Air Show
Tweet Both the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds do a maneuver where they sneak past the crowd. However, what I do not like about the Blue Angels sneak pass is that the announcer always tells everyone look right, while they are coming from the left. So while it does demonstrate how a jet can sneak into [...]
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Tweet The air show got off to a slow start again on Sunday, because of the low cloud cover. So they had to wait for some of the cloud cover to burn off, before they could send the stunt planes up. Also I noticed the air show has actually been changed quite a bit more [...]
Tweet The Air Show at Quonset Point yesterday got off to a bit of a slow start. In fact most of the morning Bob Reider, the annoucer, and Dan Mclaren, the sound producer from Mach 1 Productions, were playing Jimmy Buffett music. Thus the Parrothead start. The ceiling heights began pretty low, but after about [...]
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Tweet So tomorrow is the Rhode Island National Guard Air Show and Open House. While much of it is the same as years past, they have changed things up a little bit. One quite noticeable thing that is different is a new Air National Guard jet truck. Today many of the performers ran through a [...]
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Tweet The 2011 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show is rapidly approaching. This year the Blue Angels will be back! Additionally this year is also the Centennial of Naval Aviation, and such an important time for reflecting on how far we have come over the last century. Since its inception the airplane [...]
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Tweet 2010 Rhode Island Air Show at Quonset Point Above is a link to a slideshow from the 2010 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show at Quonset Point. I specifically put this together for Quidnessett Baptist Church, so you will see quite a few pictures of the church and the living water [...]
Tweet This a picture of a humvee driving off of a C-130 J model aircraft during the simulated attack part of the air show, commonly referred to as the combined arms demonstration, because it shows how the air force and army work together on missions. This is almost always one of everyone’s favorite parts of [...]
Tweet A Photograph of an Air National Guard C130J flying over Rhode Island just prior to the Combined Arms demonstration at yesterday’s air show. Despite the aircraft’s lumbering size it is very powerful, especially with the new prop design in the J model, they are also a highly advanced and versatile aircraft with HUDs (heads [...]
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Tweet I really liked this photograph that I was able to capture of the Thunderbirds cross maneuver, because it really looks like they are going to hit each other, but they almost always seem to mange to turn their wings at just the right moment. Today and Tomorrow the Rhode Island National Guard will host [...]
Tweet The 2010 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show at Quonset Point will be held this weekend June 26th and 27th. The gates will open at 9am each day, with the show will starting at 10am. This year the show will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds, which typically rotate every other [...]
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