John Leahr, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, passed away on Friday, March 27, at the age of 94. Leahr had been one of the famed group of Black pilots that flew fighter escort for bomber missions during World War II.
He belonged to the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, and flew bomber escort sorties in Europe. On April 8th through the 11th, ANN will be at the 2015 AEA convention from top to bottom…from beginning to end. We’ll provide daily reports on the Aero-News network website, and broadcast video reports on our daily Airborne Unlimited videocasts. We start things off on Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30 in the morning Eastern Time with the exciting and fast-paced live TV coverage of the AEA New Product Introduction program --- www.aero-news.net/live. Angel Flight West has announced the recipients of the 2015 Endeavor Awards presented each year to pilots who volunteer with the organization. The awards recipients are John Billings with Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic, Richard Durden with LightHawk and Stephen Purello of Angel Flight Southeast. Each organization represented by the award recipients will receive a $15,000 contribution from the Endeavor Awards Ceremony and Gala on May 30. All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 04.06.15 is chock full of info in this Daily news episode for Thursday, April 6th, 2015... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- Gone West: Tuskegee Airman John Leahr
- AEA Aero-TV LIVE and Airborne Schedule
- Prince William Now A Civilian Pilot
- 2015 Endeavor Awards Recipients Announced
- AVW: Dynamic FreeFly Indoor Skydiving
- Broadcast Note: Airborne will be replaced by LIVE Aero-TV Coverage of AEA2015 Wednesday-Friday,
- Normal schedule will return Monday, April 13th.
- New Cables Interface Handheld GPS’s With Flight Simulators
- Mexico Becomes Launch Customer For New Airbus C295W
- NATA Honors Former TSA Administrator John Pistole
- World's First Candy Powered Hybrid Rocket Successfully Launched
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