The 1998 Willow Grove NAS/JRB Sounds of Freedom Airshow




Rewritten May 1, 2000



Willow Grove puts on a nice show for a small base. Even with no demo team, as displayed this year, it was still a great airshow. I enjoyed it. I am definitely coming back for their next airshow.


Performers

Frank Ryder

French Connection

Keystone Jump Team

Gene Soucy & Teresa Stokes

Dodge Ramjet

Six of Diamonds

Chuck Lischer and his F-260

Nicorette Nicoderm CQ Skytypers Skytyping Act

Save-A-Connie Lockheed Super Constellation


And the military/civillian aircraft demonstrations...


F-117 Nighthawk

SH-2G Super Sea Sprite

PENNSTAR Medevac Helicopter

P-51D Mustang

B-25 Mitchell

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F/A-18 Hornet

P-3C Orion

L-39 Albatross

AV-8B Harrier II


Show Review


As I mentioned above, Willow Grove puts on a nice airshow. The 1998 show was one of their best "civilian" airshows. And I say cilvilian for a reason. There are more civilian acts in the show (a little more than the military), which makes it more interesting. Then there's the military side, which was larger than the 1992 show. The F-16, F/A-18, F-117, P-3, and Harrier demos were among the best. The performances put on by Frank Ryder, Gene Soucy, the French Connection, the Keystone Jumpers, Six of Diamonds, Chuck Lischer, and the Connie were among top-notch. I was disappointed the Skytypers couldn't do their demo because of the low clouds towards the end. But they did a few passes over the flight line to make up for it. To end the show, a nice Heritage flyby of the P-51 and F-16 closed out the 1998 show.


Overall Score


Show itself: 9.5


Disappointments








Pictures from the 1998 SOFA


Air Ground Task Force

Six of Diamonds, French Connection, and Gene Soucy

Keystone Jumpers, Frank Ryder, and Dodge Ramjet

Super G Connie, L-39C Albatross, B-25 Mitchell, and P-51D Mustang

F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet, AV-8B Harrier, and P-3C Orion

F-117 Nighthawk, SH-2 Seasprite, Pennstar Medivac, and Heritage Flight




I still got a ton of static pics to add. I'll add them as soon as they're scanned.






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