Anne Millbrooke

Judge Photograph Competition

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:01:00 GMT

From "People in Business" column in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, November 6, 2011, p. D2:

Consultant Anne Millbrooke served as a judge for the annual Airshow Calendar Competition sponsored by Airscene in Great Britain. Studying digital photographs, she ranked her top 12 selections, as did seven other judges. Millbrooke has been judging aviation photograph contests for several years. The results and all finalists in the Airscene competition are online at www.airscene.co.uk/competitions/2012calendar.php/.

Joins Editorial Board

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:01:00 GMT

Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported under People in Business:

Anne Millbrooke, history professor teaching online classes for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and other schools, has accepted an invitation to serve on the editorial board of Aviation in Focus, Journal of Aeronautical Sciences, an international blind peer-reviewed publication based at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Reo Grande Do Sul in Brazil. Millbrooke wrote the award-winning "Aviation History" textbook that has been in print for a dozen years, currently in an updated edition, and she published a 700-page reference book of "Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation." She also works as a consulting editor.

Education News

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:01:00 GMT

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported on January 9, 2011,

Anne Millbrooke, Ph.D., consultant, has joined the adjunct faculty of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's worldwide campus. In preparation fo tecahing students located around the world, she completed a series of graduate courses on teh art, best practices, and technology of teaching online via the Internet. In the past she has taught distance delivery classes for the Montana State University and University of Alaska systems using closed-circuit television, telephone conferencing and Internet. Having written an award-winning "Aviation History" textbook, her first online class for Embry-Riddle is history of aviation. Embry-Riddle has over 35,000 students enrolled via its Daytona Beach, Fla., campus, Prescott, Ariz., campus, and its online campus. Millbrooke also coaches writers and presents writing workshops.

Sled Dogs Gallantly Run through American History

amwriter@mac.com — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:01:00 GMT

The West Yellowstone News devoted a page and half of the weekly paper to my recent talk hosted by the United Women of West Yellowstone: http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/news/article_a620c9e6-05f6-11e0-a518-001cc4c002e0.html/.

Sled Dogs of the Alaska Gold Rush

amwriter@mac.com — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:01:00 GMT

The West Yellowstone News announced:

The West Yellowstone United Women will hold their next regular meeting on Nov. 22 starting at noon. A special speaker, Anne Millbrooke, will talk about "The Sled Dogs of the Alaska Gold Rush — the doggone dogs of Nome."

A historian and former history teacher, she has written several books and now resides in Bozeman. For the past 12 years she has delivered an Iditarod lecture series during the finish of the race in Nome, Alaska.

The meeting will be held at the Community Protestant Church in West Yellowstone. Everyone is welcome — bring a lunch and a friend.

Judge Aviation Photograph Contest

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:01:00 GMT

The "People in Business" section of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported:

Consultant Anne Millbrooke served as a judge for the annual Airshow Calendar Competition sponsored by Airscene in Great Britain. She ranked her top 12 selections from 108 photographs in the competition. Prizes include Millbrooke's award-winning book "Aviation History," and her 700-page reference book "Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation." This is the ninth aviation photography contest that Millbrooke has judged for Airscene. In addition to doing research, writing and editing on a consulting basis, Millbrooke takes photographs for historical documentation, home inventories and publication.

Lecturer will present a history of sled dog racing

amwriter@mac.com — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:01:00 GMT

The West Yellowstone News reported:

The first organized sled dog race in the States started in West Yellowstone on March 4, 1917, and ran 55 miles west to Ashton.

Iditarod lecturer Anne Millbrooke will present a slide show on the origin of the sport of sled dog racing in Gold Rush Alaska and continue through the latest Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, at the United Women’s meeting at noon on Monday, May 24, at the Community Church.

The first organized sled dog race was the All-Alaska Sweepstakes of 1908, a 400-mile race with minimal rules. It continued to be run annually through 1917.

Economic depression and the Great War then intervened. During the war over a hundred of Nome’s sled dogs served in the Sled Dog Division of the French Army, a division organized by a French prospector from Nome.

Dogs continued performing traditional tasks for decades, including transporting medication to Nome during the diphtheria epidemic of 1925. Sled dogs remained beasts of burden as well as racing stock till the airplane, and later the snowmobile, took the loads from the sleds.

The Iditarod dogsled race was started to revive interest in sled dogs and the traditional means of winter travel during the Alaska gold rushes. The race reached a thousand miles from Anchorage to Nome first in 1973 and annually since then. In March 2010, Lance Mackey won the 38th Iditarod, his record-setting fourth win in a row.

Photo Caption: Volunteers make it happen! Appropriately 2,000 volunteers donate their time and energy each year during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Here is the P-team on break in 2009. The P-team collects dog urine for drug testing, a program to discourage any mistreatment of dogs. Iditarod lecturer Anne Millbrooke is at the far left.

