Amigo Air Show

Well Hello everyone. My apologies for being so long between posts but I really am trying to juggle a lot right now. Some things new, some things old just reocurring.

Let me say that I am in the middle of creating a website where I can share with others the wonderful resources I have found on the internet as well as share some know how of things that I've learned to do. I'm hoping to have that complete within the next couple of weeks so you all can come to visit the site. There will also be a blog there so that I can keep everyone updated from time to time.

This past Thursday Mike returned from a 3 week field excursion. Saturday he took us all to the Amigo Air Show on Biggs Army Airfield. We had a really good time. We have learned that umbrellas do a fantastic job of keeping off the sun as well as the rain. We didn't heed this until it was pretty much too late and we all ended up with quite a sun burn by time the day was over.

We got to see some pretty impressive shows like the Army's Golden Knights do a free jump from 12,000 ft. They have smoke canisters attached to one of their boots, blowing pink smoke so you can see all their twisting, turning, and formation that they do as they come down. They also displayed some of their tactics used in military combat, which was interesting.

We also saw the Black Daggers Special Forces Parachute team do a parachute free fall. They also did many neat stunts up in the air.

One of the amzing displays were the three planes the p-51 bomber (WWII), F-4 Phantom (Korean War), and the F-15 (Modern) flying in sync with one another. All three form a different era in our military history.

We got to see the latest in aerial military, the F/A-18 Hornet. Very impressive jet. We only got to see the flying power of this jet but I'm sure it is much more impressive in war.

We also saw the Canadian Snow birds perform sync formations with thier 8 planes. Although they did a nice job I've seen the Blue Angels do a better job.

We also saw a stunt performance of a man on the back of a motorcycle moving at speeds of around 100mph grab onto and ascend a latter into a moving plane, matching the speed of the motorcycle.

One of the neatest things that we saw was the jet truck. It has three built in jet engines. It can reach speeds over 300 mph. It raced one of the small planes, one flying and the other nearly flying. Had they managed to pull off the race the way they planed the truck would have won by far.

All in all we thoroughly enjoyed the show. I have some pictures posted at Amigo Air Show Photos . One of the photos listed there is of the Nasa 747 that carries the space shuttle from where it is built to where it is launched. They were allowing people to take a look around inside, but the line was too long for us to wait around for. We were dying of thirst and since they were charging $3.00 for a bottle of water we figured we get out of there and buy a gallon of water for cheaper than that. The size of this plane was very impressive though.

Denise