European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 9, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 his ugly Quick Ling sets Beautiful records by Darvle. Green Kaiserslautern Burl a Span Dahlem a West German the article was tailed How to be a certified aviation and air Force Cape. Norman howl took the advice to heart. Lowell who flies an air Force f-4o wild weasel Over the West German Countryside for a living also a piloted his Home built single engine quickie air Craft to four world aviation records since 1987. This week he s in the United states attempting 1o Sci two More. For Howell. A member of the 23rd tac fit Hlor so Iacre is no problem tracing his airborne interest. I never never have tin been interested in flying he said. My mom said that whenever she would take me Tor walks 1 want even a year old but i d watch for air planes All he now he not Only Points at air planes he shoots for aviation records. Howl. 29, has made his Mark in the lightest Pis ton engine aircraft category which allows a Maxi mum Gross weight of 661 pounds. His first record was for distance in a straight line without stopping or refuelling. The record broke was 185 Miles Howell said. "1 a Cal 777 on april 9,1987," his quadrupling of the previous Mark was so impressive that the federation Acron antique internationale the sanctioning body for world aviation re cords awarded Howell the Louis a Loriol medal in 1987 for the most significant aviation record posted in his class. Wanda d. Odom Secretary of the contests and records Board of the National aeronautics association in Washington called Lowell s achievement the association sanctions All records for american Pitois. Anytime someone brings a record Back to the we re Happy Oiom said. The distance record previously was held by a West German Pilot. In july 1987, Howell More than doubled the Speed record for a 9-mile Hig Efforo 51 Mph to 109 Mph. In August .1988, after fitting his plane with a new engine he pushed Liis own a mile Speed record to 146 Mph. That same month he established the record for climbing to 3,000 meters at 18 minutes 5 seconds there has been no previous Mark for the category. Before Hpwell became known As a world record Holder getting his plane the ugly Quick Ling built earned him a different kind of reputation i started it Ai the air Force Academy when 1 was a fade Piliere in january i ski he paid. I look both wings and the fuselage Down two nights of stairs. Everybody thought i was the plane was a kit ordered from the quickie aircraft corp. And Howell was anything but Quali fied to assemble it i had never built anything by it veld Olcik nwminh0eb Cape. Norman Howell enjoy a flight in the record Selling single engine quickie plane he . Fore in my whole life i did l even have Bui before comple Ling the project Lowell had be come compact Cal and confident enough to stray from the instructions. I modified the engine slightly in order to make the aircraft look better he said. It Cost about 16,000. If i Buill in straight from the plans i could probably Oil today for a Little bit less than for s i years Howell continued working on his air plane while going through Pilot training and an assignment As an instructor Pilot at Vance api okla " Cotlov hardly Ever touch it during the week be cause duties were so icing Why. Thai s Why in must me so Long Howell said. Most people would take a year or during the project Howell spotted the article in sport aviation Magazine thai explained How easy i is to set aviation the records might he easy to set but they Are not easy to keep a of inc world Marks Hutch established have been broken a fact Hal does Mil bother him. I. Don t have any rancor for Ilia because the whole purpose of these aviation records is to help Advance he stale of ," he raid. And Howell plans to do a bit More advancing himself this Lime to the 1,102-Pound weight class on his current trip to inc Stales Howell will use a Friend s plane to iry for the absolute Altitude and Alti Ludo in horizontal flight records the present Mark for absolute Altitude is 30,100 feet and Altitude in horizontal night is 23,000.feet. Breaking the records according to Odom of Icv aeronautics association could pose More of a Chal Lenge for Howell the july be kind of Tricky because he has Lobre Idem by 3 percent thai s Paris Rule not Howell has no trouble making tic switch from the sophisticated f-4 to Llic Home Buill quickie. And flying either aircraft has its Good Points. The pm is kind of like lying a sent Trucl it in handles like a Jaguar he said. "the.quitlue, on the other hand is so Light it almost becomes Par Hpwell s ultimate goal is to be an air Force test Pilot and he believes Hal the More Lypps of planes he has flown the balt Chris chances hut you won t pin him Down on what plane he likes . It s kind of like which do i like better Hamburg ers or Pisa. I like German military upset by decline in image byed Reavis Sut flt writer West German some times facing Public abuse for being in inc military arc disturbed by decreasing support for the armed forces among the Public according to a government report released. Wednesday. The annual report to the bundestag by the German parliamentary commissioner on the military details problems faced and offers solutions commissioner Willy Weiskirch quotes a German Soldier in he 1988 report say. Ing he had been proud and satisfied Wilh his profession for 28 cars when suddenly his neighbors begun accusing him of being a disturber of the peace and even a after Low line living accidents published reports in West German Media have shown German pilots and their families being publicly abused and even having their property damaged by neighbors.\vciskirch, in his report said he was faced with a " Oatly new task the problem of the German forces image in inc Public , the parliamentary com missioner deals with complaints by scr inc members about internal problems in past reports from commissioners such issues As drinking and motivation prob lems among the troops have surfaced. Weiskirch implies that the Lack of acceptance of inc armed farces is linked to peace initiatives by the Fisl bloc. How Ever he warns nowhere in the world has there been such a Radical change in the political situation that we should consider our armed the report also stresses for the second year the importance of political Educa Tion in the service. If the Home school and youth groups no Teci to educate the Young soldiers in the meaning of serving i hair country then in s1 up to the services to undertake this task in his report , Weiskirch said he found widespread discontent about How younger soldiers were treated by ors. This year s report found the situation improved vet further attempts must be made to eliminate the numerous complaints we to receive concerning harassment in the forces inc report says. Weiskirch blames rigid thinking on the part of superiors and their resistance. To changing patterns of behaviour in society for Inual of the problems. Plans approved for nazi museum Norn Ierg West i Crummy a tote City plans to turn one of Adolf hit Ler s most ambitious building projects into a museum documenting his popular Ity horrors of the holocaust and other aspects of nazism the goal is to learn lessons from the past a City spokesman said tuesday. Plans Call for the museum in be Lac i cd in ii huge coliseum thai was to have been an Imperial Congress Hall Bui the ads never finished the construction1 thai began in 1937. We want to show How the germans were actually by i incr says Carlo Jahn historian in charge of the project Miller was at fault but not the Only one. Without the Fasci nation of the Ger Mani for the a is All the violence could hot have number s leftist social democratic cily Council approved plans for the museum on saturday costs have not yet been worked put Jahn said turn bars about 125 Miles Northwest of Munich was the Silc of the a i party s annual rallies. Jahn said h Iller chose Nurnberg because it was s government consent acc sic before inc a is took Over and Hitler wanted to give the impression they had tics with Ira "
