Nellis AFB, 1959 LIVE FIRE Air show!

[+Spectre_USA]

So, you like the era that WoE and WoV are modeled around?

 

Neal Boortz has a short video of what was called the Flight Congress here;

 

http://boortz.com/more/video/nellis_afb_1959.html

 

And they actually show missile, rocket and napalm releases!

 

[+Dave]

Ok now that was damn cool!

[tn_prvteye]

Awesome stuff. Can't see them doing that today.

[+Dave]

Awesome stuff. Can't see them doing that today.

 

 

They do live fire demo still. Went to one last year, watcherd a B-52H drop CBU's......it was awesome.

[tn_prvteye]

Do they let civilians go? It looked like civilians in the vid.

[+Spectre_USA]

I doubt it.

 

I hear the only live fire shows still going on are in Switzerland, of all places.

 

They usually do that chumpy Hollywood deal with a gadzillion gallons of gas, and touch it off when some aircraft makes a low pass.

 

Big whoop.

 

Do you know they cancelled the Fairchild AFB airshow 2 weekends ago, with no notice? I checked the local paper on Thursday, showed up with the whole fam-damily

on Saturday morn', and they said, "sorry, the paper made a mistake. It is postponed until next year." Postponed? Sounds like cancelled!

 

And on the 60th Anniversary of the USAF?

 

I am deeply appalled. I wanted to see the Raptor in real life, and the OV-22 was to make an appearance.

 

Badly miffed, I am.

[+JediMaster]

Miffed? Yeah, me too. A year after I started working here, in 2003, there was an airshow with the T-birds AND Blue Angels. It's supposed to be a biannual event, but the 2005 event was cancelled because of "the combined pressures of overseas commitments and an upcoming ORI". The ORI was done a good month plus before the event would've happened, and the BA's and TB's aren't affected by that stuff anyway. I don't know what the deal was. Then early this year I heard talk of the return again...and it just never happened.

 

Nothing worse than working at an AF base for over 5 years and only getting 1 airshow over 4 years back...

[+DWCAce]

I'll have to post the CAPSTONE video from 2005/06 or so. Just have to transfer it over from the desktop, then upload it. :)