Gone West, EAA Founder Paul Poberezny

Experimental Aircraft Associations Website ^ | 8/22/2013 | EAA

[Fast Moving Angel]

CAVU, Paul ... thanks for all you’ve done for GA.

[wita]

Thanks for the notice. Many of the great ones are now at very advanced ages, but it still doesn’t make their passing less sorrowful. Last year it was Carroll Shelby who was pretty regular at Air Venture. Paul has earned a different set of wings, and may his earthly legacy continue to inspire and motivate those who love aviation.

[taildragger]

Truly a sad loss.

I started subscribing in High School and became a member, same time the Vari-Eze hit the scene. The hay day of true American Tinkerers and Dreamers with a can-do Spirit. None of this you didn't build that, They did with Wood, Fabric, 4130 Chrome-Moly Tubing and so much more.

Paul and EAA have been a fixture and a postive influence in my life and has given me life long friends and the opportunity to meet some the legends in aviation and aircraft design. I shutter to think what I could have glomed onto other than aviation in my youth that would have been much worse.

With EAA and it's airshow is one of the last bastions of Patriotism, that also was a postive influence in my life but by osmosis helped me become a Conservative as well.

The thanks I owe to Paul's dream, his love of flight ( that many of us share here ) I cannot measure, it is too large. But he knew, I told him when I met him what EAA meant in my ( and so many others) lives.

We are a greater dreamers / pilots / Americans not because of Paul, but because like Reagan he in a quieter way said we can do it.

Boy can we use a coach like that today, perhaps another one is in the wings, no pun intended.

[Kevmo]

rest in peace, Pope Paul

[tcrlaf]

Just heard this...

Still have my pic with Paul from 1976, in front of “Lake Poberezny”, a huge mud bog in front of our group’s campers, near the Red Barn, and the sign we CAP kids made for it.

Gear up, Flaps up, Mixture to full, Paul...