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'Bombing' South St. Paul

Posted at 11:46 AM on September 3, 2011 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Aviation

If there were an olympics for flying, this sort of thing would be one of the events:

At Fleming Field in South St. Paul today, pilots participated in a series of competitions including the "bomb drop." The bombs consisted of flour in a paper bag tied with a streamer.

It's an easier task in some airplanes than others.

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What's your plan for celebrating the end of the summer?

Comments (1)

We'll be launching pop bottle rockets! Three generations and I built them myself.

Posted by Cathy | September 3, 2011 12:26 PM

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