Celebration of Flight 2011 (aka Caldwell airshow)

[QuietOne]

70s Shovelhead (Harley), last of the iron cylinders bikes, with a wild paint job.


Crowd watching the Life Flight helicopter come in.


Not quite a big enough engine to fly


Passing time. Or another type of flying, take your pick. He was one of the recruiters at the Air National Guard booth.


Watching. I don't remember who was up at the time.

[QuietOne]

One of the big RC models had problems taxiing back in.


The rest of these pictures are sad. The first two are part of a Missing Man formation for Bob Finer. He died last year while assisting in a military training exercise in Florida. His plane got caught in a thunderstorm cell that came up very rapidly and was torn apart. All 3 aboard were killed.




This is Greg Poe's plane. He had a business doing stunt flying at airshows. He also had an active outreach program for youths. He died about 3 weeks after this picture was taken of a heart attack. He'd been riding dirt bikes over at Blacks Creek and was stuck suddenly after he got in the truck. There will be a Missing Man formation for him Saturday. I can't make the show, but it's close enough that the formation might fly over the house. We'll see if I get anything.

[Marko]

Lovely variety and details in this set Q.O. Sorry to here of the sad part.

[JAS_Photo]

Great set, Quiet1! Lots of colour and cool looking planes. sorry to hear of your friend.

[Michaelaw]

Great aircraft shots, I'm a big fan of the Warthog

[QuietOne]

Thanks, Marko, Jas and Maw. To clarify a bit, I didn't know Bob or Greg, though I did once meet Bob. He joined several of us for lunch at the airport cafe, and he struck me as a very nice person to know. But Mike knows a lot of the local pilots, and they are taking these deaths hard. Mike has spent quite a bit of time just listening to them as they talk.

And for you, Maw, a couple more shots of the Warthog, heading out and coming back.