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Hiller Aviation Museum
7th Annual Benefit Celebration
Saturday November 5, 2011
At 6:00 pm in the evening
Hiller Aviation Museum
601 Skyway Road
San Carlos, California
| RSVP by October 28, 2011 | Aviation or Business Attire |
Receiving the museum's prestigious Stanley Hiller, Jr. Intrepid Pioneer award for pushing the limits of what a private pilot can accomplish in the aviation field is Reid Dennis. Mr. Dennis is a Bay Area businessman who has circled the globe in an amphibious aircraft while retracing the final flight of Amelia Earhart.
Our Guest Speaker is Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut who has also flown around the world, orbiting the earth from an altitude of over 200 miles as a NASA astronaut and resident of the International Space Station. Mr. Lu will speak about the future of our nation's manned space program.
Evening Activities
Silent Auction
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Vie for a wide variety of gifts, from dining to one-of-a-kind items.
Classic Seaplane
6:00pm - 9:30pm
See Reid Dennis's classically restored 1955 Grumman G-64 Albatross that flew around the world in 1997
Flight Sim Zone
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Experience the thrill of aviation in the Flight Sim Zone and try flying around the world from San Carlos in only 20 minutes.
To register online please click here .
To print a reservation form to fax or mail please click here
photo credit: Scott Highton
Celebrating the Adventure of Air and Space Gala Benefit, November 5, 2011, 6 p.m.
On November 5, 2011, join us at the Hiller Aviation Museum for a special evening of gourmet food, fine wine, fun and inspiration as we celebrate two individuals who have watched the world go by in unique ways.
The festive evening features a gourmet dinner, silent and live auction with more than 30 trips and unique aviation items, tours of Reid Dennis' Grumman Albatross amphibious airplane, the presentation of the Stanley Hiller Intrepid Pioneer Award to Reid Dennis and a brief talk by former astronaut Ed Lu.
Ed Lu bio
Edward Lu studied electrical engineering at Cornell University and received
a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University. Selected by NASA as an
astronaut in 1994, Lu first flew in May 1997 aboard Atlantis for the STS-84 mission, the sixth shuttle mission to visit the Russian space station Mir.
He next flew in 2000 on mission STS-106, also aboard Atlantis, performing a spacewalk during that flight to help outfit the Zvezda module of the International Space Station, the outpost's living quarters. Launching on the Soyuz, Lu returned to the International Space Station in 2003 as flight engineer and NASA science officer of Expedition 7, the first two-person
resident crew. Ed presently lives in the Bay Area where he is pursuing a
variety of interests in the private sector.
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