Apollo Leader

Saturday was the only day that the B-2 Spirit made a flyaby. The B-2 Spirit is stationed at Whiteman AFB several hundred miles away down in Missouri.

The Hornet makes a low speed, high angle of attack passby... it's only going a little over a 100 MPH doing this routine!

The Hornet pulls a tight turn.

F/A-18 Hornet

Here another shot of the formation.

Soon afterwards, the P-51 Mustang "Gunfighter" joined up with the F-16 as part of the Heritage Flight.

... and the Falcon goes ballistic. I was able to get some cool AVI movies of the P-51, F-16, F/A-18, B-2, F-117, and the AV-8B+ during their flight demos, so if anyone's interested in seeing them, let me know.

In the next shot, the gear is retracting and the pilot kicks in the afterburner.

Aaargh! Just discovered I can't attach AVI files. Anyway, back to modern fighters and aircraft! Here's an F-16 from Hill AFB on a slow pass with its gear down.

A CAF Zero returns from its performance. This Zero replica started life as a Canadaian prop driven fighter built in the late 40's/early 50's. This Zero replica carries markings of one of the Japanese pilots involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Something like only 2 real Zeroes are flyable in the entire world.

CAF B-17 Flying Fortress "Thunderbird" in flight.

The same Corsair later in the air.

World War II time! Here's an F4U Corsair of the Commemorative Air Force (formerly the Confederate Air Force) starting up... trust me, the prop is moving at high speed!

E-4B passes by.

E-4B on appoach. The E-4B would be used by the President in the event of an all out war. I believe the E-4's are also used as a back up to the 747's used as Air Force One. When President Bush was over in Europe earlier this year, one of Offutt's E-4B's were over there in support of the trip.

C-17 Globemaster III

Here's another A-10 on display. I think the A-10 is slated to serve throughout the rest of this decade. The F-35 JSF I think is considered its replacement of sorts.

A closer look at the mission markings this Nighthawk accumilated during Iraqi Freedom. One of the crew chiefs suggested that they could possibly paint the mission marking for the attack against Saddam in red. B)

F-117A Nighthawk (aka The Black Jet). This is one of THE VERY two F-117's that were used in that preemptive attack in the early morning hours of March 19th to put Saddam Hussein, his two sons, and some of his generals out of commission.

The Heartland Organization of Rocketry (THOR), the rocket group I belong to, even had a display.

B-52H Stratofortress.

EA-6B Prowler... the A-6 Intruder legacy lives on!

AV-8B+ Harrier II

Here's another shot of that Falcon/Viper/Electric Jet.

An F-16B from Edwards AFB. This Fighting Falcon is an odditty because by the late 80's/early 90's, virtually all Falcons for the USAF were C and D models. Originally this B model was built for Pakistan. For some reason, this and 20 or so other Falcon's were withheld from the Pakistani government and went into storage during 1992(3?) at Davis Monthan. Nearly 10 years later, this B (and maybe some of the others were taken out of storage and put to work at Edwards.