USS John C Stennis launching aircraft
This is a must watch. It's what carrier aviation is all about. This video is from USS Stennis and extremely well done. Enjoy!
YE Rally Debrief and Chapter news
As you already know, John Spain sent out an email right after our Young Eagle Rally event. Thank You all for making this a great event! It was fun to offer rides to the kids here at BMG! 5 Pilots and their airplanes volunteered to give 31free rides to the youth of the area! Our ground volunteers made sure everyone was safely escorted on and off the ramp for this event. Kids were flown and as far as I know no one left disappointed. We did have some technical issues getting up and running the day of the event, but our "Mr. Laptop," Todd Kuebelbeck was able to make it happen. 31 flights! My goal was a safe event and all who wanted to ride did so. At a post event meeting with the airport all they said was "all I saw were smiles!" A flight isn't done until the debrief is complete, this is fundamental to all things in aviation. I would like to have a followup meeting this Saturday (27Sep) at 1000 so we can discuss lessons learned (relearned) from our Rally. If you ha...
