POF Living History Flying Day Event December 3 2011 - WWII Air War In The Pacific - Featuring The A6M5 Zero
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 1:24pm
Planes of Fame Air Museum’s Living History Flying Day Event will be Saturday, December 3rd. The museum opens at 9 AM and the seminar starts at 10 AM with the flight demonstration at noon. Saturday's theme will be ‘WWII – Air War in the Pacific’ featuring our Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero Fighter... The only completely original A6M5 left in the world that still fly’s! The A6M5 Zero flight demonstration will be at 12 Noon and the Membership Sponsored raffle flight will be in the PT-17 Stearman. The panelists will be: Kevin Thompson - Planes of Fame Air Museum Moderator and Aviation Historian, Charlie Isaacs - Aviation Historian, Osamu Tagaya – Aviation Historian and acclaimed author, Bruce Gamble – award winning author and historian specializing in highly readable narratives about World War II in the Pacific. During his career as a Naval Flight Office r in the closing years of the Cold War, Bruce logged nearly 1,000 hours as a navigator in EA-3B Skywarriors, including deployments aboard aircraft carriers in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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