Hamilton Airshow

Its been 10 years since they held a full airshow at the Hamilton International Airport. I remember going to one airshow there, years before, when one of the stars of the show was the relatively brand new Stealth Fighter.
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Musuem will be celebrating 40 years next year, and they plan on having a big airshow. To test out the idea, they held a small, 3 hour airshow over the Fathers Day Weekend.

There were definately some problems in running the show, the most glaring being the transportation from the parking area.

Once arriving at the parking area, you ended up in a long line of people waiting for a bus. The problem was that the buses were in the same road that the cars coming into the lot were in, so they got bogged down.

Once on the bus, they drove right to the gate of the Museum, only to drop you off again. Another line up to pay, then another line up to get into another bus, to be driven to the field! That was stupid, and I believe part of the way through they decided to allow people to walk the distance, as eventually the line thinned out, which was good since it was nearly 2, the start of the show.

Once the show began, the airshow was generally good. But as with every event I've attended at CWH, there were problems with the show. Many of the promised formation flights never happened. The ones that they did were simply just passes, not real formations. I would have loved to see both B17's flying with the Lanc, but only the b17's went up at the same time, band simply did once pass each before landing!

Some of the planes included Chuckie,





Memphis Belle (movie version)



Nine harvards,



B25,



WW1 planes



and a formation of fighters including the mustang, corsair, warhawk, spitfire and hurricaine.





Some of the static aircarft included a C-130 hercules,





a CAF rescue Griffon,





A Sea King,



as well as CWH aircraft





Here are some of the other aircraft flying saturday.

Airshow Sunday

Well, what a crappy day in the weather world! Getting into the car and driving down to TO, with my bike on the back, it was raining all the way in. Getting parked, and onto the bike, still raining. Crossing the harbour on the City Ferry, and it was raining. Made it to the beach just north of the airport, still freakin raining!!
Oh well, finally saw some of the aircraft I missed on Sunday.

The anti-sub hunter of the Canadian Forces, the Aurora, was on hand today.



The Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team was on hand, and once again did a great job during their performance.









The Royal Canadian Air Cadets were on hand with both a glider and its tow plane.





The CF-18 Air Demo, with the tail done up to represent the 100 year anniversary of the Canadian Navy, recently crashed in Alberta. As a result, the Hornet Demo was cancelled. However, the CIAS was able to get two CF-18's from Squadron, who did a few flybys for the crowd.








Although I saw the Corsair yesterday, I do like the aircraft, so I include it again today.



Rob Holland was back angain today, and I always like it when they cross near the CN Tower!



And I was right at the runway, I also saw the Porter Airlines planes doing an "airshow take off", where they immediately do a left bank turn to stay out of the air show box.



This one turned while the B-25 was performing.



And of course, some shots of the Snowbirds turning over the island.





Another Canadian "team" performing on the waterfront where the Canadian Geese team!





Also out on the horizon, well, at the end of the island, was a tall ship doing a tour.