The Yankee Air Museum's B-17G Yankee Lady took to the skies.
The rumble of her 4 engines filled the sky as made her passes along the show line.
The Yankee Lady was then joined by some little friend - P-51 Mustangs flying escort.
The escorts protecting the bomber included Mad Max, Old Crow, Gentleman Jim and Cincinnati Miss
It's always thrilling to see and hear that many Mustangs maneuvering through the air.
Thunder Over Michigan had a performer from Europe come to show its stuff.
The Luftwaffe's Airbus A-400M Atlas.
Checkout those neat curved props.
The A-400 is a four-engine turboprop cargo aircraft that can also perform med-evac and aerial refueling capabilities. Larger than a C-130 Hercules and smaller than a C-17. The aircraft has a 422 knot cruise speed and a range of 1,800 nm with full payload and a 4,700 nm ferry range. It has rough landing strip capability and a lot of cargo versatility.
The A400M came in for some passes with the ramp down
Then some low speed passes to show off its low speed maneuvering.
It looks even larger in person and is quite an impressive transport aircraft.
A very nice display of the capabilities and handling of the A400M courtesy of the Luftwaffe.
The Navy's EA-18G Growler Demonstration team participated at the airshow.
The EA-18G Growler is the electronic warfare version of the Super Hornet.
The crowd got to watch a Super Hornet go through its paces, and demonstrate its high Alpha and maneuverability.
The air was all sorts of humid, so the Growler had no problem creating vapor trails.
The Super Hornet also created some shock diamonds from its twin engines.
After the initial demo, a Corsair joined up for some historic Navy fly-bys:
Note the nose angle of the Growler in this pic as it stays on the Corsair's wing.
After flying together they the broke off and and Hornet gave a nice parting shot of its roaring engines to end the demonstration.
The EA-18G Growler is a large, loud, and very maneuverable aircraft and put on an impressive display.
The Mitchells took to the air.
A sight that would make people below either cheer or run, depending on whose side you were on.
They had fun in formation and then many came by for close-ups.
Champagne Gal did a fly by with her bomb bay doors open.
Then she did a high speed pass with them closed.
Devil Dog came in for a close up
Georgie's Gal came by to let everyone admire the nose art.
Miss Mitchell was not to be outdone
Rosie's Reply flew over her home field with aplomb.
Show Me showed herself off.
Take off Time also wanted to show off her nose art.
Next, Wild Cargo also came in for a close up.
As did Yankee Doodle.
A bit more formation flying was done.
Then they came in to land.
An excellent display of formation flying by these wonderfully historic aircraft. This may be the last time so many B-25s fly together.
The largest gathering in the world of B-25 Mitchell bombers in flying condition took place this weekend at Thunder Over Michigan.
Formerly The Yankee Warrior, the Yankee Air Museum's own B-25 now repainted as Rosie's Reply:
Devil Dog, which I last saw with Murph in 2018 in Louisiana:
Georgie's Gal:
Wild Cargo:
Semper Fi:
Maid In The Shade:
Show Me:
Champaign Gal:
Miss Mitchell:
And quite a few others, and then they all took to the skies, with 15 B-25 Mitchells in flight.
There were far fewer aircraft on static display this year. I guess all the uncertainty regarding whether the show would be in/by the car only kept the aircraft away.
Still, there were some to see:
A Convair SNV-1 Valiant a World War 2 training aircraft.
A gorgeous T-6 Texan:
A T-28 Trojan
A pair of T-6 Texan IIs
Of course, some people can't avoid messing with $8.9 million dollar airplanes. Get a load of this moron going up to the Texan II and playing with the propeller:
First of all, you don't touch a multi-million dollar airplane without permission.
Second you never play with a prop. There's is always a chance that the prop can kick or even start up and turn into a rather large and high-powered Cuisinart with your body parts becoming the vegetables being chopped up rather fast.
Yes the idiot played with the prop, spinning it around, until she got shooed away and told to stop touching it.
Then the B-25s started getting towed from the static display area to the taxi way for the air show to begin.
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