UNO Flight Team member Shay Sinnard crushes a Red Bull can at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s SAFECON event. Many members of the team consumed multiple energy drinks during each day of the competition.
High above an Illinois cornfield, the plane with the “O” on its tail sliced through the cloudy blue sky.
The Flight Team from the University of Nebraska at Omaha practices a precision landing event at the Fremont Municipal Airport weeks before the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s SAFECON event in May.
UNO Flight Team coach Lowell “Skip” Bailey, left, talks to team member Thomas Reid as he practices in a flight simulator at the university’s Aviation Institute.
UNO Flight Team co-captain Tyler Thieman prepares to take off before one of the landing events at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s SAFECON event on May 20 in Moline, Ill. Photo by Jeremy Turley/Flatwater Free Press
University of North Dakota Flying Team members fill sacks of flour for the “Bomb Drop” event sometime after the team’s founding in 1966. The event, rebranded as “Message Drop” during the Vietnam War, tasks teams with trying to hit targets on the ground with containers dropped from the air. National Intercollegiate Flying Association
The Flight Team from the University of Nebraska at Omaha practices a precision landing event at the Fremont Municipal Airport weeks before the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s SAFECON event in May.
UNO Flight Team coach Lowell “Skip” Bailey, left, talks to team member Thomas Reid as he practices in a flight simulator at the university’s Aviation Institute.
UNO Flight Team co-captain Tyler Thieman prepares to take off before one of the landing events at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s SAFECON event on May 20 in Moline, Ill. Photo by Jeremy Turley/Flatwater Free Press
UNO Flight Team member Shay Sinnard crushes a Red Bull can at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s SAFECON event. Many members of the team consumed multiple energy drinks during each day of the competition.
University of North Dakota Flying Team members fill sacks of flour for the “Bomb Drop” event sometime after the team’s founding in 1966. The event, rebranded as “Message Drop” during the Vietnam War, tasks teams with trying to hit targets on the ground with containers dropped from the air. National Intercollegiate Flying Association
