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</head><body><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">The monthly meeting of AMRAD will be held this Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 2:30 PM.<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"> Francis Gary Powers, Jr. will be presenting: Spy Pilot, Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy. </p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">The Francis Gary Powers incident, for those too young to remember (or old enough to have \<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">forgotten), involved a CIA spy plane (the U-2) that flew over the then-Soviet Union with<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">cameras rolling, Its role was to gather information on what was happening behind the closed<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">borders. It was shot down. Its pilot, Powers, survived, and was eventually exchanged for a<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">couple of Russian spies. The incident formed the basis for a Hollywood movie called<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">"The Bridge of Spies". Not a bad movie, by the way.<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">The AMRAD meeting will be held at 2;30 PM, following AMRAD's usual luncheon<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">get-together at Tippie's Taco House at noon, or whenever you can get there. The <br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">locations of the meeting (at Linaspace, a satellite fab belonging to Mark Kanawati,<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">one of our members) and Tippies are both given on the AMRAD web site,<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.amrad.org">www.amrad.org</a>. <br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">You don't have to be an AMRAD member to come to a meeting, or to come to the<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">luncheon. So come one, come all, and say hello.<br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times; color: #000000;">Dick Barth, W3HWN<br></p></body></html>