How to Go to the Air Show
When: Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21, 2015. Gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Featured acts from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Dayton International Airport, 3600 Terminal Drive, Dayton.
Parking is available on site and costs $10 per car and $20 for RVs, buses and large vehicles. You can catch a Greater Dayton RTA shuttle bus at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force for $3 round trip. RTA will also offer hourly bus shuttle service from the Wright Stop Plaza in downtown Dayton at regular fare rates.
Tickets purchased at the air show's web site or at the show cost $21 for adults; and $16 for children between ages 6 to 11 and senior citizens. Tickets may also be purchased in advance at Kroger or the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
For additional information, log onto dayton.com or daytonairshow.com.
Team coverage
ON TV: Turn to Channel 7 Saturday for live reports every 30 minutes from 8 to 10 a.m. and special reports at noon and 6 p.m. On Sunday, there will be live reports in the noon and 6 p.m. newscasts.
In Sunday and Monday's newspapers: Complete coverage and photos from the Air Show.
The show will go, rain or shine, this weekend, Vectren Dayton Air Show organizers say.
The two-day air show kicks off today and has rain in the forecast, but aerial performers haven’t canceled — except for a flyby of the Wright “B” Flyer, said Terry Grevious, executive director of the Vectren Dayton Air Show.
Friday was a dry run of what turned out to be a wet day that canceled practice performances of the Air Force Thunderbirds, the Breitling Jet Team and the Army Golden Knights at Dayton International Airport.
But a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet demonstration and air show acrobatic performers Sean D. Tucker and the Jack Link’s “Screamin’ Sasquatch Jet Waco” took to the skies, Grevious said.
“It may be we can do the whole show, it may be we delay a little bit or fly part of the show," he said. ‘We’ll just have to wait and see what Mother Nature brings us.”
WHIO meteorologist Rich Wirdzek said Saturday’s forecast shows rain and thunderstorms as remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Bill rolls into the Miami Valley from the southwest. “The chance for rain will be in a broad window, from anytime in the morning through the afternoon,” he said. A lull is expected in the evening and at night. High temperature will be around 80 degrees.
On Sunday, Wirdzek said, “There will more times of dry weather and some more sun as well.” Thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon. “These storms may reach severe limits with high winds and hail,” he said. The high temperature will be in the mid 80s.
Pilots need a minimum of 1,500 feet altitude and five miles of visibility to operate for most acts, Grevious said. Organizers may adjust the show schedule to compensate for weather conditions.
“We really don’t know yet,” Grevious said. “We’ve had forecasts like this before and we’ve been able to run the whole show.”
A “few” aircraft that had been expected to be part of a ground display canceled, such as a P-51 Mustang, but the majority of planes that were anticipated will be on the tarmac for visitors to see, he said.
One planned feature, the Sky Soldiers, which offered static displays of Huey helicopters as well as rides offered at a fee, withdrew because of weather, according to organizers.
Two of the biggest ground displays, a C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet and a KC-135 Stratotanker aerial tanker, were at the airport Friday awaiting air show visitors.
Staff writers Meagan Pant and Jessica Heffner contributed to this story.
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