The Great New England Airshow 2018

     One afternoon, I learnt that I was going to The Great New England Air Show 2018 at the Westover Air Base. I have been to the airshow once before back in 2015, but I hardly remember anything about it. 

The patriotic Fastrax parachuting team performing

     My Dad let me bring my own SONY Cybershot DSC-H7 Digital Camera to enjoy the show and take pictures of the planes. All the pictures in this blog are clicked by me. Our drive to the air base was smooth except the parking. We had to park in a dusty ground filled with cars. Also, the walk to the place we were sitting (under a enormous plane wing) was far away but at least in shade. 

View from a static display cargo plane

When we got to the plane wing, I immediately went inside the plane and started clicking pictures. When I got out I sat down on lawn chairs and watched the airshow for some time until I started feeling hot, so I went to the mist sprayer. Then I went to take pictures of more static display war planes. 

The cargo zone

While I was coming back, I discovered the Air Force Reserve where there was a game booth, a photo booth, and free paintings. So I decided to stop by and play the games. Thanks to Xbox practice, I got a gold on all of the games.  Then I went back to tell my Dad about the pull-up bar challenge and photo booth. When he arrived there, he completed the challenge and pulled up for 90 secs and won a power-bank - impressive! Then we went to the photo booth and got two pictures. The funny thing was that my shirt looked green to the camera so it made my shirt the background. All one can see were my hands and my head. After that we had chicken sandwiches for lunch. My Mom made and took them for a picnic lunch.

Picture with USAF soldier

Mid-air refueling controls

Then, I went for a walk on my own to a large plane where I took a lot of photos of the cockpit, the cargo zone, the passenger seats and the mid-air refueling controls (as shown next).  I also got chance to click a few pics with USAF soldiers  (as shown above) and received a few hand painted warbirds memorabilia signed by veterans.
    

Thunderbirds parked that I clicked from the plane

When I came out I was just in time to see the star performers 'The Thunderbirds' which were extremely loud. On our way back home we stopped for a quick car wash to remove the dirt from the car.