Air Fest 2007 Grand Finale...USN Blue Angels!!

[beaky]

These guys never fail to impress... their precision during this show allowed me to forgive that sloppy parking seen earlier.

The US Navy Flight Demonstration Team, in their 61st year wowing the crowds... wish the quality was better, but hope you like these shots.


     




     




     




     




     


     





     




     




     





     




     





     




     




The one problem with American airshows is the general lack of decent beer... but even Budweiser is welcome stuff for sunstroked would-be photographers... cheers, until the next airshow!

     

[Roughrider]

Nice Hat!!!!!!! ;  ;D  Great shots, I enjoyed the whole album.

[Willit Run]

Love the Blues!!

[beaky]

Love the Blues!!

 Nice shots and love the self portrait!! 8-)

 Numbers three is my favorite!!

 What no Fat Albert with JATO shot??? :-?

 

Fat Albert did not attend, apparently. Very disappointing.
There was no takeoff and landing action at all, really- the show line was over one of the shorter runways, and the active was too far away to see much going on there.

[Rifleman]

Well maybe you're finally done now with your day in the sun....some of us have had

[Willit Run]

No Fat Albert!! :-?

Now that sucks!!!

 Fat Albert puts on a great show by itself!!

[Double_Farvel]

Great shots! Saw them in Chicago about 3 years ago and I'll never forget it (check out the sig).

[The Ruptured Duck]

These guys never fail to impress...


The one problem with American airshows is the general lack of decent beer... but even Budweiser is welcome stuff for sunstroked would-be photographers... cheers, until the next airshow!

     

You don't go to airshows to enjoy beer.  You go to get hammered and watch "zoom zooms" tear across the sky.  So they might as well sell Budweiser (I agree with you, I would rather have almost anything but Bud).  At least thats how it is in KS.  In Wichita, the airshows have been ruined by the airshow promoters, despite high dollar acts like Wagstaff, Soucy, Franklin.  They put corporate challets right on show center for ignorant ordinarians to get shifaced and remind themselves why they aren't pilots.  There is no room for the people who really enjoy airshows.

[beaky]

These guys never fail to impress...


The one problem with American airshows is the general lack of decent beer... but even Budweiser is welcome stuff for sunstroked would-be photographers... cheers, until the next airshow!

     

You don't go to airshows to enjoy beer.  You go to get hammered and watch "zoom zooms" tear across the sky.  So they might as well sell Budweiser (I agree with you, I would rather have almost anything but Bud).  At least thats how it is in KS.  In Wichita, the airshows have been ruined by the airshow promoters, despite high dollar acts like Wagstaff, Soucy, Franklin.  They put corporate challets right on show center for ignorant ordinarians to get shifaced and remind themselves why they aren't pilots.  There is no room for the people who really enjoy airshows.

True enough- I only had two, towards the end. And it is sad what happens with the whole VIP thing (although there was no such nonsense at this show).

There's also the "Well, it's somethin' to do, and maybe we'll see an airplane crash, just  like on TV" crowd, who really think their kids want to stand for two hours in line to get in, won't cover their ears and scream every time a jet goes over,etc...
Not that I didn't see kids enjoying it. Some wide little eyes and big smiles on the flight line and inside those aircraft...


But every other one of these yokels thinks he's an expert on all things military, and loudly recites strings of horribly erroneous factoids to anyone who will listen. They'd have you believing that  a B25 is a B52, and the B52 named Enola Gay dropped the A-bomb on Berlin, thus ending our war with Russia (exaggerated, but only slightly).

The ones waiting for a crash are only slightly more creepy than the ones who think the US can, and should, nuke every other country in the world, just to be on the safe side.... some weird people turn out for these things...  ;D

[The Ruptured Duck]

Yeah those crash mongers are idiots.