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Canadian International Air Show

September 3, 2007 by Gail

threesome
The U.S. Air Force’s F22 Raptor, F16 Viper, and P51 Mustang

Today was the last day of the air show, so I went down to the lakeshore this time to view it further west, from the dock of the rowing club. On Saturday Arliin and I were at the National Yacht Club, east of Ontario Place and beside Toronto City Centre Airport, which afforded great views of the planes taking off/landing at the airport and the aircraft making their wide turns around the CN Tower.

P51 Mustang
P51 Mustang

Drinking beer and enjoying lunch on the patio, I completely forgot to put on sunscreen and didn’t notice how scorched my skin was getting, I was so preoccupied with shooting airplanes.

barnstormer
John Mohr’s barnstorming 1943 Stock Stearman PT-17

Today’s vantage point by the rowing club was closer to the action and just as skin-frying hot. I slapped on the sunscreen this time and brought provisions (grazing food) and remembered to bring the hood for David’s Panasonic Lumix.

Snowbirds
Snowbirds

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4 Comments »

  1. Arliin says:

    Ooooohhhhhhh!!!!!!! Aaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

  2. [...] so much time there. We hung out on the dock in the summer, and on Labour Day weekend to watch the air show on the second day. I’m glad Erin and the others were able to secure the rowing club as the [...]

  3. [...] Canadian International Air Show – Sep 10, ‘07 [...]

  4. [...] This year I found myself wanting the Arliin connection again and didn’t take nearly as many photos as I did two years ago. Arliin and I spectated the airshow twice in 2007, the second time sitting on the dock of the Argonaut Rowing Club. It was a scorching hot weekend, I remember getting sunburned at both the yacht club and the rowing dock. I also drove us to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum that weekend, so we really got our fill of aircraft between the museum and watching the airshow over two days. [...]

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