Menu:  Marinated Chicken Breast, House Salad, Fettuccini w/ 4-cheese Alfredo Sauce, Fresh Steamed Broccoli, and Brownies and Cookies for dessert.

OUR PREVIOUS MEETING_______________________________________

Bob Jaques, who has been working as a historian at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for the past four years, brought us an interesting summary of the last 100 years of flight.  During his introduction, the audience of over 30 almost all acknowledged they had visited the sight of the first flights of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  The speed of this first flight was 31 mph.  The space shuttle speed is about 17,000 mph at peak orbital velocity.  Bob Jaques had studied Amelia Earhart’s flights and told us why she never completed the last one.  He gave us some insight into the personality of Charles Yeager who first flew faster than the speed of sound.  He showed us his personal collection of signatures from all the manned flights.  He even had the paw print from Miss Baker, one of the two monkeys who first flew into space and returned on May 28, 1959.  Flight has been an interest of his since the Apollo 11 flight.  Now, working at NASA, he has had the opportunity to speak with many astronauts and scientists involved in these last 100 years of the evolution of flight.  Web sites of interest may be: