Saturday, 04 July 2009

• Addison Shows

  Addison Airport north of Dallas has a neat series of shows on July 3.  During late afternoon daylight, they put on antique-aircraft acrobatics.  More fun than I'd like to actually experience in the air, but I can take pictures without fear of death. 

  Here's one little plane with "Yippee" painted on the underside of its wings, left.  

  I kid you not -- these pilots were flying the planes straight up until they stalled, and then fell out of the sky straight down.

  Watching from miles away, you'd swear they were going to crash. 

  Here's one, below right, I was sure was going to fly right into the airport building below. 

  But of course, it didn't.

  Here's one, below left, who flew a loop with billowing smoke and while up-side-down.

  How can someone stay up-side-down that long? 

  I don't know how these guys keep their lunch down, when down is up. 

  I get airsick reading in the back seat of a car. 

  At dusk, they started flying sparklers like this one, right. 

  And then after dark, they had a marvelous fireworks display, shown in the video below:

   

  
  

  
  

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