We have the main engine start. Go fly like an eagle. Go. We are at the Flight Simulator building at purdue university. This is where a lot of things started in aviation. The Purdue Program was the first in the country to offer bachelors degrees to pilots in the mid1960s. Today, it continues to be one of the best, most finest flight programs in the country. We have so many people who have been so important. I can tell you that, going back to the beginning, some of the countrys most important figures Billy Mitchell, who was world war i commander of air forces trained to fly by purdue graduates. The first guy who got involved in flight from purdue was a guy named cliff. He graduated in 1908. His father sent him here from dayton, ohio. Paid outofstate tuition for his son to come here and learn about internal combustion engines. We had Great Research going on in mechanical engineering. By the time cliff left, he said he knew more about the engines. The plan was for him to go back to dayton
In the country to offer bachelors degrees to pilots in the mid1960s. Today, it continues to be one of the best, most finest flight programs in the country. We have so many people who have been so important. I can tell you that, going back to the beginning, some of the countrys most important figures Billy Mitchell, who was world war i commander of air forces the fodder father of the modern air force were trained to fly by purdue graduates. The first guy who got involved in flight from purdue was a guy named cliff. He graduated in 1908. His father sent him here from dayton, ohio. Paid outofstate tuition for his son to come here and learn about internal combustion engines. We had Great Research going on in mechanical engineering. By the time cliff left, he said he knew more about the engines. They said he knew more about those engines than the faculty. The plan was for him to go back to dayton with his father, and they were going to build motorcycles. And they did. They did start a Motor
Hearing lasts an hour and 45 minutes. Were a couple minutes but will get started. The subcommittee on safety aviation will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today addressing close calls to improve aviation safety. This may be the most important hearing we have all year and i want to thank chair cat well, Ranking Member cruz and moran in their help to making this hearing happen. The near misses weve been seeing recently are not normal and are a warning our Aviation System is under stress. And today we will have an opportunity to hear from several Key Stakeholders about why were experiencing so many near misses and what we need to do to increase our safety margins. Well hear from National Transportation safety chairwoman jennifer hamady, chief operational officer tim worrell and rich santa, Airline Pilots association, captain jason ambrossy and former administrator randy back out. While disagreements tend to garner more coverage than compromise, its worth noting i
Forces. Um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. As far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, its very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. Amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. Right. And, frank foer, ill let you get the last word in on that. Right. We have that, we have certain expectations about the stuff that we get. And its shaped by the world that we live in and this marketplace. We expect that we should get everything as cheaply as possible and as efficiently as possibly. And to some extent those are tenets of capitalism. But they havent always been tenets of american political economy. There have been moments in our past, in our notsodistant past where we said, okay, its not necessarily the most important thing to get things as cheaply as
Was in attendance had that sense of warmth and and regard for each other and for the country. It was really special. Coming up next, sierra Club Volunteer harold wood discusses the legacy of con survey shifts that conservationists and National List john your john muir. By thes hosted California Historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. We want to hear harold would tonight. He will give us an incredible surney through john muir life. That legacy is stronger than ever. To hearing forward you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. And the partner, the sierra club. For all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect ou