Kik-11 Tactical Key Loader Manual
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The Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame (MAHOF) honors these men and women for their outstanding contributions and achievements to aviation and/or space. They had a vision and followed their dreams with determination and triumph.
Abrams served in the Aviation Section, United States Marine Corps, and the United States Air Corps from 1917-1919 during and after World War I. He married and started the ABC Airline (Always Be Carful) in 1922. He left the airline industry and founded Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation in 1923. He made his first aerial survey for the Michigan State Highway Department in September of 1925 using aerial cameras that he himself developed.
Since its start in 1923, the company annually completes precision aerial surveys and remote sensing for thousands of highways, transmission and pipe lines miles for states, counties, cities, and industry. Abrams himself has lived, worked, and traveled in 96 countries.
Abrams has received many honors, one of which was his initiation into the OX-5 Aviation Hall of Fame. He is especially proud of the fact he has Federation Aeronautique International Pilot License No. 282, signed by Orville Wright, and the United States Transport Pilot License No. 599. Abrams also received three honorary degrees for his contributions to aviation and to society.
Abrams was enshrined on December 17, 1987 for his long and illustrious career in developing the state-of-the-art aerial photography adopted and used around the world today. He is very proud and pleased to have had the wonderful lifelong experience of being able to make the contributions he made for a great country like the United States.
A private pilot dedicated to education, Sid promoted aviation and aviation education in Battle Creek and throughout Michigan. He served on the W.K. Kellogg Airport Advisory Committee and helped establish the Western Michigan University College of Aviation in Battle Creek. To introduce aviation careers opportunities to women and minorities, Sid co-founded the Battle Creek Flight Academy. He served on a team that provided over 4,000 computers to local students and later, taught as WMU College of aviation professor. In 2001, the Michigan Aeronautics Commission made Sid a member. He remained active with the NAACP and the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals. The WMU College of Aviation inducted Sid into its Hall of Honor in 2012. Sid passed away on December 12, 2022.
Colonel John Amundson was born on January 31, 1935, in Decorah, Iowa. After graduating from high school, he studied at the University of Minnesota for a year before entering the U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadet program. In May 1956, he completed U.S. Air Force flight training in May 1956 and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He completed advanced flight training in the B-47 nuclear bomber. He served as B-47 Aircrew Commander with the 310th Bombardment Wing, Schilling Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas, until 1965, with tours of duty in Alaska, Guam, England, Spain, and North Africa. During his B-47 tour, he earned a bachelor s degree. In 1957, he married his wife, Margaret. Their five children and their many grandchildren and great-grandchildren have been of the utmost importance to him.
In early 1965, then Captain Amundson was assigned as a pilot of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. In 1967, he was named Chief, U-2 Branch, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. He had U-2 tours of duty in Alaska, the Continental U.S., and Vietnam. One of the U-2 aircraft he flew now hangs in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
In 1971, Amundson earned a master s degree in computing science from Texas A&M. He was then assigned to Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Offut Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska. While at Offut, he was assigned as a C-131 pilot, in addition to his managerial duties with data systems. He was assigned temporary duty in Thailand to assist with U-2 operations in Southeast Asia, until his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel required him to stop flying.
In 1977, Amundson graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he was promoted to Colonel. He retired from the Air Force in 1980, after 25 years of service, having last served as Director of Data Systems at Defense Logistics Services at the Federal Center in Battle Creek. The Air Force awarded him the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Legion of Merit.
As a civilian, John Amundson used the GI Bill to obtain additional flight ratings, and then served as Director of Flight Operations for three different companies, including the Stryker Corporation. He was chief pilot for the Air Zoo and flew Air Zoo fighters at air shows, including the Grumman F8F Bearcat in the historic Cat Flight . In addition, he was the FAA Designated Pilot Examiner for the Air Zoo's Ford Tri-motor, and logged more than 500 hours in that aircraft. Colonel Amundson has flown more than 13,000 hours, including 1,200 hours as an instructor in 85 types of aircraft. In 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration honored him with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for his more than fifty years of safe flying. Colonel Amundson is a life member of the Air Force Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association, the Flying Octogenarians, and is a long-time member of ye Anciente and Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen, Kalamazoo Hangar.
