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Florence getsloradar equipment

Florence controllers Frederick G.Godsey (left) and Dennis Wallacemonitor traffic on the tower radardisplays as local controller StevenBohannan looks on. The radar wasinstalled this summer and trainingbegan Sept. 24. See story, page 6.(Aeronautics Commission Photo)

Motel reservations can be made by call-ing the Marriott at 803/842-2400.

This year's conference has a variedagenda with a number of topics whichshould appeal to airport sponsors, FBOs,managers, consultants and others in-volved in the management and develop-ment of airports. Check the conferenceagenda on page 2. The general themeof the 1985 conference is "Airport Pro-tection and Enhancement."

A block of rooms has been reserved at$45 per night, single or double occupan-cy and that rate will extend through theweekend for those who would like to stayand enjoy the scenic beautv of HiltonHead.

Wilbur Smith to keynoteS.C. Airports ConferenceConference agenda, Page 2

Wilbur S. Smith, an internationally-known consultant in the field of transpor-tation planning and engineering, will bethe keynote speaker at the Eighth AnnualS.C. Airports Conference this month atHilton Head.

Smith, consultant to the Administrator.National Aeronautics and Space Agen-cy (NASA) , will address the conferenceon "Transportation in Space."

As a consultant to NASA, Smith willbe developing recommendations for theagency's commercial use of space and itstechnology utilization efforts.

The conference will be held Nov.13-15 at the Marriott's Hilton HeadResort. Registration is $55 per person.

WILBUR E. SMITHTransportation Consultant

PALMETTO AVIATION is an of-ficial publication of the South CarolinaAeronautics Commission. It is designed

to inform members of the aviationcommunity, and others interested inaviation, of local developmenls in avia-tion and aviation facilities and to keep

readers abreast of national and interna-tional trends in aviation.The Aeronautics Commission is a state

agency created in 1935 by the S.C.

General Assembly to foster and pro-mote air commerce within the state.

Richard W. RileyGovernor

CommissionersRalph Schmidt, chairmanGreenville

Michael L. Laughlin, vice chairmanAiken

Joseph WilderBarnwell

Edwin PearlstineCharleston

Jim HamiltonLexington

Fred Eugene RachelsChester

B. Truett JonesLoris

Ex-OfficioSen. Isadore LourieColumbia

Rep. Olin R. PhillipsGaffney

StaffJohn W HamiltonDirector

Bill GoodwinEditor

Offices rt Columbie Metropolitan AirporlMriling Address:Post Office Drewer l9t7Columbie, South Ceroling 29202

Phone: {t03) 7St-7104

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Conference AgendaEighth Annual South Carolina Airports Conference

Marriott's Hilton Head ResortHilton Head, South Carolina

November 13-15. 1985WEDNESDAY, November l3

3:00 p m. 5 130 p m. Registration Foyer6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Reception Salon D

(Dinner on your own)

THURSDAY, November l4()0Oam 12.()(,pm Reer>latron Fover9:00 a.m. 9:15 a.m. We-icominq Remarks Salon D

Presiding: John W. HamiltonDirector, South Carolina Aeronautics Commissr.,nColumbia, South Carolina

Speaker: Honorable James M Waddell. JrSouth Carolina State Senate

e:15 a m e:45 a m public Rerationcsl:Ij:1,to:$:,:"""""Presiding: Wayne Corley. P E

State Airport EngineerSouth Carolina Aeronautics ContmissionColumbia. South Carolina

Speaker: KennethMedley

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e 45 a m r0:15 a m n".nnt r-"ni,r*l',1:::tJ,]:?[fi", Fuel StorageSpeaker: Robert D. Wilroy. P.E

Chief Environmental EngineerTalbert Cox & Associates

r0:15 a m. 10:30 a.m. Break columbia south Carolina

10:30 a m. 1l:15 a.m Airport LeasesSpeakers Sam Austin

Manager. Airports District OfficeFAA Southern ReoionAtlanta. GeororaCurt BrambletlCily PlannerRock Hill. South CarolinaJoe FrasherExecutive DirecrorGreenville Airport Commission

l r: 15 a m r 1:45 a m Airport s€curi8 :;:v'li;"i::t1[",,'"""'Speaker: tiob Collins

