Grace Huntington presentation

[brandtb]

I would like to invite everyone to my presentation about my mother Grace Huntington.
"Grace Huntington "Please Let Me Fly!" the remarkable story of the woman aviation pioneer who set a world altitude record in 1940
Topic: The remarkable story of Grace Huntington, an aviation pioneer who set world altitude records in her 60 HP Taylorcraft monoplane.
On September 20, 2005 at 5:45 PM
Location:
Waypoint Restaurant
325 DURLEY AVE
Camarillo, CA 93010


Berkeley Brandt III, the son of two pilot parents, will tell the remarkable story of his mother, Grace Huntington ( who received her pilot license in 1937) and her fascination with high altitude flight and determination to find flying jobs for herself and other women aviators.

Berkeley Brandt

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

Any chance someone might vidio the presentation and we could mail the tape "around the horn" for everybody to see. California is a LOOOOONG trip for this Virginia boy to make, but I would really like to hear it. At LEAST audio tape it!
Hank J

[Forrest Barber]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

Yes please make sure there is good audio. Try for video too. I have followed this story line and was quite dismayed to learn of her death way back in 48. I always thoght she was "Grace the Ace" an aerobatic gal I met about 20 yrs ago. Wonder what happened to her.
YES I AM BACK!! Finally somebody called Patty to see if I was alive ! been real busy, after OSH I was a bit disappointed with a lot of stuff, will elaborate soon. bye Forrest I have been answering the direct e-mails & will get back here tomorrow.

[Victor Gisclair]

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Welcome back Forest. We miss you. i was beginning to think you were sick or something.
Vic
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[Chet Peek]

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Berkeley, I'm sorry I missed her story when I wrote "THE TAYLORCRAFT STORY", I did find out about and interviewed Louise Thaden's family about her 1950 race. Any information you could send would be appreciated..
Chet Peek

[brandtb]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

I will try to arrange some sort of recording. It is a power point presentation which I can put on a CD. When I tried to attach a letter of congradulations from the president of Taylorcraft, it was too large, so the whole presentation is out of the question
Berkeley

[Carl Ellis]

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Maybe Capt Jon can put it on his web site for download.

- Carl -

[Forrest Barber]

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If the powerpoint presenter feels that it is not propriatory and we can use it , we can figune a way to put it up on the web site..... right Bob !!'
You da man!!

[Carl Ellis]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

For those of you without PowerPoint, there is a viewer available for download from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

[brandtb]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

I will try to convert the presentation to Word. I think it will be more understandable in that format. The pictures and letters that I have are copies of the originals that were donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space. I have written them to be sure I am not violating some copyright law. Hopefully, they will give permission.
Berkeley

[Carl Ellis]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

For those of you without Word, here is the viewer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=95e24c87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&DisplayLang=en

[brandtb]

Re: Grace Huntington presentation

I finally finished publishing my mother's story. She wrote the book 'Please Let Me Fly' in 1941 and it served as the source for the presentation listed here. The book details her experiences in the late 30s, not only as a pilot also as a woman competing in the workplace at a time when her activities were consider unladylike. The book is available at Lulu.com.
Berkeley Brandt