It was a press flight to help promote the fact the historic plane was going to be in Wichita this weekend at Jabara Airport.
I was there with The McPherson (Kan.) Sentinel, and it was an amazing experience.
While being in that plane, I really got an idea of what it must have been like for the brave souls who fought in WWII and manned those planes, which are refereed to as “flying fortresses.”
Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.
