Performers at the Winston-Salem Airshow
Aeroshell Aerobatic Team
The Aeroshell team puts the Texan through several tight formation and aerobatic maneuvers to show off this aircraft's grace and beauty. |
Cobra Demonstration Team
Their machine of choice is the AH-1 Cobra. It's been said speed and noise are what attract people to air shows. The Sky Soldiers are stealing the spotlight from the jet fighters. |
Tora Tora Tora Bomb Squad
In March of 2009, a group from the Tora Bomb Squad teamed up with a group of Marines at the MCAS in Yuma Arizona. After over 10 hours of work, and months of planning, The Tora Bomb Squad shattered the 6,400 foot Wall Of Fire world record with a 10,178.3 foot wall of fire. |
GEICO SKYTYPERS
During the airshows, the GEICO Skytypers are often found typing messages utilizing the horizon as a back drop. These messages can be as tall as the empire state building and visible for up to 15 miles away. |
MIG-21
William Ward is coming to town in his MIG 21 to push the speed of sound! Come see 700 MPH!!! Will Ward is a 14,000 hour Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) and currently the Captain of an Airbus A-320. Will has been flying for 24 years and graduated from the University of North Dakota Aviation Program. While at UND Will lead the UND Flying Team to first place finishes in regional and national competitions. He also received the Jeppeson Outstanding Team Member Award. He has flown 60 different aircraft from the Sukhoi29, A-26, F104, T-33, MIG 15, MIG 21, MD 80 series and many more. The Russian produced MIG 21 is a rare bird in the states and this will be the very first appearance of a MIG 21 at a North Carolina Air Show. |
Third Strike Wing Walking Most airshow performers prefer to stay in their aircraft unless they have on a parachute, not Carol Pilon. Being of Canadian origin, Carol Pilon is presently the only wingwalker of her native country performing on the North American circuit where she has the privilege to captivate hearts, enthrall imaginations and inspire dreams. Imagine an airplane looping and rolling with beautiful Carol on the wing. It is a sight you will not soon forget. |
Extreme Machine Jet Truck
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Red Eagle Air Sports
Prepare to witness inverted flat spins, inside and outside loops, multiple snap rolls, tail slides, plus our signature maneuvers: the Torqued Eagle, Topcoat This, the Squirrel Cage, The Farvel Loop and the Tuck-Under Break – a distinctive dual act that will make you want more. |
P-51 Mustang
Smelled the faint aroma of recently barked Goodyears? WWII comes alive in the presence of a living, breathing warbird. Here's your chance to get a whiff of Allied victory. |
101st Airborne Screaming Eagles
Those great victories cost a staggering 10,000 casualties, but in so sacrificing, they lived up to Major General William C. Lee, their first commander's, words when he told his new unit that the 101st had "no history but had a rendezvous with destiny." |
Team RV
Team RV performs in National air shows, local parades, missing mans, fly-ins, and other activities. Team members also travel the country and train other pilots on the art and discipline of formation flight. Team RV has flown in the largest air shows in the world to include Oshkosh and Sun-n-Fun. We have opened for other teams like the Blue Angels, the Thunderbirds, and the Snowbirds. Team RV was also part of the Largest Civilian Formation world record flown in 2007 and set again in 2009. We fly an 8-12 ship maneuvering routine. We have some very experienced pilots to include both experienced military fighter pilots, and private general aviation civilian pilots. One very unique quality we have is that we are flying experimental planes built in garages. These planes are high performance, fully aerobatic planes capable of speeds well in excess of 200mph and 6g's. They can fly in a very tight envelope and are the perfect platform for formation flying demonstrations at air shows. |
DC-3 Carolina Aviation Museum
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C-47 Barry Avent
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L-39 Albatros
The Albatros was built in what is now the Czech Republic and is currently one of the hottest aircraft in the burgeoning private warbird jet world. Come and see a bit of Soviet technology that is now in friendly hands! |
T-28 Trojan
The mighty Trojan is a beast of bird with a wing span the size of a dive-bomber, and an engine hefty enough to lug 1,800 lbs of iron bombs through the sky, something it did routinely during the early days of the Vietnam War, and also during many other smaller third-world conflicts. Yes, it trained thousands of mostly US Navy pilots, but it is a true combat veteran, too. |
T-6 Texan
You too can hear what thousands upon thousands of allied fliers during WWII heard as they learned to fly tail-draggers with big radials.
