Air Show

(Posted by Jacob, hijacking Colette's account)
Two weeks ago we went to the Air Show on a Saturday. It comes to Tucson every other year (alternating with Phoenix).  We got to go inside a C-130.  In the picture below Annie and Ryan are hanging out under the C-130's wing.

Here we all are right before we went inside.

Here we are in the cockpit.  Rachel is the pilot and Ryan and I are handling co-pilot duties.

Here's a shot of all of us inside the cockpit of the C-130.

In this picture, Annie and I are standing behind a Predator Drone.  This is an unmanned aircraft that drops bombs and shoots missiles at terrorists.  We weren't allowed to touch it.

The next aircraft we got to climb into was an HH-60G Pave Hawk.  This is a rescue helicopter. Here's a shot of Annie manning the machine gun.

The kiddos in the cockpit of the HH-60

Here's Ryan checking his instruments.

Here's a look at the HH-60 from the front.  It's a big helicopter.

Here's a shot of Rachel trying on the pilot's helmet.

The kiddos also got to climb around in some kind of ATV.

The last aircraft that we got to climb around in was a Black Hawk helicopter used by the Border Patrol.

The Thunderbirds were scheduled to perform at 2pm.  So we bought the kids some frozen lemonade and headed back to our van to watch the show and then make a quick getaway.  On the way to the van I had Colette take a picture of me in front of the B-52.

And in front of the B-1.

We waited by the van for about 40 minutes, but we didn't see the Thunderbirds and decided to call it a day.  We later learned that the performance was canceled due to excessive wind.

All in all it was a fun Saturday for everyone.