As most Midwestern contest goers already know, the 2010 Sig C/L Championships were canceled for this weekend because the field was unusable as a result of recent heavy rains in the Montezuma area. Mike Gretz and the gang did everything they could, but it just didn't work out. I had planned to take a lot of pictures and get them posted here but, well...
Since I already had the weekend off of work and wasn't about to tell the boss about the cancellation, I needed a new plan for the weekend. It really needed to be some sort of aviation "fix". At the last minute, I remembered that the Blue Angels were doing an airshow in St. Cloud, MN Saturday and Sunday. I believe this was the first large airshow ever for St. Cloud. The schedule was the same for both days. St. Cloud is actually slightly closer to home for me than Montezuma is, just north instead of south. I decided to go up Friday afternoon, take in the airshow on Saturday, then come back down to Minneapolis to spend the night and do some flying at the club field on Sunday before going the rest of the way home.
A bunch of storms came through the St. Cloud area on Friday evening leaving behind a
very heavy fog that was still lingering at 9:00 Saturday morning with the airshow scheduled to start at 11:00. The ceiling was less than 500ft, definitely
not airshow weather!

We got lucky though, it finally broke around 11:00 and the show got started a little after noon.
They had a real good lineup of performers too, here's what 25 bucks and a lot of walking got you:
U.S. Navy Blue Angels
F-22 Raptor Demo Team
Aeroshell AT-6 Team
"Tuskegee Airmen" P-51C Redtail Mustang
"Miss Mitchell" B-25
Kyle and Amanda Franklin "Pirated Skies" Waco UPF7 wingwalking act
John Mohr Stearman Barnstorming (an
incredible extremely low level performance with a bone stock Stearman)
Gary Ward MX2
Bryan Jensen and "The Beast" (Barret M14P?-think Pitts Special with a 412 hp radial!)
C.C. Gerner (Extra300?)
Mike Wiskus Lucas Oil Pitts
Bill Leff AT-6 solo
"Flash Fire" 375 mph jet truck
Many other static aircraft and displays
All in all it was a good weekend, but at the end of the day I would have much rather been at Sig. Hopefully we'll all be back there next year!