NewsJune 26, 1999
AIR SHOW TO KICK OFF FESTIVAL
POPLAR BLUFF -- Air Show '99 will kick off the annual Black River Festival here July 3. The show will be dedicated to the late David May, a Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant who was killed in a May helicopter crash. Other air show events will include a fly-in pancake breakfast at 6:30 a.m. and Federal Aviation Administration Wings seminar for pilots only presented by Fred Harmes at 9 a.m...
POPLAR BLUFF -- Air Show '99 will kick off the annual Black River Festival here July 3.
The show will be dedicated to the late David May, a Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant who was killed in a May helicopter crash.
Other air show events will include a fly-in pancake breakfast at 6:30 a.m. and Federal Aviation Administration Wings seminar for pilots only presented by Fred Harmes at 9 a.m.
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Airplane rides will be offered from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 3 to 5 p.m.
New to the show will be a vintage B-25 bomber flown in from St. Louis by the Confederate Air Force. Other displays of vintage aircraft, aerobatics and parachute jumps are also planned.
The air show is free, but there will be a parking fee.
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