{"id":112762,"date":"2021-09-21T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=112762"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:59:30","slug":"festival-of-flight-returns-to-wright-state-on-sept-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/09\/21\/festival-of-flight-returns-to-wright-state-on-sept-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Flight returns to Wright State on Sept. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_112754\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/51201-nicole-craw-festival-of-flight-10-5-19-24\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112754\" class=\"size-large wp-image-112754\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/09\/festival-of-flight-51201_052-508x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Festival of Flight will feature flyovers, the premiere of a film about aviation in the Miami Valley, hands-on experiential activities, a kid&#8217;s zone, food trucks, live bands, a beer garden, vendors and more.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalofflight.org\/\">Festival of Flight<\/a> will celebrate the importance of aviation in the Miami Valley when it returns to Wright State University on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Lot 1 in front of the Student Union. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>View Festival of Flight&#8217;s full list of activities and events at <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalofflight.org\/\">festivalofflight.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will feature live entertainment, fun aviation-related educational experiences and creative local innovations. Attendees can check out a Blackhawk helicopter and try flight simulators and a parachute simulator.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will offer popular food trucks and food stands as well as flights of beer and wine in a beer garden.<\/p>\n<p>The National Aviation Hall of Fame will premiere its documentary &#8220;A Journey Through the Birthplace of Aviation&#8221; with a special screening at 12:30 p.m. in the Student Union. The screening will be followed by a moderated panel on Dayton&#8217;s unique contributions to aviation. <a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/regform?llr=qaxmaj6ab&amp;oeidk=a07eiibas5vf954fcee\">Reserve your seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Journey Through the Birthplace of Aviation&#8221; explores Dayton&#8217;s aviation heritage and the mission of the National Aviation Hall of Fame. The film was written and directed by Adam White, a 1995 Wright State motion pictures graduate, and Kara White of Hemlock Films.<\/p>\n<p>Music fans can dance to live performances on the City of Fairborn Stage: Todd the Fox from 1\u20132:30 p.m.; Hey There Morgan from 3\u20134:30 p.m.; and Disturbing the Peace from 5\u20137 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The National Parks Service will offer Free guided walking tours of Huffman Prairie, where the Wright brothers mastered the art of flying, at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. <a href=\"http:\/\/community.wrightstatealumni.com\/s\/1606\/hybrid\/index.aspx?sid=1606&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=2355&amp;cid=3879&amp;ecid=3879\">Reserve your spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flyovers are planned at 12:45 p.m. by the WACO Air Museum and at 2:45 p.m. by the MacAir Aviation Formation Flyover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wrightstatephysicians.org\/\">Wright State Physicians<\/a> will schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments during the Festival of Flight. Moderna, Pfizer and the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccines are available.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Rouch, an artist and 1992 Wright State electrical engineering graduate, will sign copies of the new children&#8217;s book &#8220;Astronaut Al Travels to the Moon.&#8221; Rouch, an AIAA associate fellow, illustrated the book, which was written by Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Festival of Flight was held in October 2019 and welcomed more than 4,000 visitors to the grounds of Wright State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State will host the Festival of Flight Sept. 25, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Lot 1 in front of the Student Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/09\/21\/festival-of-flight-returns-to-wright-state-on-sept-25\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":112754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113221,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112762\/revisions\/113221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}