Guest Post: Thunder Over the Heartland In Topeka Features Wide Variety of Performers at Revitalized Midwest Airshow

Guest Post: The Aero Experience thanks our friend Duane Cooley of DRC Images for contributing this coverage of Thunder Over the Heartland, Topeka, KS Airshow held June 26-27 at Topeka Regional Airport (Forbes Field). Here we feature the airshow performers in the scheduled order of the day.

Static Displays: B-52H Stratofortress from Barksdale AFB, LA; F-84F Thunderstreak and F-9F-5 Panther from the Combat Air Museum.

U.S. Special Forces Command Black Daggers jump from the Lockheed HC-130J Combat King II based at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

 

USAF T-38C Talons from the 14th Flying Training Wing, Columbus AFB, MS.

USAF KC-135R Stratotanker from the 190th ARW, Topeka, KS.

Brian Correll flies his Pitts S2S.

Kent Pietsch flies the Interstate Cadet in Dead Stick Aerobatics.

RC-135 Rivet Joint from Air Combat Command, Offutt AFB, NE.

Tora! Tora! Tora! Team reenacts Pearl Harbor Attack.

Warbird Review features aircraft from WWII, Korea and Vietnam Eras.

B-29 Superfortress, Doc, one of two still flying.

Randy Ball flies the MiG-17F Fresco. 

E-3 Sentry from 962nd AACS Elmendorf AFB, AK.

Grumman S-2 Tanker 95 Air Drop Demo by Pilot/Owner Bill Garrison.

Matt Younkin flies the Beech 18, Magic by Moonlight.

Aeroshell Aerobatic Team fly their classic T-6 Texans.

USAF Viper Demo Team from Shaw AFB, SC flown by Major Garret Schmitz and the Heritage Flight with TF-51D Mustang, Bum Steer.