Project Schoolflight - Knowledge (XXG)

263:, Paul's son and then CEO of EAA, remarked: "As we focus on Sport Pilot and Light Sport Aircraft, we will continue to address our core programs built around homebuilder aircraft education ... the important part of the future is educational outreach programs. They started in 1956 at St. Rita High School with and his students. That was a showcase initiative that touched a few kids deeply, but we wanted to do more". 189:

In 1957, Blacker made available his high school shop for Chicago EAA Chapter #15 to hold their monthly meetings there to help expand awareness of the project and gain wider involvement. Blacker soon became President of EAA Chapter 15 while continuing to serve as the adult sponsor and advisor to

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plans for the program at no charge. Poberezny thought that Blacker's program could provide him with a start to fulfilling one of his lifetime dreams - to have an "airplane building factory" for homebuilt aircraft. It was from these discussions that both men agreed to co-found Project Schoolflight

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The Project Schoolflight program was initially overseen by both men but it grew so quickly that it became administered by the EAA's Air Museum Foundation instead. The project dissolved around 1978, and would eventually help inspire the founding of the very successful EAA

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Project Schoolflight quickly spread across the US, with thousands of students involved. By 1961 almost 400 airplanes were being built at more than 300 schools. In addition ten American prisons used Project Schoolflight as an inmate rehabilitation program.

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In 1962, due to the project's success, the EAA formalized the establishment of junior EAA chapters, with members to be under 19 years of age, with an adult advisor and sponsored by a regular EAA Chapter.

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biplane, was intended to encourage schools to either continue in the program or to create their own Project Schoolflight programs by building an Acro Sport, a direct descendant design of the

151:. At the 1958 Fly-in, Blacker was awarded the Mechanix Illustrated Trophy for "Outstanding Achievements in Home-Built Aircraft" for his work in starting Project Schoolflight. In 1961, the 241:

Project Schoolflight started winding down soon after the delivery of the Wright Flyer replica to the EAA Museum in 1978. However, the project served as a forerunner for EAA's follow-on

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Participating in the project inspired the students to form Chapter #39, the first Junior EAA Chapter, including electing student officers. Chapter 39 students also volunteered at the

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In 1959, Blacker and Poberezny both appeared on a local TV show on WMVS-TV in Milwaukee. Blacker explained how Project Schoolflight worked, while Poberezny explained EAA activities.

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Because of the EAA's policies on youth education, many prominent educators visited EAA Headquarters to study the Schoolflight program. In 1992, Tom Poberezny founded the EAA's

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In September of that year, Blacker and his students began building their first Baby Ace for Project Schoolflight, which would be named the

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In 1952, prior to founding the EAA, Paul Poberezny purchased all of the inventory and the legal rights of the then defunct

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In 1974, EAA member Sam Burgess flew a four month tour covering 48 states. This outreach program, flown in an

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First Short Snorter in EAA History presented to Robert D. Blacker for his efforts on Project Schoolflight

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sport aircraft, all of which had been left abandoned in an airport hangar in Madison, Wisconsin.

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replica built by EAA and the Project Schoolflight students at Blackhawk Technical Institute in

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In the summer of 1961, Bob Blacker left St. Rita's High School to work for the

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and Robert D. Blacker, the director of the Aviation Industrial Arts program at

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Early in 1955, Poberezny built a Baby Ace on which he painted to advertise

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from 1957 until 1960 where they helped run the competitive flying events.

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magazines and Blacker decided to use the plans for the first Schoolflight

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project. Blacker contacted Poberezny and he supplied a copy of the

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