Well, good evening. Im chris brown, the Deputy Director of the Smithsonians National air and museum. And it is my to welcome you to tonights aviation lecture. Since 1982, this lecture series has spotlighted more than 140 of the biggest names in modern aviation history. Like all of our public programs. This lecture is presented free of charge. This is possible. Thanks. Through the generous support ge Aviation Private contributions like theirs are critical to our programs and exhibitions and it is my privilege to acknowledge them for their longstanding and valued. Representing ge aviation with us tonight is lisa crerar barclay, Digital Solutions leader of military Systems Operations at ge aviation. Lisa, to you and your colleagues at g. E. , we thank you for substantial and enduring support. Since we opened the museum here on the mall in 1976 and the uber hazy in chantilly in 2003. More. 350 Million People have walked through our doors to be informed and inspired by the history of flight
The real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. And the air force mission is very unique. Within 72 hours the Air National Guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. This is my good friend here from the interNational Guard. We have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the United States there are pilots and jets. And that mission of the air force is unique. It takes more get up and going. The air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. On the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. Most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. The wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didnt see on the news, after four states rolled in with National Guard and th
Whoo fortyfour ladies, thats me whoo. Gonna get some cold cuts today . Skilled bay area pilot die ins a crash during the reno air race second deadly crash there in just 3 years. Tonight we learn more about the man who flew everything from fighter jets to single engine sun mraechbilitys good. 63yearold lee biel died if fatal accident at qualifying heat of the National Championship air race this afternoon. Cause of the accident under investigation by the faa and the ntsb. 7 News Reporter spoke with his sister tonight and live m los gatos. Allen. We are not far from his home in saratoga where neighbors learning just about lee biel death tonight. I had the pleasure of meeting him at social gathering few years bac back. We talked about air racing and he came off as very competent guy whether was very passionate about what he did. Happened in an area of the race course called high g ridg ridge. Squaeyearold lee biel of saratoga was killed after his sport class plane appeared to experience ca
Skilled bay area pilot die ins a crash during the reno air race second deadly crash there in just 3 years. Tonight we learn more about the man who flew everything from fighter jets to single engine sun mraechbilitys good evening. 63yearold lee biel died if fatal accident at qualifying heat of the National Championship air race this afternoon. Cause of the accident under investigation by the faa and the ntsb. 7 News Reporter spoke with his sister tonight and live m los gatos. Allen. We are not far from his home in saratoga where neighbors learning just about lee biel death tonight. I had the pleasure of meeting him at social gathering few years bac back. We talked about air racing and he came off as very competent guy whether was very passionate about what he did. Happened in an area of the race course called high g ridg ridge. Squaeyearold lee biel of saratoga was killed after his sport class plane appeared to experience catastrophic mechanical failure. Single plane incident. Be did ca
Back. We talked about air racing and he came off as very competent guy whether was very passionate about what he did. Happened in an area of the race course called hh g g ridg ridge. Squaeyearold lee biel of saratoga was killed after his sport class plane appeared to experience catastrophic mechanical failure. Single plane incident. Be did cancel racing and qualifying racing only one more heat after. That races will resume qualifying will resume tomorrow at 8 00 a. M. As scheduled. Biel was former champion who founded the sport class division. Retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Nevada Air National guard and flew f 4 phantom. Sister spoke to usy phone. There are a lot of ings that even a good pilot cant foresee. Reporter she says her brother passion began in high school when he built a plane in the garage. He was a natural pilot. He had he was just a great deal of quiet confidence. Hi no, i never had any concerns or fear when i flew with him. Reporter biel owner Stevens Creek posh audi i