Topic: Airshows

[oscardeuce]

Who likes them?

What do you like, and what would you like to see?

I can usually be seen at shows around Ohio with my other bird, the O2-A.

[RRR76TA]

Wife used to work for Red Baron Pizza , used to do the airshows in cleveland and dayton .  With the bi planes

[RainMan]

I'd like to see the blue angles ,and also an F22 Raptor

[eroc022]

gotta work at Andrews' show this weekend, which is preventing me from meeting up with the guys in ohio.... and im not even doing anything important

[HughJass]

I've been to a bunch, seen the T-Birds and the Blue Angels, one of coolest things I ever saw was a flyover of all the Grumman "Cats" called "the Flight of the Cats", there was a Hellcat, Bearcat, Tigercat, Wildcat, and the f-14 Tomcat. you could hear the f-14 feathering the throttle to keep pace with the slower planes, then at mid field pulled it straight up and hit the afterburners!

[CT Bird Fan]

Although I love air shows and warbirds (especially WWII) I have not been to a show in over ten years!

I do try to take my son to the New England Air Museum here in CT at least once a year though, I really enjoy it!!

[jphillips3333]

I go to the TICO airshow in Titusville, FL every spring.  One of the largest in the southeast.  There's usually everything there and it's a three day event.  I actually like the A-10 ... it's slower but it's sort of like a tank in the sky.  They usually have a jet (F15/16/22) rip by at just under subsonic speed when you least expect it.

I'd like to see some personally owned F-14s show up in the coming years.

[kentuckyyeti]

I'd like to see some personally owned F-14s show up in the coming years.

Are there any?  I thought the government refursed to sell any of them and instead shredded them after disarming.  F-14's are my favorite. Something to do with Top Gun, I suppose.

I remember a recent article about an aviaton museum suing the government because the gov refused to sell them a Tomcat, instead opting to destroy it.

[Gunner]

Oklahoma City used to have a KILLER airshow, but I don't know if they do it anymore.

Meanwhile here are some pics of the United States Air Force Museum, in, oddly enough, Dayton Ohio.

















Gunner

[jphillips3333]

I haven't heard of any but I think they'll show up in five/ten years or so.  Someone will get one or two and then they'll refurbish a couple from the Arizona desert.  It'll happen.

I just think the gov't realizes that the F-14 is a capable machine in today's world even though it's retired.  Imagine if you had one up and running - you'd be doing better than the Iranian gov't was with them.

Are there any?  I thought the government refursed to sell any of them and instead shredded them after disarming.  F-14's are my favorite. Something to do with Top Gun, I suppose.

I remember a recent article about an aviaton museum suing the government because the gov refused to sell them a Tomcat, instead opting to destroy it.

[HughJass]

I'd like to see some personally owned F-14s show up in the coming years.

Are there any?  I thought the government refursed to sell any of them and instead shredded them after disarming.  F-14's are my favorite. Something to do with Top Gun, I suppose.

I remember a recent article about an aviaton museum suing the government because the gov refused to sell them a Tomcat, instead opting to destroy it.

The Wings of Eagles museum has one that supposedly the one Tom Cruise "flew" in Top Gun,
http://www.wingsofeagles.com/collection.cfm
they used to have the plane from the movie Memphis Belle but sold it to a NYC museum.

[oscardeuce]

It would take an act of Congress to get a private F-14 in the air.

I flew the Tico airshow in 2004.

[jphillips3333]

Agreed - the F-14 isn't a tomorrow's private plane at all.  That said, people fly F-86 Sabres - that's kerosene and Korean war vintage.  Perhaps F-14s are 20 years out - point is, they will get to the air show in private hands.

Oscar, I recall your aircraft - usually formation flying with T-6's?  I've a 1974 Piper Chieftan for sale if you know of anyone looking for one ...

[Rick]

The Wings of Eagles museum has one that supposedly the one Tom Cruise "flew" in Top Gun,
http://www.wingsofeagles.com/collection.cfm
they used to have the plane from the movie Memphis Belle but sold it to a NYC museum.

I thought the Memphis Belle was on display at Mud Island, in Memphis?  I have pictures of it from back in 2002 -- it was there then...

[oscardeuce]

The original belle is now at the USAF museum undergoing restoration

The movie Belle is owned by the late David Tallichet