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We are making great progress with our first year RV-12 Build!

The kids and the mentors are doing great, really high quality work. We have completed the rudder, the vertical stabilizer, and are working on the stabilator.

We have received and inventoried the Empenage and Fuselage kits, and should have the Wing kit before Thanksgiving break.

The class is setup so that the kids are rotating between the PLTW Aerospace Academics, building the airplane, and interning with local businesses at the KGTU airport. Truly an incredible experience for the kids.

We have had success raising money to pay for the first three kits, but we need to pull the funds together to pay for the finish kit, firewall forward, and avionics kits.

Along those lines, please take a moment and check out the GoFundMe site that we setup.

www.gofundme.com/tangoflight

There is a good writeup with links to the really cool AOPA article on our program and a link to our Facebook page with tons of pictures (one of the students grandparents is a professional photographer!).

If you would like to make a donation on the GoFundMe site it would be greatly appreciated. Even a few dollars, but even if you don't, please take a few minutes to read about the incredible work these kids are doing.

If anyone would like to make a donation and needs it to be tax deductible we can do that as well, please PM me and I'll get you details for that.

Thanks for taking a look!

-Dan
 
Donated. Good to see kids getting involved with grass roots aviation.
 
Bump. Take a minute and check out what we are doing. This is a great program. Folks keep talking about needing to grow GA and needing more pilots, mechanics, etc. this is a real world program that is helping generate interested in GA, we would really appreciate your support.

-Dan
 
Please take a moment to check out the KVUE segment on Tango Flight and GISD’s Aerospace Engineering program.


http://www.kvue.com/news/local/high-school-students-build-airplane/359766272


Also, AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association), one of the largest pilots associations in the world did an online and print story on the program. The first article they did via phone interviews, they are sending a reporter from Maryland tomorrow (Friday) to do a follow up story on what we are doing!


https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media...just-asked-officials-for-airplane-build-class?



A lot of people are working really hard to give the kids what we believe is a truly unique opportunity in a high school setting. We have combined a college level Aerospace Engineering class, with the hands on experience of building a Van’s RV-12 airplane, and also getting the chance to work with local aviation businesses.


Our web site is www.tangoflight.org. It doesn’t have a lot of content yet, but it does have links to our facebook page that has lots of pictures of the kids building.


As you can imagine, this is not an inexpensive program to get started. Our two year fund raising goal is $160,000, we believe that is an obtainable amount, but we need the help of local businesses and individuals to make that happen.


If you would please consider making a donation to Tango Flight, we would greatly appreciate it.


Tango Flight is the non-profit organization that we created to raise funds and hold ownership of the airplane (something the district didn’t want to do). We are working on getting our 501(c)3 status, but until we have that our local EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Chapter #187 has agreed to work with us and act as our 501(c)3.


There are a couple ways that you can make a donation if you would like.


Good - www.GoFundMe.com/TangoFlight - We can accept credit cards, but they take a 5% cut, plus a 2.9% credit card fee. Donations via this web site are NOT Tax Deductible

Better – www.eaa187.org – Scroll down to the TangoFlight Paypal link. Paypal is only taking a 2.2% credit card processing fee since we are a non-profit (Tax Deductible)

Please feel free e-mail me with any questions that you might have. If you would like to come by EVHS and see the progress on the plane, and meet with some of the students just let me know.

Thank you so much for your continued support of the Georgetown Engineering program.


Merry Christmas,


-Dan Weyant

GISD Engineering Teacher

Tango Flight President
 
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