Love Field 5K

06/28/2022

This gets us closer to...

IT’S HAPPENING: We are so excited to announce that the new and improved Runway 13R/31L is now open! Thank you for your patience during the reconstruction process, we are ecstatic to return to dual runway operations at DAL! ✈️❤️

📸: Marissa Sanchez

10/15/2021

Today is the last day for early registration pricing for the 2022 Runway Run Dallas at our sister airport Dallas Executive Airport! Save and sign up today at www.runwayrundallas.com!

09/14/2021

Have you seen the new Commemorative Air Force museum at the Dallas Executive Airport? Well on December 4, 2021 you will get a chance too! Save the date and make sure to follow the Runway Run 5K page and www.runwayrundallas.com too! Details coming in a couple of weeks!

03/04/2021

Ever wanted to be nose to nose with a Blue Angel? Here is your chance to do it at the Frontiers Of Flight Museum! Get the details in the link below!

Join us for a very special day at the Museum to commemorate the newest addition to our aircraft collection, the F/A-18 "Hornet" Blue Angel on Saturday, March 20th.

All Blue Angel merchandise will be 20% off, and if you renew your membership at the Museum that day, we will give you an additional 6 months to on a standard 12-month membership. You get an additional year and half for the price of one year added to your current membership on that day only!

For more information visit https://www.flightmuseum.com/blue-angels-day/.

01/07/2021

Which one are you?

12/17/2020

Happy Wright Brothers Day! How many of you are finishing the 103 mile challenge today?

12/10/2020

One week until the 103 mile journey is complete! We see 71 of you have have made it! Just like in 1958 when Pan American flew the first jet service in the US, we wish you a safe flight and a soft landing!

12/08/2020

Not the kind of history we like to celebrate but certainly recognize! Godspeed Chuck! You certainly had it here on earth!

USAF General Yeager passed away at 97 referred to by Tom Wolfe, "the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff."

One of Yeager's most famous feats was being the first to break the sound barrier. On 14 October 1947, Yeager's plane - nicknamed Glamorous Glennis, in honour of his first wife - was dropped from the bomb bay of a B-29 aircraft above the Mojave Desert in the south-western US.

Yeager, who was at the time just 24, managed to break the speed of sound at an altitude of 45,000ft (13,700m).

12/07/2020

It's medal Monday! Our second shipment of finisher medals is scheduled to arrive to us today which means more packets will be shipped tomorrow!

12/03/2020

How about this for a distance challenge? In 1973 the NASA interplanetary probe Pioneer 10 reached its closest approach to the gas giant, Jupiter, 132,252 kilometers (82,178 miles) above the planet’s cloud tops. At that time, Pioneer 10 had a velocity of approximately 132,000 kilometers per hour (82,021 miles per hour).

The last signal received from Pioneer 10 was on 23 January 2003. At that time, the probe was an estimated 12 billion kilometers (80 Astronomical Units) from Earth. Anyone up for a 12 Billion K?

11/17/2020

Guess who arrived at the ISS? Speaking of arrivals, race packets will start arriving this week too! Once your postage is processed, watch for an email from us with tracking information! The first 100 packets shipped yesterday and the second 150 ship today!

11/11/2020

This says it all!

11/10/2020

Medals and shirts arrive this week and that means packets will start flying to you via USPS just like the Sikorsky S-55 helicopter did on this day in 1949! You will get an email from us from Stamps.com with tracking info once your race packet has been processed!

11/06/2020

Today we celebrate Emory Malick, who in 1912, was the first African American to earn a pilot's license in the United States. Mr. Malick was born in Seven Points, PA, was an aviation pioneer and attended Curtiss Aviation School in San Diego, CA. In 1911, Mr. Malick became the first aviator to fly over central Pennsylvania, flying his homemade "aeroplane" over both Northumberland and Snyder Counties. On March 20, 1912, at the age of 30, Emory Conrad Malick became the first black pilot to earn an international pilot's license. In 1927, the first year that federal aviation licenses were issued, Mr. Malick became the first African American pilot to earn a Federal Transport License, #1716, as well as a Federal Mechanics License, #924. Speaking of firsts, don't be the first person to miss out on celebrating aviation history with Dallas Love Field and the Frontiers Of Flight Museum! Register today at www.lovefield5k.com!

11/05/2020

At 4:04 PM in 1911, Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight when he landed at Tournament Park, Pasadena, California, in front of a crowd of 20,000 spectators.

Only a few months earlier Cal Rodgers had been taught to fly by Orville Wright at Huffman Prairie, Ohio. On 7 August he had been awarded Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot certificate number 49.

The 103 mile distance challenge for the 103rd birthday of Dallas Love Field still has spots available. Get them before they fly away at www.lovefield5k.com and make your own aviation history!

11/04/2020

If you ran the original Runway Run 5K at Dallas Executive Airport in support of the Commemorative Air Force then you ran under the B29 Superfortress FiFi! And on this day in 1954 the B29 was officially retired from service. Get registered now before we are sold out at www.lovefield5k.com!

The B-29 Superfortress was the most technologically advanced—and complex—aircraft of World War II. It required the manufacturing capabilities of the entire nation to produce. Over 1,400,000 engineering man-hours had been required to design the prototypes. The B-29 was operated by a crew of 11 to 13 men. It was 99 feet, 0 inches (30.175 meters) long with a wingspan of 141 feet, 3 inches (43.068 meters). The vertical fin was 27 feet, 9 inches (8.305 meters) high.

Empty weight was 74,500 pounds (33,793 kilograms) with a maximum takeoff weight of 133,500 pounds (60,555 kilograms). The maximum speed of the B-29 was 357 miles per hour (575 kilometers per hour) at 30,000 feet (9,144 meters), though its normal cruising speed was 220 miles per hour (354 kilometers per hour) at 25,000 feet (7,620 meters). The bomber’s service ceiling was 33,600 feet (10,241 meters) and the combat range was 3,250 miles (5,230 kilometers).The Superfortress could carry a maximum of 20,000 pounds.

11/03/2020

Remember to get out and vote today! Here is a campaign strategy from President Hoover that didn't go exactly as planned on this day in 1932! Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, one of the best-known American women in aviation and the only person to have simultaneously held world records for speed, distance and altitude. She was attempting to break the transcontinental speed record as a publicity stunt for President Hoover's re-election campaign but during take-off she drifted off the concrete runway and her tire sunk into the grass which spun her plane around and her left wing hit the ground. Keep your wings soaring today and get registered to fly your own solo flight at www.lovefield5k.com!