BASE PREPARING `GREAT' AIR SHOW.Byline: JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape SKEEN Staff Writer PALMDALE -- Inviting tens of thousands of people in during the weekend to see an air show requires a huge amount of planning and cast of hundreds, the commander of Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. told civic leaders Tuesday. Speaking before a luncheon of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Board of Trade, Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke said base personnel have been planning for months to try to make this weekend's open house a smooth, enjoyable event. The event could draw as many as 125,000 people each day, the general said. ``It's going to be a great air show,'' Bedke said. ``It's high-stress for those of us working it, but it's a real kick too.'' In a speech he called ``the making of an air show,'' Bedke highlighted some of the scores of details that have to be addressed to host an event of the scope of the open house and air show. The event involves virtually every aspect of base life, including security police, public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. , transportation and arranging for emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' . Details include figuring out how to move and park the more than 100 display aircraft, arranging for 30 buses to transport visitors, having 60 golf carts for personnel to use while timely manner. ``This is tough stuff,'' Bedke said. ``If you don't think through it, you're in for tough times.'' The show Saturday and Sunday will feature 20 flying performances, including demonstrations by the F-22A Raptor fighter, a flyby fly·by also fly-by n. pl. fly·bys A flight passing close to a specified target or position, especially a maneuver in which a spacecraft or satellite passes sufficiently close to a body to make detailed observations without of a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft, and flights by the Royal Dutch Air Force flight team and the U.S. Air Force's precision flying team, the Thunderbirds. A planned flight by a B-2 bomber has been dropped from the schedule, base officials said. A B-2 will be displayed on the ground. Other scheduled performances include the Army's Golden Knights parachute team, a hang glider demonstration by paraplegic paraplegic /para·ple·gic/ (-ple´jik) 1. pertaining to or of the nature of paraplegia. 2. an individual with paraplegia. Dan Buchanan and flights by a B-1B bomber, a B-52 Stratofortress, an F-18 Hornet hornet: see wasp. , NASA's ER-2 research aircraft, and the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft. For Saturday and Sunday, gates will open at 7a.m. and flying will start at 10a.m. Each day's activities will wrap up at 4:45p.m. For more information about the event, call 661-277-3510 or 661-277-NEWS or visit the Web site atedwards.af.mil. james.skeen(at)dailynews (661) 267-5743 CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color) BEDKE Box: IF YOU GO |
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