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Cornelia Fort First Female Pilot to Perish on Active Duty Behind the Scenes of a Museum Curator “Swamp Ghost” - Update! Mahalo Admiral Ronald Hays SPRING 2014 | ISSUE #20 IN THIS ISSUE Cornelia Fort First female pilot to perish on active duty Behind the scenes of a museum curator “Swamp Ghost” - update! Mahalo Admiral Ronald Hays 1 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT Though only two months into the New Year, 2014 promises to be a year of great energy, great achievement, and great demand on both our human and financial resources. The excitement and anticipation are growing as we both improve and expand our programs and exhibits to deliver dynamic experiences to visitors of all ages. 2013 was a record year with attendance climbing by 20% - reaching an all-time high of 224,000 visitors. We are hard at work to prepare for another record-breaking year and deliver an experience to all visitors that meets or exceeds expectation. The rapid pace of museum improvement projects continues as we plan to not only complete the projects begun last year, but initiate new and exciting efforts to take the museum experience to the next level. A key new offer to all museum visitors will be the availability of a hand-held audio tour guide, available in multiple languages. This device will allow our visitors to better enjoy and learn from our exhibits. As you will read in this NOTAM, our Education Department has formalized program offerings to support youth education and engage our community at large. Youth programs are offered not only on the museum grounds on Ford Island, but in schools throughout our state. We are excited to also welcome visiting school and youth groups from the mainland and neighboring Pacific nations. In response to your feedback and reviews by visitors, our public program schedule has been expanded. Monthly community programs will highlight our collections and bring to our museum and theater noted local and national celebrities to share their stories and engage all of us in challenging and informative discussions. We are also going green! Electrical power is high on our agenda as the 162% rate increase severely impacts monthly expenses. Working with our Navy partners, we hope to move forward with the installation of photovoltaic panels on Hangar 37, vastly reducing our energy consumption. Focus on restoring the historic Control Tower continues to take precedence. The exterior repairs completed in 2012 positioned us to undertake the rest of the restoration work. We recently installed new glass windows in the second level of the Aerological Tower. Nan Construction, under the guidance of architect Glenn Mason, refurbished the frames, installing the glass and doors to the original 1941 look. Grant and donor support is being sought to complete the Aerological Tower, enabling us to open at least one portion of this iconic red and white Ford Island Control Tower to the public. Funding is also still needed to restore the elevator and the control cab (the last step in providing the public with full access to the Tower), and complete interior restoration to support development of educational classrooms, a library, and administrative offices. Hats off to the Restoration Team, as they moved the reassembled B-17E Swamp Ghost onto the Hangar 79 apron. This 90-day engineering feat brings this reassembled historic aircraft back into public display. You can read more about this amazing effort in the Restoration section of this publication. Watch for news and updates on the fast approaching Biggest Little Airshow radio control extravaganza. Planning is underway for this great event, providing thousands of visitors of all ages and backgrounds the exciting world of radio-controlled flight. Aerial displays, static full-sized aircraft exhibits, education and hands-on booths for youth, model exhibits, vendor stands, food, and fun are planned for all. I’d like to personally thank you for your support and encourage you to share your affiliation with Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor with your friends. Whether visiting with us in person, or exploring our organization online, Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor remembers and honors the spirit of our past in hopes of building the foundation for our future. Aloha Ken DeHoff Note: If you haven’t already done so, please consider becoming a member of Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor! 1 EDUCATION CORNER By Shauna Tonkin Ph.D Director of Education Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor offers As a Smithsonian Affiliate museum, we a wide array of learning opportunities for participate in programs that connect us to folks of all ages. These include youth tours local and national communities. In Fall 2013, and activities, outreach programs to local we partnered with students from Aliamanu schools, summer camps, Hangar Talks, and Middle School on Oahu, and the Smithsonian’s special events. Asian American Center in the “Young Historians, Living History” project. Students Aviation