Wings over Pittsburgh?

[flight17]

any of you guys planning on attending? its this Sat and Sun the 11th and 12th at Pittsburgh Intl Airport. Its free btw...

here is the site and you can see the performers and static displays that will be there

http://wingsoverpittsburgh.com/


* Thunder Birds this year
* C-123K from my museum will be on static display
* The pilot of the red bi-plane from Team Oracle is my college professor's husband.

[WMLute]

THAT explains all the jets i've heard around here for the past 2 days.

[flight17]

lute where you from? you going?

[Dragon]

The B-25 just left Hopkins International a while ago and flew down the street where I work.  I'm sure it's in Steelers <insert puking smiley here> territory by now.  With the weather being nice, I have my window open and heard it coming, I work about a half mile from the airport, but didn't have time to get the camera out.

The Cleveland Air Show last weekend was a bit disappointing, no B-2 fly by, and the Tuckers were not here this year.  Blue Angles were average.  The only highlight was the Corsair, which was really the only reason I messed with traffic to go to the show.

 

[flight17]

Panchito! gonna have to get some good photos of it as all i have are ones when it was in maintainenc and half covered.

I just hope it doesnt rain like they said it might this weekend. i borrowed my school's DSLR so i have up to a 300mm zoom lense and im still taking my camera for the static displays...

[WMLute]

I'm out in Moon.

No I prob. won't go.

I looked at what all is on display and flying and nothing really jumped out at me.

Kinda lean on WW2 stuff.

I might sit in the yard and crack a beer 2morrow though.

[Wayout]

Darn, thought we were talking hockey here. 

[flight17]

ok, so i went sat. and ended up staying staying at my sis' house which in robinson over night... I ended up going back after i left her house today for another 5 hours. Over the whole weekend, i took about 1100 pics so expect some to be posted.

[Tigger29]

Bah... I just got done watching the Blue Angels at Scott Air Force Base!

It's a good time regardless though

[flight17]

So here are a few shots from today. These are all unedited (except for photobucket resizing them) and were shot in JPG format due to me having to use my 512mb memory stick once my 8gb memory stick filled up (was shooting in RAW format with it). I have alot more, but due to most of them being in raw, i havent gotten around to getting them into jpg yet so i will have to post them later. These were some of the best from my jpg photos.

So for you commercial lovers (all were into 28R)...

Delta MD-88(taken after the airshow at my car)


Delta Terminal lineup(last pic of the day)


Delta connection CRJ-200 (in Northwest Airlink colors)


Delta Connection CRJ-700


Southwest 737-700 (on 15sec final and probably my favorite pic)


Falcon Jet


Harrier (only one flying privately in the world, another one is for sale on ebay right now but is crated up for shipment. Both are ex-british RAF)


on to part 2

[flight17]

The Thunder Birds...

The lineup (have better shots in RAW)


These i actually took outside of the airshow at the reserve base across the street. I actually wasnt planning on staying for them, but i was shooting commercial birds and have about 100 shots left of memory and the they going up as i was about to leave so i decided to stay and im soooooo glad i did!


rolling out of the Delta Formation Roll (i like how the smoke is in the sun but they arent)

one of the solo pilots (tied with the other solo pilot shot as my favorite)

one of the solo pilots (tied with the other solo pilot shot as my favorite)

all six towards the end in a turn.

[oakranger]

My older brother lives in Moon township.  He saw the thunder birds and stealth bomber flying over his house.