This is definitely an air show moment I never want to experience first hand. Having only been at the Sunday morning show it still hit too close to home for us. My sons got such a kick out of the MIG 23 in the morning because of the brake chute. Then the announcers poked fun that they deployed a 15 p...

News is reporting both pilots have been found alive.

Just got this email, not sure how accurate it is (bold is added by me):

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Air Show begins tomorrow!
The planning is done, the aircraft have all arrived, and now it's time to kick back!

No flight plans are filed that I see, but looking at arrivals I only see a couple of P51s come in so far. That doesn't include military which I don't think you can typically see.

TFR for tomorrow is from August 11, 2023 at 1700 UTC To August 11, 2023 at 1900 UTC so that's practice time, if you want to catch more than just arrivals (probably a good amount have made it today already).

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_3_7952.html

I am close to Selfridge and there was a lot of activity today that wasn't A10/KC-135 traffic. I couldn't see what it was due to the low cloud cover and rain however. F35s fueling maybe? I counted four takeoffs. The Northern Strike exercise is underway I believe Makes sense. They are still doing exe...

I am close to Selfridge and there was a lot of activity today that wasn't A10/KC-135 traffic. I couldn't see what it was due to the low cloud cover and rain however. F35s fueling maybe? I counted four takeoffs.

It's REALLY hard to swallow paying $100/flight hr for this show. Even harder to understand is paying for the 3 hour lull between morning and afternoon.

Honestly I cannot complain about the cost for the full day pass. We filled a minivan and brought an entire picnic with us. We spent next to nothing on concessions as compared to what we spent at Selfridge the week before. I, personally, like the drive-in format. It gives disabled people a real chanc...

I was pretty disappointed in the Saturday show. 3.5 hours of down time between shows 1 and 2 was completely unacceptable given the lack of any entertainment elsewhere. The morning show was exceptionally poor. It felt like it was just called in. The F16 demo was pretty good and the Blue Angels rocked...