Bluebonnet Airshow '08

The Bluebonnet Airshow is held annually at Burnet Muncipal Airport in Burnet, Texas. I attended for the first time last year: the show was small and comfortable, but marred by inclement weather, which kept some displays away and the Mig-17 on the ground. This year’s show was threatened by now-shows due to a tornado in Breckenridge, but overall was much longer. The Mig-17 got to fly, the A-10 West demo team was there and got to fly, there were more airplanes, and we were treated to a world-class formation-acrobatics routine by a couple of T-34Bs, the “Trojan Flight.”

For a low-stress, high-quality event with friendly, small crowds, this airshow can’t be beat.

Click on a thumbnail below for a more in-depth photo series. If you wish to use any of these images, check with me first.

A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog)	A-4 Skyraider	AT-6 Texan with Tuskegee markings
SNJ-3 Texan	AT-7 Navigator	BT-13 Valiant
BT-15 Valiant	C-47 Dakota (Skytrain)	CJ-6 (Chinese version of Yak 18A)
Extra 300L	F-8F Hellcat	L-3E Grasshopper
L-4 Grasshopper	L-4 Grasshopper	Mig-17 "Fresco"
O-1 Bird Dog	Cessna 337 Skymaster	O-2A Super Skymaster
OV-1C Mohawk	P-47 Thunderbolt	Piper PA-31 Navajo
Piper Super Cub PA-18A	PT-19 Cornell	Pitts S1-T
SNJ-5C Texan	Stunt Biplane	T-28B "Trojan Fleet"
T-6 Texan	T-6 Texan	T-6 Texan
UH-1 Iroquois ("Huey")

 

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