Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Arts Photography PHOTOS: Flying high at Salute America
Posted by Clay Duda @clayduda on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Jet fuel burned in a near cloudless sky as propeller-driven birds took flight at the Northwest Atlanta Airport this past weekend. The event, the first of its kind for the new airport, was an overly patriotic bash of high-octane entertainment. In a strange, apparently unplanned twist, a wounded war veteran touched down just minutes before the start of the show, inciting the loudest round of applause heard all afternoon.
The day’s festivities also included a jet-propelled porta potty and school bus, the latter of which raced — and beat — a Stearman biplane down the runway, along with a Vietnam rescue mission reenactment, and a fly-by from a handful of Texas-based Air Force fighter jets.
Check out all the photos and abstract compositions from the Salute America 2012 Air Show.
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