PRELIMINARY AGENDA

“Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American Hero,” Alan L. Gropman, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University

“For Your Information: Willy Ley and the Coming of the Space Age,” Tom D. Crouch, National Air and Space Museum

“She Flew for Women: Amelia Earhart, Gender, and American Aviation,” Susan Ware, Harvard University

“The Astronaut’s Godfather: Robert Gilruth and the Origins of Human Spaceflight,” Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum

“Bessie Coleman: The Irrepressible Dreams and Harsh Realities of Flight,” Amy Sue Bix, Iowa State University

“The Political and Diplomatic Skills of Juan Trippe, Founder of Pan American Airways,” William M. Leary, University of Georgia

“The Autogiro Flies the Mail: Edward V. Rickenbacker, Eastern Air Lines, and the Experimental Use of Rotorcraft, 1939–1940,” W. David Lewis, Auburn University

“Donald Douglas: From Aeronautics to Aerospace,” Roger E. Bilstein, University of Houston-Clear Lake

“Curtis E. LeMay and the Ascent of American Strategic Airpower,” Tami D. Biddle, U.S. Army War College

“A Powerful Influence: NASA’s Hugh L. Dryden,” Michael H. Gorn, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

“Wernher von Braun: A Visionary as Engineer and Manager,” Andrew J. Dunar, University of Alabama in Huntsville

“Celebrating the Invention of Flight in a Hands-On Way: Replicating the 1902 Experimental Glider Flights of the Wright Brothers,” Edward J. Pershey, Western Reserve Historical Society