January 2021 - First Flight Society

26 01, 2021

Introducing the 2021 First Flight Society Board of Directors

KITTY HAWK, N.C. – January 26, 2021 — The First Flight Society would like to announce its Board of Directors for 2021.All of the directors are from North Carolina, except three who are from Virginia.

The newly elected Executive Committee consists of:
President-Mike Fonseca
1st Vice President-Dr Charles Davidson
2nd Vice President-William “Bill” Douglas
Treasurer-H Taylor Sugg
Secretary-Paul Carr

The rest of the 2021 board consists of :
Sara Lou Copeland, Danny Couch, M. Roy Daniels, III, David Daniels, Lisa Ellstrom, Judith Fearing, Orestes Gooden, Paul Wright Jameson, Arthur J. Lamothe, Blake Sauls, Doug Seay, Mike Smith, Penny Leary Smith and Peregrine White.

Joe Lamothe, Mike Smith and Geneva Perry are former presidents of the 94 year old Society that started out as the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association.

The FFS plans an annual celebration at the Wright Brothers National Memorial on Wright Brothers Day, December 17^th mandated by their bylaws to memorialize the work of the Wright Brothers at […]

19 01, 2021

Ready for Takeoff Podcast 457 with Mike Fonseca

Ready for Takeoff Podcast 457 with FFS President Mike Fonseca-From December 17th, 2020.

18 01, 2021

Annual Membership Meeting will be Virtual on Thursday, January 21st.

Our Annual Membership Meeting is this Thursday night, January 21st. It will be virtual through WebEx. If you are a current member please make sure we have a current email address so we can send you an invitation.

If you are unable to use WebEx there will be a phone number to join the conference.

Please contact us at [email protected] or call 252-441-1903.

10 01, 2021

Frank W Caldwell

Inducted in 2020

Developed the Variable Pitch and Hydromatic Propellers

1889–1974

Frank Walker Caldwell was a leading American propeller engineer and designer. As the United States government’s chief propeller engineer, he pioneered propeller engineering and propeller testing facilities and techniques. Mr. Caldwell’s many contributions to aviation in propeller technology highlighted by his winning with Hamilton Standard the 1933 Collier Trophy for design of the controllable-pitch propeller. His design innovations led to the Hydromatic constant-speed propeller used by virtually every frontline US aircraft in WWII, and his pioneering whirl test procedures were indispensable to the development of all modern high-performance propellers during the 20th Century.