Sean D. Tucker flew in the air show and was inducted in the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
Sean D. Tucker and the Collaborators over Dayton on a media flight.
Sean D. Tucker inverted in the Oracle challenger.
Dayton Wright Brothers Airport is visible behind Sean.
Bill Stein's iridescent Edge 540 is sponsored by airshowbuzz.com.
Eric Tucker flies a reporter in his Oracle Extra 300L.
Ben Freelove flies Dayton Daily News reporter John Nolan.
Two F-22As arrived early on Friday and made several thunderous passes over the airport.
F-22 pilot Lt. Col. Bryan K. Turner put his jet on static display.
A crew chief inspects an F-22A inlet.
Joanie LeRoy, widow of Jim “Bulldog” LeRoy, and their son Tommy were at the show. Jim's plane crashed in the 2007 show.
AH-64 Apache pilot Chad Beggs opens an access panel. Three AH-64s flew in the air show.
Sean D. Tucker's Oracle Challenger is about to cut the ribbon in this Media Day flight.
West Chester, Ohio native, Lt. Page “Pie” Felini blasts off Friday in a Super Hornet.
C-17 Globemaster III takes off for a Media Day flight demo.
A condensation cone forms around Lt. Page “Pie” Felini’s F/A-18 Super Hornet
Kent Shockley fires up the Shockwave jet truck for a Media Day run.
One of three Starfighrters F-104s dodges a cloud in Friday's flight demo.
F/A-18F Demo Pilot LT James "Flag" Guimond, WSO LT Patrick "Menudo" Fernandes take off.
"Flag" and "Menudo" skirt a cloud during Friday's flight demo.
Dale "Snort" Snodgrass in the P-51D "Excalibur" prior to Friday's Heritage Flight.
F-22A Demo Pilot Maj. Paul "Max" Moga flies by on Friday.
Heritage Flight: F-22, P-51, F-16.
2nd Lt. Georganne Schultz photographs the Raptor flight demo.
Early-morning media pool tours gave shutterbugs special access to the aircraft.
Lt. Patrick "Menudo" Fernandes poses for the media pool.
Sarah Hawley of Orange Frazer Press sells our new air show book.
An airman from Wright-Patterson AFB sings the National Anthem at Saturday show.
Greater Dayton EAA chapters put their airplanes and helicopters on display.
Chairman's Club visitors had prime viewing — and shade.
Narrators for military acts watch the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team.
Maj. Paul "Max" Moga flies the F-22A Raptor in Saturday's show.
DOD civilian Eric Scholl tells about the OC-135 Open Skies mission.
As a reporter, I flew in this OC-135 over the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
One of the Misty Blues' daughters holds a wind streamer while Kay Hoiby lands with the flag.
Air show co-announcer Danny Clisham gives Misty Blues skydiver Bambi Knight a hug.
The 1911 Wright "B" Flyer lookalike eclipses the old Emery Air Freight Tower.
Announcers Danny Clisham (left) and Rob Reider discuss the C-17 as it flies by.
A NWA Boeing 757 briefly halted Sunday's show with an emergency landing on one engine.
F-22 crew chief Sgt. Jason Schmidt (l) and pilot Maj. Paul Moga in the Wright "B".
From there to here: Wright "B" Flyer looklike and the F-22A Raptor.
Lt. Col. Bryan K. Turner's Raptor on static display.
The C-17 passes between the chalets and the tower as it returns to the static display area.
The air show's theme was "Raptor Homecoming" because Wright-Patterson AFB supports the program.
"Max" Moga closed the 2008 air show with another dramatic flight demo.