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| | Barksdale AFB Air Show, May 9-10 | Location: Barksdale AFB, Bossier City, LA Website: www.barksdaleafbairshow.com
Barksdale AFB is home to five squadrons of B-52 Stratofortress bombers. Three of these are active squadrons under the 2nd Bomb Wing, with one reserve squadron and one training squadron, the 49th TS. A sixth squadron, the 340th, is attached to the 57th Wing at Nellis AFB for weapons training. I love going to this show. It is truly one of my favorites. This year's version is extra special with two jet teams headlining - the Blue Angels and the Snowbirds. Besides the in-air entertainment, there is also a Sunday afternoon concert by Aaron Tippin. I've met Aaron and his agent, Bobby Roberts, and they are both nice people, very approachable. Aaron loves to fly and has his own aircraft. He can frequently be seen performing at air shows like the one here at Barksdale. Click here to see his website. Can't make it to the show? No problem. LiveAirShowTV will broadcast the show via the internet beginning at 11AM on Saturday and 10:45AM on Sunday. Log on at www.LiveAirShowTV.com to catch the show. Jeff Lee and all the fine folks at LiveAirShowTV do a great job. Special thanks to Sam's Town Hotel & Casino for sponsoring this live internet broadcast.
If you do go to the show and want to see more aircraft, please stop at the 8th Air Force Museum on the base. They have a great collection of aircraft including an XR-71 Blackbird, B-24 Liberator, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-29 Super Fortress, and an Avro Vulcan bomber. Check out their website here. I took this photo at Barksdale in 2006. There was supposed to be a B-29 in this shot as well, but the Super Fortress has been down for three years. This special flight honored 70 years of Boeing bombers. The B-52 (60-0054) is from the 11th Bomb Squadron and the warbird is the B-17G Flying Fortress 'Thunderbird' (44-85718 marked as 42-38050, N900RW). 
| Performers & Static | Static | | Blue Angels | E-3 Sentry | | Snowbirds | KC-135 | | E-team Skydivers | E-8 JSTARS | | Gary Boucher and his Pitts | C-130J Hercules | | F-16 Fighting Falcon Demo | A-10 Thunderbolt II | | A-10 Thunderbolt II Demo | B-52 Stratofortress | | WWII Warbirds: P-51, C-47, Zero | F-15C Eagle | | Randy Ball and his Mig-17 | A-10 Thunderbolt II | | B-52 Stratofortress Demo | F-16 Fighting Falcon | | F-15E Strike Eagle Demo | F-15 Eagle | | USAF Heritage Flight: P-47, F-16, F-15 | EA-6B Prowler | | Ed Hamill and his Pitts | T-38 Talon | | B-2 Spirit Bomber Flyby (Sat only) | T-37 Tweet | | Aaron Tippin Concert (Sun only) | T-6 Texan II | | | T-1 Jayhawk | | | C-21 Learjet | | | CT-142 Bombardier | | | T-43 | | | T-2B Buckeye | | | PT-17 Stearman | | | L-2/L-4 Grasshopper | | | PT-19 Cornell | | | L-39 Albatross | | | O-2A Skymaster | | | AT-6 Texan | | | O-1/L-19 Birddog | | | Branson Air Show, May 9-10 | Location: Branson Airport, MO Admission, Adults: $16 in advance, $18 at gate
Admission, Children 6-12: $5 in advance, $6 at gate Admission, Children 5 and under: Free Admission, Weekend Pass: $22 in advance, $25 at gate
Gates Open: 8AM Branson, Missouri has a new airport and this is the first air show at that airport. If this all star lineup is any indication, it will be a great show for years to come. Headlining is the Thunderbirds, but there is a lot more in store for air show fans like two Hornet demos, one from the US and one from Canada. For aerobatic fans, it doesn't get any better than Patty Wagstaff, Ed Hamill, John Mohr, and Rob Holland. And for team aerobatics you'll see the Iron Eagles and team Aeroshell. Announcing the show will be Mr. Air Show himself, Rob Reider. Though there is no Heritage Flight scheduled, there is a Navy Legacy Flight with our favorite Navy plane of all time, the F9F Bearcat, teaming up with a US Navy Hornet. For more jet noise there is also an A-10 demo. And for quiet time, very quiet times, there's Manfred Radius and his sailplane. Gene Soucy and wingwalker Teresa Stokes are sure to amaze the crowd like this performance at the 2006 Langley AFB air show. Gene is also expected to solo in his Grumman G-164A AgCat (1004, N7699). Photo by Horace Sagnor. 
