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WEBSITE II BECOME A MEMBER II SCHOLARSHIPS II DONATE II PAY DUES
VOLABAMUS VOLAMUS JUNE 2019VOLABAMUS VOLAMUS JUNE 2019
TOMORROW'S MILITARY AVIATORSYour generosity allows these students to achieve their dreams of serving their country asaviators. Each year the Daedalians present scholarships to deserving youth. We're ableto do this because of your generous donations.
Cadet Michael CaddellArizona State University$1,000 scholarshipWillie Flight 82Selected for pilot training“I would like to fly fighters in the U.S. Air Force. I want to fly theF-35A because it's the future of the fighter world, but I am opento any fighter platform. After the military, I would like to continuemy flying career in the private or corporate sector.”
Cadet Evan ChinnEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott$1,000 scholarshipWillie Flight 82“I want to be a pilot in the Air Force flying heavies. I intend to flywith the Air Force as long as I can or until I retire.”
Cadet Dominic CiottiUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas$2,500 scholarshipFighter Flight 62Cadet Ciotti’s goals are to “attend and graduate undergraduatepilot training or Euro-NATO joint jet pilot training. Serve as afighter pilot in the United States Air Force, leading airmen to thebest of my ability. Ultimately, protect my country and its people.”
Cadet Brett ClaflinArizona State University$1,000 scholarshipWillie Flight 82
“When I commission in December 2020, I hope to go into theaviation branch and fly either Blackhawks or Apaches for theU.S. Army. Additionally, I want to work for Orbital ATK designingrockets for the U.S. Army as an engineer as a part of theirdesign team.”
Cadet Benjamin EvansUniversity of California - Los Angeles$4,500 scholarshipHarold L. George Flight 7“Having grown up with an Air Force pilot for a dad, I havealways been surrounded by aviation. This led me to earn myprivate pilot’s certificate in high school. Since joining Air ForceROTC I have been able to experience a T-38 flight and 3 gliderflights at the Air Force Academy. I am pursuing a career as anAir Force pilot with the intent to go fighters.”
Cadet Derek MathunyEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott$1,000 scholarshipWillie Flight 82“My ultimate career goal is to work in federal law enforcement.To accomplish my goal, I plan to serve in the active duty U.S.Army as an aviation officer or infantry officer. If I am selected tobe an aviation officer, I will go through flight training forapproximately 18 months. I will then serve in the Army forroughly 10 years flying. After my time in the Army, I will look for flight operationopportunities in law enforcement.”
Midshipman Samuel SmithArizona State University$1,000 scholarshipWillie Flight 82“My career goal is to commission into the U.S. Navy aftercollege, and become an MV-22 Osprey pilot.”
Cadet Savier Vega-SiuranoTexas Christian University$2,500 scholarshipDallas Fort Worth Flight 23“My intentions are to serve in the Air Force as a pilot. I have nopreference yet as to what to fly, but I definitely know that I wantto fly. I plan to serve about 20 or more years, and then becomea doctor after military retirement.”
We're proud to highlight these Daedalian Matching Scholarship recipients who are pursuing careersas military aviators. If you would like to offer them career advice or words of encouragement,
please email us at [email protected].
Daedalian presents JROTC award to daughterThe JROTC awards ceremony for Rockledge High School in Rockledge, Florida, tookplace in April. One aviation-minded student, Cadet Kaila Comeau, clearly stood out asthe candidate for the Daedalian ribbon, her dream.
Kaila has 4.0 average in ROTC, is the youngest tour guide with the world-famous ValiantAir Command of Titusville, Florida, and has frequently flown in their B-25, C-47,Stearman and other aircraft.
When Space Flight 6 awards officer James Pugh found out who was getting our ribbon,he called Kaila's out-of-state dad, retired heavy lifter pilot Daedalian Col. Chris Comeau,to tell him the news. Colonel Comeau, a Daedalian Life Member, asked if he could be thepresenter and if so, keep it a secret from his daughter. Shazam! It happened. It was thesurprise of young fledgling pilot Kaila's life when her dad appeared and presented thecoveted Daedalian ribbon to her.
