Binghamton, Ny 6/29-30, Very enjoyable mid-sized airshow and Fri Night show Options

[Rich Kolasa]

I wasn't able to make it to the night show due to the "regular job", but I certainly am happy that I made the 2.5 hour drive up to Binghamton for this Saturday show. Weather was nearly as good as Quonset Pt (with similar lighting for photos, decent before noon, superb later), a bit cooler though, with highs probably only about 78-80. The show itself was 4.5 hours of a well-timed mix of performers and a few commercial arrivals and departures. Statocs were very good for a mid-sized civilian venue, with 7 Hornet/Super Hornets (not counting 3 cancellations!, and the demo team's birds), C-5, C-130, 2 MH-53s, CH-46, Griffon, AF UH-1N, 727, warbirds, classics, etc. Nice job by the organizers!
I understand that the night show was more than 3 hours, and was spectacular. Here's some photos from this event. It was good to see Jim Beasley, Scott Snortland, Howard, Big B, Jenny Forsythe, and Greg Witmer and the whole David Schultz team. Howdy McCann was good at the mic too.

Rich

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[Rich Kolasa]

A new feature at Airshowbuzz is a take-off on popular aviation magazines' "name that plane". We'll be doing "name that performer". Here's the first installment.

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[Rich Kolasa]

And if anyone can tell me how to get the attachments to not display with a scroll horizontally, please let me know.

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[Pensacola Tim]

A new feature at Airshowbuzz is a take-off on popular aviation magazines' "name that plane". We'll be doing "name that performer". Here's the first installment.

P-51 in front of tailwheel

[Ryan T.]

The Binghamton show was a very enjoyable experience for me. All of the performers were excellent! It was nice also to be able to stay and check out some of the departures(especially the C-5) other than being rushed out the gate after the last act touched down. I'm still using a film camera so as soon as I get some pictures developed I'll post them. At any rate, it was a great show and I'll definately be back next year!

[airic]

Hey Rich, I will go with Bob Baranaskas. Nice shooting as always. See you in a few days.

Eric

[Rich Kolasa]

Hey Rich, I will go with Bob Baranaskas. Nice shooting as always. See you in a few days.

Eric

Oh, I'm sorry, that answer is incorrect. The lower half is indeed AirshowBuzz's own Jim Beasley Jr. Jim was researching the possibility of attaching JATO bottles to Bald Eagle in order to do a high performance section take-off with the Eagle when starting the Heritage Flight.

Rich

[Chris S]

Rich,

Thanks for sharing your photos from the show with us here. Looks like was it a real nice show
Also, glad to see the weather was great this year after ALL that terrible flooding last year.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it up there this year, but I'm hoping to make it up
there for the Friday night show and Saturday show next year possibly !!

[Jim Beasley]

Rich I was hiding from you. Out of sight out of mind

Oh, I'm sorry, that answer is incorrect. The lower half is indeed AirshowBuzz's own Jim Beasley Jr. Jim was researching the possibility of attaching JATO bottles to Bald Eagle in order to do a high performance section take-off with the Eagle when starting the Heritage Flight.

Rich

[Rich Kolasa]

Rich I was hiding from you. Out of sight out of mind

You're just lucky that I didn't bring a time machine and an FW190, Mister, or you'd have been toast!

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[Omega Imagez]

Yes we in the area we all saddened by the loss of the show last year due to the drastic flooding in the area. But this years show made up for the lack of not having a show last year. The acts were all done very well and the traffic coordination (in the sky) was handled very well. Unlike everyone else here I was able to make it up for the night show as my home resides only 35 miles south of BGM. Rich, you would have killed for the lighting that we had the night before. It was very good and made the colors pop. I am in the process of running through my photos and getting them rounded out. I will be posting the best ones here and all of them worth posting at my own Flickr.com spot. I sincerely hope that the announcer was not kidding when he said that next year there were some blue and gold hornets on tap for the show.

I think Jim Beasley is stalking me though....no matter what show I go to he is there...HAHAHA! Excellent flying at Langley, Andrews JSOH and Binghamton. Yours is a truly gorgeous bird in flight.

-Joshua N. Rose
Omega Imagez

[Ken Middleton]

Nice shots Rich, especially the MA ANG 102nd FW Eagle

[Jenny Forsythe]

This was a very nice show, indeed. I really liked the overall organization of it with the flying starting around 7 on Friday evening and then having a usual Saturday show. I was absolutely amazed by the crowd on Friday evening - much larger than I ever expected - or have ever seen - at a (non-military) night show in the states. It was beautiful flying Friday night, although our time slot was a bit earlier than we usually prefer to fly our night act. We ended up flying just after sunset, which made for some gorgeous sight-seeing for me, but unfortunately, while my night light-suit shines beautifully in the dark, it's kind of irrelevant during times when there is as much daylight as we had. Saturday was nice, a bit cool up there, and rather choppy winds when we flew. Just as we were headed to the runway Dad called up to me to warn me that there would be 16 mph gusts and I certainly felt them up there! Heading upwind was challenging (thus the modified 'salute' pass in Rich's photo above), but the downwind was much steadier, so my 'free-flying' pass felt pretty good.

It was great seeing you again Rich! Sorry I didn't get to meet any other ASB folks... maybe next time.

Jenny

[Bolter]

A new feature at Airshowbuzz is a take-off on popular aviation magazines' "name that plane". We'll be doing "name that performer". Here's the first installment.

Reminds me of the movie with Jim Cary Ace Venture Pet Detective..... "look mommy! The Mustang's having a baby!"

[blueangelsfan]

I see Witmer is corrupting Justy's husband .

[Waltz41]

Great pics! First time I was at the show, had a good time. Here's some of my pics:

[Waltz41]

[Rich Kolasa]

Nice shots! I love the P-51/F-15 break shot! Nice job.

Thanks for the compliments Ken and Ryan. It was a really fun day. The airport people were super, and Schultzie's people were even better.

[Bolter]

I think this is the sign of a trend. Perhaps we should start a forum page. We should call it "Where's Greg-o!" Or we make it a contest to see who gets the best overall shot. Here's the list so far: Millville, Reading WWII Weekend, Binghamton, TOM.
Steve C

7-19-07 added a new one from spies at TOM

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[blueangelsfan]

Bolter, that was just plain wrong dude.