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OCTOBER MONTHLY MEETING: DINNER MEETING
FOUNDER'S NIGHT
TUESDAY, 18 Oct (Third Tuesday)
HOLIDAY INN FAIRBORN

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Our October Founders Night meeting will be a dinner meeting at the Holiday Inn in Fairborn (near Wright State). A plated dinner of Boursin Stuffed Chicken Breast with Strawberry Gastrique or Apple-Brined Pork Loin, mixed vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes, with NY Cheescake will be served. Dress is business attire. This is a dual event, and members are encouraged to bring their spouse/significant other. Please make your reservations by 11 October (an absolute deadline). Spouses and other guests are invited with a reservation. Meal will be $40 per person and may be paid by cash or check only at the door. After dinner, we will have the Induction of new members into the flight, followed by a presentation related to Afghan Refugees. MSgt Brianne Kelleher will speak on her assignment to New Mexico as a linguist with the Afghan refugees, and her husband SMSgt Benjamin Steel, who is in program management at NASIC, will speak on his involvement with the State Department, related to the Afghan Refugees. 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  ​(20 Sep 2022):
Our September meeting was a “Glider/Soaring” day on 20 Sep 2022 at the Caesar Creek Soaring Club at 5385 Elbon Rd, Waynesville, OH 45068. We had glider rides in the morning, and then we had a “Barbecue Buffet” lunch at the facility. After lunch, glider rides continued for the rest of the afternoon. We had good attendance and 19 glider rides were completed, including a number of spouses and guests.

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, 15 Nov– Dinner Meeting, presentation by Ken Ginader on the X-59 Supersonic Transport
 Tuesday, 13 Dec (Second Tuesday) – Annual Christmas Party
 Tuesday, 17 Jan – Update on the K-46 Program by John Hill from Boeing
NEWSLETTERS
The Flight-9 Oct 22 newsletter can be downloaded here. 
2022_10.pdf
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Older newsletters can be downloaded at the following link
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZWJ6FVZbDd0tyW0BV7buggyT2AwDjDoHIby​

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 a follow-on to last month's video on early aviation warfare.

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
 

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​and Pennsylvania 
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