VALLEY AVIATION EXPO HONORS TWO PIONEERS IN FLIGHT.Byline: Daily News PACOIMA - Local government leaders and Air National Guard members honored pioneer aviatrix a·vi·a·trix n. A woman who operates an aircraft; a woman pilot. Noun 1. aviatrix - a woman aviator airwoman, aviatress aeronaut, airman, aviator, flier, flyer - someone who operates an aircraft Wally wally Noun pl -lies Brit slang a stupid or foolish person [from the name Walter] Noun 1. Funk and teenage astronaut astronaut, crew member on a U.S. manned spaceflight mission; the Soviet term is cosmonaut. Candidates for manned spaceflight are carefully screened to meet the highest physical and mental standards, and they undergo rigorous training. hopeful Justin Houchin at the space and aviation expo Saturday at Whiteman Airport Whiteman Airport (IATA: WHP, ICAO: KWHP) is located in Pacoima, California in the San Fernando Valley. No commercial airlines fly into this airport and it used exclusively for general aviation. . Hundreds of children also showed up to participate in the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program and get their first free airplane ride. The educational nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Traveling Space Museum Inc. put on the event to bring space and aviation exhibits to Pacoima area children and to give them their first flight. Nearly 300 children came, the largest number the Young Eagles program has ever flown out of Whiteman. Funk, 64, was one of the Mercury 13 female trainees denied astronaut status in the 1960s and in 1974 became the first female investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. Houchin, 17, of Sunland is the first teenager to fly a military jet at the National Test Pilot School in Mojave and hopes to become the first teenager in space. Both are preparing to go into space within the next year. |
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