Unfortunately the weather was less than cooperative so all we saw were some fly-by's of each. Still, it was darn impressive to see them all and I'll say this: those F-35's and F-22's are sure noisy! Damn, it vibrated right through us on the boat while we were out on Lake Michigan.
Hope the weather for this event is much, much better than we had in Chicago. I'm pretty sure the pilots were as disappointed as we were with the weather although the low fly-by's made for some good video and great pictures!
T-birds and Reds in AC yesterday. Great show!
I worked at PW in the experimental airfoil group during the development of the PW5000 now known as the F119 engine. There is a reason it’s noisy.. Power generated in a small tube = noise by the exiting gases. The only thing we didn’t get it to do was having the engine whistle Dixie during spin up.