Fairchild AFB SkyFest 2022 Sunday May 15 - B-29 Doc B-25 Grumpy Thunderbirds UH-1 C-17 KC-135

The weather cooperated for a great day of flying and walking the huge ramp at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington, for the SkyFest 2022 air show and open house on Sunday, May 15, 2022.
Glossy black T-38 Talons from Beale Air Force Base opened the flying day. Kyle Fowler’s distinctive yellow LongEZ flew a graceful aerobatic demonstration, as did other civilian performers. Military aircraft captured in this video include a UH-1 in a pararescue demonstration, KC-135 and C-17 in refueling precontact position, the spectacular restored B-29 Superfortress “Doc”, the rare B-25D Mitchell bomber “Grumpy”, and a P-51C from Spokane’s Historic Flight Foundation, a brief pass from a B-1B Lancer, and the USAF Thunderbirds. The new generation of Air Force tankers, a KC-46, was on static display. And Fairchild Air Force Base acknowledged its 80th anniversary. During World War II it was used as the Spokane Air Depot, overhauling many aircraft for the war effort.,
Whenever possible, we used ambient audio to capture aircraft sounds. But the presence of commercial music on the air show PA system for which we do not own rights had to be muted. That’s the only time we used our own available music in the soundtrack. We get it - we’d all rather hear the engines.
Kick back and enjoy the show without the tired feet of walking the massive flightline! And thanks for subscribing to the Airailimages Channel on KZbin.
This video is part of the Airailimages Airshow America series.

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Take a look at a mass launch of B-25s at Oshkosh from 2017, on Airailimages: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGnUaoukjbOKpLs

[@richardbowles7690]

Your video does great good for community engagement. Thank you. #USAF #B-25 #B-29

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And thanks for watching and commenting.

[@rhark25]

Love the Malcolm Hood!

[@airailimages]

Yes! I've had Mustang pilots tell me that gives even better side vision than the full bubble.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Your own music is far preferable to whatever they may have been playing, I've no doubt. It was very appropriate for the B-29 flybys. Nice that they allowed very close up inspection of the static displays.

[@airailimages]

Thank you very much! It's good to get back into air show season again.

[@thedishonoredamerican129]

Mighty fine work as usual 👍. Thanks for the video.

[@airailimages]

You are very welcome! Thanks.

[@AlbertoLepra]

Hermoso. ¡Cómo me gustaría poder disfrutar personalmente de un show aéreo con todas esas asombrosas aeronaves! Gracias por permitir que al menos lo pueda disfrutar en KZbin. Cordial saludo desde Montevideo, Uruguay.

[@airailimages]

¡Estoy tan feliz de tener un espectador de Uruguay! Gracias por mirar y comentar.

[@johnosbourn4312]

Great video, Fred!

[@airailimages]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@joeschenk8400]

Great variety of aircraft. Now I think the KC 135 looks small compared to the C 17! Thanks again.

[@airailimages]

Yes, the C-17 fits that sweet spot bigger than a C-141 and smaller than a C-5. Thanks, as always, for watching.

[@martinpennock9430]

It's that wonderful time for airshows again! Thanks again for the wonderful video. As always God bless you Mr Johnsen and thanks again for all you do! God bless the USA!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@airailimages]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ChiefAUS]

Thanks for taking us along for the ride. It looked like a very good show. Was it well attended?

[@airailimages]

You are always welcome! Looked to be a good-sized crowd; I don't have any numbers on that. The Saturday show, even though it got weathered out, had good attendance also. The Spokane crowd appreciates events like this.

[@downwindchecklist6567]

Great video! Thank you for filming, editing and sharing! (The music was not bad at all, btw)

[@airailimages]

Appreciate your comments. Thanks.

[@LibertyLakeWildlife]

Nicely done as usual! That camera angle on the top of the B-25 during the pass was amazing! Was there any general aviation in the back ramp?

[@airailimages]

Didn't see much in the way of general aviation; some historic antiques (DC-3, B-25, P-51...) Thanks for watching!

[@frogstomp646]

I had to work the air show. It was hell having to deal with the 100,000+ civilians in attendance.

[@rh6625]

Can we hear the planes taking off instead of the music? A B-29 on liftoff is music to my ears.

[@airailimages]

So did you not hear the explanation for that?

[@rh6625]

@@airailimages No, missed it. Sorry. I muted the sound when it was music.

[@airailimages]

Hey, glad you're here. We'll bring natural audio engine sounds whenever we can.