"PLANE LOVERS - Thousands of visitors attend Edwards Air Force Base's last open house and air show in October 2006." Valley Press files
Posted on 02/24/2009 11:24:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
EDWARDS AFB - After a two-year hiatus, the Edwards Air Force Base Open House and Air Show returns this fall. The popular event will return in a two-day format on Oct. 17 and 18.
Base officials decided against having the event the past two years while the main base runway was undergoing reconstruction.
The open house and air show typically takes place in October and is one chance for the base - home to the world's premier flight test center - to open its gates to the general public and demonstrate its strengths and role in military testing and flight research.
Joining the Air Force in displaying aircraft is NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, a base tenant and partner in flight testing and research.
"Edwards is blessed because we have enough aircraft of our own to have an open house without any help from elsewhere," said Edwards spokesman John Haire. "You can't go to any base like Edwards."
The much-anticipated event draws thousands of visitors from all points of the compass to see the latest in aviation hardware on the ground and plying the skies.
The two-day event drew more than 200,000 to celebrate the Centennial of Flight in 2003, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.
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"PLANE LOVERS - Thousands of visitors attend Edwards Air Force Base's last open house and air show in October 2006." Valley Press files
Bring your camera and wear a hat.
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Tardcon o9 ?
“Bring your camera and wear a hat.”
I’ll bring a camera - unless I have to hock it first.
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It was awesome.............
Is the Flight Test Museum open to the public again? I tried to visit it three years ago and found that it was only open to active duty and retired armed services. Thought the gate sentry was going to have a cow when I drove up...funny feeling to have an M-16 pointed in my general direction as I spoke with the guard!
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Hey 6.. Looks like your in luck .. Museum site here:
http://www.afftcmuseum.com/visitor_info_13.html
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Bring your camera and wear a hat.
...and a sweater or jacket. Gets windy out there!
Dunno.
Saw a SR-71 up close...and of course some Hogs, and F-16s too.
Was a lot of fun, fer sure.
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Got first look at SR 71, F-117, B-2 at Edwards.
Had to go to Moscow to get a look at the Russian stuff though. ;) /brag
Lucky dog.................
Unfortunately it doesn’t do me much good now since I was out west THREE YEARS AGO!
Try a formation flyover of a B-1, a B-52, and a B-2 (I saw it some time in the mid-90s)
Something that “Wings Over Houston” doesn’t have a prayer of achieving.
Actually, I got to see the Russian Antonov 128 heavy lift cargo airplane and the Russian heavy lift cargo helicopter at an airshow down at (the now closed) Brown Field in Chula Vista, CA back in the late 1980s. But nothing like seeing a dozen or so Backfire bombers (in various states of disrepair) lined up on the tarmac with an equally long line of armed Russian soldiers guarding them. And then there was the coolness of inspecting a flight test version of the Russian Buran shuttle and seeing where the incorrectly copied our shuttle’s functionality. /needless gloating ;)
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