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April
Meeting Annoucement
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Monday,
April 20, 2009
" Qualifying
and Funding Real Green Projects for Industrial / Commercial Facilities”
Presented
by:
IIE senior member Ted Bier of T.M. Bier &
Associates, Inc.
This
presentation will provide information on the following:
- Obtaining funds for energy cost reduction project(s) through
the following sources - Economic recovery act, Tax credits, Utility
rebates, & Conventional financing
- Types of energy projects: Improvement to infracture including
lighting systems & HVAC, Building Automation Systems, Renewable
Energy including solar & wind
- Energy initiatives in Transportation, including material handing,
delivery vehicles, & solar “car ports”
- Planning a Green Building & LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) certification
Time:
6:00pm -Networking/Refreshments
6:30pm - Presentation
Place:
Air Techniques, Inc., Melville, NY (directions will be sent once
your reservation is received)
Reservation
must be received no later than Sunday, April 19th email: Tom Fiorella
at tfior9651@msn.com with: Name,
Title, Company for yourself and each guest. Please indicate: address,
member affiliation (IIE / SME), phone, fax, and/or email address.
For inquiries call Tom at 516-214-5588.
A Lite buffet/dinner/refreshments will be provided - $5
This
is a joint event with the Long Island & NY Chapters of IIE
& SME
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Northeast
Region April Webcast
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Hosted
By: Pittsburgh,
PA Chapter
Wednesday,
April 29, 2009
Topic:
"IEs
and Lean: How they can have an impact in a down economy"
Speaker:
Panelists
Date:
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Time:
6:00 p.m.
Featuring
a Panel of Industry Leaders:
Mark
Coffey - Laurel Mountain District-IE Package Section
Leader, UPS
Nate Wilson - Consultant,
GEBS (Giant Eagle Business Systems)
Doug Rabeneck - Senior Manager, Accenture
Moderated by:
Mike Lalle
- Laurel Mountain District-On Road Work Measurement
Coord., UPS
In a down economy how can an IE keep employees and management
motivated to make changes to the work environment, current processes,
and/or culture?
How do you effectively use excess capacity to make process changes
and justify the labor needed to implement the changes?
These questions and more will be addressed by our panelists and
meeting participants. Please
join us for this timely discussion via the webcast!
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Review
of the February Meeting
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by:
Carolyn Chen
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For
the February meeting, IIE and SME members were hosted by AIAA in the
Bethpage Public Library. The presentation speaker was Tom Gwynne, V.P.
for Programs, Cradle of Aviation Museum. His topic was, "100 years
of Aerospace Heritage on Long Island" and featured the exhibits
at the Cradle, which is located on Museum row in Uniondale.
The Cradle of Aviation opened in May 2002. The building uses two refurbished
airplane hangers from the 1920's & 30's, and has an Imax theatre.
The Cradle's mission statement is, "Preserving the past, Specializing
in Long Island aeronautics history." This museum features only
planes designed and built on Long Island. The group behind the Cradle
has been collecting aircraft and participating in restorations for the
past 30 years. If these exhibits can inspire 1-2% of the local school
children to design and build aircraft, they will have met their educational
and inspirational goals.
Visitors to the museum number 268,000 tickets annually. This museum
is in the top 10 Air & Space museums in the country. Visitors include
50,000 school children, 15,000 Seniors, 10,000 Veterans, and 36,000
guests at corporate events. The Cradle can host up to 1000 people at
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( Tom Gwynne, V.P. for Programs
at the Cradle of Aviation)
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Long
Island & Metro NY Chapter 86
Events
Calendar
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Mon.,
April 20, 2009
Qualifying and Funding Real Green
Projects for Industrial / Commercial Facilities
Wed.,
April 29, 2009
6pm
NE Region Webcast
Hosted by: Pittsburgh,
PA Chapter
IE's
& Lean - How they can have an Impact in a Down Economy
(See details
below)
Wed.
May 20, 2009
Tour
of Sulzer Metco (US) Inc. – An example of Lean in Practice
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APICS
NYC-LI CHAPTER
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 6pm
Topic: Lowering Your Procurement
Costs and Improving Monthly Cash Flow
Location:1 Penn Plaza (23rd Floor) NYC
Please register at www.apicsnyc-li.org
or email meetings@li-apics.org
AIAA
- Long Island Section
Thursday, April 30, 2009
6pm Networking, 6:30pm Pizza, 7pm Presentation
Topic: Research and Engineering Challenges
and the Role of Creativity and Innovation in NASA's Return to Flight
Location: Bethpage Public Library
47 Powell Avenue
Bethpage, NY 11714
RSVP BY April 28, 2009
to: Glenn Mackey
(631) 368-0433
or glennfly@aol.com
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Chapter
86
2009 Officers
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President:
Tom Fiorella
Air Techniques, Inc.
