Nissen Davis is president of the Aero Club of Southern California, a board member of the Flight Path Museum at LAX and director of public relations for the Morale Entertainment Foundation. He retired from the aerospace industry in 2004 after 30 years with Flying Tiger Line, McDonnell Douglas and Hughes Electronics, where he held senior positions in Public Relations, Advertising and Communications. His PowerPoint presentation will describe two trips he took with Morale Entertainment to boost troop morale in Europe and the Middle East.

The first, in March 2010, took astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan, Skunk Works test pilot Bob Gilliland and Vietnam fighter ace Steve Ritchie to bases in Turkey, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrein, Germany and England and out to the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower on station in the Arabian Gulf. The second tour, in January this year, celebrated the Centennial of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and involved drivers Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Al Unser Jr., Davey Hamilton, Sarah Fisher, Larry Foyt and Martin Plowman and visited Germany, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, England and the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln at sea. While emphasizing the serious purpose of the ventures, Nissen will share some of the humorous sidelights of the tours. He will conclude his presentation with a brief report on Morale’s most recent event, a "salute to veterans" NCAA basketball match on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego last November 11.