I am a bad liberal. I went to and enjoyed an air show yesterday.

You may spank me if you wish.

Wait... spanking you because of the airshow? Or just because? :P

:evilgrin:

I guess I need to get spanked, too.

We were at the old March AFB. The Thunderbirds were the headliner, but I was as impressed with the Royal Canadian parachute team's show.

They were *hot*!

OK, I definitely have to be spanked now.

and both the flight surgeon and the Public Affairs officer.

:D

I was in the USAF for four years so I have an
appreciation for large flying machines.

:D

You don't need spanking!

Anyway, I suspect you'd enjoy it waaaay too much!

I have never been to an air show...

I guess I'm deprived...:P

I am awestruck by what people can do in airplanes and parachutes.

And I hate flying... go figure.

I kinda like to watch a good spanking now and then ...

:rofl:

Bake

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:rofl:

Bake

Spankings, however, are now hereby the domain of gratuitous naughtiness

:evilgrin:

And then... :evilgrin:



I could go to air shows nine days a week, but I'm into the statics; I wanna get up close, and go inside if I can.

When you've seen the Blue Angels or whatever once, that's enough.

My daughter got to sit in the cockpit of a C-17.

:D

The Planes of Fame Air Museum has some outstanding examples of old warbirds. They're restoring the B-17 "Picadilly Lilly" — the one that was in the "Twelve O'Clock High" teevee series. I've been inside her.

I would love to go there as well.

Perhaps maybe the next time we plan a trip to the drive-in movies in Montclair, we could make a day of it and do the museum in Chino.

They've got some BIG planes, like a B-52, a B-36, a B-47, a B-29 and it's big sister, a B-50, a KC-97 and a KC-135. They're all outside; it's like a park. There's also a building with a lotta historic stuff and a mock-up of a B-52 cockpit.

On Open Cockpit Day, May 25, you can go inside a lot of 'em. (If you wanna go inside the B-52, you've gotta sign up before noon, I think.)

http://www.elite.net/castle-air/

I think we will have to wait for next year's open cockpit day.

We are not economically stimulated enough to make the drive up there.

My neighbor's late husband was on a B-36 crew, and he was one of the people responsible for getting the B-36 to Castle. Her daughter and son-in-law, who've been friends of mine since I've lived here, work on its "ground crew" at Open Cockpit Day, so if I volunteer for the crew I get in free. :D

Barrel rolls and all that are awesome to watch.

And took us to the Dayton air show a time or two. We saw the Thunderbirds.Pretty neat.
No flames here!

Or was airspace restricted?

I love a good air show, no flames from this wing-nut.

No, actually I love airshows. As a kid I loved the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds and all that cool stuff.

FIRE!! dammit!!!

Amazing! !

I used to wannabe a Pilot! that's not bad at all.

:hi: I went to one at El Toro about 20 years ago.....it was soooooo loud!

just a TON of jealousy!!!!!!!

I absolutly LOVE air shows, the sounds, the smells, the vibrations, (oops maybe the vibrations thing was TMI, Oh well its out there now LMAO)

Seriously tho, when I was in the Marine Corps I was a jet mech and have seen the Blue Angels MANY times along with the Thunderbirds and also seen the Japanese Self Defense Force Aerobatic team as well when I was over there as well as the Canadian Snowbirds. They all have their strengths but I felt the most gracefull was the Snowbirds and the most ummmm Ballsy was the Blue Angels.

This year my daughter was at an airshow down in Florida and she just HAD to text me to tell me she was there, call me when there was a flyby, AND to top it off send me pics. She will NEVER live that one down LMAO

They rock , although I havnt been to one in years...

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:hug:

hehe

:hi:

I like when they blow stuff up, parachute, do near mach flybys, and occasionally drop sedans from 2000 feet :D

Guess I'm a bad liberal as well.

I will give you a spanking for sport though :)

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:hi:

I have always wanted to fly a fighter jet. I think that would be the #1 job in the universe.

I went to one once, when I was eleven. I was super sick that day, and ever since, even pictures of air shows make me feel a little pukey.


Plus, I once had a boyfriend who loved air shows and planes more than life itself. (Fortunately, he never took me to one.) He'd always wanted to be an airforce pilot. He would talk planes and airforce shit at length until I began to have violent thoughts about things like pushing him out of the car just to shut him up and end the torturous boredom. That relationship didn't last long. I don't like having violent thoughts about people.

Sorry you had that experience.

Thanks for bringing such positivity into my thread.

:P

:D