Aircraft pics

[Ngtflyr]

Travis Air Force Base is only a little over an hours' drive from the Bay Area. Travis AFB is home to the 349th Air Mobility Wing, 615th Air Mobility Operations Group, 60th Air Mobility Wing, and 15th Air Force. The 60th Air Mobility Wing flies the C-5 Galaxy, KC-10 Extender, and C-17 Globemaster III. Air show attendees were treated to all 3 flying at the show.

Saturday's show also marked the occasion of the last flight of a C-133A Cargomaster. The C-133A flew into Travis, and will be put on display at the base museum. That aircraft had operated at Travis from 1958 till it departed in 1971. In addition to the heavy transports, there were demonstration flights from a F-18 and A-10, along with flights from an F-86, Corsair, P-51 Mustang, B-25s, T-28, and various civilian aerobatic teams. The main event was the Air Force Thunderbirds, which flew a very impressive routine!



Travis Air Show

[427TJ]

I grew up west of Travis in the S.F. east bay hills and remember the loud hum of C-133s climbing out of Travis westbound for Hawaii and probably Vietnam. C-130s make a different, softer turbo-prop hum but the louder C-133s would rattle the front windows of our house. I also remember the C-124 Globemasters with their four 28-cylinder R-4360 piston engines. Those also rattled our front windows!