Wright Brothers Celebration 2020 with special guest speaker When: Thursday, 17 Dec 2020 7pm, to 8pm Where: Zoom Meeting (call details to follow) |
EVENT DETAILS:Join us for an aviation silent auction and presentation at the annual Wright Brothers Celebration on December 17, 7:00 PM. For this Aviation Event EAA240 has joined with aviation groups from the Delaware Valley: The Aero Club of Pennsylvania, Angel Flight East, EAA Chapter 240 and The Eastern PA Chapter of the Ninety-Nines. The Aero Club will also invite all to participate in an online silent auction to raise funds for aviation scholarships. Finally, we will welcome our exciting speaker for the evening, Martha Lunken. Martha will tell aviation stories until about 8PM, followed by Q&A. Special Guest Speaker: Martha Lunken Aviatrix, Story Teller, Contributing Editor Flying Magazine Martha Lunken learned to fly an Ercoupe in the early 1960s while attending college in Cincinnati. She became a flight instructor and operated a flying school at Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport for seven years. In 1980, she became an Aviation Safety Inspector with FAA’s Flight Standards Division at Chicago’s DuPage Airport. Later, she returned home and ran the FAA’s safety program in southern Ohio. She has an ATP, airplane single and multi-engine land and sea, and a commercial hot air balloon rating. Martha is type rated in the Lockheed 18, DC-3 and SA-227 aircraft. She owns a 1956 Cessna 180 and has 14,000+ hours flight time. She is Contributing Editor at Flying Magazine. In 2016, Sporty’s published a book, Unusual Attitudes, which includes her favorite columns from Flying Magazine.This will be a fun evening of aviation and enables us to gather safely via our homes and computer screens with the Chapter membership and also with fellow aviators from our region. We hope you’ll plan to join this event we have arranged for the Chapter membership. More details to follow, but please get this event on your calendars for next week. Questions? contact [email protected] here |