Campers flying high at Pearson
Hudson's Bay: Rose Festival princess Sade Beasley, from left, Jeremy Humphrey, Jacob Pope, Jason Gates, Levi Branham, Colin Urban, Sean Ball, Jon McMillian, Zack Maulding, Nick Fry, Reed Condor, Levi Condor, Sam Franklin, Josh Humphrey, William Decker, Jacob Amram and museum manager Laureano Mier. In front is Ben "Flaps" Berry, who flew B-25s as a Tuskegee Airman during World War II. Berry met campers and congratulated Beasley on choosing an engineering career.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Hudson's Bay — During Pearson Air Museum's four summer camp sessions, 58 campers learned the basics of flight, experienced take-offs and landings in the museum's flight-simulator lab and took aviation-themed field trips. Each weeklong camp culminated with campers co-piloting a small plane from Pearson Field and getting a turn at the controls. Campers ranged in age from 9 to 17 and included Sade Beasley, a Rose Festival princess who plans to study civil engineering at Oregon State University this fall. An additional 22 students completed a three-week Clark County Skills Center summer program where they earned high school credit at the museum
