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Help Keep Doc Flying
It still requires an army to operate and support a B-29 Superfortress. From volun- teers to donors, mechanics to marketers, it is a joint effort.
To help ensure Doc’s operational status throughout this year and the future, a combined team of communicators from Spirit AeroSystems and advertising agency Sullivan Higdon Sink are working diligently to share Doc’s story and mission across the country. Here are ways you can help:
Donate directly – via the Doc’s Friends website: www.b-29doc.com (Paypal) or mail (P.O. Box 771089, Wichita, KS 67277)
Purchase Doc merchandise – shirts, hats, first flight memorabilia and more are available online via Yingling Aviation’s gift shop, www.aviatorsattic.com/Doc-s-Friends.
To stay up to date on all Doc news, subscribe online at b-29doc.com or follow Doc on Facebook (facebook.com/docsfriends) and Twitter (twitter.com/docsfriends).
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The large team of Doc volunteers, many of them retired Boeing employees, took every piece apart, inspected it, cleaned it and put it back together. More than 350,000 volunteer hours have been invested toward bringing Doc back from the brink of destruction.
once a schedule is confirmed. Soon, people around the country will be able to see Doc in person and gain a richer understanding o•f our aviation history.
“There were certain things that happened along the way where you say to yourself, it’s like it was meant to be,” saidMazzolini. T&T
Rebecca Groom Jacobs is a private pilot and Content Marketing Special- ist at the Wichita office of Sullivan Higdon & Sink, a marketing and ad- vertising agency with an aviation, aerospace and defense focus. Though raised around general aviation, she first considered it as a career while learning to fly in a Piper J-3 Cub in 2010. Coincidentally, she then spent two years at Piper Aircraft before joining SHS Wichita. SHS is a mar- keting and communications partner for Doc's Friends. Contact Rebecca at rebecca.jacobs@shscom.com.
A few members of Doc’s flight crew celebrate after its successful first flight. From left, Rick Garvis (crew chief – secondary flight engineer), Glenn Mount (right scanner), Tony Mazzolini (Doc’s rescuer), David Oliver (co-pilot), Don Obreiter (left scanner).
“This year, we have a lot to learn about touring and operating the airplane economically,” said Murphy. “In the next few years, we will expand and start offering rides and more of a complete schedule. Certainly, one of the main
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events will be to fly with FIFI. No one since 1956 has seen two B-29’s fly in formation.”
The group will release tour information on its website and social media accounts
March 2017
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