IFSA Seattle Review
Opposite: The show floor; some valuable networking time; IFSA President Vicky Stennes on stage; IFSA awards its Best in Show. This page: Chef’s Competition; Cusine Solutions team; Dr. Gielisse
statistics about the growth in body mass index. “We are getting bigger”. He quoted Professor of Comfort at Delft University as saying: “The most comfortable seat on a flight is the next one”. With the advent of the A380 aircraft can be more flexible to meet this ‘growing’ demand. Airbus expects to celebrate a record year for deliveries in 2011. Dr Thomas Edwards, chief of the Aviation
Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, gave us a ‘closer to earth’ look at the airline passenger experience. NASA technology is being put to use in all quarters of the airline industry such as airfoils, flight deck management systems, the development of lighter materials for building aircraft and the creation of nozzle chevrons at the back of jet engines. He spoke of supersonic aircraft with a quieter
boom when flying twice the speed of sound and of a helicopter mode to lift planes off the runway in airports with little space. Fuel saving and sound reduction are high on NASA’s list of research projects as is new technology for air traffic control and better runway traffic management.
Adopted Charity Orbis runs the world’s only flying hospital which is dedicated to helping the blind. There are 39 million blind people across the world and 80% of blindness is unavoidable. We were shown a moving film of the work of this fantastic organisation which uses a plane supplied and flown by Fedex.
www.orbis.org
Fun and games This year, the IFSA Foundation held its first ever bowling and billiards tournament to raise money for scholarship funds. This event far exceeded fund-raising expectations. Congratulations to Alex Oakley and Gordon Oakley, winners of the billiards tournament. Smokin’ of Harvey Alpert & Company took the
top spot in the bowling tournament with a team including David Colella, Pamela Leuthardt, Leslie McCloughan, Paul Normand, Keith Shoemaker, and Lisa Soos.
“He spoke of supersonic aircraft with a quieter boom when flying twice the speed of sound and of a helicopter mode to lift planes off the runway in airports with little space”
The DHL/Excel team won the second round
with Bill Barrett, Richard Cawthra, Michael Currie, Barry Gay, James Gill, Chris Jackson, and Shailesh Patel making up the team. Winner of the 50/50 raffle was Ron Ford of Burry Foods, who took home a $940 prize and made a generous donation back to the IFSA Foundation. The final Fun Night was an extravaganza
hosted at the world famous Seattle Museum of Flight and home of Boeing.
IFSA Foundation Scholarship This year the IFSA Foundation received more than 40 scholarship applications – the largest amount ever received in one year. To date, the IFSA Foundation has given away more than $300,000 in award funds. Congratulations to this year’s winners:
Harvey and Laura Alpert Scholarship Award (underwritten by Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Alpert): Nathan Redner, Michigan State University
Oakfield Farms Solutions Scholarship Award (underwritten by Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Alpert) and Lois Campbell Scholarship Award (underwritten by Authentic Italian
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Products): Brinton Atkinson, Brigham Young University
Tommy DePaola Scholarship Award (underwritten by Strictly From Scratch): Jason Logie, Penn State University
IFSA Foundation Scholarship: Alexis Fowler, University of Chicago and Sean McLoughlin, Texas State University – San Marcos
Horizon – LSG Sky Chefs’ International Management Scholarship: Wei Wang, Indiana University
IFSA 2012 IFSA will once again co-locate with APEX in Long Beach, California for the 2012 Conference on Sept 17-20 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
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