Misawa Air Show

This past Saturday Misawa Air Base hosted an Air Show, opening up the base to the Japanese to come and demonstrate both the USAF (United States Air Force) and JASDAF (Japanese Air Self-Defense Force).  These are some of the pictures we got from the event.

JASDF fighter

 This is the Miss Veedol  it was her last flight before her retirement.  The Miss Veedol was the first plane to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean.  The flight left from Sabishiro beach outside Misawa - and traveled for 41 hours across the pacific ocean where the pilot and copilot crash landed in the middle of Washington state.  (The plane had to crash land, because they jetisoned the landing gear after take off to drop some of the weight from the plane).  Obviously it has been recreated and reattached since October of  1931!

 USAF demonstrating formation flying with the F-16's