Wings Over Pittsburgh!

Two weeks ago was the Pittsburgh Air Show. This is a really fun weekend where the local base, where Damon flies, hosts a spectacular show both in the air and on the ground. Because we live only 10 minutes from the base and runways, it was a noisy week of F-18's and the Thunderbirds flying over!  We had a great day checking out the planes, especially the one Uncle Damon flies!

Will and Benjamin getting on Uncle Damon's KC-135 Stratotanker.

Ella and Will in the belly of the plane.

Ella hanging from the rafters.

All four of the kids :-)

I just love this one where Will is looking adoringly at Damon. If you ask Will what he wants to be when he grows up he will tell you a pilot like Uncle Damon. Then, he'll launch into an explanation of how Uncle Damon flies a plane that gives other planes gas in the air and how we saw Damon flying over our house twice giving a plane gas (and we did.). This will all be said with an exuberance that can't be matched...

Checking things out in the pilot's seat!


All of us in the flight deck.

TOP GUN'S!!!! SO COOL!


 
Climbing the helicopter.

Pooped, mid-books, on the way home.