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B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.
Updated 15 April 2008
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND MUSEUM UPDATE
NEWS UPDATE
Dear Friends and Supporters of the B-36 Peacemaker Museum,
A lot has happened in recent months and there is more to come.
You may recall that we were endeavoring to unify all the local aviation related museum entities under an umbrella organization with City of Fort Worth's sponsorship. The advantages are numerous and the inclusion of an airpark would have made a worthy contribution to preserving our local aviation history and accomplishments.
The proposal that went to the city's Aviation Director and to the Aviation Advisory Board was approved and awaited the action of the City Council. That didn't happen. Mike Feely, Aviation Director, left city employment and we were given notice to vacate our space. We made a last ditch plea at
a council meeting to keep our space and move on with our museum. That was unsuccessful and we had vacated the space by November 1st.
That could have been the coup de grace, but for these dedicated aviation enthusiasts it was merely a change of altitude and airspeed. We are temporarily in a hover and expect to participate in the development and planning of a city, county or regional museum effort. For even though our own efforts are on hold, the discussions themselves have served as a catalyst to start doing some serious planning to address the issues that have been ignored for so long.
On December 11th the city Infrastructure and Transportation Committee will meet and on their agenda will be the creation of a committee of museum, aviation and community activists. Van Romans, Director of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, will head up a group that will explore whether, how, and where to make a home for the aviation artifacts and memorabilia that make Fort Worth an aviation Mecca.
Hopefully, all the players on the local aviation scene will come together to create a viable plan that will someday lead to a suitable showcase for the airplanes and aviation artifacts and memorabilia that made this city and county one of the major centers for military, commercial, public and private aircraft manufacture and operations.
We'll keep you posted.
C Picht, President
Meeting schedule:
We will enjoy a holiday hiatus from our monthly meetings due to the proximity of both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays to our scheduled meeting days. We will resume our monthly meetings on the 21st of January in the Meacham Terminal conference room on the second floor.
We hope to have the new Aviation Director on hand with a perspective of where the city airports are headed as well as an update on the quest for a museum.
Please join us at 7PM on the 21st of January, 2008.
Those of us at the B-36 Peacemaker Museum wish you all the best for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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On Saturday, July 4, 1925, Fort Worth Mayor H.C. Meacham announced during the annual Defense Day celebration the final signing by the City Council, on Friday, July 3, of a lease on Decatur Road of 100 acres of land to be used as the city's new municipal airport.
This airport, located one-half mile from the city's dirigible mooring mast, and called "Muny" by local citizens, would replace Fort Worth's first municipal airport that was located at a former WWI aviation cadet training school at Barron Field near Everman.
In the years that followed, the new airport would be renamed Meacham Field and Decatur Road would be renamed North Main Street.
This small airport would eventually become a major factor in the growth of Fort Worth and North Texas.
Its location became a primary factor in the Army's decision to locate a WWII bomber factory and Air Force base in Fort Worth that would forever change North Texas - and the world.
CLICK HERE to learn the real
history of Fort Worth's municipal airport.
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Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,
That’s where the West begins;
Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying —
That’s where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman (1916)
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maintained for the late Neil Anderson by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Read and sign a guestbook
maintained for the late Ed Calvert by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.
P.O. Box 151335
Fort Worth, TX 76108
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PUBLIC MEETING
REPORT AND
SCHEDULE
Our next public meeting will be
on
21 April 2008
7 P.M.
Meacham International Airport
All of our lectures are free
to the public as an educational service.
OUR SPEAKER FOR 21 APRIL 2008:
Mr. Van Romans
Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the City Council
established the Mayor's Aviation Museum Task Force to evaluate the
possibility of developing a world-class museum facility that will
provide a safe location to proudly display aircraft and other aviation
memorabilia of Fort Worth and North Texas. The mayor wisely tasked
Mr. Van Romans, CEO of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, to
lead the Task Force in an orderly and well-planned formation of the
aviation museum.
Mr. Romans, former Director of Cultural Alliances for Walt Disney
Imagineering, is leading the transformation of the Fort Worth Museum of
Science and History into a modern facility to replace the aged museum
that has served Fort Worth for many decades. His experience and
vision provide our citizens the ultimate in museum development
leadership. To assure a professional approach for the development
of the Fort Worth Museum of Aviation History and Technology, Mr. Romans
has contracted LORD Cultural Resources
Planning & Management Inc., international specialists in
planning and managing museums, heritage, and the arts, to perform a
study leading to its vision and development.
Members of the Task Force include:
Van Romans
Moderator
Jeff Johns
(Curator,
C.R. Smith Museum) Vice Moderator
Brenda Tillman Aviation
Advisory Board
Ed Cvetko
Vought Aircraft
Norman Robbins Lockheed
David DuBois Fort
Worth Convention & Visitor's Bureau
Jim Hodgson
OV-10/FACM
Raymond Darrow Aviation Heritage Association
Clyde Picht
B-36 Peacemaker Museum
Doc Hospers
Vintage Flight Museum
Carl Harris
Bell Helicopter
If you have high-speed internet, a video of Mr. Romans' address at the
27 November 2007 groundbreaking ceremony of the Fort Worth Museum
of Science and History is available on YouTube.com. Click here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HEgesufFg8o
If you have questions or suggestions for the Mayor's Aviation Museum
Task Force, this meeting will be the perfect forum for your thoughts.
Join us every third Monday at the Meacham Air Terminal for museum
updates and some of the most interesting speakers in the area.
Remember, take the elevator or stairs to the second floor, turn right and
follow the hallway to the meeting room.
LOCAL AVIATION EVENTS
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Volunteers needed, no experience necessary.
If you would like to work on aircraft, just show up at the Vintage
Flight Museum on the south end of Meacham Field on the second Saturday of
each month.
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OBA/FACM 2nd Saturday
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Free Lunch for OBA/FACM
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The Last B-36 has gone to
Arizona but our history remains here. Please visit the History
Section of our website often for memories from our aviation past.
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Who was this Fort Worth
aviation pioneer?
Click the picture to
discover part of our
aviation heritage.
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Fort Worth played a strategic role
in the golden age of airships during
the 1920s.
Click the picture to
learn more.
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Why is this building on
the
N.E. corner of
7th and
Main an
historic Fort
Worth
aviation landmark?
Click the picture to
discover
another
part
of our city's
aviation heritage.
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A new history article has been submitted by Mr. Frank
Kleinwechter. It is a reprint of a speech delivered by Amon Carter,
Jr., on the day the last B-36 left Carswell Air Force Base.
Click here to learn What
the B-36 has Meant to Fort Worth.
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See THIS PAGE for photos of James
Anderson's giant RC model of the Last B-36.
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Click this link to learn what became of Greater Southwest International Airport - Amon
Carter Field.
"It was all plowed
into the ground!"
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Buy this B-36 history
video in our gift shop.
New revised version on DVD.
The complete history of the Last
B-36 is
available on CD-ROM from our gift shop
Our latest addition in the gift shop
is a new CD-ROM by Bill Leary,
"Flyers of Barron Field"
B-36 caps and shirts are now on
sale
and don't
miss the new B-36 shoulder
patches and lapel pins.
Please visit the gift shop.
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WANT TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT THE B-36 ERA?
SEE: www.B-36.net
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