Peter Kilduff Featured Speaker

By Allan Cross November 11, 2011

The annual EAA Chapter 166 awards dinner was held at the Chowder Pot Restaurant in Hartford on Friday night, November 11. The dinner/meeting was well attended by about 30 members and their spouses or significant others.

Featured speaker for the evening was Peter Kilduff. Peter is a founder and a President Emeritus of the League of World War I Aviation Historians. He became the first managing editor of Over The Front, and is currently the journal's book review editor and an issue editor. He has edited 11 issues of Over The Front and has been awarded the League's Thornton D. Hooper Award for Excellence in Aviation History ten times.

Peter is the author of 14 books on aviation history, the most recent of which is Herman GÖring - Fighter Ace: The World War I Career of Germany's Most Infamous Airman (London, 2010). He has also contributed chapters to anthologies and articles in historical journals and magazines in the US and UK. He has presented at League seminars, lectured at a number meetings. He is also a veteran of the US Navy and a former policeman. Peter has been a journalist for over 40 years and retired in 2008 as Director of University Relations at Central Connecticut State University. He continues to seek new sources of aviation history to aid his current and future writing projects.

His featured topic for the evening was The Life of Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron.

After the featured presentation, officer nominations were made and approved.  Russ Beers was elected President replacing Aaron Gliexner and Steve Socolosky was elected Vice President.  There were no completion awards this year.