This plane was at the entrance to the main hangar.
There were several information booths that we stopped at. Charlie liked this propeller he got from one, and the "I Love Airplane Noise" sticker from the Museum of Flight center. He left with several stickers that day... which is heaven to a four year old boy.
After perusing the booths, and getting a huge free sample of kettle korn, we headed over to the viewing area and watched the end of the first fly-by group. Once the last planes were in, we had a special treat as Boeing landed their new dream liner. Then it turned right around and took back off. We tried to impress on Charlie how neat it was that the plane was so big. All he cared about was that it was so LOUD. Again, four year old boys. :)
Between the booths and the viewing area there was a field that had several planes on display. We spent quite a bit of time looking at these Stearman planes. Some veterans that flew the planes in WWII were on hand to talk about their experiences and explain how the planes work. It was all very interesting, especially when we watched them start to "push" because they were going to be flying soon. In fact, one of my favorite parts of the air show was watching all of the planes be pushed from place to place. I was imagining what it would have been like to be on an air field all those years ago, right in the middle of all of that movement instead of confined inside airports as we are now. When the Stearman planes were starting to be pushed away, we wandered onto a portion of the tarmac that had been roped off for viewing planes that were going to be flown in the next grouping.
Then we realized that we were all hungry. We headed back over to the booths and purchased some grilled food from the Lions Club booth. It looked really tasty. (I was good and stuck to my uncrustable and granola bar so that I wouldn't overdo my sodium.) They had tents set up for eating, which was fortunate because it started to sprinkle. We were lucky though because the rain stopped pretty much at the same time we stopped eating. Ephram enjoyed eating puffs in his stroller too!
After lunch we headed back over to the tarmac, and briefly looked at the historical WWII area they had staged. Of course, the picture below further reinforced to Charlie that some cars have eyes and can talk... like Lightening McQueen. :)
I tried to get picures of the tarmac just to remember how many planes were there, but this was only about 1/3 of it. I need a wider-angle lens for my camera! There were a lot of people there too, despite the overcast weather.
And it wouldn't be a blog post about an air show if I didn't put in a few pictures of the demonstrations we saw as well! The first picture is of the group of Stearmans we spent awhile admiring. I had many, many more pictures but decided not to bore everyone with 20 pictures of planes in the sky. :) We had so much fun tracking the planes in the sky and then watching them perform their tricks!
After a few hours on the field, it was time for us to leave. We watched the planes on our trek back to our car and as we were driving away from the field. We will definitely make this show an annual tradition!
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