EDWARDS AFB — With little greater than two months to go, preparations are selecting up pace for the Aerospace Valley Air Show at Edwards Air Force Base, on Oct. 15 and 16.
The show, the primary at Edwards in 13 years, will showcase not solely the Air Force’s premier flight take a look at facility, but in addition all the aerospace group of the Antelope Valley, highlighting different services and companies resembling NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, the Mojave Air and Space Port and Air Force Plant 42.
Although admission is free, ticket gross sales have begun for particular VIP seating packages.
Flight Line Club tickets embrace reserved tables in a non-public space on the flight line edge, together with a catered lunch and personal portalets, for $350 to $700 for tables of two to 4 individuals.
Premium field seats are reserved seats on the flight line, with devoted meals concessions and portalets, for $75 every.
Tickets could also be bought on the air show web site at avairshow.com
Headlining the two-day occasion would be the Air Force Thunderbirds flight demonstration workforce. They can be joined by an unlimited array of aerial efficiency and static shows representing practically each plane within the Air Force stock.
Scheduled to look thus far are aerial and static shows by the F-22, F-35, B-1B Lancer, Edwards F-16 and T-38, B-52 and KC-135 Stratotanker plane.
The show could have a heavy presence of plane and shows from NASA, as properly, with plane together with the ER-2 (a civilian model of the U-2 spy airplane), F-15 and F/A-18.
“It’s a rare opportunity to see this many NASA aircraft in conjunction with the Air Force,” Chase Kohler of the 412th Public Affairs workplace mentioned.
Non-military performers and air show favorites thus far embrace Vicky Benzing in her bright-red Boeing Stearman biplane and Greg Colyer in his T-33 “Acemaker.”
The occasion will commemorate the seventy fifth anniversaries of the Air Force and the primary supersonic flight, by then-Capt. Chuck Yeager within the skies over Edwards AFB.
To have a good time that first sonic increase and reap the benefits of holding a uncommon air show beneath a supersonic hall, the air show will characteristic Air Force and NASA jets “going full steam” to see which might break the sound barrier first.
