Come Fly With Me

Let's fly, let's fly away.

Every June, the Potomac Antique Aero Squadron hosts, with the gracious participation of the Massey Aerodrome/Air Museum, a fly-in and juried competition of aircraft in several categories: antique, classic, contemporary, military, customized, and custom built. We’ve had a challenging few years. The airport has a 1 nm carveout that exempts it from the almost constant Wilmington presidential TFR that we have to endure as long as Lunchbucket Joe is in the White House and spends every weekend in Delaware, but that doesn’t help the dozens of antiquers from Philly to Long Island who would have to either fly for hours over the Atlantic or swing west and thread the needle through the airspaces that define where you’re allowed to pilot an aircraft built before Amelia Earhart disappeared.

We did it anyway. We had a fabulous turnout, from both air and land. We had over 100 planes fly in, that were admired by thousands of foot traffic visitors. We spent a day celebrating internal combustion engines, and burning oil, and comparing techniques for repairing fabric-covered wings, and breathing alodine, and comparing epoxy coating vs zinc chromate.

Here’s a taste.