Airshow in Cocoa Beach 2010

A small collage of impressions from the recent Airshow 2010 in Cocoa Beach, Florida

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Organizers estimated Saturday's air show attendance at 100,000 and Sunday's crowd at 60,000. 

That's more than twice the estimated turnout of last October's inaugural event.

Read more about the whole show here.

Hi my friends,

Thank you all for the wonderful comments to my "Wordless Sunday" post. I'm happy you liked it that much.

We had a very noisy Weekend with this giant airshow going on over Cocoa Beach. 

They flew so close and so loud over all the houses so that I'm sure, all the windows were shaking.
And it was also hurting my ears.

But it was big fun and very impressive to see those "Thunderbirds" (and other airplanes like the F-16 Jet fighters and smaller "Bumble-Bee's") flying their risky formations. They flew so close over the water - dusting up everybody at the beach with sand and colored smoke. 

There was also one women pilot flying - would YOU do that job...????  :))

I wish you all a wonderful week!

~Susanne

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Pretty close to the ground

It's pretty close....!

This is the spot where the air plains in training are landing - and also starting - to their training flights. It's impressive and also scary looking, to see them fly so close to the ground.

Patrick Air Force Base
(IATA: COF, ICAO: KCOF, FAA LID: COF)
is a United States Air Force Base located between Satellite Beach and Cocoa Beach, in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It was named in honor of Major General Mason Patrick. An Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) base, it is home to the 45th Space Wing. Additional tenant activities include the 920th Rescue Wing, the Air Force Technical Applications Center and the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute.

(If you are interested, read more about PAFB on Wiki here)

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A Visit at the Citadel College

The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina,

is a state-supported, comprehensive college located in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The Citadel is one of the six senior military colleges.

The Citadel has 14 academic departments divided into five schools offering 20 majors and 25 minors. The Citadel is best known for its undergraduate Corps of Cadets military program for men and women, which combines academics, physical challenges and military discipline.

In addition to the cadet program, civilian programs are offered through the Citadel Graduate College with its evening undergraduate and graduate programs. In a partnership with the local community college, Trident Technical College, Citadel bachelor's degrees are offered to evening civilian students in Business, Civil Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. Students must complete two years at the community college level and two years at the Citadel. This program is known as the 2 + 2 program. The Citadel enrolls almost 2,000 undergraduate cadets in its residential military program and 1,200 civilian students in the evening programs.

While all programs make use of the Citadel campus and professors, cadets and civilian students do not share classes and only cadets live on campus. The exception to this is the veterans program, reinstated in the fall of 2007, which allows cadets who left The Citadel for active military duty to return as civilians, attend classes with cadets, and complete their degrees if certain criteria are met. Cadets also share classes with active-duty enlisted Marine Corps and Navy personnel, who are not required to live on campus or wear cadet uniforms.

Read more about the Citadel College here