Focus
University Daily Kansan, June 12, 1985
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Father and son, Jae-Ho Kim. College Busan South graduate student, and Seung-Wong Kim look into the cockpit of a Pitts-Special.
or one brief moment Sunday afternoon, the gray, gloomy skies over Lawrence were filled with the sounds of aircraft engines.
On the ground below, a wet crowd of about 2,000 huddled under umbrellas, aircraft wings and in the large aircraft hangars at Lawrence Municipal Airport. Children looked up into the light rain and strained to climb over head, and the dark clud figure that prepared to jump.
Jim Surber, Lawrence senior, leaped from the plane. Fighting the changing winds. Surber missed his close approach suddenly in a field close to the airport.
Despite intermittent rain, shifting winds and occasional bolts of lightning, the second annual Lawrence Air Show had begun.
Delbert Richardson, the air show organizer, said that he had come close to canceling the show because of the weather. Richardson is a
Story and photos by John Lechliter
member of the Jayhawk Chapter 40 & 8 of the American Legion, which sponsored the event.
Ralph Adams, professor of chemistry, teamed with KCTV 5 anchor Wendell Anshutu in a combined flying routine that featured their World War II Fairchild training planes.
As a plane took off carrying three jumps for a complex mid air link maneuver a heavy shower of birds flocked around, needed for the hangars and for their cars.
Richardson said that at that point, officials from the Federal Aviation Administration inspecting the show said, "no more."
The proceeds from the abridged show, almost $1,000, will go into a scholarship program for local nurses. Richardson said.
Roy Debutts, 742 Walnut St., was among almost 2,000 people to look up into rainy skies and watch Sunday's Lawrence Air Show at the Lawrence Municipal Airport. Above left, Wendall Anshutz, KCTV-5 anchor.
prepares to take off in his World War II Fairchild PT 19 trainer. Right, the planes of Anshutz and KU chemistry professor Ralph Adams fly in formation over the airport.
Corinna Spencer Scheurich, 6, daughter Ed Scheurich and Patti Spencer, Route 4, and her friend Ashley Stoner, 6, daughter of Susie Stoner of North Lawrence peeked out from their shared umbrella to watch a jumbe begin the show.
A few people in the crowd venture into the rain from the shelter of the aircraft hangars to watch as a plane performs fly-by maneuvers.