2014 Waterloo Airshow - 6th Annual Event

The 6th annual airshow took place on June 28 - 29, 2014 - the Canada Day long weekend - officially, it wasn't a long weekend because Monday, June 30 was a regular work day but I think a lot of people had taken Monday off to make it a long weekend. We had a beautiful day all day Saturday and most of the day on Sunday as well. I left early on Sunday and was rained on during the drive home but I think the rains held off under the show was over.

The show was held at the Region of Waterloo International Airport, 4881 Fountain Street N, Breslau, which isn't in Waterloo but I guess its the region of Waterloo - I always have trouble finding it in my GPS unit, because the city changes depending on the GPS unit you have. I have an older GPS unit so they may have fixed it in the more current models.

Richard Cooper and David White are the airshow's producers. But are also pilots themselves. Here is Richard Cooper’s L-29 Delfín, the 500+ miles per hour Soviet/Czech-designed jet.
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The airshow was MCed by Indira Thackorie and Humble Howard (AKA: Howard Glassman).
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The show kicked off with Michael Wiskus of the Lucas Oil Air Shows and the Lucas Oil Skydivers.
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Its very hard to miss the bright red Aerobatic Pitts Special Biplane
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Here is the Pitts returning while the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association's Harvards take off.
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The Kent Pietsch Airshows doing his thing with the Jelly Bean comedy routine
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Gord Price and his prototype Yakovlev Yak-50 from Owen Sound.
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Wayne Hadath, the Kitchener resident and his F-1 Rocket. The Rocket is a home built racing aircraft.
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The Canadian Forces CF-18 demonstration jet - the US export version of the American McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F/A-18A variant.
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The F/A-18 was designed as a Navy aircraft, hence the tail hook even though Canada doesn't have any aircraft carriers.
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The CF-18 on a bombing run - fireworks provided by av8fx of Vancouver
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A topside pass for us to see the 2014 design commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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A high speed pass over the heads of the audience
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Leaving from a touch and go.
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Another Navy aircraft feature - the folding wings for compact storage on an aircraft carrier - you can also see Captain Runge in the pilot seat.
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This was a new act for me - the Jet School Bus from the Indy Boys - a 367 mph school bus. Piloted by Paul Stender or his wife Therese - this bus is powered by an F-4 jet engine!
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A raceoff between the Mike and Paul here.
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Here is Therese in the pilot seat - don't know how they decide who gets to drive...
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The Indy boys also have a jet powered outhouse...
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Danny Richer's Strikemaster - rare British made light attack craft.
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The Canadian Forces Snowbirds with their 9 plane formation to close the show.
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Overall another great show from the Waterloo airshow folks - hope to be there again next year - thank you. Also a big thanks to Nikon Canada for providing the 600mm lens - it attracted a lot of attention as usual but the images coming of it are worth it. The wide angle shots were provided by the Fuji X system.

To see more images from the show - please visit the full gallery at my website.

You can also see other flight related events I have been to at this link.

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