BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T211300Z UID:B0C68273-3A1D-4C55-9E44-156A66FA806D DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261114T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20261114T140000 DESCRIPTION:Although you may have toured Hill Air Force Base Museum before\ , the purpose of this tour is to gain information around the World War II era activities at Wendover Airfield\, now essentially a ghost town.\n\nOur submission for an AIAA Historic Aerospace Nomination (similar to the alre ady dedicated IEEE Milestone for Computer Graphics and the currently submi tted IEEE Milestone Proposal on Cosmic Rays now in adjudication) is in pre paration. Historical records are sparse\, and the hope is to learn more fr om museum docents and each other.\n\nWe know 20\,000 people were stationed at Wendover Airfield in 1945. They trained P47 fighter pilots and develop ed tactics for heavy bombers (including nuclear bomb equipped B29 crews). The recent film "Oppenheimer" provided just a glimpse of the monumental ef fort of the Manhattan Project and did not touch the even bigger effort to design the B29 bomber that could cross immense distances flying above defe nding fighters. Wendover also tested the first US cruise missiles\, the fi rst air-to-air missiles \, and the first glide bombs. Performance shortcom ings of these programs urged rapid development of modern electronics guida nce systems.\n\nStudents and young engineers will likely be shocked at the speed at which complex systems were developed and fielded under no excuse s wartime pressure and without popular management theories embraced today. These past successful response to technical challenges and life hardships should provide incentive for us today.\n\nRSVP required.\n\nCo-sponsored by: AIAA\, ASME\n\nSpeaker(s): \, \, \n\nAgenda: \nWe will split into grou ps of 15 for tour by a docent.\n\nHill Air Force Base Museum\, HAFB\, Utah \, United States LOCATION:Hill Air Force Base Museum\, HAFB\, Utah\, United States ORGANIZER:donahoe@ieee.org SEQUENCE:29 SUMMARY:HAFB Museum Tour - focus on WWII Wendover Airfield URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/579279 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Although you may have toured Hill Air Forc e Base Museum before\, the purpose of this tour is to gain information aro und the World War II era activities at Wendover Airfield\, now essentially a ghost town.</p>\n<p>Our submission for an AIAA Historic Aerospace Nomin ation (similar to the already dedicated IEEE Milestone for Computer Graphi cs and the currently submitted IEEE Milestone Proposal on Cosmic Rays now in adjudication) is in preparation. Historical records are sparse\, and th e hope is to learn more from museum docents and each other.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p >We know 20\,000 people were stationed at Wendover Airfield in 1945.&nbsp\ ; They trained P47 fighter pilots and developed tactics for heavy bombers& nbsp\; (including nuclear bomb equipped B29 crews). The recent film "Oppen heimer" provided just a glimpse of the monumental effort of the Manhattan Project and did not touch the even bigger effort to design the B29 bomber that could cross immense distances flying above defending fighters. Wendov er also tested the first US cruise missiles\, the first air-to-air missile s \, and the first glide bombs. Performance shortcomings of these programs urged rapid development of modern electronics guidance systems.</p>\n<p>S tudents and young engineers will likely be shocked at the speed at which c omplex systems were developed and fielded under no excuses wartime pressur e and without popular management theories embraced today. These past succe ssful response to technical challenges and life hardships should provide i ncentive for us today.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>RSVP required.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>We will split into groups of 15 for tour by a docent.< /p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR