Wong Tsoo Recognized During Ceremony At Museum Of Flight
Boeing and the Museum of Flight (MoF) in Seattle, WA joined
together recently to honor the work of Wong Tsoo, the company's
first engineer and an early aviation and aerospace pioneer.
During a ceremony April 15, 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 US, 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.
Among those addressing the audience were 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.
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