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Edwards[AFB] to have open house, air show in fall
Valley Press on ^ | Tuesday, February 24, 2009. | ALLISON GATLIN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at avpress.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Military/Veterans; Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: aerospacevalley; airshow; allisongatlin; antelopevalley
"PLANE LOVERS - Thousands of visitors attend Edwards Air Force Base's last open house and air show in October 2006." Valley Press files
1 posted on 02/24/2009 11:24:20 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Bring your camera and wear a hat.


2 posted on 02/24/2009 11:24:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
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To: EveningStar

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3 posted on 02/24/2009 11:27:15 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom. I love sarcaism)
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To: al baby; EveningStar

Tardcon o9 ?


4 posted on 02/24/2009 11:28:35 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom. I love sarcaism)
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To: BenLurkin

“Bring your camera and wear a hat.”

I’ll bring a camera - unless I have to hock it first.

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5 posted on 02/24/2009 11:29:41 AM PST by jessduntno ("...a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me." - B. Hussein Obama)
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To: BenLurkin
Back in maybe 1980-81 I went to an airshow there....

It was awesome.............

6 posted on 02/24/2009 11:30:20 AM PST by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: BenLurkin

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!


7 posted on 02/24/2009 11:32:36 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: onedoug

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8 posted on 02/24/2009 11:36:50 AM PST by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: Osage Orange
Went the show in 1975-76..first time I saw the A10, F16, F14.. looked thru a hanger window to spy two B-1’s sitting in there.
BTW one of the f-14’s had Chuck Yeager's name on the side..
If anyone goes, pay attention to the mountain peaks and hills as you enter....there are small white crosses where test pilots crashed in the old days
9 posted on 02/24/2009 11:44:39 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: 6ppc

Hey 6.. Looks like your in luck .. Museum site here:
http://www.afftcmuseum.com/visitor_info_13.html


10 posted on 02/24/2009 11:49:59 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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11 posted on 02/24/2009 12:03:31 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: BenLurkin

Bring your camera and wear a hat.

...and a sweater or jacket. Gets windy out there!


12 posted on 02/24/2009 12:09:16 PM PST by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: 6ppc

Dunno.


13 posted on 02/24/2009 12:23:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
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To: Robe
Yeah....I got to see one of the Space Shuttles up close. That was awesome....I think it was the Columbia...now that I think about it. Which of course was lost on re-entry quite a few years later.

Saw a SR-71 up close...and of course some Hogs, and F-16s too.

Was a lot of fun, fer sure.

FRegards,

14 posted on 02/24/2009 12:39:32 PM PST by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: Osage Orange

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


15 posted on 02/24/2009 12:58:49 PM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: anymouse

Lucky dog.................


16 posted on 02/24/2009 1:14:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: Robe

Unfortunately it doesn’t do me much good now since I was out west THREE YEARS AGO!


17 posted on 02/24/2009 1:22:55 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Robe

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.


18 posted on 02/24/2009 5:07:12 PM PST by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: Osage Orange

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 ;)


19 posted on 02/24/2009 6:50:08 PM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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