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Sunday's Chicago Air & Water Show was canceled midway through the show due to deteriorating weather conditions. The show began during a light rain at 11am but as the day progressed, more rain came in and the visibility and cloud ceiling diminished to the point that officials canceled the show for safety’s sake.
Attendees on Sunday were able to see some acts, including the U.S. Army Golden Knights, Aeroshell, the F-15 Strike Eagle Demonstration team and the A-10 demonstration team, among others. But the show was canceled before the headline act, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, could thrill the crowd.
Although there was periodic rain on Saturday, a large crowd made it out and enjoyed a full Air & Water Show. Conversely, the weather on Sunday appeared to scare many away, leading to an estimated attendance for the two-day event of 1.3 million down from nearly 2 million last year on a rain-free weekend.
Chicagoist had a great time at the show on Saturday. We really enjoyed the heritage flight which consisted of a flight of a Vintage WWII P-51 flying alongside a F-15 and the F-22. Just before the Heritage Flight, the F-22 Raptor put on an amazing aerial demonstration (shown above). Our photos from the Air and Water Show can be found on Flickr.
What we enjoyed most was people watching during the show. The demonstrations amazed not just the kids but adults alike. Hearing the excitement in kids’ voices as they watched the show was a thrill. One of our favorite moments was when Sean Tucker, after flying an amazing display of aerobatics, returned to show center to meet some fans and take the time to talk to kids who wanted to meet him. I am sure this weekend’s show not only entertained but also inspired a few attendees to look at opportunities within our armed forces or to explore a career in aviation.
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Sean Tucker was pretty amazing. I don't know how he was able to do those tricks and pull multiple Gs while narrating his own acrobatics. It made me a bit nervous. Good times.
Sunday's Chicago Air & Water Show was canceled midway through the show due to deteriorating weather conditions.
Excellent. Lets hope they cancel this thing permanently. If you want a good air show, take a visit to Iraq.
Sunday's Chicago Air & Water Show was canceled midway through the show due to deteriorating weather conditions.
God was angry.
Excellent. Lets hope they cancel this thing permanently. If you want a good air show, take a visit to Iraq.
Or to the part of your head where your brain should be.
"Excellent. Lets hope they cancel this thing permanently. If you want a good air show, take a visit to Iraq."
Yeah, because all those acrobatic shows and other activities are just brainwashing those kids into becoming murdering soldiers, or whatever the fuck you are trying to say.
By the way, your comment was as simplistic and brain-dead as the Jesus loves the USA shit spit out by right-wingers. Don't you left-wingers realize you are idiots, too?
Here we go again. It's a freaking air show, people. It's not a statement on anything. It's simply an opportunity to see airplanes fly around. I can hate the war and still think the airplanes are cool.
This humorless attitude only solidifies the right and makes the left look more and more like idiots. Even a peacenik has to choose his battles. If you don't like the show, don't go.
^Well said.
I don't see that we have any choice in the matter. I can handle the rest of it, but the fighter jets make so much noise you really can't do anything except hear them. If they'd just dis-invite them, I wouldn't mind the Air and Water Show at all.
If you don't like the show, don't go.
Listen, if we are really at war, why in the world are these military units here in Chicago making a hell of a lot of noise in residential neighborhoods (and scaring my cat!) and not fighting the evildoers in Iraq and Afghanistan?
If we are to assume that the pilots in the "Golden Knights" and the "Thunderbirds" are elite pilots--it is a colossal waste of time, talent and taxpayer money for them to be flying over Chicago.
It is impossible to avoid the pestilence of these damned planes and their CO2 emission levels are outlandish.
I guess the noise of the fighter jets drowns out the more pleasant noise of the expressways and street traffic and the horns honking and sirens blaring and music rattling through car stereos and the el train rattle and barking dogs and just the constant rumble that comes with living in a city.
Really, complaining about somebody making noise in a place like this is like complaining that barbecue grills clog up the air in Los Angeles. It's not like we're living in a pristine, sound-free environment here.
Really, complaining about somebody making noise in a place like this is like complaining that barbecue grills clog up the air in Los Angeles.
