Jonathan Porter's Blog Posts Tagged 'education' (7)

Learning to Fly with a broken wing...

Lydia is already known to many of you, she has undergone a lot of challenges in her little life.... yet, through the amazing healing power of Zenith Aircraft, she is getting above her problems...

As we beat out the circuits with the occassional 12kt gust that made her work harder, we started to chat....

'How many 16 year old girls learn to fly?'…

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Added by Jonathan Porter on April 11, 2012 at 2:23pm — 8 Comments

Santa provides logistical inspiration to 701...

In Ghana, Santa has been giving inspirations to the CH701 building ladies of WAASPS and Medicine on the Move.

Consideration was given to renaming the the aircraft as 'Metal Sleigh', for, afterall, both the Wooden Sleigh of the red-coated-white-bearded aviator (Reindeer powered, of course), have great similiarities....

1. STOL capabilities - both…

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Added by Jonathan Porter on December 16, 2011 at 4:54am — No Comments

Some parts for training in Ghana...

Hi fellow builders... would you like to have a part in helping to train girls to build Zenith aircraft in West Africa?…



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Added by Jonathan Porter on September 1, 2011 at 11:51am — 3 Comments

New hope for young people in Africa from Zenith

Thank you Zenith for making the growth of light aviation possible in Ghana, West Africa and for giving so many young people new hope. The ability to produce parts from scratch build, and to have kit parts coupled with excellent manuals and plans and outstanding support from the factory and Zenith community is what has made it possible for WAASPS, Medicine on the Move and the AvTech Academy to succeed in changing lives, one flight at a time.  

 

The changes to these girls lives…

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Added by Jonathan Porter on August 20, 2011 at 3:16am — No Comments

After Oshkosh...

I decided not to write about Oshkosh - since there was a lot already.. .but the Medicine on the Move (MoM) team are just winding up their USA tour - and looking forward to getting home to the team that are still in Ghana working hard on keeping the airfield ready for our return (they chose to dig out some large stones whilst we are away... and now need to fill the holes!!)

 

Last week we had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Zenith Factory.  For Patricia this was her…

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Added by Jonathan Porter on August 12, 2011 at 10:11pm — 2 Comments

Floating Aircraft Dock

Ok, so here is your challenge - a floating airport.

 

We are seriously considering taking on a disused hospital ship and converting it into a 'Health Education Vessel with Advanced First Responder Capabilities'.  If successful, which is more than 50%, we would want to keep the vessel at large the majority of the time, anchored at a number of points along the thousands of kilometers of lake-coast on the largest man made lake in the world.  Moving crews and supplies on and off…

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Added by Jonathan Porter on May 5, 2011 at 1:33am — 15 Comments

A tale of three airstrips

In West Africa light aviation is still massively under-utilised, yet in great need.  So, with the harmattan dust restricting our flight movements, and with Detective Erin Nolan from the NYPD on a visit, we took to the road to check out the airfields we hoped to 'stimulate' either back to use or to improve.  We scored 2/3 and get some very interesting tales to tell.…

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Added by Jonathan Porter on February 13, 2011 at 12:49am — 1 Comment

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