http://www.fairhopefestivalofflight.com/

Airshow link

Fairhope Festival of Flight

H L Sonny Callahan Airport Fairhope, Alabama, USA

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

The second annual Fairhope Festival of Flight will be a true air show this year with the addition of aerobatic programs featuring Greg Koontz. The Red Star Yak group will return again for formation demonstration flights and the popular Young Eagles group will be providing introductory flights to young people. Bi-Plane rides will be available as well. The vintage and active duty military contengent has been increased this year. There will be an air boss and special frequencies for traffic and special fuel pricing for fly-in participants.

Been hearing this advertized on the radio. Where is this airport located? Is it on the "other side" of Fairhope on 98?

You can see the map here

It looks like it is going to be a great fly-in.

You guys planning on going Saturday or Sunday? I think I'll go Saturday as that's when they'll be doing the F-16 flyover.

Also, who's doing the R/C demos?

Sunday's combat so....

I believe Rob is flying a jet, not sure about who else... I may if I get mine tested in time...

I think my G/F and I are going on Saturday. More great photo ops!

Sad news, but not tragic. Bobby Grice crashed his Alley Cat Biplane today at the Airshow. Fortunately, he was able to walk away from it. I'm sure he'll have some aches and pains later, but he did walk away under his own power. I won't speculate as to what happened, but he was pulling through the bottom of a loop when it happened. He was very lucky. The remainder of the Airshow was suspended for the day while the FAA investigates.

Hmmm... I was about to call his brother Philip to see if the he and the other Roy E. Ray pilots can do a fly-over during the Jamboree Fly-in...

Perhaps not a good time to ask... I'll wait a couple of days... :(

Thank goodness he walked away!!!! It was quite a 'plop'... After they cleaned everything up they continued on with the airshow...

Wow, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Nice shot TJ.

The rest of the airshow, although delayed, was excellent. Can't even describe the feeling that four F-16s in full afterburner gave me. :thumbup:

Huh??

;)

Great pic TJ..

When the accident first happened, I got an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach. Although I don't know Bobby real well, I've met and have known all of the Grice brothers for several years from my work at the airport in Pascagoula. I was very relieved when I saw him walk away from it. Of all the similar accidents I've read about, they usually end in a fatality. If they rebuild another "Alley Cat" maybe he should consider naming it "8 Left".

I'm guessing it's similar to the feeling I get when one B-1 flies over in AB. :hyper:

Alright TJ, I know you got a ton of other pictures, give em up. :D

Here are the links to mine; I'd display the images here but for some reason in this forum if the picture is larger than the page the window doesn't allow me to scroll left to right. Anyway, here they are:

Yaks:
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Yaks in formation:
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Helos!
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I didn't take any photos of the static displays. I've got similar yak shots on the line, and some formation shots. I didn't like the formation shots so much just because they're the bottom of the formation. If you ask me, they were kinda boring! I'm still editing some of my shots, but I'll post the address for all of my photos on photo.net

I just seens on the news today that Mr.Grice will be getting out I believe they said tomorrow(?).He looks good-they talked to him and his wife also someone else.Its a blessing that he is alive to talk about it.he said he was ready to fly.Just wanted to let yall know incase you missed it.(thank you channel 5 for a good report).kenny2
Ps-I cant wait to see him out again-you cant keep a good flyer grounded,get well soon.

In case you haven't seen it yet...

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OMG!!! What a video!!! Can you believe that Robby walked away???? WOW!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

The man you see running in the video is Dickie Toups, one of his best friends. Dickie also survived a crash many years ago and suffered severe burns on both legs. He says Robby is the only person he knows besides himself to survive a crash.