Canada evening at YAM

[seabee1526]

Wonderful evening show at Willow Run today. Top notch demo by the Snowbird demo team, the Canadian parachute team and the RCAF F-18 demo (awesome paint). First class all the way Canada!!

Large turnout and good weather. Seems like everyone had a great time. In addition to the Canadians, Yankee was out in full force giving rides in their four flyables. There was a P-51 and a Chanuck on the ramp and a local helo pilot was giving rides.

[Xray]

I have been underwhelmed by the Snowbirds since I was a kid due to their weak jets ,,, But nothing to be done about that, their formation flying is top notch, and pretty unique to say the least to see a 9 jet acrobatic act. They sure scream alot on the radio compared to the calm and measured tones of the Blues and Birds, and their 3 plane abreast landings are sure different.
I always thought they had colorful smoke, but I'm thinking it was the Italian team that used rainbow smoke, and haven't seen them in decades.

CF-18 paint job was superb, underwhelming show though, he only did 1 pass even close to resembling high speed and not even sure if he lit the burners at all ,,, But again, I suppose that was out of his hands, I'm sure he would have liked to have zipped around a bit more. Was close to dusk when he landed, didn't notice any pipe flames at all.

[myteaquinn]

Out standing show by all three acts. Yes Xray the CF-18 pilot lit up the burners through-out. The viewing conditions were not the best, we were looking into the setting sun, so that is probably why you didn't see it. Not the best pictures but some evidence.

[Xray]

Nice shots, must have been pointed away from me for most of the burner action, the majority sounded like full military and even throttled down at times.