B (516) 214-5588
H (718) 258-3143
tfior9651@msn.com
Richard
Stripeikis
H (516) 8728350
Roop Tawney
National Storage & Conveyor Systems, Inc.
B (631) 941-3900
M (631) 455-6460
ROOPBEER@aol.com
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Chapter
86 Membership Information
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Current
Active Membership
Long Island & Metro NY Chapter = 100
About IIE - Founded in 1948, IIE is the premier
society dedicated to serving the professional needs of industrial
engineers and all individuals involved with improving quality
and productivity. IIE has over 15,000 members and more than 280
chapters worldwide.
Who benefits from membership?
There are hundreds of job titles given to people, who manage,
design, install, or maintain integrated systems of people, machinery,
and information. No matter what your job title, if you are the
person called upon for solutions when there is an issue that requires
your attention, you belong in IIE.
To become a member of IIE call
1-800-494-0460
or log onto to
www.iienet.org & click on Membership then on Join IIE
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Current
Job Posting includes:
Occupational Health and Safety Engineer
Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering, Safety
Engineering or similar is required.
Location: Hicksville, NY
(see
the Chapter's Careers Page for Details)
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The
first exhibit that visitors see upon entering the museum is "Dream
of Wings." People began experimenting in the 1800's with attempting
and trying get air borne.
In 1783, the first hot air balloonists are considered to be the Montgolfier
brothers from France. There were balloon launches on Long Island. A
Long Island balloonist tried to fly across the Atlantic. The pilot crash
landed in Connecticut and gave up. Balloonists have no control and are
at the mercy of the wind.
In July 27, 1909, Louis Blériot became the first man to complete
a heavier-than-air flight over a large body of water.[2] His monoplane
design was the first plane to fly across English Channel, and earned
a 1000-pound prize. He flew through a rain storm, which cooled the engine
enough to survive the trip. This channel crossing, with Blériot
being the only one of three pilots to succeed in the challenge, changed
combat strategy. It did not go unnoticed that the Blériot #XI
flew over and outpaced the naval destroyer sent along to escort and
observe Blériot's trip.
Another
artifact in "Dream of Wings" is the Wright Brothers cockpit
from December 17, 1903. There was a legal patent battle for the invention
of the aileron, a technology for controlling planes, between Blériot
and the Wright Brothers.[3] The Wright Brothers are known for their
pioneering of the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
When the brothers returned to Ohio, it took some time to duplicate
their success because of the altitude differences. Kitty Hawk was at
sea level, and Ohio was at a higher altitude.
Blériot
inspired another pilot to duplicate his flight, and Long Island was
the training ground for that first female pilot to cross the English
Channel - Harriet Quimby.[4] Miss Quimby became the first licensed female
pilot in the United States in 1911. She was a theatre critic, who moved
from the West Coast to New York City in 1903. She did things unheard
of for women at that time, such as wearing pants, driving fast cars
and drinking alcohol. Miss Quimby designed her own trademark flight
suit, a purple satin, hooded outfit with a pant design that buttoned
up on the inseams, but could be converted to a skirt for post-flight
interviews. In April 1912, she flew across the English Channel from
England to France. There was astonishingly little press coverage of
her flight, due to the sinking of the Titanic during the same time.
She was killed later that year, flying a Blériot monoplane that
unexpectedly pitched forward, ejecting Harriet and her passenger to
their deaths.
The
Cradle of Aviation has the first airplane that Charles Lindbergh ever
owned, the Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny" for short). The JN-4 was
designed as a training vehicle. Glenn Curtiss contracted to manufacture
5000 JN-4's for the government. The war ended in 1918. Curtiss had delivered
2000 of the 5000 planes. The government was forced to honor the contract
and had to buy the rest of the 3000 JN-4s. These surplus airplanes were
sold for $500. These were purchased by "barnstormers", who
flew around the country selling plane rides. Lindbergh did exactly this.
This plane crashed twice and he repaired it himself. Lindbergh later
sold the aircraft and it gathered dust in the Midwest. A local aviation
enthusiast, George Dade, purchased this plane and restored it in the
1970's. During the restoration, he found a replacement rib carved CAL,
Lindbergh's initials. Lindbergh visited the restoration and authenticated
the plane as his old Jenny.
Long Island once again has an important place in aviation history, since
Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Airfield for his non-stop flight from
New York to Paris on May 20 1927. His plane was the Spirit of St. Louis,
a Ryan NYP (NY to Paris). This was a race, and the plane was designed
and readied for the race within 60 days. Claude Ryan or Donald Hall,
of Ryan airlines, modified everything but the tail. Staying awake for
the duration of the journey was going to be a serious problem. "Fortunately",
this tail assembly was so unstable, the jerkiness and noise would wake
Lindbergh up when he started to doze. For instrumentation, Lindbergh
was armed with a compass and a watch for his journey from Roosevelt
Field to France.
