SEATTLE,
April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the
Museum of Flight (MoF) joined together on
April 15 to honor the work of Wong
Tsoo, the company's first engineer and an early aviation and aerospace
pioneer. They were joined by a delegation of educational leaders from the
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in
Taiwan where Tsoo taught from 1955 to
1965.
The highlight of the event came when NCKU presented Boeing with a bound
copy of Tsoo's recently re-discovered lecture notes from the university. A
copy will reside in the company and the MoF's archives.
The ceremony featured four distinguished speakers who spoke about Wong
Tsoo's notable significance to both engineering and flight in the U.S., China
and to NCKU, one of the leading universities in Taiwan. Tsoo is known as the
father of Boeing's Model C training seaplane, the company's first commercially
successful airplane in the early 1900s.
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar, president and CEO of the Museum of Flight; Boeing's
Fred Kiga, vice president of State and Local Government and Global Corporate
Citizenship in the Northwest Region; NCKU Senior Executive Vice President Dr.
Da Hsuan Feng; and Hank Queen, retired Boeing senior vice president of
Engineering and an executive champion of the Boeing Association of Asian
Pacific Americans; addressed the audience.
Here, (L-R) The Museum of Flight's Chairman of the Board Robert J. Genise,
Kiga and Dr. Feng display a copy of Wong Tsoo's lecture notes.
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