Alert!!! Alert!!! There will be a Jet Rally at the Los Angeles City Sepulveda Dam Basin Apollo Model Field this May 23-24, 2009(Sat.-Sunday, morning-afternoon). I have been to 2 Jet Rally's last year(at Sepulveda Dam Basin and at Coachella Valley) and they were really worth the time and the trip. The jets are very realistic....sight and sound......and the flying skills are superb. Of course there were crashes at the Sepulveda Dam Basin when I was there due to newbie pilots lacking in landing skills and pilots showboating in a high speed pass 1 foot above the runway and hitting and mowing the tall grass at the end of the runway and crashing and wrecking. To me this is a very dangerous stunt as the pilots attention is diverted towards his incoming aircraft and any person retrieving his aircraft on the runway is in danger of being hit by a high speed jet hugging the ground on a very low-hi speed pass. Too dangerous. There should be a 10 foot limit on low altitude hi speed pass over the runway. Jet Rally's are a thrill a minute.
'Nuff said.
larry