The Commercial Dispatch

Following seven years of being shuttered after being partially demolished by an EF-3 tornado in 2019, the R.E. Hunt Museum and Cultural Center's is set to reopen, kicking off Juneteenth celebrations in Columbus.

Hunt Museum reopening to highlight upcoming Juneteenth festivities Following seven years of being shuttered after being partially demolished by an EF-3 tornado in 2019, the R.E. Hunt Museum and Cultural Center’s is set to reopen, kicking off Juneteenth celebrations in Columbus.

Somewhere over Aliceville, Alabama, Capt. Daniel "Slick" Flynn, the pilot teacher in the front seat of the aircraft, speaks over the radio to explain the barrel roll maneuver we're about to perform before he quickly jolts the plane to the right.

Suddenly the sky flips and becomes my floor, and we spin downward, pushing roughly 4.5 G-force, or feeling roughly 4.5 times the normal pull of gravity, and my body folds in on itself.

Above the Clouds: My ride in the sky with ‘Slick’ the CAFB pilot Surprisingly, the takeoff in a T-6 Texan II from Columbus Air Force Base doesn’t feel too different from the rumble of a commercial airline’s ascent.