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OCTOBER MONTHLY MEETING: FOUNDERS NIGHT
TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER
HOPE HOTEL
1800 SOCIAL, 1900 MEETING

Our October Founders Night meeting will be a dinner meeting at the Hope Hotel. A plated dinner of A plated dinner of Pork Porterhouse (pork tenderloin), mixed green salad, seasonal vegetable, rolls and butter, carrot or red velvet cake, coffee and iced tea will be served. Gluten free is available. Wine for toasting is included. This is a dual event, and members are encouraged to bring their spouse/significant other. Please make your reservations by 13 October (an absolute deadline). Spouses and other guests are invited with a reservation. Packy’s bar is available for mixed drinks. Meal is $40.00 per person and may be paid by cash or check only at the door. Dress is business attire. Currently, neither Packy’s nor the banquet room require face masks. After dinner, we will have the Induction of new members into the flight, followed by remembrances of some Founder Members by their hereditary members. A Formation invitation will be sent out around the first of the month. Please respond by using the link on the invitation. If you have any problems with the invitation response, let Mel know at jmelgillespie@gmail.com, or 937 396-9238.
 STANDARD DEBRIEF ITEMS: LAST FLIGHT LEG  ​(21 Jul 2021):
Our September meeting was a dinner meeting at the Hope Hotel. An outstanding plated dinner of Chicken DaVinci, au gratin potatoes, green beans, Caesar salad, and chocolate layer cake was served. After dinner, in celebration of the C-17’s 30th anniversary, Flight member Frank Batteas gave us a great presentation on the C-17 test program, including how it once got “nearly upside down”! We also had 9 ROTC Cadet Flight 9 Scholarship winners from 2021 in attendance, and each was presented with a check by Flight Captain Kathy Staiger and Scholarship Chairman Roger Redwood. We also had a 2021 Scholarship Award Winner in attendance. Below are some pictures from the event. 
More pictures from past meetings, can be found on this Website at:
 https://flight-9.weebly.com/videos-pictures.html#MONTHLY%20MEETINGS

FLIGHT PLANNING
 
Tuesday 16 Nov – Hope Hotel - Betty Darst will give a presentation on the Cuban Missile Crisis; members who were involved will also have a chance to give a quick story.
 
Tuesday 21 Dec – Annual Christmas Party at the WPAFB Club & Banquet center
 
Tuesday 18 Jan – Military Trivia Night; location TBD

NEWSLETTERS
The Flight-9 Oct 2021 newsletter can be downloaded here. 
2021_10.pdf
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Older newsletters can be downloaded at the following link
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApL3tn_uQZ5igfYFC6XSlrXdefdooA?e=xgi0m8

MEMBERSHIP
For info on the current Flight-9 members, please contact the Flight-9 Membership Chairman at  ​Flt9Membership@gmail.com 
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Featured Video of the Month
Each month we will post a new "Video of the Month". This month's video is about the Pineapple Express, retired military members helping Afghans.

This is a short video about the purpose of the Daedalians
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To visit our archive of Aviation-related Videos and Flight 9 photographs, use this link  Videos/Pictures
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**INTERESTING AVIATION ARTICLES**

1.  The AF names its new jet after Tuskegee Airmen
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a29108820/air-force-jet-tuskegee-airmen/

2.  The Dawn of American Airpower at St. Mihiel
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2018/September%202018/The-Dawn-of-American-Airpower-at-St-Mihiel.aspx

3. Article on the B-58 Ejection Capsule  
http://airpigz.com/blog/2010/4/2/b-58-proves-supersonic-ejection-to-be-bear-able-in-1962.html

4. Article on the "Birth of the Checklist"
http://atchistory.org/History/checklst2.htm

5. Article on the "End of an Era - Closing of Boeing's Historic Plant II"
end_of_an_aircraft_era.pdf
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**INTERESTING WEBSITES**

  Good Aviation (mostly WWII) Sites

 • Aviation Pioneers                        • World War I Aces                      • Hall of Fame of the Air              • WW2 European Theater (ETO)
• WW2 Pacific Theater (PTO)        • WW2 US Marine Corps             • WW2 US Navy Aces                   • WW2 Mediterranean (MTO)
• WW2 German Aces                        Korean War Aces                        • Russian Aces                               • Vietnam Era Aces
• Airplanes                                        • World War I Planes                   • 1930s Aircraft photos                 • WW2 Fighters
• WW2 Bombers                              • WW2 German Planes                • WW2 Airplane Pictures              • History of Airplanes blog
• Nose Art                                         • Postwar Jets                               • World War Two                           • WW2 Facts and Firsts
• WW2 Medals                                  • WW2 Museums                          • WW2 Pictures                             • WW2 Ships
• WW2 Weapons
 

FACEBOOK

Flight-9 has a Facebook page. Please visit us at ​www.facebook.com/DaedaliansFlight9/
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NOTE: Flight-9 is located at WPAFB, OH near Dayton, OH and covers Ohio, as well as parts of Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virgina,
​and Pennsylvania 
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