Join Celebration of Independence at Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum

The Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum (sacmuseum.org) is holding an event on April 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the United States Air Force (USAF) and 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom.

The event opens with a USAF “Rivet Joint” aircraft flying over the Museum at 10 a.m. Indoor activities begin immediately after the flyover and include presentations by Squadron Leader Adrian Pickup (RAF) and Major Noah Lazenby (USAF). Both speakers are instructor pilots on the 338th Combat Training Squadron at Offutt AFB. They will share personal accounts of their flight experiences while diving into an educational program on the strategic events in history that bring the USAF and RAF together.

The RAF will display the famous travels of Hugh the Flying Bear, who has flown in multiple RAF and USAF aircraft in honor of the RAF and USAF anniversaries. Additionally there will be a scavenger hunt and activities for youth, and an opportunity to travel back to WWII, a significant time in history when the United States and the United Kingdom straightened alliances. The WW2 Guys reenactment crew will surround the museum’s B-29 “Superfortress,” a WWII aircraft that helped win the war and there will be a film presentation entitled The Gentlemen Next Door: The JohnWilkinson Story. John Wilkinson was a RAF WWII fighter pilot with the 41 Squadron. He flew a Spitfire and achieved the status of a flying ace.