{"id":5273,"date":"2016-05-24T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2016-05-31T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T12:47:00","slug":"flying-rams-at-jones-beach-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/05\/24\/flying-rams-at-jones-beach-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Rams at Jones Beach on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bethpage Air Show takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 28-29 at Jones Beach State Park, Wantagh; $10 vehicle use fee.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmingdale State College flying Rams will open the Jones Beach airshow for their fourth year in a row on Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. They are scheduled to fly at 9:50 a.m. on both days. The performing pilots are all graduates of the Farmingdale State College Professional Pilot program and currently work as certified flight instructors (CFIs) at the Aviation Center. They are:<\/p>\n<p>Ram 1: Jon M. Miranda, Age 25, Hometown: Greenlawn, NY, FSC Class of 2012<br \/>\nRam 2: Nicholas A. Chase , Age 23, Hometown: Levittown, NY, FSC Class of 2015<br \/>\nRam 3: Abe E. Im, Age 25, Hometown: Flushing, NY, Valedictorian FSC Class of 2015<br \/>\nRam 4: David M. Imparato, Age 33, Hometown: Massapequa, NY FSC Class of 2011<\/p>\n<p>For details, go to<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/holidays\/memorial-day\/bethpage-air-show-at-jones-beach-must-see-planes-and-performances-1.11822880\" target=\"_blank\">Bethpage Air Show<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From <em>Newsday.com:<\/em><br \/>\nBACKGROUND<br \/>\nAmong the returning performers are the Flying Rams, a four-man flight demonstration team from Farmingdale State College. Four recent graduates of the college aviation program will open the show, flying single- and twin-engine Piper Warrior aircraft from Captree State Park to Jones Beach, where they\u2019ll make an easy left-hand turn over the crowd.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s no aerobatics, just a very gentle beginning to get people warmed up,\u201d says Michael Canders, associate professor of aviation and director of the college\u2019s aviation center.<br \/>\nSIGNATURE STUNT<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Over the Monument,&#8221; which is their departure over the crowd at the show center then over the Jones Beach tower before heading back to Republic Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bethpage Air Show takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 28-29 at Jones Beach State Park, Wantagh; $10 vehicle use fee. The Farmingdale State College flying Rams will open the Jones Beach airshow for their fourth year in a row on Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. They are scheduled to fly at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}