Skyfest 2017 on Sunday
While the mavericks are up above, twisting and turning to the delight of the crowd below, Chief Inspector Ryan Smith is perfectly content on the ground, where he belongs.
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Assistant Crew Chief, Staff Sgt. Nicole Calungsod waxes the wing of Thunderbird pilot Maj. Alex Turner’s F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter plane, Sunday July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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Before their aerial performance, maintenance crews prepare the Thunderbirds’ F-16 Fighting Falcons, during SkyFest Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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A Navy FA-18 all-weather fighter and attack aircraft flies inverted during a performance for the SkyFest crowd Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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A P-51 Mustang fighter and a B-25 Mitchell bomber fly in formation past the SkyFest crowd at Fairchild Air Force Base, Sunday, July 30, 2017.
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SkyFest spectators watch a KC-135 Stratotanker take off at Fairchild Air Force Base, Sunday, July 30, 2017.
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Fairchild’s Honor Guard opens SkyFest on Sunday, July 30, 2017.
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From the top of a 70-ton MK-23 military truck, U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Taylor Runions shows Jake Anderson, 9, from Hayden, Idaho, how a .50-caliber machine works during SkyFest, Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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SkyFest spectators enter and exit the nose ramp of a C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft, Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base. The C-5 Galaxy is one of the largest aircraft in the world and the largest airlifter in the Air Force inventory.
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SkyFest spectators walk up the rear ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft, Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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Mike OMalley and his son Liam, 8, check out a World War II era P-51 fighter plane Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base’s SkyFest.
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At SkyFest, Castiel Fawcett, 6, of Rathdrum, Idaho, sits in the cockpit a UH-1N Bell Huey helicopter that is assigned the the 36th Rescue Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base on Sunday, July 30, 2017,.
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In the Kids’ Zone at SkyFest, Hayden Ellison has fun in a bubble ball, Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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Noelle Dacus lifts her son Julian, 2, up so he can touch the nose of an F-15 Eagle fighter plane during SkyFest, Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air force Base.
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Bill Braack lights up an afterburner on his Smoke-n-Thunder jet car during SkyFest at Fairchild Airfoce Base, Sunday, July 30, 2017 .
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Twins Noah and jack Stowell, 11, of Spokane, take a selfie inside the nose gun position of a World War II era B-25 Mitchell twin engine bomber during SkyFest, Sunday, July 30, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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