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Miramar Marine corps air station holds great airshows with massive flight displays and non-stop action.
Unfortunately, the spectators will be facing towards south (the sun) which makes taking pictures and videos tricky.
By the time the evening show begins (Saturday only) the sun is to your right and moving towards rear, giving you an ideal low, side light so you can take very attractive photos.
However, in year 2000, the air show date was moved from mid-summer to fall and this shortened the time of night show where very impressive photos could have been taken.
I must be honest and say Miramar airshow is not as attractive as it used to be.
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4 photos of USMC combat Demonstration.
CH-46D USMC HMM-161 (Bu.153328 / YR-05)
UH-1N USMC HMLA-369 (Bu.15968?/SM-30)
CH-53 of USMC
USMC's M-1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.
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UH-1N of USMC (Bu.158259/01) for rescue mission.
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UH-1N's flare demo. Dull, dark sky is welcome as it enhances the light of flare.
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KC-130F of VMGR-352 refuels AV-8B Harrier and F/A-18D Hornet
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KC-130F of VMGR-352 and CH-53.
If you look at the photo closely you'll notice the boom is not connected !
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Colorful image of F/A-18A of USMC VMFA-134 (MF-07 and MF-06) taken at the beggining of night show.
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Red Baron Stearman Squadron's beautifully restored Stearman A-75
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Civilian aerobatic team performance by Pitts S-2B (N776TA, N777TA, N778TA)
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amazing but noisy Harrier.
Harrier is displayed every year at Miramar
USMC AV-8B demo.
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USMC AV-8B
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I was really surprised that during year 2000 show the Royal Navy Sea Harrier FA2 of 801Sqn (ZE692) made a demo.
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Although it is a USMC air base, you can see some nice Air Force aircraft, too.
F-117A of 9FS (85-0835 / HO)
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B-2A Stealth bomber
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B-1B Bomber of GA ANG/128th BS (85-0059 / GA)
Note the #1 engine on B-1 is shut down.
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Warbirds fly 2 times, in the morning and at dawn.
Morning provides very poor light conditions for photography, but in the late afternoon it is just beautiful !
AD-4N Skyraider (Bu.126935 / N2088G)
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Cavalier Mk. 2"Six Shooter" (44-22580 / N2580),
Yak-3M (N529SB)
P-51D-25NA "Merlin's Magic" (44-73129 / N151SE)
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TBM-3 Avenger (Bu.85983 / N28SF)
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Golden Knights parachute team from U.S. Army.
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Daytime how ends with Blue Angels.
Light condition is improving by this time.
#6 take-off
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Blue Angels Diamond - Extremely tight formation of four F/A-18s.
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Pararell Break. This is the old time, coming in from the front. |
