Celebration of Flight 2011 (aka Caldwell airshow)

[QuietOne]

I finally found one of those round tuits - even found a really nice wooden one. So here are a few pictures from the airshow back in June.

A-10 Thunderbolt II, aka Warthog. Bucket loads of power, for ridiculous climb rates and maneuvering. We got one of the official demonstration planes. I've also seen them at the Ontario airshow, courtesy of Mountain Home AFB.







Dornier GMBH Alpha Jet. So far as I know, Mark hasn't named it. You can see what a tight fit the cockpit is in the first photo.

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Mark just has way too much fun at airshows. Here he is with Hell-er Bust.







Mark and JC (in Sneak Attack) flew a few laps together.



Parking it back on the flight line.

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Little Witch, visiting from Florida. She also flew a heritage tribute flight with the Warthog.





Red Eagle, a Pitts S1-T. She had a bit of trouble on the way home. Rather suddenly oiled the windscreen. The pilot did a good job of landing, which is tough with a little plane like that. She got banged up a bit, but walked away. But word is Red Eagle doesn't look like an airplane anymore.





Looking down Sneak Attack's throat?

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Some of the static displays.

Beechcraft Staggerwing



Scarab engine. Amazingly, Mike isn't sure of what the airplane is.



Bugeye Sprite. The stickers indicate it runs in the vintage class in the Portland region of the SCCA.



P-47 Thunderbolt

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T-28







An interesting badge



And an interesting hood ornament.

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70s Shovelhead (Harley), last of the iron cylinders bikes, with a wild paint job.


Crowd watching the Life Flight helicopter come in.


Not quite a big enough engine to fly


Passing time. Or another type of flying, take your pick. He was one of the recruiters at the Air National Guard booth.


Watching. I don't remember who was up at the time.

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One of the big RC models had problems taxiing back in.


The rest of these pictures are sad. The first two are part of a Missing Man formation for Bob Finer. He died last year while assisting in a military training exercise in Florida. His plane got caught in a thunderstorm cell that came up very rapidly and was torn apart. All 3 aboard were killed.




This is Greg Poe's plane. He had a business doing stunt flying at airshows. He also had an active outreach program for youths. He died about 3 weeks after this picture was taken of a heart attack. He'd been riding dirt bikes over at Blacks Creek and was stuck suddenly after he got in the truck. There will be a Missing Man formation for him Saturday. I can't make the show, but it's close enough that the formation might fly over the house. We'll see if I get anything.

[Marko]

Lovely variety and details in this set Q.O. Sorry to here of the sad part.

[JAS_Photo]

Great set, Quiet1! Lots of colour and cool looking planes. sorry to hear of your friend.

[Michaelaw]

Great aircraft shots, I'm a big fan of the Warthog