Boulder City, Nevada Air Show
For all you aviation enthusiasts the Boulder City, Nevada annual air show is scheduled to start on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 9:00AM. It will end at 3:00PM on the same day. Last years show was great. More information about this and other events is available from the Boulder City website
The photo at the left shows a parachutist from SkyDive Las Vegas landing after deploying smoke at the beginning of the event held at the Boulder City, Nevada Muncipal Airport. Two youngsters are watching framed by a WW II fighter plane.
The photo on the right is of an Extra 300 as it performs an acrobatic maneuver called the "Immelman". The airplane climbs almost straight up and and the top, the pilot kicks the rudder which turns the nose of the plane from going up to pointing to the ground. The idea here is to convert altitude to speed. This is a trick taught to WW I fighter pilots originally.
Last year there also was a seaplane called the "Albatross". People were allowed to climb into the airplane and sit in in pilot's and co-pilot's seats. Jimmy Buffet has a similar type aircraft. Helicopters were also on display as well as WWII airplanes.
This years event will feature Julie Clark who will be flying a T34, which was a WWII training aircraft for fighter pilots. The Extra 300 will be part of the show also. There will be a T6 WWII fighter plane flyby. SkyDive Las Vegas will participate in the Boulder City, Nevada event by jumping out of perfectly good airplanes like they did last year. On the way down, they activate smoke, which makes it a very visual presentation.
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