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April 01, 2022

04.01.07 Special: ANN To Sponsor Larry Walters Memorial Celebrity Chair Lift

From April 1st, 2007: Celebrity Event To Raise Scholarship Funds On 25th Anniversary of Historic Flight

ANN’s April 1 “April Fools” Special Edition Classic ANN is proud to announce its participation in the inaugural Larry Walters Memorial Extreme Celebrity Chair Lift. The celebrity event is scheduled for July 2, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the historic flight of Lawrence Richard Walters, aka "Lawnchair Larry", or the Lawn Chair Pilot. Larry took his legendary flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade aircraft, dubbed Inspiration I, that he had fashioned out of a patio chair and 45 helium-filled weather balloons. He rose to an altitude of 16,000 feet (3 miles) and floated from his point o

From April 1st 2006: Latest Victims Not Even Flying The Damned Thing

ANN’s April 1 “April Fools” Special Edition Classic The trouble-prone Mini 500 homebuilt helicopter has claimed its latest in a long line of victims: newlywed married couple Vince and Edna Larkin, who were walking out of Wendell's Restaurant and Lounge in Mokelumne Hill, CA Thursday evening. "We had just sung some karaoke, had a few brews, that sort of thing," said Vince Larkin. "I was holding the door open for Edna -- hey, it's our honeymoon, it's the least I could do -- when suddenly, I hear this creaking noise. I look up... and that's when the helicopter fell on me."

From April 1st 2019: Rogue AOPA Employee Would Have Caused Aircraft To Display The Rival Organizations' Logo, Messages

ANN’s April 1 “April Fools” Special Edition Classic A plot has been uncovered to hack the drones scheduled to fly as part of the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 night airshows by an AOPA employee. The plot came to light when an employee of Great Lakes Drone Company, which puts on the AirVenture show, noticed some unusual activity on one of its servers while they were working on a practice display. A Great Lakes employee traced the activity to an IP address in Fredericksburg, MD.