Whether you’re looking for the best in comfort food or some friendly competition, the Weekender found fly-ins on SocialFlight with a bit of everything.Pulled pork and bratwurst sandwiches for lunch, burritos for breakfast and live music will be featured at EAA Chapter 484’s Calaveras Air Fair on Saturday in San Andreas, California. Enjoy classic car and static aircraft displays and airplane rides too. Also in California, EAA 1027 will host its fifth annual Boonville Spring Fly-In on Sunday. Those who fly in will enjoy the airport’s newly widened and resurfaced runway. The chapter will offer another great barbecue with all the trimmings, dessert and beverages. Free certificates of display will go to those who take part in the Historical Aircraft program. You could leave with cash too, if you enter the 50/50 drawing.
If you’re closer to the east coast and looking for a contest, Columbia, South Carolina, will be the site of the3rd Annual Palmetto Aero Cup Aerial-Ground Scavenger Hunt,pitting airplanes and motorcycles for cash and prizes on Saturday. There’s also a 50/50 drawing and pancake breakfast.Have fun and raise money for Camp Kemo. For those in the nation’s midsection, the Kickapoo Scavenger Hunt in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Saturday will test pilots in navigational skills and flight management. Each participant will get an envelope containing clues to the assigned route. At each turning point, you will be asked to complete a task. Co-pilots and navigator/safety observers are encouraged. For more on the week’s upcoming events, visit SocialFlight.
