Canoe, Hunt, Fish, and Fly, by Otter: 2008 Abbotsford Air Show

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

2008 Abbotsford Air Show

Everybody loves an "airshow", including me! People always ask me how many I have attended lately, and I have to tell them in my line of work, I am too busy to get to an airshow in the summer. I would like to go to Oshkosh, though, and help my buddy "Spanky" run the "float base" at "Lake Winnebago", as he does every year. Anyways, an airshow closer to home is the Abbotsford Air Show, which I would also like to attend, but in August, every day I am "flogging" over the Canadian Shield taking Americans fishing. Well, lucky for me, Patrick Lace did attend the Abbotsford air Show with his brother James, and they sent me some outstanding photos.........

Here is the e-mail..........
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2008 Abbotsford Air Show

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:38 PM

From: "Patrick C. Lace"

To: otterflogger@yahoo.com

My brother and I went to the show on Saturday August 9, 2008 and he took these shots with his new Canon SLR Digital with telephoto lens. We had a great time even if we did get a little wet. Ate too much, forgot to wear sun screen and laughed till I almost pissed myself. From the happy buzz of a Tiger Moth's Gypsy Major to the F/A-18 Super Hornet that accidentally broke Mach 1 ( and I have been to enough shows to know when they slip up. When the pressure wave is six feet fully behind the aircraft it go BOOM!) The Snow Birds, ah you know! Hope your summer is not all work and no play. Be safe.

- photo by James Thomas Lace

- photo by Patrick C. Lace
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"Great stuff", Patrick and James, "thanks"! Wish I could have been there, I would have been laughing and "crossing my legs" with you! And at the end of the night? "Beers", and we would all sit around and laugh some more and tell "lies".......

(I will make it to an airshow yet before I "croak"....... make sure you "click" to enlarge the photos.)

"Cheers",

Steve

# posted by Steve @ 7:03 PM

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2008 Abbotsford Air Show

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