While we truly enjoyed the air show in June, it would have been more awesome if the weather had cooperated. as you can see in these photos, Sunday's exhibition was cut short by rain. We plan to go back and to be part of the crowd.
By Sunday, nearly all of the indoor exhibits had been packed up. The exhibit halls looked rather sad. On top of that, the weather was definitely chilly, overcast, and rainy. These are the interesting items we saw indoors.
Saturday at the air show was wet and dreary, so we pretty much stayed indoors. Our plan to explore the Air Museum was squashed, however, when someone set off the fire alarm. So these are all the air show photos I'm sharing from Saturday.
Everyone from Mexico to Malaysia was represented in the pavilions - except the US. There wasn't a real US presence at the show. Part of it was the sequester, but private companies also closed up shop before the public days. The US had a pavilion all its own. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas and other contractors had their own small buildings. They were all shut up tight and taken down before the first member of the public walked through the gate. It wasn't a good way to represent or promote the US at all in a very important market. I, for one, was very disappointed.
As for the rest of this, the tools are used in aerospace and aeronautics to put everything together.
Lots of things to look like professional engineering concerns at the air show. You can see robots and video displays and drones and so on. The people with them, though, are in sales.
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