VOLABAMUS VOLAMUS | July 2021
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TOMORROW'S MILITARY AVIATORS |
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Matching Scholarships
The Daedalian Foundation matches up to $2,000 in Flight scholarship awards, and then adds another $1,000. Thus, $3,000 is the maximum total that the Foundation awards per flight. When a flight awards multiple scholarships, the Foundation's matching, up to $3,000, is done in accordance with flight instructions.
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Cadet Edin Hasanagic, AFROTC |
Senior, San Diego State University
San Diego Flight 13 Matching Scholarship
Flight $1,000. Foundation $1,500.
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Accomplishments: Student pilot with 12.6 flying hours. San Diego Science Alliance Deep Water Mission Champion Pilot, San Diego Fire Department Cadet Academy Graduate, County All-Star Team ‘Water Polo’, Legislative Intern for Senator Joel Anderson, Air Force Global Strike Command Internship.
Cadet duties: President of Aztec Aviation Organization, responsible for coordinating networking events between pilots and members. Commander of Regional Conclave staff for Arnold Air Society, planning a convention in San Diego for 150·military officers, cadets, and active members. General Military Course Advisor.
Career Goal: “Pursue a rated career field in the USAF, primarily as a pilot. Continue to build flight experience
until applying to fly U-2s or applying to the USAF test pilot school as a test pilot.”
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Cadet Alejandro Rojas Herrera, AFROTC |
Senior, San Diego State University
San Diego Flight 13 Matching Scholarship
Flight $1,000. Foundation $1,500.
Major: Pre Physical Therapy
Accomplishments: Student pilot with 30 flying hours. Physical Fitness Award, Honor Flight, Most Improved Cadet, 80 hours of community service/ training with the Red cross, CTA recommended, Recruiting award, President Roll x3 (Achieving a 3.5 GPA or above in the term)
Cadet duties: FTP Instructor. He and his staff educate and grow cadets to prepare them to succeed at Field Training and set them up for success in their future careers as Air Force Officers, with more than 60 cadets. Last semester he was the Communications Squadron Commander, creating the first DET 075 Podcast to breach the gap between cadets and active duty to inspire them.
Career Goal: “My main goal is to become an Air Force Officer and Pilot, I am pursuing my PPL, and I have achieved an 87 PCSM. I am waiting for my pilot slot results, and next semester, I am going to apply for ENJJPT. That is why the money will help me; if I could get more hours, I will raise my PCSM to 94, which will make me more competitive in the NATO ENJJPT program.”
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Cadet Reymundo Sanchez, AFROTC |
Senior, University of North Texas
Dallas/Fort Worth Flight 23 Matching Scholarship
Flight $2,500. Foundation $3,000.
Major: Kinesiology
Accomplishments: Student pilot with 15.2 flying hours. Daedalian Flight Training Scholarship FY18. Aerospace Studies Freshman of the Year (UNT Academic Award) Spring 2019. College of Education Dean's List Fall 2018. Nomination to the National Society of Leadership and Success Spring 2021
Cadet duties: Intermediate Military Training Liaison; Deputy Operation Support Squadron Commander; Flight Commander .
Career Goal: “I desire to retire from the USAF after 20+ years of being a rated officer. If the opportunity arises, I think it would be an amazing opportunity to work at the Pentagon while in the Air Force. Upon retiring from the Air Force, I would like to continue flying for recreation.”
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We're proud to highlight these scholarship recipients who are pursuing careers
as military aviators. If you would like to offer them career advice or words of encouragement,
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Enjoy reading? Want to contribute to our organization? Help us preserve aviation heritage, promote airpower, and support the future of military aviation today. |
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Airpower Symposium Postponed Indefinitely |
The Airpower Symposium planned for October has been indefinitely postponed due to rising concerns about COVID. As more details arise for a future event, headquarters will distribute information about new arrangements. We are invested in keeping everyone safe and healthy. |
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The Big Give is coming up on Thursday, September 23rd. It is one of our biggest and most exciting fundraising events of the year. We have a goal of $40,000 and are counting on your generous support to help us continue to grow our scholarships and flying training programs!
We are still seeking Flight Champions as a donation incentive. You will get a dedicated donation page and 5% of donations from your flight will return to your flight for use any way you choose. Please contact membership@daedalians.org for more information.
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We are pleased to welcome our new Daedalus Flyer editor, Autumn Bernhard. A native Texas and graduate of Texas State Univeristy, she brings digitial media and previous magazine editing experience to our organization. We are very excited to bring you the next Flyer and sharing all the amazing work she is doing! |
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PCI Oral History Project Update |
An external vendor named PCI will begin contacting members via email, phone and postcard on August 6th requesting participation in an oral history project. Participation and purchase are completely optional.
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Jimmy Stewart Presentation Link |
Congratulations to Founders' Flight on their successful event honoring the late Maj. Gen. Jimmy Stewart, USAF (Ret.) General Stewart received a special recognition from the Daedalians as a Distinguished Aviator for his extensive contribution to military aviation and exceptional life example upholding the tenets of the Order of Daedalians.
