Unique Progressive Fly-In To Be Held Across Central Florida

An interesting "Progressive Fly-IN" will start next month, on Saturday, December 6th, 2003. The event starts with a special progressive Formation Flight starting at 8:30 am with coffee and donuts at the VAC's Warbird Museum at Titusville's Space Coast Airport in their impressive display of WWII, Korean and Vietnam era aircraft before heading off to Kissimmee. There, one can enjoy watching Warbirds land and operate at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum in Kissimmee, Florida at 10:00 am while also enjoying EAA Orlando Chapter 74's Pancake breakfast at the working restoration facility, where history flies again. Museum guests will have the opportunity to see, touch and hear the history that they had only read about, or seen in the movies, daily being brought back to its former glory. There is always something flying over the Museum including the visitors themselves when they join the past with a Warbird Adventures' flight in a T-6/SNJ Texan. Be there to experience the excitement as the Formation of Warbirds take off from Kissimmee and land for lunch at Fantasy of Flight's 1930's art deco style diner, The Compass Rose.

A lunch at Fantasy of Flight, a premier aviation attraction in Polk City, begins with the Warbirds arriving at 12:30. Fantasy of Flight, Florida's premier aviation attraction, portrays aviation's first hundred years in walk-through sight and sound exhibits. Visitors experience the golden age of aviation, a WWII bombing mission in an actual B-17 bomber, fly a combat mission in realistic full motion flight simulators and tour the largest private collection of aircraft in the world displayed in vintage hangars reminiscent of WWII.

The Formation of flying history will leave Fantasy of Flight around 1:30. Other events occur throughout the afternoon, in conjunction with other aviation museum programs.

These intriguing Aviation Museums and Attractions are now forming up to offer a unique aviation experience in Central Florida. Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum, Fantasy of Flight, and Valiant Air Command's (VACs) Warbird Air Museum are among those launching their new Flight of Four Passport. The new cooperative offers visitors to Florida an all inclusive passport into aviation's past; tracing today's aeronautical accomplishments while exploring the future of flight and preparing to fly into the next one-hundred years of aviation progress.

FMI: www.warbirdmuseum.com