::went for Asian Aerospace over the past 2 days... my dad's in the RSAF, so started to have an interest in planes when I was very young... remembered going to his workplace for some open house/airshow, then sat in the cockpit of the plane.. damn cool.. anyway, he just got promoted to 2WO, 2nd Warrant Officer for those that don't know.. so he had to go overseas to work from Friday and couldn't go with us for the public days, so my grandma going with us instead.. anyway, went on Saturday with my family and Sunday with my friends..

Day 1
woke up at 8+... felt kinda larthargic and sleepy intially, but immediately woke up when I remembered what today was.. felt like a small boy again.. know those feeling when your parents brought you to the zoo for the first time or something? the excitement of not knowing what to expect.. my bro was still not eager to wake up, so only got out of the house at around 9.15.. took 88 to Pasir Ris, first thing you'll notice at the interchange is the amount of AA 2006 buses there.. almost like half of the buses there are for AA.. then got something to eat and boarded the shuttle bus..
quite alot of sercurity to go through before actually reaching the exhibition place.. policemen going up the bus to check, gunmen with carbines and shotguns... they really mean business mann... alighted about 10mins before the aerial display starts.. there was a long queue to get in, so we decided to watch the display first..


the Pilatus doing some loops...


F-15 with its landing gear down..


High bank turns...


Dives..


the pilot..
ok.. thats actually a pic of the model plane.. hahaa.. though my cam has 12x zoom, the planes still are quite small, must crop.. for you to take a pic of the pilot piloting the plane in flight, think must have telescope attached to your cam, even then, still must have insanely good timing lor... hah.. the only plane that fills up the whole frame, yes you've guessed it, the A380...


the A380 in SIA colours doing some banks..


close-up
quite scary seeing close to 300 tonnes flying through the air like that.. its huge but still quite agile.. don't think it can do such stunts fully-loaded with passengers though... imagine the volume of vomit 555 passengers can create..


not wanting to be outdone, the original also did some stunts for us to see...

then queued up to go inside... more sercurity checks again.. feels like going through an airport.. we are on airport grounds anyway.. quite crowded inside.. went in the Halls to view some of the exhibits.. we went to one of the food outlets there to eat.. got an onion bun and root beer.. then went to walk around while they were eating...
went to the static display area outside..


was this lucky kid whom was given the chance to go into the cockpit.. his expression kinda reminded me of myself when I was young...
then queued up for the large aircraft display.. was pretty much a walkable distance, but had to take a shuttle there.. my mom, bro and grandma went home first.. so it was just me at the WCA.. of course the aircraft with the largest crowd surrounding it was the largest airliner... the A380.. the B-1B Lancer was there too..


the F-15E
the sun was really beating down hard, combined with the strong winds... another long queue to get back, so more baking in the sun... went to see the rest of the static display aircraft.. the private jets and trainer planes.. so that ends day 1 at AA 2006...

Day 2
went early to Pasir Ris to get the tickets first.. seems like theres lesser people there though there's still a big crowd at the interchange... got something to eat from Mac while waiting for the rest to come.. met Lian Jie and Dave at the interchange while Tim, Edi and Jason took taxi by themselves... the usual sercurity clearance etc..
went to watch the aerial display first as with yesterday... threatened to rain with dark clouds hanging over us, but luckily didn't..


look up in the sky! its a bird! its a plane! oh yea its a plane...
the cloudy skies ruined what would be a nice shot.. then went into the exhibition area itself.. queued up for the Large Display Aircrafts first.. Tim's been wanting to see the A380 in all its large-ness upclose... the queue was even longer than yesterday.. but at least with people to talk to, it seemed faster.. Jason was looking through Dave's mp3 collection.. "Gregorian Chant, Gregorian Chant, Gregorian Chant..." hahaa.. but really.. most of it are those Christian songs...
as usual, there was a crowd at the A380...

argh!! thats the 3rd person to come spoil the picture!!


another candid shot with great timing.. looks like some caricarture right?
ok, on to more serious shots..






then went to get something to snack on.. the hotdogs with cheese inside are nice.. being the last day, the halls were quite empty.. most of the exhibits were close... went to Airbus' booth to take a look..


I'm sure Tim will buy this 1:20 scale model if it was up for sale.. if 1:20 is so big already, then 1:10 model can be a small aircraft already...
then went outside to the static display area..


Lian Jie and the F-16 behind..
took the shuttle bus back to Pasir Ris... Dave had to go so he went off.. so the 5 of us took the train to Dhouby Ghuat since we'll all be taking the NEL home... went to Kopitiam to eat and chatted for some time there...
still have school the next day...::

.:JeReMyChAn blogged on 11:02 pm:.
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