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The weather wasn't great but the turnout was FANTASTIC. We flew 84 Young Eagles and gave rainchecks to another 20. Fortunately we had twelve pilots and thirteen on the ground crew to make things run smoothly. Thanks to everyone! Note that the pilots are named below, but I don't have the names of the kids they were flying. Most of these photos were taken by Chris Kohler.


8:45 am
The crowd gathers
Watching the first flights

A volunteer
Waiting their turn		 Fran took groups of kids around for the preflight so that the other pilots could just fly.
Mass Preflight

Everyone was patient
A soon-to-be Young Eagle		 While too young to be an official Young Eagle, he enjoyed the ride nonetheless.
Enjoying the ride

Jim Simmons
Rick Bernardi		 By doing the preflight talk with groups of kids, Fran saved the flying pilots a lot of time
Fran Uliano preflights
Kevin Minckler looks on as Fran finishes a preflight briefing
Preflight		 Kevin owns a Long-EZ. It's quite the hit with the kids
Kevin Minckler
Bill Jagoda
Some people waited five hours. Too much success isn't necessarily good!
Patient crowd
Homebuilt lineup
Rob Aiksnoras' Thorpe

Happy Long-EZ passenger
Another victim, er, Eagle
The taxi conga line

Fran's still talking
So that's what's under there
More homebuilts

Can you hear me now?
Jim Simmons
Rob Aiksnoras

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