Iditarod Lecturer

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:01:00 GMT

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported, "During the finish of the Iditarod dogsled race in Nome, Alaska, Bozeman author Anne Millbrooke presented five slide shows: Iditarod, a Race to Preserve a Tradition; Nome during World War II, an Air Base, Air Route, and the Town; Gold Rush Nome, a Brief Illustrated History;Railroads of the Gold Rush; and Doggone Dogs of Early Nome. The National Park Service sponsors her annual Iditarod Lecture Series, and this was her 12th year presenting programs for public audiences in Nome."

Scottish Poetry Review Publishes Millbrooke's Poem

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:01:00 GMT

Author Anne Millbrooke has published her poem "Almost Night" in the current issue of Eleutheria: The Scottish Poetry Review. The poem is about Bozeman's late evening sky. Millbrooke's poetry has appeared in newspapers, anthologies, and poetry magazines. The newly published poem is online at http://www.scottishpoetryreview.com/.—as reported in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

International Aviation Photography Competition

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:01:00 GMT

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported under "People in Business":

Aviation author Anne Millbrooke has judged an international aviation photography competition based in London. The Internet permits her in Bozeman to judge entries in London. Airscene, the competition's sponsor, awarded Millbrooke's books "Aviation History" and "Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation," as prizes. This is the eighth international aviation photography competition she has judged in recent years.

Heads in the Clouds - Women in the Air

amwriter@mac.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:01:00 GMT

On October 1, 2009, the blog Heads in the Clouds - Women in the Air interviewed author Anne Millbrooke online at http://womenintheair.blogspot.com/. Blogger Amber Polo interviews "women in aviation who love books and write them!" Here's the text of the interview with Anne:

Welcome, Anne Millbrooke, award winning aviation author, editor, and pilot.

Anne, tell me how your relationship with flying and the aviation writing began.

I grew up on the cloudy coast of Washington state and I didn’t ride in an airplane until I was in college. I majored in history and wrote a doctoral dissertation on the history of geology, so I came to aviation relatively late.

Working as an archivist and historian for United Technologies Corporation, I became immersed in the history of aviation through the company's subsidiary companies, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, and what was then Hamilton Standard. I loved touring the research facilities, factories, and records storage, as well as reading the historical documentation.

While a National Science Foundation Visiting Professor at Montana State University in the mid-1990s, I found myself in a delightfully clear climate (for the most part) and became a private pilot. Later, while living in Alaska, I spent two fun summers working with NASA's supersonic transport program at the Langley Research Center in Virginia. Right now, I am secretary-treasurer of the Gallatin Valley Hangar of the Montana Pilots Association.

I wrote Aviation History for Jeppesen and it has been in print ten years, now in an updated revised edition. This book was great fun to write, because the coverage is worldwide and I got to study many interesting stories in the process of selecting significant examples. Even revising the book was fun, as I literally wrote new text for 200 change pages, a process that again immersed me in stories from around the world. For a single paragraph on early boys book on aviation, for example, I read more than 20s boys books published from 1908 into the 1920s, books I had not had the time to read when writing the first edition. Jeppesen sells Aviation History as a textbook to aeronautics schools around the world. Winning the top history book award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was quite an honor.

In ground school I began to compile notes and added more into a 700-page reference book Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation. What's unique is that it’s arranged by shorthand expression. In the context of time and place, the author and reader may have known what an abbreviation, acronym, code, or mnemonic meant, but a reader may lack immediate recognition, or may associate the short term with a meaning from a different time and place. Some short-hand expressions in aviation have more than twenty meanings. I annotated as many terms as possible as to when and where the term with that specific meaning was used.

My most recent aviation publication is "History of the Space Age" in Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage. I enjoyed working with the engineers, scientists, and archeologists collaborating on this massive handbook.

What kind of books do you like to read?
I read widely, both fiction and non-fiction. Aviation, of course, but also mysteries, nature, history, and poetry.

What's your favorite "flying" book?
Stick and Rudder taught me much when I was learning to fly. Books by Saint-Exupéry — Wind, Sand and Stars; Night Flight, and Flight to Arras — still inspire me and instill me with awe for the wonders of flight.

What are you writing now?
I have several books in progress. A history of aviation in Montana has some great tales from the state fair demonstration flights, World War I hysteria about German planes in Montana, mountain flying, agricultural planes, Army air bases during World War II, the Lend-Lease air route through Canada and Alaska to Siberia, the CIA shutting down a distinguished flying service during the Vietnam War, and recreational flying.

I also have done most of the research for a biography of Frederick B. Rentschler, founder of Pratt & Whitney and United Aircraft Corporation. And I'm writing a novel.

Thanks, Anne, for visiting and good luck with your new ventures.

An award-winning writer and experienced editor, Anne Millbrooke has written and edited reports, press releases, exhibit text, scripts, web content, speeches, articles for newspapers and magazines, chapters of books, and books. She is available to help you get the product you need.

