Air Shows!
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Twiggyish | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 05:27 pm     The Stealth was awesome! It had quite a boom, of course, but only after it had passed. |
Myjohnhenry | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 07:11 pm     Yeah xx...the support plane is often situated where it is easily seen from a couple of main roads while they are here and I got to see it from just the other side of the fence one year. Twiggy...the Stealth was awesome too....you don't notice or hear it coming until it is right on top of you (no one could ever wonder why it is called that). I have always wanted to do a hot air balloon ride, but am also terrified. I love flying, but am not a big fan of heights if I don't feel secure. |
Urgrace | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:03 am     Yes, Xxit, the one in Albuquerque is the largest hot air balloon fest. There are quite a few around the country. Myjohnny, I don't have a fear of heights but do have a fear of falling! It doesn't keep me from doing crazy things, though (like getting in the down elevator at the Sears Tower or the little cable car in the St. Louis Arch!) Flight is just a passion of mine. |
Xxlt | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 01:50 pm     wah! just heard the airshow down the street was going to be 'de-militarized'............boy am i ticked off! |
Kaili | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 06:29 pm     If anyone is ever near Oshkosh, WI there is a week long air show/fly-in at the EAA that's pretty neat. Usually old and exprimental planes but various jets come too. It's toward the end of July I believe and people come from all over the world for it. |
Urgrace | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 04:10 pm     Kaili, yes we are going this year! Are you near Oshkosh? I don't think I've heard anyone on the boards say they live in Wisconsin. Awww Xxit, that is a shame. |
Urgrace | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 04:22 pm     Here's a link to Oshkosh: http://www.airventure.org/index.html |
Xxlt | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 04:30 pm     one of the docs i worked with brought back some pics of the Fly In.......in my next thirty years, i'll make the trip...... oshkosh is 7/23-7/29..... ur, that's o.k. Pt mugu is this weekend the t-birds are gonna be there- we have had a prediction of rain on sat and sun.....just my luck! the de militarized air show is the Van Nuys Av Expo...it was rated the #1 airshow in the country....either last year or the year before.... they bring in 350,000 people over two days and the streets are crowded on fri and mon...the fly in and fly out days.....they also raise about 95, 000 dollars for neighboring charities!!!! it's a shame but blame it all on that jerk in afghanistan! |
Kaili | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 09:12 pm     yeah- I live north of appleton, WI- Never actually been into the EAA during the show, just to the museum at other times. I've heard a lot of good things about it- it probably is worth going to but you know how it goes- I lived in AZ previously and met people from there who had never been to the grand Canyon (same kind of thing...you just don't think about it I guess) |
Whowhere | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 07:26 am     Here's some pics from last year!
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Xxlt | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 08:57 am     who.... nice shots. for the record!!! the first is the B-2 Spirit Bomber, a bit of trivia-each plane is named after a state...."Spirit of ..." number two is the FA 18 Hornet... number three are the A-10 "warthogs" |
Teatime | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 10:06 pm     An F-4 went down during today's airshow at Point Mugu. Crew was lost. Xxlt, just want you to know I'm thinking of you. |
Xxlt | Monday, April 22, 2002 - 09:35 am     thanks tea..... i wasn't there...i usually go on sunday, early. i just came back from work and they flashed a news break on the tube. it was the usual 'amateur photographer' film and later on in the day there was another clip showing exactly what happened. Most likely it was a flame-out that damaged the hydraulics to the tail. the planes make a east to west pass over the field, the F4 was flying with two f14's and another f4 from that air station (it's a naval weapons base, they do quite a bit of air to air missle testing there.)he peeled off to the north and made the turn to the northeast went he started to have problems. on friday the crew and other pilots had taken a group picture w/a terminally ill kid from the area (friday they do a special night show and there are special groups and charities that attend, the pilots give quite a bit of time and consideration to these special shows!!!!)and that was the photo they used to show which pilots went were killed. the accident happened at about 12:30 p.m. and the rest of the show on saturday was cancelled. Later on that evening the sunday performance was cancelled. the plane crashed into a field outside the base, the area around the base is mostly agricultural, and highway 1 runs N to S along the edge of the base. Thank god it did not hit the freeway. There was one field worker who was approx 300 yards from the plane when it went down. He was pretty freaked out... i think the worst part of the accident (it's all BAD but when you start to think of the 'what ifs?' it gets worse....) was one of the crew bailed and his momentum carried him into the fireball. it might have been for the best i wasn't there, in the last 7 months i lost my two 'air show' buddies, my dad and girlfriend. being there would have been pretty rough.......again, thanks for the thoughts! |
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