Director

l1:45 a.m 12:15 p.m AirspaceSpeaker

International Airport Security & Aviation TheftAircraft Owners & Pilots AssociationFrederick, MarylandHow Restricted are we?Leon HarrisonManagerAirspace and Procedures Branch FAA. Southern RegionAtlanta. Georqia

12:30 p m. 2:00 p.m. Luncheon Salon-F. G HTransportation in SpaceSpeaker: Wilbur S. Smith

Consultant to the AdministratorNational Aeronauiics & Space Administration

2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Group Discussions. Exhibit Tour6:00 p.m. 8;00 p.m. Reception Salon E

FRIDAY, November 159:00 a.m. -9:30 a.m Economic lmpact of Aviation in South Carolina

Salon DPresiding: BillGoodwin

Director. Public lnformationSouth Carolina Aeronautics Commission

Speaker: Dr. G. Richard ThompsonDepartment of Economics. Clemson UniversityClemson. South Carolina

9:30 a m. 10:00 a.m. Fliqht Information and ObstructionsSp?aker: Sid Wugalter

ManagerFlight lnformation and Obstructions Branch FAA.Washington. D.C

10:00 a.m 10:15 a.m. Break Foverl0:15 a.m. 10:45 a.m. FAA s Arrport Improvemlrrt Program

Speaker: Sam AustinManager. Airports District OfficeFAA Southern ReqionAtlanta. Georgia "

South Carolina Airport Development ProgramSpeakers: Honorable Olin R. Phillips

South Carolina House of RepresentativesDistrict 29Wayne Corley. P.E.Stat€ Airport EngineerSouth Carolina Aeronautics Commission

ll:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. South Carolina Aeronautics Commission and FAA personnel will beavailable for ouestions

10:45 a.m 1l;30 a.m

Barnwell begins workon terminal expansion

Construction has begun at BarnwellCounty Airport on a 1,500 square footterminal building expansion which willhouse the county Chamber of Com-merce and Industrial DevelopmentCommission.

The terminal expansion is part of a

state and county funded airport improve-ment project which includes restorationof the aircraft fuel system and removal ofan earth mound which interferes withline-of-sight between the runways.

Airport Commission chairman H.F.Trexler Sr. said the S.C. National Guard,commanded by Adjutant General T.Eston Marchant, agreed to remove thedirt as a training project so that the en-tire project, including the building, wouldtotal no more than $50,000. The projectis funded with a $25,000 grant from theS. C. Aeronautics Commission plus a

$25,000 match from Barnwell County.The terminal addition is expected to

cost some $30,000. When finished, thebuilding will house the Barnwell County

Chamber of Commerce and IndustrialDevelopment Commission. Executivedirector Steve Wright will be the airportmanager.

Trexler said the parachute club whichformerly occupied the terminal buildingwill be moved to a rebuilt quonset hangaron the airport and Jack Woodward, a

local aerial applicator, will occupy thenorthern hangar and five acres of land.

He said there are presently two flightinstructors operating off the airport. Thefuel pumps have been rebuilt and newfilters and hoses have been installed.

Airport Commission members areTrexler, John Boney, secretary; FrankiePeters, land management; Dr. H.Gilcrist, Hangar and rent director; Bob-by Frieson, director of fuel service andjumpers and Wendell Gibson, JackWoodward and Joe Wilder, advisors.

Trexler said County SupervisorRichard Hunter also sits on the commis-sion and helps execute the work.

The annual election of officers, waspostponed from the Oct. 20 Orangeburgmeeting until this month. We will list theofficers elected in next month'snewsletter.

Nov. 17 Laurens Countv.Laurens

Dec. I Walterboro, Municipal,Walterboro

Dec. 15 Lancaster County,Lancaster

Breakfast club members normally ar-rive between 9 and 9:30 a.m. Breakfaststarts at 10 and is usually over by 1 1 a. m.

