Oceana Airshow 1995

"user314" (user314) 04/20/2020 at 12:00 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airshow, 1995, Oceana NAS

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In 1995 I got a chance to fly down to Oceana NAS in Virginia Beach with my uncle and the USAir show team.

Web sourced USAir DC-9. I didn’t take any pictures of the actual craft

Being it was ‘95, the following images were taken with an inexpensive fixed focus 35mm camera. Given the limited number of shots, there’s no static displays, which I’m kicking myself over now.

F-14 Fly By

Another Tomcat, low and fast.

Being a navy base, the featured team were the Blue Angels, and Fat Albert performed it’s signature jet-assisted takeoff

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Another featured performer was the Shockwave jet truck, a Peterbilt semi-truck powered by three Westinghouse J34 engines.

I remember THIS being the loudest performance of the day

Finally, we have Paul T. Entrekin and his MiG 15:

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Tomorrow: the 1999 Open House event at the Pittsburgh IAP Air Reserve Station.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > user314 04/20/2020 at 12:07

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And here I was seriously hoping that they were doing aerobatics in DC-9s

WilliamsSW > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/20/2020 at 12:15

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You need a Boeing for that

user314 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/20/2020 at 12:19

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No, but we did have to alter our landing approach to avoid the arresting gear, and s omeone joked about the pilot “calling the ball”. We also had to do a high performance take off for the same reason, not we had any weight issues with only the dozen or so of us that went down.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/20/2020 at 12:19

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Surely you didn’t fly the DC-9 into Oceana? I used to live in Norfolk in the 80s, and seeing F-14s flying out of Oceana was a regular thing. If you were on the beach, you could hear the sonic booms from out over the ocean. And that was a real treat being the Fat Albert RATO. I saw one of the last ones at an airshow in Houston, and that would have been the mid-90s. And as for the Shock Wave, it’s still shocking audiences. I took these at Fort Worth in 2017.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > user314 04/20/2020 at 12:25

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The DC-9 is a cool little Jet. Kinda loud if you are in the back but they move down the runway pretty good. 

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 04/20/2020 at 12:29

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Tex Johnston: “I was just trying to sell airplanes.”

Priceless.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/20/2020 at 12:31

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Well, I guess you did fly the DC-9 into Oceana. You probably had to do a high performance takeoff for noise abatement reasons . Va Beach built houses right up to the borders of Oceana, and then the residents started bitching about the noise. Of course when whey first built the base, there was nothing out there. I just don’t see how you can buy a house next to an active NAS and not expect to hear the airplanes. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/20/2020 at 12:39

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I think it was a DC-9, but I could be wrong as I can’t find anything for the USAir show team online.  M y uncle was a mechanic for USAir and was on the team (which is how I got to ride down). I cannot find anything on line about the team (strangely enough), but I know his kids found a box or two of foam 737s while they were cleaning his house out last year.

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/20/2020 at 12:40

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Maybe, though they were very specific about us avoiding the arrestor cables during the landing.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > user314 04/20/2020 at 12:43

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I have family in Norfolk. For my cousin’s bachelor party, we went to a clay shooting range, that I guess was close to an air base, because we were shooting guns directly at fighter planes (they were obviously WAAAY out of range) that were constantly taking off and landing . It was one of the most Murica things I’ve ever done.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/20/2020 at 12:50

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I goggled the registration, and it was a DC-9-31. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/20/2020 at 12:56

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Not my pic though, just a web-find. Let me double check with my cousin, he’ll remember. My brain’s too clogged with random factoids and song lyrics...

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/20/2020 at 13:26

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Yeah, DC-9 or possibly an MD-80.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/20/2020 at 13:45

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Ah..got it. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/20/2020 at 14:16

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And don’t call me Shirley. 

ttyymmnn > user314 04/20/2020 at 14:34

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I might have photographed that red MiG-17 at the old Lone Star Flight Museum. At the time, the museum was located in Galveston, but it  relocated to Ellington Field in Houston following Hurricane Ike.