That's where my son and I spent several hours yesterday. The major Sacramento newspaper reported that over 50,000 people attended on Saturday and I haven't seen a count yet for Sunday, but I can tell you it was many tens of thousands of people.
Imagine, all these people were there to see weapons of war.
Anyway, I could tell you all sorts of stories, but instead I'll let the pictures do most of the talking. This post will include non-Blue Angels pictures; the next post will include many of the Blue Angels pictures I took.
Fans of army sports will like the F-18 above :-)
And if I have misidentified any aircraft below, please leave a comment correcting me!
This fine American was parked outside.
KC-10 tanker
Did you know you can pretty much see through a jet engine?
F-5/T-38's are such sexy aircraft. Look at the lines.
Even NASA gets cool aircraft with this F/A-18 Hornet.
F-16
E/A-6B Prowler, used for fleet electronic warfare
C-17, the replacement for the older C-141's
A World War II era P-51
Oh look, this pretty little aircraft shot down 6 Nazis. War is sometimes an ugly business.
A-10 Thunderbolt II, nicknamed the Warthog. It's the first aircraft I ever wanted to fly.
With it's engine placement, doesn't the A-10 look like a plane with mouse-ka-ears?
Another F-5 with it's sleek appearance.
The front of the C-5 Galaxy opens, just like the rear does. And for you old-timers, there's no longer a Military Airlift Command (MAC). It's now Air Mobility Command.
A B-52. Eight jet engines. Wow.
An A-10 and a P-51 flying next to each other. Note the size difference.
dang...i wish i could have gone...i would of loved it because i LOVE jets and i plan on takin up the flyin career. i was too busy snowboarding both days though...well, thank god for digital cameras
ReplyDelete50K people in California visited "weapons of war"...and less than 1K protested the Iraq War in New York of all places this past weekend...there is some hope for this country!!! :)
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