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Cross Promotion
August, 2011

Black Pilots of America
August 12, 2011

Extreme Flight Day
Saturday, July 30, 2011

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Visit the Connecticut Trolley Museum, East Windsor, Conn.
The New England Air Museum and the Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, Conn. have teamed up to cross promote each attraction.  During the month of AUGUST members of each Museum may visit the other Museum free of charge during this promotion. To visit the Connecticut Trolley Museum at no cost, all you need to do is present your Air Museum membership card(s) when you arrive. So become a Musuem Member Today!

For non Air Museum or Trolley members, visit the Air Museum at the regular admission rate and receive $2 off for up to 4 admissions on your visit to the Connecticut Trolley Museum or vice-versa. Just bring your AUGUST receipt to the ticket counter at either location and receive the discount. This promotion is only good for the month of AUGUST. Learn more about the Connecticut Trolley Museum by visiting them at http://www.ct-trolley.org/.

Black Pilots of America
The Black Pilots of America, Inc (www.bpapilots.org)  are coming to Windsor Locks and Hartford, Connecticut for their annual membership meeting, August 12 & 13, 2011. Meet the organization’s national president, John Hicks, from Tuskegee AL., and Connecticut Chapter namesake, Tuskegee Airman, Flight Officer Connie Nappier, Jr. at a meet and greet at New England Air Museum, 12 – 5 pm, Friday, August 12.
They will also have an awards ceremony at Black Eyed Sally’s, Hartford, 7:30 – 10:30 pm, Saturday, August 13. Join them for the family style meal for $35.
Call Aaron “Al” Daniels, 860-710-0199, for more information.

The Museum to Host Extreme Flight Day
Air Museum has announced that it will hold its first Extreme Flight Day on Saturday, July 30, 2011. This will be an opportunity for visitors to engage with professionals who must fly in extreme conditions to accomplish their work. Visitors will be able to meet special guests and hear their incredible experiences one-on-one Saturday afternoon in the Museum’s Conference Center between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. The price of admission to this program is included with the regular price of admission to the Museum.
Among the special guests is Lieutenant Colonel Graham Buschor who was the 101st Squadron Commander at the 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard at Francis S. Gabreski Airport, Westhampton Beach, New York, on October 30th, 1991. He was one of two helicopter rescue pilots that ditched in the Atlantic Ocean that day in the middle of "The Perfect Storm", and survived 5 hours in the water with 70 foot seas and 120 knot winds before being rescued by the Coast Guard Cutter, Tamaroa; Major Kaitlyn McLaughlin, US Air Force Reserves, member of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron aligned under the 403rd Reserve Wing located at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi and governed by the National Hurricane Operations Plan. As a Hurricane Hunter, Major McLaughlin helps support 24 hour a day continuous operations that cover a geographic area extending from the Mid-Atlantic to the International Dateline in the Pacific;  and Kathy Wadsworth, record setting aeronaut and among first to fly balloons over the jungles of the Amazon.
Later on that day in the evening there will be two formal presentations made by Lt. Col. Buschor & Maj. Kaitlyn McLaughlin.  The presentations will begin at 6:30PM with the doors to the Museum opening at 6PM. The cost of admission to the evening program is $10 per person payable at the door, free to Museum Members.