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The Knoxville News-Sentinel Friday December 14 2001 LOCAL STATE Tennessee Museum of Aviation opens to public on Saturday education and we want to involve teachers and schoolchildren all around the area We want to wake Sevier facility has collection of vintage warbirds as its centerpiece people up especially the young to aviation in Tennessee By Olga Wlerbickl I to ttw Nms-SwXM Mary Catherine Tennant assistant director of the Tennessee Museum of Aviation gives Butch Helton center and Darrell Mania both from Pigeon Forge's Special Events office a preview of the historical collection Thursday before tt opens to the public Saturday Thousands of aviation artifacts with Tennessee ties are housed at the museum on the grounds of the GatHnburg-Pigeon Fbrge Airport said the 50000-aquare-fbot museum will host private parties particularly for reunion groups He envisions World War 5 USO-themed parties complete with uniformed attendants and a band Minter said he dans to build a second hangar large enough to hold twin-engine and fburengine aircraft The museum is at the west end of the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Fbrge Airport Access is by Air Museum Way off Dolly Ifertan Ptokway 411) 2 miles north of the intersection of US 441411 and Route 66 at the entrance to Sevierville Hours are 10 am to 6 pm Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 6 pm Sundays Tickets are $995 for adults age 65 and older $795 children age 6 to 12 $595 children 5 and younger are admit ted free Veterans aim are admit ted free with another paid admis sion of any type Fbr more information call 908 0171 (toll-free 1-866-288738) a visit the Web Bite at wwwtiurir-museumcom JS Ridenour Construction built the museum and 1220 Exhibits Inc of Nashville constructed the exhibits Executive Director Bob Minter said Minter said he hopes to induct the first honorees by June or July of 2002 He pointed to two strong candidates with displays at the museum One is Evelyn Johnson a 92-yearold flight instructor from Morristown who has flown more SKVlbkVIlJiE The Tennessee Museum of Aviation will open at 10 ajn Saturday The Sevierville museum's showpiece is its wartird collection housed hi a 35000-square-foot hangar This collection eventually will contain up to 16 vintage fly-able aircraft including planes that have flown on military missions The display includes a Soviet-built MiG-l7jet used in the Korean War by North Korea and a MiG-21 flown in Poland Soviet built MiG-21 Jets are still being used in 56 different countries The museum also is home to two P-47D Thunderbolts a propeller aircraft introduced by the United States during World War IL Authorities say only 12 flyable P-47Ds are still in existence today of the 15000 that were built Even the exhibit on the Wright brothers who launched aviation shows how intertwined the history of aviation is with the military The Wright first motor- lasted fix' 12 seconds in 1905 their success had the interest of the US military which commissioned the Wrights to make a plane capable of flying 40 miles per hour Their first mui) 1909 Museum visitors can leam about Tbnnesseans who have contributed to the growth of aviation In the early 1900s a man from Sevierville Edward Hufiacker worked with the Wright brothers The museum also has sections geared toward children mid young adults On a is a how-to-fly area complete with a simulated flying momtac The other is a section on careers in aviation including inibnnation on aviation schools in the state section is near and dear to my said Minter who has worked for 40 years in aviation both in the public and private sectors we are doing here is nwi umw pnoui oy nu nra John Kennedy of JS Ridenour Construction Co washes down the Warbiid Hangar near a T-33 Shooting Star vintage aircraft at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation in Sevierville The museum at the Gatlinburg-Pfgeon Fbrge Airport opens Saturday in the worid As of Oct 1 2001 she had logged 57000 flight hours The second candidate is William KKershner of Sewanee who has published more than 13 million aviation manuals Johnson taught Neal Melton founder and board chairman or the Tennessee Museum of Aviation to fly he was 21 years old at the time Many of the vintage warbirds on dismay at the museum come from Melton's personal collection and he says he will periodically do demonstration flight for visitors to the museum The museum also houses the Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fhme honoring individuals whose leadership has made an enduring contribution to aviation for Tenths nation or the worid In 1973 Frederick Smith founded the first and cpress transportation dependent upon aircraft Named Federal Express it is based in Memphis to develop a curved wing to give planes mare lift That concept at the heart of wing designs today Tompkins named interim dean Older antipsychotic drugs are linked to sudden death RDSlXBiriSpOlti Dr Fred Tbmpkins has been named interim dean of the University of IbnnesBee College of Finding out who's naughty or nice Is no problem getting there 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Pharmaceutics which helped flind the run i phrenia den can a higher risk of death a study sug- study The researchers said study is needed on the more newer who attack Crabtree UT vice president and provost said a national search would be launched in early January to Beek a permanent dean Tompkins associate dean of engineering since 1994 joined the UT faculty hi 1974 as an assistant professor in what waa then the department of agricultural engineering He became full in 1984 and waa a head from 1991 to professor in department BTbJJE RIDGE mountalnsports brmsfcom ipkins who earned his RR in 1971 and FhJX in 1974 at UT is a professor cf biosystems engineering and a registered professional engineer licensed in Tania active nationally in Shops at Western Plaza Knoxville 588-2638 Village Green Center Farragut 675-3010 'W1 The research on 481744 Medicaid patients in Tennessee supports smaller studies suggesting that these drugs can cause a glitch in the electrical rhythm and trigger a deadly 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