WW II weekend Reading Airport

Starting today local airport has this WW II weekend every year, 7th 8th and 9th this year. Re-enactments vehicles, and of course vintage planes and warbirds. Weather is expected to be great. If you've never known and are in driving range, now you know.

Quite the event - the fly-overs in N. Berks already started.................

I live about 25 min drive east of Reading and saw a B-29 flow very low over my house this morning! Very cool sight.

I'll never forget the time I drove on a semi rural road just as the Blue Angeles were performing at the Eugene Airport a mile or two away. Driving along, I saw the jets flyover, low, and turnaround going back to the airport. I stopped, got out and watched as several turnarounds happened. Very low to the ground. I think I enjoyed that more than the real performance I saw years before

I need to get there some day. I was born and raised in Reading, and actually worked at the airport in the early 70s during the summer on the general maintenance crew. That's when they had the BIG airshow - Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, Canadian Snowbirds on a yearly rotating schedule. They had a Harrier there one year. My dad was a newspaper reporter for the Reading Eagle and got to fly in the back seat of one of the Blue Angels one year for the media ride.

I moved away around 1983. I have family there (daughter and her husband, grandpuppies, brothers), so I still get back several times a year.

Another Reading Airport incident - I actually met Mohummed Ali there one day! He had a training camp in Deer Lake, and flew in and out of Reading. I had his autograph on a napkin. My memory of that is that when I shook his hand as an 18 year old kid, it felt like my hand was a kid's hand gripping an adult's hand.

Brings back memories!