The 42nd Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame Banquet was held on Saturday with a reception and induction ceremony honoring former executive director of the Virginia Department of Aviation (DOAV), Randall P. Burdette, retired astronaut Leland Devon Melvin and U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. The Aviation Hall of Fame, created to honor Virginians who have made
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The Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame Induction is on November 13th, at Shannon Airport Campus. Email vahsonline@gmail.com or call 540-376-3265 for questions or more information. The Virginia Aeronautical Historical Society Board of Directors Cordially invites you to attend a reception and dinner marking the induction of Randall P. Burdette, Leland Devon Melvin, Francis Gary Powers
By PAUL SULLIVAN FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR Charlie Kulp, the personification of old-fashioned airplane flying and master of control stick and rudder, died last Sunday at the home of his daughter in southwestern Virginia. He was 96. Thousands, if not millions, enjoyed Kulp’s inimitable “Flying Farmer” performance at the controls of his beloved yellow Piper
Charles Allen Kulp Sr. SEPTEMBER 20, 1925 – OCTOBER 17, 2021 On Sunday, October 17, 2021, Charles A. Kulp, Sr, a.k.a Charlie Kulp the Flying Farmer, went to that big airshow in the sky at the age of 96, after a lifelong love and career with aviation. You can Google him on the computer to
Francis Gary Powers, the central figure in an international clash between the United States and the then-Soviet Union in 1960, when his U2 spy plane was downed on a secret mission, is to be posthumously inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame on Nov. 13. Powers will receive the honor at a dinner and
