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Flight 99 Officers 120Th AW and He Is Planning on Flight Captain Flight Captain’S Attending Pilot Training in the Near JIM BURMAN Remarks Future AMERICA’S PREMIER FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION OF Proceedings MILITARY PILOTS 11 January 2018 Flight 99 Officers 120th AW and he is planning on Flight Captain Flight Captain’s attending pilot training in the near JIM BURMAN Remarks future. I told him we’re saving a Home: 468-2751 place for him in Big Sky Flight. [email protected] There was also a fair amount of Vice Flight Captain discussion about the upcoming PAUL SNYDER Home: 727-1551/Cell: 750-1999 availability of surplus Model 1911 [email protected] Army Colt 45’s. I thought that we should consider acquiring one of Treasurer / Membership GARY KASPER these pistols and raffle it off, with Home: 467-2309/Cell: 590-8357 the proceeds going to our cadet [email protected] flying program. A friend of mine looked into this via the Civilian Adjutant / Editor / Historian MIKE BUCK Flight Captain Jim “Birdman” Burman Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Home: 771-8282/Cell: 836-9857 web site. At this time there are We had a nice meeting, with 20 [email protected] no more surplus pistols available; members and one guest present. however, additional model 1911s Provost Marshal The weather forecast kept our REX TANBERG are scheduled to be released in Helena members at home; as Home: 761-3924/Cell: 788-2172 the near future, so we’ll try again. [email protected] with many weather forecasts that one wasn’t very accurate and we I’m looking forward to seeing all Scholarships only got a couple of inches of the of you at our 8 February meeting! ED MANGIS white stuff. Still, I’m sure that Home: 458-6261/Cell: 443-0552 Volabamus, Volamus! [email protected] had the pilots from Helena tried to make the trip for the meeting, Flying Training Officer the weather would have caused VINCE BAKKE them to divert into Wolf Creek. Home: 452-6207/Cell: 799-1197 Birdman [email protected] We had a guest, Zack Gossner. Gossner is a new member of the . January 2018 Tanberg led the solemn toast in program, Jim Burman suggested Meeting Minutes water “to those who have gone buying a gun or two and then Mike Buck, Flight 99 Adjutant before.” He followed that toast raffling them off. Birdman has a 20 Big Sky Daedalians and one with the customary toast, in wine, source for new firearms that we guest gathered at Malmstrom’s to the President of the United can buy wholesale; he promised Grizzly Bend Club at 1630 hours States. Daedalian Joe Macklin to have more details for us soon. on 11 January 2018 for another then introduced his guest, Zack Flight 99 Social Hour. Our Flight Gossner, the son of an Air Force Upcoming Speakers Captain, Jim Burman, called the chum of Joe’s and also a new meeting to order at 1730 hours. lieutenant at the MTANG. Zack Brent Murray gave us a preview Daedalian Matt Lynde provided hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and of several upcoming speakers: the invocation, authored by Army is awaiting a USAF pilot training on 8 February, timed to coincide veteran Scott A. Tackett, Senior. assignment. Rex led the Flight in with the start of the 2018 Winter a toast to our new guest, and the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South A Battle Prayer proceedings were then tabled for Korea the following day, our own the duration of the superb meal. Pete Dascoulias will speak of Young Warriors; his experiences as a member of Should fate find you on the 20 Members Present the US team at the 1976 Winter battlefield: games held in Innsbruck, Austria. Buck, Jim Burman, Jeff Carlton, Our June meeting will feature a May your cause be a just one. Cameron, Cogswell, Dascoulias, very special guest, 1Lt Diane May your courage not falter. Henneman, Ken Inabnit, Koby, Carlson Evans. She served as Laux, Lynde, Macklin, Mitchell, May you show mercy to your a nurse during the Vietnam War Morrison, Brent Murray, Sam enemies. and she co-founded the Vietnam Prestipino, Phil Schroeder, both May your efforts bring the Women's Memorial Project with Shanahans, and Rex Tanberg. blessings of peace. Donna-Marie Boulay in 1984. May you be triumphant, and earn Objectives for 2018 That project produced a statue victory. that was added to the National Membership May your sacrifice be always Mall in Washington, DC on 11 appreciated. Flight Captain Burman noted that November 1993. Retired BGen Hal Stearns, Montana National May you endure the conflict we should actively seek out new, unharmed. preferably younger members this Guard, will join us this year to year. Recall that navigators and give a talk on Montana’s military Should you be harmed, flight surgeons are now eligible. history. Mr. Trent Gibson will May your wounds heal. Birdman plans to speak to the