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Windy Weekend Doesn't Stop Planes From Visiting DeKalb Skies

It was cloudy this weekend, but that didn’t keep pilots from DeKalb's airport on Sunday.

The gathering of aviation enthusiasts was part of the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual pancake fly-in at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport.

Tom Burgan is Treasurer with the EAA Chapter 241. He says there are many reasons why he looks forward to the event each year:

"Meeting the people that come in from a lot of different areas, and it is the camaraderie of people who like airplanes," Bergen said.

The winged visitors included home-built, antique, and newer store-bought aircraft. Money raised at the event funds a scholarship to teach a young person how to fly.

Jenna Dooley has spent her professional career in public radio. She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois - Springfield. She returned to Northern Public Radio in DeKalb after several years hosting Morning Edition at WUIS-FM in Springfield. She is a former "Newsfinder of the Year" from the Illinois Associated Press and recipient of NIU's Donald R. Grubb Journalism Alumni Award. She is an active member of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association and an adjunct instructor at NIU.