Presentation: October 2014

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 20-October-2014
Subject: The Lockheed Vega - History Comes To Life
Description: Jeff's October 2014 presentation talked about the Lockheed Vega, a record-setting airplane from the 1920s and 1930s, its history, significant accomplishments, and the efforts made by one man to restore the last one still flying to its original condition.

Most of the information and images were taken from Air & Space / Smithsonian Magazine, Oct/Nov 2014 issue, a corresponding article on their website, and the Wikipedia article on the Lockheed Vega.

Download a zip file containing both a PDF file of this presentation and the accompanying video that should (but doesn't) display as frame #2 in the presentation (1220 KB).

Reports: 2014 2nd Half AE Report and 2015 POA

Two PDFs were submitted to the group AEO on 14-Oct-2014, one containing the squadron's second half ("h2") of 2014 AE report, and one containing the squadron's 2015 AE POA.

These had to be sent out in October rather than January in order to meet the new requirement to switch to the fiscal year rather than the calendar year for such things, and to submit these reports by 15 October.  Therefore the h2 report only covers the period from July - September 2014 despite the "July to December" box being checked.

Aerospace Minute by David

On 6 Oct, David gave an update on the Cessna/Textron Scorpion jet. The Scorpion is designed as a light attack and reconnaissance aircraft.  The news is that Textron is actually flying prototypes at airshows. It was demonstrated at Farnborough Airshow last summer. Textron plans this as an export fighter, so focus is on demonstrating it in Europe.