Colonel Comeau says his daughter knows more about airplanes and aviation historythen he ever did or will. Many thanks to him for helping out with our more than 70 highschools seeking the Daedalian Ribbon. Best wishes to Kaila in her pursuit of aviation.
Submitted by retired Air Force Maj. Gary Clark, Space Flight 6
DFT grad says 'thank you' through videoEli Sorna, a 2019 graduate of the University of Cincinnati who’s headed to UPT,produced this video in appreciation of the opportunities he received from Frank P. LahmFlight 9. He soloed through the Daedalian Flight Training program and was also arecipient of the flight’s $1,000 Henry “Pops” Poplawski Scholarship.
Eli, who majored in aerospace engineering, was on the Dean’s List in 2017 and earnedAFROTC Academic Honors in 2015 and 2017. He was one of two Detachment 665cadets recommended for Cadet Training Assistant Duty at AFROTC’s Field Training insummer 2018, and was selected in the top 50 of all Northeast region detachments.
Congratulations to this future military aviator!
'BACK IN THE DAY'
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jon E.Mickley, Chennault Flight 51, is shownin a C-7 Caribou while assigned to the535th Tactical Airlift Squadron atVung Tau Army Air Field, SouthVietnam. Mickley arrived as a firstlieutenant in July 1969, made captainin October, and departed in June1970.
TOP PHOTO: Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buddy Sims stands next to an 0-2A at Bien HoaAB, Vietnam, in November 1968 as a Sleepytime 16 FAC. ABOVE LEFT: Sims standswith his B-52D crew in October 1972 in Guam. ABOVE RIGHT: Sims stands in front ofHuu Tiep Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 27, 2019. Sims was a B-52D pilot duringLinebacker I in 1972. Huu Tiep Lake is also known as B-52 Lake because it containspieces of a B-52D (Rose 1) that was shot down on Dec. 18, 1972, during Linebacker II.
Do you have a photo of yourself from early in your career? Send it [email protected], Attn: Back in the Day.
DAEDALIAN BULLETIN BOARD
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Update to Flight ManualWe’ve made a slight change to the 2019 Flight Manual in Section X, Item A, on Page 12.The text previously read: “The flight meeting procedure is included at Appendix D withthe exception of the two formal toasts. Slight variations may be made as needed, but theoverall format should be followed as closely as possible.”
The corrected copy now reads: “The flight meeting procedure is included at Appendix D.With the exception of the two formal toasts, a flight may make slight variations to theprocedure, however, the format should be followed as closely as possible.”
Our thanks to retired Lt. Col. Ed Dunbar, vice flight captain, George E. "Bud" Day Flight61, for catching that error.
The flight manual can be found HERE on our website under Flights/ImportantDocuments.
The new directoriesare here!
If you ordered a 2019 MembershipDirectory, you should have received your
copy or will soon.
Did you miss the opportunity to orderyours? We have a very limited supply hereat headquarters. A small number of older
editions from 2000, 2004 and 2013are also available.
Contact us [email protected] or
210-945-2111 for availability.
AVIATION HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTSFind the complete daily heritage calendar HERE.
July 2, 1926Congress established the Distinguished Flying Cross, directing that it be awarded to individuals foroutstanding flying achievements since April 6, 1917.
July 4, 1982The F-16E/XL completed its first flight at Carswell AFB, Texas.
July 5, 1912Capt. Charles deForest Chandler, 2nd Lt. Thomas D. Milling, and 2nd Lt. Henry H. Arnold became thefirst Army pilots to qualify as military aviators. Chandler was Daedalian Founder Member #1667, Millingwas #133 and Arnold was #2182.
July 6, 1950The U.S. Air Force conducted the first strategic air attacks of the Korean War, sending nine B–29Superfortresses to bomb the Rising Sun oil refinery at Wonsan and a chemical plant at Hungnam inNorth Korea.
July 10, 1911The 24th flight of the Triad demonstrated the amphibious features of the Navy’s first aircraft. Pilot GlennH. Curtiss took off from land, lifted the plane’s wheels while in the air, and landed the Triad in thewater.
