It's sunny, beautiful outside. Let's go watch the pilots play!

Cool. Airplanes! I'm 8 again.

I usually hear them when I go to the cities but I was day early this week.
Enjoy them for me and rated with hugs

A lovely tribute to the mobile, hostile, agile and virile. When I was young, the thing to do was to park out by the airport and watch the "submarine races" -- if you know what I mean.

Very neat.

connie m ... super stuff ... loved the jet breaking the sound barrier photograph ... oh, now i'm glad i didn't miss "Star Fleet" Week ...
Oh, and Rated - "Super-Rated" ... lew

ms mack ... what Snarkychaser said ... too! ... lew

Yep, love 'em.

Got lots of this where I grew up--the Air Capitol of the World, Wichita, KS. Bet you didn't know. Always way too loud for me.

Yeah.. the sound barrier picture!

What's up with the death star Connie?

Wonderful post Connie...really got me paranoid and filled with some wonder about the possibility of alien interventions!

AWESOME!! Photos. There are some great shots. The video I had a little trouble getting it to play.
I always loved watching the air shows for the 'Blue Angels' and the 'Thunderbirds'. They are all great watch.
In Wichita Kansas, I had an apartment about a couple blocks from the Air Base. The Thundersbirds and the jets would fly over really close to my apartment building, and the pictures on my walls would rattle off on to the floor.
Most of the pilots on the air base knew what building I lived in so when they would fly over, they would do one of those, dive bomb flips, right over the top of the roof on my building, and I was on the top floor. I had to double screw all my wall hangings and shelves tightly on the wall but it still didn't help.
But anyway, I always loved the the jets, shows, and watching them do all their formations, practices.
Thank you for sharing this, and for bring back some great memories.

I both loved and cringed at that video! The people would probably be going on with business as usual, just as in the film, too.

I have a friend who would volunteer. She got to go out on the yachts...Sick.

Thanks for a look at Fleet week and enjoy!

Great pictures, great post, great to read you again.
Rated.

Uh--that one Blue Angel is flying low enough to pay a bridge toll. Scary.

Been a while since I heard good sonic boom . . .

I enjoyed the airshows living on base, love the Attack series, go Blue Angels. Really disliked all the Fighter series planes, I despised the roar of their afterburners day in and day out. They built up the area around El Toro with upscale homes and the civilians were constantly in an uproar. It's frustrating in the middle of a tragic scene and suddenly you have no idea why Susan Lucci is crying or what her lover said. Luckily the base is now closed and there is peace and quiet there.

Tom is funny, I've only seen the submarine races in Hawaii, so peaceful and quiet. Who knew they raced in Tennessee?

A long time ago I was a Marine, those little jets are massive machines. I didn't really want to work on A-4's, I wanted to fly one and spin in the sky. Those pilots really are amazing, I am always struck by how talented people can truly be. It would be wonderful if all they had to do was fly over us on sunny days. I really love to fly.

woah, great pictures!

Holy Crap! these are great! can't wait to show my son in the morning!

Wow! A picture of an F-18 Super Hornet sactually going through a worm-hole! I knew we were dealing with aliens on the down-low.

Really neat stuff and such greats photos.
Thanks for the link.

As a child I remember driving to see the Blue Angels every year in Eau Claire, WI. It made a huge impact on my memory as a kid. As a farm girl, I didn't see many big cities, new technology...didn't live near any airports. So the Blue Angels display was a symbol of another kind of life entirely. I don't blame you for being excited :)

You know, this is nothing new.
I saw all those things when I was living in the Haight in 68 & 69.
Often I'd drop some Owsley white lightning or purple haze and go up Buena Vista Park or up on Twin Peaks to watch the air show.
You wouldn't believe the tricks those things could do.
I mean, wow, it was so groovy.
After the show, we'd go down to the Drog Store Cafe and have one of those great burgers that went so well when you had the munchies.
BTW-I'm really sorry you had to sell the A's.
You had some terrific teams back in the day.
Oh, yeah. Thanks for the friending. See, I can hallucinate an adjective into a thansitive verb.
Or is that transendental?

That Death Star video is the funniest thing I've seen since, well, ever.

Great shots. It looks like you got a better air show than the Super Bowl does.