As usual, the Pacific Coast Air Museum put on a wonderful airshow this last year, and they are slated to pull it off again. ACS participated with 2929, our communications trailer, by serving as the conduit between three separate radio nets. If someone from one radio net needed to speak with someone on another net, ACS operators would pass the traffic almost like a human repeater. This worked out quite well and ACS is taking part even earlier this year in helping to guide with choices on how to set up the radio communications infrastructure so that it will run even more smoothly.

Participating ACS Volunteers got to work shifts on the radios and walk around to enjoy a wonderful airshow. In the near future, we will again be signing up volunteers for this year's show. Below are links to some of the photos from the airshow. Use your browser's "Back" button to return, etc, etc. Enjoy.

Ken McTaggart, N6KM, and Bruce Giza, KF6CLH (Communications Organizer), participate in an ACS pre-show briefing in 2929.
Ken and Bruce

Here are some of our volunteers posing for a shot.
Front and center.
All right. Up against the trailer!

Here are a couple of shots of 2929 parked next to a Russian MiG-15 jet fighter. This jet fighter was built in Poland and made it's last Polish flight on Feb. 20, 1992.
Left hand view
Right hand view

The A-10 Thunderbolt (Warthog) is one awesome airplane. The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger seven barreled 30 mm Gatling rotary cannon is 6.71 m (22') long and weighs 1,858 kg. (4,091 lbs.) The shells each weigh 0.91 kg. (2 lbs.) The ammunition drum can accommodate 1,174 rounds (high explosive or armour piercing.) There are two rates of fire, either 2,100 rpm. or 4,200 rpm. Two hydraulic motors are used to feed the ammunition belt at the higher rate of fire, one at the lower rpm. The design fire duration is ten two second bursts with a sixty second cooling off period between each burst. It is said that the recoil from this cannon is equal to the thrust of the engines and if the cannon could be fired long enough, the plane would come to a dead stop.
Front and to the side view
The business end of this bad boy

The airshow began with a skydiver who had an American flag hanging from him with an airplane circling him on the way down.
Circles around the skydiver
Skydiver closer to the ground
Skydiver even closer and a different angle

The biplane that was circling the skydiver did a few maneuvers once the skydiver had landed. He made some really exciting passes; the photos don't do him justice.
Going Up....
How 'bout some barrel rolls about 50 feet off the deck?
Let's do it again
...and end it grabbing some serious negative Gs

It might be a little bit cramped, but this BD5 fits a full sized person... and can fly, too!
BD5 soaking in the rays

Now here is something you don't see very often. How about a F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet flying in formation with a P-51 Mustang? Yesteryear meets today!
Looking up almost directly overhead
Banked turn fly-by
Nice side view
Another nice side view
Going the other direction

And here's that crazy biplane pilot again!
Going up?
How's this for a wine country tribute? A virtual corkscrew.