Youngsters fly high with local pilots

EAA program puts kids in the cockpit at no charge to them or their parents.

  • Mark Wiencek and Symphony Green, 8, get ready to take off from Cannon Creek Airpark and fly over Lake City as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Rally on Saturday. (AMY HIETT/Special to the Reporter)
    Mark Wiencek and Symphony Green, 8, get ready to take off from Cannon Creek Airpark and fly over Lake City as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Rally on Saturday. (AMY HIETT/Special to the Reporter)
Thirty area kids, ages 8 to 17, soared high in the sky over Columbia County Saturday, courtesy the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Rally. Licensed pilots took…

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