Every year there is a big air show at Kaneohoe Bay Marine Corps base. It includes many stunt planes, military aircraft, and the Blue Angels.
Along with planes they had some army equipment on display. This, I'm guessing is the modern army "Jeep".
This truck is quite intimidating in person. It's the MRAP All Terrain Vehicle. It's about 20 feet long, just over 8 feet wide, and almost 9 feet tall. It's curb weight is 25,000 lbs. I don't know what it's gas mileage is but I'm sure it would not make a good daily driver.
This is a plane, and this is it's nose...
...Open it up and here's all the people.
From the massive to the super light.
To start the show off right this guy went up and did some fun tricks.
Next there was a military fly by with these helicopters.
Some para-shutters came down while...
...the Marine Corps marching band played.
The announcer described what was going on as they did a demonstration of securing an area and sending in ground troops.
The demonstration included filling the ground with bullets from these choppers before they landed and the ground troops went in.
After the area was scouted and everyone was back in the air a bomber came through and did this. It happened very quickly and unexpectedly. I could feel the heat wave blow by.
This was one of my favorite plane acts. It was a comedy routine The pilot bounced/flew around for a while on the ground like in this picture making quick turns and all kinds of crazy things.
Next up the first jet.
It did some aerobatics for us as well.
Here's a little video of a few of the planes.
The Red Bull plane showing off a little. It was actually flying sideways like this and staying parallel to the ground.
The Air National Guard rocket truck.
The whole show they had been talking about a race between a plane and a rocket propelled truck. Here it looks like the plane obviously has the win but the truck started from a stand still and caught up by the end.
It took a few attempts but the pilot was able to land the plane on top of this moving truck.
F-22 Raptor
The houses on the base were all pretty cookie cutter.
Here's a picture of one of the lines just to get on a bus and be shuttled back to your car someplace else on base. Then their was the traffic of getting hundreds of people off the base that only has two roads out.
Military bases here have a more mainland feel than the rest of the island. This is the only outside mini golf course I've seen in Hawaii.
If you're wonder about the Blue Angels I said were in the show... I gave them their own post. It's up next.
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