KC-135 Stratotanker
October 22, 2024
The USAF Band of the West is a musical organization with an outstanding record of achievement. The Airmen assigned to the band are highly-trained professional musicians who have dedicated themselves to serving their country through music. The USAF Band of the West travels more than 125,000 miles annually and provides hundreds of performances to military and civilian audiences throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Air Force bands inspire immediate, positive, and long-lasting impressions of the United States Air Force and the United States of America in the hearts and minds of our audiences....
The E-3 Sentry is an early warning and battlefield control aircraft commonly known as AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). It provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and communications, and is distinguished by the distinctive rotating radar dome above the fuselage. E-3s playing a crucial role in the Persian Gulf War directing coalition aircraft against Iraqi forces....
Greg Koontz flies the popular Super Decathlon through a solo aerobatic routine that demonstrates its full aerobatic capability! His dazzling display of outside loops, vertical rolls, snaps and tumbles is quite the crowd pleaser with a down low, in the dirt inverted ribbon cut as the grand finale! Greg will talk you through each maneuver from the cockpit as he flies his routine, a departure from the traditional narrated air show performance. Greg Koontz has been performing in airshows since 1974, when he joined Col. Moser's Flying Circus and learned his trademark maneuvers from the best in the business and brings to the line up, old-fashioned family entertainment in the best flying circus tradition!...