The annual Discover Aviation Days event was held at the Anoka County Airport in Blaine, Minnesota, on the north side of the Twin Cities.

A formation of vintage T-5 World War II trainers flew over to delight the crowd.

Dressed in period costume, they looked great.

You might remember the movie, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo where a group of sixteen B-25s took off from an aircraft carrier in 1942 and bombed Japan. 

His job as an avionics repairman was to keep Mohawks flying during his time in Vietnam during the late 1960's.

Only 390 were built.  They were used as high-tech surveillance aircraft....some with side-looking airborne radar.

Mark belongs to the OV-1 Mohawk Association.

A fun aircraft to fly with a wooden propeller. 

He started out as a U.S. Air Force test pilot before moving to space missions.  Brown said, "What we learn in space, helps us on earth."

He retired from space flight and is now an air racer in his plane, the Sawbones.

Elizabeth flew many kinds of airplanes including the four-engine B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-26 Marauder bombers as well as the P-39 Airacobra fighter.
on military training missions and ferried them across the country as needed.

She was asked to marry, but told her suitor that she wanted to fly instead.  She finally did get married, but that didn't slow her down.  She kept flying. 

In 2010, Elizabeth and all WASPs received the Congressional Gold Medal for their ground-breaking work as female pilots in the war effort.