See how volunteer pilots give back, help with environmental preservation
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See how volunteer pilots give back, help with environmental preservation
SouthWings volunteer pilots, board, and staff assemble at its annual volunteer pilot appreciation Fly-In. Doug Oakley heads north with a plane full of puppies in carriers for Pilots N Paws. A photographer documents discharge into a creek and wetland north of Wilmington during a flight. A flight documents activities at Concentrated animal feeding operations. The view from a flight over the Green Swamp Preserve area to survey forest fire damage. A volunteer pilot flies over the Intracoastal Waterway from Bald Head Island to New River Inlet just months after Hurricane Florence. The hog waste is pumped into these holding ponds where it is then sprayed onto nearby fields.
See how volunteer pilots give back, help with environmental preservation
Doug Oakley snuggles with one of his “passengers” for a Pilots N Paws rescue flight. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
Doug Oakley’s Cessna 172 airplane is pulled out of the hangar for a flight. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
Doug Oakley heads north with a plane full of puppies in carriers for Pilots N Paws. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
On Nov. 6, 2018, just months after Hurricane Florence, a volunteer pilot flies over the Intracoastal Waterway from Bald Head Island to New River Inlet. PROVIDED BY ALAN CRADICK
Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette looks out the window of Doug Oakley’s Cessna 172 on a flyover to survey threats to the Cape Fear River, including Duke Energy’s Sutton Plant coal ash ponds and International Paper’s Riegelwood plant. PROVIDED BY ALAN CRADICK
Alan Cradick photographs International Paper’s Riegelwood plant on a flyover with Doug Oakley. PROVIDED BY ALAN CRADICK
A view of Town Creek and the Cape Fear River on Aug. 11, 2014. PROVIDED BY ALAN CRADICK
SouthWings volunteer pilots, board, and staff assemble at its annual volunteer pilot appreciation Fly-In. Doug Oakley is holding the banner (center) with his wife Jane to his right. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
The view from a flight over the Green Swamp Preserve area to survey forest fire damage. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
A photographer documents discharge into a creek and wetland north of Wilmington during a flight. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
Flooding from Hurricane Florence in 2018 inundates a swine farming operation. The square flooded area in the forefront is the hog waste pond. The hog waste is pumped into these holding ponds where it is then sprayed onto nearby fields. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
The wing tip of Doug Oakley’s plane as he flew over the Green Swamp Preserve with staff from the Nature Conservancy of North Carolina to monitor the swamp after a fire in 2023. Back row: Rick Dove, Rankin Whittington, Doug Oakley, Larry Baldwin. Front row: Kemp Burdette and Jeff Currie. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
A flight documents activities at Concentrated animal feeding operations. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
A flight documents activities at Concentrated animal feeding operations. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS
A flight documents activities at Concentrated animal feeding operations. PROVIDED BY SOUTHWINGS