The National Cherry Festival is held annually in Traverse City to celebrate the areas hugh contribution to the cherry crop of the nation. The area supplies 25% of the nations sweet cherries and 75% of the tart cherries. When you drive around the area you certainly can believe it. Miles and miles of cherry trees.
The festival is a 9 day long celebration which includes many activities including pie eating contests, cherry pit spiting competition, live entertainment in the evenings, a beauty contest, and a car show to name just a few.
The crown jewel of the festival, and the real crowd magnet is the Festival Air Show. This year the headlining show was put on by the US Navy Blue Angles. Additional demonstrations by the prop driven group of Aeroshell Aerobats was also a crowd pleaser. Top that off with flights of an A10 Warthog and an F-15D Eagle and you have one awesome airshow. Here are the pictures.
If you have never attended one of these airshows featuring a high performance jet, you need to go to one some time. The show and sound are incredible. The tight turns that the F-15 can complete at hundreds of miles per hour are amazing. My favorite manuever has the F-15 pilot turning the jet straight up and lighting the afterburners and rocketing nearly out of sight!
The festival is a 9 day long celebration which includes many activities including pie eating contests, cherry pit spiting competition, live entertainment in the evenings, a beauty contest, and a car show to name just a few.
The crown jewel of the festival, and the real crowd magnet is the Festival Air Show. This year the headlining show was put on by the US Navy Blue Angles. Additional demonstrations by the prop driven group of Aeroshell Aerobats was also a crowd pleaser. Top that off with flights of an A10 Warthog and an F-15D Eagle and you have one awesome airshow. Here are the pictures.
If you have never attended one of these airshows featuring a high performance jet, you need to go to one some time. The show and sound are incredible. The tight turns that the F-15 can complete at hundreds of miles per hour are amazing. My favorite manuever has the F-15 pilot turning the jet straight up and lighting the afterburners and rocketing nearly out of sight!
The Blue Angles and the F-15 did a couple of speed runs past the crowd at about 600 mph. The crowd was impressed but I wonder how many know the same jets can actually go about 1200 mph! Now that I would like to see!
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