Hill Aerospace Museum ‘Plane Talk’ speakers for December 2017

Hill Aerospace Museum ‘Plane Talk’ speakers for December 2017

The Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, hosts a ‘Plane Talk’ series featuring speakers related to the heritage of Hill AFB, the U.S. Air Force, other military branches, and many other subjects related aerospace and the defense industry. Plane Talk takes place on Saturdays at 1 p.m. in the newly renovated museum auditorium. Everyone is invited and admission is FREE!

Dec. 2, 1 p.m.

Omeara Daniels

Boeing Factory B-17 Expeditor

Omeara Daniels is a 95 1/2-year-old woman from Brigham City, Utah. She will talk about her experiences during the early 1940s working for the Boeing Company in Burbank, California, building B-17s for the World War II effort. Omeara worked in a number of positions while at Boeing, but most of her time was as an ‘expediter’ during the B-17 assembly process. Daniels made sure other workers had all the parts they needed to build the aircraft. During her employment at Boeing, she was instrumental in capturing two German spies who worked in that same Boeing factory.

Dec. 9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Santa Claus visits the museum

Dec.16, 1 p.m.

Jim and Linda Crismer

With Mazzie the retired narcotics detection dog

Mazzie was adopted by Jim and Linda Crismer of Fruit Heights, Utah, in March 2015. Mazzie is a 7-year-old German shepherd who served in Kuwait as a Narcotics Detection Dog at the airport and along the Kuwait/Iraq border. He was a Contract Working Dog, which means he did the same work as a Military Working Dog, but he was owned by a private company that contracted him to the Kuwaiti government.

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