This is U.S. Navy Blue Angels Lead Solo Navy CDR Ben "Baxter" Walborn screaming past us at just under the speed of sound. I was really hoping for a vape cone, but it did not materialize that day. I did get some nice rainbow colors though.

The Navy’s “Charlie” variant is my favorite of the three. It has beefed up landing gear to handle carrier deployment and the ends of wings fold up for taking up less space on a carrier.

This is from the Augusta Air Show last year.

To me, watching the crew is an important part of the show as you get to see the hard work and dedication of the maintainers that are behind the scenes keeping the show going week after week.

Normally when they are at the Rome show they have to stage at Dobbins because the runway is not long enough. Fortunately, the Rome airport expanded the runway in recent years so they will be able to land and stage right in front of the crowd this year.

Aviation photographer legend Ricardo von Puttkammer and the Aviation Photojournal team hosted an unbelievable photographer’s experience. This is one of my favorite images from the weekend with Thom Richard in his T-6 Texan making a low pass.

Music: Dolphins by Sergey Suokas, Licensed from Melodie Music

There is often a drone show and then it wraps up with a fireworks show.

The shot with Kyle Fowler Aerosports and the shot with Redline Airshows is a composite in case that isn’t obvious to some.

The Wings Over North Georgia Airshow will be back with another night show the first weekend in April.

You can see the sunset reflecting off QuickSilver P-51 here as an example. If there are jets, the after burners glow a lot more at dusk.

After sunset there are planes with pyro shooting from the wings. Jet cars or trucks which have nice flames from the afterburners look even better at night.

If you are in the north Georgia area, Air Force Thunderbirds will be in Rome at the Wings Over North Georgia Airshow the first weekend in April (Fri & Sat, no Sun show).

In case you didn’t see Monday’s image, this was taken at the 2021 Wings Over North Georgia Airshow. The show will be back in Rome in April featuring the Thunderbirds as the headliner and another night show with pyro strapped to Kyle Fowler’s Long EZ and the Fox Jet Sailplane.

You can see it was very humid with a very low cloud deck and Whiskers leaving a long vape trail from the wingtip vortices.

I had not processed this image previously, but since everyone seemed to like the truck so much, I figured I’d share this one with #6 taking off the opposite direction. As you can see, there is still a lot of smoke 36 seconds after Chewy passed by.

Monday’s image with #5 Cary “Chewy” Rickoff has timestamp of 10:38:40 AM. This image with #6 Julius “Whiskers” Bratton has a timestamp of 10:39:16 AM.

The Wings Over North Georgia Airshow will be back in Rome in April. This year hosts another great lineup including the Thunderbirds as the headliner and their second time doing a night show.