DEATH wrote:Is The JSOH is different from the Joint operations, or the JSO show that was for military or diplomatic visitors? (Blasted lack of picture taking by visitors).
I don't know anything about a JSO show. The first day of this show, the 16th, was only open to DoD personnel and school groups, but I'm pretty sure the content was the same. This was a straight-up entertainment affair as far as I could tell.
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:They didn't let any of the public approach the F-22s close did they? I was at a smaller airshow in Pittsburgh recently, and except for curious kids and their parents, no one was allowed. So all the pictures I had were from a distance.
A flightline will be closed as long as there are aircraft operating, for reasons of safety. Since the F-22 was a part of the flying show rather than on static display, there was absolutely no chance of a walkaround in any case - although they did bring a few VIPs out to photo-op and talk to the pilots; I saw Secretary Gates there but only recognized him after the fact.
That said, they kept the Raptors much closer than most of the other military aircraft that flew that day, because they were on display. They were maybe 100 or 200 feet from the fence, which isn't much considering that all the other flying military aircraft except the Blue Angels' were way at the far end of the runway, maybe a thousand feet or more from the airshow area.
The F-35 was roped off too, but only to a few feet as you can see. And the E-3 Sentry, which was also roped off and had a notice that anyone crossing the line could be shot, was still accessible to within a few feet where parts of the airplane came close to the barrier. So if the F-22 had been on static display I'd wager it would have been relatively accessible, if not 'walk up and touch' or full 360-degrees walkaround depending on where they parked it.
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