Of Wings & Things columnist Frederick A. Johnsen, who is also the force behind the Airailimages YouTube channel, recently posted a video of the action at the Moses Lake Air Show in Washington state.
The debut of a refurbished deHavilland Vampire jet fighter highlighted the Saturday Moses Lake air show for many, according to Fred.
For others, it was the fly-over of four Marine F-35s.
Moses Lake has a huge airfield, the former Larson Air Force Base, that is heavily used by Boeing for test, rework, and storage of jetliners. For the air show, a runway is blocked off for the showline. The feeling is part fly-in, part active air show as rare and beautiful planes make their way here.
And on this Saturday, it was an air show within an air show as a real-world wildfire elsewhere in Washington prompted the rapid launch and subsequent recovery of several air tankers based at Moses Lake.