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21 May 2011 Hello
Twirly Birds, Enclosed
is the first DVD of some of the early Pioneers. These items were scanned
and put on a DVD by the staff at UTD with no charge to the Twirly Birds.
The pictures and paper material were placed in archival envelopes and included
in
the Slattery Collection at UTD. These
items were arbitrarily selected from existing files that should make interesting
additions to the TB historical file. I regret that it has taken me so long
to
start this project. There are several additional historical pictures and
notes that
will be added to the next DVD. This has proven to be a very time consuming
project. Slats
spent years and untold hours collecting, responding to inquiries, sending
thank you notes, asking members to pay their dues, etc. Slats kept an individual
file
on many Twirly Bird members. These files will also be donated to UTD. The
Pioneers have stories from the Arctic to the Antarctic and everywhere in
between.
They include three war veterans from enlisted to 3 stars plus international
members. A couple of yarns - read the one
to Louis Armandias about
flying over Buckingham Palace at tea time. Another
interesting story is in a
letter to Stew Graham from Friedrich Doblhoff about the destruction of a
helicopter that he was building in Germany during WWII. (Webmaster note: Letter
under F.L. Doblhoff) The
1966 TB meeting is listed under Piasecki Aircraft. Joe Mashman is standing
in the second row, second from the left in the 1956 meeting picture. In
the Bell visitors picture, L to R, #2 Joe Seward, #3 Roy Falconer, #10 Cully
Weadock
- others are unknown to me. The
Pioneers were a colorful lot with many events that would have been lost
without
Slats efforts to preserve some history. Cheers, Bill Yarber
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