:twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted: 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!
And beat up any commie that gets in my way! AMERICA F'-YEAH!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
come out to show us what they do, ARES, RACES, and all the local groups come out to make sure no one gets heatstroke or can act if something bad happens (like this past weekend down south unfortunatly)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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