
"It felt like we were celebrities:" World's largest peacetime airlift brings hundreds of athletes to the Special Olympics
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The world's largest Peacetime Airlift is helping to bring more than 800 athletes and coaches to and from the Special Olympics this year. The games, where more than 5,000 athletes are participating, are underway in Orlando, Florida, and conclude on Sunday.
"It felt like we were celebrities just coming off of that plane," Special Olympics athlete Tim Burnett told CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave.
Organized by Textron Aviation, the airlifts took two years of careful planning. The 128 private planes included in the operation touched down two minutes within each other in Orlando last week, according to the Special Olympics.

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