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SunriseChampion
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someMidTowner
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That tracking shot with the blurred skyline is amazing!
Keyz
Active Member
Thanks!
Admiral Beez
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Just returned from the San Francisco air show, https://fleetweeksf.org/air-show/ and I have to say I was surprised by how quiet it was. The six Blue Angels F-18s flew right over my vessel in the middle of San Francisco Bay, and even during their high power aerobatics the noise was not deafening. Meanwhile the excellent Patriots Jet Team was almost silent, no louder than the Snowbirds. This led me to wonder why the Toronto air show with its single F-18 and single F-35 had to be so noisy, blasting away with their afterburners.
Admiral Beez
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I saw the air show yesterday (Saturday). Great weather for an air show. However, other than the amazing Red Arrows and Snowbirds the air show was a little down from years past. The MiG-15 and CF-18 were good, but much of the time it was nothing or a Porter Q400 and RCAF Griffon helicopter circling about, almost to fill time. Last year the F-22 was great. I always wonder why the Hamilton museum doesn't participate with its Lancaster, etc. I guess they have their own show.
The Lancaster used to participate in the air show, not so many years ago.
SubHuman
Active Member
They participate in a free Community Air Show in Brantford on the Wednesday afternoon before Labour Day weekend.
http://www.communitycharityairshow.com/
They did have their own very good air shows back in about 2011-13 (and previously in the 1970s and 80s) with many other visiting WWII planes,
but since then went back to having much smaller "Flyfest" type of events, mostly with just their own planes.
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They also do private flights; the Lanc was up a couple of times this weekend. $3500 a pop, I believe.
rbt
Senior Member
$3600 per seat but that's partly treated as a donation so you will get some back when you file your taxes.
Book this and other aircraft flights here: https://www.warplane.com/aircraft/flights/buy.aspx
SubHuman
Active Member
There's replica WWI planes at the Brampton-Caledon Airport Day on Sunday, although I would assume the $40 sightseeing flights are in other planes.
lenaitch
Senior Member
I really do have to get to the CWHM at Mount Hope. I would love to see a DeHavilland Mosquito - there are very few left that are airworthy. I've been up in the Tiger Moth out of Edenvale and crawled through the Commemorative Air Force's B-17, B-25 and B-29. No flights - a little too rich for me.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I visted the museum of flight in Seattle last month. Amazing
lenaitch
Senior Member
I dragged my motorcycling partners through the National Air Force Museum in Trenton a few years ago. I was less successful in my efforts to drag them through the USAF Museum in Dayton.
someMidTowner
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Took a bunch of photos on Saturday and am gradually working my way through editing. A couple to start:
CH-146 Griffon by Jack Landau, on Flickr
RAF Red Arrows by Jack Landau, on Flickr
CH-146 Griffon by Jack Landau, on FlickrRAF Red Arrows by Jack Landau, on Flickr