Recent AIAA New England Section Events .
    Date(s) Event
    Summer 2006
    Jun 24AIAA New England Section Annual Meeting. Join us at Daniel Webster College for a the passing of the gavel to the new section officers. Former NASA program manager and AIAA distinguished lecturer Gene Austin will speak about past and future space transportation. Contact Col. Doug Joyce for reservations: Joyce@DWC.edu.
    Jun 25Westfield International Air Show, Westfield, Massachusetts. Blue Angels to perform, many aerial and static displays of military, civil and classic aircraft.
    Jun 25Rhode Island Air National Guard Open House, North Kingstown. Thunderbirds to perform, many aerial and static displays of military aircraft.
    Jul 20Anniversary of Apollo-11 Moon Landing in 1969. On this date men first set foot upon the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility, and returned safely to the Earth.
    Aug 19Vermont Air National Guard 60th Anniversary, Colchester. Thunderbirds to perform, aerial and static displays of military, civil and classic aircraft.
    Aug 21-24Aircraft Fire and Explosion Course, Cambridge. Four-day course on protecting aircraft against destruction from accidents, combat and terrorist attacks. For more information, contact Albert Moussa, BlazeTech Corporation, 617-661-0700 or firecourse@blazetech.com
    May 2006
    May 1-5AIAA Structures, Dynamics and Materials Conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Our section hosts this national event.
    May 6Flying Cars: Terrafugia Transition. Carl Dietrich will speak at a joint AIAA/EAA meeting at Boire Field in Nashua. Contact PennyBowman@comcast.net for details and reservations.
    May 18Titanium: From Jet Engines to Orthopedic Implants. Creation of the titanium industry represents one of the most successful R&D undertakings of the U.S. Government. Stanley Abkowitz, Chairman and CEO of Dynamet Technology, will show us how a “Manhattan-Type” program involving industry, universities and government laboratories, took a little-known basic metal and made it the material of choice for modern aircraft and military equipment, unique industrial components, advanced sports equipment, and enabling orthopedic devices.
    Apr 2006
    Apr 4-5Congressional Visits Day. Join the New England delegation in Washington DC to educate our legislators and their staff members on issues facing the aerospace industry. For more information, contact Phil Hattis at phattis@draper.com or Ray Erikson at ray.erikson@bfsigma.com.
    Apr 17Kollsman Plant Tour. Patriots Day visit to Kollsman Instruments in Merrimack NH. For more than 75 years, Kollsman has been a leader in avionics, instruments, and weapon systems.
    Feb 2006
    Feb 16AIAA Honors & Awards Banquet at the Westin Hotel, Waltham MA. Join your fellow AIAAers to celebrate this year's aerospace achievements and outstanding engineers, featuring Guggenheim Medal winner Gene Covert of MIT and Collier Trophy winner Brian Binnie, pilot of SpaceShipOne. See flyer.
    Jan 2006
    Jan 19KaZaK Composites Plant Tour. Join KaZaK VP Hal Tugal on a tour of and advanced composite manufacturing facility. KaZaK specializes in difficult aerospace and defense applications, such as the deployable boom for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Contact Hal Tugal at (781) 932-5667 or visit http://kazakcomposites.com/.
    Dec 2005
    Dec 13Alexander Brown presents "Rooted in History and Culture": Accidents and Engineering in the Manned Space Program, 1967-2003. Dibner Lecture Series at MIT. Visit Dibner Institute website for more details.
    Dec 17First Flight Day, celebrating the first powered flight of the Wright brothers, and of several other significant aircraft in the years that followed.
    Nov 2005
    Nov 17Polymer Matrix Composites. Joint SAMPE/ASM/AIAA meeting at the Radisson-Chelmsford with dinner at 6:30 pm. See our section meeting announcement on page 4 or the SAMPE website for more details: www.bostonsampe.org/calendar.htm
    Oct 2005
    Oct 25SR-71 Blackbird - An Engineering Marvel, presented by Colonel Richard Graham at Eileen Darling's Rest., 940 Fall River Ave, Seekonk MA (508-336-9222), 5:45 PM, cost: $30.00/ person.
