National President's Message The Road to Symposium
By CAPT Will “Easy” Eastham, USN
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reetings Team NHA! I’m writing to you from well above our normal rotary wing cruising altitude at 35K on a Southwest Airlines Flight. Presently, I am returning from my son’s baseball tournament in Florida, and headed back to home plate San Diego but am thinking about NHA and our Fall. Long flight but good times and above all, it just feels good to get out and responsibly travel again, right? Speaking of traveling, I hope you share my sentiments and are ready to travel this October out to sunny San Diego for Symposium! We have received the “full green light” for a productive, live event at Viejas Casino and Resort and are steaming down the Road to Symposium 2021. A little bit of sun and fun this Fall sounds pretty good, right? Make your plans now, and I also urge you to register online early and often for all of your favorite events. You should see that call by the time you are reading this but if you have not, leave this digital article immediately, and go register now so you are not locked out of any of the amazing events we have planned. “Force of the Future” stands as our theme this year. Appropriately, this edition of Rotor Review is particularly oriented that way as we explore the impact of UAVs within the NAE. I will be honest, the MQ-8 Bravo and Charlie models were a whole new ball game to me when I arrived at HSC-3 having never deployed with them previously. Sure, it is a program that has endured developmental challenges as the rotary community brought a whole new T/M into the portfolio and online. But, as a sage mentor of mine once told me, I am continuously buying the UAV stock as a force multiplier and game changer in our business. So, if you are like me at one point, see what you can learn through this edition, and I bet it is substantial. Time to power down the laptop for landing but always time to power up our excitement for Symposium this Fall! Fly safe & all the best, V/r, Easy NHA National President NHA Lifetime Member #25
Rotor Review #153 Summer '21
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