MCAS Beaufort Air Show

[Felix/FFDS]

Taken Saturday April 24 2004, Marine Corps Air Station  Beaufort SC,

For Hagar - A real jet trainer...


Patty -


Somehow, I wanted to eat pizza after these guys performed.



Out Sunday for a walk, I hear a noise, and took a REAL snapshot .. freaking bird almost got in the way..

[Jaffa]

Nice one

!@#$ing bird!

[Felix/FFDS]

Side note - the B2 and Jet Provost photos were taken with an Olympus C-50 digital camera.  The Patty Wagstaff and "Red Baron Pizza" performers were taken with a Mead Digital Binoculars - binoculars with a built-in camera that were a Christmas present.

[Smoke2much]

Do you often get to see B2's fly over like that Felix?

[Felix/FFDS]

Do you often get to see B2's fly over like that Felix?

No.  Even my son (based in Beaufort) says that that is a one-time happening.  There was an airshow Saturday and Sunday, and the B-2 didn't fly over on Saturday.  We were taking a walk along the waterfront when we heard turbine noises.  It wasn't the whine of an F/A-18, nor the deeper growl of a "heavy" ... we looked up and there was this "thing".

Not knowing the details, we can only assume that it was doing an air show flypast.

[Smoke2much]

Very lucky walk indeed!  Thanks for posting the shot.

I think the closest to anything like that I have ever seen was during the warm up for the first Gulf conflict.  An A-10 caming screaming over my dad's house at about 600 feet being chased by some Harriers.  The A-10 was weaving about like a maniac and the Harriers were keeping as close as possible, it was breathtaking.  Sadly I had no camera.

Cheers Felix,

Will

[eno]

Love the last shot........ at first glance it looks like a Kite I had to do a double take  

[Hagar]

Nice one Felix. The shot of that B-2 is amazing. Thanks for posting them.

PS. The Jet Provost is nice but I prefer Patty's Extra.

[ozzy72]

Great shots Felix
The JP is gorgeous

Mark

[Craig.]

great shots:) i have seen those binoculars before but couldnt imagine what sort of picture they would take, now i see its pretty good.

[N505AF]

I live on a AF base and I have never seen a B-2 in person.  Ive seen F-117 an so on up clouse...

[Mr. Bones]

Bones is jealous! a B-2 is always an amazing sight! be happy you could hear it because it normally doesn't make lots of noise...that's the only negative i can say about this plane: the sound sucks.  ;)