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PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES *
In December of 1998, the
Foundation, coordinating with the office of the Director of the United
States Air Force Museum, to successfully nominated the Flying Tigers to the United States National Aviation Hall of Fame’s
Milton Caniff Spirit of Flight Award. * In July of 1999, the Flying Tigers Association “The American Volunteer Group” was officially inducted into the United States National Aviation Hall of Fame and presented with the Hall of Fame’s Milton Caniff Spirit of Flight Award, at the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio *
In September 1999, the Foundation co-hosted and sponsored the
southern California performance of the People’s Liberation Army Air
Forces Blue Sky Children’s Art Ensemble music and dance troupe. * In November 1999, Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation held it is first fund raising event at the Santa Monica Museum of Flight. Titled “The Air War Beyond the Burma Road". the featured veterans of the American Volunteer Group “The Flying Tigers” and “Hump Pilots” who flew for CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation) and or the USAAF. The event will feature a panel discussion with Flying Tigers, Hump pilots and other aerial veterans of the China, Burma and India Theater of Operations. Veteran “Hump pilots” will sign a limited edition aviation art print by the Foundation’s artist-in-residence Roy Grinnell, that commemorates the vital Second World War air route. The program will be heavily promoted in, and supported by the southern California Chinese community. The Foundation’s Admiral Richard Macke and Ambassador An Wenbin, the Consul General of the PRC in Los Angeles, were the keynote speakers of the event’s commemorative ceremony |
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