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This weekend David and Christopher came out to visit and go to the air show at Pease. The weather was perfect and we all had a great weekend.

On Thursday night I picked them up from the train station at Exeter, NH and went to the Olive Garden for dinner. Delicious!

I took a day’s vacation on Friday and we went to the Hampton Airfield Café for breakfast and then watched the aircraft take off and land. After breakfast we headed over to Pease to see if we could catch a glimpse of some aircraft arriving for the weekends air show. We were able to watch for around 5 minutes before the police started moving people on.

In the afternoon we drove up to York to see York Beach and the Nubble Light. We stayed around York for most of the afternoon before returning home for a BBQ.

On Saturday and Sunday we went to the Airshow at Pease. The weather was great and we saw a great deal of aircraft both on the ground and in the air. I was lucky enough to sit in the pilot seat of a Delta Airlines 757 as well as a KC-135, an aircraft I have seen a lot at Pease over the last couple of years. We also toured a KC-10. The air display included an F-16, F-15, F/A-18 as well as the Blue Angels and the Brazilian Air force Smoke Squadron.

Here are some pictures from the air show, with captions where possible:

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angels flying past the tail of a Boeing 757

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angel

U.S. Navy Blue Angel

Air show crowds taking shelter from the sun underneath an A-10.

Taken onboard a KC-135 looking back towards a KC-10.

Flight controls inside a KC-135.

Flight controls inside a KC-135.

Looking out of the KC-135 towards F-15′s and F-16′s

F/A-18 Hornet

F-15 Strike Eagle

F-15 Strike Eagle

F-15 Strike Eagle