Omahawk's Labor Day Air Show
 
 

 

      

Omahawk's Labor Day Air Show

       The Omahawks are preparing their 36th annual Labor Day Air Show, the 31st consecutive year benefiting Make-A-Wish of Nebraska.

       The Omahawks would like to welcome all area AMA member pilots to join us on Monday, September 7th 2015 and fly with us.  The four hour-long Airshow not only helps raise money for a terrific cause, it's also a great opportunity to showcase our hobby to the general public in the best possible light.  If you're super talented like The Flying Boys of Iowa, Robert Green, or John Schenck, it is also a great excuse for showing off in front of 800 or 1,000 of your friends and neighbors.

       The Omahawks are taking care of the concessions sales, the raffle tent, the sound system, parking, rest rooms, advertising and marketing efforts, and getting the field in tip top shape to welcome all of our guests.  We want our friends from the Midwest Performance Flyers, the Lincoln Sky Knights, the Twin Cities Eagle Squadron, the COBRAS, the Western RC Flyers, the Frontier Flyers of Fremont, the Orbiting Eagles, the Grand Island Modelers, LASS, SWIFT, and every other club within driving distance to join us in flying.

       We will have flying segments for trainers, old timers, electric park flyers and 3D, electric ducted fan jets, helicopters, control line planes, electric gliders, civilian scale planes, military scale planes, model rockets, biplanes and tri-planes, sport planes, and unusual aircraft.  If you have anything you'd like to fly that fits in any of these categories, just get it ready to fly and bring it on September 7th.  We'll get you in the appropriate segment.

       We will make special segments for specific pilots.  Jim Thurman, Pete Rosas, Casey Vohnout, Robert Green, Ryan Nelson, Tom Egbert, John Schenck, Mike O'Daniel, Fred Tuckerman, and Scott Molk are all pilots who've had individual segments in the past.  If you think you can entertain 800 people just by flying all by yourself, let me know and we'll probably make you your own segment.

       If I haven't mentioned something that you'd like to do, like FPV quad racing or full contact electric combat, just let me know.  If we can find enough pilots committed to putting an air show segment together, we'll get it on the schedule.

       I will be contacting prospective segment leaders and building out a preliminary schedule over the next several days.  I will e-mail out the first draft of the schedule once I've had a chance to talk to segment leaders and feature pilots.  In the mean time, please feel free to contact me with questions.  Thank you.

Ed Paasch, Labor Day Air Show Coordinator

(402) 321-3781 mobile

 		  
 

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