2nd Day P.E.I. AIRSHOW

AUG 26 SUNDAY

Decided to NOT go to the Farmer's Market in Charlottetown  because we were wanting to arrive early at the Air Show in Summerside.

It was to be an all day affair & we didn't wish to be late. We'll just go to another Farmer's Market somewhere on our trip if/when the opportunity presents itself.

We've never been to an air show before ….hate crowds BUT we were both thrilled that we decided to attend.

On the way to the show location in Summerside which was about a 35 minute drive from our campground ( camp HARRINGTON ) just north of Charlottetown we had to pass by the Charlottetown commercial airport.

 In doing so Joey noticed the Blue Angel planes all lined up THERE . We made a quick left into that airport to look at them up close . As Joey likes to say, "Lucky Lager" 

It turns out that THIS airport is where all of the planes will fly out of & then make their "show" stunts in Summerside where we are on our way to.

We arrived at the Summerside airport about an hour before the show was to begin but we still had to park pretty far out in the grassy parking lot.  Lots of walking….good exercise, all loaded down with our "stuff". My ole knees didn't like it much but they probably needed it!

We packed a lunch & 2 folding camper chairs, camera with a wide-angle lens as well as a longer zoom lens, water, earplugs, two beers (heavy drinkers, eh?)

We weren't even sure if beer was allowed.

Speaking of beer we are REALLY glad we brought a 30 can case & 1/2 with us from California because we saw a 12 pack of Corona for $26.50 CN!!! We also brought along some Trader Joe's 2Buck Chuck Merlot & glad for that as well.

Back to the air show:

We bought general admission, senior tickets at the "door" (portable kiosk) for $20 each.

We were told that this being the 2nd day of the show the crowd was smaller than yesterday. YAY! That made ME happy. I please easily.

The weather was perfect with a temperature of about 78 F with a pretty good wind.

 I was a bit worried that some of the "stunts" might (should)  be eliminated due to wind but the only thing that was canceled were the parachute jumpers.

It WAS thrilling! The show included  9 planes from the Canadian Royal Air Force

 AND  7 BLUE ANGELS! I've always heard about them but never saw them before....only online. My friend, Elynn's dad was a Blue Angel pilot....how exciting for that family.

There were some WWII planes a military helicopter, a glider & a fold-up-wing plane.

One Blue Angel's plane actually whizzed by so low it was able to drop a smoke bomb on a target. 

Thankful for my earplugs & felt so clever for having them.  It will be the last photo in the slideshow below…the black billowing smoke you see is NOT the result of a crash…just part of the show.

Don't ask what the equipment was I'm not well informed on that but I sure do love seeing, hearing & feeling them.

Whoooosh, zoooooom AHHHHHHH, no other words words are possible.

 Again, I'm  just glad I had my earplugs!

We took SOOOOOO many pictures it's going to be difficult to sort through them.

I decided to just make a slideshow of some of the still photos.

Ok, now one last 2 minute video below is of some of the airshow videos clips we took BUT as maybe you can hear in my introduction that it was really a challenge to get ANY of these short video shots at all. The planes not only zoomed by so quickly BUT it was very sunny and we were unable to see anything on the LCD screen on the camera. We just pointed the camera & hoped for the best. I think we were lucky to get what we did get.
I've suggest watching this one in full screen mode. That way you will really be able to SEE the planes!