August 13th of the year 2000 was a fine day for an air show.  The temperature reached a high of only 78 degrees.  The sky was cloudy with no rain and only a trace of precipitation in the State College area.  Following are photos from the Centre Daily Times and photos contributed by SCRC members.  There were more airplanes and pilots than time allowed for everyone to fly demonstrations. 

The show was well attended by people with model aircraft interests as can be seen from the following photos provided by Fred Knoffsinger and Bill Hatchner.

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Everyone had a clear, close up view of the pilots and their airplanes.  Comfort was a key ingredient in enjoying the flight demonstrations.	The flight line and interested spectators just seemed to go on forever!

Here are some close-ups of a small sampling of the models on display and used in the flight demonstrations.

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Woody Struble's Air Force!  Woody is starting his flying STOP sign for a demonstration flight.	Henry Loewen's giant scale P-51.  Click here for more pictures and details of Henry and his airplane.	Jon Polay's model of a more modern fighter aircraft.  It looks like it should be a fine flying aircraft.  How about that Jon?
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Paul Bittengle's Model aircraft.  Note the 4-cycle engine used for power.	A sleek model of a current aerobatic aircraft, a CAP 232 .   It was built and flown by Jeff Favuzza.  Jeff several other scale models that look and fly great.	A view of the flightline from the east end of the field.  Note that 2 pilots had their airplanes in the air when this photo was taken.

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The top picture is Henry Loewen's Extra 300 S taking off (that is the one that crashed later that day) and the lower picture is Henry's Morrisey Bravo coming in to land.  The photos were taken by Henry's son Phil.  Henry sent the scanned photos to the webmaster with a note that "I'm sending them anyway, just to get practice using the scanner".  Good job with the planes, photos, and scanner.

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On August 14th, two photos taken at the Air Show, were presented by the Centre Daily Times.  Here is a copy of the pictures along with caption describing the action.

Thanks go to the Centre Daily Times for giving the SCRC Air Show this exposure to the general public.  We hope that other people interested in model aircraft, especially the younger generation, will have seen these photos and will make contact with the club.

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