[1] It was housed within the Yale Club and served World War II pilots as a place of leisure and occasional living quarters.
[4] In 1956, Romanian inventor Henri Coandă spoke to the Wings Club about his early aircraft prototype, the Coandă-1910, ascribing to it novel features so that history would see it as a jet engine experiment.
Walker expressed great confidence in the likelihood of a successful Moon landing but he died two years later in an air collision and never saw the program to completion.
[7] Beginning in 1975, the Wings Club selects one or more organizations or individuals each year to be honored with the "Distinguished Achievement Award", conferred at the annual dinner in October.
[8] Beginning in 2010, the Wings Club began to recognize organizations or individuals each year to be honored with the "Outstanding Aviator Award", presented at the annual meeting in March.
[12] Sikorsky spoke primarily about the future role of the helicopter; he was certain that it would remain an important type of aircraft despite experiments with VTOL fixed-wing designs.