Air shows!
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primsongI posted this over at the fanclub, then thought to myself - wow, I think I have something I could put on my LJ for a change. Hence...
My dad is a pilot, and for many years my folks lived in an airpark, where everyone has a hangar and the road doubles as the taxi-way for small aircraft. Add to it my dad and brother both having an affinity for classic WWII airplanes.
Thus I am somewhat familiar with aircraft and at one point longed for an ultralight of my very own. (ooh -yeah!) Still kind of regret that I didn't get one... My dad talked me out of it because he considered them too unsafe. It was in the years when they were still something unusual, from kits.
Right now we live near an airport that hosts a big airshow every year, lots of funky planes and fabulous classic restorations. About every other year they have someone really big, like the Blue Angels there.
This was one of those years, when I could go out and look up in the sky in the morning to watch an old biplane putt-putt past, then a triangular thing I didn't even recognize, but it was flying... then that deep roar that says the Angels are practicing!
I live at their turn-around point when they come out from the airport, so we can put our chairs out in our cul-de-sac and watch four Angels in delta formation turning overhead. Way cool, and very loud. It feels like they are going to run right into the trees sometimes, and they move amazingly fast.
This year we were at a birthday party right by the airport when they did their Saturday show - Yowza! I swear, it is somethin' to see Blue Angels coming straight at you then passing overhead, turning upside-down as they go, so close that the smoke they are releasing curls down through the trees above you and makes it hazy. Totally wowed, we all just stood there and excitedly clapped and cheered every time they came around, or shot up into the air above us, or roared right over our building. It was a good show.
Neat stuff, even if I don't go to the airshow itself because I've already seen a lot of planes before and the concrete was too hot. Those Navy boys really know their stuff.
My dad is a pilot, and for many years my folks lived in an airpark, where everyone has a hangar and the road doubles as the taxi-way for small aircraft. Add to it my dad and brother both having an affinity for classic WWII airplanes.
Thus I am somewhat familiar with aircraft and at one point longed for an ultralight of my very own. (ooh -yeah!) Still kind of regret that I didn't get one... My dad talked me out of it because he considered them too unsafe. It was in the years when they were still something unusual, from kits.
Right now we live near an airport that hosts a big airshow every year, lots of funky planes and fabulous classic restorations. About every other year they have someone really big, like the Blue Angels there.
This was one of those years, when I could go out and look up in the sky in the morning to watch an old biplane putt-putt past, then a triangular thing I didn't even recognize, but it was flying... then that deep roar that says the Angels are practicing!
I live at their turn-around point when they come out from the airport, so we can put our chairs out in our cul-de-sac and watch four Angels in delta formation turning overhead. Way cool, and very loud. It feels like they are going to run right into the trees sometimes, and they move amazingly fast.
This year we were at a birthday party right by the airport when they did their Saturday show - Yowza! I swear, it is somethin' to see Blue Angels coming straight at you then passing overhead, turning upside-down as they go, so close that the smoke they are releasing curls down through the trees above you and makes it hazy. Totally wowed, we all just stood there and excitedly clapped and cheered every time they came around, or shot up into the air above us, or roared right over our building. It was a good show.
Neat stuff, even if I don't go to the airshow itself because I've already seen a lot of planes before and the concrete was too hot. Those Navy boys really know their stuff.
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