Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-05-18T08:23:39+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/fuzzy_war_birds Dave Johnson 2007-10-06T18:22:19+00:00 2007-10-07T02:00:03+00:00 <p>I just happened to be looking for air show opportunities this morning and found out about the <a href="http://www.popebraggopenhouse.com/">Pope AFB Airshow and Open House</a>, which is happening today and tomorrow. What luck! So I packed up the kids and drove the 1.5 hours from Raleigh down to Fayetteville.</p> <p>We parked at the Ft. Bragg fairgrounds, took a bus over to the base and despite the waiting in line and the heat, we really enjoyed ourselves. We saw several aerobatic displays, T-33, F-15, F-18 fly-overs and a Heritage Flight* with a F-15 and P-15 flying side-by-side (see below). We got to walk through several C5A and C130 transports and check out tanks and other armored fighting vehicles. There were also some vintage planes on display: a B-25, a Japanese torpedo bomber, P-40 Tomahawk, Hawker Hurricane and others. Very cool stuff (yes, I&#39;m one of those pacifists who is fascinated with military history and hardware, kinda like <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28181">this guy</a>).</p> <p>I wasn&#39;t able to get many good pictures because of my crummy little camera, which seems to be going bad. I uploaded some of best shots to my Flickr account and tagged them with &lt;a href= &quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/snoopdave/tags/airshow/&quot;&gt;airshow. Here are a couple of my favorite war birds, a P-51 Mustang and an F-15 Eagle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/snoopdave/1499524241/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2407/1499524241_54d7506ef8_m.jpg" width="240" height="169" alt="Heritage Flight"></a></p> <p>* There&#39;s a nice gallery of previous Heritage Flights <a href="http://www.pbase.com/airlinerphotos/usmilgovt_usaf_heritage">here</a>.</p>