Quote Originally Posted by Oggyflute
Richard, I missed out on the Edwards air show in my time, got sent to Hong Kong I think, but the guys that went there said they put on the best air show they have ever seen. Coming from flyboys that was quite a compliment.
Seeing Chuck Yeager fly a p51 Mustang, now that truly would have been a buzz. His autobiography is one of my favourite books.
Since Edwards is out in the desert it's no limit flying!

The ONLY thing that you will not get is a high speed, sonic boom pass!

I was at Yeager's last military flight a few years ago. He opened the show with a sonic boom, landed and gave a little speech...

He then turned in all his "keys" to the planes on the base.

He also flew a "Heritage Flight" - They team up a WWII plane with a modern fighter- His P-51 and a F-18- Joe Engle, the only man to fly two different winged aircraft into space (X-15 and the shuttle) flew the -18!

Watching Yeager fly about wasn't a buzz, it was an all out heart attack for me!!!

The last two 'acts' were really neat... There was a recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor. They have 8 rebuilt Japanese WWII planes that buzz the field while they set off explosives. Mind boggling......and crazy!

The last is a flyby of all the planes in formation.

The cargo planes, fighters, bombers....The f-22, f-16, f-18, the B-52, c-17
c-130 and a bunch all in the air at one time!!!

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Four Falcons in formation is really cool.

Watching one go thru it's paces is phenomenal!

Standing about 500 feet away from one doing a low speed pass and then hitting the afterburner leaves you shaking...

You want to scream because the sound is so overwhelming! The noise is so much bigger than you are you have to make sure you are not lost in it all!!

I have one more roll to develop and then I can load all up!!