In addition to working in corporate communications, teaching at universities, and consulting with private companies, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies, Anne Millbrooke has won awards for her articles and books, and won Mellon, Smithsonian, National Science Foundation, and NASA fellowships.

In June 2008 Anne helped at the starting events of the Air Race Classic, the national women's air race that Will Rogers called the Powder Puff Derby. She judged six aviation photograph contests for Airscene in 2008; the contests are in London, but the Internet allowed her to judge the photographs from Montana.

(Published online at http://womenintheair.blogspot.com on October 1, 2009)

Aircraft Technical Book Company

amwriter@mac.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:01:00 GMT

Aircraft Technical Book Company not only sells Aviation History but also has kind words about the book:

Aviation History, by Anne Millbrooke is a beautifully done, large format, hard cover, full color book that gives new and experienced pilots a unique perspective on international aviation history.

Each of ten chapters is packed with information containing historic photographs and color graphics. Aviation History explores the question "What is Aviation" by following the world of flying from its birth in Annonay, France to today's accomplishments in space.

Through personal profiles, you meet the people who made significant contributions to aviation. You explore the historical evidence and see how historians use the artifacts of aviation to confirm what happened. A bibliography and timeline are included.

Updated with 170 pages of revised content, the 2006 edition places you in the time period and gives you first hand accounts by the people who were there. Each event is viewed in the historical context of the economic, political, social, and cultural impact. Personal profiles let readers get to know the pioneers who shaped aviation. Historical notes and events, graphs, timelines, and more than 800 photos and illustrations aid in understanding. Study questions along with bibliographies at the end of each chapter make review easier.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Early Aviation, 1783-1914
invention of aviation; balloons; dirigibles; airships

The Wright Brothers, 1896-1914
heavier than air; Wright brothers; Wright patent; Wright airplanes

Early Flight, 1904-1914
airplanes and airmen in Europe; American developments; flying competitions; aviation industry

World War I, 1914-1919
airships, dirigibles, and balloons; military airplanes; aircraft production; armistice and peace

Peacetime Aviation, 1919-1927
distance flying; airships; barnstorming and competing; airlines and airmail

Golden Age, 1927-1939
Charles Lindbergh; adventure and sport; commercial airlines; aviation radio; military aviation

World War II, 1939-1945
emergency and response; military R&D; western air war; pacific air war

Cold War, 1945-1958
resumption of civil aviation; commercial aviation; hot spots; rockets & missiles

Space Age Aviation, 1959-1989
space race; jet age; cold war continues; private & general aviation

Modern Aerospace, 1990-
general and commercial aviation; military aerospace; space exploration; future of aviation

Appendices
aviation firsts
the Wright patent
space flights
picture credits

Found online at http://www.actechbooks.com/products/act048/, September 1, 2009.

Alaska Women Speak

amwriter@mac.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:01:00 GMT

The magazine Alaska Women Speak, Volume 17, Issue 2 (Summer 2009) announced under New Releases: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation: A Guide to Contemporary and Historical Terms Found in Aviation Literature.

Anne Millbrooke was born in western Oregon and raised on the coast of Washington state. She has taught history at universities in Alaska, Connecticut, and Montana. While teaching in Alaska, she also wrote news stories for the Nome Nugget newspaper and served as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent. She has two current major publications in print: a revised, updated edition of her award-winning Aviation HistoryAbbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation. As a public speaker, Anne has given presentations to Rotary clubs, Lions clubs, aviation groups, youth organizations, and public libraries. For the last decade the Western Arctic National Parklands has sponsored her lecture series in Nome, Alaska, during the finish of the Iditarod dogsled race; she also volunteers in the dog lot. book, and a newly released reference book

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation is a guide for people who read aviation literature. The more than 12,000 entries cover general and technical terms, civil and military, also aeronautical, bureaucratic, commercial, geographical, mechanical, medical, meteorological, operational, and organizational terms — as related to aviation. The coverage is both contemporary and historical; that is, the guide covers current and past usage.

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation

ISBN: 978-1-4363-1316-2 (Trade Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-4363-1317-9 (Hardback)

The book is available through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, and other bookstores.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, People in Business

amwriter@mac.com — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:01:00 GMT

Anne Millbrooke, a consulting writer and editor, has a chapter on the "History of the Space Age" in the new "Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaelogy, and Heritage," published by the CRC arm of the Taylor & Francis Group. Millbrooke provided the overview opening a section on the Space Age. She is also author of the "Aviation History" textbook used by universities and flight schools around the world.

Daedalus Flyer

amwriter@mac.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:01:00 GMT

The Daedalus Flyer, the magazine of the Order of Daedalians (a fraternal organization of military pilots), reviews both Aviation History and Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation. The review concludes, "Read and absorb both these books and become your communities' expert on all thing aviation. … These are great resources for anyone interested in aviation."