Fundraiser Includes Chance To Win Left-Seat Ride On A320
Sim
Angel Flight North East,
a network of over 1100 pilots, will hold its second annual Long
Island, NY benefit, titled "A Wing and A Heart," at the American
Airpower Museum at the Farmingdale Airport, NY beginning at 5:30 pm
on May 24, 2007.
This charitable evening is for the benefit of Angel Flight NE;
an organization dedicated to providing no cost transportation to
children and adults in need of life saving medical treatment far
from the place they call home. The group says its "A Wing and
A Heart" event is aptly named to raise awareness and funding to
keep "Angel Flights" soaring for those in critical need. A special
presentation by the founder of AFNE, heartfelt stories from Angel
Flight families, VIP tours of the museum a silent auction and a
variety of raffle prizes, are on the evening's exciting agenda.
Among many of the event's features will be several performers of
the Annual Jones Beach Air show, including a WWII fighter aircraft
flyby, and among many items on the auction block that evening is to
take the Captains seat in an Airbus A320 full motion flight
simulator. The lucky winner of this opportunity of a lifetime will
experience starting, taxiing, takeoffs and landings in this popular
and modern airliner with a glass cockpit and fly by wire side stick
controls.
Angel Flight NE, a non-profit organization that has answered
over 32,000 flight requests and has flown over 5.7 million miles,
began its successful operations in May 1996. Free air
transportation is provided to children and adults who need medical
care but do not have access to commercial airlines, cannot afford
to fly a commercial carrier, or cannot use any other mode of
transportation due to their particular medical condition.
Pilots volunteer their aviation skills and time, fueling their
own private airplanes to transport patients and families of
patients for diagnosis and treatments that would not otherwise be
available to them. Flights are provided as often as necessary.
Emergency flights are reserved for those who need to visit
critically ill or injured family members, for patients needing
organ transplants, or for organ and blood donations. "We even make
compassion flights and provide air care wherever there is a
compelling human need," says Larry Camerlin, founder of AFNE.
All of the flights are paid
for by the pilots themselves, and transportation to and from
airports for patients and families is provided by ground volunteers
called "Earth Angels." Mission coordination and community
outreach/public education and pilot recruitment are paid for
through generous contributions from corporate sponsors,
organizations, charitable gifts, community service groups, churches
and individuals.
"Our Long Island Angels are made up of over 70 Angel Flight
Pilots and a growing corps of Earth Angels," says Rudy Holesek,
Volunteer Pilot and Committee Chair for A Wing and A Heart. Holesek
continues, "We couldn't ask for a more suitable location and time
for the benefit -- the American Airpower Museum that replicates the
historic 1940s-era situated at Republic Airport. Everyone will go
home with something-especially a new sense of compassion and
respect for our patients, their families and the volunteers of
Angel Flight."
FMI: www.angelflightne.org, or call
Amy Camerlin at 978-505-9030