#1310 The Desert Storm Air War and Other Flying Stories
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#1310 The Desert Storm Air War and Other Flying Stories
Wednesday, April 30, 10am - 11:30am
Ed interviewed many pilots, weapons officers and their families right after Desert Storm and assembled their stories into the oral history book Separated by War. It includes Air Force, Navy, Marine and Army stories in the Apache, A-6, A-10, B-52, C-5 Galaxy, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-117, Harrier, and British Tornado. Each chapter includes the flier in combat and a loved one back on the home front. This program will cover the highlights of each aircraft’s action with Ed’s own photos, gun camera videos and stories interspersed as the education required to understand what’s really going on. Some of the home front stories are pretty special too, as Ed lived in the family of a combat officer and Prisoner of War.
Location: Palisades at Broadmoor Park
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Ed Herlik was born into a military family overseas, a classic Army brat. From there, Ed was commissioned at the Air Force Academy and instructed in the A-10 Warthog attack jet, among many other military and civilian aircraft. His military service included a tour with the Army as a Forward Air Controller, leaving him expert in air support of ground combat. He also flew a helicopter, the giant C-5 and the Boeing 737, giving him a practical understanding of aerodynamics across those extremely varied flight environments. As a civilian, Ed and a partner created Market Intel Group (MiG), a technology forecasting company. He spoke for MiG at many unmanned systems conferences as the invited expert on stratospheric unmanned systems.
Ed has three patents, including one on a firefighting version of the A-10 and another on an unmanned airship designed to operate above 60,000’ for a year at a time. His Pillar presentations on the Chinese ‘balloon’ that floated across the US specifically, and such near space technology generally, set attendance records at our previous location. |