Special event

National Ice Cream Day

Official achievement authored by JimG008.

The third Sunday of July is one of the sweetest days in the calendar of residents of the US, as it is when we celebrate National Ice Cream Day.

It was President Ronal Reagan that, in 1984, had the idea to create a special holiday to commemorate the delicious treat that over 90% of Americans love to eat.

At first, this day was only meant to be observed once, on July 15 of 1984 but the dairy industry saw an opportunity and made it into an annual celebration and the holiday quickly became a national favourite, and encouraged people to eat more ice cream.

The largest ice cream producing plant in the United States is in Bakersfield, California.

Some Facts About Ice Cream

  • The first records of something like ice cream being made and consumed date back to around 697 AD in China. Although their ice cream wasn't like the one we know today, but rather a mixture of dairy with salt and ice, that was frozen. Some believe that ice cream goes back even further in time, to the Romans, who apparently collected snow from the mountains and then consumed it with honey and fruit juices.
  • Officially, it was in 1660 that Francesco Procopio Dei Coltelli perfected a prototype made by his grandfather for an ice cream machine, and produced and sold gelato in his cafe - that was the first time that ice cream was made available to the general population. Francesco's recipe was made of milk, butter, eggs, and cream and was soon exported to the rest of Europe.
  • The oldest recipe for ice cream in the United States is credited to Thomas Jefferson, who created a recipe for an Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream, which is now an artifact available at the Library of Congress.
  • While vanilla is America's favorite ice cream flavor, and usually the base for other ice creams, chocolate-flavored ice cream was actually invented first, and is the most popular flavor in Canada. Some other popular flavors are cookie dough, cookies n’ cream, and mint chocolate chip.
  • The worlds largest ice cream sundae was made in Canada 0n July 24, 1984 during National Ice Cream Month. It consisted of 63 flavors and weighed nearly 25 tonnes!

Criteria

Depart from an airport of your choice, fly to and land at KBFL, your flight distance must be further than 100 NM.
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Date Departure Arrival Pilot Aircraft Landing rate Distance Flight time
31JUL22 2157Z KOAK KBFL Morph108 Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -29 ft/m 237 nm 00:46 View
31JUL22 2157Z KOAK KBFL Alessandro392 Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -29 ft/m 237 nm 00:46 View
31JUL22 1925Z CA99 KBFL avdxniel Learjet 45 (LJ45) -88 ft/m 112 nm 00:08 View
31JUL22 1726Z KFAT KBFL Lukas Chylek Socata TBM-850 (TBM8) -38 ft/m 128 nm 00:38 View
31JUL22 0217Z KAPV KBFL Pappa_Razzi Cessna 525C Citation CJ4 (C25C) -141 ft/m 139 nm 00:32 View
29JUL22 2358Z KLGB KBFL S Swannack Boeing 737-700 (B737) -213 ft/m 114 nm 00:26 View
29JUL22 1615Z KTIX KBFL Cpt AV8 Airbus A320 neo (A20N) -331 ft/m 2011 nm 04:39 View
29JUL22 1534Z KFAT KBFL JBJunior Piper Turbo Arrow 3 (P28S) -35 ft/m 109 nm 01:05 View
28JUL22 2256Z KBIH KBFL Captain Bananas Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -183 ft/m 123 nm 00:05 View
28JUL22 2119Z KSFO KBFL Shark61 Airbus A320 (A320) -220 ft/m 305 nm 00:47 View
28JUL22 0733Z KAPV KBFL B33rSlayer Cessna 414 Chancellor (C414) -74 ft/m 116 nm 00:37 View
27JUL22 1632Z KAVX KBFL CaptainAS007 Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -23 ft/m 130 nm 00:32 View
26JUL22 2015Z KLAX KBFL Caspy1Uk Airbus Helicopters-Kawasaki H-145 (EC45) -78 ft/m 128 nm 01:27 View
26JUL22 1334Z KSFO KBFL Remus Bière Airbus A320 neo (A20N) -200 ft/m 335 nm 00:53 View
26JUL22 1253Z KSBA KBFL Bobby Allen Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -88 ft/m 133 nm 00:33 View
26JUL22 0055Z KOSH KBFL Colomo Boeing 737-800 (B738) -129 ft/m 1580 nm 00:42 View
25JUL22 1352Z KAPV KBFL SaintSephora Cessna 421 (C421) -60 ft/m 113 nm 00:35 View
25JUL22 1323Z KONT KBFL Ironbird Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -55 ft/m 111 nm 00:37 View
25JUL22 1104Z KSFO KBFL General Lunatic Airbus A320 neo (A20N) -291 ft/m 207 nm 00:41 View
25JUL22 0621Z KSJC KBFL Wokninja Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) -103 ft/m 258 nm 00:54 View