AirVenture 2012 - Airshow

Bruce is ready for the airshow.  It was brutally hot Monday afternoon.  The Big Gulp lemonades tasted awfully good during the airshow.
  
The spectators squinting into the sun at the airplanes.
  
The P-38 Glacier Girl in flight.
  
Bob Odegaard did a scaled-down version of Bob Hoover's routine in the Shrike Commander including a loop, roll and landing.  Big deal, you say?  They were done with both engines shut off! 
  
Matt Younkin going wild in the Twin Beech.
  
Melissa Pemberton getting ready to do her airshow routine. 
  
Here she is doing a little knife-edge with not much room between her right wing and the runway.   This is the first time I've seen her fly.
  
Flashback!   Back in 2005 on my Oregon Trail flight in the Citabria, Bruce and I stopped at Seward, Nebraska (KSWT) in the middle of nowhere to get gas.  This beautiful Edge 540 was at the fuel pump ahead of us and we met Melissa Andrzejewski the aerobatic pilot.   Now she is performing at the biggest airshow stage in the world.   Not bad.   
  
Greg Koontz did the crazy flying farmer bit in a Cub, including landing on a pickup truck. 
  
I always enjoy watching Bob Carlton in the Super Salto Jet Sailplane.
  
As good as all the other performers are, I still think Sean D. Tucker is the best.  He has a new, one of a kind plane, the Oracle Challenger II.
  
 
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