AIR FESTIVAL MEETING TUESDAY

The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport has begun planning for the second annual Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival to be held July 10 and 11.

An organizational meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Pilots Club at the airport.

The festival will include an aerial tribute to U.S. veterans, including an F15 demonstration and a Heritage Flight, which is a patriotic presentation of the F15 and a P51 Mustang flying in formation.

Also appearing at this year's show will be the 69th Battalion demonstrating a Vietnam rescue complete with explosive pyrotechnics and their trademark "wall of fire." The World War II era will be represented by an aerial dog fight between a Japanese Zero and an American P51 Mustang.

For the young at heart, "The Sky Fighters" will sell the public an opportunity to be a fighter pilot in a real T34 military aircraft and experience firsthand what it's like to fly an aerial combat mission.