Brigadier General Robert L. Scott, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament
Set for April 11

This year’s 9th Annual Brigadier General Robert L. Scott, Jr. Memorial Golf Scramble will be held on April 11 at Healy Point Country Club in Macon, Georgia. General Scott, Macon’s hometown hero who became a fighter ace and author during World War II, served for two decades as the Museum of Aviation Foundation’s National Fund Raising Chairman, passed away 8 years ago on February 27 -- two months before his 98th birthday. His memory lives on at the Museum of Aviation with an exhibit, his P-40 fighter and a simple mission he instilled in everyone he met - make the next generation better.

This year’s four person scramble will include a noon lunch at the clubhouse, greens fee, riding cart, range balls, a distinctive commemorative golf shirt and an evening birthday celebration buffet. Golfers have a choice of an 8 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. tee time. The tournament features top-of-the-line golf equipment as prizes for the winning foursomes. Hole sponsors at $400 receive one player, flag sponsors at $750 get two players and tournament sponsors at $2,500 get four players. Golfers and a guest are invited to the evening buffet and celebration at the Healy Point Clubhouse starting at 6:00 p.m.

To register, call the Museum of Aviation Foundation at (478) 923-6600 or email Mary Lynn Harrison at marylynn.harrison@museumofaviation.org.

Museum of Aviation Spring Cleaning

Tony Faircloth, Museum of Aviation Aircraft Restoration Specialist, (left) and Airman First Class Stanley Rah-Kendrick from the 78th Air Base Wing, perform a safety check on the PT-17 WWII trainer while cleaning the aircraft which hangs 25 feet above the floor in the Museum Rotunda.

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Museum of Aviation Educator Selected as Space Foundation
Teacher Liaison

Clare Swinford, Coordinator of the NASA Regional Educator Resource Center at the Museum of Aviation National STEM Academy, has been selected to become part of the 2014 Space Foundation Teacher Liaison Program. Founded in 1983, the Space Foundation is the foremost advocate for all sectors of space, and is a global, nonprofit leader in space awareness activities, education programs and major industry events. Swinford is one of 24 individuals selected worldwide for the 2014 flight.

The program is an elite group which now numbers only 250 active participants across 44 states Puerto Rico, Australia and India. Now in its tenth year, the Teacher Liaison program selects teachers who actively promote space and science education in the classroom and the community.

To read more, CLICK HERE.

Raytheon Donates $20,000 to Museum of Aviation National
Stem Academy

The Raytheon Company has donated $20,000 to support National STEM Academy programs at the Museum of Aviation. Lynn Dugle, vice president of Raytheon Company and president of Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, made the announcement during her visit to the Museum of Aviation on February 20.

The specific programs being sponsored are STEM labs, Young Astronauts’ Day in May 2014 and 2015, Summer Camps in June and July, Georgia Kid’s STEM Days in August and Georgia Teachers’ STEM Day in September.  The total number of participants anticipated to take part in these programs in 1,200.

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General Goddard Helps Restore "His" F-100 at the Museum of Aviation

The Museum of Aviation is getting some VIP help with the restoration of a special historic fighter plane. Retired Major General Rick Goddard, former commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center from November 1997 to February 2000, is showing up in jeans these days to help bring an F-100 fighter plane back to life that’s close to his heart.

The single-engine rugged fighter plane with many corroded structural parts and missing pieces is the aircraft in which Goddard flew in Vietnam some 45 years ago. As a young fighter pilot, Goddard completed 226 combat missions in F-100s, 180 of them in this exact aircraft (#56-2995) from Sept 1968 to Oct 1969 while assigned to the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Vietnam. The aircraft was eventually retired from active service in 1978 and put on display at Otis AFB, Massachusetts. The General found out about it from a web site and notified the Museum of Aviation. Museum Director Ken Emery then contacted the Massachusetts base that had the aircraft on display and negotiated a deal to trade the plane for another less significant F-100 in the Museum’s collection. The trade took place and the aircraft came to the Museum in Dec 2010.

Work has slowly progressed on the restoration for the last 3 years and will take at least another year to complete the restoration. When done, the aircraft will be displayed in the Museum’s Vietnam display hangar, known as Hangar One. In the meantime, if you see bruises on the General’s knuckles, you’ll know why.

To view video from C-Span,CLICK HERE.

TOP PHOTO: Gen. Rick Goddard, left, and Museum volunteer Aaron Robinson work to restore the F-100 that Goddard flew in Vietnam.
BOTTOM PHOTO: The F-100 as it looked in Vietnam in 1968.

Museum Honors Skyscapes Poster Contest Winners

The Museum of Aviation honored 19 middle school students Tuesday evening, February 18, as winners and runners-up in the 2014 Skyscapes Poster Contest.

The winners were:

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PHOTO: 2014 Museum of Aviation Poster Contest winners (l-r): Savanna Acock, 1st Place; Addie Lee, 2nd Place; Carlee Hoagland, Teacher’s Choice; NeCole Hilton, President’s Choice; Jelena Lee, 3rd Place and Sarah Spalding, 5th Place. Not pictured is Wade Smith, 4th Place winner.

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