- Collection:
- Georgia Tech Artifacts
- Title:
- Yellow Jacket model airplane
- Creator:
- Richmond, Stuart L.
- Date of Original:
- 1952
- Subject:
- Georgia Institute of Technology--History
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In the late 1940s, Georgia Tech students began the tradition of flying a model Yellow Jacket plane during the halftime of football games. The idea apparently originated with William Millar, who graduated from Tech’s Aerospace program in 1950. Millar approached then band director, Ben Logan Sisk, with the idea, and the plane’s appearance was incorporated into the Tech band’s halftime show. Stuart L. Richmond (IM ’51) and William Cooksey continued the tradition in the early 1950s.
- Local Identifier:
- gta.0005
- Metadata URL:
- http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/4391
- Digital Object URL:
- http://history.library.gatech.edu/files/original/gta0005_8257_ced9cf5ca7.jpg
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department
- Rights:
-
