ADVISORY/Lighter-Than-Air Experts Host Media Conference, July 16, 9:30 a.m., At AIAA Lighter-Than-Air Technical Committee Convention in Akron, Ohio.Business Editors ADVISORY...for July 15 - 19 (Sunday - Thursday) AKRON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2001 The 14th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of four earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the Lighter-Than-Air Technical Committee Convention and Exhibition will take place in Akron, Ohio Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County.GR6 The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland to the north and Canton to the south, approximately 60 miles (96 km) west of , July 15 - 19. On July 16, 9:30 a.m., a prestigious panel of lighter-than-air technologists -- including government and industry representatives -- will conduct a panel question-and-answer session for all media to attend. The Media Conference will take place in the Summit Room, 18th Floor in the Radisson Hotel Akron City Centre, 10 West Mill Street. It will allow you to learn about the future of airship airship, an aircraft that consists of a cigar-shaped gas bag, or envelope, filled with a lighter-than-air gas to provide lift, a propulsion system, a steering mechanism, and a gondola accommodating passengers, crew, and cargo. passenger service, cargo service, and the upcoming standardization of airship manufacturing. For your convenience, the Convention's Press Room is on the Radisson Hotel's Mill Street Level, just off of its registration lobby. (The Press Room is also known as the hotel's boardroom.)
Participants scheduled for appearance on the panel include:
Roy Gibbens - Chairman of the AIAA Lighter-Than-Air Technical
Committee; Gregory Gottlieb, General Chairman of the
Convention and Exhibition and Vice Chairman of the LTA
Technical Committee; Ron Hochstetler, Technical Chairman of
the Convention and Exhibition; Ron Browning - Lockheed Martin
Director of Surveillance Systems Business Development; Jim
Hain, Chairman of the Research Workshop; Jim French - Chairman
of the Standardization Workshop; Julie Denning - Chairman of
the Regulatory Workshop; Dick Chadburn - Chairman of the
Airship Association.
To learn more about the convention, visit www.ldsa.com/lta/index.htm. There you will find a list of technical presentations and their presenters. If you need more information, contact Cary Dell, Steering Committee steer·ing committee n. A committee that sets agendas and schedules of business, as for a legislative body or other assemblage. steering committee Noun Communications, 1210 Massillon Road, Akron, Ohio, 44315, 330.796.8458 (tel), 330.796.3274 (fax), cary.j.dell@lmco.com. This is the third consecutive year a lighter-than-air focused conference has been held and the first in Akron, Ohio, the home of the world famous Airdock. Norfolk, Va., the previous U.S. site for the biennial biennial, plant requiring two years to complete its life cycle, as distinguished from an annual or a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves (e.g., the cabbage) and a fleshy root, which acts as a food reserve over the winter. AIAA AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. AIAA Associate Insurance Agency Administration (LOMA insurance program) AIAA Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. LTA LTA Land Transport Authority LTA Land Trust Alliance LTA Lawn Tennis Association LTA Lost Time Accident LTA Lighter-Than-Air LTA Lieutenant (Singapore military) LTA Lipoteichoic Acid LTA Lymphotoxin-Alpha Conference and Exhibition, hosted the convention in 1999. In 2000 the Airship Association, which cooperates closely with AIAA's Lighter-Than-Air Technical Committee, chose Friedrichshafen, Germany, as the site of its third International Airship Convention and Exhibition to celebrate the 100th-year anniversary of the first Zeppelin zeppelin Rigid airship of a type designed by the German builder Ferdinand, Graf (count) von Zeppelin (1838–1917). It was a cigar-shaped, trussed, and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, below which hung two external cars with an engine geared to two flight. |
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