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A Day at the Airport

A behind-the-scenes look at daily operations at the second-busiest airport in the state. 4:12 a.m. We meet Andrew Quirk, airport maintenance coordinator, at 4:00 a.m. on Monday, October 24, 2016, outside of the terminal building. His first order of business — to drive the runways and taxiways to check all of the lights. There are […]

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Team V

The Boilermakers of Vandenberg Air Force Base One of the first things a young cadet learns is how to properly shine military-issue leather shoes. ROTC programs are designed to model operational military units for which customs and courtesies — including a meticulously presented uniform — are the foundational basis for etiquette and conduct.  Col. Chris […]

Pilot training reaches disabled students

In the middle of May, on the first day of her Able Flight experience at Purdue University, Shavon McGlynn experienced her first airplane ride in a cockpit. “I went up with my instructor, and I was overwhelmed. I thought, ‘I don’t think I’m going to get my license.’ He showed me some maneuvers and then […]

Airplane wing memorial

Aviation Memorial

It’s been nearly 20 years since two aviation technology students and their instructor — all experienced pilots — died in a plane crash at the Purdue Airport, but Tom Carney (T’71, MS A’77, PhD S’84) recalls the morning of September 12, 1997, vividly. Carney was one of two administrators who waited near the crash site […]

timelapse exposure of the night sky with the engineering fountain in the foreground

Inspiration in the Night Sky

A sophomore aeronautical engineering student captures Purdue from a scientific perspective When Trevor Mahlmann sees a dot pass through the sky, he doesn’t wish upon a star — because it’s not happenstance that he is looking up. He knows the dot is not a shooting star or other object soaring through space. He is standing […]

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