For the smithsonian and seaport. Mr. Will cannes is a published author of books and articles related to maritime in aviations history. He has a masters degree in history from Harvard University and is currently working on several books relating to world war i aviation. He is adjunct faculty in the History Department at st. Marys college of maryland. Mr. Will cans is also serving as producer of aerial effects for the lafayette as betrayal, a documentary film. Marks new rope book, errol neurosis, pilots of the First World War in the site illogical legacy of combat will be available for october 21st. Due to unforeseen complications, we do not have copies of the book for signing tonight. However, we do have some book plates already signed that you can pick up on your way out, or the speaker has graciously agreed to personalize some as well. Thank you again for joining us this evening and without further ado, please join me in welcoming mark will convince. applause i thank you for that very
Tonight we are very pleased to welcome back mark wilkinson. He has also been the director at the atwood house museum. Mr. Wilkins is a published auth author. He has a masters from Harvard University and he is currently working on several books related to world war one aviation. Mr. Will kins is also conservativing as producer of aerial effects documentary film. His new book, aeroneurosis. Due to unforeseen complications, we dont have any copies you can have signed tonight. The speaker graciously agreed to personalize some as well. Please join us in welcoming mark wilkins. Thank you for that very nice introduction, crystal. Im very happy to be here tonight. Thank you all for coming. I hope you find this topic as fascinating as i do. Basically the to give you a little background, the book was something i did for air and space magazine. Anyway, the research for that article sort of opened my eyes to the amount of material about how greatly about a a lot of these First World War pilots suf
Although there were problems on every mission we flew during the apollo program. If you could look at the entire report, it is a book about that thick. It is in the archives so you could get it through freedom of information. And as an appendix it lists the problems, we call them anomalies, some people call them funnies, that happened on the flights. And they listed them museum air cally by flight auditor and you ignore apollo 7 and 8, they only have one spacecraft, they didnt fly a landing aircraft. Apollo 13 had the second least number of problems of all of the flights. We almost aborted apollo 14 and apollo 16. They had pretty Serious Problems they were able to work around and allowed them to land. So that was the nature of the business. And as i said, the very theme of this movie that carried very well was the story of somebody in problem, with problems, with a challenge, challenges really to face. And showed a group of people, a team in this case of Mission Control and ourselves.
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Lets see what an engineer can do. [laughter] its not a plugin issue. Okay, thats a relief. [off mic] apparently its a signal from there. Because we can show the whole room, but we just cannot show the powerpoint. [off mic] it looks like we are back in business. I apologize, commissioners and members of the public for the delay. David please take the way. Thank you elaine. Commissioners, president brandon im with real estate and development, here seeking authorization for the request to proposals for the south beach historic piers 38 and 40. A quick outline of the presentation ill be going through this afternoon, including how this aligns with the strategic applan, a little bit about the background the Development Context the input we received, the minimum qualifications scoring criteria, collection panel, review and Selection Process and then the economic benefits to the port and next steps. So the rerelease and Successful Development to the piers 38 and 40 project will touch on five o