The Question Mark is The Spaatz Association’s newsletter. It connects Spaatzen, shares program news, highlights recipients, and keeps members up to date on events, elections, scholarships and ways to serve.
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Share your Spaatz story
We welcome stories, photos, news, letters, event information and memorial notices. Include your Spaatz Award number when it applies. Submissions may be edited for style, clarity, accuracy, length and propriety. Email SecretaryTeam@Spaatz.Org.
- People: award presentations, Spaatzen in the news, Spaatzen in action
- Stories: personal experiences, books, letters to the editor
- Community: events, photos and Fallen Diamonds notices
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Why the name?
The newsletter is named for the Question Mark, the Atlantic-Fokker C-2A commanded by then-Maj. Carl Spaatz on a pioneering endurance flight January 1–7, 1929.
The name reflected the open question of how long the aircraft could stay airborne. The crew completed 42 aerial refuelings, nine of them at night, and stayed aloft for 150 hours, 40 minutes and 14 seconds. It has stood for persistence, teamwork and innovation ever since.
