'Air Boss' of Bethpage Air Show flies under radar

Originally published: May 27, 2012 9:18 AM
Updated: May 27, 2012 10:19 PM
By BILL BLEYER bill.bleyer@newsday.com

Air show quot;air bossquot; Wayne Boggs directs aircraft

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Air show "air boss" Wayne Boggs directs aircraft during the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach in Wantagh on Sunday. Boggs, 65, the older brother of Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, is a retired Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controller. (May 27, 2012)

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Few of the 186,000 spectators Sunday at the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach took notice of Wayne Boggs standing on a scaffold set up on the boardwalk.

But if not for coordination by the husky man wearing a yellow T-shirt emblazoned "Air Boss," there would have been no flyovers by the 14 individual and group performers. Since the air show began at the state park nine years ago, the retired...

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