SunNFun Flyin Air Show 2012

[Second Hand Pat]

I went with my family to the SunNFun Flyin Air Show yesterday and wow, what a blast. I have never walked around planes as they were taking on or walked over a taxiway between the groups of planes lining up to take off.

Now all this was controlled and coordinated by the good folks of the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport.

The morning was spend walking the grounds and viewing all the planes there for the event. Most the planes were private aircraft and many older vintage planes who were former military aircraft loving restored and flight ready.

The afternoon was the air show and first up was the warbird show featuring many of these wonderful restored military aircraft many from the 1930s forward. The airshow included quite a few jet demos.

I will be posting pictures as I upload them and a few video taken with the phone. I am awaiting pics from my daughter who had a decent camera for the event.

Here's is the website of the event.

http://www.sun-n-fun.org/

[Second Hand Pat]

Vintage aircraft

Getting ready for takeoff.
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Vintage_Aircraft_1.jpg

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Vintage_Aircraft_2.jpg

This plane has a canvass skin and according to hubby was used for reconnaissance.

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Vintage_Aircraft_3.jpg

[roundfishross]

awesome....vintage rocks:bandana:

[Second Hand Pat]

This is the B-29 Superfortness FIFI which just landed.

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Fifi_Landing_1.jpg
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Fifi_Landing_2.jpg

Parking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPuo7LLAa28&list=UUaeXQ_wwjMmbU52-KYBqNJg&index=1&feature=plcp

[Second Hand Pat]

As we were walking around looking this guy came by.

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Leaving_For_Takeoff.jpg
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/See_How_Close.jpg

[Discus-n00b]

Great photos Pat! I love seeing the old planes, just something about them that is almost romantic. You see them in movies and such....open cockpits, the sound of those engines the big V12s and such, the props....its great. Modern aircraft are great, but theres something about the classics.

[Second Hand Pat]

Thanks Matt, the P-51s were one of my favorites but could only get tiny pictures they were moving so fast.

[Second Hand Pat]

C-130J Hurricane Hunter on the right and one of the "Spirit of America" C-54 used during the Berlin Airlift after WWII.

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/C-130JHurricaneHunter-1.jpg

[Second Hand Pat]

One of my favorite jets, the Harrier.

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/HarrierJet.jpg

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/F-18A.jpg

If you look close just over the fence to the left of the yellow top is the Harrier showing it's vertical lift control.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zvpT6guQw&list=UUaeXQ_wwjMmbU52-KYBqNJg&index=1&feature=plcp

[Second Hand Pat]

When the air show started there were a bunch of vintage plane both trainers and fighter-type, one being the P-51s. Here is some not so hot pictures as the planes are too small. This is the best I could do with a phone and a fast plane

Believe these are all P-51, a gorgeous and fast plane.
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Warbird_Show_1.jpg
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Warbird_Show_2.jpg
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Warbird_Show_4.jpg
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad95/Second_Hand_Pat/2012%20SunNFun%20Flyin/Warbird_Show_3.jpg

[Second Hand Pat]

A F 18A and the first jet to fly in the air show doing a slow flyby.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7t2Rpu8HBI&feature=plcp&context=C426d64fVDvjVQa1PpcFMafQWlyAE26Hus9617zzQi oiZwFmnrV74%3D

[Discus-n00b]

Pat, that last picture looks like a Harrier to me. But still cool, all of them!!

[Second Hand Pat]

Pat, that last picture looks like a Harrier to me. But still cool, all of them!!

Matt, the pic or clip? Pretty sure the pic is the F 18 and the clip too. The Harrier is pretty heavy bodied.

[Discus-n00b]

In the pic, the wings slope down and back like on a harrier. On the F18, the wings attach under the cockpit instead of on the back and are straight out to the sides. Also the front wheel is bent back, lets harriers cushion a vertical landing better, F18's have a wheel straight down. Not a big deal or anything, just pointing it out hehe. ;) Like I said, cool either way!

[Second Hand Pat]

In the pic, the wings slope down and back like on a harrier. On the F18, the wings attach under the cockpit instead of on the back and are straight out to the sides. Also the front wheel is bent back, lets harriers cushion a vertical landing better, F18's have a wheel straight down. Not a big deal or anything, just pointing it out hehe. ;) Like I said, cool either way!

Alright and you would know better :) So is both the pic and clip a harrier so I can edit the post correctly :)

[Discus-n00b]

Lol, Eddie would know the best!

I believe the clip is of an F18.

[Second Hand Pat]

Lol, Eddie would know the best!

I believe the clip is of an F18.

True, edited the posts and hope their are correct. :)

[Second Hand Pat]

The finale of the show was the appearance of the Air Force Thunderbirds. Only the one clip. Those suckers were fast :) I will also have more and better pictures once my daughter sends me her pictures from her Canon Rebel.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTs5zoam6x8&feature=autoplay&list=UUaeXQ_wwjMmbU52-KYBqNJg&lf=plcp&playnext=1

[Darrell Ward]

I love air shows. Back in the day when our family lived in coastal South Carolina, our kids were still kids, and the now long gone Myrtle Beach Air Force base was active, we went to almost every show at the base. Some great times.

[Second Hand Pat]

Darrell, I love being able to walk thought the planes and be up so close and personal. There is a warbird air show earlier in the month. We missed that one. Also the additional picture will have pretty detailed pictures with some plane interiors.

http://www.nbbd.com/festivals/warbird/