Thunder Over Utah 2012

[Jay Beckman]

Held March 17 and 18 at St. George, Utah

As you'll see in some of the images, there is great potential at KSGU given the surrounding scenery but I hope the organizers will give serious consideration to sliding the date back a couple weeks next year.
If they can move away from the cusp of late-season storms (like we had this time) and make some other adjustments to parking, facilities and even some tweaks to the airport layout, they'll grow into a show most definitely worth attending.

Given that this was the very first event held in St George, they did quite well in having the Raptor Demo, Osprey Demo and the Blue Angels performing.

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The flight line did yield a nice clean look at the Blues lined up and ready to go...
(31 Portrait-oriented images stitched in CS5 .. Finished image is over 43K Pixels wide!)

100% Crop of the #4 Jet

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Morning Arrival

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Against The Wind

Carol Pilon .. Wingwalker

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Slow And Steady

Osprey are extremely methodical in non-tactical environments!

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High Alpha Males

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Always Nice To See A Familiar Face When Traveling

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Atomic Batteries To Power .. Turbines To Speed

[BillOz]

Great images as always Jay.  What a background!

[Paul Dumm]

If I did not have to be at the airport Sunday Afternoon I would have loved to been there, Looked like a great time and lets hope that there will be more to come in the comming years.

[Jay Beckman]

Continuing to just cherry pick...

Mark Peterson in the very snappy "Hell-er Bust"

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Just A Big Ol' Bug...

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Knock Knock...

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Jeff Boerboon and the "Power Slide"

[Jeff D. Welker]

Knock Knock...

Without a doubt, the best image I've seen of an Osprey that actually made it look like a serious threat rather than some type of bug. Great job Jay!