PRESS RELEASE – Tucson, AZ – The Pima Air & Space Museum’s Second Saturday Speaker Series is revving up for another season of titillating topics that explore today’s mysteries and tomorrow’s discoveries. The series will kick-off the new year year by looking back at plane wrecks that have occurred in our backyard, then leaping forward to a new dawn of discovery and a personal perspective heralding the new museum exhibit “Women in Flight.” The Speaker Series is held on the second Saturday of the month at 1:30 p.m. in the Pima Air & Space Museum’s Main Hangar and is included with paid admission to the museum.
- On Sat., Jan. 10, 2015, Chris McDoniel presents “Aerospace Archaeology,”which focuses on plane wrecks that occurred in the southwest and the stories behind them. Some of the wrecks McDoniel will talk about include an FM-2 Wildcat near Vail, a B-24 near I-10 and Wilmot, and another B-24 in the Catalina Mountains.
- On Sat., Feb. 14, 2015, Vishnu Reddy presents “NASA’s Dawn Mission: What We Know or Don’t Know About Ceres,” which will probe into what we will learn about Ceres when the Dawn spacecraft rendezvous with it in April 2015. [Ceres is a dwarf planet that lies in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.] Reddy is a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson and a member of the Dawn Framing Camera team based at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
- On Sat., Mar. 7*, 2015, Laura McGill, Engineering deputy of Raytheon Missile Systems, will share her perspective on being a female aeronautical and astronautical engineer. This talk will be part of a day-long Grand Opening celebration for the new museum exhibit “Women in Flight.”
*switched to the 1st Saturday of March to correspond with the “Women in Flight” exhibit Grand Opening.
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Born in Milan, Italy, Moreno moved to the U.S. in 1999 to pursue a career as a commercial pilot. His aviation passion began early, inspired by his uncle, an F-104 Starfighter Crew Chief, and his father, a military traffic controller. Childhood adventures included camping outside military bases and watching planes at Aeroporto Linate. In 1999, he relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to obtain his commercial pilot license, a move that became permanent. With 24 years in the U.S., he now flies full-time for a Part 91 business aviation company in Atlanta. He is actively involved with the Commemorative Air Force, the D-Day Squadron, and other aviation organizations. He enjoys life with his supportive wife and three wonderful children.
WHY ? do you publish a photo of B-17 42-102899 and caption it 42-102889 ? this latter B-17 crashed in Czechoslovakia in 7th July 1944……one hell of a long way from California ! Get you r spectacles checked, or stop playing stupid games !
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