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2012 SAH General Meetings, Tours,
and Educational Programs
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About Our Next Meeting:
Saturday February 4, 2012
Republic XR-12 Rainbow and the Hughes XF-11
Join us in February for a presentation by aviation artist and author Mike Machat on the Republic XR-12 Rainbow
and the Hughes XF-11. Machat recently released "World's Fastest Four-Engine Piston-Powered Aircraft: Story of
the Republic XR-12 Rainbow." Machat is a well-known American aviation personality who has dedicated his career
to the preservation and documentation of aviation history. Originally from Long Island, New York, Machat served
in the U.S. Air Force and with the National Security Agency before relocating to Los Angeles and earning
a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach. He was hired as an illustrator
for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and advanced through the ranks to become a Staff Artist and corporate
representative.
Mike then established his own aviation art studio and
was elected first president of the American Society
of Aviation Artists. He served as president of the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles and was a
senior flight-rated member of the U.S. Air Force Documentary Art Program. Mike's aviation artwork won
numerous awards and four of his paintings reside in the permanent collection of the National Air & Space
Museum. He painted murals for the Bob Hope Airport terminal in Burbank, California, and the Air Force
Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB. As an aviator, Mike holds an FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate,
has flown in more than 200 different types of aircraft, and has logged 2,000 flights in sailplanes.
The society will have copies of Machat's books available for purchase at a discounted price. Remember
to bring a friend to what will be another great Society for Aviation History event.
Meeting Location: Oakland, CA,
February 4, 2012
11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Please Do Not Arrive Before 11:00 A.M.
Entree choices:
Braised Sirloin Tips
or
Boccocino de Pollo (Boneless chicken with Italian sausage and seasoned bread stuffing, topped with Mushroon sauce)
Entrees served with a mixed green salad and potatoes.
Dessert will be Rainbow Sherbert.
With coffee or tea.
If you'd like a vegetarian meal, please call Nick Veronico at (650) 593-7024
We now accept Paypal
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, you can update to two meals or more of the same kind (
make sure to click "update cart" after you
change the number), or click on "continue
shopping" and it will bring you back to this page and choose the other type of meal.
Cost: $30.00 per person.
Non-Member $35.00 (click on the tab)
Our October 1, 2011
Aviation Episodes of the Twilight Zone
 
 
Film expert and SAH Member Andy Melomet reviewed several aviation episodes of the science fiction
TV series The Twilight Zone. They were:
The Odyssey of Flight 33
The Last Flight
The Arrival
King Nine Will Not Return
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Andy Melomet has generously given a number of programs in the past and his presentations always
get rave reviews!
Please bring some canned food for those less fortunate.
Each year we deliver the canned food collected to the Second Harvest Food Bank. Last year we topped 200 pounds (!!!)
and we look forward to meeting or exceeding this goal again this year.
Meeting Location: Francesco's Restaurant - Oakland, CA,
SAH Tank Museum Tour: July 23, 2011
 
Through Richard Thomas and Nick Veronico, the Society for Aviation History will tour
the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation’s collection of armored vehicles on July 23 at 10 a.m.
The cost is $25 for SAH members and $30 for non-members*/guests payable by check or Paypal.
The tour will take approximately 3 hours, most of it standing or walking. Please dress in layers
and wear comfortable shoes. We will meet in Redwood City at 9 a.m. to form carpools as parking
at the museum is extremely limited. Directions to the tour will be handed out at this time.
About Our Last Meeting:
Saturday June 4, 2011
State of the B-17 World in 2011
The B-17 remains a favorite of the warbird crowd, and lots of changes have occurred in the past few years
in the continuing saga of the four dozen plus airplanes that remain. A few airplanes have returned to the
air, and a few have now been grounded. Several interesting new restorations are now underway including
that of the only surviving B-17D, and what were only piles of scrap ten years ago are now becoming
B-17s once again. Plus, there are two exciting new projects that may eventually result in the brand new
construction of both a B-17C and a B-17F.
Author Scott Thompson has long documented the history of the post-war Flying Fortress and the individual
stories of each of the 48 surviving airplanes. His book Final Cut, originally published in 1990, has been
updated with the release of an expanded and updated 4th edition in May of this year. Come and explore
the current B-17 world in this review of the interesting current events in the story of this popular
World War II bomber.
Copies of the new 4th edition of Final Cut: The Post War B-17 Flying Fortress and Survivors
were available at the meeting ($24.95). For more B-17 information and updates, visit www.aerovintage.com.
Meeting Location: Francesco's Restaurant - Oakland, CA, June 4, 2011
Our last Meeting:
Saturday April 9, 2011
Final Flight: A Mystery in the High Sierra
In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra found the mummified remains
of a man in a World War II uniform, entombed in the ice. The "Frozen Airman" discovery created a media storm
and a mystery that drew author Peter Stekel to investigate. What did happen to the four-man crew who perished
on a routine navigation training flight in 1942, 150 miles off-course from its reported destination?
Stekel found bad weather, bad luck, and bad timing. Empty graves, botched records, and misguided recovery
efforts. Then, in 2007, the unimaginable happened again. Stekel himself discovered a second body in the
glacier. Another young man would finally be coming home.
Copies of Stekel's book Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High
Sierra were available at the meeting. Visit Stekel's website at: www.FinalFlightTheBook.com.
Lunch at the Moffett Field Museum was catered by everyone's favorite Emergency BBQ!
Our Last Meeting:
February 5, 2011
Junkyard Jets —
Airliner Dismantling, Recycling, and Movie Making
(new SAH President Alice Hendricks and speaker J. Douglas Scroggins)
The February meeting was J. Douglas Scroggins
III, managing member and co-owner of ARC Aerospace Industries and owner of Scroggins Aviation, both Nevada-based
companies specializing in commercial part sales, teardowns, salvage and recovery, and the occasional movie mockups.
Scroggins comes from the film and television entertainment field as a director of photography, director, and
producer, and created/produced the program Scrapping Aircraft Giants – a Discovery Channel TV documentary on
commercial aircraft scrapping.
Most recently, on the TV side, Scroggins was involved in the
show LOST, and provided the crashed airliner for NBC-TV’s 2010/2011 series The Event. Working with SAH member
Nicholas A. Veronico, Scroggins co-authored the book Junkyard Jets, which was released in January 2011
by Stance and Speed Publishing .
Scroggins’ talk will detail the end of the life of an
airliner, from storage, to part-out, to dismantling, and will cover some of the TV and movie work he’s done.
Meeting Location: Francesco's Restaurant - Oakland, CA, February 5, 2011
(new and past SAH past president Alice Hendricks and Nick Veronico)
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