A 40-year-old man in the United States was killed at a Michigan air show when his jet-fueled semi-truck exploded during a horrific pyrotechnic accident.
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WMUK s Leona Larson reports on the opening of the annual Battle Creek Field of Flight Airshow and Balloon Festival
Hundreds of people came out to the Battle Creek Executive Airport at Kellogg Field on Wednesday, June 30, for the first night of the five-day event that runs through July 4.
Until 2020, four-year-old Jeffrey, his older brother Tommy, and their cousin Alaina, had never missed the annual event. They were excited to be back this summer.
“Would you’d be brave enough to shoot yourself out of a cannon?,” asked Jeffrey’s grandmother, after Chachi “The Rocketman” Valencia, the “Human Cannonball,” was shot from a cannon.
Battle Creek Balloon Festival Will Launch in 2021
The Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon festival has been cleared for takeoff and will fill the skies with planes, balloons and fireworks on the 4th of July.
The U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor demo team headlines the events and the five day competition for balloon pilots returns as the Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival is forging ahead with plans for the Summer of 2021. Executive Director Barbara Haluszka told the Battle Creek Enquirer that her board of directors met and decided to clear the launch of the festival after skipping 2020.
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