Hoosier Dawn Patrol - 2009/01

Pioneer-era enthusiasts
revisit a time of chivalry
Billy Thompson’s 1/3-scale Balsa USA Sopwith Pup is up on dawn patrol. The former Nats
winner is powered by a twin-cylinder Fuji BT-86 engine twin and looks great in the air.
THE HOOSIER Dawn Patrol
celebrates a time when aircraft were in
their infancy, pilots believed in chivalry
in the air, and the term “ace” had just
been created. The event features
noncompetitive, mission-style flying

Dawn Patrol

THE World War I Dawn Patrol
Rendezvous is a biennial fly-in hosted by the
National Museum of the United States Air
Force, which is just north of Dayton, Ohio. It
features airplanes from 1903 through 1918: the Dawn fo Aviation through the Great War

The Inside Loop

By the time you read this, I will
have worked as the assistant
editor of MA for two years! Time
flies when you’re having fun comes to
mind when looking back over that part of
my life spent here in Muncie, Indiana.

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