Misc - HL 203 (4)

MH 370 ……..is it?  What happened?

Satellite indicates Flight MH370 still flying seven hours after takeoff.

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From: Tom Tedder

Date: 3/13/2014 6:20:50 AM

To: mark@pilotcommunication.net

Subject: Virtual Tour

Mark
I think this would be of interest to the group.
Tom Tedder

Delta Flight Museum video.  Will be something when they finish it this summer.  I’m impressed.

Hello all,

You may know that The Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum is being renovated and remodeled to make it into a facility open to the public, not just for the Delta employees.  Renamed The Delta Flight Museum, this is a video of how it will look when it re-opens this summer.

The Delta Flight Museum is preparing for takeoff. 

This summer, Delta will unveil the newly renovated Delta Flight Museum celebrating Delta's history and the people who drive our success like never before.

VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s56IaWbSg

The Boeing 767-200 shown in the museum is the aircraft purchased for Delta by the employees in 1982 and named The Spirit of Delta.  The interior of the aircraft is now a museum within the new Delta Flight Museum and you can see some of its history, its different liveries through the years, and its transformation into a museum in this video. 

               VIDEO:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pD4SzJJjLM

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From: Ed Uselmann

Date: 3/5/2014 9:35:04 AM

To: undisclosed-recipients:,

Subject: edu: Dave Garrett to be inducted into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame

Delta Folks:

For those of you who are interested in attending the Annual Induction Banquet on April 26, here are a few details as well as a link to the web site to purchased tickets.  A little info about the banquet …

Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame Annual Induction Banquet

Century of Flight Hangar

Saturday, April 26, 2014

http://www.gaaviationhalloffame.com/Order-Tickets.45.0.html

The evening begins with a one-hour reception held in the spacious Century of Flight Hangar at the Georgia Museum of Aviation at 6:00 p.m.  Surrounded by historic aircraft as well as the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame, guests will then be treated to a gourmet dinner and live presentations to each of the four honorees.

Seating for the 2014 Annual Enshrinement Banquet is limited and by advance reservation only.  Seats are $75.00 per person and tax deductible as provided by law.  Attire is black tie (dark suit optional). 

For further information contact the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame at (478) 328-0704.

Address: Museum of Aviation, GA Highway 247 at Russell Parkway, Warner Robins, GA 31088 ~ 478.923.6600

David C. Garrett, Jr.

07/06/1922 - 06/02/2012

David C. Garrett, Jr. was born July 6, 1922 in Pickens, S.C.  He served our country during World War II in the Army Air Corps.  After the war he hired on with Delta Air Lines, Inc. in July 1946, as a reservations agent. He worked his way up through the ranks and became President on November 1, 1971 and Chief Executive Officer on February 1, 1978.  On October 28, 1983, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors.  He held these offices until his retirement on August 1, 1987.  He remained a member of the Board of Directors until 1994.

He was a man committed to his country, his community, his family and his airline.  Even after his retirement he maintained his love for Delta Air Lines and its people by being a member of Delta Golden Wings, Inc. (a group of retired Pilots) and Delta Pioneers, Inc. (a group of retired Delta employees).  He knew the Delta employees made Delta Air Lines a great airline.  There was a mutual love and respect between the Delta people and Dave Garrett.  He was a great leader and made many contributions to our airline.

For over 41 years, Dave Garrett helped Delta Air Lines grow from a regional carrier into the nation's fourth largest airline.  In 1982 the people of Delta purchased a Boeing 767-200 aircraft and gave it to the company.  It was named "The Spirit of Delta" and has been given to the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.  In 2009, a Boeing 777-200-LR bearing his name and signature was dedicated.

He loved Delta and its people until the day he died (June 2, 2012).  A memorial service honoring him was held at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA on June 12, 2012.

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From: Gene Hall

Date: 3/11/2014 9:00:11 PM

To: Gene Hall

Subject: My Condition Report

I’m having computer trouble, and I have sent this to my list of old Widgets twice, and it bounced both times.  I am going to try again using groups of 40.

Success, it’s working.

I’ve been silent for awhile, because I’ve been sick.  Being sick is a strange feeling for me, for I didn’t feel I was sick for the five years while undergoing twelve surgeries.  I would just get operated on, and recuperate for about thirty days, and be back in the gym and the golf course.  The one exception was when I had three rounds of IL 2 chemo. I thought I was going to die each time.  But even then, after each treatment, I was back to normal in a few days.

My number twelve surgery was January 15.  The neurosurgeon took the melanoma cells off my brain that he had left alone two years before.  The reason he didn’t disturb them two years before was because it was thought that I had, at best several months to live.  He knew I would have to learn to talk again, and I might be physically crippled.  It was a quality of life issue.  I might as well have the time I had left without the bother of not being able to talk.  Well, I beat the odds, and had a great – with the exception of the IL 2 treatments – two years. 

I’m a fan of SEC football, and I was watching Alabama embarrass the SEC in the Sugar Bowl.  I started to make a remark critical of Coach Saban, and I couldn’t speak. I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn’t form the words.  It only lasted about two minutes, but it happened several times in the next week.  Now there was no downside in taking the cells off my brain.  The surgeon told me that I would have to learn to talk again, but with speech therapy It shouldn’t take too long.  The surgery went well.  I spent one night in the ICU, and one night in the hospital.  I couldn’t utter a word, and I couldn’t spell, but there were no more ill effects.

My speech started coming back in several days, and I felt great for two and a half weeks.  My first speech therapy session was on February 3, and I felt awful, but I made it through the session, and went to an appointment with my oncologist.  They took my vitals and rushed me to the ER.  I was admitted to the hospital suffering a-fib.  The got me squared away in three days, and I was discharged. I stayed home two days and then I wound up arriving at the ER in style in an ambulance.  My heart was out of rhythm again, but it was also discovered that my head had sprung a leak from my previous surgery.  My heart was in rhythm in a couple of days – it still is – but I had a drain placed in the area where my brain is supposed to be, and it took nine days for the docs to decide that I had quit leaking, and the fluid was not spinal fluid. 

I was home a week before it started leaking again, and I was hospitalized once again.  This time, the plastic surgeon took me back to surgery for number thirteen to repair my flap, so I wouldn’t keep leaking.  It seems to have been successful, but I picked up a staph infection, and I am at home in Atlanta – second home – attached to an IV twice a day.  I am told that the staph I have is the most common and easy to cure.  Nevertheless, I will probably be married to the IV for about four more weeks.

Thanks for all your good wishes in response to my daughter’s email.  Your responses came to me, but I didn’t feel well enough to send emails for awhile.  We get out everyday now, lunch, grocery shopping, etc.  I am getting stronger daily, and I think my speech is about 90% now.

 


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