Not Fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't even gotten home to download a photo and Douglas is posting all the good stuff!!! Makes a guy want to leave the cameras at home and just watch the show, the best will be posted on MA2A
Seriously, Pleasure to me you Douglas and fantastic work! I will be pleased if my results are even half as good as yours.
My posts will lag, promised my cousin candid's of his team in action; airmen from the 316th support group at Andrews who put on the show. Some of the best, most professional service men and women you will meet! We are going to put together shots of their work taken candidly from afar to use in a thank you presentation that Bill is doing later this week. Then I will dig through my photo's for some of the good stuff from the airshow. But to be honest, this was so much more than an airshow; the hangers were filled with STEM activities, presentations to 6,000 middle and HS students from the area on Friday and some of the best art / paintings I have seen in years. Seems the Air Force has it's own Art History group that paints events and every day normal events; then adds a paragraph or two to the piece to make it a piece of history. Many, Many of these paintings also grace the walls of the Pentagon. And all are donated by the artists! I talked to several; such wonderful people with a great vision.
And then in the Heritage hanger they had Ike's original presidential aircraft to take him to and from is PA farm; and "That's All Brother".......................... The C17 that was lead ship during D-Day, and all other major air drops during WWII. To sit in those polished metal seats and listen to the tour guide tell you about the history and men who went there before you; just sends chills up your spine. We owe them so much more than we can ever pay. And the tools they went to war with; while perhaps state of the art in 1944 are so crude and free of any creature comforts by todays standards. Just amazing.
It was a great long weekend! Now back to life; catching up with work and helping my lovely wife Clara through her visit with Ms. Rona Virus................... Seems her luck ran out; that is the bad news. The good news so far is she is doing well; some aches and pains, light fever in the evening but over all not feeling any worse than a bad cold. Hopefully she is about through the worst of it. Now I just need to avoid the bug.
Take Care,
Dan
Sep 19, 2022 at 08:50 PM
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