U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team
New Hampshire Air National Guard KC-135
450 Stearman
Dan Marcotte
F4U-5 Corsair Aerobatics
Black Diamond Jet Team
Sean D. Tucker
P-51 “Quick Silver” Aerobatics
Michael Goulian
Jane Wicker Wing Walker
C-130 “Fat Albert”
U.S. Navy Aerial Demonstration Squadron Blue Angels
Much closer than me there, but I took a crap load of pictures.
The past couple days have been MUCH more awesome than today.
Idk if it is cause I was at home the whole day and it was slightly over cast.
I thought Fat Albert wasn't around the whole weekend. Was it around yesterday?
At any rate.. it's undergoing maintenance. There was a different C-130 with them for this show nicknamed "Ernie". Same as Fat Albert, but just with the drab grey paint scheme instead of the fancy high-gloss Blue Angels paint job.
Fat Albert is painted up like the Blues. Ernie is literally just a plain ol' C-130 pulled out of service to fill in while Fat Albert is under maintenance.
I believe the only difference between Fat Albert and any other C-130 is the paint. F-18s that the Blue Angels fly are only slightly modified. I read that aside from the paint scheme, the only difference between their planes and F-18s in active service is that they're fitted with the smoke canisters and also have something else in their fuel tanks to supply fuel to the engines a little bit easier while they do more inverted tricks. Active fighters don't need to be upside down for extended periods of time so they're not needed I guess.
If needed for war (I'm guessing world war 3), the Blue Angels can be repainted and put back to "stock" in 5 hours.
The C-130 is a pretty old cargo plane by today's standards, but it's still fucking impressive. The thing can stop on a fucking dime when it lands. So unnatural to see something that huge moving that fast stop so quickly on its own.
There was an airshow in Quonset 2 weeks ago. First one I've been to in over a decade. Aside from being able to see/hear them from my house my father insisted we went every year. Standing on hot pavement, with no shade, staring up into the sun is unforgiving to someone with my pigment. However, I walked over to check it out and although I have no nifty pictures I was impressed. Plus they've really added to the theme park aspect. Granted there were no roller coasters there was plenty to do. The super trampoline, rock wall climbing, a couple water rides, 3d rides, basically a carnival at an airshow. And the people watching was unmatching. In the same instant you saw an overweight/but malnourished dude with open sores with not a care in the world about the mustard stains on his old school Simpsons shirt, you'd see the hottest girl in the fucking world.
I still will never understand how somebody got a C-130 off the ground. I have a vague idea of how that works but for as loud and heavy it is it is well controlled.
Thats my contribution to the airshow discussion.
There was an airshow in Quonset 2 weeks ago. First one I've been to in over a decade. Aside from being able to see/hear them from my house my father insisted we went every year. Standing on hot pavement, with no shade, staring up into the sun is unforgiving to someone with my pigment. However, I walked over to check it out and although I have no nifty pictures I was impressed. Plus they've really added to the theme park aspect. Granted there were no roller coasters there was plenty to do. The super trampoline, rock wall climbing, a couple water rides, 3d rides, basically a carnival at an airshow. And the people watching was unmatching. In the same instant you saw an overweight/but malnourished dude with open sores with not a care in the world about the mustard stains on his old school Simpsons shirt, you'd see the hottest girl in the fucking world.
I still will never understand how somebody got a C-130 off the ground. I have a vague idea of how that works but for as loud and heavy it is it is well controlled.
Thats my contribution to the airshow discussion.
I was noticing the same thing about the people at the Portsmouth show. Beer guts and America hats and then 11 year old prostitots walking around. A fine mix of American culture.
I was tempted to go to the Rhode Island show. I passed it up in favor of the other 3 air shows in New England that had yet to happen yet this season
