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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: A Distinguished Retiree
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:05:13 -0600
Chris,

Just to show you the size of the AEDC complex, I am including a photograph of a photograph. You can judge the size by looking at the cars in the parking lots. Though I attended meetings in the administration building in the foreground, my working life was spent in the facilities at the top, center.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 2/1/2017 6:15 AM, ChrisB wrote:
It’s great to have your history, Jim.  I do love to feel a connection with the 
past.

I had to look up AEDC but I see that it is to do with simulation facilities.  I’m in the process 
of bidding for a  little money (£5.5m) to upgrade our disorientation trainers – 6 DoF 
simulators with visuals.  The visual displays in our current simulators are OK for the moment, but they 
will not persuade young pilots in a few years time and I’m angling for displays that are almost as 
good as Hollywood-standard CGI with which to provide realistic situations with visual illusions to train 
our pilots to stay safe.

But it’s going to be an uphill struggle in the current pecuniary climate . . .

Chris

On 31 Jan 17, at 23:12, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In June 1964, we welcomed a new Cooperative Engineering Student to our office 
at AEDC.  I was 34 at the time.  Today, I attended his retirement, at the top 
of his game, as a high level member of the Civil Service Senior Executive 
Service.  It was with pleasure I shook his hand and wished him well in his next 
endeavor.

At one time, one of my sons worked for him, and he passed on compliments today 
for my son's accomplishments.

He is on the right in this photo, wearing his newly-awarded medal.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Distinguished+Retiree.jpg.html 
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Distinguished+Retiree.jpg.html>

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