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Patty Wagstaff with two Kenyan pilots

GE Aviation Lecture
Over Africa! Low and Slow with the Kenya Wildlife Service
Presenters: Patty Wagstaff and Miles O'Brien
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
8:00 pm
Lockheed Martin Imax Theater
Museum in Washington, DC

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7:30 p.m.  Pre-Show
Over Africa! Low and Slow with the Kenya Wildlife Service (Run Time: 30 minutes) Ride in the cockpit of small single-engine airplanes with Patty Wagstaff and the Kenya Wildlife Service.  Wagstaff teaches the game wardens how to fly low and slow to protect elephants, rhinos, and other endangered species from poachers.

8:00 p.m. Lecture
Patty Wagstaff is a premier air show performer and the first woman to win the title of US National Aerobatic Champion. She is a six-time member of the US Aerobatic Team and an international aerobatic competition medal winner. Miles O'Brien is a 26-year broadcast news veteran, with nearly 17 years as CNN's science, space, technology, and environment correspondent. O'Brien traveled to Africa with Wagstaff and documented her mission with the Kenya Wildlife Service.

Patty Wagstaff will sign copies of the book Stars of the Sky, by Ann Lewis Cooper, after the lecture.

   
  This event is made possible by the generous support of The General Electric Company.
  
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