{"id":1360562,"date":"2024-10-05T08:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1360562"},"modified":"2024-10-07T04:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T09:15:57","slug":"rose-city-airfest-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1360562","title":{"rendered":"Rose City Airfest Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \"\"Our news partners at KETK report the Tyler Regional Airport is filled with Camp V and airshow planes for the Rose City Airfest. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got over 40 vendors and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got static displays, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the pilots out signing posters, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just going to be a tremendous full day of family fun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bob Westbrook, Rose City Airfest chairman. Activities started Friday with an all-new STEM day for local high school students.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We had several of the performers set up booths and then we got several local businesses that set up STEM activities and STEM is science, technology, engineering, and math,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Westbrook said.<\/p>\n

Tyler ISD, pilots, jump teams, and local businesses joined together to show high schoolers what a career in aviation may look like.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Getting to see how they actually do stuff, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really interesting,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tyler Legacy student Titus Canal said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Checking out the aircrafts, like the helicopters, the fighter planes, and stuff like that, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really cool,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tyler Legacy student Zaire Clark said.<\/p>\n

Not only did the students get to see the planes up close, but they also got to learn why STEM is so important.<\/p>\n

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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To be up close and really see these airplanes and, you know, touch, smell, hear all that, you really get a more visceral sense and connection to what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Leland Kracher, NextGen Eagles flight lead, said.<\/p>\n

The students also shot off rockets and met the pilots preparing for the air show, emergency flight crews, and military personnel.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It gives you a perspective on how things are in the field,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Canal said.<\/p>\n

The students also got a firsthand look at how they work from the sky, while also learning a little history.<\/p>\n

The airshow will be held at the Hamms Aviation Memorial Museum. Parking will be free and located on the north side of Highway 64. On Saturday gates open at 10 a.m. with take off at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report the Tyler Regional Airport is filled with Camp V and airshow planes for the Rose City Airfest. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got over 40 vendors and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got static displays, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the pilots out signing posters, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just going to be a tremendous full day of family fun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said … Continue reading Rose City Airfest Underway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1360567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/STEM-Day-Tyler-High-students-225x169.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 15:58:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/STEM-Day-Tyler-High-students-225x169.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360624,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360562\/revisions\/1360624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}