Col. Norman C. Appold was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 3, 1917 and graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in chemical engineering. After completing his studies, he voluntarily joined the U.S. Army Air Corps immediately before Pearl Harbor.
He graduated from the Aviation Cadet Training Program in 1942, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. After completing pilot training, he served as a B-24 pilot in the 376th Bomb Group Association, completing 63 missions.
Appold was involved in Operation Tidal Wave, code name of the historic low-level attack of oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania on August 1, 1943. This was the first large-scale, low-level strike by heavy bombers against a well-defined target of World War II up to that time. B-24's of the 8th and 9th Air Forces undertook the 2,400 mile flight from Benghazi, Libya. Due to heavy defenses and the low altitude of the raid, casualties were high, with 53 of 178 B-24s lost, and 440 crew members killed and 220 captured or missing.
Appold, piloting G.I. Ginnie, leading four other aircraft through intense ground fire, bombed the Concordia Vega refinery and successfully returned to Libya. Appold received the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism that day.
After retiring from the Air Force in 1963, Appold joined the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company where he was instrumental in the development of the C-5 and C-141 aircraft. He retired from Lockheed as a Vice President in 1984. In addition to the Distinguished Service Cross, Appold was awarded the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, an Air Force Commendation Medal, as well as numerous service awards. Appold was enshrined in the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame on April 19, 2008.
Destined to spend a lifetime in the cockpit, Barber's illustrious career got off to an early start in 1936 with his first solo flight in his native Minnesota at age 11. Later, he became a commercial airline pilot and logged more than 30,000 hours of pilot-in-command time.
Having deep respect and affection for the bygone barnstormer era, Barber soon set his sights on becoming a top-tier stunt pilot. Over an airshow career that spanned 25 years, he developed a soaring repertoire of acts that thrilled audiences coast to coast. He entertained hundreds of thousands with dead-stick sequences, a rope ladder pickup, car-top landings, team aerobatics, skywriting, wingwalking and comedy crowd-pleasers.
Barber was an inveterate collector of showplanes. His diverse fleet included a Clipped Wing Cub, Curtiss Flacon, Bucker Jungman, Pitts Special S-IS and a powerful Black Wasp Boeing Stearman known as the "Black Baron." Amazingly, Barber one performed 14 different aerobatic airshow acts during a two-day Chicago show, shifting between aircraft of varying flight characteristics with ease and earning a well-deserved reputation as "Aerobatic Flying's Renaissance Man."
His renowned spread to include the international arena. In 1962, he captained the first United States Aerobatic Competition Team in Budapest. Barber shaped the future of airshow entertainment and competition by serving as the first United States representative to the International Aerobatics Rules meeting in Paris. Invited by ranking Washington, D.C. officials, he also played a pivotal role in the formation of the Aerobatics Division of NAA.
Barber was awarded the Wilkenson Sword of Excellence and has been inducted into the Airshow Hall of Fame and the Aerobatics Hall of Fame. In his honor, the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship is presented to an outstanding airshow personality each year at EAA's AirVenture Show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin-the world's premier aviation event.
An authentic, modern-day hero, Bill Barber's legacy endures as one of the most colorful chapters in the long and glorious history of aviation. He was enshrined in the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame on October 11, 2003.
Lt. Cyrus K. Bettis was born January 2, 1893, in Carsonville, Michigan.
Bitten by the flying bug early on, he received his pilot license in 1916 from the O. E. Williams Flight School, attending alongside fellow Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinees Elwood J. Junkin and Clayton J. Brukner, who would eventually co-found the WACO Aircraft Company.