Bob Hunter, chairman of the COPA Convention 2001, has confirmed that Lane Wallace will be addressing the annual COPA gathering during the Saturday evening banquet.
Lane Wallace is the West Coast Editor and a regular columnist for Flying Magazine. She learned to fly in 1986 and has owned two different airplanes: a 1946 Cessna 120 and a 1977 Grumman Cheetah.
Wallace currently lives in Santa Rosa, California. Prior to her association with Flying, her writing appeared in numerous other magazines including AOPA Pilot and Flight International.
Wallace is also the author of three illustrated history books for NASA: Hopes, Dreams, Realities, about the NASA Goddard Space Center’s first 40 years; Flights of Discovery, a retrospective commemorating the 50-year anniversary of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; and Airborne Trailblazer, a 20-year history of the Langley Research Center’s Boeing 737 testbed aircraft – a book which won the 1994 Washington Edpress Silver Award for Excellence in Print.
In addition to her own airplane projects, she has also worked as a volunteer for the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California and both the “Tsunami” and “Pond Racer” Unlimited air racing crews.
COPA Convention 2001 is being held in Peterborough, Ont., this year July 6-8. Lane Wallace will be joining a great line-up of seminar speakers and exhibitors.
The complete agenda appears elsewhere in this issue of Canadian Flight and on the COPA Web site: www.copanational.org. There is a money-saving pre-registration form in Section A, page 24 of this newspaper and on the COPA Web site. The same page lists the convention hotels that are offering a discount to COPA members during the event. These are not large facilities. The rooms are booking up quickly. If you are planning to join us for the convention and need accommodation, give one of them a call.
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