On Sunday, August 10, 2008, we went to Skyfest 2008 at Fairchild AFB. It is located on the outskirts of Spokane, off Highway 2. It was said that on the first day of the show, there were over 100,000 people in attendance!
C-5 from Travis AFB
In the cargo hold
The Golden Knights. The Army made this "official" parachute team in June, 1961 . They have been performing for 44 years. 
This was the first performance of the airshow and an airwoman sang the National Anthem. It brought shivers to me, not only because it was good, it was also cool and windy!
C-17 Globemaster III
Fedex ATR-72. 
Deadly Intentions. B1-B Lancer from Dyess AFB
Hydraulic Nightmare! I like the red tag, it says "pull before flight"
B1-B Lancer
The Blue Angels
C-130 Hercules
Caite in the Co-Pilot seat of the C-130
Hi, Dad!
Zach in the Hot Seat of the C-130, Dylan checking out the "stuff"
KC-135 Stratotanker Stationed out of Fairchild AFB (Spokane)
F-22 (Raptor) and F-15. The only things these two have in common are: 1 seat, 2 engines and 2 tails.
Split of the F-22 and F15
Vintage World War II
Perfect!
A cold boy wanting to get warmed up. Love you, Joshy!
Ring-a-round the rosy!
They all fall down!!
Josh being silly with Zach
"I love you Caite!"
Zach in a Huey
Josh and Dad looking down the back end of F15 turbine
Josh getting an "eye" full!
Silly kids!!
"I love you Zachy!!"
Simulated "near miss" MiG17 and A26. They were doing a "Cold War dogfight" simulation
Raptorfied! -This is the newest fighter F-22 (the Raptor). New generation of technology that incorporates speed, radar evading stealth design and avionics. It cost $135 Million to build, but has the best equipment that money can buy inside it. It flies Mach2 at 60,000 feet (which is about 1300 mph) “Most of the general public … when they hear the word F-22, they think it’s real expensive and really secret,” Maj. Paul Mogua said, “They don’t have an idea of what this aircraft is going to do for the Air Force now, or what it’s going to do for the country for the next two or three decades.”
KC-135R stratotanker
Caite in the Sheriff helicopter
Dylan in the Sheriff's helicopter
C-17 Globemaster III
The announcer said the wingspan was "1/2 the length of a football field". My calculations say that would be 150 feet wide. That is HUGE!!
The show was loud, cool, fun and amazing. We all had a wonderful time!
In the cargo holdThe Golden Knights. The Army made this "official" parachute team in June, 1961 . They have been performing for 44 years. 
This was the first performance of the airshow and an airwoman sang the National Anthem. It brought shivers to me, not only because it was good, it was also cool and windy!
C-17 Globemaster III
Fedex ATR-72. Deadly Intentions. B1-B Lancer from Dyess AFB
Hydraulic Nightmare! I like the red tag, it says "pull before flight"
B1-B Lancer
The Blue Angels
C-130 Hercules
Caite in the Co-Pilot seat of the C-130Hi, Dad!Zach in the Hot Seat of the C-130, Dylan checking out the "stuff" KC-135 Stratotanker Stationed out of Fairchild AFB (Spokane)
F-22 (Raptor) and F-15. The only things these two have in common are: 1 seat, 2 engines and 2 tails.
Split of the F-22 and F15
Vintage World War II
Perfect!
A cold boy wanting to get warmed up. Love you, Joshy!
Ring-a-round the rosy!
They all fall down!! Josh being silly with Zach
"I love you Caite!"
Zach in a Huey
Josh and Dad looking down the back end of F15 turbine
Josh getting an "eye" full!
Silly kids!!
"I love you Zachy!!"
Simulated "near miss" MiG17 and A26. They were doing a "Cold War dogfight" simulation
Raptorfied! -This is the newest fighter F-22 (the Raptor). New generation of technology that incorporates speed, radar evading stealth design and avionics. It cost $135 Million to build, but has the best equipment that money can buy inside it. It flies Mach2 at 60,000 feet (which is about 1300 mph) “Most of the general public … when they hear the word F-22, they think it’s real expensive and really secret,” Maj. Paul Mogua said, “They don’t have an idea of what this aircraft is going to do for the Air Force now, or what it’s going to do for the country for the next two or three decades.”
KC-135R stratotankerCaite in the Sheriff helicopter
Dylan in the Sheriff's helicopter
C-17 Globemaster III
The announcer said the wingspan was "1/2 the length of a football field". My calculations say that would be 150 feet wide. That is HUGE!!
The show was loud, cool, fun and amazing. We all had a wonderful time! Mike tooke a couple of video's of the F-22. Thought we would share them with you all! You might get a little dizzy from the motion, but you will get the idea of what it can do and neat it looks!! ENJOY!!
Hope you enjoyed watching these and that you didn't get as dizzy watching them as I did watching them!!
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