AirVenture 2024 Afterburners!
The USAF’s F-16 Demonstration Team flew a pair of Fighting Falcons into the show. This was the non-colorful jet on arrival on Sunday.
Photos and captions by Ken Kula
The EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 had a very large group of current military aircraft demonstration teams in attendance throughout the week. Here are a few of the loud and eye-catching afterburner passes and departures:
Early in Monday’s air show, NORAD presented a simulated intercept of an unknown civil aircraft entering a Temporary Flight Restriction’s airspace. After the event, the pair of Duluth Minnesota-based F-16 jets made a farewell pass; this F-16D had an empty back seat.
The MiG-17 was built in Poland under license as the Lim-5. This pair of Lim-5 jets arrived on Monday.
There were a couple of B-1B bomber flat passes during the week-long show, this was made on Thursday.
The U.S. Navy’s EF-18G Growler flight demo team of two jets had plenty of opportunity to make use of their noisy afterburner pitch ups and sneak passes.
The USAF F-22A Raptor Demo Team’s jet showed off some mighty tight turns, using the afterburners’ energy boost to keep them close to the crowd.
During the RCAF’s Hornet Demo Team’s arrival on Thursday, their #2 jet (with low-visibility 100th Anniversary markings) pitches up after a low pass.
The F-22A at dusk on a knife edge pass.
Raptor on departure from Runway 36 Left at Oshkosh Wednesday evening.
A F-35A Lightning II roars off of Runway 36 Left at Oshkosh in the twilight.
A Wednesday departure for the F-22A before the Heritage Flight routine.
With the city of Oshkosh in the distance, this F-35A would perform in the dusk air show on Wednesday.
F-16C Viper from the 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, departs the area after its NORAD intercept demonstration.
An F-22A Raptor in afterburner sucks some moisture out of the air during a tight turn.
The USAF’s F-16C Flight Demonstration Team flew this colorful recreation of the Falcon’s prototype red, white and blue colors in the four-ship Heritage Flight on Wednesday.
