June 7th: GOLF OUTING
Donald Ross Golf Course
Donald Ross was a world renowned golf course designer who designed 413 courses including such gems as Pinehurst No. 2 in
This Fun Filled club event was planned by Jake Dinius, Mary Gynn, and Terry Van Daele for Saturday June 7 and began with an 11:30AM lunch followed by a scramble style outing with a Shotgun start at 1PM.
1950 North Clinton, Fort Wayne, IN
Our evening will consisted of four parts, greeting by new Director, exhibit presentation, tour of old plant and refreshments.
Our group was greeted by the new director of Science Central, Martin Fisher, who gave us some background on Science Central and bring us up to date on this fine
We were also brought up to date on the work of a GE volunteer group that has been designing and building a new GE turbine generator exhibit for the main exhibit hall. This new display will mount on top of the original CL&P #2 Generator and will stand over 15’ above the 1930’s generator. The exhibit will mimic the running of the old power plant and visitors will be able to operate the display, putting coal into the bunker, weighing it, placing it on the grate, igniting it and boiling water to make steam and running the turbine. The interactive display will take the operators through the paces required to operate the plant up to and including generating electricity and paralleling output with the electric grid. Failure to operate the display in sequence will require restarting the process to get it right. Successful operation of the generator will reward the operator with appropriate bells and whistles.
In addition to touring the exhibit area and the new under construction generator exhibit, the group was given the opportunity to see behind the scenes on the boiler side of the plant. For those wanting to climb stairs to the top, we were allowed to climb the open stairs and grated levels in the old auxiliary bay to the top fan floor level. This was very cool. We returned to the office area by the front original stairs and then returned to the lobby by the elevator where refreshments were available. A great time to visit with fellow club members and staff members, thanks for another excellent tour!
The APRIL TOUR of the Air National Guard
MARCH TOUR:
At: NE Corner of Crescent/ Stellhorn and St. Joe Rd/Hobson
The
The evening also included a presentation by a group promoting a concept called Tek.Venture bringing art and technology together in a laboratory setting to promote innovation and creativity combining senior local technical and art talent with young inquisitive minds in a creative supporting environment. The group was advised of activities such as a traveling version “Tek.Mobile” and a “Chain Reaction Challenge” competition.
FEBRUARY 2008 TOUR: SWEETWATER SOUND
Date:
Location: 5501 US Highway 30 W,
Had a great tour, visiting/socializing, and great attendance. This meeting combined the FWEC and the AFE Facilities Engineers during Engineers Week and was arranged by Jon Rowe AFE and FWEC member. Total attendance was ~100 and a great time had by all. We toured Sweetwater Sound’s 180,000 square foot facility that is like a mall on its just completing $34 million campus. We were treated to the crown jewel of the new facility, its 250-seat, state-of-the-art auditorium/ performance theatre with four separate sound systems, as well as three new recoding studios, all designed by legendary acoustician/studio designer Russ Berger. A fascinating tour of this outstanding local high tech business.
JANUARY 2008 TOUR:
Date:
Location: 600 West Main Street,
Phil Haggerty from the Fort Wayne Newspapers offered a great tour of the new press in the brand new impressive building at the northwest corner of
http://fwnextweb1.fortwayne.com/press
NOVEMBER 2007 TOUR: Warbird Micro Brewery
Date: November 29, 7:00 PM (Thursday)
Location: Warbird Brewing Company,
10515 Majic Port Lane
Fort Wayne,
Background: The Warbird Brewing Company combines two favorite past times of its founder, Doctor Dave Holmes, of making hobby home brewed beer and his fascination with war air craft called war birds into one pretty cool business. Dave’s titles such as Operations Group Commander, 194th Brewing Wing, 1st Brew Force, reflect his patriotism and love of military aircraft. Dave’s interest in and pursuit of home brewing and enjoyment and encouragement of friends grew into the Warbird Brewery venture we will be touring. You can learn more about Warbird and Dave Holmes by visiting the Warbird Web Site: “www.warbirdbrewing.com”
The tour will consist of the manufacturing floor and their engine test lab and should be very interesting.