By Adam Hunt
As of Feb. 14, 2003, the Young Eagle’s program has flown 881,918 kids!
That is an amazing number of flights flown and young people exposed to the joys
of flying.
We are very close to the goal of flying 1,000,000 young people by Dec. 17, but
we still have to fly 118,082 in the remaining nine months.
There are pilots all over the world flying Young Eagles, but Canada and COPA
members have done a significant part of the flying so far.
This year we just have to do a little bit more – plan to have two COPA Flight
Young Eagles’ Days this spring. There are still lots of kids in Canada who
haven’t flown yet. Let’s get them flying!
If your COPA Flight has flown Young Eagles in the past then now is the time to
plan to fly more this year. If your COPA Flight has never flown Young Eagles,
than this is the year to start!
You don’t have to be a member of a COPA Flight to fly Young Eagles. There are
individual COPA members who have flown hundreds of Young Eagles – each child
flown helps the cause of promoting aviation in your community.
For more information see the COPA Guide to the Young Eagles Program found at
www.copanational.org/members/COPAGuides/COPAGuidesYoungEagles.htm or check
out the Young Eagles’ web site at
www.youngeagles.org