With the two R-2600s at takeoff power, the EAA's B-25J Berlin Express gets airborne. You may remember this aircraft as Orson Welles' VIP Mitchell (complete with white walls) in the film Catch-22. All week, the B-25 was busy selling rides from nearby Appleton Airport. AirVenture 2020 never happened because of the COVID plague that shut down almost all events. Our opening quote is from Jack Pelton, EAA CEO and Chairman. This Beech got the 2021 "Dirty Bird" award. Looking just like it flew out of Davis-Monthan AFB, Hunter Hamilton's SNB-5 still wears its last markings from NAS Quonset Point along with its various "graveyard" identifiers. For AirVenture 2021, approximately 608,000 people came through the gates - the third time the 600,000 mark has been broken.
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