Aviation instructor included in article about museum's 'labor of love'

Monday, October 2, 2023

Photo by David Tulis, senior photographer, AOPA

Damiani points out the pilot-controlled shutters originally used to limit temperature changes in a water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engine.

A member of Penn College's aviation faculty is pictured in the October issue of AOPA Pilot magazine, a publication of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.

An article by Emma Quedzuweit, assistant editor, details a "painstaking labor of love" by volunteers at the Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel – volunteers that include Michael Damiani, an instructor at the college's Lumley Aviation Center.

Damiani serves part time as the Berks County museum's director of maintenance and as a staff pilot, maintaining and operating a fleet of vintage aircraft and engines. His photo accompanies "Biddle Bones," Quedzuweit's extensive piece about the quest to recreate a SPAD XIII belonging to Pennsylvania native Charles Biddle, a WWI veteran of the U.S. Army Air Service.

The pages are reprinted here with permission of AOPA:

AOPA Pilot, October 2023.pdf

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