Jaime (Jim) Alexandre's Page
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Jaime Alexandre was honoured recently for his personal contribution to recreational aviation, at the Breslau home of Art and Willie Mitchell. Ross Maynard, the son of the late Owen Maynard, presented the "Friends of Owen Maynard" Award to Jaime for his pioneering work in the Amateur Built Aircraft Inspection programme.
To understand the significance of this award, it is necessary to know that Owen was a farm boy from Chatham, who at age 19 was selected by the RCAF to evaluate the DeHavilland Mosquito. After the war he gained employment at A.V. Roe and put himself through university, earning a degree in Engineering. With this degree and his usual determination, Owen rose to the position of Senior Stress Engineer on the Avro Arrow project. He next became NASAs Chief of the Systems Engineering Division, with responsibility for putting men on the moon. Owen was twice the recipient of NASAs Exceptional Service Award, and received an honorary Doctorate of Engineering degree from the U of T.
Owen was a strong supporter of amateur-built aviation and an admirer of the Inspection programme we have in Canada. Many years ago inspections were performed solely by Transport Canada and, because home built aircraft had a low priority, the delays while waiting for inspections were long. Jaime and the late Howard Bexon took the initiative and set up the Inspection Programme under the umbrella of the RAA, writing their own manuals and training the inspectors.
For ten years Jaime has worked tirelessly on a volunteer basis to build a country-wide programme, which is the envy of homebuilders in many countries. Jaime travels across this country to provide the retraining mandated by Transport Canada, as the Inspectors must work to their standards. In addition, Jaime is always available for technical consultation, and gives freely of his time to RAA members and chapters. In his spare time he has designed and built several light aircraft, including a crop duster for China. His current plane is powered by his conversion of the Geo 1300 engine with a self-designed reduction system.
Jaime continues to be involved with the inspection programme and his participation is deeply appreciated by our members as well as all amateur aircraft builders in Canada.
Scanned from Recreational Flyer March/April 2002
If your curious about the Inspection Program in Canada for amateur-builts
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