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.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/news/oscar-night-of-aviation-coming-to-dayton