The actual Spirit of St. Louis resides in the National Air and Space
Museum, but the Cradle does have a copy. A filmmaker wanted to borrow
the actual aircraft for a movie. The Smithsonian said "No Way".
Hollywood was forced to build a replica. They found one of two remaining
Ryan NYPs, and re-modeled it. Replica B-159 is the one at the Cradle.
The Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat was built for challenging take-offs and landings
on carriers. The F4F-3 pilots had to battle the experienced Japanese
pilots in their nimble Zero aircraft. The American plane was no match
for the Zero which flew higher, faster, and turned better. American
pilots were pretty green compared to the Japanese pilots, but they did
have the advantage of the F4F-3 Wildcat being much studier than the
Zero. The Americans developed Air to Air radios, which helped pilots'
learning curves. The Wildcat could sustain a 90 degree dive at full
power - with no damage.
Grumman went to work on the next generation of the Wildcat - the F6F
Hellcat. The Wildcat had a 3:1 victory ratio over the Zeros, but the
Hellcat had a 17:1 victory ratio. The Hellcat could sustain a tremendous
amount of damage and still get its pilot back to the carrier. For all
its speed and agility, the Zero was just not as rugged. At a speed of
250 knots, the Zero controls would freeze. So they couldn't dive. Thus,
American airmens' strategy would be to roll out of the fight, dive,
and come back to fight another day. The Japanese military has a different
mindset - they never give up and fight to the dying breath. When they
see a dive, they assume they shot down the enemy. Thus, the Japanese
tended to overestimate their kills.
The Cradle's Carrier Deck Exhibit has a restored F4F-3 Wildcat, pulled
from Lake Michigan in 1989. In January 1944, Ensign Horace Little was
approaching the USS Sable for his first carrier landing. He was waved
off, but his arresting tail hook caught on a deck cable and broke the
plane in half. The pilot survived and was pulled to safety, but the
plane went to the bottom of Lake Michigan. Grumman's restoration team
re-built it, with the final work and painting completed at the Cradle.[5]
Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, designed the F-105 Thunderchief. This
was built to carry a nuclear weapon into Russia. It could fly at a low
altitude at high speed. This was a technical evolution from the gravity
bomb or iron bomb. The pilot must aim plane at the target and try to
release the bomb at the right time to follow a ballistic trajectory.
The downside of this low tech approach is, you need to hit your target
on the first pass, otherwise you'd have to go back. 50% of the F-105's
were shot down and many good pilots were lost. This put pressure on
industry to design smart weapons that would be more accurate at hitting
their targets and keeping crews out of hazardous situations.
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic aircraft and had its first flight
on December 21, 1970. It was built at the height of the cold war to
defend carriers from air to surface missiles. The Americans needed to
get planes in the air fast and attack the vehicles carrying the air
to surface missiles. The F-14 had defensive firepower advantage.
The F-14 was retired from service on September 23, 2006. F-14's were
sold to Iran in 1976 when the U.S. still had good relations with Iran
and the planes are still actively being flown. However, the U.S. does
not want spare parts to go Iran, so they are destroying any F-14's not
in museums.
Lunar Module LM-13 is on display at the Cradle. The space program slowed
down because the government couldn't support the Apollo program and
Vietnam.
It is impressive to consider that only 60 years passed from the time
Blériot flew a fabric crate across the English Channel to the
time Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. The space race was
fueled by wanting to compete with the Russians. The space program changed
our perspective on life. The concept of "Spaceship Earth"
evolved when you could see pictures of the earth from the moon. In a
sense, earthlings live on a spaceship. Seeing that image from afar,
it becomes more obvious that we have a finite amount of consumables.
The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 and thus began the motivation
for recycling and renewing.
The Cradle of Aviation is also committed to renewal. They are designing
and building new exhibits and are committed to giving new experiences
to repeat visitors. The IMAX films change often. Nassau County plans
to install Nunley's Carousel, from Nunley's Amusement Park in Baldwin
(1939 to 1995) on Museum row next to the Cradle.
Another tip for visitors: Check your local library for a Cradle of Aviation
pass. The pass is checked out like a book, so you can go for free. (But
return the pass). 20 Long Island libraries participated and purchased
these passes. For more information and history of aviation on Long Island,
go to www.cradleofaviation.org or call 516-572-4111
[1]
www.fantasy-balloons.com
[2,3] En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bleriot
[4] www.cenntenialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_daredevils/quimby/EX5.htm.
[5] www.cradleofavitiaon.org/exhibits/restorations/f4f.html
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