University is the
presenting sponsor of the Blue Angels performances
SMYRNA — The
Aerospace Department at Middle Tennessee State University was out in full force
Saturday, June 14, at the Great Tennessee Air Show.
MTSU was the presenting sponsor for the U.S. Navy's Blue
Angels precision flight team. And about 25 faculty and students worked a
display tent about the Aerospace Department that featured two training
aircraft. The air show continues Sunday.
“It's important not only to expose our Aerospace Department,
but our school,” said Tyler Babb, an assistant professor of aerospace and
organizer of the Air Show effort for MTSU.
“There are a lot of people in the community who know about
us, who know that we're there, who know we're a big school,” he said. “But to
actually show up (at the Air Show) and hand them information about our school
is a very direct link.”
See a video from Saturday’s activities, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMU0PHqVW_Q.
President Sidney A. McPhee and Bud Fischer, dean of the
College of Basic and Applied Sciences, toured the Air Show on Saturday and
spent time with students and faculty at the MTSU Aerospace tent.
“It's very appropriate for MTSU, one of the premier
aerospace universities in the country, to have a very visible and prominent
role at one of the nation's top air shows,” McPhee said.
The President also was pleased to see two of the Aerospace
Department's Diamond DA40 aircraft at the show. Show goers were allowed to
climb behind the controls of the aircraft.
“We have made considerable investments in our Aerospace
Department,” McPhee said. “I'm pleased our partnership with the Great Tennessee
Air Show allows us to showcase our program.”
McPhee and other MTSU representatives toured the flight line
following the Blue Angels' show and met with the Navy and Marine pilots and
crew members.
For more information, go to greattennesseeairshow.com.
For more information about the aerospace department, go to mtsu.edu/aerospace.
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