Order of Daedalians - flight

Order of Daedalians
Frank P. Lahm, Flight 9
MAY 2016
MAY MEETING: WRIGHT-PATT CLUB
Third Tuesday, 17 MAY, 1800 Social, 1900 Dinner
Our May meeting will be at the Wright-Patt. Club at our normal time (Social
starting at 1800, Meal at 1900). Menu: The menu will consist of: Beef
Stroganoff; Grilled BBQ Salmon with Jack Daniels Sauce; 7 Layer Salad;
Roasted New Potatoes, Green Beans Almondine; California Blend
Vegetables; Rolls and Butter; Assorted Pies and Carrot Cake; and wine for toasting. Reservations: Please call
our Provost Marshall, Ed Mentzer (937-426-8807) by COB, 12 May, as the Club requires an initial count on
Friday, 13 May. If you cannot call by Thursday, Ed will still accept reservations through Monday, 16 May. For
those who prefer e-mail, Ed will take e-mail reservations at: [email protected]. You may also use the
Apollo website (Apollo.daedalians.org) to sign up. Cancellations must be made by COB, Monday, 16 May, to
avoid being billed for the price of the meal.
FROM THE COCKPIT (FLT CAPTAIN'S LOG: 5 - 16):
Our speaker this month will be Flight 9 member Col (Ret) Robbie Robinson. He will
talk about the 20 year anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords and how they came
to be here in Dayton. The Peace Talks brought an end to the 3-1/2-year-long Bosnian
War, which claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people.
STANDARD DEBRIEF ITEMS: PREVIOUS FLIGHT LEG (19 Apr 2016):
Colonel Hank “Hog” Griffiths, the Director, Special Programs Division, Air Force Life Cycle Management
Center gave an electrifying talk on the F-35 complete with video footage.
FLIGHT PLANNING (MISSION, PLANNED ROUTE OF FLIGHT, STANDARD ROUTE FIXES AND
WAYPOINTS): APPROACH TO A FULL STOP:
Upcoming presentations that are tentatively scheduled:
June – Annual golf outing
July – Meeting at Bass Lake – speaker to be determined.
Please give our program chairman, Steve Goeman, or me any ideas you might have for future meetings.
NOTAMS:
Scholarship Applicants: Many thanks to our Scholarship Committee who selected the following cadets to
receive our Flight 9 Daedalian scholarship:
AFROTC Det 640, Miami University: Cadet Brain Hasl who is a Mechanical Engineer and private pilot with
102 hours of flight time. He will receive $1250 with a matching $1250 from National
AFROTC Det 665, University of Cincinnati: Cadet Nicholas Herfel who is studying Criminal Justice and is a
student pilot. He will receive $1250 with a matching $1250 from National and in addition he will receive our
first “Colonel Jacques & Eleanor Young” scholarship in the amount of $700.
CFIP Candidate: This years lone CFIP candidate is high school senior Joshua Weisleder from Dublin Jerome
High School. He wants to study Aerospace engineering and go to Euro-NATO pilot training at Sheppard AFB
and become a fighter pilot.
Flight 9 Daedalian shirts: While at my last trustee meeting I noticed General Allen wearing a nice looking
Daedalian shirt so I asked him about it. He gave me the order form and instructions, which are on the last two
pages of this newsletter. The shirt is not a polo shirt but a button down shirt that comes in green or gold. Your
name goes above the pocket and the flight name goes on the left sleeve.
Membership Drive: Keep looking for those military pilots out there. Don’t forget to hand out our new
Daedalian business cards.
JROTC: Here is Jack Morris’s updated listing of volunteers needed to present our Daedalian medal at local
JROTC units. Volunteers are needed where the “presenter” block is blank. Please consider volunteering and
contact Jack Morris if interested:
WWI Centennial (2014-2018): In Honor of our heritage and the centennial of WWI, our newsletter will start
adding some interesting articles concerning the legacy of that war. Our former Flight Captain “K9” Tim
Kunzweiler wrote the first informative article. If any of you would like to write or share WWI stories or
centennial events please let me know.
WWI Centennial Commemorative Article: The Lafayette Escadrille Centennial
Given the heritage of the Order of Daedalians, Flt 9 has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to capture and share
WWI Centennial (2014-2018) aviation information in our newsletters. In that spirit, I'm pleased to offer
information on a recent significant commemorative event: The Lafayette Escadrille Centennial.
On April 20, 2016 U.S. and French military and civic leaders attended the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial event
in Marnes-la-Couquette, France, to commemorate the centennial of the flying squadron's formation. In an
article (Lafayette Escadrille honored at centennial event by Capt. Lauren Ott (USAFE-AFAFRICA Public
Affairs) http://www.usafe.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123472707) we spot "The Lafayette Escadrille was formed
on April 20, 1916 by 38 U.S. volunteer pilots who flew under French command a year before the U.S. entered
into WWI. The memorial celebrates not only the 38 original pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, but all 269
American pilots who flew with the French Air Force as part of the larger Lafayette Flying Corps, 68 of whom
were killed during the war and are interred at the memorial crypt."
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Participating in flyovers for the ceremony were four USAF F-22 Raptors, a B-52 Stratofortress, three FAF
Mirage 2000Ns, a FAF Rafale and a World War I-era Stearman PT-17 biplane.
An Air and Space Magazine article (World War I Air Combat by Paul Glenshaw and Dan Patterson, Dec 2014
http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/americas-first-combat-pilots-180953371) indicates the memorial
was built in 1928 with private donations and that (at least in 2014) "…the monument is crumbling from water
seeping in. Despite annual Memorial Day ceremonies jointly conducted at the site by the U.S. and French air
forces, little has been done to renovate the structure. When General Michael Moseley was the Air Force
legislative liaison in 2001, he managed to secure a $2 million appropriation for repairs. Since then, he has made
the restoration of the memorial a priority. Last spring, the American Battle Monuments Commission, chaired by
another former Air Force chief of staff, General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, signed an agreement with the French
Ministry of Defense committing each side to raise $4 million to restore the memorial…"
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NEXT FLIGHT-9 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING (TOUCH-N-GO): The next meeting of the
Executive Council will be at 1130, Tuesday May 24th at the Hope Hotel – Packy’s. All members are invited to
attend.
Frank P. Lahm, Flight-9 Web Page: http://Flight-9.org/ OR https://apollo.daedalians.org/site
Officers
Chairs, Committees
Membership
Jim VerStreate
(937) 542-1654
[email protected]
(937) 429-2240
[email protected]
Scholarships
Bernie Fullenkamp
(937) 848-5951
[email protected]
Ed Conant
(937) 706-1302
[email protected]
Programs
Steve Goeman
(937) 306-8156
[email protected]
Provost Marshall
Ed Mentzer
(937) 426-8807
[email protected]
Junior ROTC
Jack Morris
937-427-1547
[email protected]
Treasurer
Curt Nelson
(937) 372-7050
[email protected]
Publicity
Janet Golart
(937) 429-1718
[email protected]
Adjutant
Jim DeStout
(937) 426-2999
[email protected]
Flight Chaplain
Lee Smith
(937) 435-3000
[email protected]
Honorary Flight Captain
Maj Gen Thomas J. Masiello
Flight Captain
Kathy Staiger
Deputy Flt Captain
Volabamus...Volamus (We Flew...We Fly) – Kathy Staiger
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