Past Speakers - Click on name to take you to the meeting write up page, then scroll down the page to desired topic.

2010

Cdr. Margaret "Peg" Stephan  "Operation Deep Freeze: Flying at the South Pole"

Larry Rinek "Convair F-106 Delta Dart"

2009

Thomas Morganfeld and his Favorite Lockheed Aircraft

BC Thomas "Flying the SR-71"

Andy Melomet "The Memphis Belle"

Kim Arfsten Russian Aircraft at Monino and Nat Quick Aviation Artist

Jean-Pierre "JP" Harrison "Remembering Kalpana Chawla and STS-107 Columbia"

2008

Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore "The X-Hunters"

Hub Zemke, Jr. "Tactics and Leadership"

Scott Thompson "The History of Tallmantz Aviation"

Jerry Knotts "The History of Big Safari"

Andy Melomet "Victory Through Air Power"

2007

Thomas A. Morgenfeld "Testing the New Generation of Frontline Fighters"

Mike Luvara, Marilyn Dash, and Scotty Germain "Air Racing Pilots' Panel Discussion"

Geoff Carr "Vietnam-Era Helicopter Living History"

"JR" Roberts "Clyde Pangborn and the First Trans-Pacific Flight"

Chris Grech and David Canepa "U.S.S. Macon Location and Investigation"

2006

Lt. Col. Bruce Hinds (USAF, ret.) "B-2 Stealth Bomber Test Pilot"

Jim Lund "Piston Planes of Pan Am"

Flight Sergeant Len Harris "RAF Tail Gunner"

Robert J. Gilliland "SR-71 Test Pilot"

G. Warren Hall "NASA Ames Research Center Navy/Test Pilot"

2005

Astronaut Dr. Janice Voss "Space Shuttle Operations"

Price McConnell, Bill Erickson and Larry Rinek (moderator) "F-111 Panel Discussion"

Col. Joseph Shriber "Wild Weasels in Vietnam"

Taigh Ramey "Aerial Gunnery in Action"

2004

Harold "Hal" Farley Jr. "Prototype Stealth Fighter Pilot"

Col. Alan Cirino "Flying the SR-71"

Bill Chana "Convair Flight Test Engineer,Test pilot and Aerospace Engineer"

Norm Clinton, Parker Blake, Joseph Calzadillas, Robert Blackwood, Dick Koepke, Larry Rinek (moderator) "B-52 Stratofortress Crew panel"

Jim Lund " Douglas Commercial, DC-1 through DC-10"

2003

Eric Presten "Flying the Mississippi in a Float Plane"

Ron Reuther "Update on Amelia"

Dan Morgan, Larry Rinek, Fay Kellog, Norm Jukes, Alice Hendricks "Wright Brothers Panel Discussion with Wright flyer Replica"

Herb Ross "P-38 Lightning Ace"

Col. Joe Cotton, Col. Louie Babbitt, Col. Pete Revello, Larry Rinek (moderator) "B-58 Hustler Crew Panel"

2002

Pat Scannon "Searching The South Pacific"

Richard Denison, Harold Simpson, David Lane, Bob Rhode, Scott Thompson (moderator) "Douglas A-26/B-26 Invader Panel"

Kenneth T. Brown "Marauder Man"

Howard "Ace" Campbell "S.F. Bay Area Airports"

Col. Bruce Bailey, Col. Dick Koepke, Capt. Jack Leathers, Larry Rinek (moderator) "B-47 Stratojet Crew Panel"

2001

Joe Cotton "The Philosophy of Flying"

Ron Gerdes "Flying NASA's VTOL Aircraft"

Cmdr. Hamilton "Mac" McWhorter III "Hellcats Over the Pacific"

Chuck Hansen, Col. Frank Yochem, and Bill Witt, Larry Rinek (moderator) "B-36 Peacemaker Panel"

Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson "P-51 Mustang Ace"