Thunderbirds!!

[90Xjay]

I took my best friend and my son out to the Air Base this weekend for the Airshow. It has been about 5 years since the Thunderbirds were able to be there. I spent 4 years in the Airforce and I have seen some hotdog F-15 drivers, but these guys are awesome.

This is a collage of two pics I took.

Here is my son with the lead solo pilot. Notice the absence of a G-suit.

I've tried uploading a small vid clip with no sucess, I'll try again later.

 

[TwistedCU]

What a coinckydink. Working in Annapolis today, we watched the Blue Angels do practice runs for their show tomorrow at the Naval Acadamy's graduation ceremony. Truly awesome machines.

 

[90Xjay]

What a coinckydink. Working in Annapolis today, we watched the Blue Angels do practice runs for their show tomorrow at the Naval Acadamy's graduation ceremony. Truly awesome machines.

and men.8)

 

[Sparky-Watts]

Haven't been to an airshow since I was a paramedic student (man, what a horrible, horrible sunburn I got that day!), but I've seen both the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds practicing around Wichita before. McConnel AFB usually has a pretty decent show, and with Wichita being the Air Capital, there's usually lots of really cool vintage military planes, too.

My cousin's hubby is an instructor for the F14 down in Oklahoma and has tried several times to get into a stunt team, but couldn't make the cut....so, you know those guys are good if an instructor can't do it!!

 

[90Xjay]

I got the vid uploaded finally.

I made this up for my son to remember his day by.

Thunderbirds Video