All,
It is the midst of summer, and it is turning out to be a hot one! It is also deep into Air Show season. Nothing makes me feel all patriotic inside like a good airshow. After an airshow, I feel like I could drink both Captain America and Uncle Sam under the table!
Anyways, airshows are not only fun for families, couples, friends, etc, young or old, they are also a great place to practice other hobbies with like minded people! On one end of the spectrum you have the rabid photographer with $10,000 stabilized zoom lenses, and on the other hand you have your rabid scanner enthusiests. Heck, even the whackers are welcome! CAP, (airwhackers:wink
Anyways, its a great thing to talk about! I was at the RI air show this past weekend in Kingston RI at the old Navy base. They had the Red Arrow demo team from the UK which was a first for me. They were amazing! I felt it was much nicer display than the "Air Marching" that you see with the Thunderbirds. It was great to see a A/V-8B Harrier demo again too! Sooooo much noise! :twisted::twisted::twisted:. Typical, but always fun to watch Express stunt-planes and barn stormers, an F-15 and F/A-18 demo, a really interesting combined helicopter and C-130 airborne assault demo with lots and lots of FIRE!:twisted: Plenty of static displays to keep my interest, but the B-2 never made it on Sunday, dont know about Saturday. Anyways, as soon as my day ends here, I promise I will go home and upload the better pictures from the airshow that I was able to take.
As far as relating it to radio. I had the tower and some of the support freqs loaded up, but my fiance assured me that her digicam batteries were "brand new":roll: After about 5 minutes, she was the proud owner of the eneloops out of my scanner and the dumb thing just sat on my waistband the entire day.
OOOH I got some GOOD pics of some scanner-nuts there too! OMG like 12 scanners on a custom radio-flyer:wink: wagon and an external power supply and PA type speakers! Geeky, but cool. Especially for a scanner-fan! So whoever you guys were on the flightline, that was badass! Your pic is going up in a few hours for better or for worse!:lol: Dont worry, I got your good side!
So what are your Summer '08 Airshow Experiences or plans?
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