Olympic Air Show!

Despite the lack of sunshine we've been having around these parts we still managed to enjoy most of the day outside this saturday.  Since we weren't going to be in Rexburg for the annual air show this year, we decided to go to one here!  The Olympic Air Show is held every year in Tumwater Washington near Olympia and we had a pretty good time!

The show held a wide variety of different kinds of planes for past and present and there was a lot of cool helicopters too; when we got there a super cobra was flying around doing some pretty neat maneuvers!

The air show itself was pretty similar to the one that is in Rexburg every year although the Rexburg show has a lot more acrobatic planes that perform stunts.  The Museum in Rexburg is also a little bit nicer as well; the advantage that the Olympic Air Show had over Rexburg's however was a bigger airport so there was a lot more room to get up close to the planes.  There was also some really neat jets at this air show; unfortunately when they started flying we had to take cover because they were extremely loud.

They made several super sonic passes at a very low level and we've never seen Cooper scream so hard!  We felt really bad for the little guy so we called it a day after the likes of the F-16 and F-4 flew over with their after burners flaring.  It was just too much action for little Cooper at this stage although it was really neat to see the jets break the sound barrier!

It was pretty funny to watch other peoples kids too though and we realize that Cooper wasn't the only little one and sometimes not so little one that wasn't enjoying the sonic booms coming from the jets.  The first pass the the F-16 made startled about everyone on the field as it came from behind the hanger that most everyone was standing around and we were all looking the opposite direction thinking it would be coming over the trees.  When it came blasting over the hanger with it's afterburner blazing it shocked everyone and even brought several 9 or ten year olds to tears!

CLICK HERE for some F-16 footage!







ENJOY THE PICTURES FROM THE AIR SHOW!

This rescue helicopter is apparently very rare; it was really fun to watch fly because it has two rotors that spin in alternating directions.  They almost look like they'd collide and the thing would never get off the ground but it did!

I think that Cooper is trying to be smooth for the ladies in this photo!