正澳门六合彩开奖直播 Engineering Student Gives Wyoming Valley High Flying View Of Flood
Devon Albrecht, a senior mechanical engineering student at 正澳门六合彩开奖直播, helped give his neighbors in the Wyoming Valley some high flying views of the Susquehanna River flooding by donating his time as a pilot. Albrecht shot video for WBRE-TV, where his father, Mark Albrecht works. He also was the wings for Don Carey, his uncle and a photographer for the Times-Leader.
Albrecht, a Shavertown resident who earned his private pilot鈥檚 license in 2009, has
worked at the Wyoming Valley Airport in Forty Fort since he was 15 years old. He wanted
to fly over the flood and his father suggested that he offer to fly and provide aerial
video and photographs. Devon Albrecht strapped two Go Pro high definition cameras
to the plane to capture the video. Carey was along to take still photographs. The
costs of the plane were absorbed by the television station and newspaper, but Albrecht
donated his flying time.
Taking off from Avoca, where the planes from Wyoming Valley had been moved to stay
out of the path of the flood, Albrecht flew over Pittston and proceeded all the way
to Bloomsburg. 鈥淚t was devastating to see everything,鈥� Albrecht said. 鈥淎t the airport
in Bloomsburg, planes were floating in the water.鈥�
Albrecht said he got the flying bug early. His grandfather was a flight instructor
during World War II and his mother鈥檚 employer, who also is a private pilot, started
treating him to plane rides at an early age. On campus, Albrecht is a resident assistant
in Evans Hall.