Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • 85

IMP J6 lt AriHH Republic Sunday October 22 1989 Inventor develops cheap attack fighter palley kids taught how to mind their town business Junior Achievement retooled Twvla Pumrov HmcW for Tha Arizona RepubUc Special for The Arizona Republic Marilyn Gagen a tax specialist with Dekritte Haskins Sells In Phoenix speaks to eighth-graders in Junior Achievement at the Madison No 1 school MVEMTM from page Fl million to get manufacturing under way Sadler said He is optimistic about landing an order for up to 100 aircraft from a foreign country in the next year Possible buyers include Thailand Turkey Israel Saudi Arabia and Mexico Each has talked to Sadler about his aircraft The A-22 is largely designed to be flown by Third World nations that don't want or need the expensive and sophisticated combat aircraft that America's military forces fly For $2 million a nation could field a squadron of 20 Sadler planes to patrol borders counter guerrilla actions and root out drug smugglers he said "A whole air force of Sadler fighters can be fielded for the price of just one standard military-type jet" Sadler said The A-22 may be one of the few aircraft that can be towed or transported with the ground troops instead of flown to the battle The plane with a 22-foot wingspan can be folded up to fit in the rear of a 2Vi-ton truck and carried along back roads until it's needed Sadler said The plane runs on standard automotive gasoline can take off on 300 feet of road or on a field and has a bulletproof pilot's pod to protect the pilot from small-arms fire from the ground The A-22 can be ordered with a parachute that lowers the entire craft to the ground not just the pilot if it's severely hit or disabled by enemy fire Despite its small size the plane is designed to tangle with enemy helicopters and to knock out light tanks with a 30 mm McDonnell Douglas cannon The A-22 also is designed to carry out "surgical" strikes picking off enemy troops without blowing up a whole village Sadler said Air Force Maj Eric Petlerson said "light armed surveillance aircraft" like the Sadler A-22 can play an important role in Third World conflicts "Aircraft like the Sadler in adequate numbers could really provide a great deal of security to the countryside and combat power for the government forces" Petterson said Petterson is international politico-military-affairs officer with the Army-Air Force Center for Low-Intensity Conflict at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia With about 45 wars or insurgencies going on around the world there is no shortage of potential uses for low-tech fighter aircraft Petterson said Sadler also is pitching the A-22 to America's special-operations forces as a few-cost way to provide dose alf support as well as to covert and drug-enforcement agencies Sadler Aircraft's marketing agent in the United States is Science Applications International Corp in San Diego SAI with S86S million in sales last year is talking to several federal agencies about using the A-22 in drug interdiction and other roles "The key to making something like this happen is a guy like Bill Sadler" said Tom Dillon group senior vice president for technology development at SIA Sadler is a genius who has taken "almost a blacksmith-type of approach in getting things done at the lowest cost he said "This is the kind of product that if a team makes it it ends up costing a million dollars" Dillon said The nearest competitor of the $100000 A-22 is in fact the SI million Thrush built by Ayrcs Corp: in Albany Ga he said Ron Ballard an engineer who flew more than 300 missions in southeast Asia while serving in the Navy said he "would have no problem flying this (A-22) in combat" Ballard an engineer with McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co in Mesa said Sadler has stayed with the basics and built an agile plane that can deliver heavy firepower at low cost Ballard has followed development of the A-22 and is expected to work for the company on a part-time basis when and if it's fully up and running On another front General Atomics of San Diego awarded Sadler a $100000 contract last year to build a drone version of the original A-22 design The drone was successfully demonstrated to the US Missile Command at the Yuma Proving Grounds late last year The A-22 traces its roots to an ultralight aircraft that Sadler produced in Scottsdale in 1983-84 Dubbed the Sadler Vampire the all-metal craft won the Grand Champion Award at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Ultralight convention in 1982 Thirty Vampires were produced at Scottsdale Airport before Sadler shut down the operation because of concerns about product liability Since 198S the Vampire has been built under license to Sadler in Sydney Australia But it is the A-22 that has been the center of Sadler's life for much of this decade "It's a big project one you don't do overnight" he said High School is great" Daniels said "She reinforces what I talk to the class about but really 'gives