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Boeing Classics Retiree Guest Speaker
April 18, 2009 |
Larry Timmons presents Classics plaque to Bob |
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1924 magazine ad.
The Boeing Company's best wishes to the "Round-the-World Flyers". |
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Bob Dempster presents the history of the
Douglas World Cruisers and the Incredible
Feat of the First Flight
Around the World. |
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John Hope, Chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society,
Seattle Branch, presents Bob Dempster with an
etched glass Appreciation Plaque,
commemorating the presentation. |
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Presentation:
Museum of Flight - Around the World Bob |
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Dempster: "Around the World Bob" |
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William M. Allen Theater - Museum of
Flight |
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Bob Dempster is building a replica of
the Douglas World Cruiser Seattle, the
lead plane of the squadron of four
airplanes that were the first fly around
the world in 1924. Shortly after leaving
the City of Seattle’s then Municipal
Airport at Sand Point, the airplane
named after the city crashed in the
Aleutians. The first aerial
circumnavigation was completed with the
Cruiser Chicago in the lead. Bob
Dempster is building the Seattle II and
plans to complete the original planes
interrupted journey in 2008, after which
the replica will be donated to the
Museum’s permanent collection. |
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