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T-34 Mentor
Unlike its predecessors, this single-engined Beech had tricycle landing gear. Thousands of pilots who saw action in the Korean, and Vietnam wars flew in 34s. Years later, the airframe saw continued life when a Pratt & Whitney turboprop was grafted onto the front. Be sure to compare this Beech to its Pilatus look-a-like which will also be at the show. |
L-19 Birdog
How would you like to fly a couple hundred feet above Charlie in the Mekong with dozens of AK-47s firing your way? Brave men did. Honor them by inspecting a piece of poignant military history. |
Focke Wolf 149D
With a heritage like that you can't expect anything less than sheer excitement! |
Boeing Stearman
Before he sold, he penned what would be his everlasting memorial in the shape of WWII’s most important primary trainer, the PT-17 Kaydet. |
P-3 Pilatus
Can you tell this difference between this Alpine import and the Beech T-34 trainer? |
L-17 Navion
Sometime between designing the P-51 Mustang, and the Space Shuttle, the engineers at North American, later Rockwell International, designed the hot-rod Navion for the weekend warriors of the National Guard. How would you like to take a Sunday spin in the Mustang's younger brother? |
Dehavilland Chipmunk
It was meant to be a primary trainer, though oddly enough it retained a tail-wheel at a time when nearly all military aircraft were going to tri-cycle gear. Did you know the film The Great Waldo Pepper featured a highly modified Chipmunk? |
The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team has been the best civilian formation team for many years. The team has been performing air shows for over twenty years. Flying the AT-6 Texan, you will see why beginning in 1938 the military used the AT-6 to train future pilots of the P-51 Mustang, F4U Cosair, P-40 Warhawk and others. 
The Sky Soldiers are from the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation in Atlanta, GA The Sky Soldiers is an all volunteer group of retired military veterans who fly recently retired helicopters to perform their maneuvers. 
"Tora! Tora! Tora! Bomb Squad" is well known for the "Wall of Fire".
The World Famous GEICO Skytypers Airshow Team is a flight squadron of six vintage WWII airplanes (SNJ-2). The team is comprised of an elite group of civilian pilots providing aeronautical demonstrations based on flying maneuvers utilized during the second world war. 
Come see a MIG 21 race across the skies of Winston-Salem this September.
Providing a singular blend of low-level precision formation and solo aerobatics with fascinating transitions and head-on passes, Red Eagle Air Sports is nationally known for its eye-popping, spectacular performances. 
There are some aircraft(s) that need no introduction. Have you ever stood beside a hot Rolls Royce Merlin and smelled the perfume of crank oil and high octane av/gas?
Along with the 82nd Airborne, the Screaming Eagles are the most storied paratrooper division in the world. Their greatest missions included dropping behind the beaches at Normandy in 1944 and then taking the brunt of Nazi Germany's last gasp at the Battle of the Bulge. 
Team RV is a group of experimental aircraft builders and flyers, dedicated to the preservation of demonstration formation flight. Started in 2002 by Michael Stewart in Atlanta Georgia, this group spans members from several Southeastern states.
Who doesn't love the wonderful DC-3? For over seventy years, now, the "Gooney Bird", or "Dakota" has carried millions of passengers billions of miles, and tons of cargo around the world many times, while at the same time capturing the hearts of those who love the nostalgia of the Golden Age of aviation, the 1930s. Come and see the first airplane to make profitable commerical aviation possible. Was it really designed on the back of a napkin?
The C-47 flew in all theaters of operation during WWII and helped win the war. One of the greatest photographs of WWII shows men with mohawks on their heads, Tommy guns on their backs, and warpaint streaking their faces. They were paratroopers from the 101st Screaming Eagles and behind them awaited the C-47s that would transport them through the dark of night to Occupied Europe and their rendezvous with destiny in the early hours of June 6, 1944. As you watch the C-47 fly at the show, imagine a dark night in France six decades ago as twenty teenagers prepare to jump into the fearful unknown to save the free world. They did, and you should never forget.
At the end of the Cold War what was the well-dressed Eastern Bloc trainee pilot flying? None other than the L-39 Albatros, one of the very first turbofan-powered trainers produced. 
At the end of WWII, the Pentagon asked North American to design the next generation replacement for the SNJ / T6 and they told them to “Super-size it!” 
The original T-34 was designed to train Navy/Marine pilots in the early 1950s. 
Some of the bravest pilots during the Korean and Vietnam Wars were those who flew low and slow in the Cessna Bird Dog, a four seat piston engine airplane based on the civilian 170. 
Achtung! When the Luftwaffe rose from the ashes of WWII in the 1950s it did so with this sharp looking trainer built by the 'volks' who had built the fearsome Focke-Wulf 190 fighter. 
Probably the most famous biplane ever produced, besides Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel! Stearmans are everywhere, and at nearly all airshows. Ten thousand were produced by Boeing, but the design really stems from the drafting table of Lloyd Stearman, a Wichita, Kansas builder, who had to sell out during the tough times of the Great Depression. 
Though a product of a famous British design firm, the “Chippie” was really designed in Canada by a Polish engineer! Despite its distinctively mixed heritage, the Chipmunk continued the proud tradition of de Havilland aircraft in that it is both graceful, and rugged, at the same time. Scheduled To AppearSubject To Change PRE-SHOW ACTIVITIES Start At 11:30 Salute To Local - Emergency Response Personnel Performers 12:30 - 4:00Aeroshell Aerobatic Team |
THE FOLLOWING ARE REQUESTED |
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C-17 Globemaster III - Confirmed
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Harrier - Confirmed |
F-15 Fly-bys* - Requested
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A-10 Fly-Bys - Requested
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F-18 Fly-Bys - Requested
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C-23 Sherpa - Requested |
T-6 - Confirmed
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AH-64 Apache - Requested
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