Sunday November 12th 2017

It was a cloudy day today. The high temperature was under 70 degrees. I’m glad I went to the air show yesterday. I think the clouds were low enough that it would have been difficult to find the planes at altitude.

Thunderbirds five and six just after a head on opposing pass.

I took more around 300 usable pictures and I deleted around 50 more that were nice pictures of empty sky. It is difficult to aim the camera in the glare of the bright sunshine. Often all I could do is point in the right general direction and click away. About half the time I got a usable picture. The rest were parts of aircraft, interesting cloud formations or blue sky.

Red Eagle Formation Team flying Soviet era Yak-52 trainers.

Vicky Benzing in a Red 1940 Boeing Stearman

I’m including a few more pictures from the air show in this blog entry. For most of these pictures I can provide a useful caption. One of the issues with this air show was that the aircraft on static display rarely had descriptive signage. If I didn’t already know what I was looking at I was out of luck. I’ve been to shows that were careful to make sure everything had a label. At this show it was guess work. This show did provide a newspaper with articles, ads and a map of the show grounds. I didn’t discover the content of the paper until I got home, but it wouldn’t have done much good. The map was lacking in detail and in many areas reflected a different idea than what actually happened. I also found reference to a smart phone App in the newspaper. It’s purpose was to provide updated information about the air show and on site announcements. A very good idea with poor execution. I checked out the App after the fact and found it had the same old information as the newspaper as well as a poor user interface.

This Coast Guard Helicopter was the most colorful air craft on the field.

Predator UAV

Plenty of Aviation Oil for the Warbirds.

Corsair with its wings folded

Spitfire and P51

C-17 transport

Part of the B-52 on display. It was hard to get far enough away for a good picture. Standing in the bomb bay was also an experience.

I spent the day in recovery mode. Yesterday’s air show really tired me out. My guess is that I walked around 5 miles between the show and the hike around the speedway parking lot. I also never got to sit down from the time I got out of the car until I got back to it six plus hours later. To recover I watched a lot of TV today. I made one attempt at the laundry, but once again it was full. If I was desperate for anything in the dirty clothes I’d try harder or probably just wait at the laundry for the next available machine. Tomorrow I’ll try again.