Annual Awards Banquet

This year's banquet will feature a dynamic presentation covering Orville and Wilbur Wright's experiments from 1899 to 1912. Experience their earliest glider tests at Kitty Hawk featuring low aspect ratio wings. Learn about the 1902 and 1903 tests of the very successful high aspect ratio wing glider and finally their high aspect ratio powered machine. Hear the words of Orville and Wilbur as they correspond with Octave Chanute, George Spratt, and other early experimenters. Understand the value of the wind tunnel tests they conducted between 1901 and 1902. Their advancements in controlled flight in 1904 and 1905 from Huffman's Prairie near Dayton, Ohio will also be covered.

Our speaker's aerospace career began in 1941 as a flight test engineer. In 1998 he held a VERVILLE Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Most recently he served two years as president of the San Diego Aerospace Museum. Mr. Chana is a fellow of AIAA and a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineering.

Come out and socialize with your fellow AIAA members while enjoying a great view of the Chesapeake Bay!

 

Cost: $12.00 for Members/Guests, $14.00 for Non-members, $10.00 for Student Members. Non-members joining AIAA at this event will receive a complementary dinner. Please pay at the door. Checks should be made out to AIAA.

Reservations are requested by Tuesday, May 14, 2001

Contact:

Mamad Takallu, 864-7671, m.a.takallu@larc.nasa.gov
Rob Kudlinski, 864-6716, r.a.kudlinski@larc.nasa.gov