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Brian Rucker

11-03-2005, 04:44 PM

This is for the flight sim geeks. My dad forwarded the link to me and there are some really nice shots in there.

http://edwards.airshowjournal.com/2005/

Rywill

11-03-2005, 05:19 PM

Wow, awesome pictures! Thanks for the link, Brian.

BaconTastesGood

11-03-2005, 06:58 PM

I can't get away from these damn planes. When I worked in San Diego the office was right near the flight path for local F18s. My house was near a flight path for CH-53s or something.

Now that I live in Atlanta, I have F22s, F16s, C17s, Hercs, and then the occasional Cobra zipping about. And those C17s are goddamn huge and loud and slow. They look like they're hovering.

The F22s are pretty cool though.

Dave Long

11-03-2005, 07:09 PM

I'll see if I can get some good pictures at World War II Weekend here in Reading next summer. My new office biulding is right near the airport and it gets super busy with some very cool vintage aircraft over the entire weekend. They also get a lot of ground equipment too. It's a very cool deal and different from a "normal" air show.

Crappy website is here...

http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html

Photos by someone that attended in 2003-4-5 are here.

http://www.pbase.com/kevinpa/ww2_weekend_2005

--Dave

JMR

11-03-2005, 08:29 PM

Wow that finale parade pic is awesome. Nice to see Yeager is still flying these days. The guy is 82 years old and still kicking ass.

EDIT: Holy shit I never new he remarried after Glennis died. Wiki has an entry on him and apparently he married Victoria Scott D'Angelo who is 45 years old - she's younger than any of Yeager's children! A quick Google search reveals that his children aren't happy about it :O

story (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/18/DDG8C511MA1.DTL)

Brian Rubin

11-03-2005, 10:10 PM

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing. I always mean to make it out to this airshow, but it always slips my mind until it's way too late. Damnit...

Peter Frazier

11-04-2005, 12:20 AM

Great pics, that guy must have a helluva setup to get those shots.

I also realised that I knew absolutely nothing about the B-1B Lancer bomber. I'd always thought that things stopped with the B52 (apart from the stealth models). I better hand in my geek card.

bago

11-04-2005, 03:23 AM

I want to see video of the F-15 ACTIVE. I bet that could do things even more insane that the SU-27!

Ben Sones

11-04-2005, 05:28 AM

Does its thrust vectoring just work along the vertical axis, like the F-22, or can it go in any direction? Either way, the F-15 has sick amounts of thrust to begin with, so I'd imagine it could do some pretty crazy tricks with vectoring.

Alan Dunkin

11-04-2005, 01:42 PM

This guy works all different kinds of airshows, takes a lot of photos, and sells some of them:

http://www.airshowjournal.com/

One of the airshows earlier this year had a flying Tigercat. Color me very impressed, I'd never seen one flying before.

--- Alan

Jason Levine

11-04-2005, 01:59 PM

One of the airshows earlier this year had a flying Tigercat. Color me very impressed, I'd never seen one flying before.

That same show had a flying Hawker Hurricane, a Dauntless dive bomber, and a formation of five P-47 Thunderbolts. Quite a gathering of rare warbirds.

Dave Long

11-04-2005, 04:30 PM

The Hawker was here in Reading one year, I think as was a P-47 and like four P-51s. The Dauntless dive bomber was here too IIRC. I've gone just about every year and this WWII Weekend has usually been the bee's knees for WWII flight fans. There are pics of the P-38 (2004 I think?) at that link above too.

Weather has been the biggest problem the last couple years. It was rainy as hell a couple years ago.

--Dave

Brian Rucker

11-04-2005, 05:29 PM

Cool link Dave! Thanks. I'm sending that one along.

Alan Dunkin

11-07-2005, 12:17 PM