Airplanes, Airplanes Everywhere!

*Driving to work and seeing raptors and F-117's (stealth) frequently. If you pay attention in the building you can hear them outside, but otherwise they are easy to ignore and you don't notice them when working, but it is cool to look up in the sky and see such high tech planes

*Airshow. I went to the Oceana Air Show on Saturday and it was pretty awesome. The air show started Friday afternoon and runs though Sunday around 10pm, opening Saturday from 8am-10pm. The only other air show that I have been to was in Cleveland which I thought was pretty awesome since the blue angels were there and performed for 10-20 min. HOWEVER, the blue angels at the Oceana show performed for just over an HOUR! There were all sorts of planes and stunts and it was cool to see them all, even if they couldn't do supersonic for fear of breaking windows. What do you get when you cross an aerospace engineer, a digital camera, and a huge air show? 450MB of pictures and videos (~300 pics/vids). The guys near me at the show made that seem like a tiny number as they clicked off 10-20 per pass of an airplane with their huge cameras (though one guy had a press badge for an unknown airplane press type thing)*Having a camera with such a fast shutter speed (1/2000 sec), non-software stabilization, and zoom that I could take a picture of a plane flying by quickly with its bomb doors open and see clear details!

*Driving down to Virginia Beach for the air show expecting it to take an hour (or worse since it was Saturday) only to discover I made it there in just over 35 minutes. I'll keep that in mind when I don't feel like going to the beach because I think it is too far....