 5Hz Receiver Module	$200
SV-BAT-320	SkyView Backup Battery	$180
SV-NET-3CC	Network Cable – Both ends with connectors, 3’ long	$40
SV-NET-6CC	Network Cable – Both ends with connectors, 6’ long	$45
SV-NET-10CP	Network Cable – 1 end with connector, 1 end with pins only, 10’	$50
SV-NET-15CP	Network Cable – 1 end with connector, 1 end with pins only, 15’	$55
SV-NET-20CP	Network Cable – 1 end with connector, 1 end with pins only, 20’	$60
SV-NET-25CP	Network Cable – 1 end with connector, 1 end with pins only, 25’	$65
SV-NET-30CP	Network Cable – 1 end with connector, 1 end with pins only, 30’	$70
SV-NET-SPL	Network Splitter	$50

For more information: http://www.dynonavionics.com/docs/SkyView_intro.html

Support the Haiti Disaster Relief Effort

As you may all know about the Haiti 7.0 disastrous earthquake that happened on January, 12, 2010, I (Adam) will be taking part in the Haiti Disaster Relief Effort by putting a Blogger widget (that's in the top left corner); so that my readers can contribute to the Red Cross's International disaster relief effort. Just click the picture (in the top left corner) and you can donate money.

Ryan Christopher Mouritsen Dead at 33

I received an email from Brennan Callan and here's what it said.

Dear Adam,
I am so very grateful for all that you do to honor EAA members in such a respectful manner. The quality of your EAA Memorial wall photos was so good that I could read the names by using a magnifying glass to see them more closely. That said, Ryan's name was just out of the frame. Perhaps a future addition to your otherwise wonderful site could be a broad (wide shot) of the memorial, then close-ups of the various sections. Millions of people can benefit from viewing your webpage, but most of those people shall never be able to visit the memorial in person. For that reason, we, the viewing audience are dependent upon your generous nature to maintain the webpages.

Next month, 27 Feb. 2010 is the first anniversary of the death of my young friend and I do not know how I shall mark his passing, but I am sure that a great deal of crying will be involved as my tears cannot be contained each day.

Adam, you aren't just running webpages for a few (living and deceased) pilots, you are expressing your loving nature by helping the EAA membership to deal with our grieving process. Someone needs to hug you for your efforts as you are a wonderful young man to help out strangers, to honor them, respect them, and I thank you for going further to post my note. It is through our expression of loss that some alleged healing can begin. I say "alleged," for the pain grows exponentially at this point instead of subsiding.

On the night I held Ryan Christopher Mouritsen's Aviation Memorial on 28 September 2009, over the city of Louisville, Kentucky (the 16th largest city in the USA) (over Bowman Field-KLOU)(the oldest operating continuously airport in the world) (formerly the busiest airport in the world--WWII), honoring Ryan at this field seemed appropriate. While I hadn't probably written a poem in about 15+ years, I was so inspired by Ryan's life to return home and take notice of the emptiness and pain in my heart and mind.

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As a reaction to the Aviation Memorial, I wrote the follow poem:

A poem for Ryan Christopher Mouritsen by Brennan James Callan, 28 September 2009:

Flying with Ryan's memorial aerial banner gave me the feeling of his presence for the flight.

Blustering, flowing, blowing, his banner soured across the sky just before the night.

Free of the troubles of life, we flew together, my friend and I.

Flittering in the sherbert colored sky, Ryan was with me.

If only for those moments now, if only those moments until I die.

Rather than moments for me, it was we.

My friend, the cute little guy.

What shall I do until we meet again.

For he is not mine to keep, but to think of now than then.

Endless tears keep coming each day and each week.

Perhaps he should inspire me to live life to its peak.

Yet, I still weep.

Others knew him better, but I knew him well enough.

He was an actor, a writer, an aviator, an adventurer, he had the right stuff.

I was a coward and never told him how I felt.

Those are the cards I was dealt.

To fall in love with someone and keep it to yourself.

Maybe that was selfish, or to doubt one's self.

Would he reflect the love or tell me to take a hike?

Investing in those words, those thoughts, those feelings, did seem right.

Youth was on our side, time seemed abundant, no need to rush,

Why cloud up a friendship with too much mush?

Who knew the darkest night was drawing near?

Ryan raced toward adventure without any fear.

He was a person loved by one and all.

He never heard those words from me for I was in a stall.

When is the right time to express your love to a new friend?

You had better do it soon, as we never know when life will end.

My love for Ryan was a secret to one and all.

To him, to his friends in California, and to his family in Utah.

Therefore, no one told me when the ultralight came to that fatal stall.

I learned of his passing months later in the National Gay Pilots Association periodical,

Now knowing why he never returned my call.

Now I can only tell everyone else, but not the adorable little guy.

He was the apple of my eye.

Putting his name above the Louisville sky today, what else could I do?

That's right, I should have found the courage during his living days and said, "Ryan Mouritsen, I love you."

Virtual hugs for you Ryan and and also for you Adam.

My older brother told me I should focus on the fact I was honored to know Ryan and not focus on how much I miss him from my life. That is easier said that done.

Broken hearted and adrift.

Hon. Brennan James Callan, Col.
bc@brennancallan.com
President/ Founder of Kentuckiana Cinematography Club (KCC)
http://www.brennancallan.com/kcc.html
http://www.brennancallan.com/cine.html
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My School -Bettendorf Community School District- has an Airplane Article Up

MS Student Receives 3 Year Scholarship to EAA Camp
The Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. recently announced that Brandon Gore, BMS student, has been accepted to attend the EAA Young Eagles Camp 2010 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Brandon is receiving 3 full scholarships from the local EAA Chapter 75, Quad Cities, IL to attend the next 3 years.

The EAA Air Academy offers young people the opportunity to meet and work with aviation professionals, while living and learning the arts, sciences, and lore of aviation in both classroom and workshop settings. Participants are ages 12-13 and come from around the United States and several foreign countries for the 64 slots.

Note: This is My School District
Official Site: http://www.bettendorf.k12.ia.us/

Ryan Christopher Mouritsen Dead at 33

I received an email from Brennan Callan and here's what it said.

Dear Adam,
Thank you for all of your work on the 2009 EAA Memorial Wall information. Ryan Christopher Mouritsen, 33-years of age at death, was a beloved friend and I miss him desperately to the point it is hard to breath when I think of his absence and my heart aches in ways that seem unnatural. Seeing that you have honored my friend only makes me proud to be a fellow member of EAA.

Adam, as someone who has a loved one on this 2009, I must thank you from the bottom of my broken heart for your efforts to maintain the webpages and honor the special pilots so enumerated on this list.

I loved him so much that I held an Aviation Memorial in Louisville, Kentucky on 28 September 2009 for him with a 1935 Waco biplane and a banner-plane that pulled a banner saying, "Goodbye Ryan Mouritsen [heart shaped symbol]."

At this ceremony, Ryan Mouritsen also posthumously was awarded the "Kentuckiana Cinematography Club (KCC) Lifetime Achievement Award" for his contributions to the motion picture and Television and entertainment industry." http://www.brennancallan.com/kcc.html

I tried to post my note to your site, but I do not have any of the social network assoications required to post to you. I hope this note makes it this time.

The following aviation poem inspired me to put on the Aviation Memorial for Ryan in the way I did with the banner-plane and the biplane.


Sincerely,

______________________________

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Hon. Brennan James Callan, Col.
bc@brennancallan.com
President/ Founder of Kentuckiana Cinematography Club (KCC)
http://www.brennancallan.com/kcc.html
http://www.brennancallan.com/cine.html
http://www.brennancallan.com/