Air Boss watching over the performances
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Aerobatic planes lined up ready for their routines
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Darren the airport owner, and performers Mike Wild and Bob
Richardson
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Steve, keeping an ear out
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Chuck, listening on the scanner for traffic
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The ramp is pretty full now, lots of folks
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Greg coming by in the Chipmonk, Air Boss watches
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Greg taxies in...
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and Smokes out the FAA (and us, but mostly the FAA)
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You can see folks sitting under all sorts of surfaces watching
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The Model T ready to go for its race
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The FAA fellows keeping a close eye on the aerobatic routine
happening above while the antique cars line up ready for their
close-up.
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AE giving Steve info, while Steve keeps one ear and two eyes on
his sky duties
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Here go two of the three antique cars, to the end of the runway
for their "race"
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The Chipmonk takes off for his part of the race
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And he's off...
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This is not much of a race, folks. The cars top out at
about 40 mph and the Chipmonk can't fly that slow. :)
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He pulls away and comes back for another round or two
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Here are the three cars racing down the runway at the speed of
sound.
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The Chipmonk goes overhead
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He's in the lead, what a shock!
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Coming in for the kill...
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Reminds me of WWII footage...
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Next is a speedster and a Pitts.
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Pitts Bob is ready to go...
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And this isn't a close race either, but everybody has fun with
both races. Car guys, plane guys and spectators.
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The Speedster comes back in to park after getting whipped.
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Spectators
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and more spectators
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Have you ever seen that photo of an airplane in Africa with a
whole line of lions in the shade of the wing? We don't know
these folks sitting under Nathan's airplane, but that's okay, they
are welcome to the shade. :)
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The Civil Air Patrol folks take some shade too
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Two CAP planes leaving
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Everything starts heading out after the show.
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Meanwhile I'm good and hot and sitting under the wing of the T-6
taking photos. :)
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Chuck's golf cart died, so AE towed him in...
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And a Stearman takes off, only to have an unfortunate nose-over
incident a few minutes later on the runway at its home base.
Nobody hurt, thankfully.
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The L-bird leaving...
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This is a beautiful Stearman based out of Frankfort
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The blue and white is very sharp.
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A different view of the T-6, photo by Steve Tummers. :) |
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