Blue Angels Air Show

On Saturday we took Teya to see the Blue Angels Air Show at the Smyrna airport just south of Nashville. I say we took Teya, but really I should say we took Taber, since he was the one who was giddy excited about the whole experience. Taber got his private pilot's license while he was in MBA school so he gets pretty pumped about this kind of thing.

Anyway, the show was about 4 hours long and featured some pretty amazing flying by several acrobatic pilots and was capped off of course by the amazing Blue Angels jets. Watching those pilots fly was unlike anything I've ever witnessed before! They were playing chicken in the sky, stalling in the air, doing crazy spinning free falls, it was nuts! My heart was beating so fast, I seriously thought they were going to crash like 50 times! Teya really got a kick out of the airplanes, but I think the jets scared her a little because they were SO LOUD! We had a great time though and came home with full tummies, some nice sunburns, and a new awe and respect for show and air force pilots!

I took this picture myself.
This is the Geico skydivers doing some fancy flying.

They had planes everywhere that you could get in and look around

Me and Teya in front of a fighter jet.

Taber and Teya with an army Helicopter
This lady was a wing walker
She was doing all these tricks on the wings while they flew
It's hard to tell, but the lady was upside down on top
of the plane, kicking her feet in this picture

Teya's favorite part was the junk food of course : )

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This is a video of John Klatt who was one of the pilots that performed. This will give you a taste of some of the crazy maneuvers we saw during the day.