Patrick McAlee Airshows ICAS Series, Part 3: ICAS Updates and Friday Visit to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019

By Carmelo Turdo

The Aero Experience continues our week-long series coverage of Patrick McAlee Airshows - ExtremeFlight at ICAS 2019 Convention. Throughout the week, we will post updates to Patrick McAlee's 2020 airshow schedule and other news that may come from the convention. Here below we have some views of the ExtremeFlight display as it now appears for the convention.

In this edition, we also feature our Friday visit to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019. Included in our coverage is the early morning arrival and afternoon departure of a Republic Airways Embraer ERJ-170-100LR and a view of the airshow from the Blue Demon's parking spot near the crowd line. 

 

Patrick McAlee Airshows ICAS Series, Part 2: Wednesday Visit to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019

By Carmelo Turdo

The Aero Experience continues our week-long series coverage of Patrick McAlee Airshows - ExtremeFlight at ICAS 2019. The annual International Council of Air Shows Convention serves to celebrate the end of one air show season and confirm performer schedules for the next one. Throughout the week, we will feature updated information on Patrick McAlee's 2020 schedule and the Pitts S-1GT Blue Demon. We will also feature his appearance at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019, where he displayed his aircraft and visited with the crowds during the latter half of the week. 

In this edition, we feature views of Wednesday at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019, with Patrick McAlee setting up his aircraft display and greeting a visitor just before the afternoon airshow began. We also feature scenes of WomenVenture, including the arrival of Natalia McAlee and other guests aboard the United Airlines Boeing Dreamliner. The participating women gathered for a noontime group photo, and the aircraft remained on display before departing later that evening. Also included here are representatives of Republic Airways, for whom Patrick McAlee flies, and Captain Tammie Jo Shults, former U.S. Naval Aviator and more recently known for safely landing her crippled Southwest Airlines jet in April of 2018.

 

Patrick McAlee Airshows - ExtremeFlight: Build-Up to the 2020 Airshow Season

By Carmelo Turdo

The Aero Experience begins a week-long series featuring our airshow partner, Patrick McAlee Airshows - ExtremeFlight, as we prepare for the 2020 airshow season. We have been covering Patrick McAlee's airshow appearances since the 2013 Fair St. Louis Airshow, and afterward we have chronicled the transformation of his performance style and his aircraft, the Blue Demon, into a national airshow phenomenon. In the spirit of this week's ICAS Convention, where the airshow performers and event organizers meet to book their 2020 events, we will post updates to his confirmed performance schedule and look back on his visit to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019.   

In Part 1 of this series, we introduce Patrick McAlee with a series of videos produced by Patrick McAlee Airshows - ExtremeFlight, Fly Now! the Movie and The Aero Experience. These videos reflect the professionalism shown in the airshow performances as well as the careful preparation, sponsor loyalty and popular fan support he brings to each event. You can keep up with all things ExtremeFlight on his website and regularly on The Aero Experience.