Wed, Mar 19, 2014
Blue Angels To Headline The Event This Weekend
To build awareness of and excitement for the inaugural Los Angeles Air Show planned for this weekend, organizers have turned to the nation’s only female professional skywriter to paint the skies over southern California.
Suzanne Asbury-Oliver will be creating messages in the sky in the days leading up to the show, which will run March 20-21, according to a news release. Resurrecting the nearly lost art of skywriting from the 1920s, the letters in this classic free-style writing are approximately one mile long and two miles high. The messages, which can be seen for up to 30 miles in each direction, become more visible as the wind blows.
It gets a little louder on show days, as the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will rock the skies of LA County headlining the show at William J. Fox Airfield. Organizers say Air Show fans at the inaugural event "will be captivated by an array of exciting and thrilling jets, gravity-defying aerobatic performers and the rumble of historic aircraft."
The Los Angeles County Air Show, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit corporation (status pending) dedicated to promoting the importance of aviation for continued economic growth, inspiration and educational opportunities for our youth, and enhancing awareness for the service and sacrifice of our military men and women. The mission of the Air Show will, in part, be accomplished by giving back to the needs of the community through a regional scholarship program for individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in the areas of science, technology, engineering, math or aerospace.
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