“Oscar Night of Aviation” Coming to Dayton

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The 52nd Annual National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) Enshrinement Dinner and Ceremony will take place this Saturday, Oct. 4 at the NAHF Learning Center and the adjacent National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The six new enshrines to the NAHF as well as the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Educator of the year will be honored at the black tie event, often referred to as the “Oscar Night of Aviation.” The honorees will be the late Bert Acosta, air mail pioneer, test pilot, world-record setter and pilot in command of Richard Byrd’s trans-Atlantic flight in 1927; Alan and Dale Klapmeier, aircraft designers and builders and founders of Cirrus Aircraft; General James McDivitt, combat and test pilot and Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 astronaut; Emily Howell Warner, first female pilot and first female captain of a scheduled U.S. jet airline; and the late Sylvester Wittman, aircraft designer, builder and air racer.

The recipient of the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Educator of the Year Award will be Rachael Manzer, STEM educator and Teacher in Space candidate. The master of ceremonies will be David Hartman, writer, producer and former host of ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. The video-biography host and narrator will be Nick Clooney, former news anchor, editor, author, columnist and show host.

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