David Jacobson's Photos

Team Aerostars Dave Monroe Landing After ..
Team Aerostars is a three ship demonstration team out of Cary, IL. They fly a Russian designed and Romanian built trainer aircraft the Yak-52TW (a tai..

Skip Stewart on the Edge
First time I have ever seen Skip Stewart and man does he fly the wings off of his aircraft. Picture taken at the 2007 Lake in the Hill Airfest. Can't ..

Vlado, Spicoli, Jewel and Woody
Great three ship Heritage Flight from Rockford AirFest 2007. From top -bottom. Vlado Lenoch in P-51 Moonbeam McSwine, Capt. Russ 'Spicoli' Piggott in ..

Viper Pulling Vapor While Still on the Gr..
Heres one I hadn't seen in person before. About 20 min. or so before Viper West was to go up, there was a brief rain storm. One of my friends came bac..

Illinois Air Nation Guard C-130 Demo
A nice suprise during the 2007 Rockford AirFest was the IL ANG C-130 from Peoria, IL. They did a nice display consisting of short field take-off and l..

Viper West Take-Off for Heritage Flight
Viper West with Russ "Spicoli" Piggott at the controls brings the gear up as he lifts off to join in the three ship Heritage Flight at the 2007 Rockfo..

Blue Angels Overhead Break
Unfortunately the three days of the Rockford AirFest had low ceilings so the Blues were stuck doing flat shows most of the time with a few low show ma..

Vlado Keeping it Low!
Vlado Lenoch in his P-51 Moonbeam McSwine, flies a high speed pass right on the deck following a great three ship Heritage flight in Rockford.

F-15E High Speed Pass
The F-15E is big, fast and loud, and I love it. Jewel and Woody flew a wonderful display all three days at the 2007 Rockford AirFest.

F-15E Put Through its Paces at Rockford A..
Jewel and Woody (Pilot & WSO) put the F-15E through it paces at Rockford AirFest 2007. First time I've ever seen this demo team, and boy is it impress..

Say Hi!
Blue Angel #7 (replaced #4) comes in after finishing his part of the scouting flight before the 2007 version of the Rockford Airfest.

Dual Rainbows over an Eagle
After a thunderstorm moved through the sun came out very bright and made not one but two rainbows and made for some good photo opportunities. This air..

Colorful Static F-18c at Rockford AirFest..
A colorful legacy F-18c Hornet on display at the 2006 Rockford Airfest.

Super Hornet Demo Team Rainbow
Picture of the Super Hornet demo teams back up jet after the thunderstorm.

KC-135 Nose Art
This is the nose art off of the Illinois ANG KC-135 that flew durring the Rockford air show.

KC-135 Sun
While working on the ramp during the Rockford air show I turned around and this is what I saw.....so I took a picture of it.

Eagle Tail
Thunderstorms + blue sky afterwards = cool pictures.

Eagle
About an hour before the Rockford air show was about to start a brief thunder storm blew through and left bright blue skies behind making for great ph..

Janesville Ramp
The F-16 Viper East Coast, F-18 Super Hornet East Coast, and the heritage flight P-51 aircraft sitting on the ramp before the show in Janesville WI.

Cobra
A view of a static cobra at the Quad Cities Air Show

Big Gun
A view of the mean end of the A-10