European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                50s Pilot left tests helicopters right and says they represent the last Frontier of flying Low around the planes in the United states each year can do so with a measure of safety the original test pilots never dreamed would Ever the pilots who were so conspicuous Are now largely and their kind is slowly but surely becoming the 14 test pilots Here have logged hours in the air As a group and although they continue to they Are mindful that machines can now simulate flight future test pilots May in fact be full time Laboratory doing almost All their flying on the test pilots for the aircraft companies face at least some of that but the test pilots Are sanguine on he subject of extinct today test Pilot will probably said Richard who at 52 is one of the Young est at the there will be More simulation and a flight test Only for confirmation of the we can have pilotless aircraft if we want and our successors May just work in in not Wistful about what is therell always be a place for eager the people who follow the dynamic evolution of achievement will always be of the pilots is expressed by uie equipment they at the which has a variety of is Down to its last two dc3s in years the plane carried 90 percent of the worlds commercial air traffic from its introduction in the it played a major role in persuading living was it has a special place in the hearts of aviation enthusiasts the dc3 remains quite reliable and fun to but sinc spare parts Are extremely difficult to come by Robert l Faith the director of the plans to sell on and place the other on a Pedestal to serve As a Monu rent when the Center million renovation com within the next three years to Many of the dc3 was the Queen of the Faith it was the Basic the real beginning of commercial and we want to give it fitting recognition when the new building Complex is most of faiths now in their 50s or grew up with the but they insist it does not bother them to see so vital a plane become a thing of the i have no feelings about said dutch a 65yearold test Pilot supervisor who began Hying before the dc3s did and who still fondly remembers taking them Over the Hump in India during world War ii when the americans were evacuating osterhout said he is not sentimental about the passing of old time its All for the jets Are More still he admits to getting a Little homesick now and then for aircraft such As the Little biplane he flew in the 1930s when he barnstormer the Rio Grande trying to earn his bread by Selling five minute rides to Oil workers for if they wanted to it was osterhout re every once in a he he yearns or a plane that does not have All the sophistication of so i could see if i can still Fly by the seat of my it is in the Forward looking nature of aviators at the Center not to mourn the  Era and the in future test pilots May in fact be full time Laboratory doing almost All their flying on the div dual Freedom they had when there were not so Many rules and instruments to protect in their new roles As they take great satisfaction in the safety they have helped in their spare the old individual ism comes to the Bemie who flew a p47 Thunderbolt during world War ii and later tested experimental Craft for cur admits he has an absolute weakness for Dawn a 1938 Errol Flynn movie that he has seen several times on it is a weakness he shares with and when Hughes found out that somebody nearby had an old biplane he was willing to i Damn near broke my legs to get Over there and Fly thais really said with a you just Monitor the you can trim every Force its easy to with those older planes there was a real three of the group Are building personal aircraft by John a former czechoslovak air Force fighter Pilot who defected in has two helicopters under construction in his basement and a licensed Heli port behind his for he helicopters represent the last fron tier of flying Low around the something citizens will not tolerate with Ordinary Bill and Lamprecht Are also building planes at Lamprecht will have a Volks Wagen even As he works with the computer technology that whirls around osterhout remembers the disdain exhibited by his Dairy Farmer father in when the son announced in 1932 that he wanted to i dont see Why anybody would want to get off the Charles osterhout told his if i Ever Fly ill take a piece of dirt with me so i can keep one foot on the looking Back on the last 45 dutch osterhout has no regrets if 1 had to do it Over id change Noth he in still Here to talk about it and so that must Miike it bust 1978 the stars and stripes is