    Oct 28IMAX 3D Magnificent Desolation: A Walk on the Moon. AIAA New England "off-site meeting" at the Jordan's Furniture in Reading at 6:30 pm. See article this issue for details.
    Oct 29AIAA Regional Advisory Conference at New England Air Museum. Meeting of leaders from Region I with National advisors. All day.
    Nov 9-10Design2Part Show at Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough MA. Trade show highlighting all aspects of detail design, product data management, manufacturing materials and processes, and subcontracting. 9:30 am to 4 pm. Visit www.Design2PartShow.com for more information.
    Sep 2005
    Sep 14Special sneak preview screening of Tom Hank's new film, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D on Wednesday, September 14th, 11 am to1 pm at the Simons IMAX Theatre, New England Aquarium. Following the film will be a question and answer session with retired astronaut and Director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium Jeffrey Hoffman. To attend this event, kindly RSVP no later than September 12th to Debra Borgwardt at the Simons IMAX Theatre, via email dborgwardt@neaq.org or via phone 617-720-5104.
    Sep 24-25Daniel Webster Aviation Heritage Festival. Daniel Webster College, Boire Field, Nashua NH. Two full days of demonstration flying, vintage aircraft, airplane rides and much more! Last year's festival drew over 10'000 visitors. Come by the AIAA table in the Exhibitors Tent to say hello.
    June 2005
    Jun 18AIAA New England Annual Meeting at Collings Foundation Open House. Change of Command ceremony in main hangar, followed by presentation on Crew Exploration Vehicle development by Linda Fuhrman of Draper Laboratory.
    May 2005
    May 17New England Aerospace Education Teachers Workshop at Daniel Webster College in Nashua. An all-day outreach event sponsored by DWC, AIAA, FAA, NHASEC, AEF and NH-AFA aimed at teachers in grades K-12. For more info contact Dan Caron: dwcaron@hotmail.com
    May 25A Fine Week of Soaring. The Providence Section of ASME and Juan Mandelbaum present his acclaimed film on glider flight and engineering in the Hall of Fame Room at the New England Institute of Technology in Warwick RI. Program begins 6 pm. RSVP Sam Kaplan (401) 222-4700 x7046 by May 23 at 4 pm. For more info visit the ASME Providence calendar page.
    Apr 2005
    Apr 5Dartmouth College Open House and Engineering Exposition from 5:30 to 8 pm. Support our newest college student chapter! All labs open to public. For more info contact Chandlee Bryan or visit the Thayer School of Engineering website
    Apr 6Hypersonics, The Future is Now at Pratt & Whitney Engine Museum in East Hartford, Connecticut. Joaquin Castro will talk about the hypersonic propulsion program he heads at Pratt & Whitney. Program begins at 6 pm. Members $5. RSVP David Hobbs or call 860-644-0155 by COB Tuesday, 5 April.
    Apr 22-23Region I Student Conference at Princeton. Prizes of $500 will be given to the winners of sepa-rate undergraduate and graduate paper category competitions. $300 and $250 will be awarded for second and third place in each competition, respectively. For more information visit the Conference website.
    Mar 2005
    Mar 21BAE Systems Plant Tour, 1-3 pm at their Lexington location: 2 Forbes Road, Lexington, MA. More info and directions are available on our section website: http://www.aiaa.org/sections/nd/
    RSVP Jeanne Hartley by Thursday, 17 March: Jeanne.Hartley@bfsigma.com
    Feb 2005
    Feb 16AIAA New England Honors and Awards Banquet. (see home page for details)
    2004
    Dec 9 Automation in Aviation, lecture and forum led by Prof. Mary "Missy" Cummings, beginning at 6 pm in MIT building 33, Room 206. AIAA members and students free with ID card. Others $10.
    RSVP: Caroline Lamb [cmtwomey@MIT.EDU] by noon on Thursday, 9 Dec 2004.