MDPA Speaker

Friday May 17, 2013 - 7:00 PM

Our guest speaker will be Gene Stangel. He began taking flying lessons in 1983 from Navajo Aviation at CCR and rented airplanes for several years before joining with friends to buy a 1975 C-177 RG. Gene took a hiatus from flying while his kids went through middle and high school. He became interested in experimental aircraft in the mid nineties. An introduction to Lyle Powell and a ride in his Glasair got him "hooked". He bought a partially completed Glasair in 1997 and completed it over the next 11 years; first in his garage, then a hanger at CCR and eventually at APC. Gene has a total of 1300 hrs as PIC, of which 220 are in his Glasair. His presentation will cover the background of, and lessons he learned from (or that were re-enforced by), a catastrophic engine failure and subsequent off-field-landing on the Bonneville Salt Flats in October, 2012.