Presentation: June 2021

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 21 June 2021
Subject: CAPardy!
Description: Change of pace for this month: a rousing game of "CAPardy", Jeff's spurious takeoff of the game shop Jeopardy.  A number of general questions were posed to a captive audience (the squadron), who got warm fuzzies for answering them correctly.

This month's questions centered around early aviation.  The categories used were: Lighter than Air, Gliders, Early Powered Flight, and Questionable Designs.

(Abortive) Presentation, April 2020

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 27-Apr-2020 (likely)
Subject: Aerospace Trivia
Description: The intent of this presentation was for Jeff to host a Jeopardy-style trivia game that the squadron would participate in.  Unfortunately, chance had other plans, as Jeff's computer chose that exact time to start throwing fits.  After several attempts to restart the game, trimming other operating software to a bare minimum, etc., it was determined that this game was a lost cause.  Apparently Jeff's poor old laptop simply lacks the horsepower to run twin behemoth programs Microsoft Teams and Mozilla Firefox simultaneously.  An exceedingly awkward time was had by all.

Note that my memory is not the best and I am not certain this fiasco occurred on 18-May; it just seems the most likely date, and I had to pick something.  In any event, it was within a week or two at the most.

Update, 26-Aug-2021: New evidence (email) has come to light suggesting that the actual date of this fiasco was 27-Apr-2020.

Presentation: November 2019

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 18-Nov-2019
Subject: Aerospace CAP-ardy!
Description: For November, Jeff put together another rousing edition of CAP-ardy!, the game show that's sweeping all of CAP.  Well, at least here in Squadron 80.  Six aerospace-related categories ("Space Exploration", "Look! Up in the sky!" (astronomy), "It's a bird!" (hazards of bird strikes), "It's a plane!" (airlines), "The P-51 Mustang", and "AE Inside and Out"), including the last one provided by the Squadron CO himself, made for a fun evening with lots of aerospace discussions.

This was, of course, DESPITE the problems Jeff had with the software he wrote to play the game.  Ultimately, its flaws became part of the fun.  He hopes to have some of the problems worked out of it by the next time he trots it out.