Prarie Air Show '02


The Blue Angels parked before the show


Taxiing in formation


The front of a KC135E mid-air refueling plane that was open for tours. We got to sit in the boom operator's ditch and the cockpit


The Blue Angels' C-130 does a rocket assisted takeoff. Quite impressive


A "Flying Banana" helicopter


F-16


F/A-18


A helicopter


A Pitts acrobatic airplane. Because of the low cloud cover, they didn't actually get to fly :-(


A truck with rocket engines mounted on it. Including after-burners. Goes very fast, makes much noise


A plane like the ones that fly out of Houghton, a SAAB something. (Later that day the exact same airplane that Lee took on her interview took off in front of us)


A Stearman bi plane


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