Posts Tagged ‘airplane’

Andrews Joint Forces Open House

May 16th, 2010

On Saturday we went to Andrews AFB Joint Forces Open House. If you’re around DC this time next year I totally recommend going as we had an amazing time. Nicole’s high school friend was up visiting us this weekend so the three of us went to check out the open house. The event is free to the public and the only catch is you can’t drive on to the base you have to park or catch the metro to a designated spot and then they bus everyone to the base.

The open house had all kinds of planes on the ground that you could go up to and check out. They had both old historical planes and current working planes and vehicles. Also throughout the day they had air demonstrations of various military aircraft as well as the army’s demo jumper team (Golden Knights). The highlight/finally of the day was the performance by the Blue Angels which was awesome. I’ve never been to an air show that I can remember so it was a ton of fun. Here are just a couple of pictures of the day (I took 750 pictures).

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The historical fly by with a WWII plane, F16 and F22.
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Entrance to the show
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Nicole and Michelle watching the planes up above.
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Michelle in the cockpit
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Army’s Golden Knight jump demonstration
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Geico Skywritters.
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Nicole and Michelle in front of a helicopter
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Ross found a gun to play with
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Abrams tank.. I want to drive this on the beltway.
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Blue Angles diamond group. Look how close they are to one another.
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Blue Angles high speed pass.
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More Blue Angels
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All 6 blue angels.
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Nicole and Michelle waiting to get on the bus back to the metro. Only bummer of the day was that it took almost 2 hours to get back to the metro.
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Ross and Nicole at the metro stop waiting to go home.