Aerial Archives hosts presentations at its Petaluma Airport offices Saturday, Oct. 29 about flying and maintaining historical aircraft for Visions From Above, a reception and print sale and series of presentations that is raising funds for the Western Horizon Flying Museum, dedicated to keeping historical aircraft flying. Presentations begin at 1:00pm with Pat Bellanger speaking about flying the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. At 1:30pm Will Whiteside of Team SteadFast air racing with speak about flying the North American, T-6, Texan. At 2:00pm brother and sister team Julie Belanger and Bruce Perlich will give a presentation entitled Whatever Happened to the Flying Lady Restaurant?, about the famous aviation themed restaurant and private aviation museum founded by their parents. Ann Elsbach, founder of the West Valley Flying Club, one of the largest flying clubs in the world, who now specializes in tailwheel flight training, will speak about Flying the Loveable, Squirrelly Luscombe. Herb Lingl, Aerial Archives director and Airport Muse curator, will speak about flying the Antonov, AN-2, the world's largest biplane and at 3:00pm, Aeroventure mechanic and pilot, Joe Davis, will speak about Maintaining Historical Aircraft: An Aviation Mechanic's Perspective. Joe was a mechanic for United Airlines for over 25 years, is a pilot and now specializes in maintaining historical aircraft. Visions From Above also features a silent auction of aerial photography prints from leading photographers from around the world, a portion of which benefit the Western Horizon Flying Museum. The stunning photograph of the Piper J-3 Cub, two seat aircraft, which were manufactured from 1938 through 1947, was created by Stan Macbean of Utah by Air, and is one of the prints part of the Visions From Above exhibit.
Top Cub
Image ID: AHLM3021
© Stan Macbean/utahbyair.com
Western Horizon Flying Museum
Airport Muse
