Month: November 2009

Dayton Section member 1Lt Casey Miller has been nominated as The Air Representative of the 2010 ION Council by the ION Nominating Committee. The role of the Air Representative is to serve as a member of Council and as a co-chair of the Technical Committee on Air Navigation. Additional responsibilities include assisting conference committee and program chairs in identifying new topics, session chairs, and technical papers with an emphasis on air navigation. The Air Representative also identifies and communicates emerging air navigation technologies to the council and president as well as providing assistance with the ION Journal and Newsletter.

Online ION Council voting will take place electronically between Dec 15, 2009 and Jan 8, 2010 via ion.org

The Dayton Section November luncheon will be held on November 12th at 11:30AM at the Hope Hotel located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This month’s guest speaker will be Dr. Dave Doman, a Senior Aerospace Engineer, from the Air Vehicles Directorate of Air Force Research Labs. Dr. Doman will be speaking on flapping wing designs for micro air vehicles.

RSVPs for this event may be sent to Mark Smearcheck by noon on Monday, November 9th.

Due to rising luncheon costs, we have been forced to raise the price to $12.00. The price for student members will remain at $10.00.