Airshow At Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport
This was my first airshow and I was impressed. I took 129 pics of the event. I'm not a photographer, nor do I have a great camera. The zoom doesn't work well and I had to clean up the pictures with PaintShopPro to remove most of the "noise". I've never taken a picture where I had to follow something going nearly the speed of sound.
Airshow
Just click the above pic and it will take you to the picassa web album where you can see all the pics.
Highlights of the day:
To open the show, the Coast Guard did a mock rescue. They are incredibly fast. I think it took all of a minute to rescue the "stranded boater".
The Oracle father-son stunt team had a really close encounter. Everyone gasped at how close they were.
One of the Army Golden Knights parachute team nearly flipped over. His parachute nearly collapsed and you could see him trying to make an adjustment by pulling HARD on the other side to flip him back.
The C-17 cargo plane was pretty cool. You wouldn't think so, but it has reverse thrust engines and can land on a very short runway.
The F/A-18 almost broke the sound barrier. It had that moisture evaporation around the nose and wings right before it breaks the speed of sound. Of course, I missed that pic.
The Air National Guard stunt plane was really good. They had the cockpit hooked up to the speakers. He was talking normally until he would pull back the stick and head straight up. The G-forces made him strain to talk.
The Army Sky Soldiers Cobra team was good too. There's not a whole lot of stunts they can do, but it was still fun to watch.
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Words and pictures cannot even begin to describe how awesome they were. You have to actually see it in person.
It was such a great day, I'm already looking forward to next year.