Special thanks to flight captain Maj. Travis Neal for supporting the effort and for the work of friend of flight Chaplain Moser and his mentor Col. Paul "Doc Voodoo" Nelson for setting the effort in motion and to Maj. Ben Peacock for coordinating the event details.
Maj. Gen. Jerry Allen, USAF (Ret.), our national commander was honored to attend and speak at the event as we toasted Jimmy Stewart.
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New Membership Incentives |
Driving membership, is a key objective for the organization. To that end, we are offering several new incentives for free membership to the following:
- Speakers at Daedalian events who fully qualify for membership
- Graduates via flight outreach at Initial Flight Training Schools
- Graduates via flight outreach at Graduate Flight Training Schools
We strongly encourage flights to support our efforts through outreach in these potential areas. For questions or support, please contact us via info@daedalians.org
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Congratulations DFT Solos |
Congratulations to all our flights with students completing DFT solos. It is extremely exciting to see young people clocking their first flight time and achieving this unique accomplishment.
Thank you to all those of you who have worked to get them up in the air and keep this program going.
We would like to feature your students in our publications, so if you haven't already please email photos if you have them to communications@daedalians.org.
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We have reorganized the categories on the website, and have a new membership section. It has information on eligibility, application forms, and some of the benefits of membership listed.
We have also updated the heritage page with new materials from the archives that will be periodically updated.
Our publications page has also been updated to include individual online copies of feature articles from the magazine, blog, and newsletter. Let us know what you think!
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Unanticipated Connections:
The Rivera Family and the Daedalian Network
by Lt. Gen. Nick Kehoe, USAF (Ret.), Previous National Commander
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During my recent trip to Kodiak, I had a neat experience showing how amazing the Daedalian network across the nation and world can be. After presenting the 2019 USCG Exceptional Aviator Award to LT Bowers, the pilot who had been looking after me had to fly. He asked three senior USCG Academy cadets assigned at Kodiak for their summer program to take me to the airport for my circuitous flight to Sitka for the 2020 Exceptional Aviator presentation the next morning.
After giving me a "tour" of Kodiak (took about one minute), we had a little extra time, so I invited them to lunch. When we walked into a randomly picked restaurant, one of the cadets, Emily Rivera, saw her mother and grandmother sitting in the back having lunch. They were in Kodiak visiting her.
Cadet Rivera went over to say hello. We sat at another table some distance away. When she came back, I was describing the Daedalians, who we are, our heritage, what we do, etc. Emily suddenly piped up with, "My mother won one of your awards in the early 2000s". After she gave me a few more details, I looked it up on our website and sure enough her mother, Melissa Rivera, had won the 2002 USCG Exceptional Aviator Award.
I had Emily take her phone over to show her mother, with the Exceptional Pilot/Aviator awards page pulled up so she could share how we memorialize our award winners. When Emily came back, I also learned that her mother a previous station commander at Kodiak, is still on active duty and has been selected for O-7 flag rank.
While we were waiting for our food, I decided to go over and congratulate her on her promotion and for winning one of our awards in its early days. The first USCG award we presented was in 1999. I also commended the grandmother on having a daughter and granddaughter who undoubtedly made her very proud.
I am always in awe of how dots sometimes get connected in faraway places when you least expect it.
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Fly-By-Wire, Old Style
From the Archives
by Lt.Col. Ted Fite, USAF (Ret.), Daedalian Life Member #4069
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Some of my young friends who are F-16 jocks have been bragging about their state-of-the-art fly-by-wire side-stick controls, as if they’d invented a new way of flying. That’s like thinking they invented sex. T’aint so! Like sex, we just didn’t make so much noise about it in public. Take a look at the picture. Look vaguely familiar? It is just what it looks like – a fly-by-wire side-stick control. But we had two of them, one on each side of the cockpit! (The Airbus and YC-17 are just catching up).
Actually, the picture is from AAF Manual 50-13, “Pilot Training for the Flying Fortress,” revised 1 May 1945! It shows a formation stick, which was in the B-16G, (the Fortress with a chin turret, for you late-night TV buffs). My 1945 Class I-2-D met up with this gadget in the school at Hendricks Army Airfield, which later became Sebring Racetrack.
We’d gone up to Lockbourne AAF, Ohio in August after B-25 transition, and the war had folded up enroute. We had some war-weary airplanes, and I had an instructor who had also flown a combat tour in Mustangs. He claimed that if you could make a 30-second overhead in a P=-51, you should be able to make a 60-second pattern in a B-17. If! We never did, but it did amaze me how fast that big bird could be muscled around. I remember thinking “We’re going to cartwheel this bastard through the fence, and the C.O. will cream us.” Never a thought about merely getting killed.
I had all of five hours in the bird when we were all shipped down to Sebring to finish training. Before driving down with a friend, I flew down in one of the older airplanes as co-pilot with my instructor. That was quite a change from the vast experience required to even get close to the first models. (And the very first one crashed in 1935 with the elevator controls locked).
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