Enthusiasm highdespite weatherat EAA fly-in

Poor weather at Camden kept thenumber of aircraft down at the EAA an-nual fall fly-in last month, but many drovein to socialize and attend the banquet inspite of the weather.

Airport manager Bill Hawkins said 140aircraft managed to get into the airportfor this year's fly-in.

"Friday arrivals were brisk and bynightfall there were 60 aircraft on theramp," he said. He said the early birdparty at the Holiday Inn was "packed"and many enjoyed the vintage aviationmovies.

By 9 a.m. Saturday, Hawkins said lowceilings and poor visibility closed the air-port and stopped Iocal flying. But manydrove in, and a record 245 persons at-tended the awards banquet Saturdayevening and heard OX-5 member MaxFreeman's humorous talk.

On Sunday, Hawkins said, VFRweather brought a surge of planes thatcouldn't get in Saturday as well as theS.C. Breakfast Club which flew in to seethe show aircraft. EAA Chapter 242served breakfast on the field.

State and local officials break ground at Barnwell Airport for a$30,000 terminal expanslon. From left, T. Eston Marchant, S.C. Adju-tant General; Kay Still, President of Barnwell County Chamber of Com-merce and Industrial Development Commlsslon; H.F. Trexler Sr., Barn-well County Airport Commlsslon Chalrman; Bob Collins, Chairman ofBarnwell County Commissloners and Joe Wtlder, member of the S.C.Aeronautics Commission. (Aeronautics Commission photo)

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Florence air museumenjoyed by thousands

The Florence Air and Missile Museum,located on U.S. 301 at the Florence Air-port, is a unique facility featuring a varie-ty of aircraft, aviation and space exhibits.

Opened in 1963 with three exhibits, themuseum now has more than 38 aircraft,missiles and rockets on display. Visitorstraveling 301 are often surprised to see a98 foot Titan ICBM and many do a double-take when they spot the hulk of a giantC-t24 Globemaster, both of which are pro-minently displayed on the site.

Inside the museum are a number of ex-hibits ranging from World War I aviationto equipment, instruments and computersused in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollospace programs.

Museum director T.C. Griffin said themuseum is open daily from 9 a.m. till dark.For more information. call 665-51f 8.

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with full radar approach serviceFlorence Airport going on'line

The Florence Airport, which has been

without radar service for years, is going

on line this month as a fully certified radarapproach facility offering radar services

to arrivals, departures and enroute

aircraft.Euford Hyman, ATC area manager

and Herb Fengl, area supervisor. arepresently working to get all Florence con-

trollers qualified on the new equipmentand radar separation standards. The men

have been training since SePt. 26.

Fengl said the facility should be fullycertified Nov. 24. Once functioning,Fenglsaid the facility would fillthe "radar

hole" that has existed between MyrtleBeach and Shaw AFB in the north-eastern part of the state.

He said the new radar--a state of the

art ASR-8 system--was pushed hard bySen. Strom Thurmond.

Construction will begin the first of theyear on a Terminal Radar ApproachControl (TRACON) building near thebase of the tower. Fengl said theTRACON is tentatively scheduled tobecome operational in September, 1986.Until then, controllers will use the britedaylight displays in the tower cab.

Since the addition of radar service,

Fengl said the Florence radar service area

has been separated into north and southsectors. A new frequency-- 135. 25--hasbeen added for the southern sector.

Pilots inbound to Florence can nowtake advantage of radar vectors to the air-port, vectors to the ILS, VOR and NDBapproaches.

grant approvedfor Hartsville

The South Carolina Aeronautics Com-mission has approved $7,424.00 for im-provement of the airport lighting systemat the Hartsville Municipal Airport. Thegrant will serve as the state match forlocal funding with the Federal AviationAdministration picking up the majority ofthe cost ($71,000) for a total estimatedproject cost of $85,848.

This project is part of an overall airportupgrade, which consists of installing a

new Medium Intensity Lighting System,Rotating Beacon, Precision ApproachPath Indicator (PAPI) and rehabilitatingthe existing wind cone. The existing lowintensity system has deteriorated to thepoint where it is plagued by outages andrequires frequent maintenance. Thelighting project comes on the tail of apavement rehabilitation project whichwas completed last year.