is a powerful teaching tool to inspire collected oral histories and created short creative thinking, ignite interest in science, videos about the Asian Pacific American technology, engineering and math (STEM), and promote respect for the heroes and “Aviation is a powerful teaching tool to inspire creative thinking, pioneers that changed history. Enthusiastic feedback from students, teachers, and families ignite interest in science, technology, engineering and math…” -- and the photos that capture the excitement of our museum -- communicate the wonder experience. These films premiered nationally of learning in this unique location. at CAAMFest in San Francisco on March 15, and will be part of an online Smithsonian If you’ve visited our museum recently, exhibit. Don Young, Director of Programs you’ve probably noticed some new activities. for the Center for Asian American Media Museum field trips introduce students to our (CAAM), praised the students for their special collection of aircraft, and we’ve added excellent videography skills and their rigorous extra hands-on experiences in STEM. For historical research. The student videos will be example, school groups spend 30 minutes in posted on our website later this spring. Hangar 79, pouring over sectional charts to plan a flight path from Hawaii to destinations “Discover Your Future in Aviation,” an in the South Seas. They also take the controls annual signature event, happened on March in our flight simulator lab to “fly” throughout 29. Sharyn Emminger Dey, the first female the Pacific for an unforgettable day of discovery captain for Hawaiian Airlines, shared her and fun. story about making aviation history, and many local organizations provided a variety Programs for adults also are central to our of hands-on activities for the entire family. mission. Back from hiatus is our popular Aviation and aerospace continue to inspire Hangar Talk series. Each month, we feature young people, and career opportunities abound. authors, experts, and intriguing stories about Please join us next year for an unforgettable all things aviation, with a particular emphasis day of exploration and discovery! on the Pacific region. In January, Christi- na Olds shared personal anecdotes about Flight School, our popular STEM program her legendary father, American fighter ace, for middle school kids, returns in June for 8 Brigadier General Robin Olds. We hon- different sessions. We’re putting the finishing ored Black History Month in February by touches on the programs and will announce our featuring original members of the Tuskegee schedule soon. Check our website for updates Airmen. Modern-day servicemen shared their or email education@pacificaviationmuseum. perspectives as well. You can find out more org for more information. We look forward to about upcoming Hangar Talks by visiting seeing you soon at Pacific Aviation Museum our website. Pearl Harbor! 2 Calendar of Upcoming Events April 5th – Hangar Talk & Book Signing May 17th – Open Cockpit Day, 9:00 a.m. with Pan Am’s Captain Don Cooper, to 4:00 p.m. in both Hangars. Climb into Betsey Pease Tryon and Ed Dover, author the cockpit of one of our historic aircraft, of The Long Way Home Travel back to talk story with pilots, and snap a photograph an era of adventure and glamour, as our with an aviator in period attire. Activities for presenters share the memories of Pan the whole family take place throughout the American Airlines. The Long Way Home Museum. Bring your camera! Flight suits, tells the story of Pan American Airways helmets, and fun provided. Free with Museum Captain Robert Ford’s record-breaking, admission and free to Museum Members. unplanned flight around the world following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. June 3rd-5th – Flight School for Boys A three-day adventure in the history and technology of aviation for 6th-8th graders. Immersive, hands-on activities with an emphasis on Pacific aviation and fun. July 15th-17th – Aviation Adventure 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This co-ed residential camp immerses teens in the rich history of Ford Island and Pearl Harbor as well as science, technology, engineering, and math concepts of aviation. Hands-on, practical experiences bring these concepts to life in the Museum’s historic hangars and aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial. This is a cross-cultural camp for ages 13-17. Aviation Adventure repeats: July 22nd- 24th and 29th-31st May 3rd – Hangar Talk with Terry Tonkin July 24th – Happy Birthday, Amelia! Hangar Talk at 2:00 p.m. followed by meet Visitors are invited to celebrate Amelia and greet at 3:00 p.m. LTCOL Terry Tonkin, Earhart’s 117th birthday. The Museum fronts USMC (Ret.), will share his first-hand Luke Field on Ford Island, where Ms. Earhart account of the heroic actions of the Air Force ground looped her Lockheed Electra at take- HH-53 aircrews and the Marines whose off on March 20, 1937, while attempting her mission was to free the crew of the merchant Round-the-World flight.
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