July 11, 1953While on temporary duty with the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing, Maj. John F. Bolt, USMC, flying an F–86Sabre, became the first Marine jet ace. Bolt remains the only U.S. Marine to achieve ace status in twowars and was also the only Marine jet fighter ace.
July 15, 1931The Air Corps Tactical School moved from Langley Field, Virginia, to Maxwell Field, Alabama. Itproduced most of the Air Corps’s air doctrine during the 1930s, including the concept of long-range,high-altitude daylight precision bombing of selected military and industrial targets—the fundamentalstrategy of the Army Air Forces in World War II.
July 17, 1962Air Force Maj. Robert White flew X-15 No. 3 with the XLR-99 rocket engine on the first spaceflight by amanned aircraft: Altitude 58.7 miles (314,750 ft.), speed in excess of Mach 6 (3,784 mph). For this feat,he won the Air Force rating of winged astronaut -- the first one awarded to a pilot. White, a DaedalianLife Member, retired as a major general. He passed away on March 17, 2010.
July 19, 1941Capt. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a West Point graduate whose father had been the first black graduate ofthe U.S. Military Academy, reported to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, with 12 aviation cadets to beginflight training as the first class of black pilot candidates in the U.S. military.
July 21, 1921Under the leadership of Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, Martin and Handley Page bombers from theArmy’s 1st Provisional Air Brigade bombed and sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland inChesapeake Bay. The tests proved General Mitchell’s contention that airplanes could sink the largestand most powerful naval vessels. Mitchell was Daedalian Founder Member #12595.
July 27, 1909Orville Wright, with Lt. Frank P. Lahm as passenger, performed the first official Army flight test at FortMyer, Virginia. They flew for over an hour, meeting one of the specification requirements for a militaryairplane. Lahm was Daedalian Founder Member #211.
REUNIONSSEPTEMBER 2019
AC-119 Gunship Reunion XXSept. 3-10, 2019
Salt Lake City, UtahShadows & Stingers; Air Crew, Ground Crew and Support Crew; 71st, 17th & 18th SOS; and the
maintenance support squadrons. Also AC-47 Puffs the Magic Dragon folks.Friends & Families, as well as anyone whose bacon we saved, are welcome.
POC: Chuck Williamshttps://www.ac119gunships.com/reunion/[email protected] or 703-624-6995
USAF UPT Class 70-07 50th Reunion(Willie: Good Grief and Schatzi flights)
Sept. 5-7, 2019Dubuque, Iowa
POC: Steve [email protected]
563-556-8982
Distinguished Flying Cross Society Biennial ReunionSept. 15-19, 2019
Dayton/Fairborn, OhioPOC: Warren Eastman
http://www.dfcsociety.net/[email protected] or 760-985-2810
Moody AFB Class 70-01 50th ReunionSept. 19-22, 2019
Dayton, OhioPOC: Tim Ayres
936-443-6548 or [email protected]
AFOCS Classes 1942-1963 ReunionSept. 19-23, 2019
Colorado Springs, ColoradoAll OCS graduates of classes from 1942-63 and their families are welcome.
POC: [email protected]
Dave Mason, 757-820-3740 or [email protected]
OCTOBER 2019
Vance AFB UPT Class 68-G 51st Year ReunionOct. 9-11, 2019Tucson, Arizona
POC: Bob [email protected] or 512-335-0029
Webb AFB UPT Class 68A 52nd Year ReunionOct. 17-20, 2019Washington, D.C.
POC: Lou Hari301-757-7031 or [email protected]
2020
USAF UPT Class 67-G Reunion(Willie: Good Grief, Warlock, Boomer and Schatzi)
Jan. 21-23, 2020Jacksonville, FloridaPOC: Jimmy Brown
[email protected] or 904-635-9531
12th TFW Reunion(Includes 12th TFW at MacDill AFB, Florida; Cam Ranh AB and Phu Cat AB, Vietnam; 12th FEW/SFW,
Bergstrom AFB, Texas (Korea) and all supporting units)May 6-9, 2020Dayton, Ohio
POC: E.J. [email protected] or 480-396-4681
(A memorial dedication to the 12th TFW will occur during this event.)
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