| Performers | Static | | USAF Thunderbirds | F/A-18 Hornet | | US Army Golden Knights | C-17A Globemaster III | | A-10 Thunderbolt II Demo | C-130J Super Hercules | | Ed Hamill and his Pitts | Hawker Sea Fury | | F/A-18 Hornet Demo | B-17G Flying Fortress 'Yankee Lady' | | CF-18 Canadian Hornet Demo | B-25 Mitchell 'Panchito' | | Howard Pardue and his F9F Bearcat | P-51D Mustang 'Quicksilver' | | US Navy Legacy Flight: F/A-18, F9F | P-47 Thunderbolt | | John Klatt and his Staudacher S-300 | AC-47 Spooky Gunship | | Aeroshell Aerobatic Team | 1936 Lockheed Electra Jr. | | Patty Wagstaff and her Extra 300 | F-15 Eagle | | Manfred Radius and his Glider | C-47 Skytrain | | John Mohr and his Stearman | PT-17 Stearman | | Rob Holland and his MX-2 | PT-19 Cornell | | Stewart Dawson and his Sea Fury | Piper HE-1 | | Kyle Franklin and his Waco | L-19 Birddog | | Matt Younkin and his Twin Beach | T-38 Talon | | Iron Eagles | T-6A Texan II | | Steve and Suzanne Oliver | C-45 Expeditor 'Arctic Annie' | | Gene Soucy and Wingwalker Teresa Stokes | T-1A Jayhawk | | Greg Koontz and his Super Decathlon | KC-135R Stratotanker | | Rich's Incredible Pyro (I didn't forget this time, Betty) | T-38 Talon | | Virtual Army Experience | L-39 Albatross | | B-2 Spirit Flyby (Sat only) | LT-6 Mosquito | | | Museum News | | Note: Clicking on the Museum Name will take you to their website. March 31-May 6: Berlin Airlift Exhibit The museum will host a traveling exhibit honoring the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. When a blockade of Berlin was imposed by the Soviet Union from June 1948 to May 1949, the US and Great Britain began an airdrop of much needed food and supplies to the city's residents. US aircraft included the C-47 and C-54. The two countries managed to fly 278,228 missions delivering 326,406 tons of food and supplies. Though the blockade ended in May, flights continued through September 1949. June 7: Fly-In Pancake Breakfast Wow, pancakes, eggs, ham, sausage, juice other beverages for $6 adults and $3 for kids 6-10. If only I were closer to Geneseo. Hey it's a six-hour drive. Any way, it's June 7 from 7-11AM. For more information click on the link above, or by phone at (585) 243-2100, or send them an email at office@1941hag.org. | | Special Events | | The National Museum of the United States Air Force has announced their dates for their annual Dawn Patrol Rendezvous. What started out to be a bi-annual one day affair has turned into a three day annual event. This year's dates are September 25-27. As Event Coordinator David C. Thomas puts it, "...we honor the memory of our WWI troops with the same spirit and patriotism that these early aviators displayed in defense of our countries." For more information click on the link above. Osprey Publishing to Host D-Day Veteran Ed Shames Osprey has published a new book titled, Tonight We Die As Men. It's a story of one of the forgotten battalions on D-Day, the 3rd Batallion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (3/506 PIR). To promote their new book, they will have a booth at WWII Weekend in Reading, PA, June 5-7, with Ed Shames in attendance. Shames was a staff sergeant for the 3/506 during D-DAY and then received a commission to 2nd Lieutenant. Mr. Shames is a veteran of the 3/506 and wrote the forward to the book. | | Looking Ahead | May 16-17: MCAS Beaufort, SC
May 16-17: Andrews AFB, MD May 16-17: MCAS Cherry Point, NC May 16-17: Warbirds over the Beach, Virginia Beach, VA
Blue Angels: May 9-10: Barksdale AFB, LA May 16-17: MCAS Beaufort, SC May 23-24: NAS Patuxent River, MD May 30-31: Janesville, WI May 15-17: Andrews AFB, MD May 23-24: Jones Beach, NY May 30-31: Ellsworth AFB, SD May 9-10: Barksdale AFB, LA May 16-17: MCAS Cherry Point, NC May 23-24: Jones Beach, NY May 27: Kingston, ON, Canada | | Thank You | Thank you for reading the latest issue of our newsletter. God Bless Us Everyone, Wayne Matusiak, Publisher
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