Sheldon, Iowa — As part of the Sheldon Celebration Days festivities, there’s going to be a precision air show out at the airport on Monday morning.
It’s being sponsored by the Iowa Corn Growers and Poet Biorefining. On KIWA on Thursday, we talked to Lowell Appleton, the District field manager for Iowa Corn Growers and Archie Voorhees, who is the commodity manager for Poet in Ashton. They tell us about the event.
They told us where the idea came from.
David Myers from the Vanguard Squadron says the aircraft that they fly is called the Van RV3, and it has a top speed of over 200 miles per hour. He says their average speed in tricks is 165 miles per hour, and the aircraft can handle forces from six times gravity to negative two times gravity or “g’s”. He says they do all kinds of aerobatics including what are known as staggerheads and bombbursts. And yes, he says the pilots do wear parachutes.
If you’d like to take a look at the airplanes before the performance, you should be able to do that.
Of course, the air show is in conjunction with the annual Sheldon Celebration Days Fly-In Breakfast.
The Fly-In Pancake Breakfast and Aircraft Display is Labor Day Monday from 6:30 until 11:00 a.m., and it’s all at the Sheldon Regional Airport, north of town on Old Highway 60 — also known as Northwest Boulevard.
