Apollo Leader

I hope a US PS2 release of AEUG vs. Titans becomes a reality next year!

For me it's ADV this year... Excel Saga and Mospeada (even if the subs in Mospeada kinda sucked)!

I gotta bunch more pictures, but they are pretty much a repeat of everything you just saw. Again, if anyone wants me to e-mail them any of the movies I recorded, let me know. Gotta wait another year to the 2004 Offutt Air Show and Open House!

The Nimrod shows off its bomb bay where it's torpedoes are stored.

An RAF Nimrod performed on both days of the show. The Nimrod is a direct descendant of the old Comet airliner... Britain's and the world's first operational jet powered airliner. The Nimrod is used for anit-shipping and anti-submarine patrols.

F-16 makes a tight, high G turn.

A few more F-16 pictures! F-16 on a high speed pass.

This was a better picture I got of the F-117 when it flew on Sunday; it arrived back at Offutt just minutes after the T-6 had been cleared.

The T-6 is carefully pulled back to the runway. Even with the hour + delay, virtually everything that was scheduled to fly took place.

Right after 12:30, the first round of CAF aircraft started flying around. When the first wave of aircraft landed, this T-6 Texan suffered a failure in its left landing gear (probably a broken pin from too much side force). The T-6 swerved to the right and ended up in the grass. This picture was taken about 30 seconds after the crash. The pilot had already exited the plain and the first rescue vehicle was on the scene. Until the T-6 was towed away, the show was on hold for about an hour and a half.

The 1905 Wright Flyer III replica did several takeoffs and landings.

One of Offutt's RC-135's makes a flyby.

Soon after I got out to the flight line, the Army's Golden Knights did their first jump. This jumper landed about 75 feet out in front of me.

Here I am in front of the of the F-117 that nearly gave Saddam a 2,000 lbs headache!

One of the crew members (pilot or WSO) of this Strike Eagle was nice enough to get a picture of me next to the cockpit. (The F-15 Eagle is my favorite operational jet fighter in the world ).

Sunday the 24th, Day 2! Here is a flyable replica of the Orville and Wilbur Wright's 1905 Wright Flyer III. Of course it's made of modern materials and a modern mortorcycle engine (I think from a Harley).

The B-1's triple bomb bay set. The divider between the front two bays can be removed to make one large bay (for ALCM's or ACM's).

B-1 nose art.

On my way out, I got a bunch of pictures of the B-1B Lancer on display.

After the Harrier came to a stop in midair, it did a number of things like hover backwards and hover sideways. Here it is hovering sideways.

If you had called or e-mailed me, you could have car pooled with me. Wish you, Jon, or David Hingtgen could have been there. Here's the Harrier slowing down to a vertical hover.

I don't have any still shots of the Harrier's short take off but I have plaent of its flight and when it hovered over the runway for over a minute before landing. Here the Harrier is in a tight turn.

One of the two F-117 Nighthawks from the 8th Fighter Squadron (The Blacksheep) performed on Saturday and Sunday.

The Aeroshell T-6 Texan team perform a loop... I think these guys were originally sponsored by Red Baron pizza!

Another view of the Spirit.