CAF AIRSHO Gallery
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Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 08:35 AM [GMT-6]

The Commemorative Air Force and its American Airpower Museum are two of the more significant assets to the Midland-Odessa area. The CAF's annual AIRSHO attracts thousands of people of all ages, and never fails to instill respect and awe for the achievements of American military airpower.

There are many places on the web where you can view photos of past AIRSHOs, including this humble blog and that of my pal Wallace over at Streams. But this site by CAF newcomer Max Haynes is one of the best I've found for getting an in-depth introduction to the spectacle. In additional to spotlighting the aircraft, he has a separate photo gallery devoted to The Blastards, the intrepid and probably insane group of volunteers whose task it is to orchestrate the detonation of plastic bags of gasoline and other incendiary devices in the re-creation of events such as the attack on Pearl Harbor.

If you're a fan of old warbirds, I recommend a visit to this part of Max's site, and his main site has many more similar links.

Tip o'the aviator's hat to my mom [how many of you bloggers have been able to say that?]

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Great shots, I'll have to get together with Max. I hope to get some good in flight shots this Memorial Day from my buddy Greg's restored Hueys. By the way, good buddy and famous author, Joe Galloway, will be here for a Vietnam Seminar and as the principal speaker for Memorial Day.

Here are some of my Air Sho 2004 shots.

Posted by: Wallace-Midland Texas at March 9, 2006 04:08 PM
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