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Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum

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I’ve known Robin for a couple years and have witnessed a true entrepreneur and visionary take small ideas and turn them into multiple success stories. Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum located in Compton is a non-profit organization that specializes in giving inner city kids an outlet to ‘realize their dreams’ through many of the programs in which they provide. The reason why there is so much gang violence in the Los Angeles and throughout the country is related to the lack of activities these kids have to do after school, etc. These kids have nothing to do… so what else to do than test out that AK47 at the mall or hang out on the street corner and become a statistic. (sad but true)

Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum provides an alternate outlet for these kids to succeed and be around other kids who are up making a better life for themselves. With aviation as the lure, many youngsters come to the museum after school to either take flight with Robin, take classes to learn to fly, play flight video games in the VR Room or just about help or hang out. If I lived in Compton I much rather be in a safe place too… however Compton is probably not as all bad as Snoop D-O Double-G made it. Venus and Serena came out of Compton too (but ironically enough ..they haven’t even stepped off the tennis courts to come on by… but that’s besides the point).. hehe. Ok.. Earth to Venus [and Serena]… when you guys aren’t busy on the courts please stop by and check out what’s going on in your hometown… it’s really cool!

Well Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum is probably the most interesting organization I’ve worked with thus far… I mean.. nobody is trying to do what they are doing. A Non-Profit flight school? .. You’ve got to be kidding. Yes, a non-profit flight school. I mean these kids come off the streets to volunteer and can learn to fly, get a pilot’s license for FREE by earning museum dollars.. what an amazing program. TAM has already been successful with a handful of young pilots breaking and setting WORLD RECORDS while captivating the attention of mass media portals like CNN, AP, Local News, MSN, yadi yadi yadi.. I’m sure Oprah will re-pick up the story sometime.. it’s that good.

Before TAM even moved to Compton and received the pandaemonium they deserve, I was probably one of their very first volunteers when it was just a ‘teeny-tiny’ idea in some small little hangar at the Torrance Airport. At the time we were trying to throw the First Youth Air Fair and Community Care Awards honoring community figures like Jim Hahn, Christine Devine, Jennifer York, etc down the list to say “Thanks” for helping the community. However Torrance didn’t really like the idea of little black kids running all over the airport so the first event was kinda hard to throw …. it was a real NAACP nightmare. (But that’s some behind-the-scenes stuff you didn’t hear from me).. Let’s just say Robin is in Compton because the program makes more sense in Compton, Eric Perrodin the mayor at the time was very welcoming and it has only helped the community there… and really they are the community that needs him the most.

But in Torrance… the place had no air conditioning and it was exhausting. (Especially when Robin recommended Tend Skin while I was taking Retin-A and my face was charred 2 days before a prom I really didn’t want to go to.. see I was a Freshmen in college at the time but went to a high school prom [like a looser] … and even worse when he had to get some hollywood make-up artist to cake my new face in foundation (because it was really charred-up).. it was tragic… I was at the prom peeling off dead skin while paranoid other kids I had grew up with were wondering about my new face…. but this is all again.. really besides the point)

Anyways…TAM was the place I learned how to make websites and actually got started fiddling around with Dreamweaver and Flash. I wasn’t good enough then to provide any help at the time… but it got me good enough to do my first website Tony Nuccio In Europe… I guess that internship did pay off?… Well at the time, we were in Torrance and I wasn’t even sure what Robin’s vision was because it was so complicated and just hard to grasp… but after all the time spent understanding the ideas and how it all pieced together, I really started to see the bigger picture, much of which is very understandable today by the track record of community events and Resolutions and awards galore they’ve received. That’s why I think I am doing the site, because I really understand the business plan and what he’s trying to do.

This is one of those websites I think will always be a work in progress. At first we just needed to get the pages up regardless of the bells and whistles (which will come along over time, hopefully).. But take a stroll down one of the coolest visions I think created in the Aviation industry and see what’s got Congress and many of the politicians in the State of California talking…