Airmen behind the romanticized facades and described how legendary pilots like Eddie Rickenbacker influenced movies, comics and popular culture. Held by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, this is close to an hour. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my true pleasure to introduce the last speaker for this afternoon. That is dr. Michael hankins. He is the assistant professor of strategy at the United States air forces eschool of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power history and national strategy. He recently published an article, the teaball solution the evolution of air combat technology in vietnam, 1968 to 1972 in the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation, the cult of the lightweight fighter, culture and technology in t
Director of the documentary. He is the author of to swing through the sky a musical theater piece about the twin histories of jazz and powered flight. He was a longtime member of the wright experience team and was executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary film making, his career covers classical drawing, s. T. E. M. Education, exhibit design and photography. With that, id like to turn the stage over to paul and thank you all again so much for coming tonight. [ applause ] hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everybody see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Great. Let me make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay. Thank you, kathy, and to everyone at Smithsonian Associates for having me back. Im very happy to be here. Again, and share this story with you. Its, i think, a its a really fun story in a local kind of a way. Its a story of
This song is from 1969. I started thinking about that year and what a great year it was for music. Jesus christ, superstar came out that year and we will talk to the current production team. I am anxious to see what it is going to be like. Welcome to the 9. We are getting into that fall weather. Is this why you like fall . Yes, fall in the air, there is nothing new. This type of weather has been around since i was a kid growing up here. It will change a little bit later. Because there is not really a breeze here. There is some fire concern here. We are talking about severe wire danger. It is pretty hot out there as well. Everyone will be 80s and near 90 degrees. The freeze is mainly in the higher elevation. We are expecting that later today and into tonight and overnight into thursday. Again, if you are above 1600 feet or 2000 feet, that will be the strongest gusts. A windy morning and possibility of high fire danger. Humidity will be very lo. There will be pretty good gus overnight ab
Show. Theyre just strolling along, enjoying their day, and boom something impossible happens. Whoa its a communication. Ow. Ew [ laughs ] you know, im communicating with the audience. So, what im about to show you is completely impossible. And they see it, visually. Anywhere. Anywhere. Right there . So their response comes back to me as another communication. The queen of clubs. Whoo it feels like ive just snapped them out of. Oh . A moment where they may have been jaded or felt like theyd seen everything. And then, suddenly, i show them something new, and they light up. Wow [ laughter ] the apex, the crux, the biggest moments are often these Little Things that happen all day as people drop their barriers. Da, da, dada, da, da. After seeing some magic, and youre just really kind of touching someones day for a brief moment. Bah and then they move on, and theyre like so, its cool to be able to kind of connect with people on that level anywhere. All abracadabra . And randomly, when theyre
And. [ scale plays ] and. [ scale plays ] and just kept on working with it. It took me one year and 28 glasses to learn the first mozart piece written for glass. And then i was absolutely hooked. If youre playing an instrument thats very satisfying to you, then it doesnt matter how long you play it. It just still becomes even more enjoyable. Little bit flat. As i was walking away from the diningroom table when i was 6 years old, my dad started playing a wineglass. Everyone in the place was musical. They all started playing their stemmed glasses. The kids, the water glasses. And the adults, and i heard these beautiful chords coming from the diningroom table. And this became my favorite sound, at the age of 6. I want as many people as possible to experience that beauty, because its very rare that people can experience such beauty just walking along the street. [ joplins the entertainer plays ] scott joplin. [ cheers and applause ] this was my favorite sound in the whole world. [ applause