also join us to describe the Should you perish in the 40th Helicopter Squadron’s new activities of the Montana Youth struggle, commander, Ken Inabnit knows Challenge Academy, benefitting May God embrace you, and find some former helicopter pilots in many at-risk youths in Montana. a place for you in His kingdom. Helena to invite, and Joe Macklin may bring some flight surgeons. Member News Jerry Shanahan led everyone in Dust off your Rolodex to see who reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. you could invite to a meeting! Big Sky Daedalian Paul Snyder’s Our Missing Man Table for that lovely wife, Ann, passed away evening was set in honor of our A Fund-Raising Gun Raffle? after a long illness on Sunday, 28 departed brother, Lt Col Gail J. As a potential means of raising January at the Peace Hospice of Adams. Provost Marshal Rex more money for our 2018 DFT Montana located in Great Falls. 2 . A SPACE LEGEND HAS FLOWN WEST JOHN W. YOUNG, THE ASTRONAUT’S ASTRONAUT, HAS MADE HIS FINAL FLIGHT TO THE HEAVENS John Young (L) with Mercury Veteran “Gus” Apollo 16: John Young Leaps from the Grissom Flew the First Manned Gemini Flight Lunar Surface to Salute the US Flag Captain John W. Young, USN, a Georgia Tech graduate, veteran Navy test pilot, and accomplished NASA astronaut passed away on 5 January 2018 at 87. He was the first man to fly in space six times, and the only astronaut to fly the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft. He served as the Chief of NASA’s astronaut corps from 1974 to 1987, overseeing 25 shuttle flights during the program’s formative years. During his 42-year career at NASA, Young was a relentless advocate for flight safety, firing off countless memos that occasionally made him a thorn in the side of NASA management, especially in the wake of the 1986 Challenger mishap. His dry wit and ready smile belied his encyclopedic knowledge of space systems. Born 24 September 1930 Young earned his bachelor degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1952. As an ensign, he served aboard the destroyer Laws before earning his Naval Aviator wings. After four years with VF-103, Young was assigned to the US Navy’s Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, where he set two time-to-climb records in the F-4 Phantom, one of them being a climb to 82,000 feet in 3.8 minutes. In September 1962 Young was selected in NASA’s second group of astronauts, following the Original Seven Mercury astronauts. He was the first of his class to fly in space, serving as co-pilot of the first manned Gemini mission with Mercury veteran “Gus” Grissom on 23 March 1965. Gus had complained about the “space food” supplied for the mission; upon reaching orbit, Young produced a corned beef sandwich from a suit pocket. Mercury astronaut and prankster Wally Schirra gave the sandwich to Young just before launch. The ensuing Sandwich Investigation, featuring NASA heads testifying before Congress, did not keep Young from becoming the Commander of Gemini 10, along with future Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins. Lifting off on 18 July 1966, the two flew a three-day mission during which Young rendezvoused with an Agena target vehicle, flying formation with it while Collins spacewalked to retrieve an experiment package from its hull. Young flew to the Moon aboard Apollo 10 with Commander Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan on 18 May 1969 to test the Lunar Module in lunar orbit. As Command Module (CM) Pilot, Young remained alone in the CM while Stafford and Cernan descended to within 47,000 feet of the Moon’s surface in the lunar lander, a dress rehearsal of the techniques and procedures that would be used just two months later when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin accomplished the historic first manned landing on the Moon. 3 January 2018 Young commanded Apollo 16, launched 16 April 1972. That mission’s Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, recalled: “I found out from the flight surgeon later on that my heartbeat was 144 at liftoff. John’s was 70.” Young made a textbook landing on the lunar surface in the mountainous Descartes Highlands with Duke, while Ken Mattingly orbited above in the CM. Young and Duke drove the Lunar Rover more than 16 miles around the landing site, collecting 211 pounds of lunar sample rocks during their 3 Moonwalks, which totaled 20 hours. During one excursion Mission Control informed the moonwalkers that the US House of Representatives had just passed a budget which included funds to develop the next generation of NASA spacecraft, the Space Shuttle. “The country needs that shuttle mighty bad,” Young replied. “You’ll see.” Young piloted the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, on its shakedown flight which launched on 12 April 1981.
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