Aircraft manufacturer design negligentdespite initial FAA certification

By H.M. Burwellln 1974, an experimental pilot took

three prospective buyers f or a

demonstration flight in a Travel Air twinengine aircraft manufactured by BeechAircraft Corporation. After takeoff, theaircraft made two right turns into trafficat 800 feet. Suddenly it veered left andwent into a spin which ended in a crash

killing everyone on board.The accident investigation disclosed

that the pilot had turned off the left fuelselector, shut down the left engine andfeathered the prop. The landing gear was

in down position, the wing flaps werepartially or all the way down, and thethermostatic valve in the left engine was

broken.Lawsuits were filed against Beech

asserting various negligence theories onthe grounds of non-compliance with FAAsafety regulations. Violations charged in-cluded allegations of Beech's failure tomeet FAA safety standards for single

engine stalls, single engine climb rate,spin characteristics and stall warninglights. Beech defended on the groundsof pilot error and that the FAA certifiedthe design by type certification of the iir-craft in 1954 as complying with ap-

plicable safety regulations. Beech furtherargues that the jury should not havegiven instructions to the effect that Beechwas negligent if the Travel Air did notmeet FAA salety regulations.

The issue facing the court was whetherthe plaintiff should be allowed to applystate tort law of negligence againstmanufacturers for defective design of air-

craft despite the fact that federal law mayhave completely occupied the field ofregulation of aircraft safety and certifica-tion. In effect, the legal dispute was overwhether the jury might be allowed to con-sider if the initial FAA decision to typecertify the aircraft as a safe design was asatisfactory determination.

While examining this question, thecourt noted that defendent Beech was

authorized by the FAA under the"delegation option" to perform the tests

and inspections required for type cer-tification of the aircraft. Under the delega-

tion option, a manufacturer notifies theFAA whether the aircraft meets ap-propriate safety regulations. Since thegoal of the FAA regulations is to protectthe public, the court reasoned that per-

mitting a jury to consider whether the air-

craft design initially complies with FAA

standards would promote safety withoutundue interference in the federalregulatory scheme.

Therefore, the court decided thatalthough an aircraft may be certified as

having a design that conforms to FAAsafety regulations, the state courts ofCalifornia shall be permitted to reviewthat process. If negligence is involved in

the FAA certification of the design, an in-jured person shall be permitted to sue the

manufacturer for injuries attributable tothe design. This decision could have farreaching effects on the industry and theuse of the delegation option. Elsworth v.Beech Aircraft, 18 Avi 18,562 (1984).

Mr. Burwell is a member of the lawfirm of Baninger, Allen, Pinnix & Burwelllocated in Greenville. S.C.

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CAP members take partin ground training drill

By 2 LT Delores Rucker, CAPThe South Carolina USAF Reserves

which are assigned to the Civil Air Patrolhosted a ground team training exerciseat the Marion County Airport on 27-29September, 1985.

Both S.C. cadets and senior membersparticipated in the training which includ-ed: staffing a mission center, coordinatinga ground team search, an aerial searchfor a downed aircraft, a ground teamsearch for an emergency locator transmit-ter (ELT), and moral leadership.

Classes were also held on the actualrequirements for a mission including:mission control operations, ELT searchprocedures, ground team operations andfieldloutdoor living techniques. Specialclasses were also given by the local firedepartments, the emergency medical ser-vices and the Marion County DisasterPreparedness Agency. These classes in-cluded basic fire fighting, forcible entrytools, basic first aid and basic rescuetraining.

Part of the training was the actualtramping through the heavy underbrush

in parallel search patterns looking for thedowned aircraft by homing on the hid-den ELT. Volunteers from the EMSdepartment played the victims of the air-craft accident and cadets got to practicefirst aid procedures that were given in theclassroom instruction. Orientation flightswere also given to the members to showhow a search is conducted and how tospot accident signs from the air.

Participants felt the entire exercise wasvery realistic. The cadets and seniorsstayed in tents and the meals wereprepared by the Darlington CAPSquadron mobile kitchen.

