Stall spin
Geico Skytypers - T6/Harvard/SNJ aircraft. As a kid I remember these flying around at Wigram in Christchurch (NZ) in the 1970s
T6s banking
Making crosses
Breakout
Weeds
Beach views
A10 Thunderbolt flyby
Pretty maneuverable for an 11 ton flying tank
P51D Mustang
Nice prop work, Mr Bond...On the full size pic you can read "Bob Baranaskas" under the canopy, an airshow pilot killed in a P40 Warhawk crash near the TWA flight 800 memorial not far from our house in 2009.
P40 Warhawk/Kittyhawk
Sean Tucker in the bright red Oracle machine
Navy/Marines demonstration team the Blue Angels with their F/A-18 Hornets
I thought they would be ok
But they were really bloody amazing
Don't cross the streams... incredibly lucky catch as the planes are each coming in at just under the speed of sound. Great noise...
Supposedly 18 inches of clearance from wingtip to canopy...
Zoom, zoom, zoom
Aces high
Lineup
Water condensation on the strake vortices (isn't the internet amazing) during a turn
And over the wings
Banked turn with afterburners engaged
All 6 of the planes together
Fat Albert, the Blue Angels Hercules support plane - love them prop trails...
Over the beach
Delta formation
Nice view from there...
The Fleur de Lis
Flyby
Another high speed cross
Diamond formation
Opposing turns
Airshow 2012
The practice day started a couple of hours late due to thick fog, but things eventually got started with some smoke trailers and acrobatics
But I just want to see the jets and the WW2 bombers
Warthog flyby
Superhornet fast pass. There was supposed to be a F22 Raptor at the show, but they were all grounded a few days before for safety reasons
Banking with afterburners lit
The simulated carrier landing. Of course they don't actually land in the sea...
Another fast pass with plenty of water vapour
Comin at ya
Built in fog
Coming down to see us
Wing vapour
Sonic boom
Playing in the surf
It's not all beer and skittles you know
Beach attire for the less glamourous.
Alas perhaps due to the weather, the bombers and WW2 stuff didn't strut its stuff on the practice day...
...So next day on the way back from the city I hang out at Republic Airport where the planes hand out for the weekend. Here the Superhornet comes in to land
Corsair on approach
The corsair with wings folded and a bloody noisy Sherman tank (shot through a wire netting fence)
And this is what I wanted to see. Well, really what I wanted to see was the B17, but the last flying B29 in the world will have to do.
Fifi coming in to land
I got taken by surprise by this Mustang taking off. Them things are fast.
A last evening liftoff for Fifi before I head home
Easthampton windmills. Not a plane.