OK - my last hurrah for this year. These were Thursday morning's Bronze take offs:
All banking away so no "topside" photos, but it does satisfy KiwiZac's request
The two Mustangs and the Yak all moved up to higher classes as the week went on.
Then, the odds & ends. Here's James Consalvi, winner of the best Gold final I have ever seen. It still feels like the race lasted about 8 seconds to me! Tiger is just walking away to his left.
The T-6 Gold final was no slouch either:
Jet Gold had a definite fan favorite,
but no one could catch Rick Vandam in American Spirit.
IMHO there is no better place in the world to watch an Unlimited Gold final than Section 3 - this year there was another reason to like it though. As the only group of semi-trainable fans who could promise at least 104 bodies (the number of hand hold straps), we were offered the privilege of holding RARA's new US flag for the national anthems on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday:
We did have some other visitors from current military inventory:
The second bundle's chute didn't open, so it had a bit of a hard landing.
Other flyovers:
Plus some other acts not related to Warbirds - the motocross/x-games guys were OK in short bursts:
And the "Bama Girls", all former Miss Alabamas, put on a USO-type show. Unfortunately the sound was awful
All for this year - I have hundreds more but can't tell many apart from what I have already posted. Thanks for letting me fill the space until Will begins posting his pylon shots!