I decided to head down to Dayton yesterday for the air show there. I got there a little too late to see the Brazillian team, they were performing as I was coming in. And I missed the B-2 because it flew over as I was just getting out of my car, but the rest of the show was pretty nice.
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This is the A-10 Thunderbolt. It's a pretty neat looking plane (maybe not the best looking). It is designed to kill tanks.
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This is what is known as a Heritage Flight where they take an old aircraft and pair it with a modern aircraft. In this case, the old aircraft is the P-51 Mustang and the new is the A-10 Thunderbolt.
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These are planes from the Tora! Tora! Tora! group which uses the planes that they used for the Japanese planes from the movie. They simulate the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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This is one of the planes made up to look like a Zero.
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The formation of Zeros.
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Some of the other planes.
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This is one of the stunt pilots. From the tail of the Thunderbird, you can see that he is upside down.
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This is another shot of him.
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This is a shot of him after he cut the ribbon that was maybe 30 feet off the ground.
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This is a C-17 Cargo plane going through its paces.
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This is the B-52 as its doing a flyby.
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This is a C-5 on a flyby.
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The F/A-18 Hornet as it's going through it's paces. The condensation over the wings is from the plane making a tight turn and the air actually vaporizing.
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This is a Corsair.
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This was kind of neat to watch. These are some people doing their swearing in for the Air Force. It's not often you get sworn in by a Thunderbird.
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This is the pre flight ceremony.
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A sort of shot of the diamond formation.
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This is a shot of the underside of the Thunderbirds.
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This is a shot as the diamond went by a on a photo pass.
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Another shot of the diamond.
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A shot as the plane is going slow. It is basically using the thrust of the engine to keep it up.
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This is called the delta formation.
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This is called a mirror formation.
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