A Day at the Airshow

Over the weekend I attended an Extreme Airshow at the airport. it was an amazing experience, with some unbelievable acrobatics performed by the pilots.
 There were teams of Pitts’ and even a Boeing 737 performing some incredible maneuvers.

Click Airshow Video to watch some of the video clips of the day.

The Early Models

With the invention of the airplane came the building of the models as a hobby.

Very different to the ones we know today; those models came in a box, and their main purpose was to display the hobbyist's work of art.

The model airplanes of yesteryear actually could fly. They did not contain anything as complicated as a motor, but merely used basic aeronautic principles to fly short distances and short heights.

F-14 Tomcat: A Classic Model

The F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic twin-engine, two-seat aircraft.

The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary air fighter from 1974 to 2006.

It entered service in 1974 with the U.S. Navy,
replacing the F-4 Phantom II. It was retired from the active U.S. Navy fleet on 22 September 2006, having been replaced by the F-18 Super Hornet.