Tagged: 2011

Big Bear Air Fair 2011

On August 6, 2011, Big Bear Airport hosted its bi-annual air fair. Started in 1984, the Big Bear Air Fair is a combination of community a vendor fair, warbird and vintage aircraft static display, and general aviation fly in....

Sentry Eagle 2011

The 2011 Sentry Eagle hosted at Kingsley Field located in Klamath Falls Oregon was very much a success as it was the first year the event has been held since 2007 and the 14th time overall. Sentry Eagle was...

Genesseo 2011 Mishaps

Genesseo 2011 had two accidents in which fortunately nobody was seriously injured.  As we arrived at the field on Saturday morning about 8:40AM, emergency crews were rolling on a S-35 Bonanza.  According to the Sheriffs Department, Leon Rousselle of...

Sun n Fun 2011

Last year, the EAA show at Oshkosh was became known as “Sloshkosh” after some significant rainstorms.   Well, this year Sun n Fun bested it by a few orders of magnitude.  I’ve been going to SnF for 25 years and...

Tornado at Sun n Fun 2011

Sun n Fun this year had some unusually bad weather.  It was rare event, but people had some problems getting past weather to get to the show.  Thus we were short some acts for the airshow on Opening Day...

Valiant Air Command Airshow 2011

The Valiant Air Command hosts an annual airshow in Titusville Florida each spring.  In the past (20 years ago) it was one of the 3 or 4 top airshows in the country.   It’s still a great show and has...

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