REALM - Retired Employee Association of Lockheed Martin

Joe Ripino’s Memorial Burial Service
Bushnell National Cemetery
11:00 AM, November 23, 2020

A memorial burial service will be held for retired Lockheed Martin employee Joe Ripino at 11:00 am on Monday, November 23, 2020 at Bushnell National Cemetery. After retirement, Joe served as Director of Veterans’ Affairs for REALM and he and his wife, Barbara, met many departing and arriving Honor Flights for WWII veterans’ trips from Orlando to Washington, D.C.

Attendees should arrive by 10:45 a.m. to meet Barbara, also a retired Lockheed Martin employee, and the family at the Ceremonial Assembly Area at Bushnell National Cemetery before proceeding to the burial site.

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If you have requested approval to join the Lockheed Martin Association of Community Volunteers (LMACVols) Facebook group, you MUST answer the three questions and provide your agreement to the group rules. If you did not, you have not been approved. This is a private group for current, past, and retired employees and surviving spouses. Thanks!

Annual REALM General Membership Meeting – October 28, 2020
(Meeting to Change Name from REALM to LMACVols)

A virtual meeting of REALM will be held by Zoom videoconference beginning at 1:00 pm on October 28, 2020. Unfortunately, unlike at normal in-person General Membership Meetings hosted by Lockheed Martin, you’ll have to provide your own food if you intend to eat. Several items must be voted on:

• Change of name from Retired Employees Association of Lockheed Martin of Central Florida (REALM) to Lockheed Martin Association of Community Volunteers (LMACVols).
• Approval of the Constitution of LMACVols.
• Election of CY 2021 LMACVols officers: The following individuals have agreed to serve if elected:
o Mike Gillett, President
o Tony DiBerardino, Vice-President
o Vicki Gillett, Secretary
o Dave Hayworth, Treasurer.

Additionally, visions for the new LMACVols will be presented and there will be time for questions and answers.

Zoom invitations will be required to attend the meeting. If you intend to attend this important General Membership Meeting, please contact Mike Gillett, REALM Secretary, by email at [email protected] and he’ll provide you with a Zoom invitation. A meeting announcement will be posted on the LMACVols Facebook site along with the proposed new Constitution. If you’ve never used Zoom, instructions will be issued and a Zoom practice session will be scheduled before the meeting, if desirable.

Hope to see you there.

Before the United States Navy puts equipment aboard its vessels, it normally is subjected to a shock test series nicknamed “The Barge Test”. A limited number of us have been there to witness this testing, which is normally done in an old quarry placing depth charges at predetermined depths and distances to a barge holding the equipment under test.

The attached video doesn’t do full justice to the extreme punishment the equipment sees from multiple shock waves induced by each blast. For those of you who have seen it or had to design for it, please enjoy the attached video.

TIS Barge Test This is shot 4R, the last of 4 shock test the United States Navy requires for shipboard equipment. The test was run in June of 2001 in Virginia.

Duat off some of our oldies...

Air Force Seeks Proposals For Scramjet-Powered Hypersonic ‘Mayhem’ Missile Demonstrator The Pentagon is already developing a diverse array of hypersonic missiles, but it's now kicking off work on a scramjet-based one capable of carrying larger payloads over distances further than current capabilities allow.

U.S. Navy commissions USS St. Louis (WLUK)-- The United States Navy on Saturday commissioned theFreedom-variant littoral combat ship USS St. Louis, says the Department of Defense. USS St. Louis was built in Marinette by Lockheed Martin in conjunction with Fincantieri Marinette Marine, according to the U. S. Navy. The Navy commissioned...

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Lockheed Martin's Coaxial Drone Copter Readies For Launch To Mars Flying on its own, Ingenuity will serve as a technology demonstrator to test powered flight on the Red Planet.

In Memoriam – Through July 14, 2020

Donald Tye – April 21
Wally Hogan – April 29
David Furst – May 8
William (Bill) Ethier – May 20
Sandra Hulsey Overstreet – May 27
Ralph Merkle – May 27
Phil Wolkens’ daughter, Dawne Marie – May 28
John Johannesmeyer – June 2
Sue Adelson – June 5
Wallace (Wally) Bishop – June 7
Theodore (Ted) Stefanik – June 12
Margarette Copeland – June 14
Edward Lott – June 15
Charles Douglas (Doug) Kerr – July 8
David Sharp – July 12

The REALM luncheon scheduled to be held at the Catfish Place in St. Cloud on July 14 has been postponed indefinitely. The restaurant has insufficient space in its dining room to host our group and meet the state’s distancing requirements. It will be rescheduled when the state’s distancing requirements are removed.

Lockheed Martin to Renovate Museum as New Factory The former U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame will be renovated into a “light industrial/assembly/production” facility.