Nellis Air Show- 1959!

[jslugman]

How cool to have been there: F-100 through F-106 takeoffs. BUFFs in formation, Huns dropping nape!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmseXJ7DV4c

[Dave S.]

Man, where's my modified DeLorean!!  Sure would loved to have been there for that show.  I like the reaction of the lady with the white hat after she sees/hears/feels the high speed Hustler pass, at about 1:18.

[Jay Beckman]

So, what lens does one use to shoot a three-ship of BUFFs at tree-top level?  Anyone got a 5mm UUWA?

I like the comment below the video where the guy says something like "Today's airshows ain't got nuthin'!" 

[Paul Dumm]

Hell!!!! An Air Force air show where they are fireing LIVE rounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Thoes must have been some fun times.

[Jay Beckman]

That was back when they didn't need an Environmental Impact Study just to fart...

I miss the good old days!

[Joe Copalman]

Exactly what an airshow should be.  The live-fire stuff is a far better recruiting tool than the glossy-painted demo teams of today.  Military aviation is not wingtip-to-wingtip loopty-loos.  It is dirty aircraft putting ordnance on target and dropping cargo and infantrymen and things like that.

And that B-58 pass is mindblowing.