Car Modern 2011

For plane lovers the season of the air show is fast approaching. Some people keep close - like staying in town for  Toronto's Canadian International Air show in September, or taking the time to travel to the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show. The planes will take to the skies above the Willow Run Airport on July 23rd & 24th, 2011.

The City's skyline stands tall above the waters of Lake Ontario, but there is not much colour in the view. Most of the dominant colours are the blue, green and concrete grey.

 I think the skyline should be more like a Rubiks Cube mixture of colours. Here is a little more grey from the airshow (CIAS) down at the lake front.

The Canadian International Airshow (CIAS) is a good time to go down to the shores of Lake Ontario and across to the Islands and watch some fantastic planes fly over Toronto Harbour. I always like the fighters, both the prop driven WW2 planes and the sleek, powerful, modern jet-fighters.
It is one of the few times every year that I cross the mighty waters and head to the Toronto Islands. As previously noted my favourite viewpoint is from Hanlans Point Beach. If it is really hot, and many years it is, you can cool off in the waters of Lake Ontario and get some great shots of planes and the city's skyline.

See more photos of exciting planes after the jump.

Planes are cool, see more after the jump.

The crappy weather continued into the holiday Monday and it certainly put a damper on the 2010 Toronto International Airshow. I watched the show from the Islands again this year and was surprised at the low turnout of boats surrounding the event and people along the beach. I was hiding from the rain (and cold!) and didn't get many good pics of the planes. The smoke of this plane blends in with the haze and low cloud cover that haunted Toronto most of the day.

The Snowbirds fly by (below) while the two jets pictured at the top are hitting the road and looking for the sun.

The largest gathering of World War II bombers happened at Willow Run Airport and they put on a great show for the extremely large crowd at the Thunder over Michigan 2010 Airshow. The annual show was a great mix of old and new military aircraft with eight B-17's on both static display and flying during the show. I stayed at and can recommend this Super 8 Hotel which was just down the road from the airport. Don't forget that the Toronto International Airshow starts September 4th and lasts until the 6th.
I was surprised to see the stop sign on the runway - I guess even fighter jets need to follow the rules of the road.
Some of the viewers found it a little noisy.


Two gorgeous airshow Calendar girls were on hand to sign autographs and sell calendars.
More pictures of the airshow after the jump.