me the freedom to make the impact I want" Junior Achievement a national organization created in 1919 to teach young people about the business world has become one of the most widely accepted business curriculums in the Valley touching 11- to 18-year-olds It has been operating in the Valley for -27 years In junior high the curriculum is a 4-week or 12-week discussion program In high schools it is a semester long and includes simulated business and market competition and actual product manufacturing High-school students are graded for their performance in the classes Teachers must request Junior Achievement involvement in their business classes and consultants teach one class a week from Junior Achievement instructional materials In the Phoenix area the program reaches one in six sixth-graders one in four eighth-graders and one in six high-school seniors Real impact is on thinking The real value of the Junior Achievement program is its impact on thinking those involved in the program say The benefit js even more visible now that the program is a classroom activity they add For example a Junior Achievement class underwent preprogram testing with dismal results Stubbs said When asked what kind of economic system the United States had 42 percent said socialism 19 percent said communism and the balance said capitalism or didnt answer he said By the end of the program however 72 percent correctly identified capitalism Junior Achievement is one of the more-popular community-service organizations for Valley executives "We seem to draw people who've always wanted to teach who have learned lessons in their career they want to share and people who want to provide a role model to inspire these kids to stay in school and achieve" Stubbs said The program's business volunteers also can use the classroom setting to hone presentation skills understand their firms better give something back to their communities and squeeze a Junior Achievement the program it draws business people into Junior-high and high-school classrooms is growing in popularity at Phoenix-area schools This year Junior Achicvemcntwill reach twice as many pupils as it did five years ago mainly because of a change in its approach: to an in-scliool curriculum from an after-school program The change was made nationwide last year and was a reaction to a need to reach more pupils said John Stubbs marketing director for Junior Achievement of Central Arizona Inc The in-school program increases the number of students consultants reach Stubbs said "In the (after-school) program you had four or five consultants for a group of about 20 to 25 students" he said Now each consultant presents his program to a class of 25 or so pupils The after-school program hit its peak in 1975 when it reached about 575000 pupils nationally This year with the in-school curriculum the figure is 1072000 Vallcy-widc participation in the in-school program last year reached 16400 pupils Five years ago 8764 pupils participated This year more than 17300 sixth- eighth- and 12-gradcrs at 109 Valley schools will be instructed by 525 consultants from more than 400 Phoenix-area companies The in-school program isn't a big hit only with pupils Business consultants like it too "A lot of times with the night program it would deteriorate into a bunch of kids silting around talking" said Marilyn Gagcn partner in charge of tax services at Dcloitlc Haskins and Sells and a Junior Achievement consultant and board member "Now that rarely happens" she said "Executives who go into those classrooms to teach can really get through to the kids if they make the Structured classes a boon The structured classroom environment is an advantage said Lori Daniels a State Farm agent and Junior Achievement consultant "The teacher I work with at Mesa their shells a little" Interest was so high Gagen said that she spent two sessions letting-pupils ask basic questions about her work "Some of them even performed extra-credit work and gave me beautiful presentations that were very logical and showed the increase in their level of comprehension" she said Pupils see the opportunity to talk to a professional as an advantage Stubbs said "The kids usually don't get to see anything of business except what they see on television or read about in the papers" he said "It isn't that anyone has deliberately misinformed them They just don't have any frame of reference" For many Junior Achievement alumni the good feeling about the program lives on Phoenix businessman Jack Armcr is a former Junior Achiever who now is a program volunteer "What I learned in Junior Achievement I still use in business" Armer said "It was a wonderful experience" Twyla Pumroy Is a freelance writer little public relations into the bargain Sponsorship costs $650 A corporate sponsorship in Junior Achievement costs $650 a semester with the participating businessperson committing about five hours of classroom time per month Executives involved with the program said they enjoy the opportunity to 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