Uh.. no its not. These jets are around 120db while city traffic is around 50db.
You air quality analogy is stupid. Since we don't regulate barbecue grills, maybe we should not regulate power plants!
You should get a job as a PR flack for BP.
Heck...We had a nice afternoon on the lakefront Saturday. I like the Air & Water Show. Looked like everyone around us was having a good time too. That is, until the rain started.
"Uh.. no its not. These jets are around 120db while city traffic is around 50db."
Meanwhile, the jets are, at best, a half-mile away for maybe three seconds, while the traffic is right next to us constantly. According to a Columbia College study, CTA trains run about 90 db ... and we stand right next to them in a tunnel.
My point is that this city is a noisy place, and the jets don't add much to it. Yours is a weak argument you pose simply because you don't like them.
"This humorless attitude only solidifies the right and makes the left look more and more like idiots. Even a peacenik has to choose his battles. If you don't like the show, don't go."
Oh Please! A bunch of state of the art military plans flying over head should be some how "isolated" from an insane five year- plus- war of blood and carnage brought to US by some gangsters in the white house! Do you think Bush landing that plane on the deck of an aircraft carrier (mission accomplished) had nothing to do with symbolism?
No guest 6, the blindness and inability of people like you to make simple but very important connections and take a stand during these dark times is week kneed liberalism, which is why Bush is still in the white house.
Well, as someone whose hours are not 9-5, I'm sure glad I was woken up by that nonsense every day for almost a week for nuffin'! The jets might be half a mile away for three seconds... but that's three seconds at a time for over an hour, beginning at 9:30 or 10 am for days in a row. Can't sleep (or get back to sleep easily once I've been disturbed for that long), can't concentrate on reading... ugh! Happy it's over! Pristine, sound-free environment this ain't, but frakking jet engines aren't exactly a regular part of living in a city. They "don't add much to it"???? Pshaw.
P.S. decibels are measured on a logarithmic scale. 120dB is a lot louder than 90dB...
Since Guest 2 and Spook apperantly feel there is no need to appreciate the work of military pilots, perhaps they would like to see what would have happened if we had lost World War II. That would definetely have happened if it were not for the great fighter pilots and the excellent training. It would be great if there was some sort of alternate universe we could send these two to see what their lives would have been like under German rule. And I would bet that guest 9 may be worrying about more important things that whether his or her cat is having a good day.
To hell with all of these complaining pantywaists.
If you really cared about your dog you would not force it to live in a congested city and would have brought a house with a yard.
You yellow-bellies do not seem to realize that those military planes provide the protective cover that allows you the freedom to peck away at your computer complaining about bullshit.
"but frakking jet engines aren't exactly a regular part of living in a city."
Hmm ... then I wonder what all those loud things are flying over on their way to Midway and O'Hare? Really big birds? UFOs? Dragons?
Really, if you're that light a sleeper, I don't see how you ever doze in this town. The car alarms alone must drive you insane.
first of all ... jets flying in and out of the airport aren't hundreds of feet over the city ... they're *thousands.*
i don't mind too much about the noise, but i think there's a middle ground here. there's been times i've gone to the AWS and been amazed at the technology of flight.
however, i think we're fooling ourselves if we think it's NOT about recruiting people, since there's *recruiters* everywhere! why wouldn't it be a way to get kids excited about flying ... even though the percentage of people who get to actually fly is like getting into the NBA ... vision, height/weight, physical strength, etc., etc.
and it does make me feel sad to know there are all these brave soldiers in iraq losing life and limb for nothing.
Of course there's middle ground, but this is the Internet. Middle ground isn't nearly as fun as spouting my extreme left/right dogma with little logic or reason, using spurious reasoning and weak connections to complain about something other people see as fun that doesn't really inconvience me nearly as much as I'd like people to think it does.
Some folks hate the air show. Some folks hate Lollapalooza. Some folks just hate. It's just another day in the digital world.
the middle ground is for liberal cowards and folks with out real convictions "because they are so above it all" I don't like republicans, but at least they stand for something. I blame people like guest 20 for Bush, because they are so busy being balanced instead of taking a stand. I'm so tired of people like this