Blue Angels at Davis Monthan AFB

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:39 pm

For those who like the Blues they will be in Tucson Az the 17-18 of March out at Davis Monthan AFB...

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Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:58 pm

wow....thats awesome....doubt the wife will let me skip the wedding to go to the airshow on the 17th though....hahaha

Rhino · Post by **Rhino** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:14 pm

Hope you get to see them Falcon. From what we've heard/seen, the formations are a little bit tighter than you would normally see at the beginning of a show season. I'm hoping to maybe get to El Centro for a spring break trip the week before, but airfare is a bit $$.

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:25 pm

Rhino,

I'm probably going to go down that Saturday and leave my house in Peoria early so I can get there for the show. Just going to go one day not both... Thats alot of gas... LOL... But hopefully it will be nice... Then the following weekend the Thunderbirds are out at Luke. I've already got my time off for that...

Falcon56

Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:33 pm

I am hoping this show will be a lot better then when the Blues were here in AZ last year... Well more the area they are flying at not the actual show...

Rhino · Post by **Rhino** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:32 pm

PhnxBndt79 wrote:i am hoping this show will be a lot better then when the blues where here in AZ last year...well more the area they are flying at not the actual show....

I assume you are talking about the Goodyear show. I heard a lot the same, talk about a dust bowl! I have a lot of friends in the aviation photography circle and I've heard about dust still being cleaned out to this day!

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:35 pm

Yeah that was one dusty weekend... Great show though, but the setup and displays could have been alot better... I know the show out at DM will be a lot better...

Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:56 pm

Yeah the dust bowl... and fighting over having to move for the constantly moving aircraft coming in and out because the space was so small... and having the whole bus operation at the end of the show was annoying...

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:32 pm

LOL you couldnt have said it better! Yeah that "bus service" and to call it that was a joke... My dad and I walked it! We went 3/4 of the way back to the car before we saw our first bus... What a joke that was... In fact we parked in the lot across from the Lockeed buidling just to give ya an idea how far the walk was... Although Im sure it could have been worse... That's what I like about the shows at Luke, Nellis and DM. If you've got a base sticker and a military ID you're good to go. Just cant wait to see a different base and different style of flying. Should be fun.. and the best part, NO DUST BOWL and crappy bus service LOL!

Falcon56

Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:15 pm

yeah...walked as well...wasnt going to wait for those buses....my parents, me, my brother, cousin, fiance and little girl all walked back to the car....i made sure i walked down one lane of the road so the buses had to go around me..

i havent been down to DM AFB for a show...there was a guy that bought my dads 1980 trans am back in 1990 for his wife and he was assigned to the base....my dad bought the car back from him about a year and a half ago and he gave my dad a picture he took of the Trans Am next to a F-16...will have to get the picture from my dad and scan it and post it on here...will it cost anything for this show like last time or is it free like Luke???

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:38 pm

It is free to the public, however you can buy seating inside the Commanders VIP tent.. Here is the link for the show and info for it as well.

http://www.dmairshow.com/

Falcon56

Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:30 pm

much appreciated...

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:03 pm

no prob... I just bought myself a new sony camera and I am going to test it out Monday or Tuesday at Luke and see how I like it...Hopefully Ill be able to get some good shots of the Blues and the Thunderbirds at their shows...

Falcon56

Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:26 pm

anyone attend this show?? how was it (if anyone attended)? I would have went but with the wedding and all was pretty busy.

FALCON56 · Post by **FALCON56** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:02 pm

I did... The Blues were great.. They flew soo tight just for being show number two... The Viper West Team did its thing...Great show performed by them...It wasnt a dust bowl like goodyear was which was great, but trying to get on base with my Military ID was a pain.. NO ONE on until 9AM.. The flying didnt start till 1100 which was kind of late since there really wasnt much to look at.. They pulled several planes from AMARC.. yeah boy did I want to see old heaps.. NOT!!! but the BLUES RULED THE SHOW.. Bert wasnt there. It was down for maintence and a couple of "Berts Boys" said it will be back within the month.. I will follow up more later...
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