Abbotsford International Airshow

[Ron]

This year marks the 45Th Annual Air Show In Abbotsford about 45 Miles east of Vancouver.

http://www.abbotsfordairshow.com/

The Abbotsford Air Show is the third largest in the world after Farnborough, England, and Paris.

Has anyone ever been to an air show before?
I have gone twice myself and want to go again but whaen you consider prices-hoo boy!

I enjoy Air Shows.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Ron

This year marks the 45Th Annual Air Show In Abbotsford about 45 Miles east of Vancouver.

http://www.abbotsfordairshow.com/

The Abbotsford Air Show is the third largest in the world after Farnborough, England, and Paris.

Has anyone ever been to an air show before?
I have gone twice myself and want to go again but whaen you consider prices-hoo boy!

I enjoy Air Shows.

I love air shows but have only been to a couple since an adult. About ten years ago just before Bergstrom Air Force base closed in Austin, TX they had a big airshow with the Thunderbirds performing and all kinds of cool military demos including watching a C130 take off with rocket assist.

I also got to walk around a C5 (huge!) and it was one of the first public showings of what had up to that time been a clandestine airplane - the Stealth fighter.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by CC1

I love air shows but have only been to a couple since an adult. About ten years ago just before Bergstrom Air Force base closed in Austin, TX they had a big airshow with the Thunderbirds performing and all kinds of cool military demos including watching a C130 take off with rocket assist.

I also got to walk around a C5 (huge!) and it was one of the first public showings of what had up to that time been a clandestine airplane - the Stealth fighter.

The B1 bomber has been a staple at the Air Shows.

I love it when the Snowbirds fly in over the airport for the show silhouetted against Mt Baker in Washington State.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Ron

The B1 bomber has been a staple at the Air Shows.

I love it when the Snowbirds fly in over the airport for the show silhouetted against Mt Baker in Washington State.

Several years ago I was at a Titans NFL football game here in Austin when the flyover after the National Anthem was done by a B1 bomber.

This guy flew really low over the stadium and then just over it he pointed the nose straight up almost and gave it everything those jets had!

It was amazing. Every seat in that 69,000 seat stadium was shaking. I had goosebumps.

I have also enjoyed a lot of other flyovers including a cool one by some wicked looking Apache Attack helicopters in close formation.

I took my boys to a civilian airshow when they were about 12 and 10 and the FAA had a program (I forget the name) where they teamed up with pilots who built and flew experimental (homemade) aircraft to take kids flying. My boys got to fly in some cool "kit" planes homemade by the pilots. They even got to fly the plane (control the yoke). They had a blast. While they were up I kept praying for their safety as I knew I would be dead meat with mom if anything happened to them while flying in "experimental aircraft"!

As a boy in Alaska either the Thunderbirds or Blue Angels used to practice in the sky above my house. I loved it.