Aerospace retirees tour museum

Local 848’s retirees took a tour of the Frontiers of Flight Museum near Love Field in Dallas on February 23. By going as a union group, we received a discount. We were surprised to learn that the tour guide, Bill McMillin, was a retired engineer from Lockheed. The museum has the entire history of aeronautics, with many of the original artifacts from the greatest events.

Brother Billy Newberry and his wife added a lot to the tour, because he had actually participated, along with other Vought retirees, in building some of the aircraft in the museum. Billy knew where many of the used parts came from, because he found a lot of them!

Walt Harrison, a professional videographer, recorded our tour for us. We hope to have a television presentation soon. It would be a good idea to make videos of a lot of our retirees, because they could teach the younger people so much! Harrison also took still photos and posted them on the world wide web at http://www.flickr.com/photos/33419082@N07/sets/72157614312212015/.

We took a lot of extra time with the tour, then went out for hamburgers. Everyone was enthusiastic. We made several suggestions for future retiree outings such as other museums, horse racing, casinos, and shows.

Retiree Financial Secretary Rex Redden deserved a lot of credit for organizing our tour.