The 45th Annual Cracker Fly-In at Gainesville’s Lee Gilmer Airport is the best July 4th weekend deal in North Georgia. Need a cool place to take the kids on Saturday, July 5th, 2014, that won’t cost more than your first car? For $3 per adult …
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Aqualand: Marina or New Name for Lake Lanier?

Aqualand Marina on Lake Lanier bills itself as “the world’s largest inland marina.” OK, I can deal with that. Not like anyone we know owns a bigger marina. We have a more important issue. The weather. Sorry, but I am so sick of all the rain …
2012 Cracker Fly-In Pictures
I have no idea whose idea it was to begin the Cracker Fly-In 44 years ago, but it was a stroke of genius. As John Pittman — President of Chapter 611 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. (EAA) in Gainesville – told me, it is …
Gainesville’s Cracker Fly-In
Like airplanes? Have I got a deal for you. The skies over Gainesville will have 150 of the coolest planes you’ve ever seen coming in for a landing at the 44th Annual Cracker Fly-In at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport at 1137 Aviation Way. It all …