Another exercise is planned for thespring. Please contact the S. C. LiasionOffice, 751.-4218, for more informationif you would like to attend.

The CAP would like to thank WalterD. Byrd, Manager of the Marion Coun-ty Airport, for his gracious hospitality inallowing the use of the facilities andgrounds and Mr. Courie from the MarionCounty Disaster Preparedness Agencyfor his part in coordinating with localagencies to make the exercise a success.

CAP wing staffattends conference

Six members of the wing staff, S.C. Civll Air Patrol, attended the an-nual National CAP Conference heldin New Orleans Oct. 3-6. From leftare Lt. Col. Harold G. Bueneman,dlrector of operations; Maj. Aman-da B. Anderson, director of cadetprogram; Capt. Wtlliam A. Walls,dlrector of logistlcs; Lt. Col. Cltf-ford W. Morrlsett, chief of staff; Col.Wllliam E. Hobson, commanderand Col. Douglas T. Abercrombie,deputy commander. (AeronauticsCommission photo).

Veteran pilot,Art Scholl,killed in crash

Art Scholl, a veteran airshow andmovie stunt pilot, was killed Sept. 16 inPalomar, CA when he apparently wasunable to recover from an inverted flatspin in his Pitts Special biplane.

Scholl was flying a sequence for theParamount movie "Top Gun" about fivemiles off shore of Palomar when heradioed to his crew that he "had a prob-blem." Moments later, he radioed againthat he "had a real problem." His crew,circling the area in another airplane, didnot actually see the Pitts hit the ocean,apparently because the airplane descend-ed through a thin cloud layer.

When they arrived over the crash site,only a few pieces of wreckage were visi-ble on the surface. No sign of Scholl wasfound. Scholl, 53, was known on the air-show circuit as the "flying professor"because he held a PhD in aeronautics.He was very active as a pilot forHollywood as well. Scholl held everypilot certificate in the book, and was alicensed airframe and powerplantmechanic.

For every death in an airplane crash, 97die in motor vehicle crashes, accordingto information furnished the S.C. Depart-ment of Highways and PublicTransportation.

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Liability costs stifleinnovation, AOPA says

FREDERICK, MD Product liabilityconcerns are a major barrier totechnological innovation, the Aircra{tOwners and Pilots Association told a

U.S. Congressional subcommittee last

month."We have noticed a very slow in

troduction of new technologies intogeneral aviation airframes and engines,"AOPA General Counsel. John S.Yodice, told the House subcommittee onTransportation. Aviation and Materials."Product liability costs are clearly stiflingtechnological innovation in aviation, par-ticularly in the light end of the market."

Yodice toli the congressmen that inthe last ten years aircraft prices have risen

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almost twice as fast as the consumer priceindex. "Between 1974 and 1984. theCPI rose 123 percent. while the averagelist price of a single engine, fixed gearairplane rose 257 percent. " he said."These rising costs have put the purchaseof new aircraft out of the reach of manyof our members."

AOPA members own approximatelytwo-thirds of the active general aviationaircraft in the United States and do aboutser.renty five percent of the flying. accord-ding to AOPA's Yodice. "From the greatdeal of correspondence we receive fromour members it is clear to us that we haveinterests on both sides of this debate."testified Yodice

New sectionaaero charts

now availableFor all you pilots who have

waited years for a new statesectional aeronautical chart.your wait is over! The chartsare in.

The charts are available trycalling the aeronautics Com-rrrission at 758-2766. Onechart per person, please.Larger quantities are availablefor flying clubs and groups.

FBOs will be supplied chartsfor their customers as the staffvisits their particular airport.However. if you desperatelyneed charts. call us and we'llsend solne otrt.

Thts publication ls printed and distributed by the South Carollna Aeronautics Commission in the interest ofaviafon safety and to foeter growth of responsible avlalion in the state. The vlewpointe expreesed in ar$cles credltedto epeciflc sourcea are precented ae the vlewpolnts of those wrlters and do not necessartly rellect the opinionof the South Carollna Aeronautics Commisslon.