One of the challenges of flying a vintage aircraft is that, by modern standards, they are a little light on instrumentation that allow the pilot to safely traverse visual obscuration brought on by clouds or smoke—but that didn’t stop visitors from attending the annual Western Antique Airplane and Automobile Museum (WAAM) annual fly-in held the weekend after Labor Day at Ken Jernstedt Airfield / Hood River Airport (4S2).
“We’ve had fly-ins impacted by adverse weather before,” says WAAAM’s director Stephanie Hatch. “If people can’t fly in, they drive in. This year we had 200 airplanes, which is a pretty good number. They represented a good variety, we had the older style biplanes and antiques that are near and dear to everyone like the Stearman to modern aircraft fly in.”
